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  1. Penumbra

    Have You Ever Wondered How You'll Die?

    My lifestyle is not prone to cardiovascular problems, diabetes, or smoking-related problems. So I assume cancer, car accident, or general old age death. Possibly stroke. Unlikely but possibly murder. Who knows.
  2. Penumbra

    Do You Look Your Age?

    I dunno. I do get carded 100% of the time I buy a bottle of wine, though, and I'm 27.
  3. Penumbra

    The problem with infidelity?

    Exactly- grade school knowledge. Any courses about this subject beyond that level would show it's far more complex than just "sex is for procreation". For humans, sex plays a multitude of roles with procreation and social bonding being among the most important. Types of animals where they go...
  4. Penumbra

    Mens versus Womens Bicycles

    I ride a "men's" mountain bike. Because uh... down with the system?
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    Mens versus Womens Bicycles

    It's mostly a marketing thing at this point. So when a woman is in a bike store, the salesperson can come out with this ladies bike and talk about how it's designed just for her. Originally, bikes for women had the angled-down bar so that it's easier and less revealing to put a skirted leg over...
  6. Penumbra

    Can someone explain non-binary gender identities to me?

    Well I'm not non-binary but from an outside perspective it doesn't seem so complex to me. Humans are a sexually dimorphic species but it's along a spectrum rather than a binary. Or perhaps along several spectra. A person could have a primarily female body but XY genes, or a primarily male...
  7. Penumbra

    Why do liberals and gay rights activists say that gay marriage is similar to interracial marriage?

    It seems to me that homophobia from many right-wing Christians is just arbitrary cherry-picking to suit their own prejudices. The Old Testament, written down by some guys thousands of years ago in a culture that is not too different from what ISIS looks like today (all that stuff about...
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    Why do liberals and gay rights activists say that gay marriage is similar to interracial marriage?

    Outside of religious conservatism, the issue of equal rights for lgbt people, including to marry the person they love, is mostly settled in developed parts of the world, with some exceptions such as in Asia. In the U.S. alone, the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association...
  9. Penumbra

    Do You Feel Free?

    I feel an illusion of freedom, yes. Right now I have the resources, for example, to fly to almost any spot in the world and check that place out. That feels pretty free. The idea of free will in truth doesn't make much sense to me though. And I feel constrained by some degree of biology...
  10. Penumbra

    [Poll] Are You Living The Life You Want?

    In some ways more than others. Probably somewhere in the middle.
  11. Penumbra

    Battle of Sexes?

    Most complex species of animals have some innate behavioral differences and instincts between the sexes. It's most obvious for behaviors of mating and reproduction but for many animals they have other differences in other areas as well. For one example, male amazon parrots tend to be louder...
  12. Penumbra

    Why do people become bisexual and homosexual?

    "Why" and "how" are two different questions that sometimes get mixed up. The "why" would almost certainly either be a) it's a biological accident from one or more causes or b) it's adapted from evolution in a percentage of the population because it's beneficial in some contexts. There have...
  13. Penumbra

    The War on the Poor

    Share of income over time: And, the US has literally the most income inequality in the world out of any highly developed country, as measured by both the CIA and the World Bank: List of countries by income equality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wages in the US are not high by global...
  14. Penumbra

    The War on the Poor

    -Changing tax brackets and types of tax on various sorts of income to made tax fairly regressive depending on what measure you use. For example, the bottom 50% pay a larger percentage of their wealth in taxes each year than the top 1% do. Top tax rates have decreased substantially compared to...
  15. Penumbra

    The Afghan and Iraq Wars are Unjust, Unreasonable, and are Entirely Fraudulent.

    Countless people from Afghanistan and Iraq and the US would have not been killed and wounded. And imagine what could have been done in the areas of domestic education, energy, infrastructure, and keeping the national debt at a static level, with all the money spent on the wars and other...
  16. Penumbra

    Legalizing Drugs Might Be A Boon To Illegal Drug Dealing

    That's because we're in a weird, presumably temporary era where marijuana is legalized in some states but still illegal at the federal level. The problem is still basically the same as imposing excise taxes on the product, in that the price ends up being higher for the consumer, except that the...
  17. Penumbra

    Legalizing Drugs Might Be A Boon To Illegal Drug Dealing

    Couldn't that argument apply to any product? People who try to commit tax fraud and avoid taxes have an advantage over legal businesses except for the whole part about being illegal and all the risks associated with that. This can apply to literally any product but particularly on products...
  18. Penumbra

    Religion and fear of death

    I specified oblivion or nonexistence of consciousness. If you do not believe consciousness continues in some form, including no belief in the consciousness becoming some larger whole, and merely believe that your matter disperses back into nature, then that indeed seems like no belief in an...
  19. Penumbra

    Religion and fear of death

    I doubt the common fear of death is casually based on the teaching of an afterlife. If anything I'd suspect there is some mild causality in the other direction. Some people fear death. Some others may not but they often still fear painful deaths or fear the deaths of loved ones or fear...
  20. Penumbra

    Religion and fear of death

    That sounds like a belief in an afterlife to me. Unless your conception of moksha or returning to the whole is identical to oblivion or complete nonexistence of consciousness. Most advaita hindus I see refer to moksha as bliss, consciousness oneness, or something along those terms. That...
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