Though I disagree with theocracy, democracies have a massive amount of problems the mob rule critique is a pretty obvious start tho

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Depends on what environment they were raised in. Lots of animals will do that given the right circumstances.

Not all, but a lot

Lots of people deficient in Thiamine (Vitamin B1) which regulates a lot of stuff, pork is one of if not the highest sources so would recommend that if you can get a good source of it. 😛

Basically people who defend something.

I mean it's pretty sad that a lot of people don't do something like have children because the economic calculation is first and foremost in their mind.

Which I would say is pretty close to worshiping something when you're willing to put something like that on the backburner for it. Not to say money shouldn't factor in - just that it should be below something else in the consideration.

It depends on the Christians personal understanding. There's a decent amount of NT stuff that seems to indicate that it's a-ok "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27), " just for example.

That's probably an exaggeration. There's also different types of circumcisions I think?

Though I see no reason it can't simply be left up to when they're a bit older. I've seen studies that go both ways, but assuming you're being hygienic the benefits of it seem pretty minimal for what it costs the average person.

I'd suspect the E.D thing has a lot more to do with people watching porn so damn much nowadays though tbh.

I mean those other things are good sure, but couldn't they just be centered around the birth(day) of the child instead of the lopping off of a piece of them?

Unless where you are it's traditionally done at some other point in somebodies life, but I've never heard of it being done like that here it's done a bit after birth. (if the parents choose so that is)

Interesting, but hope this all explains why many people in the U.S and other similar countries are increasingly bitter about it. There's no celebration about it and people just have to live with the consequences, in many cases the loss of some sensitivity damages the intimacy between two people and breeds feelings of inadequacy, analogous to men who are infertile and thus feel less of a man.

I only said analogous it's not exactly the same of course.

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Ok, maybe we should actually get some studies in here

I only showed up because of the recent idiotic videos that were posted claiming that "nobody is trying to normalize pedophilia", but by the time I got here that argument seemed to have subsided.

"pe·do·phil·i·a
noun
noun: paedophilia; noun: pedophilia
sexual feelings directed toward children."

I heard some bits and pieces from the stream, and there was a bit of an discussion on destigmatization vs normalization, but they aren't mutually exclusive, I do believe it is being normalized and from being normalized it's also being slowly destigmatized at the same time.

Yes

I mean innocent might be a better word there then good.

Most large countries are tbh. (waging proxy wars)

I mean even the U.S is waging it for continued existence - or at least they believe so.

I think there is a country we all could probably agree on about the horribleness of their actions - China.

I dunno while bombing in the middle east is horrible - locking muslims in concentration camps and harvesting their organs is pretty fucking evil

China uncensored has some excellent content on it.

No on the muslims getting organ harvested in china @lockwood

The history of all peoples is conquest and being conquered as far as I'm aware.

Historically it depends on who was doing the conquering how bad it was though - there are always downsides for the conquered, but long term sometimes the benefits outweigh them.

You'll see for instance plenty of historians now argue that Genghis Khan's massive conquests opened up trade routes among other things that are argued to be a net positive.

Pretty much any great empire or great person also did terrible things. I'm not so sure you can have one without the other.

Generally I prefer salmon, but you gotta be more careful about the source of them. Sardines not near as much.

People love to cite that their diet had more calories then the U.S for a time, but forget that a diet being more categorically dense then another doesn't mean it's healthier. (and how much the soviets lied in their records lol)

*calorically dense

I mean the point is sorta valid, but there are more metrics for economic growth then the ones most often used (GDP or employment for instance)

I wasn't really talking about that "metrics" as in the metric system but more so the measurement of something - in this case economic growth.

I dunno I don't think they have a solid foundation for it all though. Much of their economic growth is predicated on weak foundations. America is at least half awake to what they're trying to do and much of the rest of the world is beginning to see it to - what they've done in Africa is impressive, but many of these countries are beginning to see them for what they are as well - and as China doesn't have a very impressive blue water navy yet, their capability to project power into that region without local permission is very limited.

(Example of weak foundation: dozens of ghost cities)

Personally I think the paper dragon that is China is already beginning to fold, perhaps it'll even balkanize at some point in the distant future.

I grew up in an area with a lot of different branches of Christianity including Catholics, I can only remember the smaller ones adhering to the sunday thing. A lot of catholics are like a lot of Jews in that they are really only culturally religious and don't really care much besides the doing the rituals from time to time, so that complicates that matter.

I mean it's effectiveness mostly depends on the person they happen to be treating e.g: - you won't likely get a materialistic person to change/improve by asking them to do things that seem to them "spiritual woo woo" . Though you could preform some N=1 tests on yourself by doing christian (or just plain spiritual) techniques to feel better supposing you ever run into such a situation you felt merited it - going to a confessional,praying, that sort of thing and just see how it feels. Generally the ability to "step into your opposite" for a while is a useful technique if attempting this if you can.