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by laotzu 11y ago
I'm not saying at all that it would be easy to get people to do what is in their best interest; though once they are properly educated, it would create a positive feedback loop. The more you exercise the more energy you have to exercis
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It's called gentrification.
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>the interest must come from somewhere This is one of the primary problems of the financial system according to Prof. Franz Hormann. In his banned TED Talk he explains that when money is created and loaned out by the central banks, the m
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Buckminster Fuller also argued we crossed the line in the 70's: >In technology's "invisible" world, inventors continually increase the quantity and quality of performed work per each volume or pound of material, erg o
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Is this not basically saying the same thing that is shown in the double slit experiment? Short video on the double slit experiment for the layman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
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"Freedom is the state of not having to choose" -Alan Watts
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The article fails to convince. Mentions studies but does not cite them. Doesn't even mention the words "exercise" or "healthy diet", the two best and cheapest forms of preventative medicine. Narrowly defines prevent
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So if the problem is too much demand, lets look at how to lower the demand? The answer to lowering demand is clearly to encourage preventative medicine over reaction medicine. Most of the cash cows in the US for sickness profiteering are pr
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>The NSA has not tried to use this to suppress political dissidence. False. They did with Martin Luther King Jr. To quote the Senator Church of the Church Committee which investigated this: >In the need to develop a capacity to know w
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>There exists a realizable, evolutionary alternative to our being either atom-bombed into extinction or crowding ourselves off the planet. The alternative is the computer-persuadable veering of big business from its weaponry fixation to
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For an Eastern flavored version of Stoic philosophy, take a look at the short Dao De Ching: http://www.taoism.net/ttc/complete.htm Many of the passages out of the Dao De Ching have a striking similarity to passages in