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This is an easy question to answer actually... human genetic code can match machine code, it just depends on whether we engineer humans to be as smart or smarter than machines. That should take all the hype away. I just recently read Gates and hawkings warnings... nonsense, we can engineer humans to control robots with their minds. **
So we will treat humans as and make them machines. Sure, as I said in an earlier post, this is one way machines are replacing humans. **
Arminius wrote:
Here comes the 5th interim balance sheet:
Will machines completely replace all human beings? ** ** | |||
Yes (by trend) |
No (by trend) |
Abstention | |
Arminius, |
Dan, Mr. Reasonable, Fuse, Esperanto, Only Humean, Gib, Uccisore, Zinnat, Barbarianhorde, Ivory Man, Moreno, Ierrellus. |
Obe, Kriswest, Mithus, Nano-Bug, Lizbethrose, Cassie, Eric The Pipe, Backspace Losophy, Sweet Misery, Ralfy, Interterrestrial. |
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Sum: | 6 | 12 | 11 |
Note:
Yes (by trend) means a yes as acceptance or agreement of about 80-100%.
No (by trend) means a no as acceptance or agreement of about 0-20%.For comparasion:
1st interim balance sheet (**|**),
2nd interim balance sheet (**|**),
3rd interim balance sheet (**|**),
4th interim balance sheet (**|**). ** **
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I cannot stand snow. **
Arminius wrote:
»Yes, unfortunately, you don't get paid for your weather report. I don't get paid for my weather report as well as you, but nonetheless:
Here comes my weather report:
There is snow in my garden, but not much, and it is frozen snow. The temperature is about 0°Celsius (= 32° Fahrenheit). It is not windy.
One month ago, thus on 7 January 2015, there was no snow, and it was not cold: about 10°Celsius (= 50° Fahrenheit). It was very stormy.And you can easily guess what happened to some people between 7 January 2015 and 7 February 2015. ** **
Death by hypothermia .... **
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It will be a peaceful world when humans have eradicated themselves. **
Up until then, so long as we have people who divorce and separate we will also not have syncretistic anything. **
People will never unify. **
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I have already said there are a lot of syncretistic religions in existence. You disagreed with this and say there must only be one and not many. **
What example can you give me where syncretism (only one of for all of humanity) has been part of human evolution.
Remember, humans have been and are scattered across many continents.
A Eurocentric view of humanity does not constitute syncretism. **
Sorry, by definition ... unification is required for syncretism. Unless you create a new meaning for the word. **
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Got it,Arm in noose! **
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Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX5kAh_CN0k (**).
This video on experiments done by Yale researchers point to the high probability that humans are born with an inherent moral compass.
This point is in contrast to theists claims of a stone tablet of moral codes issued from God via his messengers.With a neural circuit of moral impulses humanity could develop and establish a morality-ethics framework by themselves collectively and need not have to rely on a God.
Agree? **
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Then we already have many of such religions. **
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Mag sein! Allerdings müssen wir die herrschenden Verhältnisse vor unserer eigenen Haustüre wieder in die eigene Verantwortlichkeit bekommen, sonst werden wir uns der EU , USA .... und deren Bestrebungen auf keinen Fall erwehren können! (Staatenlos, 19.02.2015, 19:16 **).
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For instance would you like to hear of my biking from Düsseldorf through the Black Forest, to a suburb whose name forgotten, they make knife there, Solingen, in the warm night, 25 Pfennig for draft beer and feeling something?
Can a dream ever really be interpreted? Can it? because they are too real.
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Obama: No Religion is Responsible for Terrorism.
The terrorists do not speak for 1.5 billion Muslims.
They no more represent Islam who reject their hateful ideology than any madman who kill innocents in the name of god representing Christianity, or Judaism, or Buddhism, or Hinduism ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... itter.html
I say Obama is very ignorant of what Islam really is.
Islam is not wholly a religion per se.
Islam is closer as a fascist ideological way of life comprising an element of a very dogmatic religion amongst other inclusive elements of life, i.e. politics, economics, cultural, social, etc.
Islam is comparable to other negative ideologies like Nazism, Communism, Italian fascism and the likes.The basic element of religion within Islam is its soteriological purpose, i.e. assurance of eternal life in heaven. But this assurance is conditioned upon the other various aspects of its way of life which condemns and calling for the oppression of non-Muslims towards world domination and kill them if necessary.
Such commands and examples are dictated in its holy books, the Quran and other associated texts.
Therefore for many Muslims, if they do not follow the dictates and examples of Muhammad, they are doomed to hell. This is the main reason why there are so much terrible evils committed by SOME Muslims around the world in the past, currently and will be in the future.IMO, Islam is in part malignant and responsible for terrorism committed in the name of Islam, Allah and Muhammad.
The many Muslims who are moderates are in fact diluting the original pure Islam by imputing modern human values. These moderates [better human beings] are lesser Muslims than the genuine fundamentalist Muslims [the regressive humans].
Do you think Obama is aware of this real truth about Islam or is he such an ignorant person or is he trying to be political correct so as not to offend the Saudis and others re the oil factor?
Here is the original real Islam which is active amongst many Muslims. Note even at 30% were talking of 450 !! million Muslims.
- Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i96nYYcEKNw (**).
- Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0XNcPNXS1I (**). **
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For the sake of not receiving another warning ( the gods know I don't need anymore racked on me..), I will avoid the use of the proverbial epithet that begins with the letter »N«, and instead use a softer term: »Wiggerization«. What is a »wigger«? A wigger is a Caucasian, who thinks, acts, dresses, etc like a....well...you know ( That word that begins with an *N*). With the advent of the rapper »Eminem«, Western culture has been a hothouse for these wiggers. The typical W. sags his pants ridiculously low, mumbles his speech, talks obnoxiously loud and exaggerates his gesticulations to compliment his overall ridiculous appearance. The typical W. thinks that he is tough as nails, that he is ultra-masculine. But actually he is rather feminine; he possess no originality or individuality --- his entire persona is the result of the trenchant influence of alterity, of the current ethos. »Monkey see - monkey do«. Whatever is perceived as being the most popular, the masses will conform to it, so they can fit in.
In this culture, the ideal W. is stupid. The more articulate you are, the more »White« you sound and, therefore less cool. Bastardizing the English language with ebonics -- primal guttural noises -- stupid drooling facial expressions -- clothes that are too big -- and music that sounds like something concocted by feral chimps banging pots and pans together in a kitchen are what's considered to be fashionable these days.
^^^ See this retard above? This is Jimmy.
Jimmy wrote:
»Yo Yo, my nukka! Whatz poppin, nukka? Yo, My nukka, lizen up, yo...That thot Shanequa is a bad bitch, yo....she be like Einstein, Nukka....given me some legit brain, yo....Thots be thots, nukka.....yo check out this white-boy over hurrrr...thinkz he all intellectual and shit with his normal sized clothes N shit....bro, needs to grow up in Christ and eat some meat yo...Church! Nukka..CHURCH!!!......we be ballen, shot callen....skeet skeet skeet.....yah BOY!!!«
Remember kids, the more stupid you are, the more cool you will become! Don't touch that goddamn apple! Bask in that circle of heavenly ignorance.....yes....very good, very good.... :evilfun: **
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I only had one dreAM LIKE THAT IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. It was after our son's suicide we went to India, and
then went to see Buddha's grave. There were some angry wasps that bit me on the right cheeck swelled terribly, then that night had a dream was trekking and up on top of a mountain the route came to a fork and had to decide which way to follow. I decided to the left. The panorama which enfolded me in a warm caress, were colored just like the above pictures. The the thought occured to me of what would have the other, the right side be, had i chosen that? **
What does it mean when rivers and lakes are always present in dreams? ** **
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Will we get »one and only one« syncretistic education system?
No.
Will we get »many« syncretistic education systems?
Yes. **
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Your logic is hard to follow... you raised the student and study (education) not me. **
Why will we get many... because that is already what is happening and has happened since the dawn of man. **
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Disagreeing is not the same as not understanding. **
I have no idea what you are talking about. Sorry, my fault not yours. **
We are going around in circles. I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Once again, my fault not yours. **
Will we evolve into 19 foot giants with four arms?
This too is possible.
Do I think it will happen?
No. **
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The assumption is that because I do not agree with you that I do not understand you. **
When these things happen, then the probably of them having happened will be 100%. **
Sorry, I am not going to read other threads. **
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Feminism uses equality as an excuse to bring power to their group. **
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Islam is like Christianity .... **
Christianity on the one side and Judaism and Islam on the other side are much different.
For example: Christianity is not as much abrahamic and not as much monotheistic as Judaism and Islam are. In Christianity there is Maria as the mother of God, Jesus as the son of God, and the Holy Ghost of God. That's not really monotheistic. And the New Testament is very much different from the Old Testament. ** **
Nietzsche said that (for example) there are »ja-sagende« (»yes-saying«) and »nein-sagende« (»no-saying«) religions in both the Aryan (Indogerman) and the Semitic societies: Brahmanism as an Ayran (Indogerman) religion and Judaism or Islam as a Semitic religion are ja-sagende Religionen (yes-saying religions) whereas Buddhism as an Ayran (Indogerman) religion and Christianity as a Semitic religion are nein-sagende Religionen (nein-saying religions). Cp. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Der Wille zur Macht (The Will to Power), S. 110-111. If that what Nietzsche said is right, then Christianity is even more similar to Buddhism than to Judaism or Islam. Again: There are no three Abrahamic religions because Christianity is too much different from Judaism and Islam. ** **
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Tweet from a local chuch:
If you're white, educated, middle-aged, male and straight, you're welcome in our church. You're also welcome if you're none of these. **
The second sentence annihilates the first sentence. So why is there the first sentence? The writers of this two sentences make themselves untrustworthy and attackable.
Most London churches are near all now non-denominational. **
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Arminius wrote:
Islam is not like Christianity!« ** **
It is an Abrahamic religion! They all act in a similar manner when they have power. **
Consider the witch burnings .... **
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All are welcome. **
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I have been dying ever since I was born. I am thus experiencing death. **
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Gib wrote:
»Erik wrote
I'm amalgamating the phenomenology and science of love into a meta-physical theory. To just stop at the scientific aspect would be myopic. I'm looking to delve further into the teleology of love, perhaps encounter a new, edifying perspective. **
Ah, right. Forgot you were a Nietzschean. Everything is willed. But you would agree, wouldn't you, that the will to reproduce and make one's self eternal comes prior to human conscious willing?« **
Yes, and so we have two different wills - the personal conscious will and the greater prior will - and if these are two different wills, can we say they have different motives and objectives? The objective of the greater prior will is to reproduce, to make the object of its will (i.e. us) immortal. And the objective of the personal conscious will, in the case of being in love, is to create some emotional magic between one's self and an attractive member of the opposite sex, and the will driving all this is the will to acquire that feeling and share it with another. **
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Fent wrote:
»Statiktech wrote:
What sorts of double standards? **
Progressives are fine with the Palestinian desire for self-determination, Australian Aboriginal self-determination, American Indian self-determination, African self-determination, Chinese self-determination, etc. etc. etc. However, any call for European nations (and their cousin states) to be self-determinate is met with screams of racism and Nazism.« **
That's a good example of leftist double standards. Another good one would be their belief that gender is a complete social construction, right up until a man decides he's 'actually a woman', then suddenly gender is a physical function of the brain that only surgery can correct. They also continually try to get people fired or shamed out of existence for innocuous comments that somebody could possibly interpret as being sexist, while laughing it off or forgiving it entirely when people on their side of the fence outright harass or molest women.
Feminists against Clinton? Not a one. Anti-war protesters after Obama got elected? An endangered species. **
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I have recently been extremely been fascinated , or re-fascinated by the surrealists .... **
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What did Jesus say about sex? **
Did Jesus have sex? **
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Is beauty really in the eye of the beholder? What if there is a universal principle to beauty? Perhaps it's not as subjective, as you may think? Physical beauty is a manifestation of symmetry and genetic superiority. Sure, we may prefer X beauty over Y beauty ( subjective preferences ), but could one deny either their aesthetic value? I.e., their objective beauty?
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Arminius wrote:
»Perhaps Leibniz war greater than Kant ... (!) ... (?) ...(!).« ** **
Leibniz was more famous for mathematics rather than philosophy [on Monads].
Kant was born [1724] after Leibniz's death [1716].
Kant demonstrated the shortfalls of Leibniz's Monad and his »identity of indiscernible«. **
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Arminius, let us say that all religions are interpretative, at least that we are subjective beings and cannot know things in the exact same way as other. That said ...:
The very idea of a single god is enough to create an ideological singularity, even where there are many variations of that in expression. This is why ALL religions have been given strict guidelines for practice e.g. dharma in Hinduism, Buddhism and Janism, and sharia law in Islam. christianity done the same thing via preaching and largely achieved it until various movements and industrial transformation changed our society.
The only difference is that Islam went in the opposite direction, starting out with grand philosophies, maths and cultural changes, but then becoming strict. The industrial revolution didnt happen in the middle-east, so their societies have been changed from western influences ~ and that is the real difference.
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Note this is not a religious thread but a spiritual one.
Realistically, for many of us, the end of our lives will be one where we are stuck in a bed and dying. We will most likely be in pads and have our bottoms wiped. We will most likely also have a catheter.
At this point in our lives, what is it that will help us? **
In this situation, I would rather be alone than surrounded by people who feel sad around me. The best case scenario for me would be for there to be happy people around me.
I think this would help me. As I believe it helps me, I try to be happy around people when they are dying. I believe I have had positive responses from these people. They showed that even in extreme pain they can laugh, smile and be happy (even if it only for a few moments).
What will help you when you need to have your bottom wiped as you are dying? **
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The bottom of spirituality may be a black hole. **
The bottom of both of spirituality and most of the religions are mental practices like meditation. Everything else was built around it, as the ontology of the existence progressed with time. Myths and morals were found, derived and brought later into religions to enable those to offer a complete life style and something such, in which folks can have faith.
Although, it helps a lot in many ways, yet faith is not the connerstone of the religions. But, unfortunately, most of the adherents of the religions see it otherwise. **
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Before the end of the First World War Einsteins theory stood outside the mainstream. **
The conflict between Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell-Lorentzs electromagnetism was best illustrated by the Michelson-Morley experiment which split a beam of light into two parts which were sent, by means of mirrors, to and fro along two equal and perpendicular arms one of which is aligned with the direction of movement of the Earths orbit and one at right angles to the orbit. On returning to their starting point the light produced a pattern of dark and bright fringes. The fringes remained in the same position throughout the year both when the arm aligned with the Earths orbit remained in its original position or, contrary to expectations, when the arm aligned in direction of movement was moved to a position at right angles to the orbit and the other arm was brought into alignment, i.e. when the position of the arms was reversed. This is contrary to the Maxwell-Lorentz theory, in which the velocity of light is independent of the motion of its source.
There are three possibilities: that the Maxwell-Lorentz theory is wrong; that Newtonian mechanics is wrong; or that there is some unknown effect of motion which has been overlooked. **
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The only difference is that Islam went in the opposite direction, starting out with grand philosophies, maths and cultural changes, but then becoming strict.
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