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Being around people is irrelevant to being lonely. It is the lack of connectedness to what is around you.

Why create angels where your own mind will suffice? It could be your subconscious mind seeking to communicate to your oblivious conscious mind by making it notice the pattern.

I think this is all apples and oranges. First come to an agreement on what strong is and how it is measured.

It would seem that there is no force that can thwart gravity from creating a black hole. It also seems to operate at vast distances, farther then any other force.

Nice.

The Atlanta Compromise is what DuBois called it. And it was his denigration of Washington's position that eventually won the day. It is also the DuBois position that steered the black community from the party of their liberators in to the party of their former masters. The real compromise was the welfare of the majority of the black community for the creation of a ruling black elite. To quote Washington, "There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."

That's what all the Ice Age deniers say.

The universe seems to be full of yin yangs.

This not music, but I do not see a thread for videos. This reminds me of things I keep hearing in different media lately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VbI5zcB8Ac

No shortage here in the Midwest either. Just waiting for it all to melt. We still may break our all time record for snow before the winter is over. I've probably shoveled a couple tons by hand this year at least.

Who had the better philosophy, Booker T. Washington, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T_Washington or W.E.B. DuBois. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois

All you need to do it turn off the logic machine, and be able to discern the difference between what you wish you knew and what you know. My wife and I did this to find parking spots near our house. After spending a few months of driving around and around for maybe an hour to find a parking space after we we out for the day, I just imagined the street in front of our apartment building on the way home. There seemed too be one across the street and a building down. When we got to our street, there it was, right where I saw it. We did this for the rest of the summer, and were able to cut our parking spot search down from a hour to a few minutes. More often than naught finding an open spot close to in front of our building. Sometimes arriving to find someone pulling out right where we wanted to park. My feeling on this are that observation plays a part in the consolidation of reality out of random chaos. The parking spot we were looking for was generally not under observation by anyone else. So our observation of it, if only in our minds, helped bring it to reality.

First let us suppose God is omnipotent in which case he can create not one but an infinite number of universes which represent all possible combinations of existence. So if you feel God could have created a better universe, he did. You are just not in that one. So God did create a universe in which all are good and all go to heaven somewhere. He also created this one. As to omniscience, while it may be possible to know all, it is also possible when omnipotent to know some, when you could know all. In other words omniscience is an unexpressed potential of God. This does not limit knowledge of percentages and likelihoods of outcomes, only of individual outcomes of the decisions of sentient beings. By our decisions we become co-creators, and share in the responsibility of the outcome of our decisions as well as the rewards.

Sorry to be picky but, you made some typo's. It instead reads. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I do wish I could find a positive label for myself instead of just a non-something. I am still searching.

One definition of god is to be undefinable.

I find it more egregious for one to impose control on what others say about you than it is for others to say something disagreeable about you, even if it is meant to hurt. Ignore them. Refute them. But You have no right to gag them. In the end history decides who is correct.

Not all blacks agreed with the goals of the civil rights movement. Not all blacks feel the civil rights movement has been successful or made things better. So, this would mean that they are no happier now than they were before with society. This goes all the way back to the disagreement between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. du Bois. Washington was born in slavery, son of a slave and an unknown white planter, and raised by his mother and step father, whom she married shortly after emancipation. He worked in coal mines for several years to earn the money to attend the Hampton Institute, which he had to travel 200 miles on foot to enter, and then Wayland Seminary. He sought to educate all blacks in vocational skills and applied sciences so that they could demonstrate "industry, thrift, intelligence and property," and thereby gain their civil rights. In other words first gain economic power through education and hard work then press for civil rights from a position of economic equality through cooperation. Du Bois was a free Northerner, son of an abandoned mother, an unwed grandmother, and a slave owning great grandfather. He attended Fisk University, Harvard College and The University of Berlin, paid for mostly with inheritance, donations from neighbors, scholarships, fellowships, and loans from friends. He wanted to create a liberally educated black elite to lead the black lower classes in claiming their civil rights through activism. In other words push for political equality through activism, which would be run by a liberally educated black elite, blame racism as the cause for inequality, and embrace socialism as its cure. While du Bois has seemingly won the poplar fight, and has fostered a rich black elite ruling class, those who cleave to the principles of Washington have not disappeared, and still offer the greater economic hope for the black underclass.

Calling "bully" is also a childish passive-aggressive tactic to attack someone you hate, to somehow win even though you see yourself as a loser. It makes the self-defined loser comfortable being a loser because of the attention garnered, which makes them feel like a winner without having to do anything better. It more or less anchors them to the bottom of life. And by the way, I was bullied severely when I was young. My experience is that only losers and the subnormal bully, and only winners and the above average are attacked as bullies. The real bullies are usually pitied for their lower status. While those who just do better are envied and attacked.

I thought the will of the majority was a good thing and not to be opposed by minorities, just as the right should stop being obstructionist when they are in the voting minority. Shouldn't all other minorities should do the same? And I do not think he is at all threatened by gays, nor is he bullying them. He's just not accepting them as normal. Pretty much as some do not like country music and seek to not having it play in their environment. Or how some people will still seek to stop people from smoking in public even though second hand smoke has been found to not cause cancer or heart disease. But if they like pot they will reason that somehow that smoking carcinogen will be acceptable in public. Not being accepted is not the same as being bullied, and when you are in the minority you do not get your way. For those who do not get the sarcasm and irony here because they are being slapped with their own fish, I will point it out.

Agreed, but part of what Youch originally stated was the extent of the the influence of gravity in shaping the universe. And while the strong force is stronger, its range is small and does not equal the influence that gravity has in creating the larger structures of the universe.

The force of gravity may be the weakest, but isn't it true that its range is the farthest? So that while any give object is only subject to a modest number of objects exerting strong force on it, there are a massive number of objects exerting a weak gravitational force on it. Which, if in a large enough number, are able to completely overwhelm the strong force to create a black hole. Thus, while it maybe the weakest force, its range makes it more active, and have a greater influence on the structure of the universe as a whole.

No tears or trophies for socialists, communists, or terrorists. But as just another man, I do sympathize with his suffering death.

Science supports agnosticism but not hard atheism. The belief that deity does not exist, or that a certain animal is extinct are both unsupported by science. They are both untestable and unprovable. All that can be said is there is no evidence of the existence of something yet. Soft atheism, where there is no belief in deity, does not conflict with science. I would think that those who have emotions beyond perplexity, or incredulity when confronted with the religious views of others, are facing their own religious beliefs in the nonexistence of deity.

Toxic people are like poisonous snakes. You can handle them if you want, but you will probably be bitten. Best to leave them alone and keep a healthy distance.