dimreepr

Bear in mind that humanity is just as scared of the shadow's, as is 'Ozymandias' the greatest of Kings. 😉 It's like Batman v Superman, a hidden joke by Spiderwoman...

The printing press is part of the technology, you're suggesting is encroaching on your freedom and control. The digital audit trail, I would argue, is harder to fake, or destroy, than a printed document; I acknowledge that no system is perfect or free of fakery. Any dictatorship worth it's salt, will be the sole arbiter of reality. Technology is never the problem, it's the insidious nature of an ageing demography and the rose tinted nature of their vision.

This is the brave new world mr Huxley foretold (if we replace genetics with technology), I find it a strange dystopia in which everyone's happy, though... Do you believe that you're stupid? What if you are? Would that mean you make stupid decisions?

A hotbed of human confirmation bias; I guess it's you and here's why you've confirmed that??? I would love to see a series, in which no one is a traitor and all the murders are done randomly... How many season's would it take?

You're missing a whole section of government in western societies that seek to reduce the potential of a king to own everything; that being the separation of powers between different levels of homophobia. Mechanism of hidden authoritarianism, tends to eliminate the option to vote, rather than present a cognitively disonent argument, as a potential choice. You're falling into the trap, that dictators tend to place before the 'Dunning and Krueger' devotee's... 😉

I was trying to simplify the human equation, into those that can understand the lesson and those that can't, fate is just another word to fill the gap between... When one understands a thing, it can be difficult to understand why other's can't; for instance, some apples aren't delicious. Most of the above, in reference to agency, depends on the teachers we most trust, in a much more complicated spectrum of humanity.

That's the problem with a text out of time/context, it's always going to be open to the bias of our culture; which circles back to my point, even science isn't immune to the potential dislocation of text and meaning, dependant on which time/culture we choose to use as a cypher.

That's kinda my point. Removing subjectivity, scientifically, is hard work, not everyone can or even understands why it's necessary. Not everyone is capable in the 'reasoning process', I refer to my spectrum, in an ideal world science and religion work hand in hand, much like a court of law and the application of justice; scientists understand the world for the rest of us and we're content with the answer's. It's like 'the matrix' and the hypothesis that the humans rejected the "happy world" bc of their natural rejection of a peaceful contented scenario; to which I call bullshit.

No, I mean every accepted religion and their version of the concept. If we simplify humanity, and put the scientifically literate at one end of the spectrum and the uneducated (by which I mean the illiterate among us) at the other; fate removes subjectivity from the other end of 'our' spectrum, bc our agency has been removed from the equation.

I'm sorry but I can't let this pass, "religions don't"? Isn't God a way of removing subjectivity? Two different system's with different approaches, both effective (arguably), so I find it difficult to dismiss an approach to life, that was historically successful.

Why?

I wish I could, but the clown car is center of attention, while the kingmaker places his pawn...

Indeed, but the right stuff is difficult to determine if we decide to declare the leaf as legitimate currency; we may need to burn down a few forests... 😇

The problem with religion is, the bible is stuck in the time it was written and our context has changed over time; if the speed of light was a thing in the bible then it would be a reasonable axiom, from which to calculate, the likely shift in context, and therefore, a greater understanding of what was written.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Trump seems determined to bankrupt America (He's writing cheque's that nobody can afford)", energy is just a side effect.

Doesn't that mean a theory is less than?

That's what I thought, just not why I thought it... I was thinking of the beginning, and where the energy came from, for a quantum fluctuation to be significant...

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Assuming absolute zero means no movement, would that mean electrons stop orbiting the protons?

Now you've got me in a logic loop, if I can't +1 this and I can't +1 myself (assuming 1 of my reply, had some sort of influence, in the past), who can I +1, Zeno?

We just want to know stuff and we want to believe the stuff we know is correct; no time equals no history to learn from, just empty space...

Aren't we lucky??? We have the freedom to express an opinion... 😉 Make the most of it, while it's still fashionable.

He has no real concept of a freedom that lies outside of comfortable, banging one's head against a brick wall, is a fundamental freedom he can't understand. He's the sort that complains about his, perfectly acceptable holiday, bc the sheets had a slight stain; I paid for a perfect holiday and I only have two week's in which to enjoy it and that stain... grrrr...

There you go again, assuming that your "concept of freedom" differs from anyone else's. If you have to have specific condition's in order to achieve peace/freedom then your imposing prison on yourself.

Your being very arrogant, you seem to be denying all of us any chance of freedom. You need to imagine someone like Dr Hawkins, he is entirely dependent on other's for 'everything', right down to his voice; but he's freer than you ever could be, bc he accepts his prison/limits, he escapes in the only way he can, think about it... 😉

Thanks but no thanks. TBH I can't think of worse prison sentence 'life with no possibility of cheese'... 😉 Just a word to the wise-arse @raphaelh42 , we aren't born free from our family, turtles are but most of them die; a child has to obey the rules, an adult understands why... 😉