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@TheMorningsStar
Social exposure as in face-to-face interaction was already diminished by technology.
Put a group of young and not so young folk in a room and most would rather communicate with or via a machine than with those around them.
So how much "long-term damage"?
None.
Just inevitable change.
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@Best.Korea
Societies are ordered by hierarchy, either intellectually imposed or forcefully imposed. But usually, a variable mixture of both.
Ideals are either achievable or unachievable concepts, relative to social structure.
I doubt that many North Koreans have achievable ideals beyond survival or are allowed to have achievable ideals beyond survival.
Such is the power of hierarchy, conditioning and fear to suppress aspiration.
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@Poly
Is pornography a "fucking religion"?
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@Shila
Belief is fantasy by definition.
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@3RU7AL
A nihilist sips their coffee and thinks fluff.
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@oromagi
Good idea.
Hopefully a lot of Russians have the same idea.
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@Best.Korea
All leaders are terrible in someone's eyes.
It's the nature of the Job.
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@Shila
Maybe so.
But junk is junk.
And these days survival is an expensive commitment.
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@Shila
Nice and fluffy.
But tosh.
Are you a JW.
Where the Lion lays down with the Lamb.
And we feed our pet Lion with plant-based protein.
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@3RU7AL
Nihilists think that they believe something.
Or is it, believe that they think something.
Though nihilism is generally nothing more than a fleeting philosophical concept.
A person howsoever labelled, still gets up in the morning and motivates themselves to do stuff.
Why would a true nihilist even bother to do that?
Because nihilism isn't an inherent condition.
Survival is the inherent norm and survival gives us purpose.
Nihilism is just intellectual fluff.
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@3RU7AL
Ideals are wonderful.
But reality rarely mirrors ideals.
We just get used to what we have to get used to.
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@Greyparrot
For sure, instinct still compels some to eat for a rainy day.
Taste is about what we add to food to make it tasty.
So healthy food can be made just as tasty as less healthy food.
I would suggest that we develop habitual eating and so become reluctant to change.
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@Shila
People who relabelled as Christians would have had the same diet afterwards as before.
And GOD knows what John was on about. One assumes that it was metaphorical.
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@Poly
I've never suggested a link between obesity and deism.
You just made that one up.
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@Tarik
Nihilism is a philosophical concept derived from a philosophical concept.
The practical application of nihilism is rarely practical, if at all.
Even nihilists possess an acquired sense of morality.
Not that there is such a thing as a true nihilist.
Because true nihilists would have long since topped themselves.
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@Best.Korea
Also read, how to kill your uncle with an anti-aircraft gun, by Kim Yong Il.
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@Shila
Belief in supernatural GODS is also an intellectual embarrassment.
But millions still use it as a coping strategy.
And embarrassingly too, millions of people still haven't learned that lolling about gorging themselves to near death is not a sensible thing to do.
Don't blame Mr Quetelet.
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@Shila
Usually, stuff of no value like old newspapers.
But if you retire at 65 say and have the potential to live until you are 95, even a house full of junk isn't going last 30 years.
Though how many people are extreme hoarders.
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@Poly
That is a generalisation, not taking into account a whole raft of life ending scenarios.
Statistically you are more likely to die from breast cancer or other cancers.
Though the effects of an unhealthy lifestyle will undoubtedly impact on your wellbeing as you age.
Nonetheless, those who make it into old age are more likely to die from Alzheimer's and /or dementia related issues.
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@Best.Korea
Notwithstanding that I have doubts concerning your credibility.
Communism isn't doable. As all people are not equal.
Put two strangers in a room and they will eventually come to a mutual understanding whether, it's through dialogue or by force.
Times that by approximately 8 billion and you end up with what we have today.
Which is what we have always had.
A genetically modified society of equals would perhaps possible.
Though one assumes that some will be modified whilst others will be overseeing the modifications.
Sort of the North Korean approach but without the oppression, fear and brainwashing.
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@SkepticalOne
Heaven exists as a concept.
In so much as brain contrived and brain held data can be demonstrated verbally, or symbolically as a visual narrative.
Though the use of the word heaven has been adapted and can be variously applied.
Interestingly the word heaven is of Old English origin and postdates certain Middle Eastern folk tales by a good few hundred years.
Sin is also of Old English origin, derived from ancient Greek spear throwing terminology.
Funny how we take these things and blow them out of all proportion.
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@Shila
Personal items don't last forever.
Sort of brings to mind a pre-euthanasic society.
Whereby initially all one needs to do is simply withdraw life prolonging Healthcare.
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@RationalMadman
Such is the power of words.
Nonetheless:
Populus with a governmental establishment, defined by borders.
Some are freer and fairer than others.
Doesn't matter what you refer to them as.
Such is human nature, that Anarchy never really got off the ground.
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@Shila
As I stated no one is putting Blacks and Asians at risk. People with high-risk lifestyles put themselves at risk.
A BMI estimate will not put anyone at risk who is already not at risk or already a self-inflicted risk.
Yours is a nanny-state argument, whereby people expect not to be held responsible for problems of their own making.
ARGH...I've got Type 2 diabetes
So, blame the estimator.
It's not your fault for sitting on your arse all day, stuffing your face with unhealthy rubbish.
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@Shila
As I clearly stated, people with unhealthy lifestyles put themselves at high risk.
And as I also clearly stated, an estimate is an estimate.
Hence the word ESTIMATE.
Throw yourself of a cliff and it's your fault.
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@Tarik
Philosophical Nihilists have a conceived Universal point of view.
Which does not necessarily mean that they refuse to comply with accepted social standards, especially in respect of others.
As ever you attempt to be too literal in the practical application of ideological terminology.
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@Shila
Everyone is a philosopher, it's the nature of the beast.
No qualification necessary.
Discussing another person's philosophy is simply what it is.
Nonetheless, give me an example of something that philosophy has achieved other than itself.
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@Shila
People put themselves at high risk, by adopting unhealthy lifestyles.
BMI is simply a method of estimating.
The clue is in the word ESTIMATE.
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@Tejretics
Philosophy is either common sense or overthink padded out with a lot of hiss.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Scotland doesn't give a toss.
Scotland is just an extension of the same land mass that is collectively known as the British Isles /UK.
It's just that some people deludedly think that they are so completely different to everyone else.
Such are Nationalists.
Some people are brought up to be arseholes and some are brought up to respect their fellow man.
There's nothing more heart-warming that a Sikh with a Scottish accent wearing a Kilt.
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@Greyparrot
Nothing is more delusional than a grown up educated person still accepting that there is a magical bloke in the sky somewhere.
Such is data conditioning and transfer though.
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@sadolite
The UK is an enclave of the World and has been for centuries.
Assuming sovereignty of a region based upon selective historical events and perceivable ethnicity is a tad hypocritical in my book.
That's all I'm saying.
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@sadolite
Isn't Florida essentially a Central American enclave with a Central American Governor.
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@Shila
My dear departed Mum.
Unerasable data.
Taught me,
To eat sensibly,
And healthily,
And to play,
Enthusiastically.
Information learned,
Information,
Never forgotten.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
600lbs is a tad on the big side, doesn't matter what colour you are.
For sure, certain afro-ethnic sub-groups do have a genetic predisposition for big arses.
But to be fair, so do a lot of Caucasians. (Gender neutral)
Pop into town and sit on a bench with a coffee and a bun and watch people go by.
And you will see that they come in a staggering array of genetically modified shapes and sizes.
Knock knees and bowlegs are prime examples of evolutionary diversity.
But just one bun and make sure you walk.
So for sure, some people a naturally big.
And then some just don't realise that dinners over.
BMI. Body Mass Index
BMF. Big Mother Fucker
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@MisterChris
Should a man with a 10-foot penis, only have sex with 25-foot women? (Or of course, any other 25-foot gender recipients)
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@SkepticalOne
@Tarik
Imperfect is not synonymous to sin.
A typically trite semantics-based riposte that misses the point completely.
Perhaps deliberately so.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Judaists bang their heads against walls.
Well actually they are quite adept at missing the wall by a few millimetres.
Though I think that Judaists are also another Abe type club anyway.
And Buddhists hum a lot and sit in awkward positions.
Buddhists are a different gang entirely though and also do Kung fu.
Or is it some other club that does the Kung fu.
The East gets very confusing.
There's Shiva AKA many other things, with varying arm and eye configurations, who always looks very trans.
And Hinduism also has various fun events like powder paint activities and wallowing about in cremation infested rivers and Karma Sutra.
I think your best bet Deb, is the didgeridoo.
But definitely avoid Catholicism, as those altar boys will get you into all sorts of bother with the morality Police.
And then there's the Jehovah's Witnesses, who park their smart BMW's around the corner, as if they are slightly embarrassed.
And is it right to dress your kids in a suit and tie on a Saturday morning or a Thursday afternoon.
Well not the girls.
Not sure how they dress their trans kids, though I'm not certain that JW's go a bundle on trans stuff.
GOD itself is/was a wise ethereal Caucasian ADULT with flowing white hair and beard, dressed in glowing white robes.
Or so I remember from the pictures I was shown at Sunday School.
I think that the Buddhist one is perhaps bald and likes to wear orange.
The didgeridoo one's are your ancestors or dead dingo's or something.
So just go naked and cover yourself in mud .
Sounds fun, especially if it involves naked mud wrestling and body painting with.........You choose.
Atheism's quite a good one.
No GODDO as such, just get up in the morning and go to bed in the evening and do various stuff in between.
A bit like all the rest but with less emphasis Kung fu and humming.
Though the naked mud thing sounds like a goer.
Have fun.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
With a name like De Santis, one must be aware of his own feelings of alienation.
I would imagine that he doesn't have any Irish ancestors to fall back on.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
It just sounds like you are imbued with morality.
Morality is.
Moral is neither very, nor is it less than itself.
The needle of morality does not swing back and forth, between one 1 and 22.
There is no 0 on a moralometer. Which in fact has a needle fixed firmly on M.
For that one requires the immoralometer, with its needle fixed firmly on IMM.
Neither is to be confused with a compass.
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@Lair77
If you loath your homelife you will want to go to work.
If you love your homelife you will want to stay at home.
As far as I am concerned work is the nuisance bit of the day.
Though not much good staying at home if you drive a van for a living.
OK if you poke computers.
Slave to the technological system as it were.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
I'll always talk to you Deb.
Hey, when you've plummeted the depths of immorality.
Why not do something fantastic.
It doesn't take a GOD for you to be kind to others.
Peace to the World.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
There was a glass platform just a few millimetres below the surface.
Thanks to John the Baptiste, AKA John the Glazier.
John's day job was fitting windows.
He worked for Joseph and Son Carpentry and General Builders Ltd.
His and Jes's magic act was just part time in the evenings.
Baptising or water sports was strictly weekends.
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@Greyparrot
England is a demarcated area of land within the collective known as the British Isles.
Africa is continental region of Planet Earth.
And is this just another thread relative to perceivable differences relative to long since historical events.
Hey, but if reparations are involved then let's milk it for all it's worth.
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@Shila
I was referring not to the accused, but to a legal system corrupted by money.
How can one apply law evenly if one has a vested interest in not doing so?
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