that's why my only libertarian brainworm is that i would eliminate prescription only for drugs/medicine, literally takes less time to do research by yourself than to get diagnosed

cue Narnia's last book themes

DG: How to start a Great Oxygenation Event

do you got the link?

go running (susbstitute for you preferred mindless physical activity) preferably in a wild environment, usually all human problems dissolve there and then

it is not bad, don't expect high budget effects though

it exists, it's firebite

yeah and as long as you don't have much of value, risks of robbing is basically inexistent, for having lived in a camping (not in the us) for a few months, having friendly campground owners is crucial, they'll also attract a friendlier crowd

values are much more like the slant of laws given by the constitution, of course the us consitution there is loud by its unequal treatment of its population and foudational discrimination and racism

no you don't get it, slavery is one of those doctrinal values they're talking about, for the american system it has always been the aim to limit rights to minorities to the strict minimum unless under maximum pressure, see for example the definition of cruel and unusual punishments

scotland is the best place out of the uk but, if you're not from the pacifc northwest, the change of weather will be brutal (try to stick to the east coast for less rain even if a bit colder)

gas is already a public service of the US gov, how else would you describe the Iraq war?

:yea:

there is more than enough seized assets to reimburse that though

what is the source for "The Pentagon instructs the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to withdraw all remaining artillery to the cities on the eastern front - Kharkov, Dnipro, Zaporozhye - where they can fire behind civilian", thank you

i too welcome our South American train friends

"you’re body isn’t any lighter when you die for example" Hey son, no one told you you shit the bed when you hit the deck? 💨 💩 :pigpoop:

soul is literally psyche in ancient greek, so it isn't so much that people try to rationalize souls but that the concept of soul/mind/psyche coincide/overlap from the beginning, now you can go the analytical route and say that it is all just semantic confusion and that we should do hard categories but i think the contrary is better, soul evolved as the mind/psyche specialized to a religious context, recentering it makes it lose its specialness, there is no such thing as the invented (one might say god given) concept of soul; if there is something special to the mind, following this enlarged concept it is (your) uniqueness as tracked by (your) soul (essence)/mind (consciousness)/psyche (yourself as shaped by material conditions)

i think some dualisms imply that the geist/soul/psyche can exist without the body, yes, you can substitute it to uranium in a power plant though which then necessarily needs the body (graphic crayons) to get catalyzed, but those are only analogies, the mind doesn't have to be physical, it only has to be more than the straightforward continuity of the body (the physical brain), for instance if there is an assymetric relationship in the direction of information. In reality of course things are much more complicated (autonomous nervous system, sympathic system...) but i am skeptical of straight up eliminative materialism as consciousness is, in my mind, an emergent entity, so that it is not reducible to its parts, i think it's also counting animals short and oversimplifying them as automatons (which is a typical western attitude rooted ironically in the dualist tradition), but in the end, like most philosophy, it really is a question of definition of what counts as mind and what is physical

it would work just like neon gas allows the neon lamp to be lit, the external world (here electricity), interacting with the mind, produces an effect on the body (the light), you could have the neon gas light up even if not in the lamp as long as it interacts with the external world (electricity) but the lamp would never light up if not full of neon gas

Christianity is judaism +greek philosophy and rationality is based on a form of faith in the holy spirit, basically showing that there is a genealogy and a continuity of assumptions from scholasticism to enlightenment philosophy to 20th century philosophy, so if you accept let's say Peter Singer's consequentialism you're really accepting a weird outshoot of christianity with a heavy mix of ancient greek theology