• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    19 days ago

    The world is made of magic, it just differentiated into so many forms, that one of them is science and that’s what many people believe is all there is.

    I feel in the mood to explain more about this:

    Similar to european school’s history classes tend to be focused on european history (we call that “eurocentrism”), our worldview is focused on humans, i think that’s called “anthropocentrism”. While humans are important, it’s not everything there is. There’s also plants and other living beings, and in fact there’s many more of them than of us. I try to consider that.

    I’m calling the unity of all life “magic”, i came up with that and it’s supposed to be a play-on-words on the german word “Magen” (stomach) (representing that plants and animals are connected through an important relationship that is food). Also the stomach is the organ most physiologically/spatially central in the human body, in my opinion. So i imagine that everything’s in the human is built around that “central” organ that is the stomach. That makes sense as the intake of food is the root of all animal existence, that enables animal’s existence in the first place. Thus “everything is created from the stomach outwards”, as supportive organs to help the stomach collect and digest food.

    • Arkouda@lemmy.caOP
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      18 days ago

      This is an interesting take.

      I like to think of Science as magic, because it really is.

      Ancient peoples played with “Alchemy,” and modern chemistry is simply that. They would lose it if they knew we could “grow” diamonds, or that we have created an entirely new element.

      • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        Sure!

        Argument is that you can’t just call something objectively evil or good. “Murder isn’t evil, what if it was in self-defense.”

        That’s overcomplicating it. If you weren’t missing any context you could get around “what if” situations.

        Now I don’t think we can tell right from wrong at all times. Everything from personal experience, current position in history, and traits like greed make it hard for us. But still, there should be a right answer.

        In practice this just means if I feel a topic is controversial to me, I will keep thinking or researching about it until I have a pretty stable stand. As opposed to “it’s confusing so I don’t want to think about.”

        I could at least get closer to right answer this way.
        Hope this helps!

    • mutat0@lemm.ee
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      19 days ago

      I was talking about this with a coworker recently and I don’t believe they are.

  • Nog00d@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

  • CBYX@feddit.orgEnglish
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    20 days ago

    No one needs more than 500sqft of living space per capital until poverty is eradicated

    War is absurd and the consequence of greed and senile, old, fucked up and immoral men

    Democracy doesn’t work without a limit on speech - specifically hate speech, authoritarianism, and ethnic superiority ideology

    Fascism is the greatest concern of the western world right now

    Genocide deserves instant disavowal and should convince any sane person to immediately support removing any government official or politician from office who doesn’t oppose it

    Black Lives Matter, and American history has treated black Americans awfully (see prison industrial complex)

    Housing isn’t an investment vehicle. Tax speculative purchasing of housing. Support government building high density housing like the HBD system in Singapore or Austria’s housing system

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        19 days ago

        That seems pretty reasonable, though I’m not sure it really scales linearly. My wife and I live in appx. 1000sqft, and that’s really plenty for us. An extra 500sqft seems about right when we have a kid, but another 500 for each additional kid would be excessive.