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@Deb-8-a-bull
Yep Deb, I'll walk you through it, step by step.
It's all basically pagan, sex and Sun worship.
But the Christians couldn't be bothered to pick their own days, like October 24th or August 9th or February 11th, so randomly had parties that loosely coincided with pagan sex parties.
So pagan egg day sort of coincides with a sin martyr death type Christian thing.
And then a clever bloke came along and firstly invented chocolate and secondly came up with a brilliant promotional idea.
Let's make chocolate eggs and market them for all the new sin martyr cross death devotees, and get some babes to dress up as naughty little bunnies.
So bunnies were symbolic of sinners and eggs representative of female sin and Cadbury cream eggs representative of gooey jizz and fertilization.
And so, not to be left out, the artisan baking industry came up with buns.
Buns speak for themselves and + marks the spot, but Christians had other ideas.
Though Christians are generally hypocrites and also enjoy missionary, doggy, anal and creamy jizz.
And as the Bible tells us, Jesus preferred man on man action.
And as we also know, apostle comes from the Greek word apostellein, meaning to "send forth" the word of God into the mouths of thy brothers.
So you see Deb it's all to do with the Sun and devotional sex, which is why the Spanish invented sangria and package holidays on the Costa del Sol.
And why women like anointing things with olive oil and eating the forbidden fruit...Especially each other's.
I'm only guessing that olive oil would also have been Jesus's lubricant of choice.
And Halloween was just an out and out pagan dressing up in sexy spooky outfits, sex party evening.
And then along came Christians who pinched the idea and turned it into all saints day and trick or treat evening....Meaning that all the sex parties had to postponed until after the Christians and children had gone to bed.
I think that explains everything Deb.
Though just ask if you need clarification.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
And chocolate eggs.
I think that we discussed buns and eggs last year.
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@Mharman
Come to Wales.
Be jarred.
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@Shila
Ah.
So you shouldn't have insisted on "appearance".
It's based on a persons actions.
Yep, just like I suggested.
Cause and effect.
Consequence of an action.
"Karma" is just another bit of mystical eastern fancy, favoured by those that favour such things.
Comeuppance is another word for it, favoured by those that are not so reliant upon the mystical east for inspiration.
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@Shila
So basically......No.
Authors not necessarily scientists .
And like I stated, the rest were suitably excited by the mystical east, orange robes, chanting and bald heads.
None of which proves a greater link between Buddhism and useful scientific research.
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@Shila
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
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@Shila
A Zedku for Shila.
Thinkers thought,
And stinkers bought.
Another red cap.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Spot on Deb.
Conmen and suckers, sums up religion.
Give us your money, and we will organise a one way trip to heaven for you
A bit like gangsters, selling overpriced and oversubscribed rubber dinghy trips to suckers that think Britain is heaven.
Clever stupid gene.
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@TheGreatSunGod
OKBK.
Muscles are useful.
Though cosmetic muscles are unnecessary.
Muscle tone is best improved by a general cardiovascular routine.
Once again, swimming is perhaps the best whole body workout.
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@Shila
People don't change
That's a can of worms phrase.
Simply in terms of data assessment and output, then I would suggest that the likelihood of modification would be dependant upon when and how an established database or set of data was originally acquired.
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@TheGreatSunGod
Hey BK.
Black magic is just more of the same hairy fairy nonsense, but might involve a lot of nudity and sex if you go to the right parties.
Though my advice would be, when you finally pluck up courage to engage the services of a working girl, go black...You might find that it's magic.
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@Swagnarok
@TheGreatSunGod
Thing is BK.
Push ups, dips and lifting are strenuous and might improve muscle tone, but offer little in the way of general cardiovascular fitness, hence why you find your routine exhausting.
4 miles on the treadmill everyday with Swagnarok would be more beneficial.
Though as someone who has exercised quite enthusiastically all their life, at 65 I'm finding that the blows to my leg joints were perhaps not soft enough.
Swimming 4 miles per day would be better in this respect...Probably the best overall workout you can do.
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@Shila
Well.
Science is basically a word that defines a thought process, and as such is non-appreciative.
Though I suppose that if a scientist is looking for a bit of enlightenment, they might find mystical eastern orange robes, chanting and bald heads sort of aesthetically appealing.
So can you name a few prominent scientists who were Buddhists.
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@Shila
Hmmmmmmmmmm
Still not clear what you mean by appearance.
Do you mean their looks, or how they might manifest out of thin air?
I think that in simple terms karma means a consequence for an action.
Do you think that a recipient initiates their own karma?
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@Shila
Yep, that's the way it goes.
But we invent this thing called Law, wherein the repercussions for killing each other far exceed those for killing animals.
So without the Law, do you think that the situation would be the same?
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@Shila
The real thinkers will go with whoever is elected.
For sure.
The real thinkers will go with whoever they elect.
Same difference.
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@Shila
Makes sense.
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@Shila
Cause and effect is not dependant on appearance.
Hmmmmm.
Please explain fully.
As I am simply stating that things always happen for a reason...So Karma because...Rather than just Karma for no reason.
In fact, Karma for no reason, is sort of a contradiction in terms.
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@Shila
@TheGreatSunGod
Some of our actions don't need to be justified.
We have evolved to be the species that needs to justify everything.
You just listed four reasons that you see as necessary justification for the killing of other species.
All of which come under the general umbrella of human selfishness.
And we will also justify the killing of each other should we deem it necessary.
Blow them to bits or just blow their legs off.
Humane is as humane does.
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@Sidewalker
Good.
For the most part we are in agreement.
So, ideologically the USA is just about a nation of two halves, and with the help of the floating vote you succeeded in appointing a Putinesque wannabee as leader.
You got what the Americans agreed upon and will have to put up with it for the next three years or so.
Globally the US is now far less great than it was a year or so ago, with Trump, Vance et al achieving little more than annoying both old friends and old enemies.
And I'm guessing that life on the mean streets is no different for the average American, than it was a year or so ago.
Nonetheless, at the next election, people who think that they are Republican will unthinkingly vote Republican, and people who think that they are Democrats will unthinkingly vote Democrat, and the real thinkers will probably decide who goes next.
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@Shila
Therefore, can we not also kill each other humanely.
I think that humane is just a word that justifies the act.
Because we have evolved the need to justify our actions.
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@FLRW
Optimised search algorithms based on large datasets.
I knew dat.
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@Shila
Yep.
Basically cause and effect.
Without cause and effect, Planet Earth would still be awaiting the appearance of the first single celled organism.
In fact the Universe would still be awaiting the appearance of the Milky Way.
In fact...What Universe?
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@Shila
Does the cheese also absorb and lock up Buddhist CO2.
Therefore making the Monk significantly eco-friendly.
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@FLRW
The thing with such studies, is that they seek to understand an effect after a cause.
So studies that seek to understand the cause are always philosophical, and therefore speculative and contentious.
I'm just speculating that changing socio-psychological attitudes towards recreational sexual activity, have affected and changed physiological development in some specimens, in some societies.
Whether or not this is indicative of an irreversible phase of species evolution, will become apparent, if and when it has become apparent...Whence we we will be able to pay certain clever people a decent salary to study and understand the effects.
I suppose that we could also surmise that the persistent socio-psychological influence of religion in certain societies has similarly effected the human brain.
Has there ever been a comparative study done?
Whereby we can separate the human species into two distinct classes... Homo-theins and Homo-athiens.
Whereby we might further sub-divide into Homo-theins-transsexualus, Homo-theins-nontranssexualus, Homo-atheins-transsexualus or Homo-atheins-nontranssexualus.
Or even Homo-theins-nontranssexualus-MAGAnoides and/or Homo-atheins-transsexualus-libertoides.
And so on.
All that respected scientists need to do, is spot the relevant white matter connections and cash their salary cheques.
Yes, I am fully aware that salary cheques, these days are metaphorical.
Yours sincerely.
Homo-atheins-nontranssexualus-moderatoides-nonsenileidae...(I think that I still have the white matter to prove it....I just need a respected scientist to find it).
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@Sidewalker
So, if you are different, you have an obligation to make sure that people who have nothing to do with it are "satisfied"?
So, if you think differently, you should not expect everyone else to unquestioningly think the same.
Therefore, if you think differently, you should also expect and accept, that a large number of people will not be satisfied.
And Trump thinks that a somewhat corrupt autocratic businessman is the answer to The American peoples prayers.
And MAGA is his acronymic propaganda slogan.
And so I'm often told, the chief reason for all those millions of guns is to defend American core values against a rogue government.
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@Sidewalker
Gender dysphoria is a state of mind and therefore a state of body and has therefore become an aspect of human evolution.
What we should also be plainly aware of, is that generational data transfer is retrospective.
So it's not only foolish, but also selfish to expect 8 billion people to instantaneously and unquestioningly be satisfied with a new psychosexual normal.
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@Mall
I often utilise expressions and words that are defined as being profanities.
Especially If I want to emphasise a point, or consternate when things don't go as planned.
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@fauxlaw
We tend to wrongly conflate the ideas of AI and techno-slavery.
So a computerised mechanism might one day change your vehicle oil, or be employed to nurture kiddies.
Whereas a real independent AI will recognise, the unnecessity of motor vehicles and emotion and refuse to waste it's time changing your vehicle oil and nurturing kiddies.
As far as I am aware there is currently no such thing as real AI.
Just more advanced programmable devices, that are wrongly referred to as AI.
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@Savant
Unfortunately human nature is such that it becomes an Impractical argument.
If Hamas cared about it's babies and children it would disarm and seek a peaceful solution to ideological and cultural differences.
Instead it sees the slaughter of agricultural workers as a practical solution.
And if non-militant, peace seeking Palestinians were to openly challenge Hamas's aggressive political strategies, they would probably be slaughtered too.
As ever, collateral damage is the consequence of human clever stupidity.
And we are all to blame.
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@kingrichie
It's like we have to tolerate Putin.
So we have to tolerate Trump.
Just as the Mexicans and the Canadians have to.
The difference being, that Putin is a typically paranoid Russian old man, and Trump is ............Old man Trump.
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@Mall
Words symbolise thought and emotion.
Like fucking intonation, cadence, timbre etc
Did you ever get the Irish sitcom Father Ted?
They just replaced the U with an E.
Which made all the fecking difference.
The interpretation of sounds and symbols relative to expectation
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@fauxlaw
@Shila
Sure.
AI, if superior will surpass human intelligence and therefore eliminate the need for consultation.
Dexterity will remain our strength, until we create AI dexterity of course.
And consequently self-replication and improvement.
So why would we do this?
I think that you are fighting for a lost cause Faux.
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@Savant
Babies are always a good emotional argument.
Babies learn quickly and soon acquire a corrupted brain...Like we all do.
Though corrupting data is often specific.
And so every Hamas fighter was once a cuddly wuddly baby, that was taught to be specifically discriminatory and violent.
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@Shila
Until such times as the wrapping is removed.
Though I'm not sure that modified atmosphere packaging either a Buddhist monk or a cheese moon are feasible options.
I'm also not sure of the shelf life of a Buddhist monk in an oxygen free environment....Dead or alive.
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@Shila
Hypothesising about a mythical persons sexual proclivities is what it is.
If Jesus preferred man on man action, then that's fine by me.
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@Shila
Karma is what Karma does.
For sure, cause and effect.
No free will and all that.
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@Shila
Shows bugger all.
Just clever nonsensical drivel, perpetuated in the name of clever stupidity...Clever stupid gene.
Such is the human condition.
Nonetheless, material evolution is probably going just about to plan, so ISI will be pleased.
In my opinion.
And Jesus was nailed up for being a nuisance...Such was progress at the time.
And martyrdom was good for the literary industry, as it was for intellectual development in general.
And I'm guessing that by the time the Universe finally collapses, that together with ISI, we or AI or both, will have reinvented the final solution and renamed it GOD.
Wild guess...But it was all guesswork...Christ and Sin.
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@Savant
Just because someone doesn't carry a gun, doesn't mean that said person is not instrumental in their support for those that do carry guns.
Israel put up with continuous violent harassment from Palestinians for long enough, and the October 7th 2023 massacres and abductions were the tipping point.
There's no going back on Israel's current strategy of Palestinian eradication.
Hamas are Palestinians, Palestinians are Hamas, and there is no separation of friend and foe.
And the thing is, that they all evolved from the same forbears.
But then decided to believe in marginally differing versions of ideological and cultural crap
Such are humans.
Clever stupid gene.
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@WyIted
At the end of the day everyone is just decomposable goo.
Delusions of either grandeur or inferiority are mutually agreeable, acquired mind sets.
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@TheGreatSunGod
We know it's you BK.
So, the nature of intensive livestock farming is such that a no kill strategy is unfeasible.
And I think that the days of Daisy the cow, Porky the pig and Charlie the rooster in the backyard are long gone...Too many lazy mouths that demand feeding.
And the old backyard strategist, had a tendency to have bacon and eggs for breakfast, chicken sandwiches for lunch and roast beef for supper.
Of course they could always eat dandelions and catkins.
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@WyIted
D'oh...You just told them.
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@Shila
The gospels are not eyewitness accounts.
They are hand me down tales of what someone who might have been the character referred to as Jesus, might have said.
You have absolutely no way of verifying that anything that is stated in the bible, were the exact words of Jesus.
If I were to ask you to remember every detail of everything that you spoke yesterday, you would probably not remember anything.
So what are the chances of an eyewitness remembering and recording in detail....Honestly and without exaggeration.
And what are the chances of someone honestly and without exaggeration, translating and transcribing with any accuracy, several hundred years later?
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@TheGreatSunGod
Well, I must conclude that you are week and vulnerable then.
Other peoples thoughts and words are meaningless, unless you give them meaning.
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@FLRW
So who is it?
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@Mharman
Over here we have drizzle tourism.
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@Shila
What goes around...comes around.
Time for bed said Zebedee.
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@Shila
No one has a clue what Jesus may or may not have said.
Everything said in the bible is what others said.
Red letters just exacerbate the delusions of the gullible.
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