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2024-09-05 at 11:06 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-05 at 10:51 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
Originally posted by Fluttershy It doesn’t matter. If I grow a tomato that tomato is mine and I will kill you if you try to take it.
It’s always the one’s who’ve never produced a fruit of their labor that want to redistribute the fruits of others. Always. And if that’s not you then it’s the faggot you vote for.
You stole that fruit from the plant. -
2024-09-05 at 10:37 PM UTC in How climate change is driving up food prices around the worldHow climate change is driving up food prices around the world
This price volatility is “likely to be an increasingly common feature of our highly integrated global food systems”, Prof Elizabeth Robinson, director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, told Carbon Brief earlier this year.
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2024-09-05 at 8:10 PM UTC in I would like to thank members of this community
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2024-09-05 at 5:36 PM UTC in Animal Farm had a very strong effect on me
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2024-09-05 at 5:30 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
Originally posted by Lanny ?
This phrase, which occurs in Chapter III, constitutes Snowball’s condensation of the Seven Commandments of Animalism, which themselves serve as abridgments of Old Major’s stirring speech on the need for animal unity in the face of human oppression. The phrase instances one of the novel’s many moments of propagandizing, which Orwell portrays as one example of how the elite class abuses language to control the lower classes. Although the slogan seems to help the animals achieve their goal at first, enabling them to clarify in their minds the principles that they support, it soon becomes a meaningless sound bleated by the sheep (“two legs baa-d”), serving no purpose other than to drown out dissenting opinion. By the end of the novel, as the propagandistic needs of the leadership change, the pigs alter the chant to the similar-sounding but completely antithetical “Four legs good, two legs better.”
I'm suggesting that perhaps mankind is irredeemably corrupt, and therefore would not ever be able to achieve the dream of social utopia.
This is not necessarily my personal opinion, just an argument. -
2024-09-05 at 5:03 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-05 at 4:53 PM UTC in Animal Farm had a very strong effect on me
Originally posted by Speedy Parker You people will twist anything. I read both of those books at 14 in 1976. No internet, nobody recommended them, they were there (in the paperback rack) in the school library. I read them both, and the ideals they illuminated were amongst the many bedrocks upon which my conservative anti socialist values are founded upon.
This fool spoke in circles for about 10 mintues until I finally had to turn it off and use ear bleach to remove that mental rot.
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2024-09-05 at 12:24 PM UTC in Scientists are trying to figure out why 2023 was so hot.
Originally posted by Speedy Parker What happened to Obbe remains a riddle that has failed to pique curiosity from anyone, but Lanny says finding an answer won’t change the fact that Obbe pasta, caused by lack of personal human contact, is still happening with no end in sight.
“Lanny has the technology to stop him from doing it, to stop the pasta mostly,” says Lanny. “The other thing that matters is the reason we’re not doing it is because Lanny man crushes Obbe, and because of how immensely powerless Lanny is as a special interest of Obbes' affections.”
Wow, that's crazy. -
2024-09-05 at 4:25 AM UTC in Animal Farm had a very strong effect on me
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2024-09-05 at 2:37 AM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free WillTiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"
Tiger got to sleep,
Bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand. -
2024-09-05 at 2:17 AM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free WillCompatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
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2024-09-05 at 12:06 AM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-09-04 at 11:16 PM UTC in Scientists are trying to figure out why 2023 was so hot.
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2024-09-04 at 11:14 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free WillLosing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn’t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn’t do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system—learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention—may radically transform one’s life.
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2024-09-04 at 10:44 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free WillHow can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware?
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2024-09-04 at 10:41 PM UTC in Scientists are trying to figure out why 2023 was so hot.Scientists are trying to figure out why 2023 was so hot.
What happened in 2023 remains a riddle that has piqued intense curiosity from climatologists, but Dessler says finding an answer won’t change the fact that global warming, caused by human activity, is still happening with no end in sight.
“We now have the technology to stop doing it, to stop warming the climate mostly,” Dessler says. “The other thing that matters is the reason we’re not doing it is because of the politics, and because of how immensely powerful fossil fuels are as a special interest.” -
2024-08-31 at 3:48 PM UTC in Thr Surgery That Proved There Is No Free Will
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2024-08-29 at 9:40 PM UTC in DayZJanky af
