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@FLRW
There are exceptions, of course.
However, if someone was an idiot until age 40 or 50, there is no reason to believe he will become suddenly smart after that age.
If we are already voting for old guys, we should at least check what their intelligence was in youth.
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@FLRW
Also, how do you tell your child that 95% of deaths are extremely painful? Do we just lie to them and say that it feels good to die from cancer or be run over by a truck?
And life itself is filled with pain.
In USA, 1 in 6 women were victims of rape.
With such odds, I dont see how anyone can claim that pain in life doesnt matter. It sure as hell matters.
I realized that I can be happy only if I literally live in ignorance. You cannot possibly be happy when you know that every second millions of people die in pain. At that point, abortion seems like a relief. Fetus cant feel pain, and didnt ask to be born so better not force it. We are already at 8 billion humans, so is there a point where people say that we have too much humans?
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@CoolApe
I guess simply suggesting the possibility of having a little responsibility and moral values is offensive to some people
Damn right you guess. Who wants moral values of Christianity?
I prefer self-centered moral values, the only consistent moral values that work in practice and provide answer to all moral questions.
Or as Trump says it: "America first!". I guess you like Trump so thats why I mention it. Otherwise, no one should take Trump seriously. He is a liar that sold USA to Putin.
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@CoolApe
Never said I was against birth control
Well, okay.
You do realize we are just animals who like cumming in each other without responsibility and suffery that is child birth?
Hey, gays cant get pregnant. So I guess if abortion is banned, people better turn gay to make Christians angry. Allow abortion or homosexuality increases, thats how you fight against Christians. Also gotta mobilize trans too. People should start identifying as wolves. We can howl the whole night every night to further make Christians uncomfortable. Christians, can you really afford this war on abortion? Me thinks you cant!
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Economy is simple.
There is cost and there is the earning.
Make sure earning is higher than cost or you will be in deficit.
It is so simple that no one understands it and almost everyone is in debt because of that.
I never had debt in my entire life. But then again, I also never had a car. Eh, tomato, tomahto. I find happiness without having to resort to lots of spending. I earn little, spend little.
Well, some people cant be happy unless they own lots of expensive things. I never quite understood such mentality. With limited resources in the world, it seems kinda greedy. Plus, even expensive things break down and you have to buy new ones.
Back to your topic. I dont know why.
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All human life has value only when you arbitrarily assign value to it.
When you do, then creating human life becomes mandatory and women become baby factories.
Then we have too much humans and no one is happy, but at least you got your arbitrary moral values fullfilled, so score one for you.
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I wish my mom had an abortion. Then I wouldnt have to debate about why abortion is good.
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@Greyparrot
Using Trump as an excuse for bad behavior
Yeah, bad behavior such as being poor or wanting to raise taxes on the rich.
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@IlDiavolo
Besides, a man reaches his peak in knowledge at his 50s
Doubt it. When my parents turned 50, they just became dumber and kept forgetting basic things. In fact, I think a person reaches his maximum brain power at age 30. From there, he just keeps getting dumber and less capable of reason.
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Obviously, what is in the mind can be different from what consists the body.
If a man loses an arm, he will miss it. It was his arm. In his mind, he feels the arm he lacks. He wants his arm. Arm is still part of him in his mind.
Now, if a girl loses gender and gets born in wrong body, I cant think why would anyone be upset by the idea that she calls herself a girl.
Like, it doesnt affect you. What do you have with her?
Why exactly do you care?
Now, if someone is trans species, trans age or trans race, it is same.
I dont see why you feel the need to control someone's private life.
Remember that old poem?
First they came for the Communists
And I didnt defend them, because I was not a Communist
Then they came for trans
And I didnt defend them, because I was not trans
Then they came for homosexuals
And I didnt defend them, because I was not a homosexual
Then they came for the Jews, the migrants and the atheists
And I did not defend them, because I was not a Jew, nor migrant nor atheist
Then they came for me
And no one was there to defend me.
What is important is unity. As long as people are united, they are much stronger than when divided.
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Now, I was reading about Prahlad Jani.
The guy didnt eat anything for 40 years.
Most people say that breatharianism is a scam.
People cannot survive by eating air.
Yet in India, there are plenty of these miracles where people go for weeks without water, years without food...
I never thought of eating air before.
I guess you just swallow the air like its food.
Energy of the universe, they say.
So naturally, I wanted to try it out.
I went for one day eating no food.
I only drank water.
And I kinda tried eating air.
I figured you just swallow it instead of inhaling it.
Now, I dont know if I got any nutrition, but somehow I wasnt hungry at all.
No hunger despite not eating anything for the whole day.
So my guess is,
Either air has some nutrition
Either air just fills up stomach, doesnt provide nutrition but just makes you feel full.
The breatharians are usually very skinny, so my guess is that air doesnt have that much nutrition or they didnt eat enough of it.
Eh, trying new things is fun.
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@Greyparrot
Remember in 2016,
MAGA spread videos saying Hillary has poor health, constant seizures, and would die very soon?
Well, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and I will kick you in the nuts so hard you will fly back to Russia.
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@Greyparrot
No, those things happen to everyone. If you actually follow Biden's full speeches you will see that those occurences are extremely rare and just cherry picked by Trump.
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@Greyparrot
There are concerns about President Biden's cognitive abilities
The list of concerns about Trump's cognitive abilities is even longer.
Usually, when someone tells a lie in almost every sentence, we call him mentally ill.
Not in MAGA world tho. In MAGA world they call him supreme emperor president and eternal ruler Trump.
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@Greyparrot
Well, no.
What will happen is
Biden 2024 winning by landslide just as he did in 2020 elections before
Could you imagine losing by 70 points and claiming that you were close to winning?
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@Greyparrot
Presidents after Carter increased the debt without printing money
Yeah, how about another joke?
This one isnt funny at all, just plain rude.
Trump doubled the money supply in 2018-2021.
People often forget that Biden became president in 2021, not in 2020.
Eh, masses and their short term fish memory that can never remember things accuratelly.
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@Greyparrot
If by defeat, you mean
No, I dont mean.
If by fixed inflation, you mean increased the supply of money
Trump did increase the supply of money, yes. Thats what happens when you increase the debt by 8 trillion.
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@Greyparrot
Biden defeated Russia in just 3 years, fixed inflation caused by Trump, redistributed the wealth, reduced budget deficit to 1,5 trillion after Trump increased budget deficit to 4 trillion (Trump = king of debt).
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After Trump, even a chewed piece of gum seems like a good choice.
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@Greyparrot
Biden doesnt need a hat. He won the popular vote.
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@Greyparrot
Largest Percentage of Americans Still Identify as Independents
Yeah, its a good strategy. Identify as independent while wearing MAGA hat and supporting Trump in everything he does.
Of course you are independent. Yesh you are! Yesh you are!
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They say I look like Anakin Skywalker.
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@FLRW
President should be like 30 years old, with long hair, have muscles, ride horses and be a generally cool guy.
In North Korea, Kim is considered to have perfect body and ideal good looks, and often is filmed riding horses.
To counter, we need to elect a sexy president.
We simply cant afford to invest anymore in old fags no one wants to have sex with.
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@cristo71
Kim's hair is perfect for president or dictator.
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Kim Jong Un is young and hot, so America cannot counter him with old men as presidents.
They cant compete with Kim's young good looks.
Science shows that brain decreases in performance as you age.
America needs someone young and hot to represent it.
Anyone over 40 should not be president.
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@n8nrgim
Thats actually a very nice circular reasoning.
"You can choose because you can choose."
you could choose to beat your wife. or you could choose not to beat your wife.
You can only have one of those at the time. Plus, why would someone choose not to beat his wife? I assume he was programmed to make that choice while living in delusion that you can choose your choice.
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i think the argument that skeptics and atheists have... that humans are nothing than elaborate flesh robots, is asinine
Yeah, you are not a robot. I am not a robot either. Even tho I dont have free will, and just act the way God programmed me, I am still very special and umm yeah, something like that.
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@FLRW
Trump hates women too. He also really hates poor people and Mexicans.
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@Greyparrot
We should become knights with moral absolutes instead of consequentialist lesser evil.
We dont want any evil, greater or lesser.
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@oromagi
It seems that poor Greyparrot will never get his chance to be one of Portnoy's bitches.
How rude.
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@FLRW
Eh, nuclear war or no nuclear war...
It most likely wont happen.
But if it did happen, then being ready would be good.
Besides, people usually enjoy fishing and hunting, and they enjoy watching those survival shows.
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@FLRW
Don't forget, Duck and Cover
Well, yeah that too. Although I wouldnt put much faith in that right now. Ducking and large shelters dont work when people run out of food.
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@n8nrgim
Its also useful if you find yourself in a survival situation or just want to save money.
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The nuclear war might happen, so better be ready.
Either the nukes will hit you, or they will miss you.
If they hit you, better be in bunker.
However, if nukes miss your area, you have a whole new problem.
Since the supplies of food will quickly be depleted in your area, what will happen is that millions of hungry people will form gangs to fight over whats left.
And if you have supplies, those gangs will attack you. Actually, they will attack you even if you dont have supplies.
So naturally, you will want to have place where you can hide from others, place that cannot be easily found by others, something like hole in the ground deep in the forest.
You will also want to have supplies of food and water. Choose food that can stay good for years. Also, make sure wild animals cant get to your food.
Now, thats not the only thing you want to rely upon.
You will also want to hunt and forage.
Of course, you will want to be in parts of forest that has lots of chestnut, walnut and hazelnut trees, since these are edible. Acorns are edible too. However, you must cook them.
Make sure you learn to tell difference between these trees and poisonous look alikes.
Cooking means you also need lots of fire starters to last for years. Lighters, matches and similar things.
Whats also edible is part of tree's bark called cambium. Some pine trees have edible cambium.
Bird's eggs can be found at bird's nests. Likewise, some small animals can be found at animal's nests if you can find nests.
If you find squirrel's nest, you can steal her nuts.
There is also wild honey, if you manage to find it. You will have to cover large area in look for food.
Drinking blood from animals will give you some nutrition, but dont drink too much and learn to process it first.
Eating insects is also a good way to survive. However, its really disgusting too.
Finding roots of some plants, like burdock, is good since its edible.
For hunting, I believe gun might not be a good choice, since it makes lots of noise. Well, some dont, but still.
Bow and arrow are good enough. You also need fishing equipment for fishing, assuming there is river, lake, sea... nearby.
You might also want a slingshot. Its good for hunting small birds.
Since food will not be easily available, you probably want to practice one meal per day.
We can all only hope that nuclear war doesnt happen, because if it does happen, I will no longer be able to be a vegetarian.
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@cristo71
Its called trolling. You pretend to be smart and I pretend to care. In the end, no one wins, but at least we spend time with each other.
And no, still no one cares or talks about your topic when we can simply talk about other things instead, you know, things that arent boring.
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@n8nrgim
The poor people can still sleep outside.
Plus, with trickle down economy, there is a good chance that the rich will invest in cheaper houses for poor.
It might take 2000 years, but it will happen for sure.
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@Greyparrot
What do you guys think?
I dont think.
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@cristo71
I notice that you are the only poster to address the thread topic in earnest
Oh for fucks sake, nobody cares about your topic.
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@Double_R
Not my fault you are so blinded by your preconceptions of me to listen to what I'm actually saying.
You seem to be having problem with making people understand you, so no wonder you prefer pow pow instead of reasonable conversation.
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@cristo71
Its okay. We accepted your concession.
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@ponikshiy
Russia is a strange place. I thought you guys kill bears and drink their blood.
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Eh, I knew that bow and arrows could be used for hunting. But slingshot? Damn.
Those slingshots seem to be fine if you are ever in a survival situation where you need to shoot at things.
Slingshot, bow and arrow, fishing equipment... really makes a fine set for survival in case of nuclear war or really any undesirable situation.
Now, I dont approve of eating meat because I am a vegetarian who doesnt like causing pain to other sentient beings for no reason other than pure fun.
But sure, it does seem like free food is just flying all around us and after the current society collapses we gonna have to eat those birds, fish and whatever we can find and eat.
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@Vegasgiants
Don't like it....change the rules
Well, no need to change all the rules. Just the ones that apply to you.
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@Greyparrot
People gonna go all Pikachu faced when people who hate Trump will vote for him anyway because of all this bullshit
Better vote for Pikachu instead.
I think we can create it as AI character.
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Well, sure a lot of fighting going on here.
"Your fallacy is..."
"No, your fallacy is..."
Eh, Trump is as popular as Hitler.
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I dont see why not. Housing is rather shitty in USA. It cant possibly be worse. People who choose to be homeless actually save thousands of dollars a month. But many are homeless because they cant pay the high rent.
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