it is to recognize that all of reality is hostile to life and that we are a mistake in the eyes of reality that will one day be corrected. — 64bithuman
if you buy a lottery ticket and win, it's your (good) karma and if you lose, it's your (bad) karma. — Agent Smith
n Asia there's plenty of ethnic prejudice as well, including some that is institutional (eg the treatment of non Siamese folks in Thailand) but to my knowledge it hasn't been made into an ideology yet. — Olivier5
Because the people who defend her maintain the idea that she is young and she is free to have fun because we are living in a “modern era” — javi2541997
I think that as far as Slavic people go, Ukrainians are better than Russians. The latter have always been slaves. — Olivier5
Why would any hatred of a large people or a country be morally right? — ssu
A god could surely just implant complete knowledge in all human minds, without the need for any long-form narrative. — Tom Storm
The big question for me is why is it that god/s are never known directly? — Tom Storm
Well the theists always use the same argument in that context: God is not guilty of human's free will. — javi2541997
Silence. — Banno
The problem is, it seems to me, worship – idol-making – not g/G per se. Theism is idolatry. The apophatics got it right, I think: anything said or imag(in)ed (e.g. "graven images", scriptures, theologies, sermons) about the infinite is necessarily finite and thereby false; even (especially) the belief that the infinite "exists" is idolatrous. — 180 Proof
Nothingness. If he would exist I would imagine him as the pure representation of silence and emptiness. — javi2541997
NONE OF IT WAS DOWN TO GOD(s)! It was all down to our behaviour! — universeness
Communism is on the rise in the U.S.? That's news to me. — Pierre-Normand
I still see Republicans defending him or arguing that prosecuting him could lead to violence, which in bait-speak is saying people should riot if Trump is prosecuted. — Benkei
Again, an overreaction. — Banno
I expect death to be just like it was for me two hundred, two thousand years ago. In other words, nothing. To me that sounds perfectly fine. Nothingness is not to be feared or lamented. Am I happy about it? Happiness is such a puerile term. — Tom Storm
But now we are here in the phase where she apologizes with nearly breaking up in tears ... — ssu
I support the idea that statesmen and leaders shouldn't behave like how she behaved in that party. She has a responsibility to her entire nation and a role model to the public. — L'éléphant
No. It is not about double standard. She is the PM and public representative of a nation. She has the aim to act in the most honorable and rectitude way possible. We are living in a difficult social context and we expect from a statesman to be, at least, professional. Right?
It is quite contradictory, isn't it? Probably she has the average discourse of how to be an exemplary citizen and look at her dancing and acting like an immature teenager. — javi2541997
I think the feeling is mutual with the Slavophiles in Russia. — ssu
The assumption by many seems to be 'politics is sober and serious, please don't have a life too.'
— Tom Storm
I wonder who else is covered under this assumption, doctors, lawyers, Sunday school teachers? — Fooloso4
Russia takes upon itself the role of the shortest man in the gang. — Banno
In fact, Russia is fighting the notorious collective West, defending its very existence as a country, a people, a civilization.
We must constantly remember that Russophobia in Europe has deep roots. And what is happening today is not a sudden, short-term episode, but a constant component of the social and political life of the West.
That's odd. Sure, there was Sovietphobia in most or many places. After that, things changed, there was optimism, friendships, seeking trust. 2-3 decades ago, something like that, I personally know people that went to Russia, business and otherwise. But now, ironically, Putin and compadres stomped that out good and well. To the extent it's real, Matviyenko's "Russophobia" was/is like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Except, who has been wanting Russia to cease existing...? — jorndoe
Russia takes upon itself the role of the shortest man in the gang. — Banno
The Fine-Tuning Argument says “that the present Universe (including the laws that govern it and the initial conditions from which it has evolved) permits life only because these laws and conditions take a very special form, small changes in which would make life impossible.” — Art48
So, why would God bother to create an intricately fine-tuned universe for the sake of souls
Many Christians love to cite the following verse. Aren't WE special?
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16. — ThinkOfOne
What you're asking for cannot be done in the framework of secular culture and science. — baker
The trick is in having the power to define what is pure and what is evil — praxis
Yes. If you live by the sword, you'll die by the sword. — Tate
Karma presupposes supernatural record keeping and judgment.
— creativesoul
Why can it not simply be natural cause and effect? Very few (if any) actions absolutely terminate in their intended consequences. Anything you do continues on, past, and through what you intend. — Pantagruel
The fundamental problem with “is” seems to be the person using that word seemingly speaks with a god-like authority
— Art48
Not to any competent language user. — SophistiCat
The fundamental problem with “is” seems to be the person using that word seemingly speaks with a god-like authority — Art48
And with medievel diet we have to remember it wasn't fresh, the food that could be preserved. The idea was to eat only the food from the last season, not this one as you didn't know just how the it would be this year. So a lot of salt. — ssu
I had no idea that I was talking to a women. — ssu
Seems likely that the underlying concepts of karma, as it's commonly understood today, are rooted in a fear of living in an "unjust" world.
Seems likely that the underlying concepts of reincarnation are rooted in the fear of death.
Neither hold up to scrutiny. They are the products of irrational thought as a way to alleviate the anxieties of those fears. Many believe them today for those very reasons. — ThinkOfOne
It's very possible for me to see all there is to life, the good and the bad and yet still not think this is enough for me to stay. Life is nothing but a slip of consciousness and just like that you could say it is amazing but I will say this is to be destroyed. Why? Because it can. Do not tell me it's a matter of what feels good and what doesn't, because then choosing to feel bad by choosing to die becomes something that feels good; so feeling good isn't the pinpoint at hand here.
So since I CAN think like this, how can I not think like this? Do not tell me to just be one with life in experience because this is futile and never has been fulfilling. Do not tell me that if I can choose either I should choose life, because I'm saying to you my choice IS non-existence, this is the dilemma: the choice and the confusion of life.
I am looking for the answer that breaks down this thinking and builds myself a new thought basis.
Nonsense. Where do you get these ideas???
— baker
Of course it's nonsense, but haven't you noticed these sentiments? — ssu
By comparing it to a bad meal, not to no meal.
— baker
We've been created to go well without food for one day, actually. It's water that we need basically daily. — ssu
Well, sort of. Assume if you had eaten for your entire life exceptionally great meals, basically always something of the level that one gets in Michelin star restaurants, with added detail to the healthiness of your diet.
You wouldn't know how bad food actually people e
For an anecdote, I remember once on a Finnish Navy island garrison the commanding officer decided to remember the Winter War by having the conscripts exactly the same kind of food with the historical amount during winter that soldiers were given during WW2...at the same naval fortress. The records were they, so the kitchen had no trouble in recreating the WW2-era cuisine. Hence they got a small portion of porridge (without honey or sugar) and that's it. As the garrison was on a fortress island, the conscript didn't have the chance to order pizza or anything in the evening. The conscripts (who had been born in the 1980's) hadn't experienced cold and hunger. Many said that they respected differently the war veterans after that experience.
I'm absolutely sure that we wouldn't image just what people ate thousands of years ago.