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We are all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality. Anil Seth … neuroscientist.
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@jimmyjoe1488 Maybe Albert Einstein was right, when he stated, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
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As an Atheist, I relate to Stephen Hawking’s No Boundary Proposal, where he stated before he died, “I still believe the universe has a beginning in real time, at the big bang. But there’s another kind of time, imaginary time, at right angles to real time, in which the universe has no beginning or end.”—Stephen Hawking Black Holes and Baby Universes.
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@jimmyjoe1488 Those who agree with Einstein, will believe he was right. Those who disagree, will believe he was wrong. That is human nature in a nutshell. I don't know about you, but I relate to the following quote ... ""Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.” ― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow
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I left my religious indoctrination at 70 years of age, because I knew that if a god existed, (because of suffering) I could no longer pretend to worship such a monster, and that if I had the power to create ... suffering would not exist at all. Image a god, with a conscience, planning on creating the following. The Grapple Tree (Harpagophytum procumbens) of South Africa produces a fearsome fruit called the “Devil’s Claw” which has been known to kill a lion. The fruit is covered in fierce hooks, which latch on to passing animals. In trying to shake the fruit off, the animal disperses the seeds but at the same time, the hooks sink deeper into the creature’s flesh. If the animal touches the fruit with its mouth, the fruit will attach itself to the animal’s jaw, inflicting great pain and preventing it from eating. Antelopes are usually the victims. From my perspective, we have two choices. We can either believe that the universe was created by an entity that designed suffering as part of its plan ... or, we can believe (as did Stephen Hawking, before he died) that the universe always existed, and will always exist ... no plan involved. I prefer the second choice.
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@thetrophysystem3697 LOL
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Within theology ... if we were created by a creator, without our permission ... we didn't have any free will. If, on the other hand we evolved naturally, we still didn't have any free will concerning whether or not we were going to be born. After 70 years of being messed with by religion, I became an Atheist. I like to think that that was free will, but maybe I'm wrong. lol
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@jimmyjoe1488 I'm not disagreeing with you.
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@Chillydall02 I agree. I suggest that all we ever have, are "concepts" of reality. I relate to the following, from the book ... The Final Inequality, by L. J. Ludovici. "Morals at any given moment have always been as good, or as bad, as our imaginations credit them, for the morals (from the Latin, mores: customs) means simply customs, and they keep changing all the time in all the corners of the world."
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@dinomush3849 Maybe Albert Einstein was right, when he stated, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
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@thetrophysystem3697 How could you believe it sounds wise, if you also believe it is stupid? lol
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@yahrite1458 Everything we think, is made up crap to somebody who disagrees.
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That there is only male and female stems from biblical interpretation, and from my perception that is archaic nonsense. If we are not transgender, we can't possibly know what a person who is transgender feels. To bully others who are not the same as us, is a very nasty habit, often carried out by people in the name of “God.” People have surgery on all parts of their bodies without others bothering them about "morals." Yet, the moment anyone wants to change his or her sexual organs, as in transgender, many people in religion preach that a god created male and female “only.” If you believe that a god created human bodies as he wanted them to stay, then you better not circumcise the penises of your sons. You better not have breast implants. You better not have growths removed. You better not have any type of cosmetic surgery whatsoever. You better not have treatment for diseases of any sort. After all, "God's" plan should not be messed with, lest he becomes annoyed with the tampering of the perfection he is certain he created. Once a person starts using religion to preach what is moral, and what is immoral, that person can end up in big trouble, not only with others, but also, ultimately ... with one's own conscience. From the book ... The Final Inequality, by L. J. Ludovici. "Morals at any given moment have always been as good, or as bad, as our imaginations credit them, for the morals (from the Latin, mores: customs) means simply customs, and they keep changing all the time in all the corners of the world."
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I believe that both of you suffer from transphobia. We can't know how they feel and how they are, if we are not them. Of course people that don't feel accepted as they are often commit suicide.
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If humans didn't exist, religious stories (mythology) wouldn't exist. If, as a species, humans had evolved with paws, rather than fingers ... we would probably by now have been extinct.
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I'm heterosexual, and I don't have any problem believing that those who are different have a right to be who they are. If adults want to have their bodies operated on, in the belief that they will feel better about sex change operations in their own lives, that is their right. They should never be bullied to try to fit someone's else's idea of that horrible word ... "normal."
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@gherzome Would like me to get into your bubble, where you believe that your perception is the only one that should be allowed?
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@gherzome Then tell us, what IS your opinion on what you perceive is" other people's depravity?
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@chadkline4268 I don't expect to understand currency, nor do I expect others to understand how it all works. I'm just thankful to receive my senior's check every month, because in some countries seniors have to live with their adult offspring, and I want to be independent. I'm thankful that I live in Canada, and I would also be thankful to live in the United States.
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@SuperDZONI96 That word EVIL stems from religion, which insinuates that a devil exists that is leading "only" spiritually weak humans to commit evil deeds. I suggest the terminology should be changed to "emotionally disturbed," and that term (without exception) would include all humans ... which would not only be fair ... but would also be honest.
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Ever since the men of ancient times coined the word "evil," people have been pointing at each other as BEING evil ... killing each other as being heretics, infidels, blasphemers, sinners against a creator. Such ignorance is not bliss. It's only natural that humans would want to believe that only others are responsible for all the problems on planet earth, but it's time we grow up and realize that we are all responsible for the mess.
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@WSmith_1984 Canadian Quotations, edited by John Robert Colombo … Published 2006 Violence A man is more than the worst thing he has ever done. Sentence from the seven-page, handwritten suicide note left by Ralph Hadley, the postal worker who stalked and then murdered his estranged wife and himself, sparing their 11-month-old son, 20 June 2000, Pickering Ont., in Renee Huang, “Fatal Attractions” The Globe and Mail, 23 June 2000.
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@thetrophysystem3697 Maybe Albert Einstein was right, when he stated, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
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@thetrophysystem3697 The poems I wrote at any time in my life, fit my systems of belief at those times in my life.
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Maybe Albert Einstein was right, when he stated, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
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From the book “God’s Bullies,” by Perry Deanne Young. ... That the religious were so concerned about other people’s drinking habits and sex lives said much more about them and their own minds than it did about those they regarded as sinners. In the name of Jesus and God, they had perpetrated all kinds of little cruelties on others and had meanwhile fooled themselves into thinking they could do no wrong because they were always carrying out God’s will.
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From my perspective, we have two choices. We can either believe that the universe was created by an entity that designed suffering as part of its plan ... or, we can believe (as did Stephen Hawking, before he died) that the universe always existed, and will always exist ... no plan involved. I prefer the second choice.
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From the book … The Seven Mysteries of Life. Guy Murchie ... The most striking example of a well-adjusted human hermaphrodite I’ve heard of is the individual reported in Lisbon in 1807 as having normal sperm-producing testicles and “some beard on the chin” but otherwise the appearance of a slim-hipped, attractive girl with graceful figure, adequate bosom and charmingly feminine voice, not to overlook the usual female organs which functioned well enough that she-he had already been pregnant twice between presumed affairs in which he-she may in turn have impregnated others.
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@BlazRa Symbolic, or not, if they do a DNA test, you will still have to pay child support if you make children, and that can run into huge expense.
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@blackperson4433 Okay. If you don't want a civil discussion, I will ignore your posts.
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The ancient books labeled as holy information from a god or gods stated that women were supposed to be subservient to men. Had women compiled the stories in those books, you can safely bet your last dollar that the story would have been that a goddess created men to be subservient to women.
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I suggest that we are all depraved, and that way, we can just look in the mirror to see in ourselves what we see in others.
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If (for instance) children were locked in a room from birth, and not taught any language, they would create their own language among each other. Without religious teachers to persuade them that a soul, and a spirit, and a judge-mental god, and an afterlife exists, they would live and die as do other animals ... plain, and simple. I prefer to believe as did Stephen Hawking, before he died, that the universe always existed, no creator involved.
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Even had Jesus lived as a real person, rather than a character in a book, he never would have started a religion foreign to Judaism ... but rather, he would have been faithful only to Judaism. That is just common sense. Jews in the early days were polytheists (worshiping many gods.) Some Jews were certain that if they could start a monotheistic religion, all people of earth would have to come to them to be saved, as they preached that they were the one God's chosen few. It didn't work of course, as monotheism invited competition, and along came the first Gnostic Christians (Catholics being among them) who begged to differ with the Jews. Then along came the Muslims ... who begged to differ with the Jews and the early Gnostic Christians. Then along came the Protestants ... who begged to differ with the Jews, the Catholics, and the Muslims ... making the Abrahamic religions a total mess, as was and is all religious mythology ... created by men.
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Imagine how a little child feels, when the parents tell the child that the child has mental illness, suggesting that the parents are mentally well, when often the parents are a mess, that in turn, mess up the child by the behavior of the parents. I prefer the story, "With good reason, we are all mentally ill," and I relate to the following ... The Reason for Almost All Mental Illnesses - Prof. Jordan Peterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_zpi2hmI4
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Well ... I wonder if this teacher learned anything about that term IQ? From the book Uncle John’s Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader by Bathroom Reader’s Institute … UNCLE JOHN’S “CREATIVE TEACHING AWARDS If schools handed out degrees for dumb, these teachers would have earned a Ph.D. SUBJECT: Motivational Speaking WINNER: Steven Rivers, a 7th-grade teacher in New York State CREATIVE APPROACH: Mr. Rivers, a teacher for more than 30 years, routinely called his seventh graders “dumb” and “retards” when they misbehaved or answered questions incorrectly, and repeatedly singled out one particular student as a “failure” who “would never do anything in life.” But why stop at words? In one incident he grabbed a student by the neck for giving the wrong answer to a math question. REACTION: After a 17-month investigation, state officials found Rivers guilty of “conduct unbecoming a teacher, administering corporal punishment, and insubordination.” He was put on unpaid leave for half a year. UPDATE: The local school board appealed the state’s decision—They wanted River’s fired. But at last report, he was planning to return to the classroom. “I’m looking forward to being back on the job,” he told reporters.
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Intelligent??? I suggest that as animals, we are the most arrogant species that ever lived, and that, if, by chance, we had evolved with paws, rather than fingers, we would by now, as a species, be extinct.
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The words "enlightenment" and "salvation" suggests that most souls are still in the dark, suffering, and lacking in "spiritual knowledge" ... while the knowledge-able few are out in front ... special
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Concerning the subject of transgender, it's unfortunate that it's up to parents what they do to alter the physical makeup of their children's bodies. or what they teach their children is moral, compared to immoral, because, not knowing what else to do, (just as do psychologists and psychiatrists, who are parents), parents are inclined to make notoriously ridiculous decisions on behalf of their children. If the child is determined to have a sex-change operation, wouldn’t it be best to tell the child to be patient until becoming an adult, and then make the decision? Because by then, the adult will have to live with the adult’s “own” decision. After all, children are subject to peer pressure, and other than what the child says, there isn't any way of really knowing what that child is having for an experience, because of being young and impressionable, the child may not even know.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on death and near death experiences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5qEBC7ZzVQ
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I am inclined to believe Stephen Hawking’s No Boundary Proposal, which does away with the idea that the universe was created, and where he stated before he died, “I still believe the universe has a beginning in real time, at the big bang. But there’s another kind of time, imaginary time, at right angles to real time, in which the universe has no beginning or end.”—Stephen Hawking Black Holes and Baby Universes.
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I suggest that we have two choices. We can either believe that the universe was created by an entity that designed suffering as part of its plan ... or, we can believe (as did Stephen Hawking,
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After much physical and emotional suffering, when my daughter committed suicide, I was at peace with the idea that she would never have to suffer again. You might think that I was a wicked atheist, but in fact at the time, I was very religious, saturated with the idea that a Divine God existed, that in the afterlife, would never choose to harm a soul. Years later, at age 70, I became an Atheist, and for the last 11 years I still believe there isn't any suffering in an afterlife ... because I no longer believe in an afterlife. I am now inclined to believe Stephen Hawking’s No Boundary Proposal, which does away with the idea that the universe was created, and where he stated before he died, “I still believe the universe has a beginning in real time, at the big bang. But there’s another kind of time, imaginary time, at right angles to real time, in which the universe has no beginning or end.”—Stephen Hawking Black Holes and Baby Universes.
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Let's shorten Jordan's speech, and state that because humans play favorites ... life is just not fair. "I have never seen so many words chasing one idea in such a way that nobody knows what the idea was." John Diefenbaker
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There hasn't been any book that promotes more hate speech than the bible. Sodomites [newer word homosexuals] being put to death by order of a god, is just one such use of biblical words. There are Protestant ministers preaching [in this era] that the government should put homosexuals to death, and yet that hate speech is allowed under the freedom of religion clause. What a shame. Here is this Protestant preacher … live … stating that it’s a god that wants homosexuals put to death … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSM_kxpObc
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I'm heterosexual and comfortable in my body. That doesn't mean that others feel the same about their bodies. If as adults they feel that they would be happier to change their sexual organs, that is their right, but from my perspective, they still won't fit anywhere in a society that believes there is only male and female. After all ... who is going to marry them, knowing that they changed their sexual organs? Who is going to be comfortable even having sex with them, knowing they changed their sexual organs from one gender to the opposite gender? In a world where so many people were taught "and believe" that a god created male and female ONLY ... it is almost impossible for those who are different to be accepted as "normal" ... or ... "moral." Following is but one example ... Note the religious input in the following article from Human Life International, about those who say they want to transition back to their original state, before they had their transgender operations … “Regardless of the numbers, regret is real—and the numbers don’t really matter to those affected by a decision that they now regret and who feel misled by either doctors or families. What they know is that they are hurting. And as stewards of our brothers and sisters in Christ, it is our job to treat them with empathy, understanding, and compassion. It is our job to help them see the inherent dignity in themselves. And in both love and charity, it is our job to assist them as they seek help in moving forward.”
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I hope that people will see the "real" Jordan, and comprehend that it is those of his mentality that made and make life miserable for those of the LGBTQ community. Following are Jordan’s nefarious words (verbatim) “Gender identity and gender expression are not valid ideas. They are not true. There is no evidence for it. I don’t know what the options are, if you don’t identify as a man or a woman. There is an idea that there’s a gender section. I think that is an ill-informed opinion. Gender identity and sexual orientation are the same thing. I don’t believe these people, these terms, stand for good things. I think these people use these terms as a pretense that they stand for good things; as a pretense for them to carry on their nefarious activities.” I am heterosexual, and I say "Shame on you Jordan."
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@successandlifestyle There isn't any such thing in the countries where we live, as forcing others to use words they don't want to say. If that were true, Jordan Peterson would now be in prison, on his hunger strike. What a ridiculous man.
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"I WON'T DO IT," said Jordan. What a difference in attitude compared to the following "amiable" response. From the book A Few Words About Words … author Joe Diorio FALLING FLAT ON PRONOUNS First, please know that there is nothing new about using the plural pronoun “they” for singular usage. Emily Dickinson was doing it over 100 years ago. Second, identifying one’s personal pronouns is not some trendy idea. I participated in seminars on this topic whilst working at Vanderbilt University, where I learned this is a way to show respect toward others. Channeling my inner Ask Abby, it is perfectly acceptable when meeting someone to not only say what your preferred pronouns are, but to ask the individual what theirs are as well.
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@Zripas "I WON'T DO IT," said Jordan, when asked to show respect for those who are transgender. What a difference in attitude compared to the following "amiable" response. From the book A Few Words About Words … author Joe Diorio FALLING FLAT ON PRONOUNS How many times do I have to say it? Language continuously evolves. This topic is not exactly one for the language evolved group. There are those who would argue that the pronoun “they” is plural. Yet the use of “they” as singular, especially for non-binary individuals, is largely accepted today. Language evolves and absorbs over time. Merriam-Webster notes that use of the word “they” as a singular pronoun has been going on since at least the year 1300. So “they” as a singular pronoun evolved. Some of us have not, I guess. I participated in seminars on this topic whilst working at Vanderbilt University, where I learned this is a way to show respect toward others.
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@Zripas I was born heterosexual. However, had I been born transgender … rather than Jordan Peterson … I would have been so fortunate to have had Neil deGrasse Tyson for a father. From the book Starry Messenger … Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization … author Neil deGrasse Tyson … As you might suspect among branches of scientific inquiry, those most susceptible to human bias are fields that study and judge the appearance, conduct, and habits of other humans. Topping the list, find psychology, sociology, and especially anthropology. If they are to establish and preserve their integrity, these fields must engage extra levels of peer review and disclosure, with the express purpose of spotting bias. One day, we may discover or otherwise affirm no discrete categories at all, as the multidimensional gender universe unfolds along a continuum, like the colors contained in sunlight. This will significantly dilute the power of homophobic and transphobic bigots to declare that they are somehow separate and distinct from other members of their own species. Many people, who defend our cherished freedoms as citizens of the US, will argue against mandated masks, helmet laws, gun laws, seatbelts, and anything else that constricts a person from living the way they want. Odd that many of these same people will maintain or seek laws to restrict another person’s free expression of their gender identity.
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@Zripas From the book … When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress … Author … Gabor Maté M.D. Studies in psychology—an art trying desperately to dress itself up in pure science—often find only what the particular researchers have the eyes to see.
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@Zripas Jordan is certain he is an example of being a good and a very moral and "Godly" human being. His religion ... went to his "head." He is CRUEL to those who are transgender. Religion is not based on the concept of the Golden Rule. The basis of religion, is "I believe that your soul is going to suffer for eternity and mine is going to be rewarded with bliss for eternity" … or … "Your soul is going to have to reincarnate many more times into new bodies on earth before it can be anywhere near as enlightened as is my soul." Religion has very selfish AIMS. The Golden Rule is based on treating others as you want to be treated. Religion never did ... and does not accomplish that mission.
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@Zripas Do you have the same attitude toward the word "gay" ... which used to mean happy? From the book A Few Words About Words … author Joe Diorio How many times do I have to say it? Language continuously evolves. This topic is not exactly one for the language evolved group. There are those who would argue that the pronoun “they” is plural. Yet the use of “they” as singular, especially for non-binary individuals, is largely accepted today. Language evolves and absorbs over time. Merriam-Webster notes that use of the word “they” as a singular pronoun has been going on since at least the year 1300. So “they” as a singular pronoun evolved. Some of us have not, I guess.
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@Zripas Words often change meanings. The fact that people have a problem with the word "they" changing meanings ... suggests (at least to me) that the real problem is that they are anti-transgender ... just as people that had and have problems with the word "gay" meaning "homosexual" were and maybe still are ... anti-homosexual. So narrow is his perspective ... Jordan doesn't even believe that it's possible for people to BE transgender.
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@Zripas Are you against how this word changed it's meaning? Isn’t it ironic that black men coined the word “Woke,” and now white men use it “liberally” as an insult against the “leftists?” WOKE … The phrase was uttered in a recording by Lead Belly and later by Erykah Badu. Following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, the phrase was popularized by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists seeking to raise awareness about police shootings of African Americans. After seeing use on Black Twitter, the term woke became an Internet meme and was increasingly used by white people, often to signal their support for BLM, which some commentators have criticized as cultural appropriation.
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People using psychedelics, that, in turn, go on trips without leaving the farm, often become overly excited about what they are certain is a "spiritual" reality. “We are all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.” Anil Seth … neuroscientist.
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We hang labels on each other. Ain't it fun though?
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@carlton4129 Humans are tribal animals. People don't want to find the good in both parties ... so, picking sides in the squabble is the result. If those in both parties thought they were going to be attacked (for instance) by Russia ... both parties would pull together, because there would be an enemy in common on which to focus all the anger.
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All enjoyable habits are difficult to break. The food habit is especially difficult, because as one woman who was obese stated before she died, "People don't have to have alcohol, or other drugs in the house in order to live, but we always have to have food around, and for those of us that are addicted, the temptation is 'always' there."
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The organization known as The Clergy Project is based on ex-members of the clergy ... that for years had been non-believers, while staying in the pulpit ... preaching as though they still believed. The reason they stayed so long ... is if they admitted that they no longer believed in the existence of a creator, they would lose everything ... their families ... their "friends" ... their financial ability to survive ... everything. In the past, many (no longer believing) members of the clergy ended their lives, because they were caught in a mental trap … thinking they were alone in their confusion of why what they were preaching no longer made any sense to them. There wasn’t anybody they felt they could talk to about their confusion and feelings of utter hopelessness. The Clergy Project ... helps those men and women … by showing them that there IS hope for new lives … free of all religious myths. Following is an old interview. Since the time of the interview, there are many new non-believing members of clergy that joined “The Clergy Project.” If you listen to the following interview, and if you so choose, you might learn to feel compassion for these ex-members of clergy. Richard Dawkins and Michael Aus discuss The Clergy Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZTbD6Fno4
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From the fascinating book ... Bill Bryson … author of … A Short History of Everything ... comes the following ... It may be that our universe is merely part of many larger universes, some in different dimensions, and that Big Bangs are going on all the time all over the place. Or it may be that space and time had some other forms altogether before the Big Bang—forms too alien for us to imagine—and that the Big Bang represents some sort of transition phase, where the universe went from a form we can’t understand to one we almost can. “These are very close to religious questions,” Dr. Andrei Linde, a cosmologist at Stanford, told the New York Times in 2001.
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We all lie, so get over it. If we were running a government, people would be figuratively throwing rocks at us, and we wouldn't do a bit better than those who are in power.
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To someone that believes self's religion is truth ... all other religions are perceived as being cults.
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That word EVIL stems from religion, which insinuates that a devil exists that is leading "only" spiritually weak humans to commit evil deeds. I suggest the terminology should be changed to "emotionally disturbed," and that term (without exception) would include all humans ... which would not only be fair ... but would also be honest.
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@MaryJane-pt4sn Religious mental health issues (such as judging that a god exists that created only male and female) can only be treated by leaving religion behind. This preacher needs to be set free from his hateful biblical addiction, but I suggest that he's having way too much fun believing that he is serving a god. Protestant preacher wants the government to put homosexuals to death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSM_kxpObc
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@MaryJane-pt4sn I suggest that it is best for your ego, to realize that you are not the first one to pride your self that you and “God” have the same way of “thinking.” From the book … 40 YEARS OF COUNTRY: LIFE OF A RURAL DOCTOR IN NORTHERN SASKATCHEWAN … author … Dr Mervin L Johnson During this time, Blanche and I found out from the Alliance Church Board that they did not want Blanche to teach in church any longer. She was an excellent teacher and really was being led by God, but they were afraid of what they’re hearing. I wrote in my diary, why is the Board destroying the work in this church? God do something I pleaded. Not for our sake but for Yours.
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@MaryJane-pt4sn The ugly history of religion proves that those who in turn were certain they had been blessed with truth from a god … were a constant danger to others. From the book … History of Religious Ideas, by Mircea Eliade. Popular piety and the risks of devotion. In 1390, Marguerite Poret was burned in Paris, the first person identified as belonging to the movement of the brothers and sisters of the Free Spirit.
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@MaryJane-pt4sn Medical scientists that study the brain, learn that the brain is very unpredictable. From the book … THE TALE OF THE DUELING NEUROSURGEONS … author … SAM KEAN … Temporal lobe lesions can flip people’s sexual orientations from gay to straight (or vice versa) or redirect their sexual appetites toward inappropriate things: common side effects of Kluver-Bucy include zoophilia, coprophilia, pedophilia, and – philias so idiosyncratic they don’t have names.
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"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when it’s components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Stephen Hawking
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How frustrating and depressing, for women to be told that their only purpose for life is looking after children, and being good homemakers for their husbands, who are the Lords and Masters of their homes, and who own their wives as being their own property! Good GRIEF! Those ridiculous stories all stemmed from religion.
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@didafm Being a scribe, was a career. It was religious scribes that wrote in their books that they labeled as being holy, that according to "God ALL MIGHTY" women were the property of men, and must be subservient "to" the men. Scribes were paid big money to write about messages that the gods were giving to them, so of course, for each individual scribe to keep writing, was the greatest of temptations. Those many conflicting stories, is why, rather than uniting devotees, the stories divide devotees into right-fighting groups.
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@didafm Some people are suited to staying at home and raising children, and some don't even want to be parents.
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There is always more to learn … From the book … EPIGENETICS … HOW ENVIRONMENT SHAPES OUR GENES … author … RICHARD C. FRANCIS. Here’s a puzzle, consider the case of two brothers, when each had reached the age of twenty. One of them—call him Al—was a typical male. His brother, Bo, however, was not at all typical of young males at that age. Bo looked more like a pre-adolescent male: poorly developed muscles, absolutely no facial hair, and a voice to match. Their mother was understandably worried about Bo, and soon after his twentieth birthday finally convinced him to see a doctor. Once Bo removed his clothes, the doctor immediately noticed that something was missing—his genitals. A closer inspection revealed that he did in fact have genitals but nothing like those you would expect of a twenty-year-old male. They seemed vestigial. The doctor’s diagnosis was Kallman syndrome, a disorder of sexual development. What’s puzzling is this: Al and Bo are identical twins, nature’s clones. So what happened to Bo? And why didn’t it happen to Al? It is Possible but highly unlikely that Bo’s DNA mutated after the fertilized egg split, in which case the twins would be genetically different. It is much more likely that the differences in Al and Bo are epigenetic in nature. The term epigenetic refers to long-term alterations of DNA that don’t involve changes in the DNA sequence itself.
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We have a choice about what we believe ... don't we ... and isn't that free will?
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It seems that you put your faith in the existence of a god that you believe is a very cruel dictator. That reminds me of this quote ... “I act as if God exists, and I’m terrified he might.” ~ Jordan Peterson
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Those of you who wanted Donald Trump to overthrow the government, wanted to be the ones to also overthrow the government, so that you could dictate to others the new set of rules. Don't deny it ... because that is what you were, and are, thinking. You liked his style, simply because that would be your style, if only you had the power.
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@DanielTorie For people whose sights are set on a losing party, there isn't any such thing as a fair and transparent election. You will always be certain that you were cheated. It was, and is, rather see-through however, that Donald Trump and his followers, didn't think any cheating occurred in the States where he won the majority of the votes.
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Being that money talks, does that mean that everyone who is extremely wealthy is depraved?
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We are all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality. Anil Seth … neuroscientist.
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I would like to ask Neil if he believes that the multiverse (universe) was created by a god ... or whether he believes as did Stephen Hawking (before he died) that the multiverse) universe always existed. I believe that that question would prove whether or not he believes in the existence of a god. If he doesn't, then he is an Atheist.
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"In 1985, I attended a conference on cosmology at the Vatican in Rome. The gathering of scientists had an audience with Pope John Paul II. He told us that it was okay to study the workings of the universe, but we should not ask questions about its origin, for that was the work of God." Stephen Hawking. I suggest that only Stephen Hawking's theory, that the universe in one form or another always existed, could result in creationists concluding that their own systems of belief just might be wrong. If Stephen was correct, then the universe never was created, and that would mean that the suffering of all forms of life is natural, as in "survival of the fittest."
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Thanks for honoring freedom of speech. I agree with the words in the podcast “Full of Rage” by Gabor Maté Thoughts On Jordan Peterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSWPHifYGE
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Those of you who wanted Donald Trump to overthrow the government, wanted to be the ones to also overthrow the government, so that you could dictate to others the new set of rules. Don't deny it ... because that is what you were, and are, thinking. You liked his style, simply because that would be your style, if only you had the power.
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@gherzome We all assume things, and we are all morons. Doesn't being part of the world's people make you feel loved?
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@gherzome And of course you think that I am depraved for not perceiving others as being depraved, as do you. Am I right about that?
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@gherzome I don't know about you, but I relate to these following short comments. ... The reason for Almost All Mental Illnesses - Prof. Jordan Peterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_zpi2hmI4
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@anathema2me4EVR "Who" spent 200 years together?
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@pearlfeather9326 200 years together, doing what? What is your point?
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@pearlfeather9326 Read "what book?"
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@pearlfeather9326 I suggest that we are all depraved, and that way, we can just look in the mirror to see in ourselves what we see in others.
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@pearlfeather9326 Absolutely not "what?" Can you please write a full sentence, or paragraph, explaining what you mean?
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@peggyfranzen6159 What are the highlights of the book, from your perspective.
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@chadkline4268 What about Frederic Basiat: The Law? Did he have answers about how to make human nature change, including his own human nature of selfishness?
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@chadkline4268 Those who think they have answers to make a better society, are the ones that don't recognize that we are all as greedy and manipulative as the next person, and given half a chance, would be the ones in power, taking more than our share of the wealth. We can all tell good stories ... in a book.
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@chadkline4268 I don't have any interest in people's words that express if they were in positions of power, how they would behave. From my perspective, those in power are as self-centered as those who don't have any power. We are all cut from the same cloth, and I don't mean that to be associated with the nonsensical idea that we were created.
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@chadkline4268 Any person that thinks that he or she can run a government that would please unruly, constantly complaining citizens, to the satisfaction of the citizens, is fooling his or her self. Citizens most often focus on what they don't have, rather than what they do have, and that is because self-centered human nature always wants more.
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@chadkline4268 And I suggest that you keep in mind that if someone gave us each a million dollars, and said, "You can have it, under the condition that you don't ask where the money came from," that neither one of us would care to ask. I am fond of dirty money, because I don't believe that there is such a thing as clean money. Even in the printing of the money, there is a human will to manipulate, and once the money touches human hands, it is downhill from there. As citizens we're just not nice animals, so I suggest that we own that fact, and stop pointing at others as being the problem.
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After much physical and emotional suffering, when my daughter committed suicide, I was at peace with the idea that she would never have to suffer again. You might think that I was a wicked atheist, but in fact at the time, I was very religious, saturated with the idea that a Divine God existed, that in the afterlife, would never choose to harm a soul. Years later, at age 70, I became an Atheist, and for the last 11 years I still believe there isn't any suffering in an afterlife ... because I no longer believe in an afterlife. I am now inclined to believe Stephen Hawking’s No Boundary Proposal, which does away with the idea that the universe was created, and where he stated before he died, “I still believe the universe has a beginning in real time, at the big bang. But there’s another kind of time, imaginary time, at right angles to real time, in which the universe has no beginning or end.”—Stephen Hawking Black Holes and Baby Universes.
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From the fascinating book “THE BODY, A GUIDE FOR OCCUPANTS” by the author BILL BRYSON, which was published in 2019, comes the following … “Incidentally, brain death turned out to be not as straightforward as originally thought. Some peripheral parts of the brain, we now know, may live on after all the rest has grown still.”
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"Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.” ― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow
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Those of you who wanted Donald Trump to overthrow the government, wanted to be the ones to also overthrow the government, so that you could dictate to others the new set of rules. Don't deny it ... because that is what you were, and are, thinking. You liked his style, simply because that would be your style, if only you had the power.
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@SuperDZONI96 A messy government is where there is more than one party allowed. The politicians police each other, and bicker back and forth to try to win elections. What a wonderful system. In a dictatorship, there is one man that rules, and you follow his "advise," or meet a swift end to your lives. Do not KNOCK the government in the United States. It is good, BECAUSE it is messy. Of course it's not perfect. The politicians have to try to appease a whole lot of spoiled people, who all want only their own personal laws to dictate the lives of others. I live in Canada, and no matter which party is in power, I am thankful every day for the treatment I receive, and by the way ... I live in a trailer, in a trailer park. When you want too much, you might end up with someone in power such as Donald Trump, who, with his slick tongue will promise you anything ... just to get your votes ... and then WATCH OUT.
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@SuperDZONI96 Your problem is, you are spoiled rotten and don't realize that that is the case. In some countries if you talked about the government the way you do in this post, you would be dead before nightfall. And if you were able to be a dictator of a government, I suggest that most people would be shot dead by orders from you ... because you are just that full of hate towards people in general.
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@SuperDZONI96 The fact is, you are not at the border, desperately trying to enter the United States, because the government you left behind was trying to kill you. That is how I know you are spoiled rotten.
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@SuperDZONI96 And people that are starving to death, are not on social media, because they can't afford food, much less a computer, and a roof over their heads.
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One man that escaped dire poverty in Hungary, was not amused, when his wife started to complain over some trivial matter. She shut right up, when he said, "What??? Are you starving?
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@SuperDZONI96 I don't know about others, but I relate to the following short comments. ... The reason for Almost All Mental Illnesses - Prof. Jordan Peterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_zpi2hmI4
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@WSmith_1984 Canadian Quotations, edited by John Robert Colombo … Published 2006 Violence A man is more than the worst thing he has ever done. Sentence from the seven-page, handwritten suicide note left by Ralph Hadley, the postal worker who stalked and then murdered his estranged wife and himself, sparing their 11-month-old son, 20 June 2000, Pickering Ont., in Renee Huang, “Fatal Attractions” The Globe and Mail, 23 June 2000.
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@anarchorepublican5954 Canadian Quotations, edited by John Robert Colombo … Published 2006 Violence A man is more than the worst thing he has ever done. Sentence from the seven-page, handwritten suicide note left by Ralph Hadley, the postal worker who stalked and then murdered his estranged wife and himself, sparing their 11-month-old son, 20 June 2000, Pickering Ont., in Renee Huang, “Fatal Attractions” The Globe and Mail, 23 June 2000.
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@dominiccooper2753 lol The study of words is fascinating. For instance, the etymology of the word “Amen.” From the book “Smith’s Bible Dictionary. Amon, or Amen (the mysterious), an Egyptian divinity, whose name occurs in that of No-amon. Nah 3:8. Amen was one of the eight gods of the first order, and chief of the triad of Thebes. He was worshipped at that city as Amen-Ra, or “Amen the Sun.”
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@the_abandoned_monastery7218 Christians do not own the word "Amen." The word Amen was stolen from earlier cultures, and twisted to take on a different meaning. Literary sources include the Pyramid texts, temple hymns and the Egytian Book of the Dead. This source includes a hymn from at least 2000 BCE or later that begins “Amen, amen which art in heaven...” According to Ancient Egyptian religious history, Amen is a sun God, lord of the sky and king of the Egyptian world.
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White supremacists were satisfied that (Negroes) were dumb ... yet, when the black race was able to study the white man's ways ... those black men and women became judges and lawyers and doctors, et cetera, and beat many of the white supremacists at their own game of supposed superior intellects. I Q tests are fraudulent information, and should never be trusted, and neither should the people be trusted who promote those scams.
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@beverlyhurd8556 Are you a white supremacist member of MENSA? What you post certainly seems that way.
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@beverlyhurd8556 No ... that is not what I suggested. My point was that back in the day, white supremacist Christians didn't ALLOW the black race to read or write, and that is when in that same era, they were certain that all people with black or dark skin were born DUMB. However ... once those people with dark skin were allowed to read and write, they proved that they were every bit as intelligent as the people with white skin. Now, do you understand what I meant?
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@beverlyhurd8556 From the book … Forest G. Wood is the author of “The Arrogance of Faith.” Despite his best intentions, Jones, like virtually every southern clergyman, never doubted the innate inferiority of the black race.
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@beverlyhurd8556 It was ... and still is... common for church people to blame their own nasty behavior on the will of a god. Forest G. Wood is the author of “The Arrogance of Faith.” Like supporters of slavery in other denominations, southern Methodists argued that slavery was approved by God and that its status was a government concern, not an ecclesiastical one. The church must be neutral in such matters.
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@beverlyhurd8556 Are you excusing the fact that Christians said that it was a god that ordained slavery? From the book … Forest G. Wood is the author of “The Arrogance of Faith.” … The Catholic slaveholder could always argue that he was only doing what his church allowed. An organization that claims ultimate power must also accept ultimate responsibility. But like their Protestant counterparts, Catholic slaveholders were true to their faith only so long as such profession did not jeopardize their economic wellbeing.
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@beverlyhurd8556 You continually twist my words to suit your own agenda. Of course slavery occurred all over the world among all races and religions, and in many cases ... it is ongoing.. My point was, that when the black race was allowed by white Christian supremacist to be able to read and write ... the blacks proved that they were every bit as intelligent as the whites. In other words IQ was proven wrong. Color of skin had nothing in common with that word "intelligence. That was my point.
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@beverlyhurd8556 WOW! You really ARE a white supremacist. I am done posting to you.
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Erik Everhard Only people who are arrogant would create such a term as "intelligence quotient"... as they would comprehend that the opposite reference to that term, would be "lack of intelligence."
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Erik Everhard When the Catholic physician, John Rock created the birth control pill ... the pope must have thought that John was not only extremely dumb ... but that (to go against 'GOD's will) John was pure evil. From the book … ABORTION IS NOT A SIN ... author ... Kent B. Welton Ironically, it was Dr. John Rock, a Roman Catholic physician, who developed the birth control pill. He was courageous enough to pursue the dictates of his conscience rather than the precepts of his Church - which he came to know to be dangerous and dismal. As a result, he sought to change the world for the better. Rock attributes his independent streak to a buggy ride he took in 1904 as a young lad of fourteen. A Roman Catholic priest of unusual independence took him along on a weekly visit to a poor farm. The clergyman then advised young Rock to "always stick to his conscience... never let anyone else keep it for you... and I mean anyone else." Given such inspiration, his independence never flagged, even after publication his book on contraception, The Time has Come, resulted in editorial denunciations from the Pilot, Boston's Archdiocesan paper, which cautioned him to "watch his step or else." It is a scandal that so many dissidents in the Church have had exactly these, mafia-like, warnings, or worse, after exercising their independence of thought - particularly in a public forum where they might embarrass the Church. These events only illustrate intolerance is a characteristic of true believers, and a sorry characteristic of this Church thru the centuries.
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@TheAlexratiu There is no way that you can prove that his story was based on truth either. He might have been stringing you along.
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Helga Gretten How can you be certain that you are not hallucinating?
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@WsprWndrr Religious hallucinations are all geared by what people are taught before they have the hallucinations. For instance, a Catholic nun will think she sees other nuns and Jesus, while a Hindu might believe she sees Krishna, and a Buddhist might think he sees Buddha. It's much the same as looking in a mirror and seeing one's own reflection.
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@pound4p Myths are all gibberish, when believed as being based on literal truth.
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Lewis Bey We can imagine anything to be real, whether or not it is real. Imagination, is a driving force.
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@yahrite1458 If we were raised by non-human animals, such as dogs, with no human input whatsoever, what do you think we would imagine as being our "reality?"
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@yahrite1458 My favorite quotes … “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.” Tom Peters “Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.” ― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow
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@manz7860 What about bleeding heart conservatives? lol My favorite quotes … “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.” Tom Peters “Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.” ― Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow
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@yahrite1458 Do you believe that your thoughts are straight?
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@yahrite1458 If you think that saying "I don't know," is a good idea, then that should be the end of your opinions.
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Lewis Bey OH!
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@yahrite1458 What about man-created quotes about religion. Are you up for that?
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@myword787 It was not my quote. Don't you think that Anil Seth's quote is "cool?"
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To believe that self's soul can escape the treadmill of reincarnation, self has to believe that self's soul is completely enlightened ... as in perfected ... which from my perspective means, that self is tripped out on self's own ego. By the way, (within theology) where do devotees believe that enlightened souls go, once the souls escape the treadmill of reincarnation?
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I don't know about you, but I relate to the following ... The Reason for Almost All Mental Illnesses - Prof. Jordan Peterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_zpi2hmI4
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If a scientist is asked the question, “Do you believe that the universe was created,” and the scientist answers, “Yes,” that is not science. That is religion.
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@yourlordandsaviouryeesusbe2998 I suggest that we have two choices. We can either believe that a creator created a plan where suffering exists in all forms of life ... or ... we can believe that suffering is natural, because the universe always existed. I choose the second way of believing.
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Religious scribes earned, and still do earn their material living by writing words. Had those books been labeled as tabloids rather than HOLY BOOKS, they still would have been best sellers. From the book … CARL SAGAN … THE DEMON HAUNTED WORLD … SCIENCE AS A CANDLE IN THE DARK. Sal Ivone, the managing editor of Weekly World News, discussing the stories he publishes, says “For all I know, they could be the product of active imaginations. But because we’re a tabloid, we don’t have to question ourselves out of a story.” Skepticism doesn’t sell newspapers. Writers who have defected from the tabloids describe “creative” session in which writer and editors dream up stories and headlines out of whole cloth, the more outrageous the better.
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Buddhism is simply a branch off of Hinduism. Just as it was men that created the mythology of Hinduism, it was other men that later on created the mythology of Buddhism. To escape the treadmill of reincarnation, one has to believe that one is "totally enlightened spiritually" ... which would mean to be perfect. Imperfection would mean that the soul has to keep coming back to earth, to pay more debts of more negative karma. At least the mythology of heaven or hell is precise and definite, as the saved souls spend eternity in heaven, and the rejected souls spend eternity in hell. At age 70, I finally escaped religion, and at age 81 feel whole, just as I am, and now believe, as did Stephen Hawking before he died, that the universe always existed ... no creator involved.
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It's all in the "wording." Had he coined the term “Near death hallucinations,” rather than “Near death experiences,” would he then have had a "following?" Raymond Moody. Raymond A. Moody, Jr. (born June 30, 1944) is a philosopher, psychologist, physician and author, most widely known for his books about life after death and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975 in his best-selling book Life After Life.
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If a scientist is asked the question, “Do you believe that the universe was created,” and the scientist answers, “Yes,” that is not science. That is religion.
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Fred Foot Do you believe that the universe was created?
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Fred Foot Religion is the study of mythical gods. Science is the study of all things other than mythical gods. Please don't confuse the two as being united.
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Fred Foot Do you believe that the universe was created?
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Fred Foot I was raised in a Christian culture, but religion never made any sense to me. I figured that if I was powerful enough to create a universe, suffering would not exist. Otherwise, I could not claim to be perfect, nor could I expect to be worshiped. After years of study of all religions, at the age of 70, I became an Atheist, and now believe as did Stephen Hawking, before he died, that the universe in one form or another, always existed, and that suffering is natural ... no creator involved. I am now 82 years of age, and feel whole just as I am. It’s as probable that my personal consciousness will survive the death of the material body that I inhabit, as it will be that the personal consciousness of an alligator will survive the death of the material body that he or she inhabits. What you believe is your choice.
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Fred Foot Each religious cult, is a branch off a tree of misinformation, that in turn, prides itself as being super-natural information. Without Judaism, there wouldn't be any Catholicism, or Islam, or Protestantism. And before Judaism started the one-god dogma, Jews believed in the existence of many gods. Had we evolved with paws or hooves, neither science, nor religion, would exist. And if as a species, we go extinct, neither science, nor religion will exist ... period ... and the earth will not miss us, even one little bit, as it will continue to do "what comes naturally."
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Fred Foot People fresh out of the caves, didn't understand anything, so they made up stories of gods existing, that rewarded good behavior, and punished bad behavior. Killing their neighbors as heretics, was preached as being good behavior ... according to the gods ... blah, blah, blah. Religion is a mockery of any semblance of common sense.
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Fred Foot Concerning the theology of a supposed afterlife, in the self-serving quests to gain followers, theologians found it necessary to preach fear tactics. If they had, in humility, preached that a god of pure unconditional love exists, that will reward all souls with eternal bliss ... who would have felt a “need” to hear any more words expressed by those theologians? If you want to keep believing that a god exists, that in turn will favor your personal soul with eternal bliss, while punishing other souls for eternity ... that is your choice. It never was my choice, and that is why those teachings never did make any sense to me.
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Fred Foot If you believe that a god created the universe ... you ARE religious. This new-age chatter about being spiritual, but not religious, is nonsense!
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Fred Foot Your bottom "line" is, you want to believe that your soul is superior and sin-free from the perception of the god, while the same "holy" god believes that other souls are evil, and will be punished for eternity. It's an ego thingy.
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Fred Foot If devotees used the word "thoughts" rather than the word "souls" ... I suggest it would sound rather silly, when human animals die, to say "His or her thoughts will either go flying off to heaven ... or to hell ... or to reincarnate." Without the word "soul," there couldn't be any religion. All stories are based on what the soul is thinking, and what the soul is doing, and where the soul came from, and where the soul is going after death of the physical body. Fortunes have been made by theologians who taught that the soul is a gift from God, and that women must never have abortions, because abortions offend God's gift to humanity. Evolution of the soul is a huge seller in religion. It means that your soul is ever upgrading and will hopefully soon make the grade of God's "entire" approval of enlightenment and salvation … or … that in the afterlife something horrible could happen to your soul. If you remove the word "soul" from religion, you will not have anything but ground zero.
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Fred Foot If it was not for cells, that in turn built our bodies, we would not exist. We are simply material beings, with no more importance than plants.
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Fred Foot If the universe always existed, then consciousness in all forms of life always existed. Nothing "spiritual" about it!
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Fred Foot I suggest that all things are natural. Not super-natural. You can't see the wind, but it's natural. You can't see consciousness, but it is also natural.
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Fred Foot Why do you believe that cells turn into chemicals when they lose their ability to be conscious?
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Fred Foot I believe that every form of life is conscious, and when any form of life dies, the energy (which is consciousness) transfers to new forms of life.
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Fred Foot I suggest that consciousness in all form of life is caused by chemical reactions. The chemical reaction in cells, build brains. For instance ... once the brain of the fetus in the womb is completed, the fetus can "think" on its own. It is "conscious." However, if for whatever reason, the brain cells in the fetus dies, the fetus will never become a living, breathing baby. Brain death causes consciousness to leave the brain, but that energy that was in the brain cells, just transfers to other forms of material life ... such as maybe to some fungus, or to a flower, or to a snail. “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when it’s components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Stephen Hawking
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Fred Foot You just didn't approve of my response to your question, and that is not my problem.
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Fred Foot When you refer to subconscious mind, are you not referring to what those in religion call "the soul?" I suggest that when the brain cells die, there isn't any consciousness, sub, or otherwise, as the energy simply goes elsewhere, maybe to a plant, or to the wind.
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Fred Foot Devotees of religions refer to consciousness as being a soul that flies away either to heaven or to hell, or to reincarnate back and forth between earth and other dimensions. I suggest that when brain cells are all dead in any animal, including human animals, the energy goes elsewhere, maybe to cells that grow a new plant, or to the wind that blows ashes away after cremation. As a species that just happened to evolve with fingers, rather than paws, or hooves, we aren't anything special.
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@bigsavv2663 If you were an all powerful god ... would suffering in all forms of life exist, and if you allowed suffering to exist, would you then also expect those who suffer from your experiment to worship you? Non-human animals didn't do anything to offend this supposed judge-"mental" manipulator by "sinning" ... so why do they have to suffer? Having been under the "spell" of religion for 70 years, I understand that it is difficult to break that spell ... but you can do it, if you are "willing to try."
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@bigsavv2663 What breakthroughs do you believe occurs from observing the suffering of others ... other than you don't want it happening to you?
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We are all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality. Anil Seth … neuroscientist.
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Don't blame the lawyers. Either one, or the other of the parties wanting the divorce, had to first contact a lawyer, or the lawyers would NOT be involved.
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If, as an adult, you have never been married, you will never understand how much restraint it takes to stop yourself from murdering another human. lol
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From the fascinating book … ALL that REMAINS, A RENOWNED SCIENTIST ON DEATH, MORALITY, AND SOLVING CRIMES, author SUE BLACK. We have all heard stories of near-death experiences, portrayed as mystical events involving floating, out of body sensations, bright lights and tunnel visions of previous episodes in the person’s life and a feeling of calm. They tease us with the possibility that we can know what death will be like perhaps even if we can defy it. Science has alternative explanations. All of the phenomena reported can occur normally if the right biochemical conditions or neurological stimuli exist to impact on brain activity. Stimulation of the temporo-parietal junction on the right side of the brain will generate a sense of floating and out-of-body levitation.
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Truth??? According to whom? The only time we relate to words from a speaker, is if the speaker tells us what we already believed before the speaker started to speak. Truth itself ... is up for grabs. Truthiness "act or quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than those known to be true," catch word popularized in this sense by U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert, declared by American Dialect Society to be "2005 Word of the Year."
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Men marry women for their money, just as do women marry men for their money. That is what life insurance policies are for, ... oh ... and make sure there aren't any prenuptial agreements signed. lol ... ain't love grand?
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@skimbeeble6143 If everyone thought of marriage and having children as does Bill Maher, that would be the end of humanity, as there wouldn't be any more people being reproduced to make a mess of planet earth. What a wonderful idea. lol
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@blackperson4433 What's funny? Please explain in detail.
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Religion went to his head. From the book ... A History of Religious Ideas, by Mircea Eliade. “God had shown his hand.” Columbus considered his voyage as “an evident miracle.” For it was not just a matter of the discovery of the “Indies,” but of a transfigured world. “It is I whom God had chosen for his messenger, showing me on which side were to be found the new heaven and new earth of which the Lord had spoken through the mouth of Saint John in his Apocalypse, and of which Isaiah had made previous mention.” According to Columbus’s calculations, the end of the world was due to occur in 155 years.
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