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Ookami38

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  • Besides your belief that there is no higher power, what are your thoughts on supernatural phenomena?

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  • And no one here is asking to be converted. I don't seek to make anyone believe anything, and I'd like the same respect - not trying to ALTER my worldview, simply understand it. I never claimed to not have a belief. I never claimed they were based on facts. I simply claimed that there are things that we cannot know, we are not equipped to know. Given that, we HAVE to take some things on faith alone, without evidence. In that regard, these are the conclusions I have personally arrived at. Anyone else will arrive at a different conclusion, because these things are inherently ambiguous, unable to be quantified, and reached through introspection. If you cannot see how simply saying "there's no evidence" is pointless, frustrating, and outright rude, I don't know what else to say.

    Edit to add: earlier you replied to a couple paragraphs, quoting only the first sentence. Did you bother to read the rest of the post? It seems like it pretty well clears up what I mean when I say I see no reason not to. Is that all you're stuck on? That I don't see a reason right now to definitively believe or not believe in anything wrt God, spirituality, supernatural, etc?

  • Besides your belief that there is no higher power, what are your thoughts on supernatural phenomena?

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  • I'm done. Clearly you don't want to engage in this conversation with any kind of good faith. You can only engage on the gotchas, the easy talking points. Enjoy your life, friend.

  • Besides your belief that there is no higher power, what are your thoughts on supernatural phenomena?

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  • Again, I did not specify that I believe in a god. I said I believe in things outside our observable 3 spatial dimensions, things unknowable to us. I'd prefer if you're going to argue with me on this, you at least argue my views, not some arbitrary ones that you seem to have superimposed over mine.

    In absence of any specific evidence pointing one way or another, all of these beliefs are equally valid as just that - beliefs. As long as they're not making you act in such bizarre ways as condemning people based on those unprovable beliefs, there's no issue.

    As for my specific beliefs, I'm drawn to a lot of the eastern religions worldviews a lot more. That we, are in some way, reincarnated into this world again and again. That we have a concept of karma, in a sense - there's an underlying "baseline" level of the world we're all born into, and our duty is to raise that baseline as high as possible so that anyone regardless of status is born into a world with the most chance to succeed. And we have that duty not just to others, but to our eventual future "selves". I don't believe we have any concept or knowledge of these past lives, but the concept of rebirth, conservation, cycling is all too prevalent in all too many beliefs, and within physics itself - matter/energy not being created or destroyed, just changed.

  • Besides your belief that there is no higher power, what are your thoughts on supernatural phenomena?

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  • Exactly. I don't find atheism itself as attractive as agnosticism. There's as much evidence supporting a god as there is else. I don't claim to know either way, it's largely unknowable, and so you gotta kinda just go on faith one way or another. This is also a part of why I keep insisting this is all a VERY personal set of beliefs.

  • Besides your belief that there is no higher power, what are your thoughts on supernatural phenomena?

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  • I don't see any reason not to, at present. I don't necessarily believe in, say, supernatural entities, but I'm more concerned with origin, what exists beyond our universe, the nature of consciousness, etc. I believe a lot of that is simply outside of our abilities to fully understand as humans.

    Take a 4th spatial dimension as a simple example. We can do all the work on understanding how one would work mathematically. We can even get something approaching an intuition about how things would move and work in a 4th dimension, but we're simply not equipped to see, experience, interact with this 4th dimension. Another easy example of an unknowable is the thoughts and mental state of another. We can make inferences, we can ask, and we can trust that the information we get from those sources is accurate, but there's no way to verify.

    This same thing, the fundamentally unknowable, exists pretty much everywhere if you dig deep enough. I like to think of this relationship with unknowables as "spirituality". Understanding that there are simply things that I cannot grasp, and being okay with that forms the basis for my spiritual worldview.

    As stated before, as well, I believe this is all DEEPLY personal. I doubt any two people will ever arrive at the exact same conclusions. The thing with unknowables is there's no way to really be "right" short of following your intuition, so as long as your personal beliefs don't start impacting the will and agency of others, you do you.

  • Should one give money directly to homeless people?

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  • The important act is giving. If you think a dude on the side of the road needs $20 and you've got it to spare, there's no downside to doing that. They may not use it how you like them to, but they will use it how they best can. Sometimes that's food, sometimes that's drugs, to keep them from actively offing themselves.

    If you think a charity has a decent track record and can better use those funds to serve more people, donate it there. They'll use it how they beat see fit, whether that's food, shelter or enforcement of policies. It may not be how you want it used, but that's okay.

    Ultimately, give what you can, however you can. Once you've given the money, you can't determine how it's used, so be okay with your act of charity simply existing by itself, not in comparison to another hypothetical "best" act of charity.

  • Besides your belief that there is no higher power, what are your thoughts on supernatural phenomena?

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  • I fully believe there's something beyond our 3 spatial dimensions we call reality. What that is, I don't know. Does it have sentience, I doubt. I also think these things fall into unknowables, things each individual will develop a different feel for, and should be deeply personal.

  • thanks for coming to my rule

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  • Etymology nerd on YouTube has a video on this! It's basically how we put people in our phones now, such as Alex (neighbor) and Alex (work), two names I actually have saved in my phone. They're more based on relationship than occupation now.

    Edit: (neighbor) not (phone)

  • Pro tip: it's much easier to lose 100k than it is to earn it

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  • Or break shit. That's an option too.

  • What do people carry in post apocalypse show/ movies

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  • Presumably they're only carrying guns they have ammo for, or guns they want others to think they have ammo for. If you got it, may as well use it, and if others think you got it, they may not be so quick to use their own. Also ammo isn't that hard to make.

  • It's a cruel system

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  • To me it's more to do with mentality. Most of the people earning that much are completely full of themselves, "I'm a problem solver I get things DONE" kinds of people. To have them come to someone they probably don't see as such for a task that is imminently solvable by just looking at the screen for 30 seconds, or typing a quick search is at best off-putting.

  • Why is that the Normies had shifted from "I have nothing to hide" to "Privacy is not real"???

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  • I mean, yeah, privacy isn't really a thing in our digital surveillance age. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna make it as hard as possible for them. Make em work for it.

  • The design is very human

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  • It's the topology of the object. Essentially flatten the object into a 2 dimensional plane. Something like a mug or donut will have a hole in it after flattening, these items have 1 hole. Different objects flatten into a different number of holes. It's really hard for me to parae anything more complicated than 1 hole with my head, but that's essentially the process.

    I do not recall the vsauce video explicitly, but this should be the logic they're using. It gets waaay more difficult to parae on something like a human, with a bunch of different tracts and splits and shit.

  • there are no accidents rule

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  • Wow, bigoted much?

  • there are no accidents rule

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  • Please. I'd rather not learn anything sexual about a person.

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  • there are no accidents rule

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  • What in the useless statistics Batman? So because a large percentage of people who identify as furries have viewed (not actively view, not prefer, quite simply have viewed) furry pornography, the entire furry community must be a sex thing? That misses more than a few possibilities. Fuck, I've seen gay porn, and I'm not gay. As far as "learning something sexual about someone", unless you're calling learning someone has a fursona learning something sexual about them, this whole thing is a non-sequiter based entirely on anecdotal experience.

  • there are no accidents rule

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  • I don't understand them. I doubt I ever will. But I know I do not hate them. They're doing nothing wrong, hurting no one, leave em be. Simple.

  • Time to admit defeat

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  • No problem, friend. Certainly not the first thing my mind goes to when I consider eating my date :p

  • I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging

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  • Want a rabbit hole of apocryphal knowledge, start digging into gnosticism. It's like more internally consistent Christianity. Also depending on which flavor and particular interpretation, you could arrive at such truths as: Satan runs the church. God(old testament) is an asshole and a fool. Jesus (specifically the divine aspect Christ) is on a rescue mission to save God's mom, Sophia, from the prison world that is earth, that God made specifically to trap her. Judas is a tragic hero who has to kill his friend, Jesus, so that Christ can escape the prison world.

    It's wild, it's a more interesting story than Christianity, and I can ABSOLUTELY see why most of these books were branded heresy.