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Logically, it is impossible to select our own thoughts/beliefs. Because the act of choosing our own thoughts require prior thoughts, which leads to an infinite regress, thereby making it impossible to ever self-originate any thought. Going back, there was a time when you were not alive, so you had ...

Why can't you just create/author/script the thought “I select the thought - ‘I will raise my arm’” without any further origination? Can't free will be spontaneous? Did you have any say-so in composing that spontaneous thought? …or did you just ‘experience’ that spontaneous thought? If we didn’t kno...

If determinism is out of the picture then you totally can't show that we didn't knowingly create/author/script our thoughts. Atla, 'logic' (not determinism) tells us that selecting our own thoughts is impossible. From a logical perspective, it is impossible, via infinite regress, to select our own ...

…accept moral responsibility for an action you had no choice in making... Impenitent, we have no say-so in the matter. The acceptance, or non-acceptance of moral responsibility is determined by our thoughts (and beliefs and feelings), all of which are given to us. ********** An irrefutable reality ...

Zombies R Us An irrefutable reality of life is that we humans have absolutely no say-so (no conscious control; no autonomy) over our bodily actions. N-o-n-e whatsoever. Although we like to believe otherwise, we are, in essence, just “zombies” (non-autonomous beings). Most of us have been indoctrinat...

The Simple Science (and Logic) of Covid *************** Here are the simple SCIENTIFIC facts (premise statements): P1. Vaccinations, by themselves, don't stop this virus. P2. Vaccinations help produce "immune" people. P3. Only herd immunity stops this virus. This virus will continue to mut...

* MOSQUITO ANALOGY - Part 1 1. Imagine an elderly woman who becomes deathly ill if bitten by a mosquito. Further imagine this woman is alone in a room with 1 mosquito flying about. She is in an unsafe environment; her risk of getting bit by the mosquito (and getting deathly ill) is relatively high. ...

Skepdick, from what I've read, the amount of viral replication within the body is dependent on one's immune system. In other words, those with weak immune systems will replicate more than one with a marginal immune system, and those with strong healthy immune systems will have little to no replicati...

My point is that if a healthy vaccinated person wears a mask, then he/she cannot remove viral particles from the environment (the mask prevents this). Your idea in a nutshell is "using humans as viral filters". It's pretty lame. So then what happens when a mask-less healthy vaccinated per...

Masks reduce the reach of your exhalations. Do you want us to spend effort/money and task scientists with proving this to you? Why?!? This is a non-sequitur (irrelevant). My point is that if a healthy vaccinated person wears a mask, then he/she cannot remove viral particles from the environment (th...

Q. -- What happens when the virus encounters an 'unmasked' healthy vaccinated person? A. -- The virus (viral particles) dies, and is permanently removed from the environment, thereby making the environment less virally contaminated and safer for vulnerable people. There's a fundamental misunderstan...

To mask or not to mask. Here is my opinion on this topic: ***** Please take OFF your mask to save grandma! ***** [This message is intended for our ' healthy vaccinated ' people. If you are vaccinated but have an underlying condition (susceptible to the ill effects of covid), then this message is NOT...

Herd immunity works by reducing the number of potentially infectious contacts between infectious and infectable people. This can be done by reducing the number of contacts between everyone (social distancing), targetted reduction of infected or likely-infected people by self-isolation and quarantin...

Vaccination does give us herd immunity... Not by itself. It can only give us herd immunity if we let immune (vaccinated) people participate in achieving herd immunity. Keeping immune people socially isolated from the herd does NOT give us herd immunity. Standing in the shade does stop you getting s...

Did I just read a theory of disease transmission that assumes humans are some sort of vacuum cleaner and viruses are basically these permanent dust bunnies that we suck up? Even by philosophy now standards, bravo sir, you are a top quality stone cold bonker. Flash, you are only exposing your ignora...