MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I'm very proud of our ton-of-Lego, especially my Unimog :-) And, someday, all our Lego Friends sets will find good homes.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
My kids (my son espcially) understood from a young age that their toys can disappear at any time, should my wife and my very minimal suggestions be ignored. It never needed to happen, but they fully understood that I keep my promises and th
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Morality is what keeps one race of people from enslaving other folks; keeps someone from robbing or killing another, and many other negative attitudes and behaviors. We human beings are the only moral creatures around here, being able to le
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
5/6ths of the universe's matter is missing, or thereabouts. That fact aligns with there being six vibrationally distinct dimensions in our 3-space (our physical dimension being just one of them, our soul inhabiting its counter-dim
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yes, but it was Einstein's imagination that provided the theoretical framework that allowed the longstanding physical measurement to line up. If his imagination was limited by Newton's laws, he would have never come up with GR. If
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, I wonder how horrible the plasticizers were in the Playtex baby bottle nipple-tops of the 1970s. First they heated up the Similac in a little plastic pouch/bag, then slapped that nipple on top, then we sucked it all in.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
There's a big fat grey area between being a hoarder and simply not being wasteful ;-) Good luck!
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It looks like the parents in the article are not teaching their children that each kind of toy should be put away before the next toy gets brought out to play with. Teaching children that mixing all one's toys up creates an unusable ch
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
We understood that Mercury's orbit was wrong per Newton's laws long before Einstein came along to explain to us why. Whether or not something is true is always the beginning of a scientific exploration.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
And your proof that it's wrong is ... ? That would make your counterargument a pseudo-counterargument, no? It's just reaching into one's feelings/nether-regions and blabbering out some words. You don't even have a s
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well, when your science explains where the 5/6ths of the missing matter in the universe is, or where the "dark energy" is, I'm all ears. Also, you can try to explain how individual proteins arrange themselves into bilate
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I know it's going to sound like a bunch of hooey, but information really is the most intrinsic element of all aspects of this universe, especially when it comes to life. The life force is a thing that is interrelated with our physical
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
There are subjective experiences (especially seeking to connect with God in order to become a more virtuous person) that must be undertaken with all one's heart in order to verify for one's self. We are created with the ability to
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That is well put. Know that the key to human existence is the fact that, by changing one's attitudes, behaviors, and thought processes, one has also changed one's subjective viewpoint, by expanding both one's field of view an
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I am merely explaining that there are more sublime and direct ways of querying the univere, but that is beyond our current understanding of the depths science could be developed to explain. At some point in a certain kind of seeking, the pr
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
You can call me what you want, but you have told us all who you are, and that's all I need. We move forward together, usually with the loudest and most ignorant leading the way. Same as it ever was. The important thing is which side we
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
... where the combination of their and the public's willful ignorance results in much needless suffering.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I agree, and the profit motive for the pharma corps seems to have really compromised their ethics (to put it mildly while giving them more benefit of doubt than I think they deserve). Ultimately, medical science didn't even know the br
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Your dark humor made me chuckle. Thanks for that in this dire world. May the persecution of all innocent Jews, Palestinians, Ukrainians, and Africans (e.g. Ugandans) end and a world of peace and justice be established, for one and all.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well, what a person calls a thing and what it is are often two different realities. That's why it is existentially important to understand when a person is a liar, and then never elect them to govt. Yeah, I know, that ship is sailed,
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I wrestled in high school and college, my friend. If you don't eat and work out a lot, you will lose weight, guaranteed. It's the nature of the human body; it's thermodynamics and biochemistry and hard as hell as we get old
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
There are deeper queries than "What happens when I push a rock off a height?" The science and math of Newton's laws of motion is enough for that, especially if combined with some materials science. I didn't say that you
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
A person's body mass is nothing more than the combination of what a person eats and what a person does in their life. The only really effective policy is to inform people that that is the simple, honest truth of every single person, an
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Absolutely. I actually know that (know that I don't know, but that my not knowing doesn't mean that no other person can know), but modern science will not be the source of such explanations. Those explanations can only be accessed
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
>> You don't know to what degree animals are conscious or control their behavior. Just because you don't know something or even understand that it can be known, in no way limits my knowledge. It just paints yourself a confid
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It depends on the person, and it depends on the religion. There are positive and negative values, and a misaligned person may well believe they are doing right but actually causing damage. That is why humility, compassion, and honesty are p
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Not everyone can just learn such coping mechanisms. Some people have physical problems that need physical help/remediation. Of course, our current psychiatric drugs are their risky attempts to help such folks. It is all very tricky, bu
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
We already know that our science can simply not explain/understand what happened in the first 10e-33s after the Big Bang, which is just established science. There is nothing more "negatively religious" than believing that not
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
What's important is that you know who is deserving and who isn't, right? I did not say that mind or consciousness is unique to humans. Our difference is that only we can control our minds and only we have a conscience to help us m
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
>> Most personality changes are unconscious That is because most people are not consciously attempting to become better people for the betterment of those around them (which helps their own happiness, too, due to the nature of our kar

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