I've been looking a little on the internet, but there seems to be nothing. A copy of the statement on "X" is very short: https://twitter.com/SimNasr/status/1771285574445383846
What interests me in particular is the reasons they give for it.
#isis #is #arabic #moscow #terror #fundamentalism #islamic-fundamentalism #amaq
https://odysee.com/final_62f82588b06e480079d834b2_629888:3
and referenced in that^ is:
https://odysee.com/@Patriots:2/Where-Did-the-Rest-of-the-Internet-Go:f6 [<- ironically missing. evidence of its claims? Interesting to search for anyway... many other articles exploring the phenomenon, besides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zyJB45ewvU ]
and referenced in that is ""
https://www.ecosia.org/search?tt=e8eb07a6&q=is%20the%20internet%20shrinking%3F&addon=brave
#RealityTunnels #ControlledNarrative #DivideAndConquer #GroupThink
#Government #GovernMind #Advertising #Marketing #PublicRelations #CuratedImageOfReality #Fundamentalism #AcceptedNarrative #OvertonWindow #EchoChamber #CancelCulture #CyberPurgatory #agnogeny #bigotry #antifree #inthebox #official
#websearch #internet #theweb #theinternet #searchengine
#backintheday #itwasnotalwayslikethis
"there's nothing dangerous about sharing ideas and discussing things.
the only thing dangerous is withholding information from you that provides you having a complete and total perspective of what the truth may be."
"what happened to the internet? where's the rest of it?"
it wasnt always like this.
#consider, my understanding of these two labels.
terrorist : one who causes terror for political gain.
freedom fighter : one who fights for their freedom and the freedom of a people from oppression.
" #or "? the two are not mutually exclusive. can be #both.
introspect #perception, for any #judgement.
and just because one side uses terror for their political gain (and thus are definitively "terrorist"), does not mean the other side do not and are not.
[(...can you see any examples of this type hypocrisy on the world stage? seen anyone "doth protest too much"?)]
#terror #terrorist #terrorists #terrorism #politics #terminology #psyop #falsedichotomy #opposame #notmutuallyexclusive (not to mention the added complexities of #falseflag operations, #managedopposition, #agentprovokateurs, etc., and the escalating horrors of #groupthink (all the way to the #atrocity of #genocide!), and #proxywars for #massdistraction and #polarising #divisive #problemreactionsolution #divideandconquer #ploys of #theoppressor... "THEY'RE USING YOU!", not just "both" " #sides ", but the puppet masters behind them. Many #innocent #lives, and it matters not to the power-focused #ruthless #sociopaths, #oligarchs, #bankers, #cultists, #aristocrats, #fascists, #barons, etc... ... #TheCorporation = #Psychopath. thanks, #racetothebottom and #tragedyofthecommons and #dogma and #fundamentalism. ... maybe we're #now #ready to say #WeAreNotDoingThatAnyMore ... #wecanstillmendthis. )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwq0pnLdX0
various more interesting insights and ideas in this, more than i rabidly sporadically jotted down and paraphrased here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwq0pnLdX0
#who and #wef on the day of announcement of covid crisis unleashed their action plan which was obviously pre planned part of their global thinktank corporate-superstate-autocracy totalitarian technarchy devoid of #democracy (which we can still mend and re-implement all over).
"totalitarianism's ultimate goal is to render human beings redundant to its functioning as a system of governance"
when cbdc comes we must resist it with everything we've got.
no one could want this horror, unless #problemreactionsolution raised on a series of appocalyptic threats, our #children, raised on #austerity, on national decline, on banking crises, environmental crises, on health crises. they graduated to #lockdown, and #masks and #vaccinemandates. they've been bombarded by fear. and they're being offered as a way out of that explicit~ out of that terror, these transhuman programs. and that's why it's up to us. one of the things we can do, is reaffirm the human being.
#imagine and #create a #better #future, #now.
a future not at fear.
not scared of each other. at our most human.
individual acts of #noncompliance
question capitalism, and the horrible society capitalism created.
#decentralise #decentralisation.
#presrvedata #presrvehistory #makedigitalbackups #makehardcopies #hardcopy #books #buybooks
... if you are reading this, you are the resistance. ;)
we can do better.
#isolation #totalitarianism #virtuesignalling #obedience #fascism #fundamentalism #environmentalfundamentalism
#perpetualreich #cbdc #dystopia #centralisedglobalgovernment #anthrocide #ratchetting #smartphone #panopticon #toolsofourenslavement #digitalid #digitalcamp #orwellian #rewritinghistory #digitalbookburning
A lesson on #FUNdamentalism
#Swami #Beyond #Ananda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeqzZVvfwMs
I have just signed a petition 'Europe, reject a fundamentalist. Protect our rights!'. This is an issue I really care about. Will you sign too?
https://you.wemove.eu/campaigns/europe-reject-a-fundamentalist-protect-our-rights
Thank you!
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION
In junior high school, I watched as the entire Israeli Olympic team was slaughtered.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
My younger peers when I was in high school were raped by five different Catholic priests.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
As a college student, I watched as Americans were taken hostage in the revolution in Iran as a republic of peace was established there.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I watched as terrorists from the religion of peace took down the twin towers in New York.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I watched as Palestinians were separated under apartheid from "real Israelis" and recently were denied vaccinations.
Yet the events have nothing to do with religion.
I watched as a young novice nun in India was murdered, as children were stolen from their unwed mothers, as the dying were neglected and told to suffer, and as Catholics bribed top government officials to delay a trial for two decades on the murder case.
Yet these events have nothing to do with religion.
I watched as immigrant children were stolen from their parents by the U.S. government and sold by church adoption agencies.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I lived among Indian students of many religious backgrounds from Hyderabad who waited for days to hear from their parents and families and friends because phone lines were overloaded after bombs were detonated around the city of Hyderabad.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I comforted a Hindu woman when she was just denied a needed loan from a bank and the bank worker told her "your life would be so much better if you accepted Christ as your savior."
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I watched as a friend's brother took off from an airport in India to come to the U.S. minutes before explosions took place at the airport.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I comforted my Telugu spiritual teacher after she was harassed at her apartment by students from her university classes who claimed she was teaching "paganism" in her international literature class. They were banging on her windows while wearing Halloween masks. It wasn't Halloween.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I was teaching a class at the university, less than a mile from the cinema when John Houser decided to shoot up a room showing an "immoral" movie. One of the dead was from my home town of Franklin.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
When Westboro Baptist Church, after inciting Houser online, threatened to protest the funeral of the woman in Franklin, I showed up to block their protest.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I watched as representatives of the religion of love who were not elected officials dictated the terms of the most strict anti-abortion law in Louisiana's history to those elected officials present. A law that, had it not been overturned, would have caused the deaths of women from pregnancy complications.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
I watched in January as religious fanatics stormed our nation's Capitol, urinated and defecated inside, but held a prayer rally in the Senate chambers.
Yet the event has nothing to do with religion.
Now I watch as shooting after shooting are made by religious fanatics who do not hide their motivations. Many of them state their motivations outright, yet I also watch idiots ignore it all and claim mental instability over religious indoctrination.
Yet the events have nothing to do with religion.
Or so I've been told.
A cute meme circulating has a "Christian Against Science" declaring
The Earth is 4,000 years old. Change my mind.
A presumably more scientifically-inclined reply reads:
The half-life of uranium-238 is 4.5 billion years. It decays into radium-226 which in turn decays into radon-222. Radon-222 becomes polonium-210, which finally decays into a stable nuclide [sic], lead.
The existence of lead as an element disproves the 4000 year old myth.
Unfortunately that second sentence is incorrect, though the first may be accurate (I've not looked into it).
The issues.
Scientific knowledge is based on accurate statements supported by evidence and/or experiment (though not necessarily the latter), as well as known mechanisms. The response in this meme actually fails this test. Its conclusion is correct (the Earth is more than 4,000 years old), its reasoning is false.
I'd also add that the usual fundamentalist Christian / Biblical age of the Earth is based on the Ussher Chronology, by 17th century Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland James Ussher, who reckoned by Biblical evidence the date of Earth's creation to be October 23, 4004 BC, or 6,023 years and a few months old. In an extraordinarily rare instance of my citing the Institute for Creation Research as an authority on anything --- though as an authority on wrong answers, this seems excusable --- it also notes:
Scripture presents enough chronological information to estimate the number of years between Adam, whom God created on Day 6 of the creation week, and Christ, who was the last Adam. ... Adding these and other pieces, most of which even find confirmation from secular archaeological sources, brackets an age for the world of around 6,000 years.
Our Christian Against Science is also somewhat against their own Christian authorities here. But I'll let that slide since even the generally accepted creationist wrong answer is wrong by a factor of very nearly 1 million-fold (750,000 to be more precise).
Supposing you did want to come up with estimates of the age of the Earth, or the Universe, which one presumes that God dude might have made at roughly the same time, you could look at the history of scientific attempts to date the planet and cosmos.
By the 1790s, geologists were determining, based on fossils, sedimentation rates, and other evidence, with John Philips estimating that the Earth was at least 96 million years old, already far older than Ussher's Biblical chronology. Other scientific reckoning arrived at different numbers. Comte do Buffon looked at the rate of cooling of objects and tried to extrapolate to that of the Earth and arrived at an age of 75,000 years. That's over 1,000 times less than Smith's estimate, but still well over 10 times Ussher's. William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin also used thermodynamic arguments to estimate age at 20 million to 400 million years. (These rate-of-cooling estimates were made in ignorance of radioactivity and didn't account for the possibility of heat production within the Earth's interior, only one of several ways the discovery of radioactivity changed our understanding).
I'll skip over other 19th and early 20th century estimates to look at the model of plate tectonics, which became the central organising principle of geology only recently, being formally adopted in 1965, though it was first seriously proposed around 1915. The idea that "plates" constituting continents and ocean floors moved about over a liquid interior explains a tremendous amount of observed geological phenomena and evidence. The observable rates of movement, continental boundaries, similar geological formations, and similar fossil finds, also give us a timeframe for estimating an earlier supercontinent era of the Earth, characterised by a single large continent "Gondwana", about 180 million years ago. This need not have been the formation of the Earth, but it again points to an age far greater than Ussher's estimate.
The Earth is far more than 6,000 years old.
Looking outward we can determine distances to remote parts of the Universe based on several factors, two of the most notable of which are specific type of stars, and of the degree of red-shifting of light spectra which increases with distance.
Among the benchmark stars is one known as a Cepheid variable, which have a distinctive behaviour, changing in brightness in a characteristic manner and having a consistent absolute brightness. Another being Type 1A supernovae, also of characteristic brightness By noting the observed brightness of such stars, estimates of distances can be arrived at. Cepheids can be used to determine distances both within the Milky Way and to other galaxies. Supernovae can be seen across large portions of the visible Universe.
Redshift is the observed shift of atomic spectral emission and absorption bands such as in hydrogen and helium, both major constituents of stars, which increases with distance according to Hubble's Law. The greater the redshift, the greater the distance. And via redshift, we can directly observe distances of billions of light years. Since light travels at the rate of one light year per year, distance is also time, and so we're looking back in time billions of years. Again, the timeframes greatly exceed Ussher's increasingly troubled estimate.
We don't even have to call on Cepheids and redshift though.
Simple geometry, combined with modern telescope optics and precision, allow dynamical paralax estimates to be measured directly, by observing the apparent motion of "near" stars against the distant background. This is good to about 1,000 parsecs, or just a bit under 4,000 light years. Again, since looking further in distance is looking back in time, this means we're seeing relatively near regions of space which are roughly as distant, and as far back in time, as Ussher's estimate of the age of the entire Universe would be. Structures such as the Milky Way galaxy have an estimated diameter of 150,000 to 200,000 light years, with the largest galaxies being about 700,000 light hears in diameter. As before, space is time, and the implied ages of these structures greatly exceeds the Ussher chronology.
The Universe is far more than 6,000 years old.
Back to lead: Most of this is thought to have formed slowly in stars through what's called the s-process or r-process of neutron capture, in which lighter atomic nuclei acquire an additional neutron, or in "high neutron density environments" such as supernovae or neutron-star mergers. Lead occupies a position of stability within the nuclear potential curve, and so tends to be preferentially created. Again, whilst some lead on Earth is created through radioactive decay, most, probably more than 99% of it, was part of the initial planetary formation, having been initially created in stars, supernovae, or neutron-star collisions or mergers.
The period from about 1910 to 1965 was an extraordinary one for the understanding of Earth's geology. Nuclear chemistry and radioactivity gave new models for understanding and explaining phenomena, as did relativity and advances in astronomy. All collectively pointed to a far, far, far older world than even earlier scientific estimates had contemplated. Arthur Holmes made the first radiometric estimate in 1911, finding that tested rock samples were 1.6 billion years old. By 1927 the range was given as 1.6 to 3.0 billion years. Through the 1950s and 1960s, further estimates were based on terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials --- Earth-based rocks and meteorites, principally, but also returned Lunar samples. All converged on the 4.54 billion year +/- 1% range, suggesting a common formation of the entire Solar System.
One side-light of this work was the discovery of extensive lead contamination of virtually the entire laboratory used for this work in the 1950s, as well as any materials brought in from elsewhere. This was ultimately traced to the addition of lead to petrol in the US and elsewhere as an anti-knock formulation, and resulting in pervasive lead contamination of the environment, now thought to have had a major impact on health, cognitive development, mental health, and possibly criminal behaviour.
That's only one of the intersections of geology, dating of the Earth, and the petrochemical industry. Fundamentalism, mentioned earlier, derives its name from The Fundamentals a series of books published between 1910 and 1915, by Lyman Stewart, the founder of Union Oil (later Unocal), and of Biola University, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Stewart was also responsible for introducing the use of field geologists into the practice of petroleum prospecting. Fundamentalism and Biola University have played major roles in advancing Young Earth Creationist myths and disinformation, whilst their founder and benefactor's own firm benefited from the applications of scientific geology.
Life is complicated.
But yeah: Earth is old. 4.54 billion +/- 1% years old.
Adapted from a comment posted here.
#Science #ScienceBitches #AccurateScienceIsBetterScience #AgeOfTheEarth #Lead #Creationism #Fundamentalism #LymanStewart #RedShift #CepheidVariables #RadiometricDating
