Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "Rationality Rules" channel.

  1. I was 16 when I started university and moved to another city to dormitory. Now at 28 I am not sure I like this job anymore. So I can change it. That is the whole point - noone suddenly "wakes up at 35", we have plenty of time to change our opinions about anything. I am realised I didn't want either relationship or kids at around the same age, and I didn't just sit on that conclusion all these years, I thought about them many times seriously, so far I haven't changed my mind. Something tells me Peterson isn't afraid that I might change my mind when it is "too late" and be unhappy, he is afraid that I don't change my mind and thus don't make the decision which he views as "right one" in his own worldview
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  2. Do you even know what communism is? Unless someone wants to ban private property on the means of production, they are not communists. Right wing idiots constantly take social democrats and call them "communists". That is not a fair criticism, that is a strawman fallacy
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  3. So Bible just predicted washing machines? 😆
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  4. Lol here in Russia some people seriously think serfdom was good. Humans are dumbasses
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  5.  @colelewis9940  dude, I didn't say other people should stop doing their own thing for me. Just stop telling me what to do with my own life. That doesn't affect them. And people who don't want kids are waay more common than 1 in millions. More like one in a hundred, or one in fifty. Also, I am a professional biologist, and your impression about how evolution works is kinda wrong. The traits which get preserved due to helping to reproduce, aren't necessarily making individuals happier or have better lives. Hyenas in evolution developed an anatomy that makes 1 in 10 females die in birth along with cubs. No, what is evolutionarily good is not necessarily good for the individual being
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  6. That is only because many women prefer to have kids after 30. I see no problem with that.
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  7.  @colelewis9940  nope, it is significant. 1 in million maybe not. 1 in a hundred is somewhat significant. Again, if that amount of people isn't asking to change your own life but rather stop bothering them, like childfree people ask, or give basic human rights to them, like lgbt people ask, that shouldn't be a problem for you
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  8.  @Anonymous-wp7lm  so? If a person has a sad life that invalidates their opinion? How many people across history, do you think had a bad life? With all the wars, epidemics, slavery serfdom etc. which were going on? I had depression and it didn't make make me believe that all lives are bad, but it opened my eyes on HOW BAD life can potentially be. It is not us who stay blind to the best parts, it is you who stay blind to the worst parts
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  9.  @JustDoIt12131  wanting to have never existed and wanting to die are different things. If you cannot distinguish those, your brain is pretty smooth
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  10. Also, I won't let bloggers tell what I want and what I don't, but also I won't let old men, like Peterson tell me that
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  11. Talk to some childfree women who are 30+ years old, as well. And listen to them as well. Use your own advice, come on
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  12. I understand respecting Peterson, but Shapiro? Really? His views are very hypocritical on many topics
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  13. Infinite growth is impossible, so society should change to stop promoting that idea
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  14. Sargon's fans are very salty
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  15.  @mr.greengold8236  I am very sad that my parents were not anti-natalist. I wouldn't have to exist and deal with stupid aggressive beings called humans
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  16.  @FilterExel  in this reality of us destroying natural habitat on which we depend, we will go extinct if we continue to breed and consume as much as we do. When the population is in overshoot, it will inevitably result in population collapse, population will go down sooner or later, the question is whether it will happen in a controlled way or not. So, lowering the global birth rate to that of developed nations and assuring population goes down is the only thing which will save us from real collapse
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  17. Cyanobacteria exist for 2.5 billion years! And they can photosynthesize! And they made our current atmosphere! That is what I call success! Can't wait to see how humans will be doing in 2.5 billion years! Oh yeah,...
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  18.  @AdamBlade17  Some bacteria can withstand radiation. How can you know they don't spread from planet to planet in pores of rocks of meteorites?
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  19.  @pewtercamaro  yeah they feel less of a woman because society too often views women only as baby-making machines, incubators. And pushes such a disgusting attitude on women.
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  20. The miracles which help Israel are mostly caused by American allies not by gawd lol
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  21. No pain receptors? You mean someone without nervous system at all? I bet those cannot experience any anxiety) actually pain is physical, even during only mental problems like depression, it feels like physical. Because it is. Same parts of the brain are active during those times as during physical pain. It almost sounds like you are arguing that there is some immaterial "soul" which experiences pain. That is not true. Pain always comes from physical processes, whether they do start at peripheral nervous system - by triggering pain receptors, or not - in all cases pain as experience exists because of very physical processes in the brain
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  22. So he forced me into endless existence for his own egotistical narcissistic feelings??? Can he at least give me an opportunity to end my existence after death, at least? I don't want heaven or anything, I don't want to exist forever in any way, shape or form
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  23. Sargon is a disgusting piece of shit. That opinion of his proved this to me
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  24.  @shannonlouden3428  reproduction is not a gender role,but a biological function, like digestion or breathing
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  25. @Abe Gill Maybe you can talk to people in polite manner? No? Ok, then I won't too. Also, no, our species cannot possibly survive for billions of years. It simply won't be the same species even if it survives. That is a nature of complex life forms that they change so fast in evolutionary terms. Our fish ancestor also did not die out without progeny, yet we are not swimming in the ocean. Also, if you think we are doing "great", you need a reality check. Solar panels do not photosynthesize. Learn what photosynthesis is before talking.
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  26. @Abe Gill Hahahahaha terraforming planets is way off. It is not as easy as PR-focused capitalists like Elon Musk like it to imagine.
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  27. Lol, in some 10 generations most of your descendants may not have a single nucleotide from you, cause of how crossingover happens. And sooner or later our species will be gone, thus in perspective everyone is genetic dead end, it will happen one way or another, now or later.
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  28. People like him underestimate the age at which women's fertility significantly declines. Also, they don't care about women, they only care about women serving the "purpose" that those men want for us. The way they talk about women makes it absolutely clear. They don't view us as persons
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  29.  @doofy3111  even non-asexuals can be volcel
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  30. You will have a hard time finding a social mammal species where one member of a social group killing another member of the same social group is more than a really rare case. Also, "bloodshed" you refer to was usually a war - conflict between social groups, not conflict of individuals within the same social group. Totally different thing actually. Both from perspective of evolution of social species and from perspective of the Bible. In the Old testament the same God which creates rules "do not murder" and "do not steal" allows his "chosen people" to genocide whole ethnic grouls in order to steal their land.
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  31. Here in Russia they do enforce it, when it has political meaning...
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  32. To have all the necessary elements, vitamins, essential amino acids and fatty acids without animals food you need to substitute it with sometimes very rare and specific plant ingredients, which are not always available, and sometimes more expensive. Do not use people in third world as an example! Many of them eat only poor diet, which lacks certain vitamins and elements, and while they survive, they still have problems with health
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  33. Gender roles were also somewhat different in different societies historically. And no, giving birth does not count, it is a biological function, not a gender role
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  34.  @jc1daddy2  everything. He owes us everything. He decided we have to exist. The person who makes the decision should take the responsibility. Also, by your view god is literally a tyrant, created arbitrary repressive rules and someone who doesn't follow them is tortured forever. Your logic is "he did it just cause he can". This is literally a fascistic "might is right" idea
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  35.  @joeposteraros  Different societies had different gender roles
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  36. Why noone says to people who marry at 20 and have kids that they don't yeat know anything and are too young to make such a decision? At least I have never heard that. When I at 28 say I don't want kids and probably never will, some people call me "infantile", but many people who have kids at 20 get only encouragement and applause. This double standard reveals that it is not really about age, maturity, or person's happiness, it is about society coercing people to make "socially acceptable" choices by applauding those and insulting people, who make opposite choices
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  37. Hahahaha as a Russian I find it so bizarre that anyone would go for treatment here. Our healthcare system is getting worse every year, quality is terrible, mostly because equipment is old, number of hospital has fallen lower than it was a century ago, doctors are being paid miserable salaries. Unless he is going to a private facility, he is going to be disappointed. Want cocroaches in a hospital? Please.
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  38. I think any story can have a value. But: religious people seem to think that their particular religious tradition has values, which cannot be matched or substituted with other systems, for example, other religious traditions, philosophy etc. And that is where they are wrong
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  39. As an antinatalist I think if god existed he would be the worst sadist. He forced us into existence, and doesn't even give us a choice to not exist anymore. You have to go through some version of afterlife FOREVER. Be it heaven, hell, reincarnations, different other types of afterlife... Endless existence is the worst idea ever! If I didn't know so much about science which shows that our "souls" are actually a product of brain function; I would be always terrified by the idea that afterlife may be true...
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  40.  @michaelevans4110  "perfect" is just a subjective assesment. Something can be objectively round, red, big, small etc... Something cannot be objectively perfect (or objectively good, bad, imperfect etc.) That is a subjective by definition. So by whose criteria god is perfect? His own? Thanks for proving our point that he is a narcissist. By my criteria god who forces his creation into endless existence and doesn't give a chance to end existence instead of enduring some form of afterlife forever, cannot be perfect
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  41. Which troops,? They all are stuck in Ukraine
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  42. Also why should I care about bunch of DNA molecules? Rather than about sentient beings, including myself? It won't be good to me if I have kids, it won't be good to kids, considering the situation where I live, it won't be good to non-human animals if humanity increases its numbers further but it will be good to some genes that may increase their frequency in population by 0.0000001%? So, why should I care?
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  43.  @AlMondO93  I don't care about same genetic variants surviving after I die, rather than different generic variants. I am not arrogant, I don't think my variants are better than others universally. I am also a professional biologist, working as a researcher. And yeah it seems explaining why "genetic arguement" doesn't make sense scientifically to you would be like "explaining card trick to a dog"
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  44.  @AlMondO93  also what charade? Breathing is charade? Lol. Being a parents has little to do with genetics in modern society. Adoptive parents are also parents and experience parenthood in full, while people who left their biological kids when those were babies, aren't real parents
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  45.  @vulkanofnocturne  I don't know, where I live absolute majority of families have both parents working full time.
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  46. There is a biological definition of success - how good organisms are at reproducing and surviving and spreading. And anything else, any trait including intelligence, is not a metric of success in itself, but just a trait which can help or hinder organisms at being successful. And yet, humans are rather successful by biological definition right now. BUT - a huge BUT - there are plenty of species which will always be more successful. Almost any microorganism by this definition will always be more successful than almost any macroorganism.
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  47.  @godbearxd  The measure of success is not making every single one of your offspring survive. But to have your genes spread as much as possible, and it is impossible to outrun many bacterial species in that. They even spread their genes through horizontal gene transfer
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  48. too bad! Yosemite sounds nicer) lol
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  49. 21:29 - food chains in ecosystems are not dominance hierarchies within social groups. Those are two absolutely different things!
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  50. Many taxonomic groups considered different species by convention in zoology or botany, can interbreed. Like many interspecies hybrids of different species of macaws are rather common (cause they are pretty, so people breed them), some hybrids are very common in nature as well
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  51. He said "dominating". He did not say he didn't want people with Y chromosome to be present at all in female sports
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  52. I think universally preferable behaviour is not being racist sexist arsehole. Stefan scores pretty low
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  53. Thanks, I am much better since I found belief in our Lord Perun in my heart. It is time my nation returns to its pagan roots! 😆😆😆😆😆
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  54. Upper limit at like 45 years old, realistically
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  55. Humans are wicked beings, for sure. Always found a way to abuse and enslave each other, and used multiple religions to justify it!
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  56. The funniest thing I have seen on crystal freaks' web sites is that they make "vaginal eggs" or however those things are called out of crystals (or, sometimes, even out of stromatolites) and believe using them helps to "channel feminine energy" or something.
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  57. Dostoevsky didn't make Raskolnikov's position that murder is sometimes acceptable the strongest possible! Now if he wrote a book where a hero would contemplate whether to kill a sadistic psychopath who keeps several other people enslaved and terribly tortures them every day and will do it for many years in the future unless the hero stops him/her... and the only way to stop the sadist would be killing him/her.... and noone else would be there to free those victims apart from the hero.... That would be the strongest position. But in that case readers would be all for killing the villain. Apart from religious freaks who would say "it all God's will, we should leave it be, God says not to murder, so I will not"
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  58. And considering that, also, both Jordan's and Sam's arguments against antinatalism seem unconvincing
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  59. There is a stupid law against "gay propaganda", which can be interpreted in any way someone wants to, but no criminalisation of homosexuality itself
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  60. I am an antinatalist, I agree
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  61. Sometimes there is noone good to vote for...
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  62. Who we? I personally have zero chance of surviving after 2100, because you know, lifespan is not infinite
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  63. It is not as hard as you think. Jung, Freud and others were full of trash anyways. Some time ago I have seen some critical analyses of some of their claims which have proven it nicely. If you are interested enough, you can find even more, I guess
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  64. As a childfree anti-natalist woman I am most disgusted by these hacks who try to coerce women to have kids no matter what, and pretend that they care about our "happiness". No, pro-natalist dudes, you care only that women "should" continue to serve as incubators for whatever political/religious/economic goals you think are important. Also, 35? Hilarious! My mom had me at 41!
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  65.  @freeyourmind7538  I think reproduction is inherently narcissistic. Yes, even the best parents are a bit narcissistic
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  66. I once thought about the idea that "everything has a reason/cause", and my conclusion was that it works in our usual world, but in extreme conditions (like the start of the universe, or multiverse, or any space-time) it doesn't have to be so. Like many "laws of nature", which turned out not to be followed in different circumstances, like Newton's law of gravity, which is only an approximation, and doesn't work if the speed is really very huge or gravity very strong
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  67. The questions starting with "why", just don't always make sense. As I know there are languages that don't even have the word "why". I have read someone who travelled in Australia write that one of indigenous ethnic groups they met said, they don't have such word in their language, and when someone asks them any "why" question in English they don't answer. It is a kind of cultural taboo. If there is an explanation for something, it will be shared when time comes, if there is no explanation, then there just isn't any. Maybe I misunderstood something, but that is what I read about
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  68.  @Anonymous-wp7lm  Did you really count the people who are depressed and aren't? Depression is more common than you think. And life of people is usually worse than they themselves feel like, cause they compare only with other people they know. I doubt you can trust judgement of a person whose point of reference was either dying from terrible disease or just suffering from it your whole life. Serfdom didn't have dehumanisation??? Lol what? In Eastern Europe and Russia it did, very much so, up until late 19th century. Your history knowledge is either very restricted or simply terrible
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  69. Just replace term "Darwinian truth" with "Importance". Something which helps you survive and reproduce is IMPORTANT. It does not make it "truth". That makes more efficient terminology, in which different things are not called by the same word (truth), thus it is more understandable
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  70. I agree that Peterson is overrated by some people. I liked his lectures and other videos, I have seen all his lectures about Personality previous year, but it makes me cringe how some people become irrational in defending anything JBP says. They become too fanboyish-fangirlish in this, and stop thinking critically
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  71. The only reason for that is that people who wrote the Bible didn't know about Atlantic. Lol
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  72. So this is what anti-SJWs do... Now I have a name for that!
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  73.  @terradraca  Any bird. Or any photosynthesizing organism. Not having consciousness would be only good since I would not have to endure depression anymore
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  74. That is the same as calling ourselves "fellow mammals". Taxonomically we are mammals, and we are apes
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  75.  @pinoysarisari7374  other species also have empathy and morality. We don't claim that "humans don't have dignity", it is you who deny dignity to all millions of other species on Earth. You claim that ONLY humans have dignity. I claim NOT ONLY humans have it. Your position can lead to disregard of lives of all other living beings. My position leads to appreciation of life of both humans and other species
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  76. Free decision is still made by your own brain. Thus there is "free will" if by such term you mean function of a whole organism with a brain, not function of only conscious part of your mind
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  77.  @logicalmuslim1590  any criteria for superiority is subjective by definition. I don't think beings that create something are superior to the ones that don't. So your criteria are meaningless to me.
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  78. First, he says a lot about Jung's archetypes in the beginning of the video, second, Jung, Freud and other psychoanalysts were not as incredible geniuses as you may think, they had bunch of useful ideas, but also a lot of trashy ones
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  79. What do you mean? Slavery didn't originate in only one place, it originated in all early centralised states in the world independently. And Charles Darwin was an abolitionist along with almost all of his family
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  80. I have watched the original video with broccoli guy. It is like any other video with Piers Morgan. Piers never lets others talk, constantly interrupts them to make them look incompetent
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  81. I like JBP's lectures and other videos, but how he tries to redefine word "reality" is frustrating. It will not help anyone, only stop people from understanding each other. Just because something FEELS more real to humans does NOT mean it IS more real than physical reality. Feelings are not more important than physical reality. SJWs and postmodernists claim that feeling are more important, and JBP claims he does not agree with those people. But says similar things himself!
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  82. Adidas??? Is Powell turning into a gopnik?
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  83. Yeah, he actually has serious psychological problems. Do you think his addiction came from nothing?
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  84. Brainwashing children into making babies while they are still children, or when they grow up? I know most religions are obsessed with an idea that all people "must" reproduce, they try to increase the number of believers by any means, after all, and some religious sects certainly go as far as to promote child marriage and condone teen pregnancy
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  85. Blasphemer! The parrots made DNA, they are intelligent too, but have more ways too manipulate things, it is clear that they created DNA!
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  86. Jehovas witnesses are banned in Russia as they are considered a cult. In some way it is cause Russian orthodox church (disgusting corrupt organisation) does not like competition, but I still do not miss witnesses at all. Good they do not knock into doors anymore. Would be better if ROC also died off
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  87. Cyanobacteria and plants can photosynthesize and create new organic matter from fking light! And in my opinion anyone incapable of that is pathetic parasite eating other organisms' dead flesh.
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