From: fedora@fea.st
On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 12:05:47 -0800, Dude wrote:
>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?
The question is, do shrinks know what they are talking about? Like
for instance in a court room, the defense asks the shrink on the
stand, did the ice agent know right from wrong when he killed Alex?
Some of us think it really is that simple. He does or he doesn't.
>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.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
<<>> to <<>>
Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away
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