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Nathaniel

['Member']Joined: November 13, 2018 at 02:12Last active: November 23, 2018 at 23:35None discussions22 comments

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That which the mind can create is equal to the knowledge base the thinker posses. If all you have to work with is wood you can only build a wooden obj...
November 14, 2018 at 02:44
To be infinite we have to especially some ground rules. The mind on the creative end is capable of coming up with an infinite number of ideas but thos...
November 14, 2018 at 02:36
One cannot discuss a population goal for a country without discussing a population goal for the whole planet(Currently at around 7.6 billion). Seeing ...
November 14, 2018 at 01:59
The major of fighting through mental illness seems to me to be an incredibly strong will. Forcing ones self to do better or forcing ones brain to thin...
November 14, 2018 at 01:47
The good of one is not necessarily the good of the group or vice versa. Going back to cannibalism the group wants to eat me, not good for me, you clai...
November 14, 2018 at 00:55
I would be dead, my feelings about it would cease to matter. This is of right and wrong not my personal opinion of eating humans but rather in a logic...
November 14, 2018 at 00:39
It's made all the worse when the parents have to eat the child they just watched starve to death because it's wrong to murder for food. Had they murde...
November 14, 2018 at 00:26
So you have mothers/fathers watching their children suffer unspeakable horror of starvation, and we just watch them die and then descend like jackals?...
November 14, 2018 at 00:18
If a group of people have no food (draught , natural disaster , climate change) they should wait for one of their members to die of starvation before ...
November 14, 2018 at 00:10
But we've already established killing is a grey area.
November 13, 2018 at 23:59
Don't most cannibal tribes kill the human first prior to eating its flesh? Wouldn't they all eat the dead?
November 13, 2018 at 23:53
This is about survival, popularity don't enter into it. The soccer team that crashed in the alps should they have starved to death rather then eat the...
November 13, 2018 at 23:43
How so?
November 13, 2018 at 23:37
A person growing up in a cannibalistic tribe would feel that killing and eating of other humans is right, whereas someone who grew up else where would...
November 13, 2018 at 23:32
and if never corrected? A continued determent to the group would be wrong.
November 13, 2018 at 23:15
If person A is robbing/raping other people in a group and person B murders them, thus benefitting the majority of the group, is person B good or evil?...
November 13, 2018 at 23:06
Right/wrong are human concepts not universal. The right or wrongness of a situation is determined by the creatures involved.IQ is equal to logic, the ...
November 13, 2018 at 22:54
There is no one-size fits all cure. The variables are too great across humans. You need someone you can discuss your view of the world, how you percei...
November 13, 2018 at 22:28
A lot of it has to do with the way one perceives their environment and reacts too it. It will more then likely will get worse before it gets better, b...
November 13, 2018 at 22:13
It doesn't sound as thou you are content with your lot in life, you would not refer to it as crummy if you were. All therapists ask just general quest...
November 13, 2018 at 22:04
There's no hidden secret or magic trick to get past depression. Depression is a clinical term denoting a medical condition. So in simple terms if you ...
November 13, 2018 at 21:54
The concept of good or bad is quite a big package to unpack. Good and Bad are relative terms, only getting quantified through to experiencers eyes, wh...
November 13, 2018 at 02:58