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Aug 25, 2012 19:47:17   #
eskiles Loc: Palmer Alaska
 
We still live in a magical world.
eskiles wrote:
The Time machine might be the first answer you tackle! Good luck.
I hope the answers you find are accurate and difinitive. Please don't create any paradoxes you can't resolve.
P.S. I can already travel in time, In my mind!

Yes I am comfortable not knowing all the answers. But I ask them anyway!

ngc1514 wrote:
Do I, personally, have the answers to all questions? Absolutely not.

Can I find answers to all questions? Absolutely.

Are the answers correct? That all depends on the question, doesn't it?

What makes you think human don't utilize 100% of their brain? What part are they not using and how do you know this?

What part of the physical world do we not understand? I'd be interested in how you answer this. Are you comfortable with the idea we will never know all the answers?

For example, barring the invention of a time machine, we will never know how life got started on the earth. Life will be created in labs in the next few years and if we ever travel to other planets, we may very well observe life starting there. But those observations will not tell us with 100% certainty that is how earth-based life began.

We may have all sorts of good explanations how it might have started, but we'll never really know. But does that not knowing really MEAN anything? I don't think so because we have a pretty good idea how life evolved from that unknowable beginning. While studies about abiogenesis will never provide the absolute answer, such studies do tell us a lot about living matter as it exists today.

Science is quite comfortable knowing there are things we can not know with absolute certainty and doesn't insist on faith to provide those answers. No scientist worth his salt throws up his hands and says, "Some magic man one it!"

Besides, who knows... Someone might build that time machine.
Do I, personally, have the answers to all question... (show quote)
The Time machine might be the first answer you tac... (show quote)

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Aug 25, 2012 22:00:48   #
ngc1514 Loc: Atlanta, Ga., Lancaster, Oh. and Stuart, Fl.
 
The magic is that man has the ability to learn what's behind the magic.

Before that time, the magic was the scary kind that had our ancestors living short, brutal lives victim to things they didn't understand.

These are the best of times.

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Aug 26, 2012 02:27:50   #
eskiles Loc: Palmer Alaska
 
Very much agreed.

ngc1514 wrote:
The magic is that man has the ability to learn what's behind the magic.

Before that time, the magic was the scary kind that had our ancestors living short, brutal lives victim to things they didn't understand.

These are the best of times.

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Aug 26, 2012 08:14:32   #
rayford2 Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
 
ngc1514 wrote:
Of course not. You need to show faith isn't just pretending to know something you don't know.

About halfway through the presentation he offers a test. Once you can fulfill the criteria specified, you might have something. Otherwise, you got bupkes.

"Bupkes"? What's that?

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Aug 26, 2012 08:46:59   #
Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana
 
rayford2 wrote:
ngc1514 wrote:
Of course not. You need to show faith isn't just pretending to know something you don't know.

About halfway through the presentation he offers a test. Once you can fulfill the criteria specified, you might have something. Otherwise, you got bupkes.

"Bupkes"? What's that?


bupkes:
Yiddish for "beans", or figuratively "nothing, nada, zilch". Can also be an offer so low as to be an insult, and as Leo Rosten noted in his classic "The Joy of Yiddish," "bupkes" is a howl of outrage often heard in the cutthroat world of show business.
"I should have got at least ten bucks but i got BUPKES!!"

From "Unban Dictionary"

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Aug 26, 2012 10:25:19   #
ngc1514 Loc: Atlanta, Ga., Lancaster, Oh. and Stuart, Fl.
 
Growing up on the streets of New York, Yiddish was everyone's second language. Even the Bronx Irish Catholic kids could cuss in Yiddish.

Kush meer in toches. (Rosten's book may spell it differently because there is no "standard" Yiddish. German Yiddish words are spelt differently than Polish Yiddish.)

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