It could be a form of sublimation of instinct. Jains presumably do not slap back but the idea of otherworldy justice (nature itself slapping back at s...
Maybe it just siphons that potentiality of violence because retribution happens afterlife. The judgement is outsourced so Jains can keep the faith and...
Is suicide an act of violence toward the self? Probably a tiny minority of Jains still practice ritual suicide Sallekhana. Though the religious contex...
Size/complexity/power matters under the burden of a competition. But if we're all working together, then I'd say a reflection on significance is somew...
We had come under cover of night to sabotage the vigneron's récolte de raisins. But the 'Fils de pute' was waiting with a revolver in hand. "Gout de T...
Fear certainly is a motivating factor that gives money value. Our society leverages artificial scarcity to prop up, conserve and concentrate wealth. I...
I don't think hamburgers and hotdogs (animal products in general) need a lobby. They taste so damn good. Even a plant based diet is filled with potent...
Source: No, Black Holes Will Never Consume the Universe Is Siegal explaining the same thing you are in different terms or is frame-dragging unrelated ...
Kind of sounds like the Buddhist concept of dependent origination with infinite regress. No thing is fundamentally disconnected/independent from anyth...
Thanks Sir, But I'm still sort of bewildered by the design choice. It'd be so much easier on those installing a p trap if they didn't have to perfectl...
I call it a junction but it is just were two pipes are coupled together. This coupling is beneath the level at which the water rises up to empty back ...
It's scary as f. All the free worlds are amorphous goop domains. I am one with the goop but am still afraid of dying and embarrassing myself. Death's ...
Sounds satisfying. But such narratives in the support of any local belief system around "good and evil" are susceptible to ironic and corrupt uses (ie...
Why is there something rather than nothing? You can't have one without the other. Unless... there is nothing when there is no point of view. How many ...
Your assumptions are so arbitrary but this partly due to the speculative nature of the premise. Just extend the uses we have of simulations now to und...
Any constructed universe (just a name for a necessarily simpler simulation) is nested in your universe. There is no way a simulation could duplicate t...
Your thoughts are just post hoc scripts that magnify and feed-back on the affects of your depression. Practice observing the emotional affects without...
Eh, just speak directly. It isn't that you can't imagine it as much as you don't wish to consider such a scenario in this discussion. If you are meeti...
We become who we are through our relationships to other people (does sound a bit general and cliche). You may intentionally change how you interact de...
What can one do with this foundational intuition if everything else is to be doubted? You're giving me Cartesian anxiety. If we move upwards from Desc...
Don't you have to be a bit more conservative and say that you can't doubt the existence of your own mind. You can doubt the existence of mine. Descart...
Sorry, I highjacked your thread with pseudo koans. The Wish To Be A Red Indian by Franz Kafka: "If one were only an Indian, instantly alert, and on a ...
Well, even outside of presenting oneself on social media platforms we mediate our performance all the time to achieve desired ends. Work requires that...
You can't imagine aliens in VR but you can imagine alien physicists doing high-fidelity ancestor simulations which produce self-conscious beings? Hmmm...
The students gathered in the rose garden to listen to the Grand Master Potus talk about his enlightenment. “You know, I’m, like, a enlightened person....
Depends on how sophisticated the civilization becomes I guess and what they're actually using simulations for. 'O God, I could be bound in a nutshell,...
There are no things in the absence of things. There are no thoughts in the pursuit of no things. What things, what things, is to sing of what things? ...
Yes, precisely the term I should have used in my OP. Well expressed concern and exactly to the point. If a verdict can be reached without a jury by so...
No but after seeing a documentary you might have strong opinions about who is guilty of a crime. Lots of short clips on reddit showing potentially cri...
Jeff Bezos is a real entity with powerful resources. He is our modern day Sauron. One online retailer to rule them all One online retailer to find the...
Mrs. Zenilinski caught Gregory passing notes in class. "Gregory! Come up to the front of the glass and answer this question on the black board. What d...
The monk, Gregory, did not show up for the morning Sermon. "Does anyone know where Gregory is?" the abbot asked the other monks. "He's been drinking t...
Remember also that laws come into and out of being to serve particular interests and can be interpreted and executed with bias. What if you had to pay...
You've absolutely cracked Wheatley. Mary Poppins is a fictional character in a film (with a crappy sequel). To my knowledge there is no cult behind it...
Most folk have a general idea of how to determine whether you are dead or alive. They can listen to your heart beat, check to see if you are breathing...
Thank good Fiduciary Sense that Michael Banks didn't feed the birds, invested his tuppence and was able to save his family home from being foreclosed ...
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