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My predictions are that your predictions are wrong. Brent, you continue to point at instances in time and places. This is the same as those who are Bull or Bears pointing at an uptick or dip in the stock market to prove their point and when the next tick or dip happens;shouting from the rooftops, See!!! See!! I was right!!! National trends for Mean Temperature, Maximum Temperature, Minimum Temperature, and Precipitation for each month and season I know you won't give a shit about the data, but it may be helpful for others on the site.

Chess is just a creation by libruhls to feel superior. Checkers is what real patriots play!

Hey, Q is real! I've seen him!

Yup. Hey lady, not unlike you; I'm getting a little long in the tooth. Couple of major surgeries and a back and knees that has just crumbled into pieces from years of military jumping. Many of us dinosaurs contributed countless articles on safety, training, etc. to this site in its infancy to help the young'uns. Not unlike you, I don't tread in the skydiving community too often anymore and when I do it's relevant no matter what the timeframe. EP's target fixation, etc. I think the information given here would be more focused from dinosaurs who've been there, done that - than what they'll get from the land of facebook. Respect, Keith

Weird, it's as if he was just saying shit on the campaign trail without any regard for reality.

All of them!!! But you knew that.

Not a joke, but too wonderful and could be: Jesus Saves Runner (I'm sure plenty of you heard about this anyway) Wendy P.

I believe the cause of death was listed as “AGM-114 poisoning”

Or if a plane can take off on a treadmill?

You do realize that those experiments have been completely and thoroughly debunked, right? They have never been repeated and are considered to be inaccurate. It it gives you comfort or make you wonder, fine. But it was flawed science. I would also note that he weighed dying dogs as well and found that they had no soul. I would say that the killing of these 15 dogs to do this experiment makes me think the good Dr. definitely had no soul. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/weight-of-the-soul/

All of which leads me to decide simply that god is a myth, a creation of man to serve the needs of man. I have no need of a god and no need to worship. Therefore there is no god, except as a debate topic. And one I am quickly tiring of. And of course the last straw, the very last item that makes me comfortable, is the fact that even a creator has to have a origin in any kind of logic I am capable of. Which leads me straight to the conclusion that we can never answer these questions no matter how evolved our science becomes. Peace.

Well, no. I studied computer science, was a software engineer and founded and ran a software company for a decade. I got into computer science when it was still necessary to know much about hardware and machine language, so this is a favorite topic for me: In a computer there is really nothing else but a large number of gates (which are physical objects that hold a physical state). These gates are connected in a way that certain results can be produced when the gates change their states. "Information" is simply an abstract concept that in essence describes the physical states of these gates. Modern software (object-oriented programming, procedural programming, etc.) is just multiple layers of abstraction on to of that, but I can tell you that, in the computer, nothing really exists, but physical signals that are stored and interact with each other. There is no "concept", no "mind", no "awareness" in the computer. It is, in my opinion, completely reasonable to assume that no matter the complexity of the computer (even if it exceeds the complexity of the human brain) there will never be anything of the type of "consciousness" to it, because it simply isn't necessary for the computer to work perfectly. "Consciousness"--the fact that someone is "in there" being aware of itself--is something that has nothing to do with the action of the computer. "Software" is an interpretation and abstraction of our minds that we superimpose on the computer to make it easier to work with. It requires our mind to work. So it requires something else, outside the computer. Same with the brain: "concepts" do NOT exist within the brain. They exist in the mind or in something that is not of the same nature as the brain. While you can draw relationships between brain activity and certain internal experiences, you cannot find "concepts" in the brain, nor can you find "software" (the meaning of the software) in the hardware of the computer.

Well that's pretty simple. It's the same as the difference between admitting you don't know something and saying that you do know something. If you say you know something and want me to believe you, you will need either evidence or a track record that I trust. This gets to the reason I never ask someone like Ron for example to justify or prove his beliefs are objectively true. He can't, I know it and he knows it. So it's pointless. I try to never ask someone for proof, so your question makes an assumption that I do something that I don't.

Christianity does not hold morality at it's core. It teaches that all sin can be absolved through Christ. It is nearly completely immoral in that regard. To me spirituality simply means wonder or awe, an acknowledgement all things are connected in some way that we can not ever understand. I am atheist because I say I am. I am spiritual because I am human and my consciousness must have some way of dealing the mystery of existence. Is this the inconsistency you are trying to understand?

Might be splitting hairs here, but adding my opinion. I think religion or a belief in an invisible being with power is human kind's natural reaction to loathing unclear circumstances. We tend to want to be able to explain what is going on. The ongoing search for "why". I think organized religion has always been about power and the ability or need to control. Morality is just the other side of the coin of "or else".

I haven’t jumped in 7 years. Doing a recurrency jump tomorrow. Wish me luck and some blue skies!