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OKC Mayor Candidate Calls for the Eradication of All Muslims

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Jaskalas said:
I could understand that position as a teenager, in the days after 911.
But where were the elders to lead by example, to teach her a better way than her barbaric savagery?
And today, as a candidate for office? No excuse for the party not to run her out of town.
That Republicans can coalesce around someone who espouses this shit, maybe the second amendment wasn't such a bright idea. Who thinks they're going down without a fight?
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The elders either got cancelled or died without teaching anything, so now it's just a bunch of children running around like little idiots, all Lord of the Flies style.
 
Muse said:
Not sure that's true. Time is an invention of man, so are words. Which came first, I don't know.
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Concept of time isn't invented, it's discovered. Just like gravity isn't invented, it exists before being discovered.
 
kt said:
Concept of time isn't invented, it's discovered. Just like gravity isn't invented, it exists before being discovered.
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I can't say I've kept up with physics since university, but I have the impression that the nature of time is still not a settled question. It seems that it's related to the difficulty of reconciling QM and general relativity.

Problem of time - Wikipedia

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Muse said:
Not sure that's true. Time is an invention of man, so are words. Which came first, I don't know.
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Sounds like you don't think a tree falling in the woods makes any sound without anybody around. On a certain level, you may be right.
 
Muse said:
Not sure that's true. Time is an invention of man, so are words. Which came first, I don't know.
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If time is an invention of man that we use clocks to measure, Distance is an invention of man that we use rulers to measure.
 
Muse said:
Not sure that's true. Time is an invention of man, so are words. Which came first, I don't know.
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Muse said:
Not sure that's true. Time is an invention of man, so are words. Which came first, I don't know.
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I would argue that time came before words for these reasons: Time is either infinite backward, infinite forward, of cyclical. The proposition that time exists, the concept of time as an object of thought depends on words, so, while the discussion of time as a property of the universe depends on words, any description of actual properties of the universe would have had to have already been present to be discovered or discussed. So since when the arrow of time is played backward we reach a place so hot that matter couldn't exist, and the laws of physics make no sense, it seems reasonable to me to think that words of the kind we are talking about here could not have existed either. But time itself did.
 
Also, looking at it from another perspective, time being infinite backward, there is no date at which words could have come before it. And if time is cyclical the same would apply. Time would restarted the instant the cycle repeats. In the case of time being infinite forward but having a starting point, again time would emerge the moment space did.
And since the expansion appears to have been from an infinitely small thingi, if there were any words around they would have had to have been very very small.
 
Dang, if it weren't for these low-level, local GOP cells and their slow members reading the GOP manifesto out loud and in public, the wider GOP Christian jihadist movement would have a slightly easier time moving forward with their plans to claim the US and orchestrate their genocide against the educated, the non-white, and the non-christains.
 
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