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by Compassionist
February 28th, 2023, 9:43 pm
Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
Topic: How do we know what is right, and what is wrong?
Replies: 0
Views: 7145

How do we know what is right, and what is wrong?

How do we know what is right, and what is wrong? For example, I think it is wrong to be a herbivore or a carnivore or an omnivore, or a parasite. I think all living things should be autotrophs. I think only autotrophs are good and the rest are evil. However, I am not certain that my thoughts are rig...
by Compassionist
February 28th, 2023, 9:11 pm
Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
Topic: What do you know for sure and how do you know it?
Replies: 0
Views: 7044

What do you know for sure and how do you know it?

I know for sure that I am a sentient being. I also know for sure that there are an infinite number of things that I want to do but cannot do due to a lack of abilities e.g. I want to make all living things forever happy but I can't. I also know that I am constantly doing things that I don't want to ...
by Compassionist
February 28th, 2023, 9:10 pm
Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
Topic: Could we have made different choices than the ones we actually made?
Replies: 0
Views: 4155

Could we have made different choices than the ones we actually made?

Could we have made different choices than the ones we actually made? By "we" I mean all living things. For example, I have a potted plant that has tilted westward by twenty degrees. Could the plant have refrained from tilting or tilted at a different direction by a different degree or was it inevita...
by Compassionist
February 16th, 2023, 4:17 pm
Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
Topic: What is Reality?
Replies: 1
Views: 1876

What is Reality?

How can we know whether Idealism or Materialism or both are true? If Idealism is true, why do molecules affect the mind? For example, taking antipsychotic medication stops hallucinations, and taking antidepressant medication lifts depression, and taking hallucinogens causes hallucinations. If Materi...
by Compassionist
February 14th, 2023, 7:27 pm
Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
Topic: Which theory of time is true?
Replies: 1
Views: 2029

Re: Which theory of time is true?

According to Eternalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time) the past, the present and the future exist. According to Presentism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_presentism only the present exists. According to the Growing Block Universe Theory of Time https://en...
by Compassionist
January 18th, 2023, 11:44 am
Forum: Religion
Topic: Is God evil?
Replies: 0
Views: 7600

Is God evil?

There are many verses in the Bible about God's predestination. https://www.openbible.info/topics/predestination Why would a good God predestine anyone to do evil? Surely, a good God would predestine all to do good? Does the existence of evil prove that God is evil? Surely, a good God would have made...
by Compassionist
January 13th, 2023, 9:54 pm
Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
Topic: Which theory of time is true?
Replies: 1
Views: 2029

Which theory of time is true?

According to Eternalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time) the past, the present and the future exist. According to Presentism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_presentism only the present exists. According to the Growing Block Universe Theory of Time https://en....
by Compassionist
January 8th, 2023, 12:07 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: Life as I know it
Replies: 1
Views: 5088

Re: Life as I know it

Here are some examples of suffering, deaths, and injustices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines https://en.wikipedi...
by Compassionist
January 3rd, 2023, 7:18 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: Life as I know it
Replies: 1
Views: 5088

Life as I know it

Life as I know it
Might is right,
Adapt or die.
The world works thus.
The evil prospers,
The innocent perishes.
Doomed we are,
To suffer,
And to die.
by Compassionist
October 15th, 2022, 9:33 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: Does this mean that Chris Reed is getting Prophetic Words from God?
Replies: 0
Views: 5464

Does this mean that Chris Reed is getting Prophetic Words from God?

Please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewl2GILyRH8 Does this mean that Chris Reed is getting Prophetic Words from God?
by Compassionist
September 13th, 2022, 12:39 pm
Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
Topic: Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body
Replies: 0
Views: 5212

Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body

These design flaws prove that we were not intelligently designed by an all-knowing and all-powerful God. They prove that we evolved. Please see: https://nautil.us/top-10-design-flaws-i ... dy-235403/
by Compassionist
August 1st, 2022, 9:36 am
Forum: Religion
Topic: How the Bible supports slavery
Replies: 70
Views: 33859

Re: How the Bible supports slavery

Laser beams do diverge over long distances, but I am not talking about long distances. I am talking about as soon as the beam leaves the source of the beam. Think upsizing and downsizing. If you solve a problem like what we have, basically of an angle of divergence, distance does not matter, as it ...
by Compassionist
July 29th, 2022, 6:38 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: How the Bible supports slavery
Replies: 70
Views: 33859

Re: How the Bible supports slavery

Look at any laser experiment where the beam is curved. The light remains coherent. We are missing something. https://www.google.ca/search?q=bending+light+cone&tbm=isch&chips=q:bending+light+cone,online_chips:blending:FOejJV02MlM%3D&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO-eHaupz5AhURs3IEHV7hCYsQ4lYoAnoECAEQJg&biw=...
by Compassionist
July 29th, 2022, 11:32 am
Forum: Religion
Topic: How the Bible supports slavery
Replies: 70
Views: 33859

Re: How the Bible supports slavery

Look at any laser experiment where the beam is curved. The light remains coherent. We are missing something. https://www.google.ca/search?q=bending+light+cone&tbm=isch&chips=q:bending+light+cone,online_chips:blending:FOejJV02MlM%3D&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiO-eHaupz5AhURs3IEHV7hCYsQ4lYoAnoECAEQJg&biw=...
by Compassionist
July 28th, 2022, 9:40 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: How the Bible supports slavery
Replies: 70
Views: 33859

Re: How the Bible supports slavery

You ignore the greater distance travelled for the outside photon. That greater distance must be traversed faster than the speed of light for the beam to remain coherent and not loose its edge and whatever information is there. Right? Think car again. Go for a longer trip always turning the same way...
by Compassionist
July 28th, 2022, 3:53 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: How the Bible supports slavery
Replies: 70
Views: 33859

Re: How the Bible supports slavery

That proportion, shown as a fan, is what has the inner edge going slower than the outer edge. I cannot believe that you cannot fathom a wheel or car going in a circle having their outside going further/faster than the inner edge. Have you never driven a 4 wheel drive? The outside skids while the in...
by Compassionist
July 27th, 2022, 6:17 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: How the Bible supports slavery
Replies: 70
Views: 33859

Re: How the Bible supports slavery

That is not much of an answer and does not really answer the question to my satisfaction. As to notions of light speed, picture a beam of light, light cone as some call it, being deflected by a gravitational or other source. On the inside of the curve, you would have one speed, the speed of light, ...
by Compassionist
July 26th, 2022, 5:03 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: How the Bible supports slavery
Replies: 70
Views: 33859

Re: How the Bible supports slavery

That is not much of an answer and does not really answer the question to my satisfaction. As to notions of light speed, picture a beam of light, light cone as some call it, being deflected by a gravitational or other source. On the inside of the curve, you would have one speed, the speed of light, ...
by Compassionist
July 25th, 2022, 6:21 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: How the Bible supports slavery
Replies: 70
Views: 33859

Re: How the Bible supports slavery

Hope they help. I sought them out to see if I could get an answer on the speed of light going faster than the speed of light around corners. They could not dither it out or really explain the issue much. Science hangs on to the light speed limit while knowing that that limits is being broken all th...