@Anna-Shil Hey Anna! If we all produce or generate work or expend our energy, whether manual or intellectual, we must be "rewarded" for it. As archaic barter practices are outdated we create financial systems to "value" work. Money is then an unfair way of quantifying the value of labor and consumer goods and services. Paper printing is just a detail and today the virtual cash on cards becomes a reality that dispenses physical money.
Posts made by Berin
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RE: Why do people depend on money?
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RE: hey wanna talk about anime or anything ?
@Arafet-Fathallah I recommend the Osamu Tezuka's master piece "Dororo", recently released.
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RE: Cockroach milk is a thing.
@louis-2011 its protein is useful only for the spermatozoon flagel mobility.
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RE: What Happens When We Die
@Wolfie_11 And that's great! What would the world be without the skeptics? It is necessary that there be doubt and this enriches the human experience.
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RE: What Happens When We Die
@Lurker By the Ingrid's words now I'm feeling myself a old man :older_man:
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RE: Cockroach milk is a thing.
@Karina-Kara There are researchers who understand that consuming arthropods is an unparalleled source of protein, and there are several types of larvae with higher levels of protein in pork, rich in HDL, which includes the cockroach itself (not the one you find on your house or your deposit). Several countries in Africa and Southwest Asia, including China regularly consume these protein sources, regardless of the number of legs they have (including caterpillars, spiders and scorpions).
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RE: What Happens When We Die
@Lurker Well, let's get to the idea of soul. Not as an attribute or product of the electrochemical activity of the brain, but as something non-measurable. There were studies in the 1970s and 1980s with Dr. Raymond Moody on Near Death Experiences, where individuals who were diagnosed with clinical death (no organic vital signs or hypoxia) for a few moments, minutes or hours in the United States and resuscitated by defibrillators or CPR maneuvers began to report events, people or circumstances occurring within the hospital or even outside of it while their bodies were examined or tracked for the device. Some of these events were registered by the researcher and signed by surgical teams as confirmation of the hypothesis of the emancipation of some intelligent and independent principle of the body that had access to information and events unrelated to emergency rooms and surgical centers. Beyond it is an interesting book by Dr. Ian Stevenson, who traveled the world between 1960 and 1980 to gather testimony and interviews of children with possible evidence of the phenomenon of reincarnation: 20 Suggestive Cases of Reincarnation (about 400 pages).
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RE: What Happens When We Die
@Lurker Lurker, vi agora que você é de Portugal, certo?
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RE: What Happens When We Die
@Lurker For a Christian perspective the known (or unknown) Jesus stated that "the house of the Father has many mansions". Now if there is a creator and the universe would be his work then in this "house" would the dwellings be the infinite orbs to fill these multiverse? Again this man stated that "My Father continues to work until now, and I am also working." Now if there is a dynamic and incessant creation (the universe is expanding as our scientists and new quasars and black holes are formed from stars, "recycling energy and materials), then newly created souls are sown in various orbs not in the biological conformation we call life, but in other expressions unknown to us and inaccessible to our more advanced technological apparatuses.) Souls of human conditions would have the possibility of transmigrating to different orbs to complete their evolutionary experiences, "opening an infinite fan of possibilities "and contributing to less advanced civilizations, as might have happened with the emergence of Homo sapiens and the cultural explosion of the ancient civilizations of radiance, bringing a legacy for the exponential evolution of our terrestrial humanity, whether with Cheops, Imhotep, Hatshepsut, Epicurus , Pythagoras, Socrates, Ieshua, Julius Caesar, Siddhartha Gautama, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mohammed, Al Jazari, Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Cristovao Colombo, Robert Koch, Einstein, Marie Curie, Pestalozzi, Bonaparte and Stephen Hawking, just to name a few of the souls who contributed to move forward the terrestrial humanity.
I think of our human history as the journey of souls seeking the best, altering the world around them, even with their mistakes, but perfecting their journey through their bodily existence.
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RE: What Happens When We Die
@TheGoldenMole We have two options for death: complete annihilation, since we are products of electrochemical reactions of the brain or a metaphysical life if our consciousness is something distinct and independent, which manipulates the brain as a control panel. In the first absolute nothingness, where all personal efforts are reduced to carrion and dust, while in the second there would be a purpose for individuals to pursue their experiences in another reality without the vicissitudes of organic matter, but dependent on the moral quality of the acts practiced in life (but this from a religious or philosophical perspective - see Plato in his work "The Republic", discussing the soul).
"Heaven" and "Hell" are psychological perspectives of the creature's emotional state, and can not be taken literally (within the religious hypothesis).
Becoming part of the universe, returning to the Universal Whole is part of the pantheistic hypothesis.
All the gears and mechanisms of our life require a "why", an origin and our birth, as well as the causes of suffering have reasons that are not accessible to the domain of a life only, which brings us to "Palingenesia" or Reincarnation as an alternative theory to understand the possible injustices that would be the sources of suffering. Are we organic creatures seeking a spiritual experience or spirits going through an organic experience? -
RE: How do you (if you do) deal with anxiety?
@Indrid-Cold I believe that Stalin, like most who obtained excess power, became intoxicated with this power and proceeded to act despotically, revealing the worst possible. I admire the Russian fervor in its glorious marches, but this was the fruit of an extensive campaign of "deification" of its dictator in exchange for millions of lives reaped.
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RE: How do you (if you do) deal with anxiety?
@Indrid-Cold I preffer Spider Man. Nikita Kruschev and Mikhail Gorbachev denounced Stalin's crimes, since the Gulags, oppress all of Eastern Europe. Bitter memories of Ukraine in 1927 and of all nations subjugated by the red wave.
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RE: How do you (if you do) deal with anxiety?
@TheGoldenMole Any of us can develop pathological anxiety, such as in cases of post-traumatic stress, such as undergoing assault, accidents, threats, intimidation or even public speaking. What worries a lot are the cases of panic syndrome, agoraphobia and other anxiety disorders. Therapies are still the most recommended path.
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RE: How do you (if you do) deal with anxiety?
@TheGoldenMole Anxiety as a state of natural alert is always welcome. A little adrenaline is always good to feel alive. It becomes pathological when it comes to controlling all the expectations of the subject. We can gradually test our anxiety states, never abruptly and know our limits, which can be overcome over time. If it is a limiting state then it is advisable to seek psychological help, since psychiatry is a powerful industry specialized in drugging people without helping them to experience difficulties and procrastinating the opportunity of self knowledge, except exceptions where chemically there is chemical imbalance of receptors and neurotransmitters as noradrenaline and serotonin.
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RE: A Difficult Decision
@TheGoldenMole If it were possible to choose it would be smell, except in case of exposure to toxic gases. But within an urban perspective, without elements of primitive survival, I believe it would be the most dispensable sense.
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RE: What made you stay on this site?
@IM-NOT-HORN Nowadays I look for interesting subjects to contribute to the discussions and to find contrary opinions that add up to the formation of ideas and concepts.
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RE: Being invisible (super power??)
@Marshmello You could be accused of vilifying corpses if you were seen :joy: