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..."to make something with a lot of money is easy. But to make something out of nothing - now
that is really sum thing.." - Baldassare Forestiere

...z e r o / imagine dragons...[ rev. 12:7
Tell her, NO / zombies.......12:8...but they did not prevail
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Still hvnt find what lookn 4 / U 2
No woman, No cry / bob & the wail....
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Saved by zero / the Fixx..) ) .. holding on to words
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So maybe I'll win..) saved by zero...
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to revolutionize energy use?


If one is considering an Electric Vehicle, one might wish to raise the question if the EV could be adaptable to new battery technology.

@ 10:30 - This raises the fascinating prospect, how many nerds with no interest in sports are eagerly anticipating the Tokyo '20 Olympics?

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Do you feel like some people you know enjoy arguing just for the sake of arguing?

Negatives
Here’s what’s not so great about the Argumentative Personality:
Habitual ‘argument stokers’ can drive you crazy, especially when you live or work with them; it’s hard to have a conflict-free conversation with them, even about trivial matters.
Many, if not most, of them have strong narcissistic tendencies; in other words, they are very self-absorbed.
They have little, or hardly any, insight into how their behaviours impact others.
When they come across people whose views differ from their own, they feel threatened, and go on the defensive.
They are chronic blamers: others, or the world, are always at fault.

Positives
There are minimal good points about the Argumentative Personality:
Being consistently at the mercy of an Argumentative Personality can help build motivation to stand up for yourself.
We can learn debate techniques from those who passionately defend their views.

How do I deal with the Argumentative Personality?
It takes lots of energy to defend yourself and maintain self-esteem when you have to deal with a person that sees you as the source of wrongdoing. Here are some suggestions on how to maintain your sanity when working or living with an argumentative person:

In quantum physics one of the ways to describe a particle is by drawing a diagram of a wave. I am no expert in quantum physics, but as I read, I learn new things...at least learn at a level of my understanding...which is not great.

A diagram of a wave is basically a squiggly line, with dips and humps....ups and downs. However, that drawn wave is still just one single line....supposedly with a beginning and an end. It would be difficult to draw a wave line showing infinity. It would take a lot of paper.

Because physicists display a particle in the form of a wave, because I have heard that everything in life is constantly moving...basically vibrations...it might be fair to possibly conclude that our lives we live may also be waves. Sounds are vibrations, which are waves. A particular sound has its own wave. When water is disturbed, it creates its own wave, and light also has a wave. These waves are part of the same thing...sound, water, and light. These are just a few examples of things we are familiar with.

What exactly is a wave? A wave exist because of the ups and downs that make them up. The up has an equal and opposite reaction shortly to follow, with the low. And, vise versa, the low has an equal and opposite reaction with the coming up. This continues on until the wave begins to weaken and fade.

If you have ever seen one of those digital readouts of speech..somebody talking..you will see the voice pattern (wave diagram) starts out flat, until the vibrations of the voice start. The louder the voice, the larger the wave pattern, the quieter, the smaller the wave.

Is it possible, that life itself is a wave? The law of thermodynamics claim that energy cannot just disappear. Us, as living beings, are energy.

Before we are born, one could assume our wave line is flat, as an infant, our wave line begins to take shape. As we begin to age and develop the ability to move and to learn, the movement of our wave line fluctuates accordingly. As we begin to age and become weaker, our wave begins to get smaller...until we die...it returns to flat.

If this is how life is, this could explain karma. Karma is inevitable with a wave representation of life. Like Daniella pointed out with her blog, our past actions effect our future. How so? Because our waves has humps and dips. The humps are the equal opposites of the dips...which are the equal opposites of the humps...continuing up and down....forward with time, creating the wave. Even though it is a wave, it is still the same line, or life in this scenario.

We come into this life as a flat line and we leave as a flat line.....perhaps our death is setting us up for being reborn....and are reborn is setting us up for death.....the big wave?

I have long understood that the maths in calculations were reversible.
When it was implied if not stated out loud that the physics the maths represent was also reversible, my intuition rebelled against this notion but I could never account for a reason it could not be so.
NOW I understand why it cannot be. Entropy, It must increase.
We might reverse Time itself, but Entropy will still have to increase.
Locally entropy may be reversed, but universally entropy will still increase.

Many people who lived in ancient times seized on anything that would bring them hope and comfort to improve their well being in the treacherous world that existed. Religions were created and supplied a deity or group of deities that would have the power to change the world and the life of an individual if he or she prayed to the god and showed devotion.
Church leaders who promoted the religious stories and myths now had the power themselves to dictate the behaviour of their flock.
With Crownology, the human science, only facts are relied on with regard to the existence of the human race. There are no gods or other deities, or spirits to worship.
Discoveries in science bring greater knowledge of our universe and only through the work of scientists can we discover why we are here and how we got here.
While we are here, Crownology is an opportunity for every thinking being to exist whilst following certain behavioural relations with each other.

CARE..........................Show that you care about others and pursue acts that benefit people where possible.
RESEARCH...................Always be interested in scientific research and the discoveries that have had or can have an affect on our lives.
OFFER..........................Offer help and guidance to others when required. The desire to help is the important factor here, even though the act may not be achievable.
WHY............................Always use your ability to think and examine the facts. Question established views. Ask why and demand evidence.
NEW...........................Be particularly interested an any new developments with regard to space exploration and have an open mind to the possibilities of the existence of extra terrestrial life.
CROWN--OLOGY.
If you accept the above, you can live in the world of Crownology and become a member of Crownforce. The world where worship is not required and intelligent thinking exists to help each other gain knowledge.
We have all seen how un predicted events can change the world. Covid pandemic, wars in other countries. They suddenly occur and lives dramatically disrupted. Can you imagine if we were suddenly confronted with alien visitors? Ignore the possibility or be prepared. Crownforce will expect this event and through unity, we can deal with the situation.
Alien intelligence will be aware of our communications and look for people who they consider to have the ability to think and examine the signs left by extra terrestrials who visited civilisations in ancient times. Religions and cults were a distraction and followed by those who did not search for the truth and desired simple answers to life.

Obsolete. We are all obsolete.

China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced

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In very primitive life forms, there are methods of exchange of genetic materials, between sexes, but it hardly resembles s*xual reproduction. But all higher forms, including even many plants, with exceptions, from a genetic viewpoint, resemble the egg and sperm deal seem in humans. So the advantages of this scheme go very far back and are everywhere. Except in many liberals, and other primitive human like organisms.

But, if you want to see shooting stars (i.e. to wish upon),
you may want to look to the north eastern sky tonight.
It is the peak night for the Perseid Meteor Shower viewing, as long as it is not cloudy where you are.
The best viewing time is 2 am until dawn, when you may see up to
100 shooting 'stars' or more per hour.
Even if you can't be awake that early in the morning, you can probably see a few
after midnight, or even a couple after 10 pm.

The Perseid Meteor Shower is the remnants of the Comet Swift-Tuttle.
This comet is the biggest thing that the earth comes close to.
But, it orbits the sun only once every 134 years. The next time will be the year 2126.
However, earth passes through the debris trail every year.
This year should be extra good viewing, because the moon will mostly be dark
(mostly in it's 'new' moon phase) as we pass through the debris trail.

If you don't want to stay up late to see it live and in person, you can see a time lapse filming of 2016's show below;

Get your many wishes ready;