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On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:59:09 -0500, Noah Sombrero
wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:12:36 -0800, Dude wrote:
>
>>On 2/10/2026 2:12 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:49:10 -0800, Dude wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/9/2026 2:49 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 12:30:35 -0800, Dude wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/9/2026 9:37 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 09:29:18 -0800, Dude wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2/8/2026 1:43 PM, Tara wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Julian wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> What You Name Things Matters, how you treat people matters and why
your
>>>>>>>>>> day is a dynamical system, how to avoid thing you don't want, and
why
>>>>>>>>>> what looks like luck is really a navigational skill
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> There is a problem in physics that has haunted mathematicians since
>>>>>>>>>> Newton. Three masses in space, each pulling on the other two through
>>>>>>>>>> gravity. Unlike two bodies — which orbit each other in neat,
predictable
>>>>>>>>>> ellipses — three bodies produce trajectories that are exquisitely
>>>>>>>>>> sensitive to the tiniest change in starting conditions. Henri
Poincaré
>>>>>>>>>> proved in 1890 that there is no general solution. The system is
>>>>>>>>>> deterministic. It follows fixed laws. And it is, in any practical
sense,
>>>>>>>>>> unpredictable.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You are a three-body problem.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Not metaphorically. Not loosely. Structurally. You are three masses
in
>>>>>>>>>> mutual gravitational interaction, and the dynamics of your day —
whether
>>>>>>>>>> it soars, spirals, or collapses — follow the same mathematics...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://mattkilcoyne.substack.com/p/the-three-body-fortune
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> :)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Finally, something interesting to talk about and post comment for
>>>>>>>> discussion. Thanks.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The historical Buddha, 563 to 483 B.C, taught that cause and effect,
>>>>>>>> rooted in the law of karma were based on intentional actions. All
>>>>>>>> voluntary actions of body, speech, and mind produce corresponding
>>>>>>>> reactions. Supposedly, positive actions lead to happiness, while
>>>>>>>> negative ones result in suffering, shaping an individual's experiences
>>>>>>>> across lifetimes.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Everything that happens, is caused by something else that causes it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Then come the thinkers from Greece.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Aristotle, 384–322 BCE, who is generally credited with the first
formal,
>>>>>>>> systematic theory of causality in Western philosophy, established the
>>>>>>>> the law of cause was that there is a specific cause or set of causes.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> He outlined the "four causes"—material, formal, efficient, and
final—in
>>>>>>>> his works Physics and Metaphysics to explain why things exist and
change.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, one thing leads to another, since the beginning of Time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Speaking time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> How does all that fit in with Albert Einstein, the thinker who first
>>>>>>>> established the special theory of relativity in 1905 and the general
>>>>>>>> theory of relativity by 1915?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What caused him to do that?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's like asking what was the First Cause?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, and it is turtles all the way down. There is no escaping it.
>>>>>
>>>>> And we have enough excuses for mindlessness without that one.
>>>>>
>>>> That's one answer to The Three-Body Fortune. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the
>>>> belief that life is meaningless. YMMV.
>>>
>>> That's the thing. Moral principles need not be meaningful. It is
>>> enough to have them and understand their worth to a meaningless human
>>> being.
>> >
>>We studied this at the community college: Political Science (a required
>>course).
>>
>>Natural law proponents, from Aristotle to John Locke, have argued that
>>laws enacted by governments are only valid if they conform to a higher,
>>natural, and moral law. It's the basis for inalienable rights such as
>>life, liberty, and property.
>
>You snuck that last one in yourself, didn't you?
>
>I think that statement is far too idealistic. Social structures need
>laws that detail what happens if I kill your dog or you kill my cat,
>metaphorically.
>
>Happenings that are too trivial to require a natural law, but for
>which there must be consequences.
Because social structures can arbitrarily be anything at all. And,
when in rome...
So social structures cannot be the basis for natural law or any
universal principle.
>inalienable rights such as life, liberty, and property.
Thus we see around the world many people alienated from supposed
inalienable rights. The most striking alienation is when we find
people who have become dead. It might actually be that they had no
right to life at all. Murderers might go to prison, but their victims
remain dead.
>There is no natural law that says you are entitled to a cat. Actually,
>in the course of animal relations, it is the cat who decides whether
>it owns you or not. So be careful which humans you kill, or you might
>end up facing a very angry cat, and both know you don't want that.
>
>>>>
>>>>>> In the thinker's mind they all probably used logic and observation, and
>>>>>> then brain cells triggered critical thinking.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Everything is relative to something else. Time, space, and gravity are
>>>>>> interconnected rather than absolute. Einstein posited that the speed of
>>>>>> light is constant, time slows down at high speeds, and gravity is the
>>>>>> warping of spacetime by mass.
--
Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain
Don't get political with me young man
or I'll tie you to a railroad track and
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Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?
dares: Ned
does not dare: Julian shrinks in horror and warns others away
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