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by b800h 3y ago
I just picked up You are Gods and it's actually pretty dense stuff and would be a poor choice if you were tired of Christian thought (even if he winds Vedanta into it). It might be worth having a look at Bentley Hart on Wikipedia and
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by b800h 3y ago
I'll go out on a limb here because the alternative is recommending a load of Christian stuff in combination with Philosophy and Eastern theology. David Bentley Hart is quite good, and his book "You Are Gods" may well be what
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by b800h 3y ago
Because it inevitably becomes about the drugs and sex, and not the spirituality.
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by b800h 3y ago
He certainly didn't fool all the people. And those he did fool were largely fooled by sophistry, not magic.
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by b800h 3y ago
Fair enough. But there's a lot to be said for finding meaning in helping other people.
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by b800h 3y ago
Well they don't involve sex and drugs, or questionable attitudes towards women.
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by b800h 3y ago
There's a substantive difference between a religious argument on Twitter and proper theological argument which leans into philosophy. The problem is that people aren't typically exposed to the good stuff because teachers and the m
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by b800h 3y ago
I've not heard of him - I'll have a look. This may not apply to him, but what I'm wary of is anything that makes the practice a personal improvement exercise - it has to reach for the heavens and encourage empathic love for o
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by b800h 3y ago
"The method of science, the aim of religion." Crowley appeals to people who have had enough religion to recognise that there's something to it, but can't reconcile it with the scientific materialism in our dominant cultu
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by b800h 3y ago
Crowley, and his forebear Eliphas Levi, are responsible for the stupid air of sulphur which hangs around a lot of modern esoterica. AC has his apologists, and he was obviously clever, but he was unquestionably a complete turd, and created a
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by b800h 3y ago
In molecular biology, it's generally considered good practice to avoid giving things stupid names, principally because telling someone "your child has a mutation in their Sonic Hedgehog gene, and will suffer intellectual disabilit
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by b800h 3y ago
Those 'capitalist forces' you're talking about are 'you have to pay for resources if you want to use them'. But I'm sure this wouldn't be true in magical communist land. They'd be well up for ploughin
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by b800h 3y ago
I'm not having that though - it's all one way in favour of keeping Americanisms because we're familiar enough with them to understand them. No thanks. On the flipside, I was delighted to hear stories of US kids confusing thei
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by b800h 3y ago
But both these and Bugattis are Veblen goods.
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by b800h 3y ago
"Thirty people in the U.K. could soon receive £1,600 ($1,983) each month if the trial by independent think tank Autonomy secures funding ." Yeah, I'm running one of these too, and I'll give people £5k each month if I re
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by b800h 3y ago
From Wikipedia: "The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content, marginalizing human activity. The date given for
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by b800h 3y ago
There are a few literature reviews floating around, here's one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8954895/ and another: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3
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by b800h 3y ago
That frequency is bang-smack in the middle of the range used by prenatal ultrasound. The UK NHS released a statement discouraging the use of "4d" ultrasonics to make pre-birth videos. This sort of result highlights why this was a
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by b800h 3y ago
Blimey, no thanks. "Citizen PL56291G9, come to your window!"
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by b800h 3y ago
Nope, that's about right, and I suspect it always will be, given what consciousness actually is . Occasionally people try to redefine that, so they can claim they've cracked it.
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by b800h 3y ago
By "sunsetting" do they mean selling it to a Chinese firm? No reason to suspect so, but you'd have to be mad not to, right?
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by b800h 3y ago
With laws being changed, unlike in totalitarian regimes.
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by b800h 3y ago
Disagree with any laws?
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by b800h 3y ago
Nope! Plenty of atheists roll out this line; superficially it seems true, so it's a powerful rhetorical device. A lot of discussion on the problem of evil is quite obscure but worth reading if you're in any doubt about all of crea
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by b800h 3y ago
Yep. GB News might be cranky but the data underlying the story is just fact.
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by b800h 3y ago
Annual migration of 700,000 people to a country of 70,000,000 is absurd and completely destabilises society.
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by b800h 3y ago
It seems like a bit of a free-for-all at the moment with genetics - commoditised whole genome sequencing has burst open the field for making discoveries. Very exciting.
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by b800h 3y ago
"But we do have candidates, including string theory. In string theory all the particles of the universe are actually microscopic vibrating loops of string." Actually string. Brilliant exposition this.
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by b800h 3y ago
And I suppose given that it was exciting in the 1980s, these are the people in positions of power at the moment.
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by b800h 3y ago
All my life, they've been hawking string theory; what feels like 40-odd years of breathless articles in New Scientist and on "Horizon". I don't really understand why it's still funded.

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