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2024-09-19 at 4:40 PM UTC in Cart NarcsBirds of a feather.
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2024-09-19 at 12:07 PM UTC in Cart Narcs
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2024-09-19 at 11:56 AM UTC in Have you been brainwashed?
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2024-09-19 at 11:20 AM UTC in Cart Narcs
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2024-09-18 at 10:25 PM UTC in Floods in Poland and wildfires in Portugal show reality of climate breakdownFloods in Poland and wildfires in Portugal show reality of climate breakdown
“Make no mistake. This tragedy is not an anomaly. This is fast becoming the norm for our shared future,” Lenarčič told MEPs. “Europe is the fastest warming continent globally and is particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events.”
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2024-09-18 at 7:16 PM UTC in Private group to plot against Musk
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Hate is such a strong word young Kafka, you should learn to live and let live, to reach out and help ease someone else's pain.
Embrace your fellow man/woman and in turn that will help you grow to be a good and respected person yourself.
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Human kind got where it is today through violence, not patting each other on the botty.
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2024-09-17 at 10:59 PM UTC in Cart Narcs
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2024-09-16 at 4:50 PM UTC in Fona's Cancer CT ScanHow is your wife handling the situation?
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2024-09-11 at 8:07 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-11 at 4:59 PM UTC in Fona's Cancer CT ScanThat sucks Fona, wish your recovery goes well.
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2024-09-11 at 4:54 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will^ These guys have much faith in an incoherent concept they can't articulate.
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2024-09-11 at 4:14 AM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free WillI generally start each day with a cup of coffee or tea—sometimes two. This morning, it was coffee (two). Why not tea? I am in no position to know. I wanted coffee more than I wanted tea today, and I was free to have what I wanted. Did I consciously choose coffee over tea? No. The choice was made for me by events in my brain that I, as the conscious witness of my thoughts and actions, could not inspect or influence. Could I have “changed my mind” and switched to tea before the coffee drinker in me could get his bearings? Yes, but this impulse would also have been the product of unconscious causes. Why didn’t it arise this morning? Why might it arise in the future? I cannot know. The intention to do one thing and not another does not originate in consciousness—rather, it appears in consciousness, as does any thought or impulse that might oppose it.
To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose. Of course, this insight does not make social and political freedom any less important. The freedom to do what one intends, and not to do otherwise, is no less valuable than it ever was. Having a gun to your head is still a problem worth rectifying, wherever intentions come from. But the idea that we, as conscious beings, are deeply responsible for the character of our mental lives and subsequent behavior is simply impossible to map onto reality. Consider what it would take to actually have free will. You would need to be aware of all the factors that determine your thoughts and actions, and you would need to have complete control over those factors. But there is a paradox here that vitiates the very notion of freedom—for what would influence the influences? More influences? -
2024-09-10 at 9:07 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-10 at 8:30 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson ^Brainwashed.
Free will is actually more than an illusion (or less), in that it cannot be made conceptually coherent. Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. -
2024-09-10 at 8:12 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
Originally posted by NARCassist It actually is your choice even if you don't know why you made it
You know, its not the next mans
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Whatever their conscious motives, these men cannot know why they are as they are. As sickening as I find their behavior, I have to admit that if I were to trade places with one of these men, atom for atom, I would be him: There is no extra part of me that could decide to see the world differently or to resist the impulse to victimize other people. Even if you believe that every human being harbors an immortal soul, the problem of responsibility remains: I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of psychopath. If I had truly been in Komisarjevsky's shoes on July 23,2007 - that is, if I had his genes and life experience and identical brain (or soul) in an identical state - I would have acted exactly as he did. There is simply no intellectually respectable position from which to deny this. -
2024-09-10 at 12:23 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-10 at 4:30 AM UTC in Do you set your e-brake? (With poll)
Originally posted by Speedy Parker According to Wagner Brake it's called an emergency brake. But everyone knows the terms are interchangeable as well as regional.
You're just a turd and can't help showing it by stinking up the place.
https://www.wagnerbrake.com/technical/parts-matter/automotive-repair-and-maintenance/all-about-your-emergency-brake.html#:~:text=Part%20of%20your%20vehicle's%20brake,main%20braking%20system%20would%20fail.
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2024-09-09 at 9:38 PM UTC in Do you set your e-brake? (With poll)
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2024-09-09 at 9:37 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-09 at 9:24 PM UTC in Do you set your e-brake? (With poll)
Originally posted by ner vegas handbrake? even if it's not necessary dunno why you wouldn't, zero effort and you won't forget that one time you park on a slope
When you shift into "park", there is only a small pin keeping your vehicle in that spot, and relying on only that pin to keep the vehicle parked will cause wear to that pin, and if your vehicle gets struck that pin is getting sheared off and the whole thing is fucked. Applying the parking brake is a no-brainer.
