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  1. Quintessence

    Are humans only the larval stage?

    I would happily erase all of humanity's self-centered and self-serving technology if it meant ... I dunno... not having tens of thousands of counts of genocide of various species and ecosystems. But apparently I'm weird like that...
  2. Quintessence

    Congestion of the mind

    Not necessarily. There are those for whom deceit and lies are part of their profession - they can and do persist at these activities without being found out. That's sort of the point of espionage in particular, where career spies conduct operations without ever being discovered. It is both...
  3. Quintessence

    Congestion of the mind

    I'm not sure I follow. From the vantage point of the liar - which seems to be the point of focus here - keeping up with one's lies takes considerable intelligence and wit. One has to keep track of what one believes is the true state of things, as well as keep track of what one has fabricated.
  4. Quintessence

    Existential dread and Religion

    It's interesting that you think crying out for help is indicative of not being okay with lack of control. That's not how I would interpret it. In my experience, those who fail to cry out for help are the ones who have hangups about not being (or believing they are) in control. Those who do...
  5. Quintessence

    Let's see if we can define 'Islamophobia'.

    I don't bother defining the term for myself because I don't find it useful. Clinically speaking, a phobia is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and intense fear of something that is beyond the ability of the distressed individual to control. It's a mental illness...
  6. Quintessence

    What is a mid life crisis ?

    It's a modern mythology - a socially constructed narrative that brings context and meaning to a (relatively) common human experience. Specifically, it's an identity crisis related to mortality that is believed to occur when one already has an established position and role in society for some...
  7. Quintessence

    Existential dread and Religion

    While on the whole you make a good point here, the "we" here doesn't feel accurate. This is a very American, individualistic narrative. Not all of us adhere to those narratives. Not in America, and certainly not globally. It might be more accurate to say that if you live in a culture where...
  8. Quintessence

    Existential dread and Religion

    I realize that Christianity - whose dispositions dominate the cultural narratives of Western culture - tends to have a preoccupation with "existential dread" but let's remember religious diversity and that this is not the case across all religious traditions. It is true that religion broadly...
  9. Quintessence

    Are humans only the larval stage?

    I don't believe in "better place" salvation nonsense, especially technological. More than any other factor, the gods of technology so many worship are responsible for the present sixth mass extinction and environmental crises - climate change, air pollution, microplastic pollution, etc. It has...
  10. Quintessence

    Are humans only the larval stage?

    I wouldn't use biological evolution to describe that process. It's no longer just biological at that point - it is extremely artificial and ignoring the rules that drive and balance proper biological evolution. That can and will create all sorts of issues, but humans, thinking they are oh so...
  11. Quintessence

    Why do a large number of people seem to think that 'science is 100% fact' and infallible?

    While adherents to scientism aren't exactly uncommon, they're not exactly common either and I'm not sure I'd consider them to be a "large number" of anything. And it would be a mistake to conflate inflexible and concrete ideologies with religion (or sciences) in any case. In psychology...
  12. Quintessence

    Are humans only the larval stage?

    Of course biological evolution is still happening - if we're following metamorphosis as a metaphor, a metamorphosis is an especially rapid and dramatic change. The biological organism undergoes such an extreme shift in form that unless you were observing all the stages you probably wouldn't...
  13. Quintessence

    Are humans only the larval stage?

    It can be, and still... no. Humans are a fully functional and realized species, right now. Biologically, they haven't undergone any dramatic changes since their evolution as a species. Things around them have - their lifeways have - but not the organism itself. Which is a problem, honestly...
  14. Quintessence

    Do you believe people can go out of body and hurt you?

    Yes - basically anyone who uses any form of written or recorded communication has transcribed words beyond their bodies in ways that can be hurtful and harmful to others. The words can even be from someone who has been dead for centuries and has no body.
  15. Quintessence

    Are humans only the larval stage?

    Humans are not a species of animal that undergoes metamorphosis - humans have no larval stage. Because we're boring like that.
  16. Quintessence

    Why does God allow loneliness to exist ?

    Huh? Are you saying humans are plants, fungi, bacteria, or viruses? Minerals, perhaps? It frankly wouldn't matter, because the "type" of being humans are is pretty irrelevant to everything else I was saying.
  17. Quintessence

    Let's Talk About Arthurian Legend

    Haven't dived into it in a long time, but it has various nuggets and tidbits of the old indigenous ways sprinkled throughout - most notably Welsh mythos and religion which is of particular interest to certain contemporary Druid orders. As a Druid who isn't based in the UK, I don't have that...
  18. Quintessence

    Study finds bursts of rapid aging at 44 and 60

    Adding a few addendums because as someone who is aware of research methodology I had some big questions about methodology because it is important to acknowledge the limitations of a given sample frame. This is not a multi-national study, but a study done from the population of the State of...
  19. Quintessence

    Let's Talk About Saturday

    I don't attach any significance to human artificed calendars - made up assigning of numbers and patterns that don't correspond to any natural phenomena or the rhythms of the greater-than-human world. Hate is probably too strong of a word, but I very much dislike the human artificed calendar and...
  20. Quintessence

    Duelling proselytizers

    I'm not convinced that they don't. Doubtless, scholars of religious studies have examined the phenomena of proselytizing quite thoroughly, including this specific phenomena. It's not my area of expertise so it is going to take me some time to dig into the proper research and references...
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