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Allegedly Chinese PhD student caught using Chemicals on neighbors witnout their consent
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@sirchris if you want to shut up dems just ask them about those student loan reforms they intentionally didn't pass when they controlled the house, senate and presidency
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Joe Biden was so obviously more senior and more senile than Donald Trump is that it's hard to listen to Democrats double down and triple down on the Donald Trump is a senile old man because we're not comparing it to himself we're comparing him to Joe Biden.
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Unfortunately, global politics is looking a lot like bum fights at the old folks home.
A lot of these people really ought to be embracing something like Buddhism in their old age: when you're almost 90, you should be starting to let go of your attachments to the physical world, because you're not going to be here much longer. Instead they're still acting like they're in their twenties.
Cincinnatus was considered Noble and virtuous because after being the absolute leader of Rome during a crisis, he returned to his farm to till the soil. How many of the global politicians have been explicitly unwilling to do anything like that?
A lot of Eastern contexts, there are two different types of demon: one of them is closer to a devil as we understand in the west, a malevolent existence it was only purposes to cause harm. The other one is almost more mundane: mara refers to those who stop you from reaching enlightenment in your lifetime. Through that lens, contemporary global politics is a non-anthropological embodiment of mara, leading elders into an undignified attachment to worldly affairs perhaps leaving behind ghosts who are more concerned with their imminent political power than finding spiritual completeness in the final days of their lives.
In maintaining this spiritually stifling attachment to personal power until the moment that they die, they also fell in their duty to prepare future generations. The successors of long-standing political individuals instead of being vital younger individuals, become someone who is only slightly younger. In this way it is almost guaranteed that there is no future.
The philosophy doesn't mean that the elders withdraw completely from life, but that they recognize their role as elders in preparing the world to no longer have them in it. Instead of continuing the fight, long ago they should have begun transitioning into roles as teachers and advisors for those who will one day take over from them.
A lot of these people really ought to be embracing something like Buddhism in their old age: when you're almost 90, you should be starting to let go of your attachments to the physical world, because you're not going to be here much longer. Instead they're still acting like they're in their twenties.
Cincinnatus was considered Noble and virtuous because after being the absolute leader of Rome during a crisis, he returned to his farm to till the soil. How many of the global politicians have been explicitly unwilling to do anything like that?
A lot of Eastern contexts, there are two different types of demon: one of them is closer to a devil as we understand in the west, a malevolent existence it was only purposes to cause harm. The other one is almost more mundane: mara refers to those who stop you from reaching enlightenment in your lifetime. Through that lens, contemporary global politics is a non-anthropological embodiment of mara, leading elders into an undignified attachment to worldly affairs perhaps leaving behind ghosts who are more concerned with their imminent political power than finding spiritual completeness in the final days of their lives.
In maintaining this spiritually stifling attachment to personal power until the moment that they die, they also fell in their duty to prepare future generations. The successors of long-standing political individuals instead of being vital younger individuals, become someone who is only slightly younger. In this way it is almost guaranteed that there is no future.
The philosophy doesn't mean that the elders withdraw completely from life, but that they recognize their role as elders in preparing the world to no longer have them in it. Instead of continuing the fight, long ago they should have begun transitioning into roles as teachers and advisors for those who will one day take over from them.
Blessed are you when people call you anti-semitic for that is what they called the prophets before you
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Incidentally, one issue I have with modern herbalism is there are a lot of folks who are promoting so called "medical astrology". I know a few personally. I honestly think that's an embarrassing level of stupidity. That's not to say that astrology has no place in herbalism, because I think just like the doctrine of signatures it's an excellent basis for a mnemonic system to help keep track of plants and their usage according to categories of behaviour and characteristics. But that's far far from thinking one can prognosticate the nature of a person's illness or what medicine they should take based on their birth chart or what astronomical phenomena are occurring at the moment. That latter application is patently retarded. So much of what we think we know about stuff has more the quality of a superstition than it does of anything that makes rational sense upon closer examination, and frankly the continued promotion of stuff like that does more to convince people that traditional medicine as a whole is bogus than it does to help matters.
Incidentally, one issue I have with modern herbalism is there are a lot of folks who are promoting so called "medical astrology". I know a few personally. I honestly think that's an embarrassing level of stupidity. That's not to say that astrology has no place in herbalism, because I think just like the doctrine of signatures it's an excellent basis for a mnemonic system to help keep track of plants and their usage according to categories of behaviour and characteristics. But that's far far from thinking one can prognosticate the nature of a person's illness or what medicine they should take based on their birth chart or what astronomical phenomena are occurring at the moment. That latter application is patently retarded. So much of what we think we know about stuff has more the quality of a superstition than it does of anything that makes rational sense upon closer examination, and frankly the continued promotion of stuff like that does more to convince people that traditional medicine as a whole is bogus than it does to help matters.
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Sexual Assault
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Littering
And Line Skipping
at most important pilgrimage site in Islam
Muslim on Muslim crime
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Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere exposes the business model of misogyny.
https://theconversation.com/louis-therouxs-inside-the-manosphere-exposes-the-business-model-of-misogyny-277509
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How Donald Trump spent $5.6 billion in 48 hours.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/how-donald-trump-spent-56-billion-in-48-hours/news-story/623a8bf5ab8c59bb104057d821757ab9
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Iranian drones are shooting down interceptors Not the other way around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVyAiZnvQhE
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Food inflation out of control.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H5yqjPm3BiI
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I'm not prepared to claim that all ancient medicine is legit. Far from it.
Moreover a lot of the context has been lost in translation. A good example of that is the doctrine of signatures. People think it means that if a leaf has a vaguely liver shape, then the plant must be good for the liver. In reality it's a mnemonic system. If you already know that a plant is good for xyz illness, then if you can also identify a feature of the plant that aligns with that, it makes it far easier to remember among the hundreds of other medicinal plants one needs to memorise. It also makes it far easier to teach that knowledge to the next generation. So, it's not always just a matter of ancient people having incorrect understanding, but about modern people missing the proper context of the knowledge and skills concerned (and no small degree of ignorant conceit).
Another thing to consider is that plants evolve over time, both through environmental pressures and through human cultivation. So what might have had a certain medical usage in ancient times, may or may not still hold true to the same extent today. Then there's the identification. Prior to Linnaeus there was no uniform way to identify a plant, nor to differentiate sub-species or local variations with much accuracy. Botanical science has come a long way since then.
The thing I'd caution about scientific validation though is that firstly, scientists typically only study one isolated molecule at a time. They mainly only study it in animal trials (eg. mice, rats, livestock, etc), which may or may not bear any relation to how it interacts with human physiology. Rarely do they account for the entourage effect, or make an effort to understand how growing cycle and growing conditions effect the concentration of properties. And most importantly, they only study plants which have commercial/financial value to the pharmaceuticals industry, which normally rules out gaining any credible information about things a regular person can harvest for free from underfoot in their own yard. So frankly I don't use scientific validation as a benchmark. It's a nice anecdote to corroborate the centuries of prior use, but the lack of scientific validation has little to no weight in my opinion.
I'm not prepared to claim that all ancient medicine is legit. Far from it.
Moreover a lot of the context has been lost in translation. A good example of that is the doctrine of signatures. People think it means that if a leaf has a vaguely liver shape, then the plant must be good for the liver. In reality it's a mnemonic system. If you already know that a plant is good for xyz illness, then if you can also identify a feature of the plant that aligns with that, it makes it far easier to remember among the hundreds of other medicinal plants one needs to memorise. It also makes it far easier to teach that knowledge to the next generation. So, it's not always just a matter of ancient people having incorrect understanding, but about modern people missing the proper context of the knowledge and skills concerned (and no small degree of ignorant conceit).
Another thing to consider is that plants evolve over time, both through environmental pressures and through human cultivation. So what might have had a certain medical usage in ancient times, may or may not still hold true to the same extent today. Then there's the identification. Prior to Linnaeus there was no uniform way to identify a plant, nor to differentiate sub-species or local variations with much accuracy. Botanical science has come a long way since then.
The thing I'd caution about scientific validation though is that firstly, scientists typically only study one isolated molecule at a time. They mainly only study it in animal trials (eg. mice, rats, livestock, etc), which may or may not bear any relation to how it interacts with human physiology. Rarely do they account for the entourage effect, or make an effort to understand how growing cycle and growing conditions effect the concentration of properties. And most importantly, they only study plants which have commercial/financial value to the pharmaceuticals industry, which normally rules out gaining any credible information about things a regular person can harvest for free from underfoot in their own yard. So frankly I don't use scientific validation as a benchmark. It's a nice anecdote to corroborate the centuries of prior use, but the lack of scientific validation has little to no weight in my opinion.
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Right hook KO’d Karen and incoming traffic.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Y6OHFHgQA4
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Why Some Hedge Funds Win Even When Investors Lose https://youtube.com/shorts/7oW5Ddij53I
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so the same dude who own the twin towers before 911, bought Bank Tower in california, get ready for a california 911
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Automate company recovery cruelly. Write the one-sentence summary for the case. Short feedback loops think government honestly.
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@Oven_Operators_LU_88 Larjani was walking around in public on Quds Day. ZOG did a strike when he was speaking on camera and he didn't even flinch as people tried to shield him with their bodies
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You must pick one very minor talent:
Nationalism not Globalism
Local Anarchist communities not Worldwide Anarchism
Corporations, United Nations Governments, Most Media and Most Clergy are on Team Evil
The Jewish religion intends to exterminate Christians
The Jewish religion intends to enslave or exterminate Gentiles or Goyim
Palestinians are the true Hebrew Israelites
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