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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: US Anti-Drag laws |
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Posted: 25 May 2023, 2:58 am
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| When he was Mayor of NYC he on occasion dressed in drag for certain events. That was not hidden, the local media published the pictures and showed the videos. What a load of garbage. Where were these cancel culture anti-drag republicans when all this was happening on mainstream TV in the living roo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Woke Generation - Fighting Back |
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Posted: 25 May 2023, 1:06 am
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| The only exception to the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is for incarcerated felons. Guess what color most people working for free in U.S. prisons are? There is something wrong with the Federal Bureau of prisons data https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp Race # of... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 24 May 2023, 11:56 pm
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Mona Pereth wrote: [ Anyhow, I would be interested in your answer to the question I asked you here, earlier in this thread (near the bottom of the first page, so you might have missed it).
I asked Fnord this question several years ago. I think his response was something to do with "faith" Vs belief |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 24 May 2023, 6:47 pm
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| , suggested that the frequency 19 Hz was responsible for many ghost sightings. He was working late one night alone in a supposedly haunted laboratory at Warwick, when he felt very anxious and could detect a grey blob out of the corner of his eye. When he turned to face it, there was nothing.[/col... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Worries over use of AI in research |
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Posted: 24 May 2023, 6:27 pm
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| Microsoft's ChatGPT has already manipulated users into doing things against their will https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2023/03/01/generative-ai-chatgpt-as-masterful-manipulator-of-humans-worrying-ai-ethics-and-ai-law/ A self-thinking AI unleashed onto the planet is likely to do things to us ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 24 May 2023, 4:54 pm
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| One of the big barriers in modern western science is the stance of absolutism, The insistence that if evidence can't be shown then it does not exist. In ancient times this form of cognitive bias is mocked in the three monkeys. Hear no evil, speak no evil and see no evil. In other words "if I ca... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 24 May 2023, 4:42 pm
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| It's really subjective semantics. Graham Hancock wrote a book called "Supernatural" in relation to shamanic use of mushrooms to induce a state of mind which one can communicate with inter-dimensional entities. What is an "inter-dimensional" entity? Some cultures call them spirit... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 24 May 2023, 7:24 am
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| Subjective experience is problematic because people are so often irrational. They get things wrong, misremember events, sometimes hallucinate/have waking dreams, imagine, exaggerate, and even make things up. True...but it also represents the schema that their reality is made up of. Think of it like... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 24 May 2023, 7:18 am
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| Whatever terminology you use, I think there's an important philosophical distinction to be made between (1) things that are not yet understood (and/or not yet scientifically verified) but conceivably could be, and (2) a hypothetical realm beyond what science can even potentially understand. Can the... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 24 May 2023, 6:39 am
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| I would call these experiences "paranormal" but not "supernatural." To call something "supernatural" is to declare it forever beyond the realm of things that science can even potentially understand, whereas to call something "paranormal" is merely to say that... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: US Anti-Drag laws |
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Posted: 24 May 2023, 5:43 am
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| Republicans have forced anti-drag laws onto the American public. Those found violating the anti-drag law face misdemeanor charges in the first instance, punishable by a fine up to $2,500 and/or up to a year in jail. Those found for subsequent violations face a felony charge, punishable by up to six ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 24 May 2023, 2:42 am
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| However, it’s imprudent to believe in something that has never been proven without sufficient evidence, especially when there are other likely possibilities. This is precisely the reason Freud's psychoanalysis was discredited in the 20th century since you can't prove a subconscious exists and you c... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Regarding Netflix's Black Cleopatra |
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Posted: 23 May 2023, 4:58 pm
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| Sorry, just clarifying point number 3. I give credence to the possibility (rather than believe). The evidence lines up all over the world. Whatever culture has creation myths about their oldest structures they refer to a time when the gods came to earth (as first proposed by Erich Von Daniken back i... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Pentagon shares newly declassified UAP Videos |
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Posted: 23 May 2023, 4:48 pm
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| Hmmm...yeah ...have wondered if the "Grays" arent like biological robots of sorts. Like human sized worker ants-cloned in some cloning factory. And that they do the bidding of the real aliens...some species in another star system - that rarely sends their own actual members here- because ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 23 May 2023, 4:41 pm
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| Sometimes the brain picks up on patterns that we don't completely pick up on. Bingo! and that sums up why some people get interested in the paranormal. I myself have detected anomalies in reality over the years from my early childhood, Are they glitches in my perception of reality? The problem is o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I had a supernatural experience |
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Posted: 23 May 2023, 4:32 pm
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Replies: 36
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| I went to a psychiatrist and the problem resolved over time. (I'm not saying the OP needs to go to a psychiatrist. It was just appropriate for my situation.) I am not sure the OP flagged this as being overwhelming for them to cope with. But certainly if it would help them see from a different persp... |
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