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  1. Quintessence

    Why does God allow loneliness to exist ?

    Having human friends and/or family is related to but does not directly correspond to loneliness. That is, some experience that emotion while having human friends and/or family. And some don't experience that emotion when they lack human friends and/or family. Humans are diverse animals that...
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    Where Does Wisdom Come From?

    Yes, that's part of your own life experiences. I experience the gods regularly and have done some "deep dives" so to speak working with and experiencing certain gods to learn things. Still part of my own life experiences that I do not assume others have or should have. :blush:
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    Where Does Wisdom Come From?

    What you talk about here is something I would call knowledge, not wisdom. But in either case, knowledge and wisdom always come from one thing - the experience of life and living. Directly, or by proxy.
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    Trump: "I've told them I want more weeks."

    They are, and I wish there weren't as many access and education problems as there are. And it doesn't address the mothers who want to have children who have require actual medical care while pregnant... but then can't get it because of misogynistic lawmaking. Sometimes even when that care has...
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    Trump: "I've told them I want more weeks."

    . . . Have you met the health care system in the United States? Have you met the "abstinence only" sex ed that a lot of kids get (if they get any at all)? Sounds like you are simply out of touch with the realities of how things work here. And the biological realities of routine...
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    Let's Talk About Magical Practices

    I don't really distinguish between "magical" and "mystical" in the way you propose here. The two flow into one another constantly - doing a ritual to ground to the energies of Earth and Sky for example is both an inner thing and an outer thing. I get both a "mystical" result and a "magical"...
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    Anyone Here Worship Any Of The Transgender Gods?

    Not really. I don't believe in gender, and while some of the gods I honor could be considered ... well, most of them fall well outside the human modalities of physiological sex. Most simply have no sex whatsoever (like Sun and Moon). Then the rest are asexual or monoecious with only a small...
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    Lets Talk About Hinduism

    I've listened to a few talks here and there about how Hinduism is basically the Paganism that survived the aggressive proselytizing and colonialism of Western monotheism. As such I tend to view it as a deeply authentic and indigenous Pagan tradition that is what we might have had in the West if...
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    Let's Talk About Zen

    Before I discovered contemporary Paganism, I had a fascination with it. My brain at the time refused to accept it was a religion, because my brain at the time believed all religion was stupid nonsense. So instead I just casually practiced what later became more widely known as Jediism for a...
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    How Would A Doctor Respond?

    This. I don't work as a therapist per se, but my position at the university often involves taking on that sort of role sometimes with students. I've been doing this for a long time, and I hear a lot of things. When you are serving in your role, you cast all judgement aside because that...
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    On Lying in Job Interviews: A Different Scenario and Context

    Yup, this is why I'll tell students to be themselves. Prepare some, yeah, but be yourself. If you are interviewing for a workplace worth having, some of the folks doing the process will be your actual future coworkers. You want to get along with them, and them with you. Problem is a lot of...
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    If Trump was running as a democrat and Harris as a republican, how would you vote

    I mean, if the modern red party actually fielded Harris as a candidate they wouldn't be what they are. They'd actually be a good political party. I used to vote for real Republican candidates sometimes before they lost their minds and started hating on and actively trying to destroy basically...
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    Is religious a biological/genetic trait?

    Yes and no. Yes in the sense that literally everything pertaining to a biological organism is going to have a biological basis by virtue of us talking about a biological organism to begin with. No in the sense that it is a terrible idea to reduce explanations of complex phenomena down to a...
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    Lets Talk About Chinese Folk Religion

    I'm mostly familiar with Chang'e since in studying and worshiping Moon they are one of the many lunar gods I came across. Plus, there's a fair whack of Chinese international students in this town so the markets carry Moon Cakes for the festival and the hold events. I haven't been to one yet...
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    Sect versus cult

    Depends on the context of the discussion. Generally, a "sect" is a subdivision or offshoot of a larger human social organization with particular ideologies and/or practices that deviate from those of the parent organization. It is, more or less, how new social organizations are born whether...
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    Religions Are Exempt From Psychiatric Evaluation

    You asked in the opening post: To which I pointed out that it isn't the content of beliefs that make for a mental health diagnosis, it's the impact it has on that person's wellbeing and functioning. We're talking - or at least I thought were were talking - about individual psychology here...
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    If you believe in God AND evolution, why do you believe in God?

    Because they are connected for me and I "believe" in the gods about as much as I "believe" in biological evolution (that, is I wouldn't say I "believe" in either - I know them). See...
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    Religions Are Exempt From Psychiatric Evaluation

    What does any of that have to do with mental health? This doesn't seem related to your OP at all.
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    If you believe in God AND evolution, why do you believe in God?

    . . . no? I'm not a time traveller from the past? But good job asking a question that makes even less sense to me than the OP.
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    Religions Are Exempt From Psychiatric Evaluation

    To add (emphasis mine): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_disorder
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