#WednesdayWisdom: "Change the diapers of your mind." -- Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi at 46:07 ;-) #Religion #Philosophy #Wisdom #Judaism https://youtu.be/3uqoxphcWEM?list=PLXNmytqOeZGgSNRXA7EkgWyfWPOVsdBlq&t=2767
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Another Enlightenment Fraud
Again and again and again, we see that the “human rights” promoted by the self-styled “liberals” of the #Enlightenment were always fraudulent to their very core. Here we see in #England how so-called “equality” only goes one way and works systematically to the #disadvantage of #boys:
One of the biggest girls’ football leagues in the country faces being shut down by the Football Association for refusing to allow a boy to play in its matches.
The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a row has broken out between the FA and officials running a female league in Yorkshire after parents complained their son had not been allowed to join.
It is understood the FA has threatened the West Riding Girls Football League with sanctions and a possible suspension if it does not agree to let boys on the pitch, a scenario officials have branded ‘a massive threat to the girls’ game’.
Last week an emergency meeting was held by organisers of the league – which has at least 6,000 under-18 girls playing across more than 300 teams – where managers voiced their concerns that allowing boys to play would ‘open the floodgates’.
The FA’s gender policy states that any under-16 teams must allow both boys and girls to play, despite admitting that ‘physical strength, stamina or physique’ can put one sex at the disadvantage of the other. Fiona McAnena, at sex-based rights group Sex Matters, said: ‘A boy on the pitch changes everything. The law is clear that female-only sport is allowed. It’s sex discrimination for the FA to tell girls they must accept a male player.’
Top girls’ football league faces being shut down, THE DAILY MAIL, 3 March 2024
This is what inevitably happens when reality intrudes upon the #dogmatic #Enlightenment #principles to which the #secular champions of #social-justice have been appealing for more than 200 years. Whenever the #ideological #principle violates their #identity #priority, the principle always crumbles into dust.
We’ve seen it with #free-speech, as that has been trumped by the need for protect the ability of one group to believe they were uniquely persecuted in the 20th Century and for another group to ignore crime statistics. We’ve seen it with “democracy”, as that has been trumped by the need of #ClownWorld #governments to ignore the will of the people. And now we see it with “equality”, as three generations of unrestrained #assaults on #male-only-activities are suddenly jettisoned as soon as #female-only-activities are threatened.
We are somehow supposed to believe that #equality means telling girls they must accept a male player is #sex #discrimination, while not telling boys they must accept a female player is also sex discrimination. Which is, of course, a certain sign that #satanic #inversion is somehow involved.
The #Enlightenment is the philosophical basis for Clown World. It is an #outdated and #sophistic #philosophy that will disappear in the aftermath of Clown World’s #demise.
Is a dirty #peace better than a moral #war?
Context: Every war that is currently being waged on this planet.
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A back-of-the-mind thought I've had since high school is that some of our scientific ideas feel like they have more than a passing similarity to the ideas of antiquity. Not in the literal sense, but in their motivation. E.g. electrons "try" to occupy the lowest energy state, or objects fall to the lowest energy state under gravity, or a moving electric charge generates a magnetic field because that's just what moving charges do... it all feels, in a very deep sense, descriptive rather than truly explanatory.
The value of a smile at Christmas
It costs nothing, but creates much.
It enriches those who recieve, without impoverishing those who give.
It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes last forever.
None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits.
It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and nature's best antidote for trouble.
Yet i cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is no earthly good to anybody till it is given away.
And if in the last-minute rush of Christmas buying some of our salespeople should be too tired to give you a smile, may we ask you to leave one of yours?
For nobody needs a smile so much as those who have none left to give!
From a century ago; "a department store in New York City, in recognition of the pressures its sales clerks were under during the Christmas rush, presented the readers of its advertisements with the above homely philosophy."
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[2024-02- 9 09:51:48] <@Digit> .yt episode #194 ... Do we really need the police? - Anarchism pt. 3 - (Gelderloos, Security)
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[2024-02- 9 09:52:00] <@Digit> ^ speaks to " human nature "
did someone say human nature? you mean like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQnUFxoFqNY yes?
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At various points, I have been accused of treating too harshly with Abstractions, in saying that every level of abstraction is a level further away from reality, such that e.g. pure math is the most unreal of all.
I have also been accused (gasp!) of actually relying on abstractions, even though I grade them as unreal.
To the latter, I readily agree: I am with the quasi-realists in saying that we don't have a choice. My degradation of the abstract is for my own purposes, for mental hygiene, which leads to the first accusation, and an answer to it:
Keeping in mind that abstractions are less real than the data is was derived from can help us notice whem very competent people make very silly mistakes.
Case in point: Physicists waxing poetic about how if some constant were just a little different [scrreeeech] let me stop you right there!
Reality doesn't have constants.
Constants are numbers (often with units attached) that we stick into our formulae to make them work.
But the formulae are not reality.
We have absolutely no reason to think reality has constants.
Hence, the only way a constant could be different would be if reality was different (this happens a lot: reality turns out to be slightly different from what was previously believed, thereby correcting a constant ever so slightly).
Reality itself, we find again and again, doesn't change.
Every day we notice that, yeah, still the same.
Because to all intents and purposes it seems to just be spontaneously trundling along the only way it can.
The map is not the territory. Physics is not reality. Reality is not made of math, just because physics is.
Mental floss, see?
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand
WYATT: Do you think that philosophy contribute to happiness?
RUSSELL: Yes, if you happen to be interested in philosophy and good at it, but not otherwise – but so does bricklaying. Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959)
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I don't think I understand what the author is getting at here. If behaviour is replaced by something accurately intelligible, especially when the purpose of that behaviour was otherwise not obvious, how is that not a translator of sorts ? In particular :
If a whale could speak English, it would not say things like ‘take this camera away from me’. To do so, it would need (among other things) the concepts of a camera and of taking something away.
I think it's pretty obvious that animals have such concepts, not sure what the point of confusion is here
I should probably read some Wittgenstein.
https://iai.tv/articles/wittgenstein-and-why-ai-cannot-talk-to-animals-auid-2730
On saving causation in an infinite multiverse.
https://decoherency.blogspot.com/2024/01/humes-multiverse.html