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@IlDiavolo
They would be Republican mediums.
Curiously, Democratic mediums say that Trump is the reincarnation of Rasputin.
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@Best.Korea
Any individual can choose not to violate freedom of other.
I would suggest that we are innately programmed to be selfish.
Though for sure, we have developed our ability to overthink.
So some social groupings are reasonably fair, but with a level of underlying reasonable selfishness.
You will never completely level the playing field in favour of equality.
Some people will seek guidance and some people will lead and assume privilege.
That's how it works.
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@Reece101
If one is paid enough then one doesn't need tips.
So in these circumstances tips would be taxable income.
Even if underpaid, tips are a recognised part of an income and therefore also subject to taxation rules.
Left, Right or Centre...Doesn't really make much difference.
If someone's life choices and innate potential have brought them to a menial job, then that is their status.
Other choices were and still are available, but perhaps not achievable.
Such is natural selection.
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@Greyparrot
Some theists have high IQ's.
Which is a contradiction in terms.
HaHa...Sort of simultaneously joking and being serious there.
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@Best.Korea
Basic principles are variable.
And the fundamental truth assumes in essence to philosophically postulate an essential concept...How's that for tautology.
Thing is though, basic human units are also variable and therefore never equal.
So by default, the philosophical principle of anarchy is unworkable in practice.
Which is why social systems have evolved as they have.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Time has a beginning, space has a point of origin.
This is an opinion.
I would propose that Time and Space are ready states, waiting for an event.
And Free is a concept relative to Cost.
As such, Free is a temporary state of mind that is not considering cause.
Free is also a concept, relative to money.
Money is part of a globally understood social system.
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@WyIted
We all think it is wrong to kill a child for fun.
I would suggest that we are taught how to behave.
And instinctively, avoid unessential effort and risk.
The key words in your statement are:
"Think"...Which is a subjective process.
"Wrong"...Which is a subjectively derived concept.
"Fun"...Ditto.
At the same time we are also taught that killing other living organisms can be an acceptable leisure pursuit.
But of course, not everyone agrees.
And over the millennia up to the present day, we still kill each other on a daily basis, in the name of subjective ideology.
Nope, when needs arise we can modify morality to suit.
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@Best.Korea
So what's going to happen when the armed psychopathic thug takes your eggs and raspberries.
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@Best.Korea
How's a 4 year old boy going to do that without adult intervention?
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@Best.Korea
In terms of sexual satisfaction
I expect that you employ some sort of solo methodology.
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@Best.Korea
@addvocate
For sure, recreational sex should be enjoyed without hang ups.
Though years of social conditioning still make us fraught with hang ups.
So reason is dictated thus.
And such social pressures will vary considerably relative to circumstance.
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@Mall
Ok, so you don't know ok.
Within my own microcosm, I am able to know that which becomes knowable.
Which of course, will not be everything that is known.
So one will perhaps focus one's exertions towards something that is known and possibly achievable...Or perhaps not.
So Mall.
Relative to the topic:
"Aspiring to be a trans person".
Which facts do you personally strive for?
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@Moozer325
I think that more often we are limited by our own potential, or lack of.
Especially in relatively stable Western societies.
I don't think that it is reasonable to expect everything on a plate, in return for no effort.
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@Mall
In facts, what should one strive for?
Well as I see it there is an obvious contradiction in that question.
If one is striving for something that has not yet occurred, then a factual outcome cannot be known.
I do not have the ability to predict future facts.
But as I stated previously, one should strive for personal contentment.
As for what contentment means, will vary according to individual conditioning and aspirations, and corresponding achievability.
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@Moozer325
Well then what does work?
I would suggest, that what we currently have in reasonably tolerant and ordered western societies is about as good as it will get.
Unless the human species is genetically re-engineered, and programmed not as individuals, but as a cohesive hive.
A drastically reduced population of worker people overseen by an A.I. elite.
Driving material and technological evolution forwards to an unknown conclusion.
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@Best.Korea
Being hungry also effects ones mental health, and therefore also affects ones ability to think rationally.
Hence dark beings and spiritual fantasy.
So B.K. I would suggest a balanced diet and regular exercise.
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@Moozer325
Individual freedom within a cohesive society is about as good as it gets.
Anarchy tends to suggest individualism within a chaotic society.
And a society inevitably evolves hierarchically.
So the chaos of anarchic struggle is likely to once again, evolve into the brutality of oppression...See Orwell
Out of the frying pan into the fire, as it were.
Morals are products of the imagination.
And so in my opinion, the reality of anarchy and the concept of morality are a tad contradictory.
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@Mall
Everything that exists or occurs within a Universe is naturally occurring, and therefore a fact.
States of mind are unique, and so one should never expect uniformity of thought.
Within this context your opinions are just as valid as mine and everyone else's.
So in my opinion...One should strive for personal contentment, and ignore stuff that doesn't quite fit with our own particular way of thinking.
Which isn't to suggest that we cannot observe and pass comments.
Though for sure, a lot of people like to make a song and dance about stuff...Which is their call and not mine.
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@Mall
One can either work 9 to 5 and pop into the supermarket on the way home.
Or traipse around the countryside all day with a spear and a rudimentary container for berries and nuts.
Orrrrrrrrr. Get some other lowly individuals to do the donkey work for you.
That's how it works.
And don't forget your smartphone; currently the most potent slave driver of the lot.
In my opinion.
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@Mall
Urinal section for penis people and sit down cubicles for all other discharge activities.
Keep hand washing facilities separate.
Let people fiddle for fun as they so wish, and if that involves hormone therapy and surgery, make sure that they pay for it.
Sport should just be a fun form of beneficial physical activity for all, and not be taken too seriously.
And let's be honest; at first glance some "Trans" persons look quite convincing, whereas others are quite obviously either blokes in frocks or girls in boxer shorts who frequent the Barbers shop regularly.
One should just smile from the safety of ones own individuality and get on with ones short existence.
In my opinion.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Here in the U.K. I would refer to it as the establishment.
Those that sip whiskey from the comfort of their leather club chairs, whilst keeping an eye on the headless chickens in the House of Commons.
Devoted to the Crown and firmly in control of the Military, The Legal system and Westminster.
Off home to the stately pile at the weekends for a spot of shooting.
No Problem.
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@Stephen
HaHa.
I wonder how popular Labour will be a couple of years from now.
But looking good for the next few years of H.I.G.N.F.Y.
Wishing you and yours all the best from soggy Mid Wales.
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@FLRW
As I often say.
The hope is, that most U.S. citizens are Democratic Republicans.
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@Stephen
Zed 4:5 And thy parents shall send you to Sunday Scholl so that they can have some uninterrupted nookie at the weekend.
All Hail Bromsgrove.
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@Best.Korea
Unless it was written on a tablet of stone, I'm not interested.
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@ebuc
In one way
Finite potential
Would become
Emptiness.
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@Owen_T
Also my immediate thought.
Everything that occurs now, will be history in an instant.
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@FLRW
I see that you wore your Adolf face for this one.
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@Moozer325
@Owen_T
Assisted suicide is a contradiction in terms.
And not the same as the social provision to end a life.
The interesting question that arises here, is how does the social provision to end a life of suffering, sit with the anti-abortionists amongst us.
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@Best.Korea
I neither believe nor disbelieve.
But as I have never witnessed a magical event, I cannot confirm such a possibility.
Though as I always say:
Everything that occurs within a Universe at any given moment, is naturally occurring.
Therefore if magic is possible, it is not supernatural.
And to rule over others, requires both strength and weakness.
Which is quite a common state of human affairs.
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@Best.Korea
We share the same ability to input, assess, and develop information.
Which is a human strength and might be regarded as a power.
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@Tradesecret
At times.
You said it trade.
So implications are what they are, and therefore logical to assume.
Not that I think that Middle Eastern fantasy gods ever existed.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Why would Noah need to rescue Eels?
They live in the sea Deb.
Paying $180 to sex a parrot sounds like an Aussie euphemism to me.
Was the full sex or just a blow job?
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@Tradesecret
So GOD is only superfair at times?
Which implies, that at other times GOD is a superarsehole.
Sounds more like human behaviour to me Trade.
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@sadolite
Perhaps Jesus will return and sort it all out.
It's the least he can do, considering him and his sort kicked off the whole fu*king mess in the first place.
Exploding pagers and Religion...Clever stupid gene.
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@Best.Korea
I don't think any person in the world has such strong magical powers.
Neither do I.
Neither do I think that it is magical, to predict something that does not require predicting.
NOVVI.
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@Greyparrot
I'm guessing around 120 pounds.
Featherweight or Lightweight.
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@Best.Korea
Hmmmmm, prospering or sinking into poverty is a time consuming process.
Would be sort of like taking responsibility for possible flood damage during a torrential storm, simply because you have an ongoing preoccupation with "Dark Gods".
Sort of like, someone with a preoccupation with nice things, taking responsibility for nice things.
And if you are still relatively youthful, your brain will still possess a greater propensity for acquiring, storing and remembering new data.
Magic is more like clicking your fingers and making a beautiful and compliant babe appear in your bedroom.
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@Double_R
The second amendment is simply an old paper and ink addition, to an even older paper and ink manuscript.
Thing is, humanity, on the one hand knows more than back then, but still does just as much stupid stuff.
Clever stupid gene.
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@Best.Korea
So, do you control world events before they occur or whilst they occur.
And I certainly have ideas pertaining to material existence...Which isn't to say that they are correct though.
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@Best.Korea
So, what exactly do you do, that you consider to to be magic?
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@FLRW
Methinks that such a question is constantly rethought.
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@SocraticGregarian96
Missed again.
What's wrong with these folk?
But I expect it will inspire others to try.
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@Best.Korea
For sure, meditation does drag on.
And as I have no magical powers, I therefore cannot increase them.
I am free enough already.
And I am also knowledgeable enough.
But thanks for the advice.
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@FLRW
@Best.Korea
Probably true dat.
And VOVIN is an anagram of VINVO...There are others.
And studies show that meditating every day increases lifespan by 23 seconds.
Though the time wasted meditating far outweighs nett gain.
Though I do wonder if it is possible for a day to have a duration of 24 hours and 23 seconds.
NIVVO.
OVVIN
INVOV
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@TwoMan
Hey TwoMan.
Perhaps heaven and hell do or don't exist.
But as things stand, reiterating fantasy concepts is a wholly subjective process.
And as I see it, violence promoted in the name of subjective fantasy is more than a tad immoral.
But then, one mans morality is another's immorality...Such is subjective data processing.
And if there is an interventionist GOD, the machinations of the organic soup that drives evolution on Planet Earth is probably of no consequence within it's bigger Universal scheme of things. Or not as the case may be.
By now that GOD/those GODS, are probably billions of light years away doing something else. Or not as the case may be.
Such is my subjective fantasy take on things.
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