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Humans have wings. Even the flightless ones. And humans are descended from dinosaurs. Is that the sort of thing you mean? Even though science shows it to be a meaningless concept? Presumably you also think we should bring back phrenology, the aether and phlogiston. And what does ornithology tell us about humans? So all red-headed people are one race? And all those with blue eyes are a different race? Then do we say that redheads with blue eyes are a different race from redheads with brown eyes? If you put 100 redheads, 100 blonds and 100 dark-haired people, you could sort them by their race because of the superficial difference of hair colour. I bet Egyptians, Sudanese and Turks would disagree with that. And, of course, you could sort out the members of each race by the superficial difference of the language they spoke.

I was too once but then it hit me.

Yes, that is obvious... Let's go to the basics. Imagine you have a picture: showing e.g. a mountain far away, and a flower on the foreground. Due to the big distance between the flower and the mountain they cannot be both sharp, and the photographer has chosen to have the flower sharp, and the mountains unsharp. E.g.: Now imagine you want to make a photograph of this photograph. If you choose your focus completely wrong everything will be unsharp. This you could call the observer effect (not quite of course because you do not influence the picture by photographing it). But you can make the picture sharper: but whatever you do, you won't get the mountains sharp, because on that picture the mountains themselves are not sharp. And that is not due to your way of photographing. It is due the picture itself. And so it is with the HUP: it expresses a feature of the object in question itself, namely of a quantum particle. It has nothing to do with the way of measuring.

My impression is that for most people in the original flat earth society, it was a bit of club of like-minded argumentative people. No doubt a few of them really believed the Earth was flat, but they were probably considered nutty by most members. Now it seems that the people in the various social media groups devoted to this, really do believe (with possibly a minority thinking it is a joke and egging them on). ! Moderator Note If you want to discuss this, without spamming your book, do so. Until then this thread is closed as there is nothing to discuss.

While sewage and fertilizer runoff need to be managed, those are not even remotely close in scale or impact, and they also pale in comparison to the acidification of our oceans due to uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification I disagree. This problem is too big for minor actions from tiny handfuls or conscientious people to matter. Sure, you using fewer squares of toilet paper each time you poop and ceasing use of plastic straws is nice, but you’re basically putting bandaids on compound fractures and ruptured organs. We instead need system-wide / planet-wide legislation to convert our sources of power, its distribution, and the way it gets used. We also need to invest heavily in carbon capture, green infrastructure, and agriculture to account for coming droughts, floods, and ferocious storms. We need to be moving people away from coastlines, reinventing air travel, and ending use of coal, petroleum, and more. We need to shift the entire paradigm, not just tweak the margins. Nothing less will rise to the actual challenge before us.

Exactly!! No one knows the answer, particularly in the circumstance someone used re children being marched in front of advancing troops. How could any reasonable decent Soldier handle that! I can thank my lucky stars that I was born at the end of WW2, obviously too young for the Korean war, just missed out on conscription for the Vietnam war, and was too old for any participation in the Iraqy war. Truthfully, I don't know how I would act with bombs and bullets flying around me...I hope responsibly and if necessarilly, heroically, but I just don't know. Two points, most all wars are immoral and wrong, and with regards to WW2 the Allies really had no alternative with Hitler, Mussolini and Japan, other then to do what they did. The only question I would raise is the dropping of the Atomic bombs...just questioning though. The worrying thing for me is how close the Allies [Europe and the British Empire] came to losing the war....if the Brits had not invented radar, If the Luftwaffe had continued bombing military bases instead of switching to surban targets, if Hitler had not invaded the USSR, if Japan had not bombed Pearl Harbour, if Hitler or Japan had of perfected the bomb first, if the Japanese had not been stopped on the Kokoda trail...the list goes on and on.

Whatever undesirable "racism" that may have been perpetrated by the Allies was, it certainly failed into insignificance to the wholesale slaughter, and attempted genocide by Hitler. History also shows at least in my country, vast improvements in relations between indigenous folk and European settlers. Times change. The known world was also governed by the church in the middle ages and during the inquisition. Nations mature, people become aware of injustices and civilisations change for the better. The evils of Amin and Hitler were in anyone's language, extreme examples of evil that needed to be excised, not withstanding one-eyed apologists and excuse makes for such regimes.

I'll stick to the general meaning of my whole statement thank you. "But situations do exist when one has no choice in the matter, and any moral concern need to be put in incubation for a period. As mentioned, the declaration of war by the British Commonwealth that commenced the WW2 is an example of an evil that was spreading and needed to be excised".

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I think I remember seeing a Learn Latin app for android phones in the Google store. Most of those resources are free if you watch some ads in English.

I would say, nobody have enough data. That's why new data are gathered, all the time, to fill gap. Some trends are visible only after many years of observations. e.g. satellites are taking photos of globe, e.g. Arctic and Antarctic, and scientists are merging them in timelapse video (what is hard to overthrow argument). Comparison of them in timeline reveals changes, regardless of local government attitude to ecology. If they cut forest, or other way damaged natural environment, it can be detected by analyze of photos. And you constantly need more data, because planet is changing.

What was the evil that was spreading? It certainly was not persecution of the Jews, for all the 'allied' nations had rejected Jewish refugees prior to the war and returned them to Germany. Other than the persecution of the Jews, WW2 was just another imperialist commercial enterprise in the form of another recovery of lost borders encompassing economic opportunity, or expansion of borders to protect a people in need of protection from another people seeing their resources as having economic opportunity. As have been all wars since Christ and John the Baptist told everyone not to make war. So .. BeeCee .. what exactly was the evil that was spreading? Not if you don't have another war. Spoken like a true partriot of any nation opposing any other nations. Would you, for instance, say the Australian, Canadian, U.S., British governments could be trusted to abide by the mutually agreed to treaties written by them for native aboriginal peoples? History clearly shows constant continual deliberate betrayal of those treaties by the colonizers resulting in genocide of the colonized people, even those who embraced the culture of the colonizer. Those are just easy examples. Ah .. to have the priviledge of refusing a compliment. Excellent, Strange: Mennonites, Hutterites, JWs, Individuals, Quakers, original Pentecostals http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2074-77052017000100031 many, many other denominations and individuals including Martin Luther King (resulting in not one African American mass murderer in the U.S.) Jesus Christ and John Baptist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_pacifism Also, there are sects and many individuals in Islam which will not participate in violence. As well, Jihad is not a militant action, but: "Jihad is an important religious duty for Muslims. ... to mean individual struggle, not something violent or militaristic." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_violence Along with adulterous men and women Leviticus 20:10 .... and people having sex with animals Exodus 22:19 . The change with the New Testament is the Christ would cast the demons out of those people, allowing them to live. However, if they returned to their old ways, natural influences like disease would and does eventually kill them if they remain in that sin. It is said that HIV for instance began with monkeys, though I can't testify to that, not being a medical scientist. War toys also .. six guns for kids a clear example. Model fighter planes and bombers .. hundreds of millions of them sold. $$$$$$$$$ AND the sale of those items allow the ancient primal instinct that death rules to be given authority. Personally, I believe there is an even more ancient instinct that tells us to allow a person to live and you have a new friend to help in survival .. THAT instinct needs to be buried to promote military recruitment .. the burial of that first instinct comes early, toy six guns with holsters to three year old boys, etc. (A rifle is far better for hunting game, it is easy to see.) But a toy six gun, and a hero cowboy shooting a bad Indian (and all Indians are bad but Ghandi, right?) A powerful casket for the first instinct of love. Thank you for this PRIME example: If a nation is on the brink of total starvation WHERE do they get the money to buy weapons for war? WHERE do they get the physical and mental energy necessary for war? WHERE do they get the food and water to sustain their soldiers (Surely not from a neighbouring nation which has abundant food, because a neighbouring nation will amost certainly have the exact same conditions that lead to starvation for the starving nation.) The Hawaiian islands are a prime example of food supply NOT being a factor in war. Tribes in neighbouring valleys separated by mountains had the same conditions, the same super abundance of food on land and in the air and sea, yet tribal warfare was constant until one Hawaiian tribe overcame almost all other tribes by war, intervention of the Great Kahuna preventing invasion of the final island by way of storms, similar to storms twice drowning Chinese armies on their way to invade Japan, and of course the Spanish armada on the way to England. The United Nations in the 1970s estimated a possible population of either 40 or 80 billion for our planet IF things were done correctly. China was in a state of starvation for many decades ONLY because it was constantly being destroyed by Europe .. when that destruction ended, and Japanese and American attempts at destruction failed, China prospered, and now ships all types and quantities of food TO even Canada and the U.S. (The destruction of Vietnamese rice produces being a major reason for the Vietnamese war, to benefit California rice growers.) History and common sense clearly PROVES the complete fallacy of 'war for food.' However, war for iron ore, coal, gold, diamonds, uranium, oil, natural gas .. it's been ongoing since man learned how to smelt metals and make shiny toys to impress the ladies, including war toys.

Since this is posted in the philosophical section, I though I might add my philosophical POV to it. To me infinity is the void where the big bang happened. The void beyond the boundaries of our universe. I imagine it as just one endless nothing. And our universe is just one tiny exception to that.