IlDiavolo

Your source is total BS, I have no idea what it's basing it on but this is a situation where I have to say your source is BS. The ranking makes no sense at all.

In what metric are they safest? Those are 2 of the least safe places in Europe.

I think it's the other way around actually. ;) You are trying to argue with a secular person, not a religious one. Their way of life shaped their fairytale justification for it.

Do they now? Could you please show me a Muslim society that is culturally diverse for any extended period of time before everyone caves into Sharia?

That couldn't be the reason, no... The reason is that it's geographically close to the Middle East (with Eastern Europe being the crossover into the part of Europe you probably are alluding to) and a desirable place to live economically, environmentally and technologically at the very least.

You are also fusing religion with culture. I maybe understand why but I am not sure what you mean there. You can appreciate Egyptian and Persian cultural aspects while ignoring the Islam. You can even do that with Omani and Saudi culture.

I think number 6 is unnecessary.

Plus, I would change number 2 with "work hard and save hard". It's not enough to have a job.

i mean you didn't really give a deeper meaning as to why we suffer to begin with. your answer is for us to evolve, but why is it such that we're put into that situation to begin with? 

is your main beef with what i said that i think we probably agree to a life that includes suffering? i did say maybe not all of us do that. and if evolving is a necessary part of our existence why would it be so far fetched to think maybe the ones who have to suffer in that process didn't volunteer to be part of that process?

my impression is that you believe in the afterlife right?

what is your view of why we suffer, or the purpose of suffering? if your view is that suffering is to inform us to avoid said suffering, why is it such that there is suffering to begin with? 

I think that's probably true, we knew what we would experience. We r part of God and eternal and that's what many nde experiencers say so it makes sense. If it's not true that we all came here knowingly then I think at least many of us did

Yep. I can run with those ideas in principle.

I think that scientific minds have alluded to such concepts for quite a while now.

In very simple terms, I have always proposed a GOD principle relative to the evolutionary structuring of energy and matter.

And in fairness to old theologians , I think that their GOD principles were reasonably analogic.

Whereas modern deists should know better, or be taught better. 

Why so sure? We'll see. 😁

I disagree. I gave my point of view in the above response to Zed.

I'm not religious by the way. 

I think people often behave a lot more monstrously in games than in life,

'Because, it's a game,

'Lot of poor poor NPCs. . .

'Lot's of religions have an accounting after one dies,

Some versions of Buddhism for example, I've heard.

Computers process data.....Both internally and externally generated data.

The human computer is a multi-functional management system, developed over some 300,000 years or so.

Whereas advanced electronic computers have been around for less that 100 years.........Let's give them a chance to catch up.

Maybe were looking at some sort of hybrid.

Because I think that downloading consciousness is not too far away......Which is a sort of scary concept.

True peace for the victims is an even greater victory than suffering for the guilty.

All is well that ends well. You'll find not every spiritual ethos focuses on an afterlife; but they all need the story to end well.

Fascinating. I've never seen that book, I swear.

I'll read it as soon as I can. Thanks. 

Pray, dude, pray. You're totally carried away.😁

Oh great, one fantasy replaced by another fantasy. At this point, become a believer in God. You sure are compensating a lot for him. Atheist who cant exactly live without skydaddy's approval.

Then you would have posted in the wrong sub-forum. 

I view God as unwilling and to some extent unable but unlike atheists i say it'sfor a good purpose. It's in our best interest to experience what we do.

Suicide is not really easy. There is no nice way.

Anti racism

Critical race theory

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

Intersectionality

It's also worth considering that conscious morality can influence subconscious morality over time. As we engage in conscious moral reasoning and repeatedly make choices aligned with those reasons, our subconscious reactions and beliefs may gradually shift to be more in line with our conscious values.

Thank you for making this so explicitly clear. Well done.

Each human has differrent and changing set of X, and each express X to their children and others in various ways.

One does not understand reality "correctly" whatever that means. One only ever experiences the best approximate of reality one's brain can conjure.

Not sure what that's in regard to. Until recently one of the few benefits of suburbs was that it created neighborhood communities where kids were allowed to roam around and play with friends where parents would never let kids out on the street in the city.

Of course in a full view of history we can see an increasing paranoia and/or increasing real danger to children that is creeping out from the cities. i.e. they used to let kids roam around in the cities too.

I always wonder if the average american is really conscious about the drawbacks of living in the suburbs. I mean, I imagine it's great to have a house with all the amenities far away from the noisy and cramped city, but what about the negative impact on your lives, like to have to use the car for everything? I understand that a house in the suburbs is cheaper, but I guess your lifestyle should be much of a concern too. 

As far as I know, the health problems in the US, like the obesity, is because of that. I'm not mentioning other social problems that seemingly you are unable to see, like the lack of social cohesion and the mental problems it can entail, especially for the kids.

So I think you americans should assess the tradeoff between the suburbs and the inner city instead of any other secondary stuff like cars.

Well, judging by your comments you're really far from being the joker, but I have to acknowledge you're right, South Korean society is very abusive and discriminatory.

Some girls get period at age 8. Getting period means you can get pregnant. I started masturbating when I was 7, but was only able to produce cum at 10 or 11.

Actually, the youngest girl ever who gave birth was 5 years old.

AI is "programmed" to learn. I mean, every computer is programmed no matter if it's an AI or not. The only difference is that the AI has much less code but needs more memory for learning data (like a library) . Behind all this learning process of the AI, there are tons of real people feedbacking the data the Ai is using to learn, like teachers teaching a student how to do stuff. 

You must know that AI imitates the way our brain works, we humans learn using patterns which is the most efficient way to learn and process new information. So, the idea of a computer with AI is to be more efficient and quicker than the average computer that use a sequence of instructions (code), that makes the AI very powerful with few resources. That's all. Obviously with that breakthrough lot of things are going to change, but it's not that the AI is going to enslave human beings and take over the world. If that ever happens, there would be for sure a fucking human being behind. 

Besides, there are more mental processes than learning that the AI will never have because it's unique of humans, like intuition, creativity, emotions, conciousness, it's not just a mere synapse, there are biochemical substances and electromagnetic fields involved. Human brain is incredibly complex to be imitated by a bunch of transistors.

If a transwoman decide to remove his/her penis is because she knows a potential sexual partner doesn't like a penis but a vagina. It's not about identity.

There are other trannies that keep the gun, but that's when they work as hookers, there are male clients that like to be assaulted. Haha.