I can prove that gods exist.....

But, I get to define gods as the neurobiological human responses to iconography, fantasies, mental masturbation, or delusions, that people demonstrably experience in their various ritual or nutcase practices.

Andrew Newberg at Penn and many of his colleagues have done some interesting research that supports that approach. It's also supported by pervasive neuropeptide models of humans.

@LokiV - no, I haven’t the faintest idea. What are the kinds of differences that become more significant in the extreme upper scale end.?

> @LokiV - no, I haven’t the faintest idea. What are the kinds of differences that become more significant in the extreme upper scale end.?
@StoneCold316

Over Sigma 3-5 range, the male:female ratio grows into ratios in the 3:1 to 5:1 range, before the very upper tail reflects such tiny numbers of deviant intelligence people are hard to summarize. That has some serious consequences in business, science and engineering as well as management, and tweaks the whole notion of equal partners in relationships.

There are also more complex race and IQ patterns than assumed Bell Curves would suggest, including for blacks a semi-barbell, with a seriously depressed mean IQ that drags down the whole USA compared to Asia or the overall world (but Africa has many pathetic countries), but a disproportionate number of seriously intelligent blacks with an elevated upper tail compared to Normal distribution.

I've known researchers who get attacked with criminal gang backed death threats for publishing honest research, where it seems now the SJW/psychobitch factions are trying to compete with Christian Identity or militant black factions as criminals. In some cases what would seem to be innocuous meta-studies get moved into biohazard science facilities for their security layers, while even grant writers and office staff get forced to live in hiding for periods of years.

Holy moly

Don’t know what any of that has to do with religion

But it’s not like I can really understand any of that to determine if it’s even about religion

OK Cupid data scientists did some interesting demographic analysis, back in the days before they sold out to IAC/I mega-corp.

Noting the usual statistical conditions many people mangle, there are strong intelligence, race, and religion trends that show up in their disguised personality and IQ and other tests. Big surprise, atheists, pagans, Buddhists, and some flavors of Jews, seriously top the list, while Catholics are below white Protestants, and black Protestants WAY down there.

What that means for personal relationships or larger society tends to be more complex.

And girls who say they like beer, tend to be more interested in sex than others. Is that more pragmatic or esoteric compared to all that other stuff? ;-p

Thank you Loki I get what you’re getting at now

I am a big member and supporter of the small words club

Small word easy understand

Also of note on OKC and some other sites that use gamified MBTI variants, the most common personality temperaments tend to be inclined towards social cliques of arrogant bullies, whereas the splinter uncommon types tend to be more concerned about civil rights and prtecting diversity.

@BobbyMack how do you have premises without first assuming existence exists? This was Ayn Rand’s first principle.

All she didn’t do was assume the premise that existence exists by some means. That means, whatever it is, is all we are calling God.

There must be a means by which existence exists, yes?

Nope

The means by which existence exists is consciousness

You believe existence stops existing if we can’t perceive it? Why would you believe that?

Ofc not.

Consciousness beyond human comprehension. Human Consciousness is just a small part of the Universal Consciousness. Which is not materialistic in nature, but can manifest materially, through the uncreated energies of God.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/business/pope-francis-market-capitalism/index.html

For the neo liberal dogmatics out there.

I don’t really care what Pope Francis thinks

Really? I sort of do. Even though I'm an atheist, he is a head honcho to many Christian's.

About a billion.

I'm not Buddhist. But the dalai lama has some good nuggets on occasion

Technically, about a billion people should be trying to overthrow capitalism now. Let's see if they do!

I hope they do. Neo liberalism is destroying humanity.

It should be pretty easy if they all work together.

"The encyclical, called "Fratelli Tutti," or "Brothers All," reiterated the pope's vision for a more communal society, which extends to the use of private property."

"...The Christian tradition has never recognized the right to private property as absolute or inviolable..."

That there's revolutionary talk!

I don't think there is a right to private property either.

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.NHHHbTz6iGQ9DYGf-ohVFgHaDf&pid=Api&P=0&w=358&h=169

That is correct. His mistake was not recognizing that the abolition of scarcity implies never yielding abundance. From his seat at the cusp of the industrial revolution I understand why.

Meanwhile I hear that the Pope has just handed over all church property to Oxfam. Good for him!

> Meanwhile I hear that the Pope has just handed over all church property to Oxfam. Good for him!
@ola
If they ever really did something like that, after years of using closet gay fake celibate clergy to ban inheritances outside the church, I'd suspect it was a molestation liability bankruptcy dodge.

They just lost another Archdiocese - the huge New York one, where they moved the Bridgeport, CT ArchBishop who helped them get convicted as felons, not for molestation but illegal discrimination in housing rentals. Nothing Facebook hasn't conspired in by how it markets targeted ads for users by whom that's criminal.

Hello @everyone I'm your local Buddhist Monk.

I'll be hosting an online Group Meditation beginning in just 15 minutes online through Zoom.

Welcome to join.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86817597540?pwd=bVBETkZrVW5FTDJuZUxQczM3Vm5rdz09

Password 31390 if needed

That's interesting

> Hello (everyone) I'm your local Buddhist Monk.
>
> I'll be hosting an online Group Meditation beginning in just 15 minutes online through Zoom.
>
> Welcome to join.
@Monk

Well, spotting a notice 150 of 15 minutes later is a Chinese curse of the net.

What's your path, lineage, or practice style?

WAG, you likely do activities regularly?


FYI, over-use of Everyone tags prodded me among others, to set the Discord option to suppress all at everyone tags. Travis's topic bombing contributed to that here, albeit there are some users and servers who are truly horrible about it.

@everyone



Beginning in less than 1 hour at 6am CDT

Metta meditation is a type of Buddhist meditation.

“Metta” means positive energy and kindness toward others.
The practice is also known as loving-kindness meditation.
The goal of metta meditation is to cultivate kindness for all beings, including yourself and all beings.

The main technique of metta meditation involves reciting positive phrases toward yourself and these beings.

Like other types of meditation, the practice is beneficial for mental, emotional, and physical health. It’s especially useful for reducing negative emotions toward yourself and other people.

While this is not a Book club persay we will be using the Book Loving Kindness in Plain English to guide our sessions.

If you'd like to read into the first chapter you're welcome to do so.
But regardless we will start the event by reading through it and than going into the practice.

Much like our Book club on Wednesdays we will have 2 sessions for Metta Mondays

The first will be at 6am CDT and the second will be at 10am CDT.

Hope to see you there.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87169440930?pwd=NkpWZ1Y1ZC85dDNKbk90aXdWb3VBQT09