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  1. Jsbrads
    Well Bushrat, you may not have intended to share important information with me by writing this post, but you gave me critical information I need on a separate project. You helped me, I put something for you in return. Get well soon.
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    You got me beat, except for family, there I got you beat (if it’s a competition) my family is a real piece of work. Other than family, my life was bad but no quite as bad as yours although once I would have been thankful for an rv. I thought it was all over years ago and I was just hoping for it to end. I was able to get cheap counseling thru one program. I found a job program for felons (even tho I’m not a felon) and they helped me with my resume and interview skills. They would have given me a job sweeping streets if I were a felon, but I didn’t qualify. They offered me a cash job once, but I was earning just a bit more money doing something else at the time. It probably was Peterson reading the story of Cain and Able when I decided I really didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole. Still stuck, but then I got a slightly better job and then another better yet. Life ain’t rosy. But it’s better. I have hope it won’t go back to the shitter, but I know I can lose everything in a moment. I can’t guarantee your life will get better. But I do know you can find a way to make it worse and if you don’t want that you gotta take it one day at a time. Mindful meditation helped me get myself 1% better. Heart, I’ll talk with you if you want. Email me [email protected]
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    I’m pretty sure Barn said everything I wanted to say and much more. Just wanted to reiterate, there is no hard number. 3 may be a good rule of thumb, but it won’t break someone. And even the best rule of thumb, isn’t a concrete rule that doesn’t have exceptions. It is hard to change if you ignored your human needs for real emotional intimacy and supplant it with sex. The longer a person ignores what they truly need, the harder it is to get back to where they need to be, but no one is so far gone that they have no chance for salvation.
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    I have also availed myself to low cost counseling outside of uni, and recently began mindful meditation which I found very helpful to level out the bumps.
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    Um are you still traumatized by the gate 1.5 yrs later?
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    Shortly after Twitter started the US Library of Congress started recording all tweets by US citizens for posterity (they must have seen one of my tweets) but after a very short time they changed their minds. Not because of any shortage of disk space, but because of the drivel being written, they decided they didn’t want to save that for posterity at all.
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    I am the one, who said that? Jesus? What if the Trinity?
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    Adults who desire sex with a prepubescent child have been found to be unsocializable. No community or alternative lifestyle environment deter them from seeking sex with young children. Adults who desire postpubescent children, teens, have been often successfully socialized, and in a comfortable environment of their age peers, they tend to revert to sex with their age peers quite happily.
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    From the top y’all: It isn’t God is chance, it is God or chance that created the universe. Entropy was never Zero. At 10^-32 secs, the universe was the size of a grain of sand and incredibly hot (lots of Entropy) and the energy was unevenly distributed within that grain of sand. Entropy is increasing, life inside the universe can’t reverse it so long as it is a closed system. If your God doesn’t exist, your moral system is flawed. I am not saying your moral system isn’t the best moral system, I’m just saying it can’t be perfect without a God. Were our planet created by incredibly intelligent aliens billions of years ago, and they made our DNA, and should they state what ethical system we should use, I can legitimately reply, “Well Yeah, that’s just your opinion man.” I enjoyed learning from you that faith can be in an ethical system, not in the God named for it. Two types of chaos (aka positive Entropy) do add together, but they are both positive values and they are additive, not multiplicative. True, our winding backwards of time is limited, the law of Entropy, doesn’t require our ability to wind back time, it supersedes it. Yes, God is outside our universe, within it, etc. Our universe may be inside the mind of God. Much like we can create AI and not know what it will do, God can create us, know what we will do and still allow us the free will to do it, even if it isn’t in the best interests of ourselves/the creatures he created. The universe isn’t infinite, it was created with a finite quantity of energy. The universe was created. It isn’t possible it was created by chance.
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    Ayn Rand voiced the idea of Selfish Egoism. she said that today’s society values altruism and that this value system is horribly flawed and leads to systems like Communism. The idea is for each individual person to morally seek to better oneself, not at any other’s expense, but thru Capitalism and Free Trade. She loved Capitalism and championed it as the greatest system for society. She was born in collapsing Russia and watch her father harmed by Communism. She supports limited government, courts and police, paid by tax dollars. She supports the military and thinks the government should seek its own benefit and destroy anyone who challenges our country with violence. But trade freely in general and not seek to annex other land or resources.
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    The Wolf and the Sheepdog. 1 Read the stories, or hear them from a professional storyteller. What is the moral? Know what you are capable of before you go there. And... 2 Starve the wolf, feed the sheepdog. There are two spirits inside of you, one feeds on anger, doubt, exhaustion, depression... the other on calmness, surety, energy and joy. 2b I have found mindful meditation instrumental in helping me improve my mindset when depression would occasionally distract me.
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    Your quote from the Merchant of Venice proves the point. If he is human, if he is like you, then treating different is irrational. Emotional argument is supposed to defeat emotional resistance, not reason. If the alien from Alien came to you and argued the same and you don’t blow out his brains, you are a fool.
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    I find your example of driving at “too fast” a speed confusing. What speed is moral?
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    The accumulation of knowledge doesn’t force choices on the person. In physics we choose a theory that best describes the evidence. Free will is the best theory to describe the choices people make. Determinism is a bad description for how different people make not only different decisions, but change their decision patterns based on reflecting upon their best actions and changing desires.
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    There is an objective moral system, seek that truth if you don’t already have it. That isn’t collectivism. altruism, How very Ayn Rand an opinion. so is UPB a system, systems are necessary, while I’m no fan of government intrusion/force, socially agreed upon systems allow people to work together and reduce conflict. While I won’t deny Jesus’ obvious dubiousness towards wealth (also wealth back then was often created by force) he might be the greatest advocate of wealthy ethical entrepreneurs operating in a capitalist system, were he rational. THAT said, Judaism has no such aversion to wealth. Murder and killing isn’t the same thing. Murder is the illegal causing of death in a human. Killing in self defense or the defense of another, is a virtuous act.
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    Ethics are rational in that we can see causal collisions of following ethics leading to better lives, but starting from a tabula rasa there would be no way to unerringly formulate an entire system of ethics without trial and error evolutionary incremental improvement.
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    Don’t taze me bro! is an emotional arguement. However we must first deny that the individual was trespassing and violating other people’s freedoms to care for his argument.
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    The universe isn’t infinite. There was an input of energy that create the universe, time and space.
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    He does openly say he is the alt right.
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    I would advise to not go the path of selfsoothing.
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    Positive reinforcement isn’t manipulating the dog with food. The dog gets all the food he needs everyday from you. additionally, the social component, dogs enjoy every part of the training process, much like you enjoy spending time with friends. The pets and the treats aren’t that important, it is your communication, your feedback that tells them that you are happy. also, when interacting with a Master, dogs better understand their place in the world and this has a calming effect.
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    Of course anyone can do as they please, they just have to live with the consequences.
  23. Jsbrads
    Benevolent Dictatorship: Hong Kong
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    Watch Prager U video on forgiveness. Different kinds of forgiveness, while may want try any without God, you can do anything without believing in God.
  25. Jsbrads
    Prepare to burn wood. You will need the water either way.
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