WiFi is a common way to refer to ISM wireless of any kind. Proprietary wireless printer (non 802.11) is called "WiFi", as is bluetooth. 802.11n is a technical term. WiFi is a meaningless marketing term. 2.4GHz DSMX is WiFi, if the 2.4 spectrum it uses is in the ISM band.
Buying a lottery ticket is a sane choice. Note, sane doesn't mean rational.
Separately, humans tend to personify everything. When you see a bush blowing in the breeze, your first thought is to predators, then prey, then wind. Harm, then benefit, then discounted. That survival trait has us assigning meaning to things with no meaning all the time. Do that enough, and someone will start repeating your interesting stories. Then we have a religion. Note, much of the old testamant was common sense. Treating people poorly is bad. Don't eat dirty animals full of disease. Be clean. Why? Because germs weren't known at the time.
The placebo effect is not fully understood, and lack of deception has accompanied measurable placebo effects. "Take this. It helps by triggering your placebo response." And it works. Even if the person treated knows what "placebo" means. Hoping it will help, even if it's known to not help, may actually help. We don't know.
Also, I'm not sure how calling a soul a life essence helps. What the heck does that mean?
It's a definition without a verb. You asked for a definition that wasn't a collection of verbs. "the consciousness" is verbless, so why doesn't it meet your minimum standard for a definition?
Generally a model release is not required for artistic work
Every movie actor signs one, as do nearly evey TV actor (I'd say "every" without qualification, but extras in TV are not religiously documented, as they are in movies). You say it's not required, but given the prevelance of them (and issues when they aren't signed or later found invalid) seems to contradict your baseless and unsubstantiated (and wrong) opinion stated as fact. Google "actor release form" and see how many millions of hits you get. Most of the first page, all being actual forms (PDF or DOC forms). Reality seems to disagree with you.
The one case of someone who got their release thrown out, managed to get an injunction indicating her ownership of comyright of the work she was in. And yes, that was featured on Slashdot, not too long ago. The legal question was about her release, not her takedown notice.
That's certainly not the currently accepted theory, which holds that space and time were created in the big bang, and "what existed before that" is a meaningless question, because there *was* no before. At least not in a traditional temporal sense.
I didn't think a rejection of functioning time before the big bang was a requirement of the big bang. It's undefined. Whether it did or didn't happen doesn't affect what comes after, so it's an irrelevant question, not proven wrong.
The phase of the moon isn't an astronomy question? I recently went through the phases of the moon with my 7 year old in preparation of his first eclipse. He knows the difference between waxing and waning, and how to tell the difference (in multiple unrelated ways). I'm sure I'll have to explain it another 10 or so times before he gets it, but any high school student with an interest in astronomy should understand the phases of the moon and tides (including perigean tides) and shouldn't get dumber in college.
A "soul" is a life essence that survives the death of our human body. Our body being the surrogate for an alien species satisfies that defintion. And you can't prove a negative. Not identifying a connection doesn't mean it isn't there.
He could not lift it, until he decided to. I remember reading something in the '80s outlining the Hulk's powers. His powers were not static. The more he tried (became frustrated/angry) the greater his powers. Why can't God be the same. He can make a stone that he can't lift, then increase his powers to lift it. Repeat for infinity. Or, I'd take a more logical approach, nobody can make a stone so large that it can't be lifted by anyone. You call it "standing up" I call it a leg press of the entire Earth. That the air is weak in keeping me in place doesn't change the physics. I'm moving the Earth when I stand (even if an undetectably small amount).
To physically lift the earth is impossible. If you had it resting on the hard surface of the Sun, how would you get between the Earth and the sun? If it were on a 1 ft high stand, and you slid under it to press up, when you did, the earth would crumble and flatten into the sun. If the Earth was magically held together, then your hands would press into the surface of the Earth, even if on the hardest rock, as the weight is greater than the material could support.
If you magically create two spheres of mass that were solid and could take any possible pressures, God could move them apart. As, being Q, he'd not move the masses, that's impossible, instead, he'd change the gravitational constant until they were as light as a feather.
The reason this logic game doesn't work is the god in question can change the rules. It doesn't have to do with logic, but constraints.
State mandated religion was anything but "god, country, family". The reason being it was "country, family, god". They had nothing wrong with "god". They just had an issue with any religion that put god above country. If you believed in a religion where you could put other things first, then you'd have no issues. They didn't care what you believed, only how you acted. Your brothers (the country) came first.
Religion sells hope, so some of the worst places get the best results. At least at first.
That's a cult. Most religions these days are much more open than that.I've been an "official" on-the-books member of a variety of the major Christian denominations in the US (including Catholic). They all let me "join" as a full member with no restrictions, then leave of my own free will whenever I wanted. I might have "loopholed" into Catholicism, but I was an official member of the church and took communion (while an atheist). Holy water is unsanitary.
These days, religions survive through parental pressure, not peer pressure or shame/isolation. You do it because your family does, like rooting for sports teams.
Imagine an alien species. They put their young into stasis at birth. They are natural telepaths. When a human is born, they link one larva to that baby, and remotely-control it for its life. We are nothing but remotely controlled surrogates by a species maturing in the Matrix (The Matrix doesn't explain reproduction, but does show babies being born into the Matrix). The "soul" belongs to the larva, who matures and "rebirths" after our deaths.
Our brains are antenna for the remote soul. Brain damage causes problems because the antenna is broken.
I'm not stating that's what I believe, but it's my interpretation of an argument I've heard (though they didn't use aliens, I did to make it more concrete), that seems to fit both of your requirements. They were trying to describe the Christian Soul, and I ended up more Scientologist-aligned. Though, where do the souls of the aliens come from is a question I've not bothered with. It's aliens all the way down.
No, if it was 1g, they would have instantly noticed the fact they were weightless, and they took much longer to fall out of the sky than 1g descent.
So as the other poster said, there was nothing to call someone about other than they didn't know what was going on, and they weren't about to admit that to everyone listening.
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WiFi is a common way to refer to ISM wireless of any kind. Proprietary wireless printer (non 802.11) is called "WiFi", as is bluetooth. 802.11n is a technical term. WiFi is a meaningless marketing term. 2.4GHz DSMX is WiFi, if the 2.4 spectrum it uses is in the ISM band.
You didn't either. His points weren't in the article, but weren't contradicted by it either.
Buying a lottery ticket is a sane choice. Note, sane doesn't mean rational.
Separately, humans tend to personify everything. When you see a bush blowing in the breeze, your first thought is to predators, then prey, then wind. Harm, then benefit, then discounted. That survival trait has us assigning meaning to things with no meaning all the time. Do that enough, and someone will start repeating your interesting stories. Then we have a religion. Note, much of the old testamant was common sense. Treating people poorly is bad. Don't eat dirty animals full of disease. Be clean. Why? Because germs weren't known at the time.
The placebo effect is not fully understood, and lack of deception has accompanied measurable placebo effects. "Take this. It helps by triggering your placebo response." And it works. Even if the person treated knows what "placebo" means. Hoping it will help, even if it's known to not help, may actually help. We don't know.
Define "outside observer" for testing for an afterlife.
Were you making an alliterate joke, or was that a serious complaint about my use of orthoginal?
Also, I'm not sure how calling a soul a life essence helps. What the heck does that mean?
It's a definition without a verb. You asked for a definition that wasn't a collection of verbs. "the consciousness" is verbless, so why doesn't it meet your minimum standard for a definition?
God can prove God exists. Nobody else can prove God exists, without His help.
Generally a model release is not required for artistic work
Every movie actor signs one, as do nearly evey TV actor (I'd say "every" without qualification, but extras in TV are not religiously documented, as they are in movies). You say it's not required, but given the prevelance of them (and issues when they aren't signed or later found invalid) seems to contradict your baseless and unsubstantiated (and wrong) opinion stated as fact. Google "actor release form" and see how many millions of hits you get. Most of the first page, all being actual forms (PDF or DOC forms). Reality seems to disagree with you.
The one case of someone who got their release thrown out, managed to get an injunction indicating her ownership of comyright of the work she was in. And yes, that was featured on Slashdot, not too long ago. The legal question was about her release, not her takedown notice.
The big bang and evolution are orthoginal.
That's certainly not the currently accepted theory, which holds that space and time were created in the big bang, and "what existed before that" is a meaningless question, because there *was* no before. At least not in a traditional temporal sense.
I didn't think a rejection of functioning time before the big bang was a requirement of the big bang. It's undefined. Whether it did or didn't happen doesn't affect what comes after, so it's an irrelevant question, not proven wrong.
I have "faith" my car will start in the morning. That doesn't mean I am disallowed in understanding cars, or that understanding them is hard.
The phase of the moon isn't an astronomy question? I recently went through the phases of the moon with my 7 year old in preparation of his first eclipse. He knows the difference between waxing and waning, and how to tell the difference (in multiple unrelated ways). I'm sure I'll have to explain it another 10 or so times before he gets it, but any high school student with an interest in astronomy should understand the phases of the moon and tides (including perigean tides) and shouldn't get dumber in college.
"Home" does not count as fungible.
Yes, it is.
No. A house is fungible. A home is not.
A "soul" is a life essence that survives the death of our human body. Our body being the surrogate for an alien species satisfies that defintion. And you can't prove a negative. Not identifying a connection doesn't mean it isn't there.
He could not lift it, until he decided to. I remember reading something in the '80s outlining the Hulk's powers. His powers were not static. The more he tried (became frustrated/angry) the greater his powers. Why can't God be the same. He can make a stone that he can't lift, then increase his powers to lift it. Repeat for infinity. Or, I'd take a more logical approach, nobody can make a stone so large that it can't be lifted by anyone. You call it "standing up" I call it a leg press of the entire Earth. That the air is weak in keeping me in place doesn't change the physics. I'm moving the Earth when I stand (even if an undetectably small amount).
To physically lift the earth is impossible. If you had it resting on the hard surface of the Sun, how would you get between the Earth and the sun? If it were on a 1 ft high stand, and you slid under it to press up, when you did, the earth would crumble and flatten into the sun. If the Earth was magically held together, then your hands would press into the surface of the Earth, even if on the hardest rock, as the weight is greater than the material could support.
If you magically create two spheres of mass that were solid and could take any possible pressures, God could move them apart. As, being Q, he'd not move the masses, that's impossible, instead, he'd change the gravitational constant until they were as light as a feather.
The reason this logic game doesn't work is the god in question can change the rules. It doesn't have to do with logic, but constraints.
I have no patience for fairy tale bullshit, nor special pleading.
Then you had no time for the question either, not just the answer.
Humans emerged from a bloody evolutionary path, they can not help this,
"they" Since your wording excludes you from the class "human", what are you?
Theoretically, only if your beliefs were in one of the religions that put God above the Party. And yes, that included the popular religions.
State mandated religion was anything but "god, country, family". The reason being it was "country, family, god". They had nothing wrong with "god". They just had an issue with any religion that put god above country. If you believed in a religion where you could put other things first, then you'd have no issues. They didn't care what you believed, only how you acted. Your brothers (the country) came first.
Religion sells hope, so some of the worst places get the best results. At least at first.
That's a cult. Most religions these days are much more open than that.I've been an "official" on-the-books member of a variety of the major Christian denominations in the US (including Catholic). They all let me "join" as a full member with no restrictions, then leave of my own free will whenever I wanted. I might have "loopholed" into Catholicism, but I was an official member of the church and took communion (while an atheist). Holy water is unsanitary.
These days, religions survive through parental pressure, not peer pressure or shame/isolation. You do it because your family does, like rooting for sports teams.
So was Satan ever named? What is his name? Or is he "He who must not be named"?
Imagine an alien species. They put their young into stasis at birth. They are natural telepaths. When a human is born, they link one larva to that baby, and remotely-control it for its life. We are nothing but remotely controlled surrogates by a species maturing in the Matrix (The Matrix doesn't explain reproduction, but does show babies being born into the Matrix). The "soul" belongs to the larva, who matures and "rebirths" after our deaths.
Our brains are antenna for the remote soul. Brain damage causes problems because the antenna is broken.
I'm not stating that's what I believe, but it's my interpretation of an argument I've heard (though they didn't use aliens, I did to make it more concrete), that seems to fit both of your requirements. They were trying to describe the Christian Soul, and I ended up more Scientologist-aligned. Though, where do the souls of the aliens come from is a question I've not bothered with. It's aliens all the way down.
- remember that the descent was 1G,
No, if it was 1g, they would have instantly noticed the fact they were weightless, and they took much longer to fall out of the sky than 1g descent.
So as the other poster said, there was nothing to call someone about other than they didn't know what was going on, and they weren't about to admit that to everyone listening.
They should have. In both cases.
It'd be hard to not hit "something" if you managed a successful launch. Even if just an empty patch of sea.