I would just keep it simple. A man has masculine physical characteristics and functions physically. Their style of communication can be anything. Their interests can be anything. I would try to extract sex from common societal roles which are more subject to change.

I personally am not a fan of melty foods when I myself am being melted.

Pizza is popular during football season which are generally colder months.

I wouldn't have the Emancipation Proclamation as a holiday because it only freed slaves in states that opposed the union. Many northern states continued having slaves until the 13th amendment.

I know a few black people who had never heard of the holiday until it became national. Largely celebrated in Texas.

How is the cause of autism described? I think depression can be linked to hippocampus size and communications with other brain parts. Perhaps drugs or brain stimulation can improve brain function in major depression which is a disease. If there are brain scan hallmarks for autism maybe a therapy could help address it as well if brain manipulations like that become a possible therapy. If the condition burdens a person than I see no reason not to call it a disease. Maybe not high priority as Parkinson's or cancer but still should be studied to find treatment.

Definitely hate heat waves. Stay inside to conserve energy. Only after it passes can I be productive again. In the winter it is largely overcast. They say the clouds keep heat in, but honestly would rather see sun even if it were colder. In the summer definitely prefer medium temps. Lots of more mediterranean people seem to want their skin to start on fire. I honestly wonder if they have fewer nerves at the surface. Lol.

Surprised so few have approached this experiment like Sabina. So basically the data is interpreted wrong? Sensors 3 and 4 are wrongly not considered together for comparison?

I think Sabina actually did do a video suggesting that reverse time travel at least for information might be possible without causing paradox.

I didn't mean to put this in lounge.

This is a post about religion in an analytical sense. Why wouldn't it belong in this section? It is related to infinite power. It is no small topic.

My focus is more on electric companies and things that literally are ridiculous to have redundancy. Basically a government regulating monopoly. As far as intelligence there should be less redundancy, but I fear one big intell agency without any groups that can investigate them as a safe guard.

I worry concern over size is driven by paranoia over being watched like China watches its citizens, or at least AI does. If the government programs get things done more efficiently than individuals can than all the better.

Politicians that talk about oversized government definitely don't talk about what size they'd be comfortable with. I suppose if there could be a politically unbiased group of business people that try to increase efficiency in places that are designed to make money versus to help people survive which is a main purpose of governance. I suppose it is hard know the exact benefit of certain government investments in the shorter term.

So a person's identity is all that matters? Life isn't about more?

Is it really obviously true though?

And what decides the value of what we give? Many do things that to many might seem bad and get back what many consider good. If you ask Conan the Barbarian how to behave he would say to be bold and war like because his god favors that behavior even though it doesn't benefit many.

I assume it means maybe we invent stuff to be important when maybe our identity is actually all that really matters? But society forces us to work within the confines of priorities that may actually be hollow?

Where is good versus bad determined without a conscious being to decide?

What about the concept of humans being made in the image of a god, but far short in abilities? And if a god were in fact all powerful would the term "scale" even mean anything? They couldn't then work with the very large, very small, and everything in-between at the same time without compromise to the choosen ends?

So you agree that a single god with unlimited knowledge must be sadistic, or indifferent in terms of morality?

Well I assume any such god would need to be different than that of any religion in the sense of having very serious limitations that many may not find reassuring.

Oh I don't care about street cred. No diety gets worship from me, and thus far none have made their desire to be worshipped let alone presents known. So that isn't a requirement for me. I guess I would start with immortal, and able to set very large or very small scale things into motion.



I can't speak to original sin or if that's a real thing. But biology is just how energy changes forms. If a deity is limited you can't really be sure what options they have. I'm not even going to assume this god created us or started anything from scratch.

What are the prerequisites of being a god? Humans create stuff that we set into motion that reach scales we cannot manage anymore. Gods need not be grand. Just have superior means than us, which isn't a tall order.

Perhaps, but assume they exist and aren't sadistic. Can we assume they aren't omnipotent?

How do you mean? If I could have an apple and an orange or just an apple it couldn't make sense to chose the latter?

You're both right. It was a dumb question. I guess it can't be determined. But I guess I wanted to see what value could be given to this human existence that makes it inherently superior to being a rock.

I've been watching Hercules TLJs and Xena TWP lately. In many ways they explore multiple religions and allow them to coexist without conflict. I think they had Archangel Michael talk about reincarnation, they said hell was worse than Tartus, and mentioned karma. They did make Michael who is just an angel more powerful than Hercules though who is a demigod, and Callisto who was a full god at that point and made her into a demon under Satan, so they seemed to favor Abrahamic religions over the Greek religions, but in general they seemed to merge the religions of the world well.

"Frauds" but still conceivably as real?

Interesting OP.

Well maybe the issue is wanting or expecting extremes. Surely one can hope for a life that is pretty far from the bottom rung of society? Living out of ones 20s? Not being abused by an authority? Not suffering horrible illness ones whole life that can't be overcome?

Well maybe meaning can never be truly objective as everything object oriented will always be filtered through our mind, but it really would be nice to have a purpose so I don't leave this world not knowing if I fell short. I am not satisfied living for dopamine.

https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2023/02/06/meaning-of-life/

This was an interesting summary of the meaning of life in general. I still worry that only after we exit life can we know what its meaning was assuming we still exist to observe and analyze what happened in life.

So all meaning must be derived from ones own mind, and one can still seek pleasure as a nihilist even if pleasure, pain, numbness, oblivion, are all basically the same to them beyond biological preferences?

It certainly makes me feel powerless.

Because if I were immortal in any form in a universe where nothing else is, it would become clear that we do matter. It takes only one world ending event to end the cycle of humans.

Because it implies that we didn't matter. We matter to each other while we're alive. But if we cease and get recycled into plant food what mattered to us doesn't matter anymore because we could not keep those matters alive because they are as limited as I hope we're not.

I am not familiar with omega point or omni-memory. My concern is that we do end in all forms after physical death making everything before and after just castles in the sand.

A God isn't necessary in my view. But that we consciously go on after death does matter. Just physically configuring only to be unassembled to be used for another task equally pointless and possibly random doesn't inspire confidence that we or our gift of intelligence ever was held in any esteem by the universe on the whole.

Maybe I am presupposing that any part of us is nonphysical and therefore it interacts with this nonphysical world. I agree only physical interacts with physical and if any new things come along that interact with physical stuff than it too is defined as physical.

I am interested in logical arguments, perhaps taking big leaps, as to why any such realm if it exists would be hidden.

1). Perhaps there is a deity that hides the living from the dead so we live our lives and don't commit suicide thinking it will give us peace.

2). Maybe the physical world is the minority of things and rarely interacts with the physical world. Like all we know being little more than colors on the EM spectrum.

3). Maybe what we call nonphysical actually is physical but is so subtle that our instruments don't come close to perceiving it.

I'd be happy to hear any interpretations of why an afterlife if it exists is so well hidden. I recently had a close relative pass away and have been in a bit of an existential crisis. I appreciate any concepts on this subject.

Fair. But maybe another word instead of hidden. They say dark matter exists despite not interacting with light, but it does interact with gravity? Can't something be hidden even if it doesn't leave obvious clues of its possible existence?