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@zedvictor4
The paranormal is best explained by a psychologist.
Well, phsychology is the science of the mind so you're not that wrong. In fact, I met several psychologists that were really interested in the subject because they believe it can be true.
If I am interested in the paranormal is because I am open minded mainly and the information about that is somewhat consistent.
Besides, paranormal is not necessarily see "ghosts". I showed you the case of Chico Xavier, now I show you the case of Pachita, the mexican shaman who performed psychic surgeons. This case is rather interesting because it has to do with the power of the mind. We all have the ability to use the mind to materialize and dematerialize, as if we were in a Matrix.
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Between these two old men, Trump is the least bad by far.
Nevertheless, it would be good that both of them don't participate in the elections.
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@n8nrgim
Well, to a certain extent we're kind of flesh robots because we make things in a programmed way, but on the other hand we are free to do certain things that I think make us special, like the creativity for example. We can create stuff and that is not a trait of robots or the AI. And as to the programmed way we behave that is written in the DNA, thanks to the advent of epigenetics, we are able to change it, so we are robots capable of changing the way we are "wired", we design ourselves.
Besides that, there are paranormal phenomenons that lead us to believe there is something more beyond this world. I opened some threads about it where I mentioned this conspicous medium called Chico Xavier who was able to communicate with the afterlife world or whatever it is. There are a lot thing related to paranormal phenomenos that should be investigated by the science because I don’t think it's bullshit, it's something real that MUST have an explanation.
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@Double_R
Evidence can always come up sooner or later, that's not how we determine whether to investigate someone. We investigate when we have evidence sufficient to justify diverting public resources towards said investigation. We do not have that. "Because Hunter is a criminal" does not qualify.Moreover, what exactly was Hunter charged with? Lying on a gun application and failure to pay taxes... Really?
Look, bald man, the investigation is still ongoing so just let it finish and only then we can tell who was wrong.
But as I already said it, Biden needs to go because everyone wants this, even the democrats. Vox populi, vox dei.
What behavior exactly? Please be specific.
I refer to the dubious reputation of old Joe who was a politician all his life.
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@Vegasgiants
Well, at least you can agree with the fact that he can quit because of his health issues. I mean, nobody knows if next month he starts to talk about how the US is dealing with the vietnam war. :)
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@Double_R
Evidence is what you need to substantiate your claims. If you don't have it then you do not have justification to assert Biden's involvement.What you seem to be alluding to are highly circumstantial examples that fail under any level of scrutiny and even if left unquestioned do not pass the Occam's razor test. All of this Biden crime family stuff is pure propagand
I was about to agree with you on the evidence argument, but deeming this serious case as "pure propaganda" is beyond all reason. Hunter is not only inmoral but also a criminal so investigating his father is a logical thing to do because sooner or later an evidence can come up as a result of it. If Hunter weren't guilty it wouldn't make sense to bother old Joe.
There is no certainty of the crime, that is true, but there are not doubts either about Joe's behavior.
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@Vegasgiants
Biden need only last long enough to be reelected.....then Harris will take over
I didn't see this comment. It's interesting to know this strategy from democrats, but it's too risky, Biden is not popular anymore.
I would go for the impeachment if I were a democrat.
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@Vegasgiants
I bet a million dollars that does not happen
Why are you so sure? Don’t you like Harris? 😁
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@Greyparrot
I suspect that democrats also want Joe out because otherwise they will lose the elections. So I wouldnt be surprised if Joe is impeached with the help of his own party.
Old Joe is a disgrace. Hahaha.
Old Joe is a disgrace. Hahaha.
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@Double_R
I've got to make it clear that I said the corruption around him, so Joe might be involved in this case involuntarily, decieved by his son that took advantage of his father's politcal power. I mean, there is no way Hunter could make it without the help of old Joe.
So, we can't be too naive to think Joe is not involved. He is. The fact that there is no evidence shouldn't be an excuse to absolve him because there are many clues. And I think most of the policial analysts and journalists point to the same direction.
Whatever it is, he will have to quit or be impeached. That is a fact.
So, we can't be too naive to think Joe is not involved. He is. The fact that there is no evidence shouldn't be an excuse to absolve him because there are many clues. And I think most of the policial analysts and journalists point to the same direction.
Whatever it is, he will have to quit or be impeached. That is a fact.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
I don’t need to be more specific, the news is at anyone's fingertips. If you don't want to see it, that is not my problem, it's yours.
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@ponikshiy
What is your net worth and age? Perhaps we can arrange something.
I'm 40 yo and I can pay at most $200 per hour for the girlfriend experience . 🤣
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Tell me, where to you get your information?
From the news.
I've got tell you, your defense for Biden is really pathetic. Joe should be at home playing with his grand-children but you think he should keep doing something that he clearly can't. Lol.
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@ponikshiy
So comprehensible input, it will take you 1000 hours to learn russian this way. And culture. Also I would sat try to hold off speaking until you understand most of what is said in "slice of life" russian sitcoms.
Yeah. I indeed learned portuguese banging a brazilian chick that was really hot. I'm not interested in learning russian but I think I would make an exception if I ever met a girl from Russia. 😁
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@ponikshiy
So you think Harris is going to be president anyway and nobody will kick her out, not even the own americans. Interesting.
By the way, you're probably the only russian that knows more about the US than any other american. And your english is almost perfect. Teach me how to do it, please. 😁
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So far, it's crystal clear that Biden wouldn't last long in the presidency. I mean, his health issues, the shameless corruption around him, the economic crisis that is getting closer and closer, the migration crisis, the possible outbreak of a war, everything seems to be against Joe.
Being said that, it's logic that Kamala Harris, being the VP, must assume as the first female president of the US, but from what I see people don't like her. Republicans say they prefer Biden over Harris in the presidency because she is a threat for the country, but as I said, the situation is unbearable and Joe has to go home.
Is it possible that americans avoid Harris as president? If it's so, who should assume the presidency of the US? The speaker of the US House of Representatives? Enlighten me, please.
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@Greyparrot
So you know your place, and have surrendered quietly. What a good person.
This is what we call karma. Lol.
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@Stephen
Though rarely mentioned in the Old Testament 'satans' are portrayed as obedient underling servants or sons of gods (the bene ha - elohim) who's duty it is to perform specific tasks or strategic obstruction. Whenever a bene ha - elohim satan appears in the Old Testament he is seen as a fully signed up member of the heavenly court- one that carries out god's more aggressive dictates and is also know as an obstructer and accuser.So in this regard, why is it that the Christian Church felt it necessary to wrap around an emissary of god a myth that is only worthy of a gothic novel that has no historicity to it whatsoever?
I'm not an expert on chirsianity but as far as I remember the devils are heavenly messengers of God's bad news which can explain the bad reputation of these entities in later interpretations.
As of the Eden serpent, it's the same allegory of the serpent that showed up in front of Jesus, aka the Christ. Many phylosophers and theologists agree that this serpent represents the ego or the excesive self-esteem, it's part of our nature. I think I talked about it in past topics.
Last but not least, Satan is also a server of the christian God as well as the devils I mentioned before. So, christians blame Satan for all their misfortunes when in reality they should blame Jehova who is their God that is in charge of all the entities that intervene in the human destiny.
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@Greyparrot
Have you seen the appointed generals in charge of the US military? All of them are far left.
Holy shit!!!
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@Greyparrot
When it's not possible to change the command, the left party usually creates a paramilitary group that will take over the country in the long run. But it depends on the context of each country.
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@Greyparrot
Defunding the police is a precursor to martial law. Democrats will support martial law. Protection for the elites will always be, as we saw with Jan 6. There will always be the convenient excuse to destroy more liberties in the name of "national security." Covid taught us that the public is okay with that level of fascism and control over our lives.
Yes, you're right, but before that they need to change the high command with other in line with the democrat party.
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@Greyparrot
"Defund the police" is a well known policy of the left party that allows them to rule the country without too much opposition in a long period of time. And don't get surprised if they propose to defund the army either.
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@ponikshiy
To be clear I am pretty sure trump us referring to armed robbers not looters, if he is referring to looters he is likely just being hyperbolic
Well, I'm pretty sure Trump was referring to the looters because this is what is going on the most in the US, a group of people get into a store, they grab stuff like any real customer, get past the cashier without paying and just go out as if nothing happened. There are tons of videos in youtube of said cases, it's really a shame for the americans.
Besides, it doesn't make sense to talk about shooting armed robbers when the police do that all the time.
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@FLRW
In Florida, Governor DeSantis said " You loot, we shoot!"
Really? It's usual in a presidential election that candidates make promises impossible to keep like the wall payed by mexicans, but if there is another politician that says the same I guess it's possible.
Then, it is true that americans don't give a shit about human rights, don't they? What about black people rights to loot? :)
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Is that even possible in the US?
From what I know, the police in the States are really brutal and the law seemingly allows them to be so. That's why I ask if it's possible to shoot a looter when is caught red handed considering that most of them are unarmed and according to human rights you can't shoot an unarmed person. Maybe it's possible given that americans don't give a shit to human rights (you still have death penalty), but on the other hand maybe it's not because most of the looters are black and the victimism can arise. That seems to be a dilemma.
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@Best.Korea
How do you know it if there is no direct testimony of Jesus, aka the Christ?
As there is no any reliable source of what Jesus really said, we have to rely on the many interpretations of the bible there are around. So, which interpretation do you refer to?
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@Best.Korea
I've never seen a troll call "troll" to another person. Rofl.
Shame on you, BK. 😁
Shame on you, BK. 😁
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@Critical-Tim
I agree with what the experience can say. The universe seems to have a "design" with repetitve patterns that can be found in the human beings or other living beings. The universe is full of similar patterns of design.
So, what we can see in our brain's structure, with processing capabilities and memory, can be seen in other realms like in the quantum dimension which is the lowest scale or in the same universe at the highest scale.
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@Critical-Tim
It's possible that when our brains shut down, our comprehension diminishes. However, we continue to be in sensory contact with everything we were exposed to before. This might lead us to believe that we are in contact with what appears to be the entire universe, although in reality, it's the same experiences we had before, only without the sense of awe. This feeling of awe could be a result of having lower consciousness but normal sensory input. It makes the experience seem like normal consciousness in relation to the heightened sensory input we now perceive.
There is a lot to know about our brains, for science is almost a mistery. But the key to comprehend the complexity of the mind is in the quantum mechanics.
The concept of quantum entanglement can explain that all in the universe is connected, that everything in the universe works as one being wchih is the concept of oneness that I refered some posts ago.
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@zedvictor4
That's why there are a lot sects in christianity, because they can't agree with the interpretation of the bible. Lol.
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@Sidewalker
Meditation isn’t exclusive to the Asian religions, most religions have meditation in some form, call it contemplation, meditation, prayer, they are various ways of reorienting thought which is common to all faiths.
Let me dissent with you. So far, the posters in this topic think meditation and prayer have the same goal which is bring peace/happiness to the mind, I can agree with that. What I disagree though is that prayer is a sort of meditation, that is simply untrue. Prayer depends on faith in a superior being that is going to listen to your wishes which basically means that you have to be enough stupid to think that a superior being exists for fullfilling your wishes, almost like a fairy. On the other hand, meditation doesn't depend on anything but only on yourself. When a person medidates, he's putting his mind in a state of deep relaxation which causes the body to sort out its problems (meaning illnesses or other conditions), apart from bring peace and hapinness. As you can see, meditation is also beneficial for the emotional and physical health according to medical investigations.
From a strictly physical, scientific standpoint, we are continuous with everything else there is and everything else that's going on, we are something the Universe is doing, and yet, we experience that reality “as though” it is something separate and independent of us. In human beings, reality is artificially bifurcated into two distinct aspects of “us” and “not us”, or more formally, “subject” and “object”. Consequently, our experiential reality as individuals resonates with an intuition of wholeness and connection that we all share, and this culturally manifests itself in Spirituality from which evolved the various religious practices.As far as I can tell all religions consider this division of reality into its “subjective” and objective bases to be fundamental to understanding the nature of Man. They all seem to be contending that we are an essential part of the ultimate reality and the very existence of “objective” knowledge requires an illusory distinction between knowing subject and reality known. It is simply because of the fact that we are a "symbolic" animal that all faiths must explain this separation in symbolic or allegorical terms, by the use of metaphor, and it is why it always seems to be primary to their metaphysical constructions and their definition of human nature. This is fundamental to all faiths, it is Hinduism's "Moksha", Buddhism's "Acintya", Taoism's unification of the Yin and Yang oppositions, and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam's "eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge".
I've heard something about that. May I know where you've got this scientific interpretation of wholeness?
What I'm trying to do here is to complement the explanation of wholeness with people's experiences. If you see a pattern in these experiences we are talking about a scientific phenomenon liable to be studied. It's not just in meditation or NDEs but I also see it in the dream. There are lot of stories about people communicating with other people in dreams, and also people having premonitions. One theory that I agree with is that we all are connected in one consciousness network, like a big mind running in the background, and this big mind computes all the information everyone has about his reality for rendering a premonition or a prediction of the future. I actually think this is the way seers predict the future because they have the ability to access this "big mind" which can be the universe consciousness I guess.
I find it most interesting that theNDE is experienced so vividly, it is an intense conscious event that is inverselycorrelated with the neural correlates of consciousness. As the brain shuts down, the lower level ofneural activity is associated with a much higher degree of consciousness. Experiencedas if, rather than consciousness being a product of the physical activities of the brain, it is more like consciousnessis being freed from the constraints of its materialistic containment.
Right. It's fascinating.
If the goal is transcendence of the self, thenperhaps both Buddhism and Christianity are right when rightly understood. Perhaps, a transcendence involves a higher understanding which makes it evident that both conceptions are true, and once this state of being is realized, that they are one and the same.
I think there lies the problem, that buddism and christianty (basically what Jesus taught and not the bullshit in the old testament) are wrongly understood because they are religions, pure dogmatism that refuse to adapt to the context. If you strip Jesus of all the nonsensical stories you'll have a Buddha.
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@zedvictor4
I would say that comment is a biased and stereotypical viewpoint relative to one side of a National ideological division.
Take into consideration that I don't refer to the person that holds the religion but to the religion itself. This has been analized by several thinkers and most of them came to the conclusion that Islam is not a good thing for the western society just because of the "qualities" of Islam that I've presented. Check out the work of Douglas Murray, for example.
I do not fear British Muslims, though it is always wise to be wary of anyone who holds an extreme ideological outlook, which might be Islamism or Catholicism or even veganism or footballism.
Oh, no, man, you can't compare islam with the other religions in western society. If we are more or less safe it's because we live in a christian environment, like it or not. Even the jewish extremists are kinder, they at most can slap you or spit you, but not kill you.
If you asked me to choose between a common western criminal or a muslim extremist, I would choose the former by far because the last one would likely brainwash more easily other muslims to create an organized terrorist group that in the long run is more difficult to defeat. It's like a virus.
Maybe you say all this because you haven't experienced the many "benefits" of living among muslims. As far as I know, you are in Wales, I mean, you are pretty safe there, far away from the migration waves that sway the european foundations.
And I have visited several reasonably moderate Muslim countries and have always been treated with the utmost respect, and I have reciprocated accordingly.
Such as? If you say Turkey, I wouldn't be sure to pick this country as an examplary model of Islam.
Sadly, extremism in the name of obsessive ideology is perpetuated by the few and disrupts the lives of the many. (The Crusades for example).
The true factor of the crusades was merely economic. Nobody would have dared to give his life for a fucking cross. Lol.
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@Critical-Tim
I see as you have drawn the deep distinction between Buddhism and Christianity, respectively seeking inward, while the other seeking outward,...
I really don't want to talk about christianity because this is not the topic, but I can't help noticing the funny contradiction this christian person you are responding to has just exposed.
He claims christianity seeks outward which is completely at odds with what Jesus the Christ taught to his disciples: "The kingdom of God is within you", Luke 17: 20-21.
With all due respect, this dude is a farce.
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@zedvictor4
Curious that you say this when in multiple occassions you stand for muslims, especially in the inmigration issue.
Islam is a religion of hatred, war and misogyny. Nothing good can come from this.
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@Best.Korea
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.
In spanish there is a saying that goes like this: "más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo", which translated means that the devil knows more from being old than from being the devil.
So, in other words, you should be extremely careful with zedvictor4 and FLRW. LOL.
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@sadolite
I would say he let the Romans capture, torture and kill him even though he knew they were coming. Allowing yourself to be captured, tortured and murdered on purpose seams pretty fucking stupid if you ask me. I would prefer someone die fighting for me than saying they had themselves senselessly butchered in my name.
You have a point here. Jesus commited suicide, seemingly.
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@Intelligence_06
They should. Why didn't they?
I think they should, like in China.
But I guess it's a different culture, americans like to spend, chinese people like to save. I don't know, there might be advantages/disadvantages of one cultural habit over the other.
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@zedvictor4
Of course, morality and emotion are arbitrary concepts.
I think this is the quid of the matter. Morality is a subjective concept.
During the 80s, there was a policy of one child in China so abortion was rampant and people couldn't care less about it.
Maybe the western society is deeply influenced by christianity which makes people think a fetus is an actual person. It's like when a dog is a pet, but there will always be people that deem dogs as children.
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One thing to rescue from budhism is the meditation which is a powerful tool to get to what they call Nirvana and it's not exclusive to this religion, I think it is also present in other asian religions which was spread all over the world for our delight.
I have to add to the definition you gave of Nirvana that it is also a state where you feel the oneness of man and universe, meaning that we and all that exists in this universe are one only conscioussness. According to some people's experiences, when the meditator manages to activate his pineal gland, which is the most difficult thing to reach when meditating, apart from happiness and peace, he can feel he is part of the whole universe, he feels what it feels to be a plant, an animal, a mountain and everything that exists in this universe at the same time, it's like an omnipresent experience. I've seen this is the same as the near-death experience, people that are dying feels a profound peace and happiness, and also that they are one with the universe which is very pleasant for them to the point that they wanted to stay there. It's as if our real "home" or consciouss state of being were after death.
I'm not sure if Buddhims claims we are one with the universe, I think it does, but as far as I can tell this belief that we are one consciousness that survives after death is based on the experience, contrary to christianity that holds beliefs on mere stories.
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@FLRW
The article you refer to is based on the mexican inmigration basically, up to 2010.
As far as I can tell, mexican inmigrants were people in desperate need of work and progress whereas the venezuelan inmigrants are people that look for social assistant and charity because they are part of those generations that were accustomed to it by the 21st century socialist goverment of Hugo Chavez. Moreover, I said many venezuelan criminals are going in droves to the US among the inmigrants because Madure released them, so it's not difficult what to expect.
I hope I am wrong, sincerely, but what it's going on in Colombia, Ecuador (especially this one that is out of control), Peru and Chile makes me tell all this.
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This is not new for you, I suppose. Fidel Castro once sent criminals from Cuba to the States as refugees so to destabilize the country in the 70s (see Scarface as reference).
Well, something similar has been coming about over the last years. Maduro has been releasing Venezuelan criminals to send them all over the continent which has been a big headache for many governments in South America given that the crime rate has raised since then.
What is really terrifying though is that as of late Maduro let a very violent gang boss run away from a dangerous jail taken over by the criminal group Tren de Aragua, and several Latinamerican countries are really worried because they think this gangster escaped to their countries. Fortunately, it seems that this gangster didn't stay in South America, so it's possible that he was heading to the american south border taking advantage of the permissive migration laws of today's american government.
I think americans don’t learn from their past mistakes. Do they?
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@Intelligence_06
Well, I guess it's useless to teach kids about business when they don't work and earn money.
It's more uselful though to teach them about finance, basically the importance of saving money and finance planning, so that they don’t get a credit card and end up with big debts as soon as they start to work like many americans actually do.
It's more uselful though to teach them about finance, basically the importance of saving money and finance planning, so that they don’t get a credit card and end up with big debts as soon as they start to work like many americans actually do.
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This guy has Trump as breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jesus, man, you act worse than a woman scorned. 😁
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@Best.Korea
I'm not talking about your parents but the average person. I didn't make it up, this is in fact the results of some investigations.
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@Greyparrot
I guess this is the exact reason why Trump surpasses Biden in the polls by more than 10 points.
The democrat party must find another candidate to face Trump because Biden is doing a favor to the republicans. Lol.
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@Best.Korea
I think the US had already a sexy president who was JFK. Am I right, americans? 😁
Besides, a man reaches his peak in knowledge at his 50s, so I would say a president should be between 40 and 60 to perform very well his job.
More than 60 is not bad either. In fact, person is considered old when he gets 65 which is the retirement age. Besudea
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@Tradesecret
Am I dogmatic? Yes, I am.
This is all what I wanted to know. Have a nice day, ma'am.
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@YouFound_Lxam
If there exists no God, then how is it that humans possess free will?
There is no free will. I mean it's not full free will, I would say it's half free will because we are sort of programmed by our genes and cultural background.
In other words, why do we care?
We are social animals, that's why we care of people of our same species.
I think you need more general knowledge, bro.
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What worries me is the fact that to deem any theory as pseudosience you only need a bunch of scientists that sign a petition to call it pseudoscience. Lol.
I saw the same attitude on other theories like the theory of evolution. I mean, scientists are also humans and as such tend to be authoritarians about their point of view on the ground that they are the only ones who know about the subject, which is obvioisly a fallacy.
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@Greyparrot
As a result, public housing tends to decline into ruin over time as it's not managed by the most talented and able people.
I've read long time ago that the new york city was going to let the private companies manage their public housing buildings because, as you said, poor people don’t take care of what they are given.
Another strategy to build more affordable housing is let real state companies build more built-up area as long as they include social housing in their projects.
All in all, the only way to reduce the housing prices is by building more houses, because the more supply you have, the more competition there is and the lower the prices.
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