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Constitutional Amendment XXVIII :
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
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EJ Preston
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EJ Preston
@ejpreston
Catholic | Brother | Son | Texan
Texas Beigetreten Ağustos 2012
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‘Aight then it begins. Been queued up for weeks now and I just keep delaying 😅
Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙♀️@SketchesbyBoze
The new eight-part Count of Monte Cristo on PBS is the best of the many screen versions of that novel. Sam Claflin convincingly embodies both the downtrodden Dantes and the vengeful Count. The extended runtime does ample justice to the many wheels of the story. Watch it!
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The sword you choose says a lot about you
What’s your pick?
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@MrAndyNgo And since we're against wokery and calling people names like "racist," we're of course mocking this woman, right?
...Right?
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They're trained to almost ignore the right-brained aspects of reality and thought - they get so bogged down in materialist left-brained thinking that they cannot see the whole.
Something something, forest and trees, something something...
Steven Pinker@sapinker
A common experience: Many brilliant scientists cannot grasp elementary philosophical distinctions. Last night I could not get a colleague to understand the difference between the "hard" (sentience, subjectivity, experience) and "easy" (reportability, information access) senses of "consciousness." Nor the difference between a definition of consciousness and various explanations of consciousness. Hypothesis: scientists tend to equate rigorous thinking with mechanistic explanation, and don't recognize that abstract concepts requires sharp analysis as well.
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@latinedisce Islam and Judaism have more in common with each other than either of them does with Christianity
I know that doesn't answer your question, but someone has to say it
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A potentially controversial question—asked in good faith:
As Christians, who do we have more in common with:
- Jews, with whom we share the Old Testament but who reject Jesus, or
- Muslims, who accept Jesus as a prophet but deny his divinity?
Curious to read your responses—let’s keep the discussion respectful.
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This!! It’s a testimony of character, thar they not be trusted in public service.
Katherine Brodsky@mysteriouskat
If someone is willing to cheat on their wife or girlfriend, someone they supposedly love and maybe even share a family with, how could they possibly be trusted not screw over and lie to just about anyone else?
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We built this without the help of foreign architects btw
James Lucas@JamesLucasIT
This mechanical masterpiece was built in Bremen, Germany in the early 1930s
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@MetaPrime001 I mean lol it’s kinda fun watching him gwt ratio’ed on nearly every post? 😅
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@PAHoyeck @Angry_Amphibian @neiltyson When you look a bit closer at those degrees, it’s more like a trained philosopher really.
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@ejpreston @Angry_Amphibian @neiltyson He has a BA in physics from Harvard, an MA in astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD in astrophysics from Columbia. He's held numerous positions at scientific institutions. If that doesn't count as a trained astrophysicist, I don't know what does!
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I really wish people would stop saying things like this. To believe something is to take it to be true. If you think it's true we went to the moon, you believe it, end of story. Theology is neither here nor there.
Sawyer Loves Science 🦎@sawyeurism
No, I don't "believe" we went to the moon. This isn't a matter of theology. I know we went to the moon, I know we have rovers on Mars, and I know the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, because all of those things are facts.
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@PAHoyeck @Angry_Amphibian @neiltyson He’s not actually. Nor has he ever contributed to the field outside of his communication efforts
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@Angry_Amphibian @ejpreston @neiltyson I find this hard to believe. He's a trained astrophysicist, isn't he?
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And finally, the recently rescued elderly brown mutt! She lived a hard life, but managed to remain a sweetie ❤️
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Nature or nurture? 🧐
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc
Men and women read different books — here’s what they’re drawn to:
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@ejpreston @PAHoyeck It’s a thing because @Benthamsbulldog knows it will get attention. It’s that simple. I doubt it will drum up as much as before tho.
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I hate when “Le Continentals” posts go viral: first because the arguments against Continentals are always unabashedly dumb; second because the responses in defense are somehow even more cringe.
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@PAHoyeck @neiltyson Honestly man? There’s so many other science communicators who simply do a better job. Sorry not sorry, Tyson needs to step out of the way so to speak.
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@ejpreston @neiltyson I like Neil deGrasse Tyson quite a bit, but he does fall prey to a lot of conceptual blunders once he leaves his own territory.
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