So - cut Social Security - and cut my contributions. Social Security pays for itself - and even the lowest wage earners give up 6% for it and Medicaid. Do some research - that 24 percent of the budget, or $888 billion is funded from 6% of all our pay checks - touch it and you need to roll back my SSN and Medicaid…

Paragraph 4 says it isn’t limited to base-10

not really debunked. we just need a new term to denote "grown without adding poisons to the soil to make it bigger" and "not covered in pesticide"

What I think is being said...@acweston.... is that Columnbus was the European discoverer of his time of the americas. And really, he discovered how to rape and pillage the continents.

@Daybreaker - thats a win!

Two points... first: Columnbus' voyage is important as the starting point o Euro settlemen of the two american continents. second: my son is a freshman in high school and he was regaling me with tales of Columnbus' journal where he was noting that the nativswould be rounded up and taken to Spain to be sold - and how…

Point - you throw out consciousness. We don't understand consciousness enough to throw it out. RAIA may or may not lead to consciousness - but consciousness is not understood, and saying it can't happen is like saying that we will never interact with other dimensions. We know consciousness exists. How, why etc...…

My kids don't get paid for that. They need to learn that living requires dishes, car washes, laundry and dinner. They earn their money by doing something that isn't necesary for a normal person to just function - cause noone isgoing to pay them to do their own laundry when they grow up.

So - I must have misunderstood something - cause this is how I learned evolution worked in the first place...