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Face masks can't go on forever. What we need is a vaccine to get this under control.
But then how do you know whether someone you're interacting with (and no face mask) has been vaccinated? Simple! Have an obvious mark on the right hand or forehead proving the person is safe. You can be sure of who they are. That they were vaccinated. And that they don't have any wrongthink.
Seeing anyone without the mark would be a huge indicator to distance yourself from them. Report them to authorities. Certainly not to do business with them. [Rev 13:16-18]
Fear will drive people to take the mark and report those who don't have it. And it will seem to be the wise thing to do. Even if it is actually a fatal mistake. [Rev 14:9-11] Thanks to the dear leader who made it all happen to keep us safe. Think of the children! Etc.
Such a mandatory vaccine, required for every person on Earth, would definitely not have any undesirable side effects. [Rev 16:2]
Disclaimer: I have not started any "Don't take the mark" messages prior to this journal entry. And certainly would not do so anonymously. The preceding is merely an opinion about how things might go. But I'll just say this:
Don't take the mark! It will cost you to refuse. It won't be easy to refuse.
More, if you find yourself in this situation and are reading this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 13 2020, @09:13AM (4 children)
The irony of that statement is just too much having seen you prattle on about your own superstitious/spiritualistic/psychic nonsense at length.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 14 2020, @12:46AM (3 children)
The thing is, though, that *is* a naturalistic explanation to me :) Let me explain: I hold that the dichotomy between "natural" and "supernatural" is partly or even wholly false. What could possibly be more natural than God? *Actual* God, a truly universal, all-pervasive ground of all being, not Yahweh or Brahman or whatever else; think more like the Buddhist idea of "the Absolute." Non-personal, non-egoic, etc.
Briefly, I suspect the mind/matter dichotomy is in a similar position (because, frankly, I think it's the same thing by another name). No one seems to have hit on the idea that there could be something ontologically prior or primitive to both, that what we think of as "mind" and what we think of as "matter" are the same thing--and that both are more like verbs than nouns. So I agree with even the hardest materialist/atheist that there is no such thing as a mind without some sort of substrate, and go even further and agree that "mind" emerges from something else.
Think of it all as just different wave modes on the surface of the Absolute/God/Existence/whatever you wish to call it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @04:18AM
Q.E.D.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @06:23PM (1 child)
Unless you can scientifically prove your assertions you shouldn't go around talking about them as facts. Your views on spirituality most closely resemble my own, but until I have real proof I have to keep that clause in my head that it could all be bullshit, we might all just be temporary structures of atoms with nothing more than emergent properties of consciousness that disappear.
If you personally have enough proof that is fine, but don't fool yourself about how your speeches come off to others.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 15 2020, @01:10PM
I have mentioned before that I could easily be wrong, that the hardcore atheists might be entirely right, and that through some unknown process I've become mired in delusion on this subject. I do believe I've had more than enough firsthand proof, but anecdotes aren't data and I don't blame others for not believing it; they weren't there.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...