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You're making assumptions based on stories that don't tell 0,1% of what happened. In my country, we call this "being full of shit". And you still have the audacity of dismissing someone objectively and not aggressively pointing out your bias with an answer I don't see since third grade. You as a foreigner with an english teaching degree can get a job anywhere. Try doing that being a native and watch yourself starve to death. Immigrants from other parts of South America, blacks, and native indians descendants suffer significantly more than whites. Brazil has the largest body count of enslavement in the world. Nowhere else being a black person carries a heavier connotation of historical violence than here. You can be highly qualified as a black person and struggle to find good jobs that a mildly competent white person ends up getting. There is a clear corporate bias that's only been deconstructed in the last 10 years.
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Israfil replied to LSD-Rumi's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Who else could've invented himself? If there was such an entity, that would be the god. God was the first and even invented other gods that could invent their smaller realities into its largest totatility. The guy is fucking mind fucking -
Israfil replied to JJfromSwitzerland's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
This is objectively false. Education is a critical component for taking conscious choices. One of the main reasons children can't choose certain things is a lack of profound knowledge about such things. Hormonal therapy is certainly something that a 13-year-old won't be educated about to the depth they need to make a decision about whether or not he should undertake such treatment. Because their brains are not nearly as fully developed as it should be to make such decisions. Take that you out of that sentence and place an I in its place. Hormonal therapy, especially puberty blockers has vastly documented side effects, including lower bone density and potential sterility. I'm sure that kids shouldn't be taking them in the vast majority of cases. -
Israfil replied to JJfromSwitzerland's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Firstly, you haven't substantiated any of your claims. Secondly, surgery, especially aesthetic ones always carries risks. Rape and murder happen all the time, let's not protect people or do anything about it too. Your arguments have no consideration for the possible negative consequences for people. It is very different for an adult to choose to do something risky after he understands all its associated risks. A kid isn't even educated enough to understand what are the effects of puberty blockers, Puberty is a pretty important component of maturity. One of the most significant changes during puberty is the growth and development of the prefrontal cortex, which is the part of the brain responsible for decision-making, impulse control, planning, and working memory. This growth spurt in the prefrontal cortex is responsible for the development of complex thinking, abstract reasoning, and increased self-awareness. All of which are needed to make complex permanent decisions regarding your body. That's why kids can't do tattoos, have sex or use drugs. It became obvious somewhere in the last couple million of years that our little monkey cubs don't have the proper development to choose stuff effectively, so we help them until they can fend for themselves, and then they can do whatever they want with themselves. -
Israfil replied to JJfromSwitzerland's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I'm talking specifically about surgery and hormonal treatment here. If you think the only consequence of having sex is a disease or having children, perhaps you too should try to investigate this further. Sex is simultaneously the most destructive and creative act in the world. Sexual misconduct is problematic way beyond having to take penicillin. This further support the notion that children shouldn't make decisions about their drug use until they fully understand the consequences and have properly developed. The whole point of a minor is that up to a point in your life, you haven't got the maturity required to make decisions with long-lasting effects. Of course, the age is arbitrary, but the kid that gets enthralled by a 7-hour stream of Fortnite doesn't have the maturity to decide whether or not he should permanently alter their genitals and hormonal profile. -
Israfil replied to JJfromSwitzerland's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
You just argued that a series of behaviors that will permanently affect the healthy development of teens should be justification for another behavior that will permanently affect the healthy development of teens. 13 year shouldn't be sucking dick because they are not mentally mature to handle sex. They are prohibited from drinking because they are prone to addiction and abuse. I'm not saying to prohibit a 13-year-old from saying that they want to be called a certain name or pronoun, or dressing the way they like. I am saying to prohibit 13-year-old from using drugs that will alter the entirety of their development, might cause infertility, and always cause side effects. You are simply not mature enough at 13 to take such decisions. -
I think you are the one making assumptions here. The number of testimonials you have carry biases that you cannot see or assess by yourself. You're simply being ignorant and denying being so. In my country and in many others, foreigners, especially those with education and experience, as in the case of people from developed countries, find no problem finding work. You have no multicultural experience and are talking from a very narrow lens here. I suggest you listen to someone that does live in a touristic-focused city and worked in companies with employees from five continents that foreigners are, in many cases, treated better than locals. Racism in underdeveloped countries is directed toward the poor part of its own population.
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Israfil replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Ironically, the less you stress about survival and the more you let go, the easier it is to avoid and handle pain and danger. -
I encourage you to experience things directly before stating that people from other countries are racist.
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How many countries have you visited?
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Israfil replied to JJfromSwitzerland's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Kids can't drive, they can't marry, can't consent to sex, can't sign contracts, why would we allow them to take medicine that may cause infertility and that permanently alter theirs bodies? -
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Israfil replied to JJfromSwitzerland's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Children can't consent, can't marry, can't drink, can't do a fucking tattoo, can't own a house, can't make any of the life-altering changes that we consider important and somehow people think it's okay to give them drugs that literally alter their entire development process and might make them sterile. -
Israfil replied to JJfromSwitzerland's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Latin America has a lot of non-privileged conservatives. But the most privileged also fit the white, cisgender, heterosexual and Christian stereotype. -
That's why drunk cokeheads always appear drunker
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Ram Dass still made use of psychedelics after his spiritual training. Do you still combine approaches or solely meditate and contemplate?
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Israfil replied to JJfromSwitzerland's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
@DrugsBunny Such powerful ignorance, it's quite impressive actually. Honestly my good man, you'd be seriously devastated by the brutal epiphany of how bafflingly fucking stupid your perspective is if the divine revelation ever magically occurred to you. There is no "belief" whatsoever involved in my position, which is as follows: As a society we should attempt to glean the highest amount of utility from language as is conceptually possible. Linguistic utility can simply be considered the usage of language which sufficiently accounts for all varieties of people, so long as this inclusivity does not affront the unadulterated truth. Thankfully with transgender people, such a solution is very feasible. Race and race identity are two distinct things, not because somebody said so, but because it indisputably serves the highest utility to acknowledge the distinction between the anatomical racial characteristics vs the "white" and "black" socio-cultural roles. Race refers strictly to your physical anatomy (ie. facial hair, penis/vagina, breasts), whereas socio-cultural roles refers to how you express yourself in relation to the commonly associated traits of the racial spectrum (ie. clothing, culture, speech tonality). Racial dysphoria is a valid condition that severely threatens the quality of life for many people suffering from it, as it is a scientifically substantiated affliction, bearing no semblance of likeness with the asinine concept of "transgederism" (the obscure, entirely unsubstantiated concept regarding the presupposed fictional phenomenon of "gender dysphoria"), therefore people with this socially devastating affliction should be accommodated with our use of language and our social expectations regarding race. Because not all people can comfortably conform to rigid racial roles and the imposing social expectations therein, the terms "white" and "black" provide the most societal utility when they are regarded as social categories which allow for appropriate usage in reference to any person who identifies with the respective racial role of their choice. Because race and race identity are not the same thing, a biologically ordained 'black' suffering from gender dysphoria can adopt the "white" racial role, or vice versa, and our societal accommodation of such people is a practical, feasible and morally appropriate application of our linguistic utility. Words change, language evolves, just deal with it. It may make you uncomfortable to acknowledge that transracial people are valid, but try to recognize this is only a product of your closed-mindedness and your primitive inclinations to dehumanize people who don't conform to your bigoted expectations. Again, nobody is denying that cis black and trans white are two distinct varieties of black. Of course they are different. The only thing I'm saying is, you're seriously kidding yourselves if you think it makes sense to call Blaire White (a deplorable self-hating racist, who is only used as an example because they pass exceptionally well) a white because technically they were born with a small dick. That would be such an absurd and contrived example of ideological stubbornness. -
The point is that pick-up artists will charge you more than your hourly wage to teach you something you can learn by doing. If you buy a 10k, 2-hour course from a pick-up artist to learn a skill you can learn in less than 100 hours, and you make less than 100 USD an hour, you're burning money.
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There are many things that are true and can't be proven.
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Coke and alcohol create cocaethylene. A very toxic substance that increases the time alcohol stays in the bloodstream. You can look up more specifics, but that's one of the main problems with cocaine, actually.
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Taking psychedelics by the beach is actually quite good. I took 125ug of LSD on a beautiful beach once and the visuals are amazing. You can always bring a sheet or towel to lay down in the sand. Incredible connective experience.
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I doubt Andrew Tate has any true and meaningful connection. He instrumentalizes everyone in his life. Human connection is a hole that 33 Bugattis can't fill up.
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Watch the video. The title is just clickbait.
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That's the beauty of this deepfake hahahahahha
