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By the way, pretending to agree with people when you are actually ignoring what they have told you is neither honest nor polite.
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All religions are essentially the same.
They all allege the existence of something that requires some form of worship and/or homage and/or obedience and/or monetary compensation. Heavy emphasis is often placed on the necessary monetary compensation, which may equal or exceed 10% of GNP. The alleged something is always invisible except when it chooses to reveal itself to a chosen few. It is then seen quite plainly by the chosen few, who then relate their alleged observation to the gullible many. This often results in the chosen few being compensated monetarily, except in instances in which a chosen one runs afoul of some governmental and/or religious authority, in which case a hideous fate typically befalls the chosen one. Occasionally, the hideously befallen chosen one has attracted a following, who then rationalize the chosen one's hideous fate as a matter of incomprehensible godly necessity. |
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They can be applied (logically) even after being found not to be absolute as long as there is proof supporting the change. The scientific method assumes nothing is A&F as new developments are considered possible (NOT EXPECTED, simply possible) in any rule/law that is determined by experimentation. Further experimentation MAY expand or retract the rule/law/finding!!
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Pollution is pollution. Economic, political or theological "senses" have no alterable effects; pollution is pollution regardless of source. I'm being, I think, charitable here. But "pollution to real sense of true religion" is gibberish, nonsense, faulty reasoning at best and generally *********.
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Nothing provided by you here has been useful for assessing anything - though equally, statements /descriptions meant for assessment/assessing are useless if they make no sense as written here. And they, so far, never have been so in your writings here. We do English here for very rational reasons.
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Probably above thinking may just be gibberish. Either fact/truth should be A&F otherwise it should be given some other vague term. Why not say, " Yet observed in science but unknown finally" or "just consistent". Otherwise, people can be misguided and suffer havily, taking those as fact or truth.(We personally suffered).
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Kumar,
What's with the never-ending obsession with so-called A&F? You can't explain it, it's not helping you in the least, and nobody else here is buying even a little of it. Perpetually pursuing a pseudo-goal is simply delusional. You'd be much better served by trying to get a grasp on reality. |
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Weirdly, scientists and related could not possibly care less (nor could I to be honest) how you wish/think science should be done. You clearly know nothing about it and nothing about how it is actually done and the great amount of evidence needed to get science to accept research - for which there is none at all for homeopathy!!!
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Not true. When someone says something you don't like, or when you make a claim you refuse to support, you'll claim that, since science is not A&F, you can ignore anything it says and substitute whatever.
It's a very stupid and transparent ploy to avoid responsibility for what you say, along the lines of sticking your fingers in your ears and going nananananana. |
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