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I mean't to ask if these people that say untrue things are infact lacking morality?

 

The morality of the tribe, the law, was written by an individual or a group of people at one point and is revised when needed. So morality of the tribe is derived from personal morality.

 

If certain people lack personal morality, can we equally say that they lack compassion?

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_(personal_and_cultural)

Can a person "say" they have compassion while lacking morality?

Putting them on a scale isn't the only way to check rest mass. The energy-momentum relation, the conditions under which photons can create particle/antiparticle pairs and the successful theories that predict and require massless photons are three reasons that immediately come to mind.

 

The point here is that being massless is the accepted science, and yet the idea has been tested.

 

How can photons even be placed on a scale to check their rest mass? Since I understood that atoms absorb photons or emit photons when the temperature of photons(atoms?) rises; ex lightbulb.

So a large portion of the population understands the supposed enemy, and with understanding comes a chance to avoid economic conflict or even war.

 

The fallacy in your statement is that the large portion of the population doesn't need to understand the supposed enemy because there is no enemy and because the large portion of the population has no control over economic conflict or even war.

You may have seen some mention of this paper which came out recently in Phys. Rev Letters.

 

How Stable is the Photon?

 

http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.021801

 

Basically, the author assumed the photon had mass, which would allow it to decay to something less massive. He applied this to the CMB. If photons were decaying, it would affect the frequency distribution of the light we observe, which puts a constraint on the lifetime of the photon — 3 years in its rest frame (if it has mass, it has a rest frame) but owing to time dilation, it's 10^18 years in our frame. Which limits how much mass a photon could possibly have.

 

This http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rest_mass ?

 

If photons can't be stored in a container and placed on a scale, how can you be so certain that photons don't have mass?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsp90

 

Hsp90 blood levels that have been measured would have to be used with caution regarding wether someone has cancer or not because other than cancerous cells, physical activity also increases Hsp90 levels. An overweight and inactive person with elevated Hsp90 levels would most likely have cancer, while a healthy physically active person would most likely not have cancer, unless they lived in a polluted city.

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18784937

Yes, it is. To some extent the language you think in also superimposes how your brain processes other scientifc data. Maybe?? Im not sure, but there is a pattern.

 

Those who think for themselves become what nationality? Dont forget, you have to communicate with other freethinkers.

 

Do you mean that language wires the brain a certain way and this wiring affects on how our brains process scientific data?

 

I don't think freethinkers can be tied to a nationality.

 

Maybe nationality and/or national pride is tied to herd mentality?

 

I believe that children in the USA should be required to learn 2 languages besides English, and one of those languages is of a culture that we may be in conflict with in the future, such as Arabic, Iranian, Russian, and maybe Mandarin.

 

What is the reason in learning a language of a supposed future threat to the USA?

"See it as a joke" also depends on the field of science in question. I see the field of science that I am currently studying as misleading because the information is organized neatly and in a flat earth mentality way.

 

If most people in the sciences see the information the same way, flat earth mentality, that is what is regarded as true even though the information could be falsified. The point is for science to learn not to continue making the same mistakes as religion; that is passing off information as 100% valid even though it can be easily partly falsified and corrected by those without the flat earth mentality.

 

Not offending anyone personally.

Not arguing against this, just thought I'd throw in the fact that Japan has had a problem, not only with fertility, but young people refuse to even be in relationships.

 

Pornography addiction in Japan?

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2009/05/10/life/blurring-the-boundaries/#.UofS1NL3HfI

And the singular of anecdote is not data.

 

I'm not even sure there is a meaningful correlation. Of those top 10 rice consumers, only 3 are in the top 100 for fertility rate. Japan isn't even in the top 200.

 

What does correlate with lower birth rates is health, wealth and education.

 

Sure, wealthy and educated people are more likely to use birth control, however they may also be sexually repressed by their society and/or the media, and use pornography because of the sexual repression, which would then lead to their sexual obsession towards pornography.

 

How is health correlated to lower birth rates? If wealthy and educated men are healthy, why is there a trend of infertility amongst the rich?

Insulin does raise spermatogenesis and rice increases insulin the most.

 

https://www.google.com/#q=insulin+spermatogenesis

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/33/4/760.full.pdf

 

I've never had my sex drive raised this much by any other food I've ever eaten.

Why not?

Lately I've tried consuming more soaked white rice to see what it would do and my sex drive skyrocketed.

 

Is it a good hypothesis to state that rice consumption on a daily basis eventually leads to overpopulation?

 

http://irri.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=12109〈=en

If we dismiss culture as an environmental factor, can we ultimately define nationality as the language you consciously think in??

We could say this to be true for most people but there is people that are an exception to this, those who can think for themselves.

 

Also can particular languages breed a particular type of science?? the french for example seem to excel at higher level maths while germans seem to excel at engineering, british and americans have made their mark technologically while physics seems to extend over europe....does language dictate what area of science you may excel in????

 

Well, maybe it is the education system and/or political system of each country that has effects on the mentality of their citizens?

 

Edit: It could if each language works different parts of the brain. Like a muscle(neurons) doing different exercises(language). Is this what you meant?

It's a matter of privacy for the innocents. Do we really want the authorities to have unlimited access to our personal lives: what we had for lunch, who we fancy, what we are doing at the weekend, that embarrassing mistake we made recently, what we are planning to buy for our nephew for Christmas.

 

Push for the sale of telephones that encrypt phone calls instead of wasting time with the law. Rebelling against the government never works.

 

These details may seem trivial, and in a sense they are, but they are still private and - it seems to me - if we cannot live day-to-day safe in the knowledge that the capability for such mass surveillance is not likely to be exercised inappropriately, then that substantially impacts upon quality of life. If there is not one bit of your life that you can call your own, then what is the point in living?

 

These are all external factors that have nothing to do with truely living.

 

Humans don't know what "living" means. Just admit that we are dragging our feet along life and we eventually start stomping our feet on the ground like spoiled brats when something doesn't go our way.

Nitpicking: the NSA has also intentionally weakened encryption software, so this is not always a good option.

 

More broadly: Privacy is not about having anything to hide. To quote myself:

 

Privacy's point is not to hide things. It's a protection against government power.

 

Giving the government the power to read your email, tap your phone, and record your porn usage isn't bad simply because it's embarrassing. After all, the data will likely only be seen by a computer. But it gives the government enormous power to make decisions about you -- decisions about whether you may take a commercial airline flight, get a security clearance, or even get a job -- without your knowledge or consent, and without you knowing how they make the decisions. If they reach the wrong conclusion or take data out of context, there is no recourse.

 

Pervasive surveillance also means that the little crimes we commit every day -- pirating a movie, forgetting to report something on our taxes, smoking marijuana (and posting about it on reddit) -- are revealed to the government. They won't bother prosecuting most of them, but they can always choose to prosecute, and if a government official decides to abuse their powers they have a ready-made list of trumped-up reasons to arrest or harass you.

 

In short, a lack of privacy gives the government the power to be even less transparent in its decision-making, and gives it yet more power over its citizens. It's not a question of discovering your fetishes or being embarrassed, and we shouldn't act as though only those with something to hide have reason to fear the government.

 

Read this: https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/

 

Sounds like a fake crises to distract us from bigger problems.

 

Imagine there was no wire tapping of any information. Would anyone live life? Actually live it?

 

Bold part: Any smart person would use truecrypt.

I've lived both in Italy and Canada for a good part of my life. Understanding both languages and cultures. At the end of the day, most humans think the same regardless of language, culture, etc...

 

 

Two nations cannot unite over a belief which they connot express to one another.

 

True, misunderstanding the language does cause problems but that is do to lazyness of not practicing the language. I've known people who can speak multiple languages fluently yet there is incompetent politicians that have trouble speaking multiple languages.

Sort of like the Jews should have been smart enough not to be Jewish so as to avoid those perfectly legitimate actions of the Nazi's, right?

 

What does killing have to do with spying on worthless phone calls?

 

You should ask yourself what the jews did that made nazi germany hate their guts before writing another presumption.

Where is it from?

Big deal. If any of you had anything to hide, then you would be smart enough to store the valuable information on an encrypted key.

I like this line from the I, Robot movie.

 

 

Dr. Alfred Lanning: I'm sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.

 

Questioning might lead to answering the question. Asking the right questions leads to answering the question.

Positive characteristics, in my book, would include for example: generosity and kindness towards others that is balanced with a recognition and heeding of one's own needs. I.e. being neither selfish nor self-sacrificing to the point of detriment to oneself or others.

 

How are these self-reflectable characteristics since they are about others?

 

I may have misinterpreted your meaning here - what did you mean exactly?

I don't see how anyone that doesn't live their life independently of others can truly be happy other than give the illusion of their happiness with an addiction.

If these forces were real, they would have to be created continuosly somehow to have effects on us. What if the joining of planetery magnetisms creates these forces continuosly?

 

I find the forces to be correct only when I am living life. I would say that astrology is a way to say.. "this is what your life will look like when you actually live it."

 

It would be great if astronomers(?) or physicists could see how the magnetism of one planet interacts with the magnetism of another planet. Maybe there is already science that I am unaware of?

I can't take any of this seriously for the following reasons.

 

1) Human domestication leads to greater inactivity.

2) We aren't slaves to our genes.

3) Physical activity upregulates epigenes, the good genes that make us feel strong.

4) Natural vitamin and mineral deficiencies in the general public should be of major concern since these vitamins and minerals regulate our biochemistry, and not how we "should" manipulate genes. Humility, not arrogance.

 

Lazyness is a brutal disease.

So long as the person has some positive characteristic(s) on which to self-reflect, then yes, I suspect that self-esteem and self-love would be possible without self-delusion.

Can you give us some examples of these positive characteristic(s)?

 

I agree with you in that an individual may only reach a state of bona fide self-esteem and self-love by independent self-reflection.

When did I say this?

Then I started thinking about the reasons why people wish not to die, which seems to be, so that they may engage in practices and behaviours that they enjoy

This isn't true. Those that don't wish to die are scared shitless to live life or are clueless on how to live life. Those that live life in a non-reckless manner don't even think about dying, the future, and/or waste time thinking about the past that can't be changed.

 

"Practices and behaviours that they enjoy" sounds like the typical quick reward addiction without lifting a finger to earn the reward.

 

I would say that "western cultures fail to accept the inevitability of death" because they are forced to believe that life is short, so they rush through life in fear and paranoid. Look at american movies, they are made to keep people in fear of death and that a hero will show up and save their sorry asses.

Tri,

 

I've been busy painting and you misunderstood my comments.

 

Can an overweight person self-reflect and eventually feel self-love, self-esteem and joy without self-deluding oneself in a fake external version of happiness?

 

I don't see how anyone that doesn't live their life independently can truly be happy other than give the illusion of their happiness with an addiction; such as food, music, porn, internet, movies, drugs, overtraining, oversocializing, etc...