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There are many NDE experiences who have experience with psychedelics and discuss the comparison! As far as I've seen they are more or less unanimous is asserting a categorical difference, but I haven't seen done any systematic res
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Here's an article discussing this: https://inthesetimes.com/article/christians-united-for-israe... There are many YouTube videos of CUFI founder John Hagee giving sermons on this theology, sometimes going so far a
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This article discusses a study but doesn't link it, or name the authors, or where it is published.
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It is bizarre! Yet it is quite mainstream. See Christians United for Israel, the largest Zionist lobby in the USA with around 1 million members. Their founder is quite explicit about this theological motivation.
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This is more or less Sartre's take on the identity of Jewishness, that it is essentially defined and maintained by the forces of antisemitic discourse and violence. Arguably a reductive, even insulting, understanding of identity and cu
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I'm curious which theological/mythical abrogation you're referring to! Rabbinic tradition generally considers covenant regarding living on the land indefinitely suspended since the 73 CE exile began. Modern religious Jewish Z
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Aliens live among us.
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This is in line with some Buddhist perspectives (arguably dependent origination is about this) - awareness is more or less synonymous with ultimate reality, and that gets filtered and formed and abstracted and compressed to generate the eve
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Im surprised the responses to you are in disagreement, this seems like the obvious and clear takeaway to me. Climate change and other issues of habitat destruction and pollution are very interconnected, but they're not the same. Carbon
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I think OPs argument is that tackling microplastic exposure through personal choices like microwave use, etc, may be unlikely to make a significant dent in overall microplastic consumption, if it's in all the food, all the water, the s
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40 years is a long time, there's not really a viable counterfactual here
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This is the way
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There are (~conspiracy) theories out there for hybridized/synthetic human-alien biologies, so it's not completely unexpected or unprecedented discourse in the UFO world. Humans share ~60% DNA with fruit flies, so the reported ~70%
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Meditation is accessible to anyone willing to try. Five minutes a day is enough. Free resources abound for guided meditations and arbitrarily in-depth instruction.
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Communism sprouts from envy? It sprouts from the majority being economically oppressed by the minority. One need not "envy" the boot on one's neck to fight it off. It has had its obvious and drastic implementation issues, but
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Environmentalist is a very broad label. Some folks - likely those native Americans - don't want their (ancestral) lands permanently poisoned. Theyre not necessarily weighing in on a strategy for a global energy transition. Why should t
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AFAIK, none. MS makes a wired ergonomic keyboard, but IMO the keypress is much worse. I tried every wired ergonomic option in the same price range on Amazon. Most of them were the exact same keyboard with miscellaneous different branding. N
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I loved the Microsoft sculpt until the connection started glitching sporadically. Even if you only lose connection for 10 microseconds every so often, it feels so disruptive to a workflow.
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If you're starting from scratch and interested in python, walk through Miguel grinberg's mega tutorial from start to finish, implementing everything yourself along the way. It's very good and you'll have a thorough under
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This always strikes me as sort of a straw man. Any serious theological works, even very old ones, deal with these questions. This kind of thing feels to me like a very superficial engagement.
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We keep finding more and more complex biological precursors on extra planetary bodies. The interstellar medium, pretty primordial, seems to be filled with phospholipids: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.210131
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There are no existing viable carbon capture technologies that can help deal with the scale of global carbon emission. It's a cool idea, and maybe one day might be able to contribute to resolving GHGs. MIGHT be able to. We don't kn
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Sort of begs the question, doesn't it? Just kicks the existential mystery one step up the ontological ladder.
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> It’s really quite amazing, especially since no one noticed this until about five years ago. The medical science around trans and intersex goes back more than a century. The Nazis burned the library and offices of the most prominent re
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Hard agree!!!
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Artificial means "made by humans" in addition to meaning "sham"
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The parent comment is sarcastic
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Dopamine is to help control symptoms, not to slow development of the disease. There is no use for dopamine treatment in an early diagnosis that precedes meaningful symptoms. Lifestyle changes, on the other hand, mostly meaning exercise, sig
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I was skeptical, but this article does a decent job reiterating the reasons that researching meditative altered states reproduces the same inappropriate KPIs as earlier generations of mindfulness research. Nirodha samipatti may be a fancy a
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Totally irresponsible that they condemn "save the bees" as a misunderstanding, but barely mention the many species of bees that are critically endangered. The phrase isn't "save the honeybees." It's still a val

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