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2024-09-09 at 5:45 PM UTC in Do you set your e-brake? (With poll)
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2024-09-09 at 5:33 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-09 at 5:30 PM UTC in Do you set your e-brake? (With poll)It's called a parking brake.
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2024-09-06 at 9:36 PM UTC in Why Does your Hair Change as you Age? Recently Did I Always Have Curly Hair?
Originally posted by What_a_Kreep Also, I might be a tad vain. I like to look nice, nothing wrong with that.
The above piece is called All Is Vanity. The drawing employs a double image (or visual pun) in which the scene of a woman admiring herself in a mirror of her vanity table, when viewed from a distance, appears to be a human skull. The title is also a pun, as this type of dressing-table is also known as a vanity.
The phrase "All is vanity" comes from Ecclesiastes 1:2 ("Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.")
Kohelet proclaims (1:2) "Vanity of vanities! All is futile!"; the Hebrew word hevel, meaning "vanity" or "vain", concretely referring to a "mist", "vapor", or "mere breath", and metaphorically to 'something that is fleeting or elusive' (with different nuances depending on the context).
Kohelet states that the only good is to partake of life in the present. People should enjoy, but should not be greedy; no-one knows what is good for humanity; righteousness and wisdom escape humanity. Kohelet reflects on the limits of human power: all people face death, and death is better than life, but people should enjoy life when they can. The world is full of risk: he gives advice on living with risk, both political and economic. Mortals should take pleasure when they can, for a time may come when no one can. -
2024-09-06 at 7:47 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-06 at 4:32 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-06 at 4:02 PM UTC in Why Does your Hair Change as you Age? Recently Did I Always Have Curly Hair?
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2024-09-06 at 3:59 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-06 at 3:31 PM UTC in Why Does your Hair Change as you Age? Recently Did I Always Have Curly Hair?
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2024-09-06 at 3:30 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-06 at 3:29 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-06 at 3:25 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-06 at 3:09 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson First you have to prove reality is real.
Everything you are conscious of (your reality) is generated through metaphorical language. Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called "the real world." It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world. Its reality is of the same order as mathematics. It allows us to shortcut behavioral processes and arrive at more adequate decisions. Like mathematics, it is an operator rather than a thing or repository.
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2024-09-06 at 2:56 PM UTC in Why Does your Hair Change as you Age? Recently Did I Always Have Curly Hair?
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2024-09-06 at 2:15 PM UTC in Book IdeasWrite a book about growing up in a trap house.
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2024-09-06 at 2:13 PM UTC in Why Does your Hair Change as you Age? Recently Did I Always Have Curly Hair?I prefer blonde bombshells and always have. But you shouldn't care about that anyways. Tell me something honestly - why are you so concerned with your appearance?
My hair used to get wavey when it was really long in high-school but I just buzz it short now. -
2024-09-06 at 12:45 PM UTC in Cart Narcs
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2024-09-05 at 11:50 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
Originally posted by Fluttershy We are both. You are right, in nature, might is right. Us humans would rather pick up a shiny rock and go “here mr monkey, please give me a banana” than take what is rightfully deserved.”
But the one monkey that shoots the monkey with all the bananas has to endure a trial and then death by lethal injection.
It’s complicated which is why I don’t like to think about it
When something is hard to think about, your should think really hard about it. This is how you grow.
I'm not right, it's just an argument that might be right. Looking at all the evidence we have available, it certainly seems to be right. But on the other hand, maybe humans could grow up. -
2024-09-05 at 11:43 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
Originally posted by Fluttershy Gee, it’s almost like every form of governing body we create will ultimately be corrupted by the people at top because giving people extreme amounts of power with either no or a laughable system of checks and balances is actually bad or something.
Crazy.
That's basically the argument I proposed to Lanny above.
You know what's crazy? I don't know if any other animals do this. If some greedy monkey claimed he owned the banana tree and hoarded all the bananas for himself and tried to keep all the other monkeys away from HIS bananas, I'm pretty sure the other monkeys would just kill him.
Are humans too greedy or too domesticated, and is that an irredeemable corruption of nature? -
2024-09-05 at 11:26 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
