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by iammisc 5y ago
This is happening in a lot more religions. Younger Catholics are becoming more traditional. We're even adopting our own garb. At my traditional parish, men come dressed in suits and many women veil (as is traditional when in church). S
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Modern medicine often got its start in 1800s monasteries.
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How is shunning problematic. If they didn't shun, they would no longer be amish, or be able to preserve their culture. Perhaps we should appreciate the upside of asceticism.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Their stance regarding modern medicine, tolerating it when someone is truly ill, seems particularly hypocritical if not disingenuous. Can you explain? The amish are not against technology by any means. They just don't think you ne
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by iammisc 5y ago
> I would say the thing that's missing from "our" society is a compass. What is it that we want to be, what do we value the most, etc? You begin by knowing those answers, and then you can evaluate whether technology helps
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by iammisc 5y ago
This is great... Thanks. I hate making how-to guides.
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by iammisc 5y ago
When trump called Taiwan's president, many American news outlets castigated him for endangering the united states by breaking Norms. Goes to show how manipulative the reporting is.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Well I'm Catholic, so I'm going to offer this to you from that perspective. While I understand the tenets of many other world religions, having never experienced any of their spiritualities, I can't comment on them. A big par
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by iammisc 5y ago
Are you aware that companies lie to make money off you?
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No I don't think that cuts it. As I said, the spiritual buttons necessary to do things like create meaning and hope where such things do not naturally exist need to be installed at a young age.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Remarkably effective but at a tremendous cost to personal liberty Presuming Singapore correctly identifies the dealers, how is this a violation of liberty? You typically don't have the ability to harm others and drugs cause clear
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by iammisc 5y ago
This is a sad story. I have lots of sympathy. But I can't help but think this is a spiritual problem. In particular, rehab seems utterly useless. Obviously, it helps them get over the chemical dependency. But it seems to completely neg
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by iammisc 5y ago
What utter nonsense. Portland has an incredibly inhospitable climate (I mean I live in a lovely house and I find it overbearing). And yet we have more than enough people willing to tough it out in the torrential downpours.
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by iammisc 5y ago
This is a rewriting of how terrible the senate was at the time. Caesar took the existing tyranny of the senate and substituted it for tyranny of an emperor. This is the key that people often miss in this regard. The staggering ROman Republi
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by iammisc 5y ago
This is next level rationalizing. For a president to say in no clear terms that he is going to make a rule he knows is illegal is something else. At least other administrations justify their attempts to break the law and mount some defense.
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by iammisc 5y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-04/biden-... > The president knows this. He told the press that his administration had surveyed the opinions of constitutional scholars, and that most tho
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by iammisc 5y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-04/biden-... > The president knows this. He told the press that his administration had surveyed the opinions of constitutional scholars, and that most tho
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by iammisc 5y ago
Honestly this forced choice (either google is in bed with government or Raytheon et Al are) is just needless politicization. Why don't we just condemn both? I mean... Google is going down the same path as the defense contractors and in
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by iammisc 5y ago
Does the current administration follow SCOTUS rulings? Edit: why am I being downvotes? The president explicitly stated his plan to ignore another SCOTUS ruling
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by iammisc 5y ago
The flu regularly (like every few hundred years or so, I think) mutates into a strain that kills 10x as many as other strains. And our level of risk has basically always been... nothing. We don't do anything special for flu, at least n
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by iammisc 5y ago
> speeding, drinking, texting, failing to indicate turn Are these not already against the law? BY no means am I asking to repeal these sensible laws. Also, I dunno what I'd wager any more. I used to think that people would not accep
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by iammisc 5y ago
Oh well, that's way worse than where I live in the United States, but the fact is you shouldn't have to do any of that to go anywhere. By the way you put it your 'not affected' is actually more strict than Oregon state (
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by iammisc 5y ago
I didn't mention the flu. I mentioned making tradeoffs between death rate and living life. Why does everyone bring up the flu when talking about covid? Flu is a deadly endemic virus that most people have natural immunity too (yes, even
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by iammisc 5y ago
Well before acceptable risk became a dirty word during the covid pandemic, we used to argue as a society as to how much risk in our daily life we are willing to tolerate. Now zero is the only acceptable answer to many
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by iammisc 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_dise... Classification section, quote: Sporadic (sCJD), caused by the spontaneous misfolding of prion-protein in an individual.[20] This accounts for 85% of cases
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by iammisc 5y ago
Most CJD is not caused by ingesting meat, but rather are spontaneous. You can develop CJD spontaneously.
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Given basic human decency yes. However American law requires bakers to bake cakes for events they as an individual disagree with. An old lady florist was individuals fined for refusing to do an event she thought was morally questionable. It
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by iammisc 5y ago
So not even art can contain lies now? Will I am the walrus be fact checked next?
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> science has evolved a lot since then. Given that there is no way to measure absolute scientific progress, this is a meaningless and baseless claim. At the time of Galileo, scientists had, after many centuries, perfected their means of
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by iammisc 5y ago
> You're jumping in bed with people that lie. Not the OC, but this is quite the claim considering you're doing exactly the same thing

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