You're making my point with your rebuttal. A lot of people think different about right and wrong, good and evil, than I or you do, and that's because they look towards different sources. I'll assume you think cutting…
> Yes, but with Christians there's always some sort of thick-layer of self-serving dishonesty on top of it all. At this point you're just rooted in absurd prejudice, this conversation is getting nowhere. > because…
You're right in plenty of what you're saying, that's why I'd recommend you reading Romans and James in the Bible. But stuff like "but never really have try that hard" and "(but never actually do anything)" are your own…
As someone else mentioned, you can read the book of Romans or the epistle of James to find out by yourself why this idea is absurd. But simplified, say you have a spouse who you dearly love. And say you found out that…
> These are people who seem to put in more effort than most, and are sincere in their belief. No, check this out: "have WE not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many…
> It can be read negatively against boys or negatively against girls so why post it? This part I really do not understand. The undeniable fact that boys and girls are different in several aspects does not make either…
Yes, but also no. I have a prioritised list, it's simply that not everything fits inside the list, because my time is limited. Instead of "Not enough time" we could say "This is not high enough a priority".
> It also means your kid has no experience of online interactions with strangers, basically no SNS literacy, which also sounds like a disaster waiting to happen to me. I think it would be better to allow them to be…
And that's the root cause of many, many issues. It's a pity so many of these issues get simply patched up through other means instead of properly addressing the real root cause.
This is like saying food is good. It is. But then you have ultra-processed food, junk food, food you might be allergic to... Some medicines are good, some medicines are the lesser bad, some medicines will kill you if…
You don't need to be fake in order to be nice. Become nice, then you won't have to fake it. One way of becoming nice is to act nice. A nice person is a person who acts nice towards other people. You can act different…
What about because something is objectively good for you? For example, you could learn to like fermented foods (if you don't) because they are very healthy for you.
What if my authentic feeling and behaviour was to slap you in the face and laugh at you because you answered 'Yes.' to an 'either/or' question? The problem is that for humanity, unrestrained behaviour will very quickly…
In this paradigm you describe, should we then strive to be authentic or should we refrain? Don't you think this would open the doors to an endless amount of bad behaviours?
> people who play music/video aloud on public transport But that's not being authentic, that's being plain rude, and there should be a difference. You can be authentic and still respect boundaries and be considerate…
> If it worked, it would just be conventional medicine. There are many reasons why this is not true. One of them is profits, another one (at least where I live) is the mass oriented, streamlined healthcare, in which…
Fair enough. Two points here, then: - From a strictly scientific standpoint, wouldn't it be interesting to properly understand why and how it works? - From a purely practical standpoint, who cares about any of that if…
Placebo is by definition highly subjective, and not even in the sense of one's opinion, but rather that it works or not at a subject level.
> You get a lot of medicine that looks quite a bit like quack medicine It depends what you understand by "quack medicine". To me, in the beginning, all the stuff about drinking weird plants and doing homemade remedies…
Interesting, you're describing exactly what I went through a few years ago. In my case, however, I turned to pure ginger infusions, following the advice of a herbalist. Haven't gone through it again so far, plus it also…
This reply deeply disturbs me for some reason.
A blockade would mean a slow death for thousands or potentially millions of Japanese, as well at the cost and risk of tens of thousands of American troops, as well as a stupid amount of resources and infrastructure. The…
That's amazing. I'm in Spain, absolutely different landscape here. I guess your government is trying to boost both higher education and birth rates.
> they often lack patience, where to us it just comes natural. Having kids fast-tracked me to a critical increase in patience. I've grown so much in less than three years because of my kids. I'm not sure this growth…
> I'd argue that the best time to get kids is as a university student. You get free daycare, the government doubles your stipend (and it's extended), your housing subsidy increases, you generally have more free time as…
You're making my point with your rebuttal. A lot of people think different about right and wrong, good and evil, than I or you do, and that's because they look towards different sources. I'll assume you think cutting…
> Yes, but with Christians there's always some sort of thick-layer of self-serving dishonesty on top of it all. At this point you're just rooted in absurd prejudice, this conversation is getting nowhere. > because…
You're right in plenty of what you're saying, that's why I'd recommend you reading Romans and James in the Bible. But stuff like "but never really have try that hard" and "(but never actually do anything)" are your own…
As someone else mentioned, you can read the book of Romans or the epistle of James to find out by yourself why this idea is absurd. But simplified, say you have a spouse who you dearly love. And say you found out that…
> These are people who seem to put in more effort than most, and are sincere in their belief. No, check this out: "have WE not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many…
> It can be read negatively against boys or negatively against girls so why post it? This part I really do not understand. The undeniable fact that boys and girls are different in several aspects does not make either…
Yes, but also no. I have a prioritised list, it's simply that not everything fits inside the list, because my time is limited. Instead of "Not enough time" we could say "This is not high enough a priority".
> It also means your kid has no experience of online interactions with strangers, basically no SNS literacy, which also sounds like a disaster waiting to happen to me. I think it would be better to allow them to be…
And that's the root cause of many, many issues. It's a pity so many of these issues get simply patched up through other means instead of properly addressing the real root cause.
This is like saying food is good. It is. But then you have ultra-processed food, junk food, food you might be allergic to... Some medicines are good, some medicines are the lesser bad, some medicines will kill you if…
You don't need to be fake in order to be nice. Become nice, then you won't have to fake it. One way of becoming nice is to act nice. A nice person is a person who acts nice towards other people. You can act different…
What about because something is objectively good for you? For example, you could learn to like fermented foods (if you don't) because they are very healthy for you.
What if my authentic feeling and behaviour was to slap you in the face and laugh at you because you answered 'Yes.' to an 'either/or' question? The problem is that for humanity, unrestrained behaviour will very quickly…
In this paradigm you describe, should we then strive to be authentic or should we refrain? Don't you think this would open the doors to an endless amount of bad behaviours?
> people who play music/video aloud on public transport But that's not being authentic, that's being plain rude, and there should be a difference. You can be authentic and still respect boundaries and be considerate…
> If it worked, it would just be conventional medicine. There are many reasons why this is not true. One of them is profits, another one (at least where I live) is the mass oriented, streamlined healthcare, in which…
Fair enough. Two points here, then: - From a strictly scientific standpoint, wouldn't it be interesting to properly understand why and how it works? - From a purely practical standpoint, who cares about any of that if…
Placebo is by definition highly subjective, and not even in the sense of one's opinion, but rather that it works or not at a subject level.
> You get a lot of medicine that looks quite a bit like quack medicine It depends what you understand by "quack medicine". To me, in the beginning, all the stuff about drinking weird plants and doing homemade remedies…
Interesting, you're describing exactly what I went through a few years ago. In my case, however, I turned to pure ginger infusions, following the advice of a herbalist. Haven't gone through it again so far, plus it also…
This reply deeply disturbs me for some reason.
A blockade would mean a slow death for thousands or potentially millions of Japanese, as well at the cost and risk of tens of thousands of American troops, as well as a stupid amount of resources and infrastructure. The…
That's amazing. I'm in Spain, absolutely different landscape here. I guess your government is trying to boost both higher education and birth rates.
> they often lack patience, where to us it just comes natural. Having kids fast-tracked me to a critical increase in patience. I've grown so much in less than three years because of my kids. I'm not sure this growth…
> I'd argue that the best time to get kids is as a university student. You get free daycare, the government doubles your stipend (and it's extended), your housing subsidy increases, you generally have more free time as…