So if we believe 'α = 0 for all observers, α > 0 only for God' we can proceed with accepting the evidence IAW your theory, but if we believe otherwise, we cannot? As a first principle, I do not find it repulsive, but then I already believe that more than etymology relates to theological, the theoretical, and the theatrical.
Join us who are saying we are not trying to make the world safe for democracy; we are trying to make democracy safe for us!
Will you join us?
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I don't believe much, but one thing I don't doubt is that our ruling class would grind us all into gore, lubricating wars and the instruments of their wealth while lying to us unreservedly about the nobility of their intentions. I don't know if that is a bad thing, do you?
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The ruling class has been successful in legislating for their perpetual dominion, but they never imagined the loyal opposition could ever be other than themselves. The founders did imagine such events, such institutionalized revolutions. Now it remains to be seen whether an institutional revolution can prevail over democracy.

What kind of spider did I amost step on in Northern Alabama?
In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” Ursula Le Guin describes a town called Omelas whose residents’ happiness depends upon the imprisonment of one child, who is kept in misery and confinement. They believe the child responsible for their happiness is miserable only because they believe themselves to be happy.
We are living through a period I call the 'Panic of the Patricians'. We, their clients, don't need them anymore, and they know it. They don't know what to do about their loss of legitimacy and authority now that we have our own tools to share information, educate ourselves, create agreements and form consensus, and engage in all aspects of our social and economic environment that once required their assistance and permission. How do you expect them to respond?
Would it be unreasonable to believe Trump and Putin have made a deal not to come to the aid of Israel and Iran, respectively, as these two countries pound each other into their own agreement? The pressure to intervene increases on Trump as it seems Israel may have bitten off more than it realized. Would Trump break such an agreement with Putin or allow Israel to continue to lie in the bed they made?
There is a process responsible for the emergence of individuals, from photons to galaxies to life. Understanding that this process does not rely on intelligence to operate prompts us to consider its conditions. I believe those conditions may be rooted in agape, with love as its essence. It binds individuals into populations and sustains their perpetuation.
TIL there is no such thing as a species. There are only individuals and the relationships among them, which we call populations. Populations persist only for the time those relationships bear fruit. The notion of God's breath, a Platonic idea, or a scientific reality is unnecessary to understand the emergence of individuals and the perpetuation of populations.
Did you know this?
Let this be my introduction and invitation to you as we establish relationship and attempt to perpetuate a population.
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#Introductions
Do you understand morality differently than I do? I believe morality is the instrument of prevailing opinion that limits the ability of one to act in accordance with a different understanding of reality. A different understanding of reality is a threat to the prevailing opinion. All acts are political acts that are aimed at life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Moral acts hinder these pursuits in ways we don't always understand.
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The Government is never an instrument of the People. It is always an instrument of the Ruling Class, and the Ruling Class always defines the purpose of the Government. Perhaps we don't get to choose our Government so much as we choose our Ruling Class. I don't yet understand how that happens, but I believe it has to do with public sentiment more than morality, certainly not the result of voting. What say you?
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Which government is preferred, the one where the oligarchy employees puppets to handle the levelers of power, or the one where they take those levels into their own hands? That is what Trumps team looks like. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
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When the narrative moves from I wish your ideas were dead to I wish you were dead, the killing will determine the public sentiment, not reason, not righteousness nor the truth. Those things have never underpinned the public sentiment, only common belief underpins it. How does one attain common belief without sharing belief?
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I like to believe that the children destined to spend a lifetime of labor in the rare earth mineral mines in Africa to support my lifestyle have it easier than the captured slaves of Roman armies who spent the remainder of their lives in hard labor. Either way, is the fix in changing my lifestyle or is it in changing theirs?
#asknostr
Some people really do believe that just because they have authority that doesn’t make them authoritarians.
Theorist worry about the effects of small changes that time travelers might make to history, with the same concern, we should all revel the small changes we can make each day.
We are not trying to make the world safe for democracy. We are trying to make democracy safe for us!
There are few things in the world that I believe are true, but one thing I will never doubt is the people running the government will not hesitate to grind us all into gore on their bloody battlefield and lie to us about the nobility of their intentions. Liberty is always what the authority says it is. Freedom is choosing to believe it or not.