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  204.  @twitteringothers5059  "Really ? Tell me - what is the suicide and psychological instability rates for atheists ?" ==From what I hear, it is higher in atheist population compared to the theist population. I looked at a paper written by Rob Whitley, Ph.D. Apparently, some studies clump nones and atheists together. According to him: “New research has set out to examine the broad mental health differences in the sub-categories constituting the "nones." Interestingly, a growing number of studies suggest that people possessing strong religious beliefs and convinced atheists tend to share similarly positive mental health. The worst mental health is observed in those with more ambiguous, confused, and weaker religious or spiritual beliefs.” According to Dermot O'Reilly and Michael Rosato, there is a set of studies from the 19 th century to 2000, that shows that the nones have more of a risk for suicide and mental health issues, lowest for Roman Catholics and intermediate for Protestants. They don’t say what the numbers are. Some think the reason for this is isolation. When you are in a religion and you go to church, you have more of a social network. Some thing that is incorrect and it could be simply be due to the religion or priest telling the person that suicide is illegal. It concludes with another study done in Ireland. It says the risk is similar for nones, for catholics and protestants. When it comes to young adults, the risk is higher in catholics. There is a table and it shows that more men than women commit suicide. This might be fear related. If you are married, it reduces the risk of suicide. If you have a permanent illness, it increases the risk drastically. If you are unemployed, it increases the risk. Overall, I do think that having a social net is good for the individual. It is important to be in a club, which is what a church offers. As the number of atheists goes up, some churches need to be converted to clubs for atheists so that they can come together and socialize.
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  205.  @twitteringothers5059  "Really ? Tell me - what is the suicide and psychological instability rates for atheists ?" ==From what I hear, it is higher in atheist population compared to the theist population. I looked at a paper written by Rob Whitley, Ph.D. Apparently, some studies clump nones and atheists together. According to him: “New research has set out to examine the broad mental health differences in the sub-categories constituting the "nones." Interestingly, a growing number of studies suggest that people possessing strong religious beliefs and convinced atheists tend to share similarly positive mental health. The worst mental health is observed in those with more ambiguous, confused, and weaker religious or spiritual beliefs.” According to Dermot O'Reilly and Michael Rosato, there is a set of studies from the 19 th century to 2000, that shows that the nones have more of a risk for suicide and mental health issues, lowest for Roman Catholics and intermediate for Protestants. They don’t say what the numbers are. Some think the reason for this is isolation. When you are in a religion and you go to church, you have more of a social network. Some thing that is incorrect and it could be simply be due to the religion or priest telling the person that suicide is illegal. It concludes with another study done in Ireland. It says the risk is similar for nones, for catholics and protestants. When it comes to young adults, the risk is higher in catholics. There is a table and it shows that more men than women commit suicide. This might be fear related. If you are married, it reduces the risk of suicide. If you have a permanent illness, it increases the risk drastically. If you are unemployed, it increases the risk. Overall, I do think that having a social net is good for the individual. It is important to be in a club, which is what a church offers. As the number of atheists goes up, some churches need to be converted to clubs for atheists so that they can come together and socialize.
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  208.  @twitteringothers5059  PART 2: According to him: “New research has set out to examine the broad mental health differences in the sub-categories constituting the "nones." Interestingly, a growing number of studies suggest that people possessing strong religious beliefs and convinced atheists tend to share similarly positive mental health. The worst mental health is observed in those with more ambiguous, confused, and weaker religious or spiritual beliefs.” According to Dermot O'Reilly and Michael Rosato, there is a set of studies from the 19 th century to 2000, that shows that the nones have more of a risk for suicide and mental health issues, lowest for Roman Catholics and intermediate for Protestants. They don’t say what the numbers are. Some think the reason for this is isolation. When you are in a religion and you go to church, you have more of a social network. Some thing that is incorrect and it could be simply be due to the religion or priest telling the person that suicide is illegal. It concludes with another study done in Ireland. It says the risk is similar for nones, for catholics and protestants. When it comes to young adults, the risk is higher in catholics. There is a table and it shows that more men than women commit suicide. This might be fear related. If you are married, it reduces the risk of suicide. If you have a permanent illness, it increases the risk drastically. If you are unemployed, it increases the risk. Overall, I do think that having a social net is good for the individual. It is important to be in a club, which is what a church offers. As the number of atheists goes up, some churches need to be converted to clubs for atheists so that they can come together and socialize.
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  248.  @couch4330  That’s not about global warming. That is about plate tectonic theory. If you go back to the Middle Silurian period, 425 million y ago, there was basically no north america and no europe. Most of it was underwater and the parts outside the water is called Laurentia and it was in the southern hemisphere, near the equator. In the early Devonian period, 390 million y ago, north america + europe begin surfacing more. This is called Laurentia. Again, it is slightly in the southern hemisphere, but it is moving north. In the late Carboniferous period, 306 million y ago, north america + europe look larger and half of it is in the southern hemisphere and half is in the northern hemisphere. In the early Triassic period, 230 million y ago, north america + europe now has almost the same area as today. Now, most of this land mass is in the northern hemisphere. In the late Jurassic period, 150 million y ago, europe is separate from north america. Both keep heading north. South America and Africa are still joined. I don’t know what the temperate of that period was. It was a very different time period. “I think the planet will be fine. Plant a tree if you're worried, natural carbon capture.” ==I think the planet will be fine as well. There will be radical changes and it is already happening. About a species goes extinct per day and eventually, new species will spread and diversify. Life for humans will not be the same either as easy resources like petrol and coal run dry. Planting a tree would not help. The amount of CO2 being emitted is too fast. Also, I cut down trees and I burn them for heat during winter. The only reason why all the forests have not been eliminated is that people are using petrol, coal, CH4 to heat their homes and industry and some use other sources, such as hydro (such as myself).
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  353.  @guymontag2948  “As far as breaking eggs goes that's, again, beside the point. I know it was bad. We're still responsible for stuff we break, even if we had good intentions, at the time. I think Obama described his regret as a failure to plan for the day after their intervention. You know, the gaping power vacuum.” ==The USA’s and allie’s goal was to get rid of the taliban and to place a democratic system in its place. I assume they gave the government weapons, trained the army, etc. It is odd that as soon as they left, the taliban took control so fast. Maybe Afghanistan’s army doesn’t know how to fight or is unwilling. Something similar happened in Iraq. They setup a government, trained the army, gave weapons. As soon as the USA left, various groups started warfare. ISIS formed somehow and where was Iraq’s army? A lot of weapons were capture by ISIS. ISIS was beheading soldiers and civilians. They took control of large parts of Iraq and began expanding into Syria. My guess is that these muslim countries are fragmented. There are various tribes, various religious sects. Each sect wants to install their version of theocracy. They dislike each other and they dislike the USA. They view democracy as something foreign and non-muslim. So, if the USA sets up democracy, some portion does go voting while another large portion does not since their tribe leader says no to his followers. Then, they use bombs to attack voting stations, police stations, army stations. I think the size of each fragment is near equal to each other so their civil wars last a long time. In the case of Afghanistan, the fragments are not the same size. The taliban is huge so they mostly won. The USA failed in reducing their numbers over a span of 20 y.
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