Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "The Guardian" channel.

If only human beings could put as much effort into defeating poverty, hunger and ensuring personal growth...
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While It's very interesting and worthy of future study, providing solace and reducing anxiety for individuals. Surely it would be more productive to tackle the problems in society that cause stress and anxiety, like war, disease, poverty etc. Meditation and breathing techniques can help individuals improve their lives and perceptions but we are leaning towards a global corporatocracy that sees people as cash cows and wastes the planet's resources in the pursuit of wealth and power. I'm not sure making people happy artificially is a boon to the individual or a tool that could be used to manipulate us.
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Good for her, we are heading for catastrophe and this woman has more commitment to resolving the issue than most governments...
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Yes and anti-fascists are fascists, we all know right-whingers have problems understanding basic terms...
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Let me know when investigative journalism comes back, I'll look out for it...
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Doffs cap, tugs forelock, blah blah blah... About time Britain stopped living in a feudal society...
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"The world is in a shambles and the people who are supposed to care don't" Out of the mouths of babes...
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We know diet is important and we also know many ingredients that we eat have been used in medicine for centuries. Over 40% of medicines are derived from nature and many others mimic or enhance these effects. Wellness diets are a matter of taste and each individual decides on the balance between eating to improve their health or eating to the detriment of their health.
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Maybe they enjoy watching as many as 10,000 pensioners die of cold each year?
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White Supremacists are all thick. It's ok to be Sentient.
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@evolassunglasses4673 lol, I'll point out a few things for your consideration. The average Brit's DNA is about 40% German/Anglo Saxon, about 20% Irish/Celtic, about 9% Scandanavian/Viking and other small amounts including Roman/Italian and Norman/French. The Welsh, Scottish and Irish have about 20% less Anglo Saxon and about 20% more Irish/Celt DNA, with Irish having as much as 50%. The Celts actually came from the Iberian peninsular (Spain/Portugal) around 10,000-15,000 years ago according to DNA evidence found in Ireland. Our culture includes Tea and Curries from India, Chinese takeaways, Greek kebabs, Bavarian Beer, Christian ethics from the Middle East thanks to some bloke named Jesus. We had Ska and Two-tone music thanks to the Caribbean/Jamaican influence. Mesopotamian numeracy and currency, Greek Democracy, and several contributions from the Romans including strait roads, hypocausts, irrigation, the aqueduct, sanitation etc. The ship sailed on multiculturalism genetically, culturally and literally centuries ago when we invented boats...
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Campaigners have tried every method open to them to stop Britain from losing around 10,000 pensioners every year to the cold...
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@kingdontrump9182 China have more capitalist billionaires per capita than any other country and are predicted by top economists to be the largest economy by 2028. They are not communists... Your point is also whataboutery...
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@philbarone4603 Agreed, on a personal level. But globally that won't work. Those with the power will simply take advantage. We've lost 65% of global genetic diversity at 1,000 times the rate of extinction. Even in rich countries like the UK, corporate greed increases at a rate proportional to poverty, and food bank usage increases. It's no coincidence. We also have neo-fascism and authoritarian governments on the rise. Not to mention the cyberattacks, industrial accidents, and skirmishes which suggest ww3 has already started...
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Welsh people know what is to have little, they also know what community means. This is how society should work from top to bottom. Humans are social animals, money is a toxic element that adds greed, inequity and logistical problems. Goods require time and effort to produce, nothing more. Trees, bushes and other plants provide free food, all we need to do is plant them and let them multiply.
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We live in a corrupt society that prioritises taxpayer money being given to the rich to buy a new Yacht over helping a 1/3rd of workers who live in poverty. We're headed for a dystopian corporatocracy and a human race lacking any form of sentience and compassion.
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@cup1966wow They've been through every other form of protest and legal action possible in the last few decades, yet we still lose as many as 10,000 pensioners every winter...
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Leave? Do you mean to give up their homes and allow the rainforest to be destroyed? PS 'locals' is enough, no need to add natives...
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George Orwell has the biggest "I told you so" in history. We are living in an Animal Farm in the year 1984...
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@CHRISTSPIRACY.comJESUSwasVegan They've been through every other form of action available, the government aren't interested. Their tactics may not be the best, but they've few other options.
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@garyk1334 I can see a few security issues in that suggestion.
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@ajorngjdonaydbr I'm not insulate Britain, I'm just defending their goals. As I've already said 10,000 elderly will die this winter, they've tried every other form of protest...
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@kevinb6831 Have I told you I'm right-wing intolerant? Sorry, it's a medical condition brought about by knowledge, intellect and decency...
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@raz0rcarich99 Don't bother to read my replies or try to understand my original comment, please just put a generic reply...
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@billusher2265 My initial statement commends the technology as laudable as I myself practise meditation and breathing techniques. But also states the opportunity for abuse of such technology. Yet most commenters seem to lack nuance and try to attack my point as If I'm stating what I believe to be absolutes. As you have twice.
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@evolassunglasses4673 lol sure buddy. Our culture includes Tea and Curries from India, Chinese takeaways, Greek kebabs, Bavarian Beer, Christian ethics from the Middle East thanks to some bloke named Jesus. We had Ska and Two-tone music thanks to the Caribbean/Jamaican influence. Mesopotamian numeracy and currency, Greek Democracy, and several contributions from the Romans including strait roads, hypocausts, irrigation, the aqueduct, sanitation etc. The ship sailed on multiculturalism genetically, culturally and literally centuries ago when we invented boats...
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@kevinb6831 You said "There is no evidence of 'white privilege' in today's society." While contrary to accepted fact it's a right-wing view. Yes, I'm what's labelled an extremist because I realise that finance is a human construct to allow a small minority of people to monopolise the world's 'actual' resources - Humans and the Planet. I believe in equality, freedom, being paid enough to support your family, a safety net in case of illness and that no one should be exploited by the rich...
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@chrismitchell4622 Unfortunately, It's a pity people still don't realise that money is simply a human construct that allows a tiny minority to own and control the vast majority of our actual resources (Land, Water, Human labour)
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@alanhat5252 It sounds great, but in my experience, green parties are centrists and won't tackle the offshore accounts of the rich, the power of the growing corporatocracy or pump money into public services and infrastructure. I'm hard left, but have no party to vote for as Labour are now run by neoliberals funded by corporate lobbyists. The green party doesn't have much of a vote share either, it seems at least in Britain we are stuck with the choice between red or blue neoliberalism. However, I will look into the green party's finances and policies on your request.
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"It's very interesting and worthy of future study, providing solace and reducing anxiety for individuals. Surely it would be more productive to tackle the problems in society that cause stress and anxiety" "I use Wim Hof's breathing techniques and cold showers to improve my inner world as well as meditation." "How many of you are not going to bother reading my words correctly or the numerous replies already provided, in order to argue minutia?" At what point have I said not to use these means to provide stress relief and use these techniques and technology to improve your own state of mind? When did ultrasound become the only means of providing happiness? If productivity was derived from happiness why is it that our greatest philosophers, artists, songwriters, poets etc predominantly share a life of suffering and depression? Do you actually believe change comes from happiness? because history teaches us that change comes from struggle, from recognizing problems and getting angry enough to risk your life to provide a solution. Take the Rebecca Rioters, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Chartists, Scotch Cattle, Wat Tyler and the peasant's revolt, suffragettes and the Anti-Slavery Society as examples of this (British revolutionaries that changed the world for the better). Giving women the power to vote, abolishing slavery, fighting unjust tolls and taxes, removing unjust systems of government. Try learning about fractional reserve banking, global financial hegemony, corporate monopolies, planned obsolescence (making flawed products that have a limited shelf life), geopolitics, global conflict, climate change (loss of 65% of genetic diversity at 1,000 times the rate of natural extinction), environmental sabotage for profit, how the diamond industry hoards diamonds to artificially inflate prices, how the oil industry has known the risks of climate change for a century etc. I could go on but you have already proven a lack of logic and an inability to understand written language...
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@raz0rcarich99 My comments are being filtered/removed. Ask the worth of Michaelangelo, Samuel Johnson, Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Charles Dickens, Tolstoy, Isaac Newton, Tesla. All had depression.
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@billusher2265 While I haven't said otherwise, the phrase 'tortured genius' and similar wasn't coined by me...
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@billusher2265 Have the human race become petty-minded individuals who seek to see the world in black and white with no shades of grey?
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@raz0rcarich99 I've already provided several examples of how seemingly harmless technology can be abused. It was filtered or deleted. We are not talking about mediation per se, but the artificial inducement of mental states using ultrasound. Your pedantry and semantics are noted, well done for proving what a petty individual you are on numerous occasions. I've had a wonderful, enlightening debate, but this wasn't it...
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@squamish4244 Already answered in my comment, not to mention I practice Wim Hof's breathing techniques and meditation myself. "Surely it would be more productive to tackle the problems in society that cause stress and anxiety, like war, disease, poverty etc."
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@kevinb6831 That's what I'd have said if I couldn't think of anything intelligent or witty to type...
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@mrmeow2297 Capitalism has failed and is inherently flawed, so no surprise there...
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