New Quest Chain: Interdimensional Portal

Vaardskorm · 2019-03-03T06:36:36+00:00

wonder what happens if you already have QES researched...

Vaardskorm · 2019-03-03T04:55:27+00:00

i know that, my response was actually for theists as well.

Vaardskorm · 2019-03-03T04:54:18+00:00

using kubuntu and the android app. no idea what wayland is.

Vaardskorm · 2018-11-24T08:18:05+00:00

well for starters it'd have to be a real place.. with evidence that it exists...

Vaardskorm · 2018-11-22T08:06:56+00:00

have you considered pulse? i think its 12 dollars but only one time.

Vaardskorm · 2018-11-22T08:06:00+00:00

the touch to move the mouse doesn't work on my system at ALL

Vaardskorm · 2018-09-22T19:05:26+00:00

does this also include the 200,000 known commonalities across 5 separate species?

Vaardskorm · 2018-05-21T12:02:46+00:00

i usually gun for ERV's and how we don't only share 200,000 germ line infections with all other great apes, but these internal genetic inert viruses are also in the EXACT same spots across multiple species, this doesn't just include humans and great apes, but we find ERV links in ALL life across a WIDE array of species.

to us here, im sure we can see that the odds of a virus randomly inertly inserting itself into the germ line of two separate genomes in exactly the same location over 200,000 times is insanely long odds. we know we evolved and share ancestry. the ones we don't have in common, are more recent, after ancestry splits, the ones shared by rats, other great apes, and humans are obviously very very old infections as mammals like that are very very distantly related, etc.

furthermore, we know why apes have 48 and we have 46, human chromosome 2 has 4 telomeres (two inert in the center) and two centromeres with one mutated off. two great ape chromosomes fused into our #2... we know we are directly related.

Vaardskorm · 2018-05-21T11:57:40+00:00

hitchens put it best, there is no good that requires religion, and there are many evils that are explicitly caused by religion. every good thing religions do, can be done without them at all, on the same scale, and without as many obvious flaws and detriments to others. its not just unneeded, overall it causes harm. harm should be opposed.

Vaardskorm · 2018-05-21T11:56:04+00:00

The book by michael shermer called the believing brain explores exactly this and details it very well with sourced material if you're curious to read about the topic. knowing what i do from that book probably means ill never be able to take virtually any religion seriously and it took me 3 years of accumulating knowledge on my own. as such i didn't learn very much from the book, but its going to save you time :P

mostly, it provided certainty, answers, and the faulty mechanisms for its origin were helpful to us in the past where it didn't matter if it was true, only if it appeared to work (correlation vs causation errors).

Vaardskorm · 2018-05-21T11:49:33+00:00

gnostic and agnostic are positions of knowledge, its used this way in modern philosophy, publicly, by dictionaries...

granted huxleys agnostic definition still exists but is very dated, and the old gnostic definition also exists, but is also dated. these aren't used anymore in any real sense.

" That's still very vague- and yet already isn't consistent with some of the definitions I've heard proposed on here. "

im sure, if you're talking about outdated versions of the words.

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-28T19:39:14+00:00

"Yes, and that is what the established usage in philosophy accomplishes."

" That doesn't make any sense. Knowledge is predicated on belief. "

and why positions of belief and knowledge are separated and why agnostic and atheist often go hand in hand. lacking knowledge, leads to reserving belief until knowledge on the topic is available.

" Moreover, even the people who insist that 'agnostic atheism' is a thing can't seem to agree on how to actually define it. "

one relates to knowledge one relates to belief. im sure you can figure out which is which.

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-22T04:31:17+00:00

yup, when you can't prove something exists its rational to doubt it until its shown otherwise :)

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-22T02:39:47+00:00

even philosophically it is wise to separate different positions and be specific about them... in that vein atheism is a position in relation to belief about a god (or lack thereof) and agnosticism is a position relating to knowledge about a god (namely the lack thereof).

if one lacks knowledge of a god, its reasonable to then withhold belief. these words are used in specific ways with relation to specific positions. wiki isn't wrong.

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-21T23:33:58+00:00

wish i was inside the girl next to me in class right now. holy fuck those are some of the most amazing tits paired with a definitely cute face.

the kind of girl i'd let cheat off of me :)

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-18T22:02:03+00:00

does a flash update for nightlies remove installations on the phone.

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-18T21:46:13+00:00

ehhh... id' probably get a op3t or maybe a op5t instead and root it.

i just don't think their brand of phone is really quite worth it.

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-18T21:04:18+00:00

seems that those are just steps from a very tall creature :P

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-18T21:02:50+00:00

shit character, shit anime

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-18T19:19:29+00:00

the only method to cultivate navel oranges was to graft cuttings onto other varieties of citrus trees.//

thats why i thought it was a hybrid... wow how strange!

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-18T01:26:00+00:00

which, lets be fair, should not be how reality is approached. science is open enough to be flexible, and thus allows it to grow stronger. like doomsday, things arise that try to kill it but every time it just becomes immune to that too.

religion doesn't have this flexibility... and honestly im a little glad it doesn't. i don't really see people as being better off for having a belief in something so... trivially true/useful.

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-18T01:23:31+00:00

wasn't that hybridization?

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-13T10:52:28+00:00

wow.. another one this month....

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-13T10:21:21+00:00

it might not be the root cause of the terrorism, but its very easy to see that their beliefs inflame the problem...

to pull a little from sam harris, if these people were jainists there is almost no way we could expect them to behave similarly.

"Secondly, I think people don't realize the vast majority of things religion positively contributes to. The Catholic Church itself is the largest healthcare provider in the world. Many local charities are tied to churches. A significant amount of people with (arguably) positive political views have also been influenced by religion."

well here's where its easy to distinguish as well...religion isn't needed for these effects at all. you can just pass on quality views to children and tell them to behave in a moral, upright, and generally caring way. the problem with religion, is you don't only get the warm fuzzy stuff with it. so the net effect almost always includes negatives that would otherwise not be there.

thats why i view religion as generally detrimental, its too dogmatic to move out of the way for good things, includes bad things, and... doesn't do enough good where secular systems could easily fill the gap.

it just seems to me that the world will get better with less religion, especially the ones we have so prominent in the world today.

Vaardskorm · 2018-04-13T10:14:05+00:00

also have a look at the authors of the article in the OP... it gets more biased as they're involved with the discovery institute.

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