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Vaccine hesitant versus Anti-Vaxxer Why are they bundled into the same category?

When I was in Japan in the 80's, everybody was wearing masks.
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when will jesus return?
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@Polytheist-Witch

Actually, science has everything to do with religion. It shows that it is a myth made up by early man when he was looking at his rotting leg and two dead children.
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How to overturn Roe v. Wade

Doesn't God abort all humans at some point in their lives? Unfortunetly he does it when they can feel the most pain.
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How to overturn Roe v. Wade
God doesn't have any problem killing fetuses, why should Man?
Overall, the "average" risk of miscarriage is estimated to be between 12% and 15% of recognized pregnancies by 20 weeks gestation.
Remember that it is not a human until "first breath".
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TRUMP KEEPS DENYING GOLDEN SHOWERS UNPROMPTED- FORCING AMERICANS to AGAIN WONDER WHY
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@Wylted
It has been said that the entire Steele dossier was totally and thoroughly debunked by the Mueller report, etc. But the Mueller report merely found some of the evidence inconclusive.
However, the 1,000-page Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference confirmed Steele's memos regarding coordination between Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort and his Russian contact, Kilimnik, who talked almost daily during the campaign, communicating through encrypted technologies. The report also says that Kilimnik was likely a participant in the Kremlin scheme to hack and leak Clinton campaign emails.
The report states that the Ritz-Carlton, where Trump stayed in 2013, is a “high counterintelligence risk environment” that has “at least one permanent Russian intelligence officer on staff, government surveillance of guests’ rooms and the regular presence of a large number of prostitutes, likely with the tacit approval of Russian authorities.”

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@Wylted
Michel Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal attorney, said in 2020 that Trump was fixated on his predecessor Barack Obama and attributed it to envy.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow cited a passage in Cohen’s book, “Disloyal,” in which Cohen suggests Trump did not necessarily believe false claims that Obama was born outside the U.S. Rather, the book states, Trump was seeking to capitalize on issues that “would arouse strong feelings for those who took his side.”
“His hatred for Barack Obama is plain and simple: he’s Black, he went to Harvard Law, he graduated at the top of his class, he’s incredibly articulate, he’s all the things that Donald Trump wants to be,” Cohen said. “And he just can’t handle it. So what do you do if you’re Donald Trump and you can’t handle it? You attack it.”
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Industrialization made the world more wealthy than ever before
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@n8nrgmi

All the USA has to do is to introduce USAcoin. Bitcoin has no value yet it is worth $61,109 U. S. dollars.
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Who won in 2020?

Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels.

Now it is the propaganda of Adolf Trump.
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TRUMP KEEPS DENYING GOLDEN SHOWERS UNPROMPTED- FORCING AMERICANS to AGAIN WONDER WHY

A law suit filed in 2016 accussed Donald Trump (along with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein) of raping a 13 year old girl in 1994 at a party at Epstein’s place.  This is why Christians love Trump. They remember that Mary was a 14 year old virgin. Trump was just trying to be like God.  Donald Trump in a speech in 2019 proudly quoted a messenger who said he was “the second coming of God,” and he described himself as “the chosen one,” looking up at the sky. 


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Is there a medium in the house?

Oh, sorry, I thought the topic was about brain size of the Trump voter. I was going to say no, only small.
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Cat Math
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@Greyparrot
No, you see 2 cats, either alive or dead.

Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. Geiger counter) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when exactly quantum superposition ends and reality resolves into one possibility or the other.
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Who won in 2020?
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@Double_R

Obviously every intelligent person will say yes.
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Some here say the universe messes with my brain chemistry
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@Ramshutu

Extremely well stated


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when will jesus return?
So what do the mainstream (and non-Christian) scholars say about all this? Surprisingly very little – of substance anyway. Only Bart Ehrman and Maurice Casey have thoroughly attempted to prove Jesus’ historical existence in recent times. Their most decisive point? The Gospels can generally be trusted – after we ignore the many, many bits that are untrustworthy – because of the hypothetical (i.e. non-existent) sources behind them. Who produced these hypothetical sources? When? What did they say? Were they reliable? Were they intended to be accurate historical portrayals, enlightening allegories, or entertaining fictions?
Ehrman and Casey can’t tell you – and neither can any New Testament scholar. Given the poor state of the existing sources, and the atrocious methods used by mainstream Biblical historians, the matter will likely never be resolved. In sum, there are clearly good reasons to doubt Jesus’ historical existence – if not to think it outright improbable.

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Some here say the universe messes with my brain chemistry
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@secularmerlin
What you say is true. See: Quantum theory and determinism by Lev Vaidman
 It provides a deterministic and local theory for our physical Universe explaining the illusion of randomness and nonlocality in the world we experience.

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Historically, appearance of the quantum theory led to a prevailing view that Nature is indeterministic. The arguments for the indeterminism and proposals for indeterministic and deterministic approaches are reviewed. These include collapse theories, Bohmian Mechanics and the many-worlds interpretation. It is argued that ontic interpretations of the quantum wave function provide simpler and clearer physical explanation and that the many-worlds interpretation is the most attractive since it provides a deterministic and local theory for our physical Universe explaining the illusion of randomness and nonlocality in the world we experience.

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BILL MAHER PREDICTS 2024

I think Trump will be in hospice in two years. It will have something to do with him trying to write Melania and Barron out of his will.
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Zuckerberg is clueless
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@Benjamin
Research has found religious belief is associated with certain regions of the human brain, but there is still much to learn about how these areas influence religious belief. A new study in the journal Neuropsychologia found that lesions in a particular brain region tend to increase religious fundamentalism.
“Human beliefs, and in this case religious beliefs, are one of the cognitive and social knowledge stores that distinguish us from other species and are an indication of how evolution and cognitive/social processes influenced the development of the human brain,” Jordan Grafman of Northwestern University, the study’s corresponding author, told PsyPost.
Grafman and his colleagues examined male Vietnam combat veterans with lesions to part of the brain known as the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. They found veterans with these lesions reported higher levels of religious fundamentalism compared to those without the lesions.
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@Benjamin
Why aren't religious people diagnosed with schizophrenia?
As far as I know, people with schizophrenia say there's voices, people or demons in the room, and disturbing thoughts of something unknown. Religious people say basically the same thing. They hear voices, "feel" a presence of some unknown force, and are told to do things in the name of said force. Why aren't religious people who say this being treated like mentally ill patients?

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is it a weak point that many types of miracles of the bible dont happen nowadays?

Remember that they didn't have smart phones back in olden days when all the miracles were happening. You know, like the Flood.
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Trump’s Enduring Popularity

I have to admit that I used to think that Trump's IQ was 73 like I read in an article. But now I see that he was smart enough to change political parties to one that would nominate him for President even though he was married to someone born in a Communist country and would probably give the Launch Codes to Putin. I know estimate his IQ at 97 which is the average of the Republican party.


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The Biden Border Crisis
When it comes to people in the country without proper documentation, the majority of them didn't cross the Mexican border at all. Most of them came to the United States legally — but then don't leave.
About 700,000 travelers to the United States overstayed their visas in fiscal 2017, the most recent year for which the Department of Homeland Security has published figures. DHS estimated that, as of Sept. 30, 2017, the end of that fiscal year, more than 600,000 of those travelers were still in the U.S.

Also, a lot come in by visa fraud like Melania's Einstein visa.
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My billionth try
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@janesix

You are talking about breathing, right?


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Trump’s Enduring Popularity

The climate in Germany during the 1930s was anger. Adolf Hitler promised to make Germany great again, and he gave them a scapegoat. Which group is our scapegoat now? It is now immigrants. Trump's first wife said he kept a book of Hitler's speeches on a stand next to their bed.



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Why do you still raise Trump as an issue?
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@949havoc

            I REALLY DON'T CAREDO U?
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The fundamental problem with capitalism (as described by Bo Burnham
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@secularmerlin

Pastor Kenneth Copeland is worth $760 million.
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What Will Jesus Look like When he Comes Back?
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@Reece101

I think he will look like Sonny in I, Robot.
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The fundamental problem with capitalism (as described by Bo Burnham

I don't know why anyone who doesn't have a net worth of over $300 million even wants to live.  The world's most expensive private jet belongs to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia who owns an Airbus A380 with a price tag of over 500 million USD.
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APOTHEOSIS

OMG. you really are GOD!
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And, now, a word from our President...
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@949havoc

What kind of airplane do you have?  I only have a Rockwell Commander 114.


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And, now, a word from our President...
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@949havoc

Yes, I am poor (worth less than $300 million). I don't know why poor people even want to live.
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APOTHEOSIS
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@3RU7AL

OR, maybe you realized you screwed up their design, then you decided to hide from them so they never heard from you or saw you.


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And, now, a word from our President...

We have emerged from the four year-long national nightmare of Donald Trump's presidency, but the reckoning of what the nation endured will take years to really understand. Trump was terrible in so many ways that it's hard to catalog them all: His sociopathic lack of regard for others. His towering narcissism. His utter ease with lying. His cruelty and sadism. The glee he took in cheating and stomping on anything good and decent. His misogyny and racism. His love of encouraging violence, only equaled by his personal cowardice. 
But of all the repulsive character traits in a man so wholly lacking in any redeemable qualities, perhaps the most perplexing to his opponents was Trump's incredible stupidity. On one hand, it was maddening that a man so painfully dumb, a man who clearly could barely read — even on those rare occasions when he deigned to wear glasses — still had the low cunning necessary to take over the Republican Party and then the White House.
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atheism is irrational

Sheldon encourages Missy to question the Bible on YOUNG SHELDON, Thursday, Oct. 14 (8:00-8:31 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
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How to unify the country [and how Biden has failed]
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@cristo71

Yes, it's great you can still have a kid through incest in Texas.
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atheism is irrational
Genuinely bad things have happened to me in my life: One of my brothers was murdered; another committed suicide. I've experienced addiction and mental illness. And I, like you, have watched horrors unfold all over the globe. I don't—I can't—believe this to be best of all possible worlds. I think there is genuinely unredeemed, pointless pain. Some of it is mine.
By not believing in God, I keep faith with the world's indifference. I love its beauty. I hate its suffering. I think both are perfectly real, because I experience them both, all the time. I do not see any reason to suspend judgment: I'm here, and I commit. I'm perfectly sincere and definite in my belief that there is no God. I can see that there could be comfort in believing otherwise, believing that all the suffering and death makes sense, that everyone gets what they deserve, and that existence works out in the end.
But to believe that would be to betray my actual experiences, and even without the aid of reasoned arguments, that’s reason enough not to believe.

Crispin  Sartwell
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@n8nrgmi

However, I think your statement  "declaring that there's no evidence for God is irrational" does.
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How to unify the country [and how Biden has failed]
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@949havoc
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I’m prepared to say that I have a record of over 40 years. And that I’m going to be Joe Biden. Look at my record. The fact is that some areas that I think, for example, I think health care is a right not a privilege. I do not support Medicare for All. I will not support Medicare for all. But I do support, making sure that Obamacare is around with a public option, for those who can afford, those who qualify for Medicaid and they don’t get in their state, they would be able to buy it and be able to automatically enroll in the public option, Medicare, that would — but I do not support, you know, forgiving debt loan for every single solitary person no matter where you went to school. But I do support the idea that if in fact you have student debt as a consequence of going to a public university, and your income is under $125,000, it should be forgiven. I do believe that anyone going to school, that in fact goes to a public university and or Community College, they should be able to go for free if income is under $125,000. My wife has a great expression: any country that out-educates is going to out-compete us. We have a whole generation that’s being put behind the eight ball, Joe. You know that. They’re in real trouble. They’re in real trouble right now.



He said, I'm going to BE Biden.
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@Amoranemix

Extremely well stated.



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Outside of parapsychology, telepathy is generally explained as the result of fraud, self-delusion and/or self-deception and not as a paranormal power.  Psychological research has also revealed other explanations such as confirmation bias , expectancy bias , sensory leakage , subjective validation and wishful thinking .
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ABSOLUTE IMBICILES
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@RationalMadman
Sorry, I only came to the topic originally because I thought it was about Trump voters.
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@n8nrgmi

Your low intellect can't see the big picture.
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@n8nrgmi

Transferring conscious linguistic thought from one person to another requires that both persons speak the same language. So you are saying that we can only transfer images telepathically if we don't know the other sources langauge. So we could see God flooding the Earth, but we couldn't hear him explain why.
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Life.
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@RationalMadman
God doesn't give a shit about our agony, both our pleasure and pain cause interesting scenarios for this entity to sit and watch unfold, that is the only reason we exist with the ability to process pleasure and pain.
I actually buy into your theory.
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ABSOLUTE IMBICILES

I think he is Donald Trump. What esle is he going to do in his spare time?  Also, now he can swear and not get banned.
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@n8nrgmi

What language do they use in the Afterlife?
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Life.
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@3RU7AL

Or maybe this universe was God's senior project for his God license. And because it was so poorly designed, he flunked out of God school. I think it probably was the pediatric cancer. 
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Ivermectin and COVID-19
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@Fruit_Inspector

It says that for Ivermectin you need a dose of 350 ng/ml for deworming and you need 4375 ng/ml for SARS-Covid-2 inhibition.

It also state that large doses can cause brain damage.

Ion Channels in the Mammalian Central Nervous System (CNS) Are Also Affected by Ivermectin
Although relatively free from toxicity, ivermectin – when large overdoses are administered – may cross the blood–brain barrier, producing depressant effects on the CNS .
 Ivermectin may also enter the brain when there are mutant multiple-drug-resistance transporters in the blood–brain barrier that fail to exclude from the brain drugs that are present in the plasma. In the brain, ivermectin targets the mammalian glycine receptors (GlyRs), GABA receptors, and nAChRs .
Ivermectin acts as a PAM at a lower concentration (0.03 μM) and as an irreversible agonist at higher concentration on the mammalian GlyRs .
 At nM concentrations, ivermectin potentiates GABA-induced Cl– currents in mouse hippocampal neurons .

It looks like there is much more research to be done.












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Ivermectin and COVID-19
Ivermectin, an inexpensive drug used to kill parasites, has been falsely touted as a treatment for COVID-19. The FDA and medical experts warn against the use of ivermectin to treat the disease. Large studies testing the drug against COVID-19 are ongoing.
Social media users have coined the term “Pfizermectin” in their posts claiming that ivermectin and Pfizer’s new oral antiviral, PF-07321332, are the same drug. According to Pfizer, the drug is being tested in combination with the HIV drug ritonavir in a study on 2,660 people.
There is no relationship at all between the two drugs, said Dr. William A Petri, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Virginia.
“The only way they are alike is that they are both pills,” Petri said.
Dr. Kevin J. Downes, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, agreed, “They are dramatically different molecules. The drugs are different in their structure and their molecular size.”
The drug being studied by Pfizer acts as a protease inhibitor, which prevents a virus from replicating. Other protease inhibitor drugs helped revolutionize the treatment of HIV.
Several posts circulating online wrongly suggest that the pills are the same because ivermectin also acts like a protease inhibitor and keeps the virus from replicating. Ivermectin continues to be studied in relation to COVID-19, however, it has yet to be proven that it can treat COVID-19.
Images of the structure of Pfizer’s new pill and ivermectin can be found online and do not show similarities like the posts describe.
Ivermectin binds to glutamate-gated chloride channels and is used to treat parasite infections, said Joseph Glajch, a consultant in pharmaceutical and analytical chemistry.
“These two are so far apart,” he said. “If you look at how they interact with the body..., they don’t even go to the same pathways or receptors.”
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Life.
See:  Evolutionary aspects of self- and world consciousness in vertebrates

 We conclude that basic aspects of consciousness like primary self and core self (based on anoetic and noetic consciousness) are present in many species of vertebrates and that, even self-consciousness (autonoetic consciousness) does not seem to be a prerogative of humans and of some non-human primates but may, to a certain extent, be present in some other mammals and birds.
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"I died from an overdose for a few minutes. There really wasn't anything. Just blackness and a vague lapse of time. It was almost like waking up from a shitty night's rest and feeling like a horse had kicked me in the chest."
th30xygen

 "They told me I was dead for three minutes. I remember those clips of people saying they experienced some kind of near-afterlife, but for me it was like sleeping. I woke up, they told me how I almost died, I said, 'Oh yeah?' They explained a bunch of stuff and then offered me a grilled cheese...I had Doritos too. 10/10 would die again, it's just nothingness, not scary at all."
zackkorth

"I don't remember any of them. Been declared dead three times and not once did I remember anything during death."
Amihuman159
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