• YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 个月前

        Would the curvature not get in the way at a certain distance?

        EDIT

        I was thinking if the moon was somehow ‘resting’ on the earth’s surface. If you head West, to around the Boston area, it would be eventually be obscured by the curvature of the earth.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 个月前

      That explains the miracles. He took on a humanoid form so he wouldn’t frighten their simple minds, and the “miracles” he performed were just him using contemporary alien tech to heal illnesses and turn water into wine. Dude was just trying to help advance humanity, and they killed him anyway.

      Imagine the insane technology we’d have today if the Romans just let him do his thing.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        11 个月前

        “water into wine” was a story about sneaking libation in where it was was forbidden. It was more “quarter behind the ear” than actual magic.

        • RattlerSix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 个月前

          There was a guy named Hero of Alexandria who was alive at the time of Jesus. He was a brilliant inventor, like the DaVinci of his day. He wrote 4 books. The first 3 are about his own inventions and the 4th seems similar but is thought to be a book explaining how other common things worked. In that 4th book he details how a trick “water into wine” jug works.

          This is like Jesus trying to prove who he is by doing a card trick. “Look, I know all the other card tricks are just tricks, but THIS ONE is really magic.”

  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
    24·
    11 个月前

    I don’t believe there’s a spoons worth of plastic in your brain. Ain’t no way. It’s suspiciously sensational, and confirms something we all believe to be true (plastics bad, humans reckless, etc.). I have zero evidence to the contrary but im pretty confident that in a few years to a decade it will be debunked.

  • Uncle Roach@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    201·
    11 个月前

    We have higher dimensional organs and we can’t see them because, well, they’re from a higher dimension. The soul is one of these organs

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      51·
      11 个月前

      can’t see them

      Wouldn’t we still be able to see them, though? Even if they’re in a higher dimension, they’ll still show up in our known dimensions, even if partially. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be interacting with our body at all.

    • scripty@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      4·
      11 个月前

      Sounds interesting. What other organs do you think fall under this category?

      • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
        10·
        11 个月前

        I’ve been told my organ has helped hundreds of men and women reach a higher state of being.

        My brain, when I was a professor.

        /boomerhuumer

  • Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    11 个月前

    I don’t care how many studies are done on food safe plastics I still don’t like the idea of using them on my kitchen. That’s not to say I avoid them 100% but I do what I can to avoid them within reason. Like I feel after the whole BPA scare and banning them from use in food applications is a temporary thing and that it’s a matter of time until we find a problem with the new BPA-free liners.

  • FridaySteve@lemmy.world
    212·
    11 个月前

    Without the hate speech and constant invasive political discourse, most people on the internet would lose interest and go away.

  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldBanned from community
    17·
    11 个月前

    being a shitty person is way more beneficial than being a good person.

    and i mean by shitty/good basically morality. being a amoral selfish person is almost always better for the individual.

    however, i think such people are always going to be unhappy due to the instability of their life.

    • Colonel_Panic@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 个月前

      I really liked that one Study? Experiment? Whatever it was that had people program different strategies to play a game for them. It was a “game theory”/“prisoner’s dilemma” type game. The kind where if you play nice you each win a little, but if you play mean you might both lose or you might win a lot.

      Anyway, they made a whole bunch of AI type strategies that would compete and over time, the cutthroat or evil strategies would win in the short term, but over long term the cooperative play nice strategies always prevailed.

      It may or may not be true, but I choose to believe that the best, most efficient, most beneficial strategy is always the one that favors cooperation, mutual aid, and forgiveness over cutthroat, deception, grudges.

      Put another way, fighting and competition wastes more resources than it ever gains, cooperation and sharing is a better strategy.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldBanned from community
        13·
        11 个月前

        people’s lifespans are short. hence short term matters more than long term.

        also fighting and competition bring meaning to life. long term cooperation, not so much.

    • davad@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 个月前

      I don’t think that’s true by itself. I think you also have to be good at pretending to be a “good” person (or at least only being “bad” to the out-group). We are social creatures. If someone is showing obvious antisocial behavior, they get shunned from the group.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldBanned from community
        4·
        11 个月前

        IME it’s exactly the opposite. the most anti social people are the most socially rewarded. the sociopaths, psychopaths, and narcissists are far more socially popular than any other type.

        the most altruistic people are shunned because tehir altruism makes other people feel bad.

        but i live in the USA.

    • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 个月前

      It can seem like that, but the prisoner’s dilemma breaks down when you realize that in the real world, interactions like that where people can get screwed over or not rarely happen once, and screwing someone over has consequences outside of that interaction.

      Like, if a shop screws over customers, sure, on paper it seems to make sense because they are making money in each interaction, but people will stop going to that shop, and tell other people to never go there, eventually closing the shop.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(old account, migrated to Piefed)@sh.itjust.works
    171·
    11 个月前

    Reincarnation

    I just can’t get over the idea of:

    Nothing --> Existing --> Nothing

    So I figured, an unscientific philosophical guess, that existence is more like:

    Noting --> Existing --> Nothing --> Existing (again) --> Nothing --> Existing (again) --> [repeating forever]

    Maybe “souls” is just an energy.

    Einstein said energy cannot be created nor destroyed. So maybe, when we die, we become an energy that, by some ways we can’t yet understand, just randomly becomes a part of another living being… maybe a human, maybe non-human, maybe this energy stays nearby here on Earth, maybe it somehow goes to a random alien planet and you become an alien the “next life”… who knows?

    Or maybe this is just another coping mechanism my brain cane up with in face of the knowledge of certain death, influenced by the Eastern philosophy that I grew up with? Whatever…

    • AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      11 个月前

      Iirc some of the stoics believed in a similar idea. They thought the world was deterministic and it simply happened over and over the exact same way every time.

      On the note of energy not being created or destroyed. The energy in your brain doesn’t wait till the universe ends to leave. It continues moving as heat or chemical reactions when we die just like it did before. The order of the system it’s in breaks down, but all that energy keeps existing forever.

      Since you emit energy as infrared light just by being warm, and infrared is capable of leaving the atmosphere. It is possible, that just by stepping outside, some of your energy has already left the planet and made it to other astronomical bodies in our solar system.

      If we assume there is life on any of the moons or planets or asteroids nearby, who knows, maybe some of the energy that used to be part of you has already become part of a new, alien, life form.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      11 个月前

      Many scientists concluded the conservation of energy long before Einstein.

      But

      There are more and more people every year.

    • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      11 个月前

      If it helps there is absolutely no reason to believe there is a privileged NOW and everything before is gone. It’s like believing that walking over a path destroys the path behind you somehow. So ultimately after a fashion you are more eternal than stars. You are an edifice erected in eternity from inception to destruction. Einstein didn’t believe in reincarnation but he did believe in a block universe.

    • Owl@mander.xyz
      12·
      11 个月前

      Einstein said energy cannot be created nor destroyed. So maybe, when we die, we become an energy that, by some ways we can’t yet understand, just randomly becomes a part of another living being… maybe a human, maybe non-human, maybe this energy stays nearby here on Earth, maybe it somehow goes to a random alien planet and you become an alien the “next life”… who knows?

      That’s pretty much what science says

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    11 个月前

    That if you can’t find something or something doesn’t work, it will continue to be missing/not work until you complain about it to someone, at which point it will start working/show up and you look silly.

    Kyle’s Law is harsh, but fair (and rather annoying)

  • fartographer@lemmy.world
    15·
    11 个月前

    When I drop something on the floor and then blow on it in short soft bursts, it’s suddenly clean enough to consume.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
    12·
    11 个月前

    I firmly believe some days you wake up and the world just fucking hates you, yet the next day everything is chill. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯