05 JAN 2017 by ideonexus

 Don't Neglect Your Future You

There is one person whose wants and needs you routinely ignore, opting instead to tend to your own immediate desires, and that person is future you. When it comes to making decisions that will have some effect on your long-term health or happiness — for example, whether or not to go to the gym today, in keeping with your New Year’s resolution — current you is always finding a new way to steal from future you. It’s time the two yous got better acquainted. This concept in itself may n...
Folksonomies: prescience future planning
Folksonomies: prescience future planning
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24 FEB 2011 by ideonexus

 Science Doesn't Concern Itself With What Doesn't Exist

Science doesn’t concern itself with the non-existence of something. The periodic table of imaginary things would be too big for a classroom- infinitely big in fact, and rather pointless. It’s not trying to prove the non-existence of anything supernatural. All it knows is there is no scientific proof of anything supernatural so far. When someone presents a jar of God it will test it. If it finds some evidence of “godness” it will follow the evidence till it knows everything it can. Th...
Folksonomies: science atheism
Folksonomies: science atheism
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Ricky Gervais describing why science only concerns itself with discovering truth, not what should be done with that truth.