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Recent content by Khasekhemwy

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    Post millennials are unhappy

    I remember it was plain old TV time for my generation, and Cold War nuclear anxiety for my parents’ youth. Figures, given the journal title. Sleep is a more realistic matter of concern, and one we’ve faced ever since we started living by clock schedules about 150 years ago. Correct, at least...
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    Why do we always think....

    My experience has been that others simply won’t change to suit me whether or not I think they should. Given I’ve also noticed significant attributes of my own I seem unable to change, the human capacity for change may be limited in the first place. Personal traits and views acquired over a...
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    Are you a demon?

    Google "Maxwell's demon" for a famous 19th century problem bedeviling thermodynamics. I think it's been shown this demon cannot exist, either. ;) But Eddi's question is serious. I'm not sure you can answer it in the negative so easily. A definition for "demon possession" will have to be agreed...
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    Did America lose any battles?

    The US, which accounts for half of global military spending, boasts by far this planet’s strongest military. We have well-trained troops and lots of technology. None, save possibly Russia and China when fighting in their near abroad, can hope to defeat us in a head-to-head battle, which is why...
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    The Value of Obedience

    How do you tell whether a given church honors the “correct” deity, though? Claims to exclusive possession of truth, in which a Christian group declares all outside Christians apostates, are quite common. The Mormons, the Adventists, certain Pentecostals and many small sects all advance them...
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    Is Christmas shallow?

    You can camp in winter if you have good equipment, but then you must carry that stuff with you everywhere you go; it will vanish if left unattended. I may have mentioned that most homeless folks die from the same causes others do, cancer and heart disease, but they tend to develop these at an...
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    What if everything you think you know is right?

    The primary rules we deal with are gravitation and electromagnetism, two of the four known fundamental forces in physics. A strong and a weak nuclear force also exist, but these express themselves only in radioactive decay, nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants. All are capable of causing...
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    Is Christmas shallow?

    The “more complicated, traditional model” is norm in the US, yet public housing never came under the restrictions the Newt Gingrich Congress imposed on welfare, food stamps and Medicaid after the Republican Party swept into power upon their “Contract with America,” 1995. Each city’s housing...
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    What if everything you think you know is right?

    Indeed. Human beings can do a lot more when collaborating together in a group than they can do alone. We really are social animals. And that's what makes me suspicious of the USA's culture of the self, the thing that underpins its relatively laissez-faire capitalist economy. Things here have...
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    Is Christmas shallow?

    Pardon my slow response. I'm glad those shelters work somewhere, as we've thousands of shelters and thousands of homeless sleeping on sidewalks or in vacant buildings and vacant lots, or under roaring yet lonely viaducts. I suspect that rather than the shelter system, it's the structure of a...
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    Is Christmas shallow?

    I get the impression homelessness is poorly understood by the housed, even by social workers. In a certain sense, I’ve been fortunate to develop enhanced knowledge of this condition in American life as I spent years on the streets and in Salvation Army centers or rescue missions during the time...
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    What is meant by the term "default position"?

    You’re not obligated to believe any deities exist, thus joining the company of millions of people around the world throughout history, including perhaps Socrates. While this early philosopher’s theological position isn’t clear—he paid homage to the Athenian gods to the point of willingness to...
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    Cruise phase; preparing for descent

    Cruise phase; preparing for descent
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    What is meant by the term "default position"?

    I suspect this depends on how one defines atheism. Defaults can be characterized as a sort of Newton’s second law, that an object in motion remains in motion at the same speed in its original direction unless an external force acts upon it. Strong atheism, the denial that any deity exists, what...
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    The question of realness

    In view of Vestigial’s post (quote below), does this business really admit a definition in a human language? Our relationship to the cosmos resembles that between subject and circumstantial clause in an English sentence, yet every English sentence centers about the subject and object of its...
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