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1501  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists Hate Religion? on: January 17, 2019, 02:26:25 PM
I'm sure you've done meditation Astargath. I have done little, but enough to realize that not all thoughts are my own. These "thoughts" are not in any way audible, but I can still perceive them the same way I perceive my own thoughts. The major difference between the two thoughts is some came from me, but some did not come from me.

BADecker didn't realize it. BADecker isn't as sensitive to spiritual things as was Jesus. However, BADecker is becoming more sensitive to many spiritual things around him, including some of the thoughts of others at times when such is beneficial. BADecker is too slow at becoming spiritually sensitive. But there is a practical, "hands-on" way that anybody can become spiritually sensitive somewhat like Jesus. Can you guess what it is?

Cool

Please tell us.

''but enough to realize that not all thoughts are my own.'' Again, you might think you realize those thoughts are not your own but how do you know? Is there a way to prove it or test it? Of course not, it's just your brain, as usual. That's why mentally ill people think they can fly or someone is telling them things.

Actually, there is. For decades, now, doctors who opened up a person's skull, and sent a little jolt of electricity through sections of the brain, induced thoughts in a patient that weren't exactly his. In similar way all of cause and effect induces thoughts in all of us.

The question should be, Are any of my thoughts mine?

Cool

''inducing'' thoughts by stimulating a brain doesn't mean the thoughts are from a god or another being, that's not even close of being evidence of that mate.

But that wasn't the point. The point was that your thoughts aren't your own, wherever they come from. You simply like to bring God/god into things, and then suggest that I was suggesting God.

Use your head for something besides a hair-rack, for once. Cause and effect dictate how things work. This is the best that science has for brain and mind. If science is incorrect in this, show it. What have we found that is truly spontaneous? If we haven't found anything truly spontaneous, then it all operates by C&E. Or do you like guessing?

Of course, if you are balled, you wouldn't be using your head for a hair-rack. Or do you wear a wig?

Cool

So we don't have free will. 

Get your story straight.
1502  Other / Politics & Society / Re: I miss the Soviet Union. on: January 17, 2019, 12:21:39 AM
Strange how obtaining some jewish scientists was all it took for a dirt poor country to become the most technologically advanced in the world. Its almost as if some sort of system and organization was in place that allowed them to take advantage of that expertise and mobilze production in order to quickly advance.  

What in the fuck are you rambling about now? Is this yet another extended distraction from the genocide of hundreds of millions Communism is responsible for? Of course it is!

This is absolute horseshit numbers on top of lying about genocide.  Around 3 million at holdomor suddenly turned to "hundreds of millions". Of course there is distraction from people dying in a thread tittled "i miss the soviet union".  Clearly, you should be able to understand that no one misses the deaths.  You are the only one who is obsessed with these awful events to the point where its the entirety of your history knowledge being used. 

When the USA is long gone and someone says "i miss the usa", iits safe to assume they won't be talking about the genocide, slavery, or use of weapons of mass destruction against civilians.

Soviet system was very oppressive. I am not sure what you are defending.

There is nothing to defend.  It was a human tragedy. 
1503  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why does the cosmos exist at all? on: January 16, 2019, 02:39:53 PM

The obvious question to you then is: why does God exist?

To make and love us... for His own enjoyment and glory, and for ours.

Cool

Dig deeper.  I did not ask what the 'God idea' gives you.

Why does cosmos (not just our universe) exist? Or does it?

If our universe is all there is, and it goes through endless cycles of Big Bangs and Big Crunches, why does it exist at all?


I simply answered your question. Why does God exist? To make and love us. The cosmos is all part of that love.

BB and BC is something that nobody knows ever happened anywhere except in the lab.

Cool

Thanks for your in-depth answer.  I was afraid this thread will derail into this sort of delusional mumbo jumbo.

What sort of intelligence would want to create insignificant primates to love him/her, over the course of billions of years, creating spacetime spanning billions of light years apart? Insecure, low IQ humans perhaps?

More likely than not, our universe was created by a natural process, however the reasons of the infinite series of predicates to this event remain a mystery.  

If the multiverse theory is correct, our universe is a tiny bubble in the infinite large cosmos with infinite number of universes, each one with different physical laws.  Why does the cosmos exist?  It could be that there is an infinite number of cosmoses, etc., which in turn we can call cosmos1, then you can have an infinite number of cosmoses1, which in turn becomes cosmos2 etc. CosmosN is in the sea of cosmosesN that we can call Cosmos', etc.

Do you get the picture?  I am thinking that there is no answer because it is infinite any way you look at it.

Here is a good vid about infinities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szd6RBsWntg


1504  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists Hate Religion? on: January 16, 2019, 01:15:52 AM
I'm sure you've done meditation Astargath. I have done little, but enough to realize that not all thoughts are my own. These "thoughts" are not in any way audible, but I can still perceive them the same way I perceive my own thoughts. The major difference between the two thoughts is some came from me, but some did not come from me.

BADecker didn't realize it. BADecker isn't as sensitive to spiritual things as was Jesus. However, BADecker is becoming more sensitive to many spiritual things around him, including some of the thoughts of others at times when such is beneficial. BADecker is too slow at becoming spiritually sensitive. But there is a practical, "hands-on" way that anybody can become spiritually sensitive somewhat like Jesus. Can you guess what it is?

Cool

Please tell us.

Fill yourself on the Bible daily.     Cool

LOL.  I would get diarrhea.  Cellulose is hard to digest.
1505  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why does the cosmos exist at all? on: January 16, 2019, 01:13:49 AM

The obvious question to you then is: why does God exist?

To make and love us... for His own enjoyment and glory, and for ours.

Cool

Dig deeper.  I did not ask what the 'God idea' gives you.

Why does cosmos (not just our universe) exist? Or does it?

If our universe is all there is, and it goes through endless cycles of Big Bangs and Big Crunches, why does it exist at all?

1506  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why does the cosmos exist at all? on: January 15, 2019, 10:22:17 PM

“You are right, it is a bit ignorant of me to ask the why question.  But still, I wonder.

The true infinity concept is hard to grasp and the best I can come up with there cannot be the why because the cosmos is infinite and there never can be anything outside of it, by definition.

Still, why the fuck does it exist?

To rephrase the question:
1. For religious people: Why does God exist? What created it?  What created the creator of the creator etc., into infinity?
2. For non-religious people: Why does nature (cosmos) exist (in this and all other universes)?

I cannot see any answer that would make sense. “




It is not ignorant to ask the question why; it is human nature, a function of our gorgeously complex brains.

I was trying be respectful by keeping the religious "mumbo jumbo" out but I'm a believer so here goes...
1.
What if god IS everything and has always been.

In many religious texts the word used to describe god is "ineffable".

“God said to Moses, ‘I AM who I AM.’ And he said, ‘Say this to the people of Israel, I AM has sent me to you’” (Ex. 3:14).
In The Bhagavad Gita god tells prince Arjuna that there is NO way to stray from god and that god is whatever manifestation you need god to be at that time.

Every revision of religion seems to be god trying to have a relationship with people in whichever way they can relate to "the ineffable" ---or a way for humans to answer “why” to a question that doesn’t have an answer because we don’t even know enough yet to ask the right ones.
As humans we are still discovering our environment, what we know so far may not even be 1% of what we need to know to learn another 1% (we don't know :-)

2.
Mechanistic function of natural laws (the least and most exciting answer)


The obvious question to you then is: why does God exist?
1507  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Bitcoin from Devil or from God? on: January 15, 2019, 03:18:24 PM
Bitcoin from Devil or from God?
...

None, those are fictional characters.

Bitcoin was created by humans.
1508  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why does the cosmos exist at all? on: January 15, 2019, 03:13:59 PM
However, everything acts according to cause and effect, perfectly, from macrocosm to microcosm. We have found nothing that doesn't act according to cause and effect.

What I mean is, if an electron or any other particle was bumped by its cause(s) in slightly a different way, it would act differently, producing different results, and the universe would act differently. Why? Because all the other particles act just as they act because they were bumped just exactly as they were bumped. And whatever bumped them, bumped them just exactly like they did... all the way back to the start of the whole thing.

The point is that the whole universe acts like it is programmed. We barely see the programming - try tracking an electron the same way you tag and track a dear in the woods.

Since it is programming, there must have been some kind of programmer. The programmer must be extremely knowledgeable and capable to program something like the universe.

Cool

Assuming that everything you said is correct (which it is not, but it does not matter) and the programmer exists, why does the programmer exist?  That was my question.

The type of thinking that it would take to understand the whys of the Programmer, is something that would twist the mind all out of shape, and probably destroy it.

Find a wrong point in what I said and explain why it is wrong... other than that it was said extremely simply.

Cool

You did not answer the question.  You just introduced the programmer into the picture.  The question still remains unanswered.
1509  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why does the cosmos exist at all? on: January 15, 2019, 03:12:10 PM
This question is for some heavy thinkers.

The multiverse theory is probably correct.  Many-Worlds Interpretation is also probably correct as well.
Talk about infinities!!!

But the bigger question is why, not how, the cosmos exists at all?

I've been thinking about it lately and the only explanation I can come up is that there no reason.  It just does.

[/u]What do you guys think?

PS. Please refrain from posting your religious mambo jumbo. I am talking about the cosmos, not just our universe.  Why is it there?

Why does there have to be a why?
We could be speck on a petri dish or the mechanistic function of natural laws.

I personally like : multiverses where everything that has happened or will happen in every variation already exists.
Forms of existence that have endlessly variable laws of physics.

You are right, it is a bit ignorant of me to ask the why question.  But still, I wonder.

The true infinity concept is hard to grasp and the best I can come up with there cannot be the why because the cosmos is infinite and there never can be anything outside of it, by definition.

Still, why the fuck does it exist?

To rephrase the question:
1. For religious people: Why does God exist? What created it?  What created the creator of the creator etc., into infinity?
2. For non-religious people: Why does nature (cosmos) exist (in this and all other universes)?

I cannot see any answer that would make sense.  
1510  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why does the cosmos exist at all? on: January 15, 2019, 02:43:59 PM
However, everything acts according to cause and effect, perfectly, from macrocosm to microcosm. We have found nothing that doesn't act according to cause and effect.

What I mean is, if an electron or any other particle was bumped by its cause(s) in slightly a different way, it would act differently, producing different results, and the universe would act differently. Why? Because all the other particles act just as they act because they were bumped just exactly as they were bumped. And whatever bumped them, bumped them just exactly like they did... all the way back to the start of the whole thing.

The point is that the whole universe acts like it is programmed. We barely see the programming - try tracking an electron the same way you tag and track a dear in the woods.

Since it is programming, there must have been some kind of programmer. The programmer must be extremely knowledgeable and capable to program something like the universe.

Cool

Assuming that everything you said is correct (which it is not, but it does not matter) and the programmer exists, why does the programmer exist?  That was my question.
1511  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why does the cosmos exist at all? on: January 15, 2019, 03:36:44 AM
You have touched upon the real question every humane mind is on research what is this cosmos all about ,why it exit ,if any  superpower behind it or it is just created without any intervention of anybody? Multiverse or a single universe no body has proof that is why athiest call it a supernatural power and thiest call a superpower God has created this mysterious cosmos.

Let's stick to the why does it exist question.

Let's not bring supernatural or God constructs as this complicates the picture and raises more "what it is" and "how it was created" questions.
This  is a  question yet to be known because  scientists are still under the progress to know why cosmos exist and  what were the reasons behind it ,Bing bang theory is the prove of it  .In broader sense we want to know the reason for origination of it which is in scientific world is still a mystery .In my opinion there was a pitch dark all around and after a sudden explosion due to interior activities this pitch dark object smashed into pieces fell apart and gradually it taken the shapes of different galaxies stars ,planets spaces to which we call cosmos today.

Ok, I was not asking about why the Big Bang happened.  It was a natural process that started this creation of spacetime and expansion of energy.  That is not the question.

I was asking why the "pitch dark all around" existed at all, as you put it.

If our universe came from "nothing" or "something", why this "nothing" or "something" existed at all.

This, of course, is hard to imagine as there was no time before the BB for something to exist in.  

I am curious about the cosmos beyond our universe if there is one, why it exists at all.

Maybe first we have to answer if anything can exist without time?
1512  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why does the cosmos exist at all? on: January 14, 2019, 04:35:01 PM
You have touched upon the real question every humane mind is on research what is this cosmos all about ,why it exit ,if any  superpower behind it or it is just created without any intervention of anybody? Multiverse or a single universe no body has proof that is why athiest call it a supernatural power and thiest call a superpower God has created this mysterious cosmos.

Let's stick to the why does it exist question.

Let's not bring supernatural or God constructs as this complicates the picture and raises more "what it is" and "how it was created" questions.
1513  Other / Politics & Society / Why does the cosmos exist at all? on: January 14, 2019, 03:29:04 PM
This question is for some heavy thinkers.

The multiverse theory is probably correct.  Many-Worlds Interpretation is also probably correct as well.
Talk about infinities!!!

But the bigger question is why, not how, the cosmos exists at all?

I've been thinking about it lately and the only explanation I can come up is that there no reason.  It just does.

What do you guys think?

PS. Please refrain from posting your religious mambo jumbo. I am talking about the cosmos, not just our universe.  Why is it there?
1514  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: What languages do I need for blockchain programming? on: January 14, 2019, 01:45:53 PM
I am trying to get into blockchain programming from having no programming experience, right now I am slowly learning C++, once I feel a little comfortable with it I am going to start learning blockchain development from courses regardless of the languages they use (which shouldn't be a problem because learning C++ is to give me the knowledge of programming in general and to apply C++ as well). But I see all of these different githubs and courses that use javascript and javascript derived languages (node.js, react.js, etc), those that use c++, those that use python, those that use GO, and I am at a loss. What should I learn exactly? Do I need to know all of these languages for not too complex blockchain applications?

My plan was to just learn c++ and then start studying the blockchain programming while learning the syntax of other languages as I need them, but how can you make a blockchain, cryptocurrency, explorer, wallet, etc utilizing all of the languages above? Do I need to?

Language is not important but I would not pick anything other than C and/or C++.

Start with an undergrad course in data structures, followed by a course in cryptography.

Learn C then C++, write some apps in it, build your own b-trees, lists, hash tables in it, write your own encryption tools etc.

Then take a look at the bitcoin source code, study it, see how blocks are constructed, validated and linked.

Write an app to read the wallet file, dump contents of a specific block from the blockchain etc.

1515  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Quantum Computing and Bitcoin on: January 14, 2019, 12:34:41 PM
IBM just released a new quantum computer, but it will still take a few years before applications can use its full potential.

See press release here: https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/08/ibm-q-system-one-quantum-computer/

its 20 qubit

//Andre

Wake me up when they release 3000 qubit QC.

See you in 2050.
1516  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: security window 10 Microsoft have access to my priv. keys. on: January 13, 2019, 06:22:15 PM
-snip-

I mean, yes, you could do all those things for increased security. But it would be safer, easier and cheaper to just use any old laptop/PC you have lying around, remove the WiFi card, format it, install an open source OS of your choice and run it as an airgapped wallet. Or if you want a really easy option, just buy a hardware wallet.

That is what I use.  The idea behind VMWare is that it can detect keyloggers if configured properly.
If you get a keylogger in spite of all the precautions you will at least know and can abort and re-format, reinstall etc.

I would not put my coins in any wallet other than bitcoin core encrypted wallet.  Backed up in multiple physical locations, on various types of media.

I agree with others, a hardened version of Linux with your own version of bitcoind/cli or qt compiled from sources (on a dev machine) is the way to go.
1517  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: security window 10 Microsoft have access to my priv. keys. on: January 13, 2019, 04:12:29 PM
What is the chance on a Windows 10 system, Microsoft get access to my Bitcoin priv. keys if I don't adopt any special security arrangements ?

It depends.  If you are running some pirated version of Windows it might come with a keylogger.

If you must use Windows you should take some extra security steps.

When you get a new dedicated PC for your cryptos.  The first thing you should do is buy a genuine version of OS, format your disks and install OS yourself.

Then buy and install VMWare and install the OS you prefer.  Be careful only to use the original iso files from trusted sources, like Microsoft.

Only run bitcoin core wallet in VMWare and keep blockchain and wallet on the USB media accessible only from the VMWare.

Never use this VMWare OS image for anything else.  If you do, start the process again, and move your coins to a new clean, encrypted wallet.

Only use wallet online when sending coins from a clean environment.  Otherwise, use dummy wallets to update the blockchain.

Create a separate VMWare OS image to access online crypto accounts.

1518  Other / Off-topic / Re: Flat Earth on: January 13, 2019, 01:39:49 PM
"...
The fact u are poking fun of it and saying round donut shaped.
Means you still believe in " Outer Space "

" Outer Space " Does not Exist ...
"

The internet is carried by undersea cables and GPS is just triangulation from ground based radio towers. The lights you see traveling across the sky on a clear night are giant mylar weather balloons a thousand miles up. DirectTV is tropospheric scatter technology. The ISS is probably just a high altitude stealth aircraft towing a holographic banner. Rockets go in an arc and land in the Bermuda triangle. What NASA shows you on cable TV and YouTube is just a puppet show with green screens and guys hanging from wires.

Space is fake and gay.



@af_newbie, The question is directed at you, would you kill over money & property?

Also, the globe and "modern science" are your delusions and exists only when you go to school, turn on the TV or go to church; the Earth is provably flat and motionless through direct observation and measurement. There's a mountain of documented and established science that can't be ignored here. "modern science" like "modern art" is intended to do harm and is the product of malice.

No, I would not.

Why doesn't the Bank share your point of view?

Some people lack empathy, do not understand the suffering they cause to others.

I would keep your ideas about Flat Earth to yourself if you don't want to be ridiculed.

PS. You are deluded, IMHO, but I am not going to get into an argument with you about it because my New Year's resolution is to try not to insult people who know less than me, are uneducated or are simply brainwashed.  Whether it comes to FE, benefits of religious myths, bitcoin SV or any other altcoins.

PPS. Take care.
1519  Other / Off-topic / Re: Flat Earth on: January 13, 2019, 04:25:04 AM
"...
The fact u are poking fun of it and saying round donut shaped.
Means you still believe in " Outer Space "

" Outer Space " Does not Exist ...
"

The internet is carried by undersea cables and GPS is just triangulation from ground based radio towers. The lights you see traveling across the sky on a clear night are giant mylar weather balloons a thousand miles up. DirectTV is tropospheric scatter technology. The ISS is probably just a high altitude stealth aircraft towing a holographic banner. Rockets go in an arc and land in the Bermuda triangle. What NASA shows you on cable TV and YouTube is just a puppet show with green screens and guys hanging from wires.

Space is fake and gay.



@af_newbie, The question is directed at you, would you kill over money & property?

Also, the globe and "modern science" are your delusions and exists only when you go to school, turn on the TV or go to church; the Earth is provably flat and motionless through direct observation and measurement. There's a mountain of documented and established science that can't be ignored here. "modern science" like "modern art" is intended to do harm and is the product of malice.

No, I would not.
1520  Other / Off-topic / Re: Flat Earth on: January 12, 2019, 05:00:02 PM
Just a few friendly questions about this whole thought:

So if we find out that the earth is in fact flat/round/donut-shaped/etc......

1) What impact would this have to you?

2) Would you live differently knowing that your original view was or was not correct?

Let me ask you this, what if you're being lied to about say a large sum of money or property. You're being deprived of what's yours through deception while being mocked belittled at the same time, how does that make you feel? Do you feel like killing?



@Astargath, I calculated the force a while back. If I recall correctly I think it was about 14 grams of force for your average sized person. If you claim the inner ear can't register this force you should probably kill yourself.

Why would you want to kill someone who disagrees with you?  If you are convinced that Earth is flat, so be it.  Live your life, don't hurt anyone.

Be happy on your 'flat Earth', God, resurrection, a dome over it and whatever else your imagination produces.

Why do you think it is important to inform others about your delusion?

If I were you I would keep 'your secret knowledge' to yourself to avoid being ridiculed.

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