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Is Relativistic Geometry Conventional? - Soul Physics

3D is special, because 3D and linear time are properties of imagination; but otherwise, there are indefinitely many geometries, and in that sense whichever you choose is conventional. www.soulphysics.org/2026/09/rela...

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I've seen almost the same thing from Russell. Of course they fantasize about explaining my opinions to me better than I can explain them. Meanwhile, they say Descartes just thinks he thinks.

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No, at least not in America, because we're way too far right, so here the right wing is nazis. I can barely stand centrist Democrats.

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Even when I was little in the 60s, visitors from other countries wanted to know what's with all the flags everywhere? It's triumphalism.

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I've never known anyone who liked country music, except for one person on the client side when I worked in Texas who asked me if I like any of it.

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I regret spending so much time in my twenties and thirties reading all those inadequate philosophies. The chapters on them in histories of philosophy were enough. If you stick with only the good rationalist stuff, reading Descartes' books three or four times as he recommends isn't so hard.

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All the rest is right, but "Nothing ever happens" is wrong. It's everything happens all at once and as one in eternity. Distinct things are really abstractions. Common-sense philosophers call objects of the senses concrete, but they're really abstractions too.

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I wish I could remember who said, except for some old-fashioned instruments they like, country music is the same as white pop music from ten years earlier and black pop music from twenty years earlier.

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Well, it's true that if there are history books, the strait will be mentioned almost every time Trump is mentioned.

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I saw a quote from Obama yesterday. He said American government is the least corrupt it's ever been. That's because only petty corruption by lowly government employees counts as corruption. Senators and cabinet officials taking bribes and embezzling doesn't count.

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The Pythagoreans were non-Marxist communists. There are also archeologists who say the Indus Valley Civilization was communist. It's interesting to me, because I think if there was a place where mysticism or at least rationalism first arose, that was probably it.

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Cantor doesn't know sets either? So what does he know? He definitely doesn't know what infinite is. It's not the same thing as infinitely divisible.

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Haha, I wonder the same thing almost every day. To be fair, Spinoza says something similar when he talks about "composition"; but he admitted back in CM "all composition arises from ... distinctions", and you know distinctions aren't real.

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There's a near consensus view among at least canonical philosophers that Descartes just thinks he thinks. So they get the first principle wrong and either deduce false stuff from it or more likely just guess about everything.

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They practically invented literate irrational. Sorry, couldn't resist.

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"I don't know if it's even possible to save the world with this kind of trash running America".

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Clintonite Democrats are hoping Netanyahu will lose, so they can say the problem is fixed and keep taking AIPAC money a little longer. I don't know why Trump isn't blaming him more. Tbh I hope he won't. I don't love left or Islamic antisemitism, but it doesn't terrify me like rightwing antisemitism.

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When I flip a light switch, it understands something, but probably not "Let there be light" or anything about light.

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John said Paul wasn't the best technically, but he was the most musical. For John to praise anyone is a rare occasion.

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No, it's now. Can't you see how someone like Netanyahu is filled with hate? Normal people feel some hate when they see someone like Netanyahu; but it's on the surface, so they feel a little pain. But his hate is almost all of him. He is burning in hell.

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No, Bush-Cheney approval was around 20% at the end. But I believe in Trump. He has more than two years left, He can do it.

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Mamdani doesn't need this help. He already got elected.

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I think my opinion might be even more unpopular. He's maybe a consigliere, but not a don, and not even a wartime consigliere.

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No, he looks like Opie; and I'll bet people have said it.

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But I want to know if he's a Bible kook, because that's what he looks like in this picture.

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A reporter asked one of the DOGE kids how he could single-handedly cancel medical research he knew nothing about because of one word. His answer was it doesn't matter, because in a few years AI is going to solve all the medical problems.

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Come on. Even Russell admitted the smug hypocrite was Hume (he says "insincere").

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Oasis is scheduled to play there next year. I've heard they're supposed to be like the Beatles. You've probably seen tweets about what happened in 1964 when they were scheduled to play at the Florida Gatorbowl.

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If you want certainty about anything real, there's only one way. You have to deduce everything from 'I think therefore I am' or 'what is, is'. Most people would rather keep believing what they already believe; so the idea of certainty is unpopular. Too bad, because it's the only way to be happy.

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Only reason is the same in all minds. Imagination isn't even the same in multiple parts of my mind.

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God is a subject, not an object. You know what else is a subject and not an object? The "I" in I think therefore I am. That's why more or less the same people don't notice either one.

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"Since God can be personally experienced, we should rely primarily on empirical data when describing His nature:. I think therefore I am can be personally experienced. Has empirical data helped anyone describe it? All it's done is make them doubt it so much they say Descartes just thinks he thinks.

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Russell's list is a good start. "(1) that all division and separateness is unreal, and that the universe is a single indivisible unity; (2) that evil is illusory, and that the illusion arises through falsely regarding a part as self-subsistent; ...

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It's mostly bribes and blackmail.

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Well, at least some of their complicated logic is false; but I don't get far enough to worry about the logic. I'm sorry to say the same thing over and over; but I almost never agree with the common-sense premises of any of their arguments, so I lose interest and read something else.

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Because they can't do anything that costs their corporate and billionaire donors money.

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I did yesterday. He tweeted something about Spinoza. I also count it as boycotting whatever Twitter is trying to accomplish by making nested threads practically impossible to read in the right order.

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Well, he is misunderstood. Almost every canonical philosopher says one way or another, Descartes just thinks he thinks. So they need to think about it more. All Vedantin gurus say it's probably going to take you months or even years of meditation to understand it.

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Sherman said every Confederate politician and plantation owner had to go, or reconstruction would fail. Well, it did fail. The more Trump officials who end up in prison, the better. I'll never forgive the Democrats who deliberately did everything possible to rehabilitate Bush-Cheney's image.

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