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- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 days ago:
Going to eat as a first date is bad anyways. Should do something where you are a not forced to sit in front of each other for a fixed amount of time. Why not go for a walk in a park, take a coffee or other things that are more “open”.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 5 days ago:
Interesting categories, but I don’t find myself in any of them: We don’t know if there is a god therefore I neither believe in its existence nor in its non-existence because it doesn’t matter anyway. If god(s) exist they either don’t affect human lives or they do it without letting us know how and why. In both cases there is no reasons to change anything in my life.
I think this view is called apathetic or pragmatic agnosticism.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 6 days ago:
I don’t know but there are probably explanations. One that I could imagine is that there really is only one consciousness or soul that splits itself up in as many parts as it wants to experience the universe and itself.
You could ask questions like that about the belief that there is no reincarnation or soul as well. Where does consciousness come from? What is it? How can electrochemical reactions be the equivalent of tasting a pizza?
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 6 days ago:
Sounds rather arrogant to me to think there is a default position for something like that.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 6 days ago:
I am rather saying it is nothing we can prove or disprove and both views ar equally legit. It just seems to us one view is more legit because of our cultural background.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 6 days ago:
Same as with God? I don’t think so. Don’t you think there are things that cannot be proven or disproven? My point is the default position depends on the cultural background.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 6 days ago:
That’s exactly my point. What’s the concrete data against reincarnation would someone from a buddhist culture ask (probably even when they aren’t religious). I am just saying what we accept as default and for what we demand evidence depends on the cultural background.
I might have formulated it exxagerated. But believing in “YOLO” is as evidence based as believing in reincarnation.
Similar as atheism is a belief as well: believing that there is no god. How do they know? It seems my point of view is more agnostic than most here.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 week ago:
Why are you so sure about this? Believing there is no reincarnation is just a religious dogma of Christianity or rather all abrahamitic religions and therefore deeply engraved in our culture so we don’t even consider other possibilities. Similar to how in buddhist and hinduistic cultures reincarnation is the default way of imagining life before birth and after death.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 1 week ago:
Every cost is labour cost in the end. It’s a bit off topic but was a interesting realisation for me. Every time you pay something you pay for another human’s labour in the end.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 3 weeks ago:
And then there was this guy who was part of the Nuremberg trials or interviewed a lot of Nazis and tried to figure out what they all have in common, guess what: lack of empathy
- Comment on Too soon? 3 weeks ago:
But not like that! Only the right rights! /s
- Comment on Oh god 3 weeks ago:
What I noticed is that I really only remember the bad things when I am in a bad mood and only in a good mood I am even able to remember the good stuff. So yeah it’s probably more helpful to bring yourself into a good mood right now then wear yourself down even more.
Yet, I do believe in depth psychology helping overcome childhood trauma. But it is not working in the way most people think by talking about it but by subconsciously reenacting it with the therapeut in a way we can solve it emotionally because the therapeut reacts in a better way than the primary caregiver did in the traumatic experience.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 3 weeks ago:
The just started counting with zero (fist)
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t that the 3-body-problem? That already with 3 bodies affecting each other a system is chaotic.
- Comment on You are stardust. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah it should be “star-stuff” refering to this quote of Sagan:
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wait, I thought the pictures were AI generated.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 month ago:
For me it is not even having a quest log. Some sidequests are just someone hinting something could or should be done.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 1 month ago:
The soundtrack of red alert 2 is the only one I ever deliberately listened to outside of a game.
I second What Remains of Edith Finch, but funny? I couldn’t see that. One of the few games that made me cry and it gave a lasting impression. I played it shortly after the birth of my first son though. The bathtub scene and the ending hit really hard.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Thank you for taking the time to write this.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well said. As a doctor I am just worried that sometimes it might not be what they really want. Obviously, people often want and do what is not best for them due to psychological “distortions”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How can this be differentiated of body dysphoria disorders where one perceives their own body as overly flawed or distorted without it being like that? Serious question. I am genuinely concerned about this.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s what I was also thinking and can understand. What I don’t understand is to really physically alter and damage your body to match your physiology to your desired gender. Is this really necessary? In the end it’s only a superficial change aa well and factually and genetically you will still be of a certain biological sex.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Or we could just abolish all these gender stereotypes and acknowledge everyone has one biological sex (except rare genetic variants) but it doesn’t matter and no one has to know which genitals you have in everyday life.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s what bothers ma a bit about “being trans”. Why is it considered as having the wrong biological sex and not just disrupting the gender stereotypes?
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 months ago:
It’s actually illegal to drive a car without the purpose of reaching a destination in Germany.
- Comment on All downhill from there 2 months ago:
Now I got it, thank you
- Comment on All downhill from there 2 months ago:
- Comment on Gravity 2 months ago:
There is an actual logical proof that there are propositions in mathematics that are neither provable nor refutable.
- Comment on Gravity 2 months ago:
Aren’t the first two things just experimental proves of Einsteins relativity theory from over 100 years ago?
I don’t know about quantum gravity though.