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  • You are saying that Christianity actively opposes the virtues of Christianity, right.

    No. You’re saying that followers of Christianity do not display Christian virtues. I’m saying therefore Christianity is having a negative impact on the spread of Christian virtues and so if your goal is to promote Christian virtues then promoting Christianity is working against your goals.



  • You’ll never guess what the ‘T’ in LGBT stands for…

    You’ll never guess what the ‘L’ in LGBT stands for…

    She is actively seeking to drive a wedge between LGBT communities and the police

    I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion given the article. You seem to be jumping to conclusions.

    as well as trying to divide people in regards to LGBT issues

    Again, I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion about her goals. The fact that she simply has a different opinion to others doesn’t imply a goal of dividing people. Dividing people may be a conseqeunce of her actions but that doesn’t imply it’s her goal.

    She will happily cut off her nose to spite her face, if it means harming trans people.

    Again, this is jumping to conclusions.

    And being part of a community doesn’t make you immune from being against the community. … there’s homophobic/transphobic/biphobic people in the LGBT community

    True but that doesn’t mean any particular person who is critical of one section of the community is necessarily against the whole community, that doesn’t follow.

    there were Jews in Germany who hated Jews and happily supported Nazis

    Firstly wow that took no time at all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin’s_law

    Secondly, this is a false equivalence. Every example you’ve given is of a member of a community being against the whole community but in the case we’re discussing, a member of a community is critical of only part of the community, not the whole community. And critically, it’s a part of the community that they’re not a member of.




  • Paper abstract:

    We propose a novel scenario in which scalar perturbations, which seed the large-scale structure of the universe, are generated without relying on a scalar field (the inflaton). In this framework, inflation is driven by a de Sitter space time, where tensor metric fluctuations (i.e., gravitational waves) naturally arise from quantum vacuum oscillations, and scalar fluctuations are generated via second-order tensor effects. We compute the power spectrum of such scalar fluctuations and show it to be consistent with near scale invariance. We derive the necessary conditions under which scalar perturbations become significant and much larger than the tensor modes, and we identify a natural mechanism to end inflation via a transition to a radiation-dominated phase. Our proposed mechanism could remove the need for a model-dependent scenario: the choice of a scalar field, as the inflaton, to drive inflation.

    https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/vfny-pgc2