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http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/31/technology/att_tmobile_antitrust/index.htm?hpt=hp_t1 "The U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T on Wednesday to block its $39 billion merger with T-Mobile." Horrible.

The Rational Life Center is an initiative I have created to promote rational living. It mainly deals with the application of rational thought to the special sciences such as nutrition, health, time management, education. Links to such information can be found on the blog. In addition the blog has a special focus on rational thinking methods, correct thinking habits (psycho-epistemology) and general cognitive enhancement to include memory, intelligence, motivation, attention, and concentration. While almost none of this material can be considered Objectivism (however there are links to philosophy, after all a rational philosophy is integral to a rational way of life), it is consistent with Objectivist principles. "The Rational Life Center is a division of the Temple of the Human Spirit. The Purpose of the RLC is to encourage reason-based living. The Temple of the Human Spirit is an organization founded on the movement began by Ayn Rand in 1943 with the publication of “The Fountainhead.” It is dedicated on the principles exemplified by Howard Roark; rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productivity, purpose, pride and self-esteem: which we perceive to be the highest form of the human spirit. It is the human spirit, the spirit of reason, which has lifted man out of the dark ages and into the heavens. The skyscraper, the airplane, and the space shuttle are all monuments to the awe inspiring power of the human spirit, a power which no mystical belief can rival in its ability to achieve health, happiness and success. The Temple promotes a rational worldview which, in addition to basic philosophy, encompasses ideological positions the fields of the special sciences that we identify as congruent with our fundamental premises."

" It does not for instance prove that time is literally dilating / contracting ( which is nonsense anyway, time is a relational concept, it makes no sense to claim it dilates/contracts). " Except that the data shows that it does. Screw the evidence though! I'll take the fact that you answer my objection to your poorly written paper with hyperbole and ad hom as evidence that it is indefensible. "apparently out of some personal prejudice. " Isnt this a bit disingenuous, especially given http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9173&st=0&p=106734&fromsearch=1&#entry106734 and http://wedontneedgod.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/a-funny-conversation/ ? Once again, the data trumps the blah blah blah.

Fortunately, you do not have the privilege of dictating who can reply to what post. Your conception of space is totally wrong. "In 1905, Albert Einstein published a paper on a special theory of relativity, in which he proposed that space and time be combined into a single construct known as spacetime. In this theory, the speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers—which has the result that two events that appear simultaneous to one particular observer will not be simultaneous to another observer if the observers are moving with respect to one another. Moreover, an observer will measure a moving clock to tick more slowly than one that is stationary with respect to them; and objects are measured to be shortened in the direction that they are moving with respect to the observer. Over the following ten years Einstein worked on a general theory of relativity, which is a theory of how gravity interacts with spacetime. Instead of viewing gravity as a force field acting in spacetime, Einstein suggested that it modifies the geometric structure of spacetime itself.[19] According to the general theory, time goes more slowly at places with lower gravitational potentials and rays of light bend in the presence of a gravitational field. Scientists have studied the behaviour of binary pulsars, confirming the predictions of Einstein's theories and non-Euclidean geometry is usually used to describe spacetime." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space

The Temple of the Human Spirit's 50th Post! A celebration of Life-Affirming values! http://templeofthehumanspirit.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/the-three-graces/

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