Divine, mundane, ignorant, enlightened, loving, selfish, pragmatic, certain, bewildered...
"Do I contradict myself ? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman, 'Song of myself'
"the alternative"
So it's either A or B ?
C,D,E,F.....XYZ....but those grasping after conceptual certainty prefer to reduce everything to A vs B.
Classic binary fixation.
There is absolutely NO 'evidence' that only humans are conscious.
It is utterly baseless dogma.
It is baseless dogma which Christians and Muslims are compelled to believe. There is only circular logic and bias confirmation supporting this corrupt, ignorant and paranoid delusional fixation.
Of course we aren't the primary beneficiaries of creation. By any measure, bacteria and microbes clearly are God's favourites. They outnumber humans trillions to one. In fact four billion or so live in your body, which is basically their planet.
I've never heard a scriptural explanation for why...
Do you mind if they just eat it ? It is not psychoactive unless cooked or smoked.
So do you have any objection to cannabis as a medicine, apart from the (nonessential) high ?
Right. So let's criminalise anything and everything which a mentally ill person may abuse or be affected by...
Hey, let's criminalise the social norms which disturb them !
Actually it makes no difference if the THC content is high. Unless the weed is decarboxylated by heat (smoking or cooking), there is no high.
So you can steep cannabis in oil to obtain all the medicinal qualities without getting high.
Gender political bollocks.
Third world people (women, children and men) are exploited when they make your clothes, cars, computers and hotel beds.
Does that make clothes and computers sinful ?
No. Exploitation can occur in relation to any product or service.
If all the people in porn were...
I wonder what 'fantastical', and 'unobtainable acts' you are referring to. I've watched plenty of porn, and most of it is actually on the menu, if you so desire. I was recently invited to accompany a woman friend to her ( and my) first gangbang. It was a lot of fun. And quite humanising...
Indeed, sugar is THE problem.
In fact, studies have been done which involve comparing the effects of diets of 90% carbs, 90% protein and 90% fat over two weeks. Maximum weight loss can be achieved with the diet of fat.
This issue proved another crucial point - scientists can easily be bought by...
I am a single male musician.
Every day I have to confront the horrors of my domestic disorganisation.
Cockroaches crawling across the kitchen bench; piles of ash and cigarette butts everywhere; kitchen utensils and books and all sorts of random paraphernalia amongst the bedding and laundry -...
Here is a good example of what I consider the best of Islamic philosophy. From Wikipedia entry 'Active Imagination'. Alam al-mithal.
"The imaginal realm is known in Islamic philosophy as alam al-mithal, the imaginal world. According to Avicenna, the imagination mediated between, and thus...