MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Nature is for us, my friend, but we have to be intelligent in how we care for it, and you have a very good understanding of how important that is. Cheers! We must also care for each other in the same way that we should be caring for our b
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I certainly do not understand the totality of God's design; no human being could have enough time in a single lifetime (all we get) for such an endeavor. You have brought me a smile this morning, my friend. Once again, nominative deter
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
You have to verify yourself that this is a level that human beings can reach, should they connect with their Creator and ask (beg) to level-up and learn. My comments over the past few days explain it quite fully. The "evidence" I
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
What we share with the animals is our tendency to make packs and fight for dominance between and within them. For humans, with our superior intellects, that simply wreaks destruction and misery across our beloved planet. We should be taking
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Nocebo Effect.
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All undesirable outcomes come from our selfishness. Even if they are mistakes made under good intentions, they will serve as a lesson on how to be better in the future. Such lessons teach us humility and, as you intuit, a healthy respect fo
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I have found that dogs can communicate their desires without words, by facial expressions and vocalizations, but maybe I'm alone in that, too. (I'm not.) Group dynamics are the nature of kinship theory, where the overlap of DNA pr
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well, they have a different environment with a greater need for extremely close social groups, so sensitivity to emotion may, indeed, be greater than ours in some ways. That said, we have a conscience aka moral compass, a mind capapble of a
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Research Eugene Parker and learn why he said, "We'll see who falls flat." And, wow, the nominative determinism in these comments is fantastic. Yes, it takes a brave person to accept that they have to change, and that all thei
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yes, the attacker only has to find one weak point, but the defender must find and fix all weak points.
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> Rats try and free restrained cage mates [1] and share their food with them, even though from a selfish perspective it would be better for them to eat the food and not share. They understand the other is suffering and try to alleviate i
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yes, kinship theory is a real understanding of behavior, but the animals don't choose compassion over selfishness, they merely make an instinctive survival cost-benefit analysis in the moment. So it's not even a kind of thinking
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> What is the deal? How do you square this? Loving God means appreciating, at least to some extent, God's wonderful design of this mathematical universe, its mystery and grandeur, and the scientific structures of nature, which inclu
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Only you can provide the evidence, my friend. The proof of self-evolution is achieved through an open heart, open mind, and a full commitment. You have claimed you can't graduate college, but you refuse to matriculate. If you want to k
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You must seek and find that for yourself, my friend. "The Way goes in." --Rumi
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Yeah, they are instructive, no? The burnt hand and all that.
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Or maybe you're just a part of the majority of Earth's poplulation, who have denied our loving potential and, instead, decided to remain in a destructively ignorant competition that is destroying the Earth and causing so much mise
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But your 1yo might in the future do so, and might even show much greater compassion in her future. A fox or squirrel absolutely will not, nor will they break out that chalk.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I didn't say it would reply with words. And you should learn about the instinct of kinship theory, where worker ants and bees give up their ability to procreate and even live, for the benefit of the colony. Only we can choose such self
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks, of course we're not alone, as we understand God's design, but we are definitely in the minority, as evidenced by, basically, all of human history. Love is, itself, on our side, and our happiness is what really sets us apar
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Or maybe I just know the truth? It's very difficult for someone who denies reality to formulate any semblance of an argument against the truth.
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They always choose their instinct to survival; only we have a conscience and free will to choose whether to behave selflessly or selfishly. Only we can think abstractly about the needs of the group, the happiness of others.
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Of course animals exhibit teamwork, but they do not have a free will that can choose compassion in the face of its opposite, selfishness. You can note all the abstract thought that animals exhibit, perhaps some equations on a chalkboard?
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You are truly eloquent at speaking for yourself and your cohort's stubborn insistence on your ignorance. For you, all these things are true, because you have chosen that perspective, and that is your inalienable right. You can't e
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We have so little respect for the fungal colonies in the leaf litter that process the organic matter back into sustenance for the trees.
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We are the only creatures that can choose compassion over selfishness. The rest of creation is on auto-pilot, guided by and incorporating the Creator's loving compassion for us in their every behavior. Our intelligence is not only on
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The system is in complete harmony. Sometimes the predators are in the ascendancy, sometimes the prey. Our science has little comprehension of the grandeur of the totality of Nature's balance, simply because the willful ignorance of the
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> That sounds an awfully lot like your understanding. What Christian would your above statement not apply to? Most Christians I have met or read about would not learn from an Islamic Sufi Murshid, or Guru Nanak, or Buddhism's 8-fold
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"You take my breath away, Mr. Holmes." --Silver Blaze's owner from Doyle's "Silver Blaze", once he sees that Holmes has found his missing horse. And, earlier, how Holmes describes the man who hid Silver Blaze,
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
10/10 no notes, well done, indeed.

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