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  1. Eliminating desire

    Its not about beauty or desire. Rather standards. Having witnessed enough smart and talented people piss away their own best assets. Standards and expectations for fellow sheeple decline significantly.
  2. Japan anime crossovers

    More anime crossover. Using secret (see: fictional) pressure points.
  3. Stranger things

    Infant becomes world's first patient to undergo personalized gene-editing treatment Philadelphia — Soon after KJ Muldoon was born in the summer of 2024, he was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that is fatal for about half the infants who are born with it. Until now, the only effective long-term treatment for the rare metabolic disease known as severe Carbamoyl Phosphate Synthetase 1 deficiency, or CPS1, had been a liver transplant. Instead, doctors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia told KJ's family they could try something never done before. They would use a technology known as CRISPR, a personalized gene-editing therapy, to find the one uniquely mutated gene out of 20,000 in his little body, and fix it. KJ subsequently received three infusions of the experimental therapy to his liver earlier this year under treatment by a medical team at the hospital and Penn Medicine. He became the first known patient in the world to be treated using CRISPR personalized just for him, according to a news release from Penn Medicine. His case was published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/infant-worlds-first-patient-personalized-gene-editing-treatment-crispr-liver-disorder/
  4. Do people truly have free will?

    I used to earn $1,000 to $3,000 per week. With my earning potential set to rise over time. I was cheated out of what was mine. Now I will reinvent myself. What are any of you doing with your own life that makes you think its your role to look down on anyone?
  5. Do people truly have free will?

    Over the last 20 years. The only demographic waging war against the existence of free will. Are atheist. The only demographic who would say free will doesn't exist. Are people like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Bill Nye, etc. There's nothing sneaky or deceptive about it. Quick search results: 2009: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experiments-in-philosophy/200901/can-atheist-believe-in-free-will 2019: https://mindmatters.ai/2019/08/why-do-atheists-still-claim-free-will-cant-exist/ 2019: Atheism correlating strongly with denial of free will is old news.
  6. Do people truly have free will?

    A good test of free will. "What's the smartest choice made since COVID in 2020." Those who can't think of a single smart choice in the last 5 years. Got problems.
  7. Do people truly have free will?

    If you ever change your mind I got you covered.
  8. Do people truly have free will?

    I think the practice of sacrificing children and people to deities. Was born out of lacking sufficient food to feed everyone. Which is also the origins story of cow worship. Cow manure allowed for agriculture, allowing for elevated food production to feed everyone. In that sense cows saved man from having to sacrifice their own people. There are people who always seem to make the most low IQ choices they can get their hands on. Its hard to label low IQ choices as instinct. Instinct is generally behavioral patterns that elevate an organisms chances of survival. Wheras low IQ choices are better classified as self destructive if not indirectly suicidal tendencies. There are some working night and day. Working hard. To make life harder for themselves and the people around them. Why? Because they hate God. They hate this world God created and everyone and everything in it. They want to destroy it all, including themselves. How should that be classified?
  9. Do people truly have free will?

    Oh, really? Can I say that you're officially my hater? So I can tell people "I've made it. I'm somebody". I'm so important I have haters.
  10. Do people truly have free will?

    When a person is attacked by a wild animal. They often do not blame the animal for the attack: The animal lacks free will & cannot distinguish between good or evil. It is merely following its instinct. The existence of free will is fundamental ideology of christianity: Good and evil can only exist under conditions where free will exists.
  11. Do people truly have free will?

    I think you should spend more time with people outside daobums. You're too much in your own echo chamber.
  12. "Indian Sunset"

    A band called Rage Against the Machine covered that era of history with a song called Freedom. Yeh. I always thought about reading Bury my Heart but like you said thought it would be nothing but native americans being screwed from beginning to end. And so avoided it. Think I will read it at some point though.
  13. Do people truly have free will?

    A person with free will can be punished for their choices with hell. A person lacking free will could not be punished with hell.
  14. Stranger things

    double post zzzzz
  15. Stranger things

    Surprised there isn't more of a DIY anti venom movement. Anti venom isn't that hard to make: Was 1st made with early 1900s era tech.
  16. Do people truly have free will?

    If a poll were created with a "does free will exist" question. Most religious demographics will vote yes. While atheists vote no.
  17. "Indian Sunset"

    Has anyone read. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Good read?
  18. Demonology. Why focus on the negative?

    Revelation deals mainly with future prophecy. The rebellion of fallen angels happened in the past. Many abandoned atheism after it went woke. Men chopping off their pee pees to compete in woman's sports. Who wants to be associated with that? Its like a joke being said 1,000 years ago. And people being so slow they still haven't got the punchline thousands of years later. If the sharp mind takes 5 seconds to comprehend something. The slow mind will take 50 to 500+ years to comprehend the same content. It should be ancient knowledge but people working night and day to live under a rock make that ancient knowledge into unobtainable knowledge. I've seen more than a few attempts to blame Trump for everything bad in the world. There is no shortage of that out there. Well, like I said. I don't discuss or debate much anymore. As I have come to realize facts and science are things most consider useless. You? Who are you anyway. I thought you were some nun who took a vow of chastity. Nun - gali.
  19. Demonology. Why focus on the negative?

    Attempts to substantiate your claims. Are exactly what I would expect from you. ... 15 to 20 years ago. There was a news story in circulation announcing religious folks who no longer affiliate with a specific denomination would be recategorized as "atheist". That's where your "growth in atheism" stems from. There are many atheists who say they're "atheist but not woke". And many atheists who claim they're "agnostic not atheist". Those distancing themselves from wokeness and atheism can tell which direction winds of public opinion are blowing. No amount of pretending will ever make those winds favorable. This is like digging up fossils from 15 to 20 years ago. This is ancient & irrelavent knowledge to me. But to those like yourself, who could be the last to know things. You might consider this "new". People got banned for disagreeing with you? Its not a quote from cartoons. But good enough.
  20. I would guess it mirrors identical reasons for the average person lacking the physical capabilities of an olympic athlete. The highest levels that can be attained require time and energy to develop. Although it should be mentioned there are many false paths of development. Even in bodybuilding there are things like steroids which can present an illusion of development on the outside. While being harmful and damaging on the inside. And so even someone like myself who is known for being reckless would exercise an extreme level of caution if ever attempting any form of cultivation or spiritualism.
  21. Demonology. Why focus on the negative?

    The only similarity I see. Greek mythology contains references to giants (titans) of past eras. While the bible contains references to giants of past ages who were wiped out during the great flood. Similar to the great flood of Noah's Ark and the flood tale of the Epic of Gilgamesh. I've seen atheists claim the story of Jesus is a copycat of the story of Mithras for the last 20 years. Making those types of unsubstantiated claims is an integral part of how atheism lost ground over the past 20 years as well.
  22. Demonology. Why focus on the negative?

    The concept of 33% of fallen angels rebelling against heaven in the bible. Is not something found in greek or arabic tomes. The bible also repeats certain numbers and fractions like 1/3rd in ways which may have deep hidden meanings. In ways which cannot be compared to other religions. Which do no such thing.