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YappyMonotheist

@ ArgumentativeMonotheist @lemmy.world

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Trying my hardest to be civil in this uncivilised world.

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  • Catch some zzzs, ttyl! 👋

  • What cities have bad vibes or just feel "off"?

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  • It's like Marseille without the sun and friendly Southern vibes, that's what it reminds me of, especially the Midi area. I recall walking nearby and there's like a tunnel where the tram goes by, and people had set up tents and impromptu "restaurants" in it. What a mess. But my brother and his lady just went to Bruges and they said it was beautiful so it's not like the whole of Belgium is as ugly. 🙏

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  • Heyo! Not very big on Islamic jurisprudence because it's often nonsense and haram af as it seeks to make unlawful what God made lawful (Qur'an 16:116) but it's certainly "sect-specific" for lack of a better term, since the Qur'an warns against intoxicants (basically just alcohol but I'm not doing anything "stronger" than that, like crack, even if it's not the result of fermentation, lol) but not against anything else in that category that isn't mind altering and shisha is just tobacco with flavouring, basically. 🙃

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    The Republican Party's moral collapse under Trump is complete

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  • TBF, the fact they don't even feel the need to be hypocritical anymore is very concerning, as it indicates where the American mindset is at ("we're white supremacists, murderers, rapists and colonizers and we don't give a single fuck"). A third of Americans are openly Trumpian, and that's over a hundred million demons they could throw at the rest of the world. Pretty scary.

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  • IME, Brussels is truly awful. Grey, ugly, depressing and decaying.

  • Can someone tell me what I want to hear so I can blindly follow them?

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  • I can tell you what you need to hear and you'll get mad initially but you'll eventually follow if you're wise. 😅

  • What are some truly timeless songs?

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  • Player's "Baby Come Back" and John Lennon's "Woman" come to mind. Also, Juan Gabriel's "Amor Eterno" (Eternal Love), an ode to dead moms and the love we have for them despite their absence.

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  • Values are a subset of things one can believe in.

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  • Like I said, if it goes against your understanding you'll never truly believe it, not for long at least. It's not choosing to believe with no "good reason", it's choosing to believe despite there being no relation at all between matters of fact (ascertained by the senses) and that. Check out Hume's fork, it's kinda like that. God is not in this world, God is necessarily outside of it and of a different nature (we're data for God the programmer, we're his free-willed Sims and the universe is a sandbox) so you can't find Him here, through our senses, and added to that are the classical fork interdictions (e.g., moral statements cannot derive from matters of fact, one can simply not care).

    And if you have some somewhat prosocial if not completely developed set of moral standards, well that's great, I'm happy! Men are made good after all, hence the propaganda needed to turn one against each other.

  • What are some simple ways to boost your health and mood?

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  • Good stuff! They say the gut is like a second brain or something like that. Pity I treat it like shit, and I have IBS too. 😭

  • What are some simple ways to boost your health and mood?

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  • A struggle cuddle with my cat seems to calm me down. I noticed myself doing it when stressed (it doesn't happen often) and read about it and it seems to check out. 👍

    Oh and a long lukewarm/hot shower always makes me feel better, and it's very good at dealing with bloating.

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  • Potentially triggering, beware: belief is something reserved for everything outside of the material and observable, like the afterlife, God and values. Often people want material "evidence" as a prerequisite for belief but it just doesn't work that way, there's no necessary material connection between that and belief. Ofc, belief that cannot conform to one's reason and understanding will never stand for long, but it has nothing to do with the world perceived by the senses, that's what all scientific fields and tools are for!

    When I say many people here/in the West don't understand the nature of belief, that's what I mean. They don't stand for anything, they just accept the world through their senses and in the absence of values (again, belief), they can only default to consumerism and hedonism (because the senses say they feel good and that's all one can "know" in the absence of belief).

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  • Oh Jesus, that looks TASTY. I want to add you to my harem, and I don't care about your sex. 😅

  • Can someone who works in an industry or for an employer with clear negative impacts on society/the world maintain a clear concience?

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  • You don't have to virtue signal but you could have virtue... Idk if it's better or worse that you've reached the point you simply don't care and can be honest about it, at least with us online strangers. But I'll stop now, have a good one.

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  • Western, ultra-materialistic, morally-vacuous take. Nothing new but that's how all money-worshippers operate and why any group of people that share that core idea can never become a society. You can't build with "fuck you I got mine" people.

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  • What a nonsensically morally relativistic take. Sure, I could spin you feeding the homeless as "communist" and therefore immoral but that doesn't make it true. Just because people lie or say nonsense doesn't mean it's "equally valid".

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  • You're supposed to feel at the very least uncomfortable with it if your involvement/impact is minimal. And you should carry that guilt for as long as you're there since the least you can do is feel bad about it. And ofc, once you don't, you've lost your moral north and you become one more of them... Maybe try to steal a little or even sabotage things discreetly?

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  • Many people will literally die for their beliefs, for the sake of righteousness. But I agree, sometimes people will be immorally self-centered (very often in some cultures, especially the morally relativistic ones).

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  • You can be as naked as you want but covered? Nuh uh! Although that well-known populist racist-bait is probably now doubly pushed with the advent of ubiquitous facial recognition. 🙃