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Time is Relative ⏳
It doesn't move the same for everyone. To speed it up, to live a month in 24 hours, simply put more cause into effect. If someone on your team does 100 messages a day, and you do 200, you've lived 48 hours in his 24. This is how the exponential gap that separates men is created. You have to CONSTANTLY be doing, moving, creating. Even moving at a steady pace isn't good enough. Because there are people out there who aren't, so you're falling behind. You're either spiraling up or spiraling down.
Time is Relative ⏳
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I thought the thread would be about Einstein's General Relativity :) You mean time is subjectively experienced. True.
The Ritual of Science🧪🔬🥼: Observation Subverted by Authority
In most classrooms, the student is presented with a carefully curated narrative: a theory is stated, an experiment is performed, and the outcome is said to “confirm” what was already dictated. This is not science. It is ritual. It is a scripted performance designed not to uncover reality but to validate the authority of those who dictate the theory. The inversion is striking: the tools of empirical investigation — beakers, electrodes, thermometers, balances — are repurposed from instruments of discovery into instruments of compliance. The student is no longer a discoverer; the student becomes an actor, executing a preordained choreography in which success is measured not by insight but by obedience. Consider the common example of electrolysis in a high school laboratory. Students are given a theoretical description of water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen, then instructed to construct a simple apparatus: two electrodes in water with an applied current. Bubbles rise, gas is collected, and occasionally a flame confirms that “hydrogen burns, oxygen supports combustion.” The ritual is complete: the experiment validates the teacher’s authority. The reality of what occurs — the tactile sensation of bubbles, the behavior of gases, the heat, the ignition — is secondary. Observation is subordinated to a narrative. This is not harmless pedagogy. It is a systemic reinforcement of epistemic authority. By dictating theory first, schools train students to prioritize confirmation over discovery, to value the written word above sensory evidence, to see experimentation as a ceremonial act rather than a means of interrogation. Knowledge becomes hierarchical: the authority of theory is unquestionable, while first-hand observation is merely supplementary. A truly descriptive approach would invert this ritual. It would start with the phenomena: bubbles forming at electrodes, the sound and heat of ignition, the rising gas, the displacement of water. Only after careful, repeated observation would labels or tentative explanations emerge — and these labels would be provisional, descriptive, and accountable to evidence. This is the method of trial-and-error empiricism, the method that predates formalized chemistry and physics: observe first, name second.
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One should distinguish between science and scientism, the latter being blind faith in science. Another idea to grasp is 'scientific realism ', which is a common dogmatic position akin to scientism. Science must always be falsifiable. It should also be understood as one way of representing reality but not the only way. This is based on a Kantian binary of the phenomena and noumena. The thinker who famously identified ritual and sociology in science is Thomas Kuhn. Another key thinker is Feyerabend in Against Method. This is part of the philosophy of science, a huge topic.
So why I did I become a stoic and stop being a chirstian
The reason why I became a stoic is because of the practices and virtues that it has that Christianity does not have anymore in my option. But I am very glad to join Project Stoic due to that fact I believe that I will go much further as a Stoic Innovator than being stuck in a Dead loop of Declining Chirstianity.
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They are not mutually exclusive. There are Christian Stoics. I see the ideas as consistent, depending on how you understand Christian faith. The early Church Fathers engaged with Hellenic influences, including Stoicism, so there is precendent for seeing the philosohies as consistent, historically. Both teach the value of being satisfied with what you have regardless of external circumstances. e.g., Paul writes (in Phil. 4:12): "I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want." Mastering one's passions, enduring suffering with perseverance, and practicing self-control are also Christian values.
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@Nic S My experience is the opposite: to be a vegan is mocked and ridiculed online. Though I guess it depends which forums you're on or who you hang out with. I am for animal rights, don't eat meat and feel quite isolated since no one I know shares those values. And I am not interested in joining animal rights groups in person or online because I am a political conservative and most people into animal rights are radical leftists for some reason. I have only met about two other conservatives who believed in animal rights in my life. It's very rare and they tend to be quiet about it. I believe in animal rights for philsophical reasons as argued by the ethicist Tom Regan in his books. He is a Kantian and so am I. Animal rights (ie opposition to the instrumental use of sentient animals) is a universalizabe maxim of action if you expand the scope of moral considerability to all those who possess sentience and do not restrict it just the capacity to reason.
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@Jack Denmo Salvador Dali pursued both and succeeded in both. But he was very clever about marketing himself. He was an exception to the rule.
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I am interested in cosmology and the philosophy of science, and this led me to astronomy.

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