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re: What is your most controversial belief?
Posted on 12/9/14 at 1:53 pm to DownSouthJukin
Posted on 12/9/14 at 1:53 pm to DownSouthJukin
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Worthy of its own thread... where are we on the continuum? I suspect apathy...
Feel free to do so. Let's have some fun and place a date beside each progression.
I'm not as optimistic as you.
I think between these two: From apathy to fear
From fear to dependency
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Posted on 12/9/14 at 2:03 pm to KSGamecock
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What is your most controversial belief?
People who live exclusively on public assistance should not be allowed to vote.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 2:35 pm to Grievous Angel
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People who live exclusively on public assistance should not be allowed to vote.
Amen and amen.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 2:58 pm to Themole
Googled it and found your post on TD from 9/25/13-I'll see if I can source it before posting...
Posted on 12/9/14 at 3:02 pm to Themole
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"2001 A Space Odyssey" gave us a glimpse of what you ponder. In the end, it eventually cycled back to mankind starting all over again.
2001: A Space Odyssey is an extremely anthropomorphic movie. With evolution there's no cycling. Evolution is linear in the direction of a pressure to adapt. That's the case until we get to modern humans
What's driving evolution in humans now? Knowledge. Scientific knowledge, to be precise. Technology, to be specific.
Scientific knowledge needs to be observable to be accepted. Otherwise it remains philosophy. Technology provides the verifiability science needs.
The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe. However, it has all the limitations and burdens of the human body restricting it.
Imagine its capacity if it were freed from the shackles of its biological prison. A.I. represents this potential.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 3:12 pm to Kentucker
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The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe.
How can we claim this as a certainty? Perhaps a dolphin's brain if FAR more advanced. There's so much left to be discovered in the universe that I think it's incredibly narcissistic of the human race.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 3:40 pm to KSGamecock
No god
Posted on 12/9/14 at 3:50 pm to mizzoukills
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How can we claim this as a certainty? Perhaps a dolphin's brain if FAR more advanced. There's so much left to be discovered in the universe that I think it's incredibly narcissistic of the human race.
I should have added, "as far as we know." My apologies.
Because we've studied the brains of Dolphins and the behaviors associated with them, we can say that our brains are more complex because of the presence of instinctual behaviors with the Dolphins and the absence of those behaviors in our own.
About human narcissism in humans, we may have lost the bonds of instincts but we are very much weighted down by our philosophies of superiority to other creatures. We claim dominion over all other life.
This post was edited on 12/9/14 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 12/9/14 at 4:51 pm to Kentucker
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The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe. However, it has all the limitations and burdens of the human body restricting it.
Imagine its capacity if it were freed from the shackles of its biological prison. A.I. represents this potential.
Intelligence is useless unless it is able create, feel love, hate. In all things, there must and needs be opposition. Man is, that he might have JOY. What joy is there in just bein a brain floatin around the universe being smart and progressin, again and again, until what? It becomes man again?
Ask Stephen Hawking's brain how much it enjoys being relieved of his shackles?
This post was edited on 12/9/14 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 12/9/14 at 5:31 pm to Themole
Abortion should be and stay legal.
And I am a republican
And I am a republican
Posted on 12/9/14 at 5:37 pm to Themole
Hawking has a very positive outlook about his disability:
I can't accept that the emotions we feel as humans define our intelligence. They certainly seem to be minimized when we use our collective intelligence as a species to explore the unknown.
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...science is a very good area for disabled people because it goes on mainly in the mind. Of course, most kinds of experimental work are probably ruled out for most such people, but theoretical work is almost ideal. My disabilities have not been a significant handicap in my field, which is theoretical physics. Indeed, they have helped me in a way by shielding me from lecturing and administrative work that I would otherwise have been involved in.
I can't accept that the emotions we feel as humans define our intelligence. They certainly seem to be minimized when we use our collective intelligence as a species to explore the unknown.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 5:57 pm to the808bass
I would like a spin off thread on said possessed female.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 7:05 pm to mizzoukills
I no doubt would like to know more about the mound as well. I googled it and added 'conspiracy' and had no hits.
What is rumored to be held there?
What is rumored to be held there?
Posted on 12/9/14 at 8:21 pm to semotruman
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Anyone on welfare should be required to take birth control in order to receive benefits. Women should have to get shots. Men too - and I believe that yes, they know how to produce birth control shots for men, they just don't because of low demand. Don't show up for the shot, don't get a check. Have all the kids you want; when you can afford them.
Someone called me a fascist for this.
Wow.
The right to procreate is an implied fundamental right and can only be infringed by an extremely compelling governmental purpose. Financial burdens, no matter how immense, have never been deemed a compelling purpose, for the record.
I'm sure this is a conservative thing - "keep the welfare recipients limited!" However, in restricting the right to procreate, you're actually being more liberal than anything.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 8:30 pm to WhitewaterDawg
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What is rumored to be held there?
In the late 1800s, native Americans spoke of light skinned ancestors that buried a library there.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 8:33 pm to mizzoukills
I love stuff like this but I have never heard of it. Any other names I can reference on the web?
Posted on 12/9/14 at 8:35 pm to KSGamecock
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I think we staged the USS Maine disaster as a pretext for the Spanish-American war.
That I'm actually in control of my reality and the rest of ya are along for the ride.
As Jim Reeves so eloquently crooned "Welcome to my world, Won't you come on in".
But seriously, I believe the Fed and the US government have actually averted a complete economic meltdown and according to the stock market all the economic troubles are behind us, we're all rich and happy days are here again.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 8:44 pm to WhitewaterDawg
Locals refer to "the mound" as Sharpsburg Hill. The government refers to it as 472789b.
Posted on 12/9/14 at 8:51 pm to mizzoukills
You are having fun with me.
It is an interesting premise though.
It is an interesting premise though.
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