From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/1/2026 11:39 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   > On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 11:32:03 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/31/2026 11:01 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>> On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:23:48 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 1/31/2026 10:11 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>>> On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:49:48 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On 1/31/2026 9:46 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:26:45 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> On 1/30/2026 8:09 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> One thing that really scared me like fifteen years ago was Google   
   promising   
   >>>>>>>>> they could delete any pirated works on your computer without   
   asking.  I'm not   
   >>>>>>>>> in favor of pirating, but who decides? Lkie Facebook censors?   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> "Tis strange, but true; for Truth is always strange; stranger than   
   >>>>>>>> fiction." - Byron   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Actually not, mr byron.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>> You can't make this stuff up. Life is sometimes stranger than fiction.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Sometimes.  It depends.  But the strangeness of life is limited by   
   >>>>> physical possibility.  Fiction is not.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> There are no physical limits in the dream state.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There is nothing in life that can't also be dreamed. In the waking state   
   >>>> you see a chair. In the dream state you also can see a chair.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The question is, which one is real?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> How do we know that the waking state is not all just a dream, not real,   
   >>>> yet also not unreal.   
   >>>   
   >>> One test of sanity that psychs use is the ability to tell dream from   
   >>> reality.  Another is the ability to tell right from wrong.  The second   
   >>> one is the one I see violated often here.   
   >>>   
   >> Apparently, you don't know which is real, right or wrong, so you're   
   >> judgemental.   
   >   
   > Tell that to the shrinks.  They seem to think we should know the   
   > difference.  Judgment implies pronouncing some sort of penalty on   
   > somebody else.  Shrinks don't punish you for being crazy.  On a good   
   > day, they might even be able to help.   
   >   
   > Knowing the difference between right and wrong is a personal   
   > characteristic, the absence of which is likely to get you in big   
   > trouble.  But not with me.  I simply notice the lack.   
    >   
   It's not that simple - black or white.   
      
   The question is, what is real?   
      
   For all you know, what you think is reality, may just be an illusion, or   
   a dream. For example, time is an obvious illusion. And, maybe you   
   believe in time, and believe you are right.   
      
   Time doesn't just go along in a straight line from a beginning and an   
   ending. The distinction between past, present and future is only a   
   stubbornly persistent illusion, according to Einstein.   
      
   Albert Einstein is the most prominent scientist who argued that time is   
   an illusion. His work, particularly the theory of relativity, suggested   
   a "block universe" where all points in time are equally real.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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