I think i'm seeing it now. "This is it" implies Hank is actually looking for the cult in question, something that I guess seems odd to me without knowing the plot of the episode.
Thanks for clarifying though! Oh wait, you didn't.
I haven't seen arguments that they're constitutionally unsavory, but I've seen arguments, that the President, as chief executive, does have almost CEO-like control over them. FDR did exert such control, in his case using it to expand the federal government, but he ran a fast-moving government.
So it's not like there isn't precedent for this, it's just that the consensus was as you said, the independent (some would say unelected) bureaucracy running things. But that was only ever a convention.
In most cases the law that created the agency spells out exactly what control the president has, and AFAIK presidents still have to follow the law like everyone else. Is there any real justification for this, beyond the general notion that FDR once got away with something similar so maybe Trump should too?
Might change it then. My original vision was just Vajra and Gnosis, but then I started feeling like maybe they're both too loud so I added the Simple style. But yeah, Vajra is the one I personally use.
If AI really is poised to automate away large segments of the economy, the correct answer is to bring on UBI, financed by heavy taxes on AI companies. If there's no work to do, it's time to chill!
Well, that is a real question. But that is not my argument. I point out instead:
1. The big arguments used to disprove God also disprove your own existence, as they disprove the existence of sentience.
2. There are religions centered on sentience, and who equate God with sentience.
3. It is manifestly absurd to believe one is not sentient just to hold to physicalism.
You can't ever be certain about the nature of reality but you can be damn sure reality is not solely square. It is important to look to, and study, the circle as well, instead of pretending it does not exist.
> I effect things, the invisible dragon doesn't effect things, just going "both of these are invisible" misses the point of that, IMO
According to neuroscience, you don't do any of that. Electricity and neurotransmitters slosh around and cause those things. There is no 'you' willing that.
> God is meant to have presence in everyone's life, yet, for my perspective and I imagine for the perspective of others, he doesn't.
God is awareness. He is the cause of perceiving. But yes, most take consciousness for granted.
> it reaches the unfun point of people searching for dictionaries so they can have the winning definitions of words, as opposed to discussing the core aspects.
No one wants to play, "X does Y" "Oh but actually X is (a different definition of X)"
Its argument baiting, and its also wrong, Neuroscience doesn't have a stance on the philosophical questions of consciousness, And the philosophical questions of consciousness majorly assume that it exists.
> Electricity and neurotransmitters slosh around and cause those things.
Thats parts of my meatbag of an entity, which is recognized by most governments, and almost every person in the world, to be "me", to be the person that I am, everyone agrees this is a fine definition, but whatever.
This arbitrary meatbag with energy in it makes a noise, the god meatbag does not make a noise.
A brick makes a noise when its dropped, god doesn't
Atoms interact with one another via their forces, god doesn't
Its the exact same statement as before just with some words changed over. There is no value add to this.
By concluding that humans are as real as dirt and bricks brings god no closer to evidence.
> Neuroscience doesn't have a stance on the philosophical questions of consciousness
Yes they do, I saw Stanford prof Andrew Huberman say we're just a flow of electricity. Read of another neuroscientist that claimed there is no such as reason without emotion. More generally, scientists wade into philosophical waters all the time.
> By concluding that humans are as real as dirt and bricks brings god no closer to evidence.
It does, because humans are only part dirt and bricks. Consciousness is the lynchpin, the thing that cannot be explained in terms of dirt and bricks. Hence, once you admit there is more to reality than the physical, it once again becomes possible to search for God/Atman/Nibbana whatever you prefer.
The arbitrary meatbag is not the whole story of the human.
Surely they don't believe the odds of GOF research producing a much more lethal pandemic than the one we're dealing with are 0%. At the same time, nobody ever showed that GOF research has benefits commensurate with the risks.
It would appear the virologists are not trustworthy.
