@TheRisingSun said in What the heck is wrong with TWS?:
Yup 23 days of posts gone, lost some people idk who, 1.2k upvotes gone 👍 Amateurs
Why do I always have to clean up behind you @TheRisingSun? So here is the post you were supposed to make :yum: :
@TinBelle said in BRING HIM HOOOOME:
@pe7erpark3r totally. We only talked for less than a day, actually. But goodness we hit it off so well!! Like it was effortless and I really frikken miss that. We were just about to switch to WhatsApp, as well. Just barely missed it..
Aww, that's really tough luck. I hope he doesn't interpret it as a sign of god and never come back :cry: If you had just shared numbers you could bring him back :confused: . I also talked to him for an hour. Was really nice.
@Lurker said in How can it get more interesting?:
I think that the majority of people are in TWS "for the memes"
You sure it's for the memes, cause I'd go to 9gag.com for that or some similar site?
But I have nothing against making fun topics more engaging. I liked Waffles or Pancakes and I wouldn't call meme-related posts uninteresting. So let's add this to the question:
How can we make TWS more fun?
Hunting down philosophically interested peeps seems too much of a hustle. That's not exactly what this question is about anyways. Rather it's about what the peeps who are here would like to have to engage more, or what they would like to see less.
To become a full person it is required for human beings to go their own ways. This means to be able to live in this world and do good you are absolutely required to break some rules. If you cannot break rules, you'll never be able to do anything meaningful. You won't be able to change the world for the better. Because you can only follow.
Even just to be an independent adult you need to be able to make your own decisions and stick to them. And how would you learn that if you always agreed with your parents? It's plain impossible. But if your parents don't give you any rules, there is nothing to disagree with. It makes you just as well incapable of walking your own path.
In other words, a child must be disobedient now and then. And it is perfectly natural that little children between 2 and 3 years stop doing what you want them to do. It's not a matter of insolence or even sin. This is how children grow up, how they become capable of handling life's adversities (!). And what parent wouldn't want their children to grow up and be their own man or their own woman? to be able to walk out into the world and be successful at the things they want to make a difference with?
A sad song
I knew one day
you had to go,
to find your way...
But I remain,
unable to explain,
why it resonates so strong,
in my heart,
this sad song.
Will you remain,
unable to explain
why you had to go
unable to know
another's heart?
Have you found your way,
so that one day
you can stay?
Until that day,
may this sad song,
guide your way.
I pray.
@Katherinee said in TWS Valentines (reminder):
OMG SPICY MAMI <3 <3 <3 <3 OFC YOU ARE
@Marcomarco SHES BACKKKKK
TWS loosing all that data wasn't so bad then after all: :joy: we might have lost a few new accounts, but some lost ones were brought back yay :smirk: @Zen00
@Katherinee I wish you the most happy birthday you could ever have! :fireworks: :sparkler: :custard: :cake: :yum: But then again I wish you an even better one next year :dizzy_face: :joy:
Violence of adults against children will always, always make a child feel violated. Because it is being hurt, against his will, by someone it deeply needs and loves, and it has no way to defend itself, it is absolutely at the mercy of the adult, powerless. Imagine a giant coming along and beating you up, because you don't conform to his will, a will which you don't even understand...
It is not surprising, that the people who brought the most harm over humanity, like Hitler or Stalin, to a staggering degree had incredibly cruel upbringing. That is of course not to say, that all people who get beaten as children become evil monsters, but violence almost always breads violence. Most people will not be violent against their neighbours, but in all likelyhood they will be against their children, unless something wakes them up.
In my experience the problem is not children being disobedient, it is always adults not being able to properly deal with that disobedience. If you encounter a "problem child", you can be damn sure its not the kids fault, that it is the way it is.
@Sup said in Happy Birthday Judy! **18**:
@petrapark3r said in Happy Birthday Judy! **18**:
@Sup said in Happy Birthday Judy! **18**:
Happiest birthday to you my girl @WtfJudith I would never forget the moment of joy when me and your mother decided to have you. What a long night it had been. Time flies...you are so big now. God bless🤗
Hope she's not also married to that guy :shrug::yum: (with incest being uncool n'all)
We do oral sex sometimes. Just to strengthen our daddy-girl bond 🤗 nothing wrong about it🤗
#oralsexisnotrealsex
Oh... oh... okay. Then I guess it's okay. Happy birthday... now wtf did you just say? :yum:
It occurred to me one day, that the greeks have been wrong all along. A chair has no meaning in and of itself. A chair has its meaning only in relation to someone who wants to sit on it. Without a person, without someone with a conscious mind and a body, a chair has no meaning.
Silly me, talking about chairs, when others talk about much more important things like love and wealth right?
Well, gold has no value either... It has only value in relationship towards those who crave it. We give meaning to things. All of us. Little babies just as much as those of us who are close to the grave. It's just that we value different things.
However I propose that the little ones and the old ones are much wiser than the rest of us: For as you can see, value comes into existance through people. And the smallest of us, just as those close to death know that what truly matters are only those who are around – or in many a sad case: who are not around...
And in this case – just as in many others – science proves the point: Decade long studies show us that the one thing that keeps people healthy and happy are good relationships.
So answer your question directly, I no longer must. Cheers :heart:
@Berin said in Is Evil Learned or Inherent?:
@Indrid-Cold You may disagree with what I said Indrid. It is always good to have the counterpoint and a pleasure to receive your notes.
Life is ripe with suffering and tragedy, as it is, but what brings people to their knees, what brings us to desperation and contempt is suffering intentionally brought into the world, by other's and ourselves. Soldiers often experience PTSD not after having seen incredible evil in front of their eyes, but by seeing the evil they are capable of themselves.
What hurts us most is the suffering that didn't have to be, that was caused by someone willing to hurt others. We have seen immense evil done in the past century, by the third reich, and multiplied even by all the communist empires the world has seen so far.
If we were truly born evil, then the suffering we cause would be tragedy, it would not actually be evil, because it would not be intentional. For anything to be evil, it needs to stem from a decision. Thus all evil, without exception, is freely committed and not innate.
@Katherinee said in Who wants to be my valentine?:
@IM-NOT-HAPPY I KNEW YOU WOULD SAY THAT
Me too lol. I wonder why I didn't tag you tho :thinking_face: @IM-NOT-HОRNY, You should rename yourself to @IM-NOT-HОRNY. That'd be great!
@Durwin said in So what did you lose:
@Katherinee said in So what did you lose:
@zoob Oh and did I mention
I REACHED 5 FUCKING K AND NOW ITS ALL GONE 😒
I was 21 away from 9k
FFS:P
Lol, I just realized I had 1K. Now I have 500.
Learn from your mistakes TWS man. You did lose a few users over this!
I thought I should add, that the most important criterium i have now for the one is, that I can trust them. Fully. Whole Heartedly trust them with my life. (And maybe even more importantly: with my [future] kids life :smirk: ) If you find someone you can trust that deeply, don't let them go! If you can't make them your own, try to become friends at least. You won't find that many people whom you can trust like this.
@ObviouslyLucifer said in Change my Mind.:
According to Asma Lamrabet who is a Moroccan doctor, Islamic feminist and author.
"One crucial, unequivocal verse in the Qur’an lays the ground for the concept of equality between men and women: “The believers, men and women, are allies (awliya) of one another. They enjoin the ‘common good’ (al ma‘ruf) and forbid the bad (al munkar), they observe prayers (salat) and give charitable alms (zakat) and obey God and his Prophet”; Qur’an, 9:71."
Lamrabet is a third way feminist, who re-interpret the sacred texts in order to show women as independent beings rather than relational to men. She examines the sacred texts in a scholarly manner, while remembering the cultural context in which they were written.
Furthermore according to her . The Qur’an is unambiguous, and stresses emphatically this close cooperation or wilayah between men and women in socio-political action, before generalizing it to acts of religious ritual.
Dr. Sayed Muhammed Hussein Fadlallah , the Lebanese scholar, reaffirms the egalitarian vision of the Qur’an, which encourages women to be involved in all areas of social and political life, in contrast to the traditional exclusivist understanding that tends to reduce women to their function as wives and mothers, a role that, while important, cannot constitute their unique horizon in life.
Islam certainly has a lot of provisions which promotes over protection, polygamy, violence against women. But these articles were written in 6th century AD and scholarly interpretation on these today actually paints a better picture of at least some provisions in Islam.
So the problem today is improper interpretation about provisions by some theologians, thus we can say the interpreters are wrong and not the religion.
A scholarly interpretation of religious scriptures using a rational attitude can actually help us make a better society. So instead of blaming religions we should hold the individuals who interpret religions in a reductive manner to benefit their cause, accountable.
It seems Islam has the same problem as christianity: scholars go and declare the opposite of what is written in the scriptures as the correct interpretation of the scriptures. As with christianity their arguments are rather weak.
However I do agree that the interpretation that these scholars have of islam – despite being far from the quran itself – indeed benifit society.
I mean if you really took the quran literally you would also have to take into account the following:
God created the world through his word
Jesus is the word of God (thus he is not created?)
Jesus was conceived not from a man, only from the Virgin Mary
Jesus performed miracles (in contrast to Muhammad)
Jesus ascended into heaven
Jesus will come back at the end of times (Muhammad will not)
and if you don't understand anything in the Quran you are advised – by the Quran – to read the bible...
So it is better to follow the modern interpretation of the quran and not take every word in it too seriously... or you might end up christian :joy:
And change our mind about strongly held stereotypes about religion.
Our time is fighting stereotypes on any level. And I fully agree, that you should not apply a stereotype ever to judging an individual. However stereotypes do develop naturally (from statistics): 90% of islamic terrorists do look a certain way. 90% of islamic countries have laws that favor men over women. I think it is fair to say, that islam as it is widely practiced does in large parts meet the stereotype. And I think it would be good if it didn't!
But are you sure that the religion of those scholars you quoted is still the same religion? I mean I do call christianity a religion too, but there are various christian denominations/sects, that differ so strong from the original teaching, that I'm not sure it's entirely fair to put them in the same box... Take the "Westboro Babtist Church": they basically advocate for the death sentence of gay people. This is so unchristian that it screams to heaven ("kill the sinner" is so not "who has no sin throw the first stone").
Yeah, the anti-baby pill. Actually there are quite a few things most people don't know. Today's fact however is especially juicy :smirk:
A few years back they studied how the pill affects attraction, how attractive women on and off the pill are to men. The best part is how they measured it :joy:
They went into strip clubs and logged the amount of tips the female strippers where getting. Here are the results:
On a normal day a stripper's average tip is around 100$.
Strippers on the pill always average around 100$.
Strippers off the pill get up to 600$ around ovulation.
An other fun fact from another study: the partner of a woman who takes the pill feels less attractive. :joy:
We should totally start an initiative to have mother's day on the same day everywhere. That'd be so cool :joy:
@Kanuna said in Let's make TWS great again!:
Can't make something great that was never great, to begin with. Can't fix a house when the foundation the one rotting. Everyone has a right to complain. Get over it.
Agree to disagree. We are talking about software. Every software starts out bad. But you might be right, there may be really bad design decisions that cannot be fixed. I don't know wether this is the case with TWS.
And no I'm not getting over it. I'm suggesting a policy that makes people feel more comfortable on a site. I think this is constructive criticism: create a channel for complaints, that is not a public discussion. I believe this would make people feel more at home on a site. Obviously: negativity doesn't make feel comfortable. There are better ways to handle problems...
@1-618 said in Tell me about your days...:
@petrapark3r What if this is the way I contribute?
In all honesty I doubt that you couldn't think of one thing which you could do better tomorrow than you did today.
And since there is one thing you could do better (and in all likelyhood you can think of quite a few things), then your contribution could also be a lot better.
Be honest with yourself: is this the best you can do? No, not the best someone else can do. Of course there are amazing people out there. But it's nonsense to measure yourself against them. The only one you should ever compare yourself is you – yesterday. Because other people have another history, they have other genes, they have other parents, they have another education... But you're you. Is this really the best you can do?
@DAD_ said in Fact check with Pet: Overpopulation:
@petrapark3r
The dangerous thing isn't overpopulation,
But the over-exploitation by the limited population.There will surely be a stagnation point in the population growth curve, as the technology increases, so does the medical facilities. And hence, the infant mortality rate decreases, and people in the under-developed states, reproduce less.
Now to the topic;
The biggest flaw of statistics is that it takes everything to be ideal.
All the numbers you have, is based upon this assumption that everything will be fine; No natural disasters, No all out wars.
:joy: funny that you should mention those two things. Because you know, natural disasters and all out wars will have one effect: they will decrease the population drastically. So, as cold as this might sound, but these things would actually make it easier even.
So what about food? We use 77% of what we produce in agriculture to feed our lifestock. 67% of what we eat comes from plants, 30% from meat. Keep these numbers in mind for we are able to feed 7.5 billion people right now!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/12/third-of-earths-soil-acutely-degraded-due-to-agriculture-study
This study tells that, 24 Billion tonnes of arable land, goes to waste each year due to intensive farming. In the words of The UN Head;
So, if we are able to feed (in an ideal situation that is) 7.5 billion people each year now, I doubt that will be the case in the upcoming years.
Yeah, that is one of the problems that needs solving. However I don't actually know how much 24 billion tonnes are, and I don't quite understand even why this would be measured in tonnes in the first place instead of square kilometers. Maybe to make the number sound bigger?
Another study by the UN states that;
https://www.unccd.int/news-events/land-degradation-growing-threat-global-security
But yeah, this is one of the things where we should put our research resources to. You know what my take on those problems is? The best investment, the UN and anybody could ever make in any country is in its youth. Education people. That is where most of the money should go, so that soon some genius arises to find a technique to make that land arable again.
Now to the 30% Meat part;
Though, it constitutes to only a menial amount of our diet, but the negative and destructive impact it has on the environment is absolutely devastating.
Yes, it acctually amounts to 14.5 % of our CO² emissions. Ergo reducing global meat consumption might actually be a good idea in many ways :grin:
http://www.fao.org/3/a-a0701e.pdf (the UN report)Overpopulation is a myth.
Indeed it is. But the impact the limited stagnated population will have on the planet's resources will be far worse.
But don't be misslead. The actual problem is of course how to distribute all of the earths resources. And I have shown you only one example: food. There are others, but those too can be solved.
Indeed it is.
But, let's not forget the elephant in the room here, which I have already mentioned in my above point.
Even if the number of people isn't the problem, but the way those people act.
The reckless way, in which they destroy and exploit the resources.
That my friend, will be our doom.
It might be the doom of our global society, but people have lived for hundreds of thousands of years without oil and the like.
But I do want to question wether it will actually be our doom too. I'll continue to make topics like this, to tackle the different questions around this issue. But let me just say this:
Current estimates say that oil in traditional sources will run out in 150 years. However there is a huge amount of oil bound in sand. Currently acquireing this oil is uneconomical. But the moment, that the other way is no longer viable, it will become economical pretty fast. Not saying we should continue to increase our oil consumption though...
Another thing to note is: We know that our actions pose a problem for the planet since about 50 years. In this timeframe
So. Point is. We are getting there... I'm not so sure we are doomed...
