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> The statement that Christianity is directly responsible for - or has anything to do with abolishment of slavery is absolutely baseless. I politely invite you to do your own resea…

You're making my point with your rebuttal. A lot of people think different about right and wrong, good and evil, than I or you do, and that's because they look towards different so…

> Yes, but with Christians there's always some sort of thick-layer of self-serving dishonesty on top of it all. At this point you're just rooted in absurd prejudice, this conversat…

You're right in plenty of what you're saying, that's why I'd recommend you reading Romans and James in the Bible. But stuff like "but never really have try that hard" and "(but nev…

As someone else mentioned, you can read the book of Romans or the epistle of James to find out by yourself why this idea is absurd. But simplified, say you have a spouse who you de…

> These are people who seem to put in more effort than most, and are sincere in their belief. No, check this out: "have WE not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out…

> It can be read negatively against boys or negatively against girls so why post it? This part I really do not understand. The undeniable fact that boys and girls are different in …

Yes, but also no. I have a prioritised list, it's simply that not everything fits inside the list, because my time is limited. Instead of "Not enough time" we could say "This is no…

> It also means your kid has no experience of online interactions with strangers, basically no SNS literacy, which also sounds like a disaster waiting to happen to me. I think it w…

And that's the root cause of many, many issues. It's a pity so many of these issues get simply patched up through other means instead of properly addressing the real root cause.

This is like saying food is good. It is. But then you have ultra-processed food, junk food, food you might be allergic to... Some medicines are good, some medicines are the lesser …

You don't need to be fake in order to be nice. Become nice, then you won't have to fake it. One way of becoming nice is to act nice. A nice person is a person who acts nice towards…

What about because something is objectively good for you? For example, you could learn to like fermented foods (if you don't) because they are very healthy for you.

What if my authentic feeling and behaviour was to slap you in the face and laugh at you because you answered 'Yes.' to an 'either/or' question? The problem is that for humanity, un…

In this paradigm you describe, should we then strive to be authentic or should we refrain? Don't you think this would open the doors to an endless amount of bad behaviours?

> people who play music/video aloud on public transport But that's not being authentic, that's being plain rude, and there should be a difference. You can be authentic and still re…

> If it worked, it would just be conventional medicine. There are many reasons why this is not true. One of them is profits, another one (at least where I live) is the mass oriente…

> I don't think most people engaged in traditional medicine care about it actually being healthier, again because they are first and foremost interested in the ritual and cultural …

Fair enough. Two points here, then: - From a strictly scientific standpoint, wouldn't it be interesting to properly understand why and how it works? - From a purely practical stand…

Placebo is by definition highly subjective, and not even in the sense of one's opinion, but rather that it works or not at a subject level.

Well that's a bit too much of a generalisation maybe? Yes, there are old ways that have been proven wrong, which were based on ignorance at the time, but there are also old ways wh…

> You get a lot of medicine that looks quite a bit like quack medicine It depends what you understand by "quack medicine". To me, in the beginning, all the stuff about drinking wei…

Interesting, you're describing exactly what I went through a few years ago. In my case, however, I turned to pure ginger infusions, following the advice of a herbalist. Haven't gon…

I am learning how to weld and work metal, work wood, grow a vegetable garden, keep chickens, maybe raise some later on... All this AI hype is pushing me even more to think that the…

This reply deeply disturbs me for some reason.