Conspiracy theories

[dholliday]

Whenever I see this phrase I shudder.

It relates it to property dualism last I checked which is just plain wrong headed thinking and any connection to a dualistic framework is.

Haha I have the exact inverse thinking about them. (I've done both well into the double digits) I call acid a party drug and mushrooms a introspection tool.

haha nice mate. i very much believe experience is in the eye of the beholder, so of course what works for me works differently for you.

hence also why i reject epiphenomenalism.

No the book not acid. I've done that plenty.

Leary goes into such detail of how the mind works, as if he's the programmer himself who created the brain.

It's not science tho', it's philosophy. Great read nonetheless.

 

[magicjuan]

We'll yeah, there are scientific theories, but none fact, just our best guesses with the information available to us at this point.

Not that any are conspiracies to be fair, I'm just open to the idea that the universe is either infinite in it's lifespan or circular in some way, the idea that all matter expanded from nothing (or nearly nothing) and that one day it will collapse back into that nothing is hard to fathom.

if you look into the mistranslation of 'the word' as in 'in the beginning was the word', you'll find it underpins a theory of universal consciousness and connection. It covers both the spiritual and scientific elements of creation, from scientific theories of the big bang through to creation myths and legends from Sumeria, Babylonia and prior sources.

In its smallest sense it means thought/awareness, that thought created its own reality.

And, as such, man has been searching for answers to the wrong questions, sometimes for the right reasons, sometimes for the wrong.

Most of the scientific theory that is the basis for our perceptions were due to religious men looking for God/G-d or evidence of God/G-d, trying to rationalise on the outside what he couldn't search for on the inside because of the constraints he had placed on himself.

 

[LostLegend]

Not sure if I'd call this a conspiracy. Some certainly would, others not so.

There's an increasing amount of compelling evidence that there may have been an advanced human civilisation thousands of years before the accepted time line.

There are monolithic sites which have been found that predate the believed building of the pyramids by many thousands of years at a time when man was supposed to be no more than primitive hunter/gatherers.

Further to this, there is a lot of compelling evidence of a large scale global cataclysm around the time that may have 'pressed the reset button' on man kinds progress. The most popular theory is an arctic meteor strike causing global flooding (a possible source for the great flood myths found in many religions and cultures today)

Of course, the loons (Ancient Aliens, Atlantis believers etc,) are all over this, but there is some genuinely compelling evidence coming through.

There is a lot of resistance from a lot of historians though and subsequent mudslinging. Some historians/researchers saying this is 'psuedo-science' and the other side accusing the academics being ignorant in order to protect their careers.

 

[Prevenger17]

We'll yeah, there are scientific theories, but none fact, just our best guesses with the information available to us at this point.

Not that any are conspiracies to be fair, I'm just open to the idea that the universe is either infinite in it's lifespan or circular in some way, the idea that all matter expanded from nothing (or nearly nothing) and that one day it will collapse back into that nothing is hard to fathom.

Sy, I think you misunderstand what the term "theory" means when describing a scientific hypothesis.

In science, there is no such thing as a fact. All a theory means is that something is disprovable, a basic tenet of science. For instance, if you wanted to disprove the "theory" of evolution, you could, say, try and find the bones of a Stegasaurus (a creature that lived in the Jurassic period) in a Paleogene(a period of time hundreds of millions of years after the Stegasaurus went extinct) layer of earth. Palaeontologists already know you won't, but for something to even get classified as a theory, it needs to meet the rigours of every attempt to disprove it, whether through complex or simple experimentation. Scientists might spend their whole life trying to get their hypothesis viewed as a theory in scientific circles, because that means it is as close to fact as a hypothesis gets.

Therefore, when you hear about a scientific theory, relativity, evolution etc. these are the facts which all subsequent scientific studies take to be inherently true. In any case, all it takes is one experiment to disprove any long held theory. These aren't "guesses", scientific theories are truer than any historical fact.

You find this hard to fathom because our brains aren't built to comprehend the scale of the forces at work, we think small and locally. It doesn't make it any less true. You can believe what you want, but I would suggest that your gut can't match the thousands of years of empirical research and experimentation by generations of scientists and, in some cases, complete geniuses.

 

[dholliday]

Not sure if I'd call this a conspiracy. Some certainly would, others not so.

There's an increasing amount of compelling evidence that there may have been an advanced human civilisation thousands of years before the accepted time line.

There are monolithic sites which have been found that predate the believed building of the pyramids by many thousands of years at a time when man was supposed to be no more than primitive hunter/gatherers.

Further to this, there is a lot of compelling evidence of a large scale global cataclysm around the time that may have 'pressed the reset button' on man kinds progress. The most popular theory is an arctic meteor strike causing global flooding (a possible source for the great flood myths found in many religions and cultures today)

Of course, the loons (Ancient Aliens, Atlantis believers etc,) are all over this, but there is some genuinely compelling evidence coming through.

There is a lot of resistance from a lot of historians though and subsequent mudslinging. Some historians/researchers saying this is 'psuedo-science' and the other side accusing the academics being ignorant in order to protect their careers.

The deep oceans remain largely unexplored (and below them we have very little to go on other than theory).

Currently we believe below the oceans are crusts and cores, but I expect they'll be a few surprises to come.

 

[carlos21]

The deep oceans remain largely unexplored (and below them we have very little to go on other than theory).

Currently we believe below the oceans are crusts and cores, but I expect they'll be a few surprises to come.

Yo Darren,

 

[dholliday]

Yo Darren,

Carlos kidda!

how's you my matey?


do you believe in aliens?

 

[carlos21]

Carlos kidda!

how's you my matey?


do you believe in aliens?

No mate I am today mate you been busy.

 

[Prevenger17]

if you look into the mistranslation of 'the word' as in 'in the beginning was the word', you'll find it underpins a theory of universal consciousness and connection. It covers both the spiritual and scientific elements of creation, from scientific theories of the big bang through to creation myths and legends from Sumeria, Babylonia and prior sources.

In its smallest sense it means thought/awareness, that thought created its own reality.

And, as such, man has been searching for answers to the wrong questions, sometimes for the right reasons, sometimes for the wrong.

Most of the scientific theory that is the basis for our perceptions were due to religious men looking for God/G-d or evidence of God/G-d, trying to rationalise on the outside what he couldn't search for on the inside because of the constraints he had placed on himself.

Christ Juan, I thought you were going to set him straight on what "theory" means, and then you go off talking about that spiritual Mumbo jumbo

 

[dandydan]

Sunday sport

This will never not be funny

 

[dholliday]

No mate I am today mate you been busy.

i'm supposed to be but i've got a fuzzy head due to doing 13-hour nightshifts in the week then 13-hour dayshifts this weekend. so can't be arsed being busy.

unfortunately i've got to solve about a hundred cases before midnight on sunday, gonna do them all last-minute tomorrow.


what you up to?

 

[Prevenger17]

This will never not be funny
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What I want to know is, what was this chimney shitter's connection to MI5, and who in command knew about it? We're through the looking glass here

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

The NHS is deliberately killing off the elderly.

Harold Shipman was framed.

#Justice4Harold

 

[Titus Bramble]

Can we stop using the phrase "just a theory" when it comes to scientific studies. For an idea to become a theory it has to be rigorously tested with repeatable results. Any theory can be completely thrown out of the window if a repeatable test is devised countering what the theory states. Gravity is just a theory, but I bet you don't question it.

Edit: @Prevenger17 got in there first and explained it a little better than me...

 

[dholliday]

Harold Shipman was framed.

#Justice4Harold

I always get him mixed up with Dr David Kelly, another favourite of conspiracy theorists.