consciousness from chaos comes from an intellectual attachment to the universe being strictly material (and completely explainable through precise language), as if everything unknown is actually knowable or as-yet-unknown. leave a little room for mystery is all i'm saying
the calorie is a gross rule of thumb at best. it doesn't account for any cycles in the body, insulin/leptin responses, digestion/processing time, how a person feels, or many other important factors. sure it's correct when you compare 300 vs 5000 calories in one day, but saying (almost) every adult should eat eg 2000 calories a day, every day, is a horrible disservice. our lifestyle (busyness, stress/anxiety, overscheduled eating, hurried/scant social connection) is more of a factor in obesity and disease than our number of calories.
Each person views and understands the world based on their own beliefs (personal truths). In my case for example, while I understand that there's lots of evidence suggesting it, I don't believe there was a big bang. I also believe the CDC covered up research findings about vaccines (but I don't know the details). I also believe the wealthiest people in the world aren't on the Forbes list. Is the moon landing fake? Probably not, but the video sure seems to be. But it would be arrogant of me to tell you that I'm absolutely right and you're not. It would also be foolish, because you view the world through the prism of your beliefs, too.
It's open-minded to understand that language is imperfect, and perspective is always biased, too. Know-it-all-ness is a very adolescent trait. (Yes, that is a demeaning remark. Don't take it personally.) Be kind, and more importantly, be humble, because whether you're right or wrong, life is a gift meant to be enjoyed.
"Values, life meanings, purposes, and qualities slip through science like a sea slips through the nets of fishermen. Yet man swims in this sea, so he cannot exclude it from his purview. This is what was meant when we noted earlier that a scientific world view is in principle impossible. Taken in its entirety, the world is not as science says it is; it is as science, philosophy, religion, the arts, and everyday speech say it is. Not science but the sum of man's symbol systems, of which science is but one, is the measure of things.
With science itself, there can be no quarrel. Scientism is another matter. Whereas science is positive, contenting itself with reporting what it discovers, scientism is negative. It goes beyond the actual findings of science to deny that other approaches to knowledge are valid and other truths true. In doing so it deserts science in favor of metaphysics-- bad metaphysics as it happens, for as contention that there are no truths save those of science is not itself a scientific truth, in affirming it scientism contradicts itself. It also carries marks of a religion-- a secular religion, resulting from overextrapolation from science, that has seldom numbered great scientists among its votaries."
Huston Smith, Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions
“Values, life meanings, purposes, and qualities slip through science like a sea slips through the nets of fishermen. Yet man swims in this sea, so he cannot exclude it from his purview. This is what was meant when we noted earlier that a scientific world view is in principle impossible. Taken in its entirety, the world is not as science says it is; it is as science, philosophy, religion, the arts, and everyday speech say it is. Not science but the sum of man's symbol systems, of which science is but one, is the measure of things.
With science itself, there can be no quarrel. Scientism is another matter. Whereas science is positive, contenting itself with reporting what it discovers, scientism is negative. It goes beyond the actual findings of science to deny that other approaches to knowledge are valid and other truths true. In doing so it deserts science in favor of metaphysics-- bad metaphysics as it happens, for as contention that there are no truths save those of science is not itself a scientific truth, in affirming it scientism contradicts itself. It also carries marks of a religion-- a secular religion, resulting from overextrapolation from science, that has seldom numbered great scientists among its votaries.”
Huston Smith, Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions
the big bang model slipped and fell while walking down the runway. perhaps gravity can't be reverse engineered into this model of the universe because it's not exactly correct?
"If you think you are depressed, first make sure you're not surrounded by ass-holes."
Make sure you accept reality and your true self. Try to sungaze at least for sunset (sungazing = viewing first/last 15 minutes of sunlight on the horizon). Get outside. Listen to your body. Don't eat crap. Focus on what really matters to you in life. And call me in the morning.
The thermodynamic model of representing food as energy measured as calories is about as wrong as the stork model for reproduction. Sure a stork could physically bring a baby, but it's just not how things work. One way a body decides whether to store fat is insulin response. How exactly do calories account for that?
Cars are unsustainable not because of their fuel type but because of the sheer amount of energy it requires to hurl ourselves around along with thousands of pounds of metal. It just not a great use of energy.
is money really supposed to be held long term? i think the original use of money was for short term transactions, the proverbial not taking the cow to a transaction and the indirect exchange (not having to trade your goods and services directly for the good and services you seek).
isn't it odd that money doesn't suffer from entropy (explicitly)?
i was going to suggest something like #2 (shooting headsets) above. they use those some in my kids' school occasionally (case by case) to help them concentrate on their work.
the constitution aside, "eliminating" a u.s. citizen by drone strike on u.s. soil hits closer to home* for the american public. we've already eliminated citizens abroad with drone strikes, anyway, so either that is permitted under policy or there should be consequences for that action.
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consciousness from chaos comes from an intellectual attachment to the universe being strictly material (and completely explainable through precise language), as if everything unknown is actually knowable or as-yet-unknown. leave a little room for mystery is all i'm saying
the calorie is a gross rule of thumb at best. it doesn't account for any cycles in the body, insulin/leptin responses, digestion/processing time, how a person feels, or many other important factors. sure it's correct when you compare 300 vs 5000 calories in one day, but saying (almost) every adult should eat eg 2000 calories a day, every day, is a horrible disservice. our lifestyle (busyness, stress/anxiety, overscheduled eating, hurried/scant social connection) is more of a factor in obesity and disease than our number of calories.
Each person views and understands the world based on their own beliefs (personal truths). In my case for example, while I understand that there's lots of evidence suggesting it, I don't believe there was a big bang. I also believe the CDC covered up research findings about vaccines (but I don't know the details). I also believe the wealthiest people in the world aren't on the Forbes list. Is the moon landing fake? Probably not, but the video sure seems to be. But it would be arrogant of me to tell you that I'm absolutely right and you're not. It would also be foolish, because you view the world through the prism of your beliefs, too.
It's open-minded to understand that language is imperfect, and perspective is always biased, too. Know-it-all-ness is a very adolescent trait. (Yes, that is a demeaning remark. Don't take it personally.) Be kind, and more importantly, be humble, because whether you're right or wrong, life is a gift meant to be enjoyed.
I'll end the newage hippie woowoo here. Peace
happening
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/04/snowden-wants-come-home-stories-case-study-media-deceit/
could the redshift of distant galaxies be attenuation of light?
What is the shape of the universe? Maybe that explains it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFTMiVs4VhY
nassim haramein must be rolling over in his van.
Maybe souls, life-energy/chi, operate with energy not recognized by mainstream academics, like orgone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone
"Values, life meanings, purposes, and qualities slip through science like a sea slips through the nets of fishermen. Yet man swims in this sea, so he cannot exclude it from his purview. This is what was meant when we noted earlier that a scientific world view is in principle impossible. Taken in its entirety, the world is not as science says it is; it is as science, philosophy, religion, the arts, and everyday speech say it is. Not science but the sum of man's symbol systems, of which science is but one, is the measure of things.
With science itself, there can be no quarrel. Scientism is another matter. Whereas science is positive, contenting itself with reporting what it discovers, scientism is negative. It goes beyond the actual findings of science to deny that other approaches to knowledge are valid and other truths true. In doing so it deserts science in favor of metaphysics-- bad metaphysics as it happens, for as contention that there are no truths save those of science is not itself a scientific truth, in affirming it scientism contradicts itself. It also carries marks of a religion-- a secular religion, resulting from overextrapolation from science, that has seldom numbered great scientists among its votaries."
Huston Smith, Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions
The police are a public (as opposed to private/"illegal") protection racket.
“Values, life meanings, purposes, and qualities slip through science like a sea slips through the nets of fishermen. Yet man swims in this sea, so he cannot exclude it from his purview. This is what was meant when we noted earlier that a scientific world view is in principle impossible. Taken in its entirety, the world is not as science says it is; it is as science, philosophy, religion, the arts, and everyday speech say it is. Not science but the sum of man's symbol systems, of which science is but one, is the measure of things.
With science itself, there can be no quarrel. Scientism is another matter. Whereas science is positive, contenting itself with reporting what it discovers, scientism is negative. It goes beyond the actual findings of science to deny that other approaches to knowledge are valid and other truths true. In doing so it deserts science in favor of metaphysics-- bad metaphysics as it happens, for as contention that there are no truths save those of science is not itself a scientific truth, in affirming it scientism contradicts itself. It also carries marks of a religion-- a secular religion, resulting from overextrapolation from science, that has seldom numbered great scientists among its votaries.”
Huston Smith, Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions
the big bang model slipped and fell while walking down the runway. perhaps gravity can't be reverse engineered into this model of the universe because it's not exactly correct?
http://whorulesamerica.net
Sociologist Bill Domhoff has been working on American power structures for decades, really good stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
Could it be affecting our weather, too?
The vast majority of people in congress are there by no accident. They were pre-selected by our ownership class.
Oh you want academic research to back this up? http://whorulesamerica.net (sorry for the snarky website setup :) :) )
"If you think you are depressed, first make sure you're not surrounded by ass-holes."
Make sure you accept reality and your true self. Try to sungaze at least for sunset (sungazing = viewing first/last 15 minutes of sunlight on the horizon). Get outside. Listen to your body. Don't eat crap. Focus on what really matters to you in life. And call me in the morning.
The thermodynamic model of representing food as energy measured as calories is about as wrong as the stork model for reproduction. Sure a stork could physically bring a baby, but it's just not how things work. One way a body decides whether to store fat is insulin response. How exactly do calories account for that?
let's go ahead and make effect a verb since there is a difference between effect and affect as nouns...
Cars are unsustainable not because of their fuel type but because of the sheer amount of energy it requires to hurl ourselves around along with thousands of pounds of metal. It just not a great use of energy.
who said that? charlie sheen?
is money really supposed to be held long term? i think the original use of money was for short term transactions, the proverbial not taking the cow to a transaction and the indirect exchange (not having to trade your goods and services directly for the good and services you seek).
isn't it odd that money doesn't suffer from entropy (explicitly)?
Check out what these guys are doing to allow users temporary admin access to install whatever they want
http://www.gsc.edu/about/internal/it/tutorials/Pages/default.aspx
The link is "God-mode". It's actually fairly simple scripting to allow this. They also do some clever hardening of Windows to prevent viruses sans AV.
i was going to suggest something like #2 (shooting headsets) above. they use those some in my kids' school occasionally (case by case) to help them concentrate on their work.
the constitution aside, "eliminating" a u.s. citizen by drone strike on u.s. soil hits closer to home* for the american public. we've already eliminated citizens abroad with drone strikes, anyway, so either that is permitted under policy or there should be consequences for that action.
* this pun is collateral damage
Thanks for the video links! I'm only in the first hour now, but I'm seeing where the neo-conservatives got their starts...