• CBYX@feddit.orgEnglish
    25·
    10 months ago

    No one needs more than 500sqft of living space per capital until poverty is eradicated

    War is absurd and the consequence of greed and senile, old, fucked up and immoral men

    Democracy doesn’t work without a limit on speech - specifically hate speech, authoritarianism, and ethnic superiority ideology

    Fascism is the greatest concern of the western world right now

    Genocide deserves instant disavowal and should convince any sane person to immediately support removing any government official or politician from office who doesn’t oppose it

    Black Lives Matter, and American history has treated black Americans awfully (see prison industrial complex)

    Housing isn’t an investment vehicle. Tax speculative purchasing of housing. Support government building high density housing like the HBD system in Singapore or Austria’s housing system

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      I have a crackpot theory that I enjoy for the sake of enjoying it. What if our “soul” or “consciousness” is the collapse of the quantum field. Our decisions moment to moment aren’t random chance, but the unspeakable thing.

      Again, pure speculation, but it’s a lot more satisfying and rewarding to live by than throwing moral responsibility to the universe.

    • Ember James@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      I agree that free will is an illusion, but have decided that because it is true it isn’t worth thinking about further.

      I don’t find the “why” to be interesting, which is interesting because it is like “I” am trying to avoid further reflection on that fact which “I” also have no control over. haha

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      10 months ago

      I always understand “free will” to mean “figure out who you really are”. I.e., every person has a certain character from birth, and that just unfolds throughout life. “Free will” is about figuring that out.

  • JessicaEnglish
    9·
    10 months ago

    I believe what doesn’t kill you makes you…stranger.

  • Nog00d@lemmy.world
    7·
    10 months ago

    I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    10 months ago

    The world is made of magic, it just differentiated into so many forms, that one of them is science and that’s what many people believe is all there is.

    I feel in the mood to explain more about this:

    Similar to european school’s history classes tend to be focused on european history (we call that “eurocentrism”), our worldview is focused on humans, i think that’s called “anthropocentrism”. While humans are important, it’s not everything there is. There’s also plants and other living beings, and in fact there’s many more of them than of us. I try to consider that.

    I’m calling the unity of all life “magic”, i came up with that and it’s supposed to be a play-on-words on the german word “Magen” (stomach) (representing that plants and animals are connected through an important relationship that is food). Also the stomach is the organ most physiologically/spatially central in the human body, in my opinion. So i imagine that everything’s in the human is built around that “central” organ that is the stomach. That makes sense as the intake of food is the root of all animal existence, that enables animal’s existence in the first place. Thus “everything is created from the stomach outwards”, as supportive organs to help the stomach collect and digest food.

    • Ember James@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      This is an interesting take.

      I like to think of Science as magic, because it really is.

      Ancient peoples played with “Alchemy,” and modern chemistry is simply that. They would lose it if they knew we could “grow” diamonds, or that we have created an entirely new element.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      Violence is always necessary when dealing with dogs that can’t talk, only bite. And Americans are easily some of the most violent people on Earth, so the worry isn’t there, it’s that once again someone will use that anger to fuel their violent actions but will direct it once more against the innocent. Also, the cops would never allow it, they’re even worse dogs, lol, and would definitely have to be put down before anything.

      Honestly, I can’t see America becoming anything but a hwite ethnonationalist dictatorship. The lost and the stupid yearn for a messiah and will never even consider putting in the mental work so they would rather leave it all in the hands of an appealing character, and Americans know too little about the world to give it to anyone with a shred of decency and competence.