arkey

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by arkey 2mo ago
> The statement that Christianity is directly responsible for - or has anything to do with abolishment of slavery is absolutely baseless. I politely invite you to do your own research, so you don't have to take my word for it. >
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by arkey 2mo ago
You're making my point with your rebuttal. A lot of people think different about right and wrong, good and evil, than I or you do, and that's because they look towards different sources. I'll assume you think cutting the hand
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by arkey 2mo ago
> Yes, but with Christians there's always some sort of thick-layer of self-serving dishonesty on top of it all. At this point you're just rooted in absurd prejudice, this conversation is getting nowhere. > because that'
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by arkey 2mo ago
You're right in plenty of what you're saying, that's why I'd recommend you reading Romans and James in the Bible. But stuff like "but never really have try that hard" and "(but never actually do anything)&
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by arkey 2mo ago
As someone else mentioned, you can read the book of Romans or the epistle of James to find out by yourself why this idea is absurd. But simplified, say you have a spouse who you dearly love. And say you found out that said spouse would forg
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by arkey 2mo ago
> These are people who seem to put in more effort than most, and are sincere in their belief. No, check this out: "have WE not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?&
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by arkey 4mo ago
> It can be read negatively against boys or negatively against girls so why post it? This part I really do not understand. The undeniable fact that boys and girls are different in several aspects does not make either superior or inferior
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by arkey 5mo ago
Yes, but also no. I have a prioritised list, it's simply that not everything fits inside the list, because my time is limited. Instead of "Not enough time" we could say "This is not high enough a priority".
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by arkey 9mo ago
> It also means your kid has no experience of online interactions with strangers, basically no SNS literacy, which also sounds like a disaster waiting to happen to me. I think it would be better to allow them to be exposed to all this in
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by arkey 9mo ago
And that's the root cause of many, many issues. It's a pity so many of these issues get simply patched up through other means instead of properly addressing the real root cause.
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by arkey 11mo ago
This is like saying food is good. It is. But then you have ultra-processed food, junk food, food you might be allergic to... Some medicines are good, some medicines are the lesser bad, some medicines will kill you if you take them when not
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by arkey 1y ago
You don't need to be fake in order to be nice. Become nice, then you won't have to fake it. One way of becoming nice is to act nice. A nice person is a person who acts nice towards other people. You can act different than how you
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by arkey 1y ago
What about because something is objectively good for you? For example, you could learn to like fermented foods (if you don't) because they are very healthy for you.
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by arkey 1y ago
What if my authentic feeling and behaviour was to slap you in the face and laugh at you because you answered 'Yes.' to an 'either/or' question? The problem is that for humanity, unrestrained behaviour will very quic
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by arkey 1y ago
In this paradigm you describe, should we then strive to be authentic or should we refrain? Don't you think this would open the doors to an endless amount of bad behaviours?
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by arkey 1y ago
> people who play music/video aloud on public transport But that's not being authentic, that's being plain rude, and there should be a difference. You can be authentic and still respect boundaries and be considerate toward
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by arkey 1y ago
> If it worked, it would just be conventional medicine. There are many reasons why this is not true. One of them is profits, another one (at least where I live) is the mass oriented, streamlined healthcare, in which there are not enough
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by arkey 1y ago
> I don't think most people engaged in traditional medicine care about it actually being healthier, again because they are first and foremost interested in the ritual and cultural aspects rather than the effectiveness of the active
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by arkey 1y ago
Fair enough. Two points here, then: - From a strictly scientific standpoint, wouldn't it be interesting to properly understand why and how it works? - From a purely practical standpoint, who cares about any of that if not only it works
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by arkey 1y ago
Placebo is by definition highly subjective, and not even in the sense of one's opinion, but rather that it works or not at a subject level.
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by arkey 1y ago
Well that's a bit too much of a generalisation maybe? Yes, there are old ways that have been proven wrong, which were based on ignorance at the time, but there are also old ways which are totally legit and are little known or accepted
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by arkey 1y ago
> You get a lot of medicine that looks quite a bit like quack medicine It depends what you understand by "quack medicine". To me, in the beginning, all the stuff about drinking weird plants and doing homemade remedies did sound
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by arkey 1y ago
Interesting, you're describing exactly what I went through a few years ago. In my case, however, I turned to pure ginger infusions, following the advice of a herbalist. Haven't gone through it again so far, plus it also works grea
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by arkey 1y ago
I am learning how to weld and work metal, work wood, grow a vegetable garden, keep chickens, maybe raise some later on... All this AI hype is pushing me even more to think that the value of a job is inversely proportional to the likelihood
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by arkey 1y ago
This reply deeply disturbs me for some reason.
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by arkey 1y ago
Sadly we've all seen this unfold in current times.
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by arkey 1y ago
A blockade would mean a slow death for thousands or potentially millions of Japanese, as well at the cost and risk of tens of thousands of American troops, as well as a stupid amount of resources and infrastructure. The message in Hiroshima
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by arkey 1y ago
Remove single points of failure, ensure redundancy of dependencies, etc. Being able to contact other people in case of an emergency by definition would make him more independent than he was, obviously. Maybe not independent, but less critic
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by arkey 1y ago
You should play a game of Age of Empires, and have your Villager population halved at some point of the game. See what happens then.
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by arkey 1y ago
That's amazing. I'm in Spain, absolutely different landscape here. I guess your government is trying to boost both higher education and birth rates.

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