Watched the video. Lots of word salad there. At first I thought he was just making an argument for consciousness being an emergent property. But then, it quickly veered into everything being thought/mind. After that, the tems used are just so general and undefined, I'm sure each viewer is taking a completely different meaning from his speech.
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The bus stop analogy
by slimboyfat insuppose we were naïve observers, given the following data, and asked to draw a conclusion.
we see people gather at a busy bus stop several times a day.
at first one person, then another, and another, until they form a group.
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20 Years Occupying Afghanistan, Nothing Achieved
by Simon inso the occupation of afghanistan is coming to an end and, as predicted, they achieved absolutely nothing in that 20 years apart from:.
the death of 2,300+ service personnel and tens of thousands more seriously maimed or injured.. handing $billions or even $trillions of taxpayer dollars to defence contractors (so the military industrial complex wins, even if the military doesn't have a clear victory).. has this lengthy but short-term military occupation really changed anything in the country?
it doesn't appear so.. i said at the time that the us wouldn't have the staying power to enact real change.
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MeanMrMustard
I am more anti-war now than ever before.
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What Do You Think About The Government Going Door to Door To Get You Vaccinated?
by minimus ini hate anyone bothering me going door to door and house to house.
maybe it’s my jw background?
i dunno..
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Jehovah Witnesses lost in Court. Disfellowshipped Sister Reinstated by Court Order?
by pistolpete inimagine the "faithful" jws who are now having to talk to this person by court order or face the consequences----legally.. exjws are spreading the news and now some exjws who have been disfellowshipped for years are starting to research to see if this is an option in their country.
here are the articles, you need to translate in google.
https://www.nrk.no/norge/gry-nygard-ble-ekskludert-fra-jehovas-vitner-_-vant-i-lagmannsretten-1.15570621.
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MeanMrMustard
I could be wrong, but there is precedent for secular courts getting involved if the religion didn't follow its own internal procedures. If this is another version of that, it seems like an empty victory.
Why won't she be disfellowshipped next week for something else (like suing the WT)? They wl make sure they follow internal procedure this time.
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The bus stop analogy
by slimboyfat insuppose we were naïve observers, given the following data, and asked to draw a conclusion.
we see people gather at a busy bus stop several times a day.
at first one person, then another, and another, until they form a group.
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MeanMrMustard
So the aliens form a falsifiable hypothesis that the groups of congregating people cause the busses to arrive. Then they test the hypothesis and soon find out it fails when busses stop even when no people are there.
In this case the hypothesis is that consciousness causes brain activity, rather than brain activity causing consciousness.
Is it falsifiable?
If I choke you and restrict blood flow to your brain, you lose consciencousness. What does that imply about the hypothesis?
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What Do You Think About The Government Going Door to Door To Get You Vaccinated?
by minimus ini hate anyone bothering me going door to door and house to house.
maybe it’s my jw background?
i dunno..
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MeanMrMustard
Just keep in mind that this will spawn a new wave of identity thieves, knowing that many will be eager to respond. It might not be good to hand out any personal identifying info to someone at your door, even though they claim to be "from the government".
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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck,,,,do you care about them?
by minimus ini’m sick and tired of seeing pictures and articles about their rekindled romance.
who cares???
do you enjoy seeing news articles about celebrity daters?.
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Juneteenth
by minimus inare you ready to celebrate??
it’s such a big holiday that the local electric company will be closed in order to celebrate.
only emergencies will be dealt with on that day.. what are you doing for the holiday?.
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MeanMrMustard
I went through K-12, the college, university, and heard nothing about Juneteenth. So I ran a search with Google ngram viewer. Here is the distribution:
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What Do You Think About New York City?
by minimus ini have been to the city hundreds of times.
i’ve always loved the vitality of the city and no one could ever say that you could get bored in nyc.
i regularly went for business during the day and in the evenings go to local bars and restaurants as well as the village.
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"Always smells like sour milk." - Tim Pool
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Nebuchadnezzar's 37th year matches the year 588 or 568 BC?
by Vanderhoven7 inanybody know something about vat 4956?.
nebuchadnezzar's 37th year matches the year 588 bc?
any independant astronomer can test it and it only matches 568 bc.. .
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MMM:
They do reference Jerimiah. And Jerimiah has very clear language.It's not that Jerimiah was or was not "all about" the Exile. He talks about it. But he doesn't equate it to the 70 years.
scolar: False. Ezra and Daniel when referring to the Exile quote Jeremiah's prophecy of the 70 years thus proving that Jeremiah linked the Exile with the 70 years.You've put yourself on the horns of a dilemma: Either the Bible contradicts itself, or the WT is incorrect - which do you choose? Your statement above prefers the Bible to contradict. Jerimiah's language is so plain and simple, attempts to "clairify" it by later prophets just means there is a contradiction in the scriptures. You are asserting "Yes, Jerimiah referred to seventy years of servitude, not equated to the desolation, and yes, he said plainly that it applied to many nations (plural), and yes he explicitly stated that the seventy years would end and then the desolation would end, but you know, Jerimiah was really sloppy with his writing. Yeah the language is really clear, but golly gosh darn, it seems what he REALLY meant was something completely different. He meant it WAS the seventy years wasn't servitude, and applies to Judah only (singular), and ends together with the seventy years, because they are the same thing. See? Ezra just "clairifies" all of that for us."