Carl-Richard

Leo thinks extremely bad people who are sitting in jail should be killed. I don't think so, because: Their ability to do harm to innocent people is absolutely minimal. Their ability to do harm does not differ substantially from the large amount of very bad people below the "extreme" cut-off point. Very few people are extremely bad, so removing them leads to only a marginal reduction in harm. Executioners have extremely high rates of PTSD: 31%, compared to 20% in Iraq veterans. We generally don't kill people for being a social or economic burden on society (e.g. institutionalized mentally ill people). "We will kill you not because we have to, but because we can" is a terrifying message for the state to send to its citizens. I don't believe anybody inherently "deserves" to die.

I'm saying Leo is being compassionate towards them despite their wrongdoings.

So, 1. They can be a drag on society (mentally ill) and you'll still be compassionate. 2. They can be a danger to other people (domestic abuser) and you'll still be compassionate. What about being both? That's a prisoner.

This discussion centers around whether animal agriculture is bad for the environment, and it's simply the case that it leads to deforestation.

Girlfriend and stop trying to convice my mom I'm not a loser.

Firstly, that's not nice. Secondly, there is a block button.

He didn't human traffick anyone. He didn't human traffick anyone. He didn't human traffick anyone. He didn't human traffick anyone.

He didn't human traffick anyone lol.

I used to think this new wave of prog metal bands were a bit recycled and lacking in style, but this might've changed my mind:

...no.

@Kksd74628 The people who became a mod never argued for why they should become a mod ?

@Kksd74628 You shouldn't want it too much. Red flag

Yes they're great scientists.

Should domestic abusers be able to go to therapy? Do their victims who also are likely to become domestic abusers also get to go to therapy?

My time is also running thin. Do you want a place where people can grow at their own pace, or do you want a place where you can say how awake you are? Just differentiate between your psychonaut approach and the traditional spiritual approach. You do accept a plurality of perspectives and interests in personal development (some people mostly sit in the dating section, or journal section, or self-actualization section), but when people want to simply meditate and not take psychedelics 300 times, you denigrate them and threaten to kick them out? Also, this did not start with them. It started with you saying "you're not awake". Do better.

This has nothing to do with artificial selection. Nobody is artificially choosing who gets to breed and who doesn't. There is not a person somewhere who picks out who gets to breed like in a dog breeding program. The only thing the individuals are doing is merely adopt the values in question, and this alone creates a selection pressure which natural selection acts upon. In other words, in a culture that values literacy and education, people who excel in literacy and education have a higher likelihood of surviving (and probably also a higher sexual market value) compared to those who don't, and this is linked to IQ. So you can also argue for a sexual selection component.

Consciousness is everywhere, so that is not what is being passed on. What you're really asking for is this: how does the baby get its own window out on the world? You already answered it: through growth. Consciousness gives birth to the body, and through growth, it attains its perceptual and cognitive capabilities (sights, sounds, sense of touch, smells, emotions, visual imagery, conceptual reasoning, self-reflection). The body, perception and cognition all happen within consciousness. Consciousness comes prior to all of it.

Someone make me member aspiritual right now.

Attachment to spirituality itself is a big source of resistance. Sometimes all it takes is to let that go. The only problem is that you can't choose to let it go.

If you fear it too much and it makes you not want to pursue spirituality anymore, expect a strong boomerang effect (i.e. it will come back even stronger), because when you let go of seeking at the right time, it has the chance to become your baseline state.

MSN?

Genius insights into how the oldest mythological stories directly tie into the mechanics of our cognition. You can clearly see the crossover with John Vervaeke's series on Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

I only eat p-cat.

@Egodeathrow I was only talking about drugs you would like to do in social settings for fun, like weed.

Cat eats mouse? That was my experience