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  1. Quintessence

    Unconsciously inventing problems for ourselves?

    I don't doubt that some humans do this, if they accept the foundational narratives required for the emergence of this narrative. The notion that "life is designed to throw problems at you" strikes me as bizarrely anthropocentric and out of touch with realities. Life is. It might be argued...
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    Democrats only: Are there lessons to be learned for team Harris?

    This is more the job of academics than political organizations, but it is worth pointing out that the reduced turnout impacted both parties. Fewer humans showed up, period, across the board. This, after a trend of increased participation for the past three presidential elections. There are a...
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    Is there any people who believe in voodoo on here?

    What's to believe in? It's a syncretic religion practiced by some humans on this planet (not myself). They'll continue existing and practicing their religion whether or not I believe they are.
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    Do you think Trump's assassination attempts helped him win the election

    Yes, because history: https://theconversation.com/trumps-promotion-of-an-image-of-strength-after-assassination-attempt-borrows-from-authoritarian-playbook-235038
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    Defending Creation with Trump as President

    I haven't kept up on it as much since I'm no longer an active research scientist in that field, but the data from a decade ago was pretty grim and depressing. On the upshot, if one remembers to take a geologic view of time all things run in cycles. It's just unforgivably tragic (to my mind)...
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    Democrats only: Are there lessons to be learned for team Harris?

    A good article that explains why this threat is as dire as it is and why this country is basically screwed: https://theconversation.com/undoing-the-deep-state-means-trump-would-undo-over-a-century-of-progress-in-building-a-federal-government-for-the-people-and-not-just-for-rich-white-men-234421...
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    Defending Creation with Trump as President

    I mean, there is a correlation between someone who is okay with (and has been found guilty of) raping women and someone who is okay of raping mother earth. They're abusers with abusive mentalities. Unfortunately true. While there is some remarkable momentum behind doing the right thing...
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    HW Help: Interview for World Religion paper

    1: What religion do you belong to and what subgroup (if any)? Paganism - Druidry 2: Has your religion been with you your whole life or at some point did you choose it? Yes. In a technical sense was not raised Pagan, but I consider religion to be synonymous with one's lifeway and there was no...
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    Musings of a Tree Hugging Dirt Worshipper

    As it Turns Out... Mist and Rain Dark and Cloud Heralding, Foreboding Gloom and Doom Spiting Red-tailed Hawk's Good Omen Each and every one of us holds to certain foundational assumptions we consider axiomatic. These assumptions are born of our direct life experiences and in many respects...
  10. Quintessence

    What things influence you vote.

    A bit of an odd combination of things in the poll - one of those things is not like the other. One is actually responsible for reporting on information accurately so we can know things about what's going on. Which we all, inevitably, use and are influenced by since it's more or less how we get...
  11. Quintessence

    Remember when Trump was President, and he became Hitler literally and everyone became literal Nazis and literally killed all the Jews?

    Remember when rump was president and enabled half the country's population to be stripped of their basic human rights, ushering in a new era of venomous misogyny? I wish I didn't.
  12. Quintessence

    Swelling in legs

    Stockings, as ChristineM mentioned, and/or a cold compress. Elevating your legs while sitting will also help. Source - osmosis knowledge from being raised with a parent who practiced allied health/medicine
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    Higher Dimensions

    Color is an interesting one because it is more of a sociocultural thing than a biological/physical thing. As far as I'm aware, sight in humans is more or less analogous amongst individuals (colorblindness and age-related declines notwithstanding). But the way we talk about color and put it...
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    Higher Dimensions

    Fair enough. Honestly, the five senses are a myth anyway. That is, humans have (and always have had) more than five senses - it's a major oversimplification of how the human body is capable of receiving information from the environment. Even if you're a strict physicalist (which I am not)...
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    Higher Dimensions

    Use your imagination. That's the primary way humans interact with the otherworlds. It's not that complicated, except when it is. Different cultures and traditions have, as expected, varying opinions and experiences on the matter. It would take quite some time to go into it, even just...
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    Higher Dimensions

    I don't consider other dimensions (the otherworlds) to be "higher" just... other. Spatial references routinely fail to apply and are, at most, symbolic rather than literal. For example in traditions that follow the three worlds model, the "upper world" and "lower world" are not literally above...
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    Apple with caramel dip?Or apple with no dip?Do you like both?Or either or?

    Without, except at Autumn Equinox in celebration of the harvest. There's a local apple orchard that supplies most of the apples around here (well, the good ones anyway) and they do caramel apples around Autumn Equinox. Once you have really good caramel apples it's hard to eat any other kind...
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    Harris pulls ahead of Trump in Iowa in the 11th hour

    Super dumb things - For a local article: https://www.thegazette.com/k/schools-ask-families-to-confirm-nicknames-pronouns-of-students/ For a national article: https://www.newsweek.com/iowa-parents-forced-approve-kids-nicknames-1822914
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    Harris pulls ahead of Trump in Iowa in the 11th hour

    A better use for cattails would be for food. They're amazing food plants. The trouble is... how to put this... there's been a lot of consolidation of food production in this country. This homogenization of production disincentivizes innovation and crop diversity. It's one thing to have the...
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    Harris pulls ahead of Trump in Iowa in the 11th hour

    I don't know - when the district maps got redrawn a while back the fairer map got tossed out in favor of one with some gerrymandering favoring the party in power at the time (aka, not democrats). What was originally a map that would have created one safe red district, one safe blue district...
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