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No. Happy for people to think their way. Funny though how over time people are becoming much more agnostic and atheist yet traditions continue for all. Some stage maybe let Christians celebrate Christmas and the rest of us can get a day off for some other reason e.g. call it Summer solstice in Australia. Fine if it stays how it is but who knows in the future.

I think there's a lot of believers who see the world through christian or new age spirituality or whatever eyes and see atheists or agnostics as an anomoly, or, because they don't believe, that they are kind of a nothing. He made the point that if there is Easter and Christmas for all why not a day to celebrate or consider a life from the point of view of someone who doesn't believe there is this other thing - maybe a day to consider what life might be like if what you see is what you get. Not probably needed in Australia as it is a bit like that now but the United States and Thailand may benefit.

Some good points on Bill Maher's New Rules on Youtube for 31 March 2023 asking why there is no Atheist's day. A third of American's do not identify as believing in a god so how about all the believer's spend some time considering and respecting a different opinion on the issue.

If so a lot of Democrats will be happy. A diminished , or further diminished, candidate has the funds and passion from the maga punters, to win the Republican candidacy but then loses in a landslide when the average person can't fathom having 4 more years of that.

How dumb and reckless has Trump been, knowing how much scrutiny he would be under as a potential President or as President, not to have the right legal people in place to make sure he broke no laws. Similar to some degree or other for the calls to Georgia, the treatment of records, and January 6.

I like this song about jail. Hello Dad ... I'm In Jail - YouTube I have often felt cemeteries are an anachronism in these times. Taking up real estate near cities. I don't see a point going out to a cemetery to see the dead. Particularly in the age of photos, video, and online tributes. To me the person is no more in the cemetery than elsewhere and the gravestone or marker has no particular significance. Many go for the big stone or even a mausoleum. Competition to impress can make it to the afterlife. Fair enough that due to religious beliefs and other reasons many feel differently. It might be good if there can be a change in mindset so that it is not seen as disrespectful to disconnect the link between the person and some bones in the ground. Could have a time limit of say 100 years so that it is there only while people who knew you are alive not dead.

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At lunchtime if working from home I go between Fox and CNN. On the 10 minutes I saw on Fox Hannity he was at his whiney worst - all about how hard done by he is - one story stood out. He said how South America, and the whole world, are letting people out of jail and insane asylums - his words - to go to the southern border. Mental picture of countries around the world filling ships with the worst of prisoners and the insane and sending them to cross the border. Then back to whining. I don't think Trump has a chance, but as much as I like Biden, I hope he makes the decision to pass the baton. There's got to be someone.

Men who love humanity, and support big broad noble aims, consider people based on their character and actions, and contributions to society, rather than on what are their sexual preferences.

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Not at Super Rich near the train station. You get a good rate. Metres away the main banks in the terminal have terrible rates.

I suppose the proof is in the pudding. Did the news part of the station promote Tucker's claims or not. If they felt Tucker had completed fair and balanced good journalism - ha ha - I am sure they would have

I really can't see Lake being viable for anything. I think even her most ardent supporter must have tired of her 'I won and that's all there is to see here' approach. She lost so much credibility, that was teetering on negative before the election, and of course she is widely associated with being a Trump wannabe so I think De Santis would give her an extremely wide berth.

Wot made Mick mad. No right wing party left on the main land. It is a bit lefty but mostly backed by common sense in my opinion and if the worst thing is good intentions it's not so bad. What you may see as blind advocacy of such things, is that people are happy to judge people on their merits, and offer a fair go. Australians get on with it and don't think about getting upset over whether someone is gay, trans, or whatever. The extreme stuff is uni students that now get pumped up by the media but not a lot is different now to before out in the suburbs. The NSW election was fought mainly on issues, and not on personality or nonsense, which is the case in many other countries. The winner was humble and the loser dignified. Something to be proud of.

Interesting. Could be obvious but I think at birth we are freer in some ways and more limited in some ways that at an older age. As we age, we get limited in ways we were free, and free in ways we were limited. I don't simply mean in terms of mobility but how we think and feel. A practical example is if you return to your childhood home, or smell a smell from the past, you feel some things open up, like your smile is broader and you are more relaxed and possibly more sensible in that you don't care about a lot of stuff you care about later. So before I had a name I had characteristics of me but a different configuration. Put together slightly differently. I don't sense an inner onion as that suggests something other than me like digging for gold. Maybe you mean that you have become disconnected and need to reconnect and feel as you did before you had a name. That makes sense. But what could you know? Why couldn't that reconnection still be the physical you. It might feel special but is it necessarily a sign of a different plane or something since you can in fact sense and feel it on this plane. Drugs can have the effect and they are 100 per cent physical. So is the only thing you know that you have an inner onion? What else do you know? Seth for example might resonate with you but surely you doubt. I focus a bit on the doubt aspect as I see doubt as a strength rather than a weakness. It might get to a point where you can say that you need to experience what you have experienced and that's fine.

So you have to experience the truth direct. At the risk of repeating myself, on that basis, the best shot at honesty is to pare away all ideas of the religious and spiritual, be it karma or reincarnation or a spiritual plane or any concept of god, since our best opportunity at learning about ourselves comes from one thing. The human body. You can draw conclusions about what experiences and thoughts and feelings say about your body and mind, to a much higher degree, than about what you can conclude about outside your body. In that sense, though some ideas about god or spirituality may seem to fit better than others, such concepts are much more distant from what can be known, as they are a step beyond our feelings thoughts and senses. Therefore as much as belief is tempting there must be doubt. The doubt is lessened if we focus on the mind and body and not the concepts of god and spirit.

You've got to give up. If some can't see what's wrong with posting this image and other recent tweets then it's best to say 'OK Thanks for your comment. Have a nice day.'

To me you are splitting hairs. He is threatening him with a baseball bat whether it is aimed as it is head or body isn't really a key issue though one could say if you swing a baseball bat you are likely to hit the upper part of the body. It seems odd to focus on this minor issue given the themes in his tweets but ok maybe he is indicating a threatening gesture that may not hit his head.

Thanks. I quite like that explanation. In a sense it is like you are saying that you felt or sensed what something better or more real felt like, and then you could use that as a guide, so when you read interpretations of spirituality, or other stuff, you could see if is consistent with that experience and if it fits in your new frame of reference or not. You would need to be careful in the interpretation of that experience, and what it left you with, in terms of knowledge and belief and differentiating between the two.

The faith is strong in this one. It is appreciated that you had a go to answer this. You may have had experiences to help you believe there is a god. But did your experiences telegraph the reality you describe? It could be you have linked your experiences to a particular belief system and decided that you'll go with the whole package. What happened in the universe to make individual spirits exist, and be created imperfect and have so much to learn, and in what sense does each spirit agree to go through the life they go through. Does that mean the evolved being feels nothing when people die, when anything happens, as it was part of a learning experience. If they do feel sadness then why. Do I and the parents really learn something useful if I die a day after birth. What was going on for the millions of years there was no life - was that when spirits were being created. From what and how and why. So someone is tortured for 30 years in a basement and you say it is a kind god and he is helping you to learn from this and the future will be better because of this learning? Surely many experiences do more unlearning and damage than good. Therefore is there an antigod. They are tough issues but I guess I would want to have these sort of answers if I was to say I believe something. Otherwise I might say I had some experiences that indicate there is a god but beyond that not sure.

But then if everything is on auto pilot since the start you are the same as non-believers 99.9 per cent but for some reason you are convinced there is a god even though it has no actual interaction or judgement or moral guidance or any form of contact in your life. Maybe you believe in the amazingness of reality rather than god.

I must admit some places have pretty cheap accommodation for my upcoming trip, indicating low demand, whereas in some main tourist areas it is a bit expensive. Airfares have gone back to normal in Australia but maybe not elsewhere.

I said Thailand tourism would bounce back fast after covid. Many said it would take many years. Being out of Thailand it helps to see what makes it desirable as a destination. I told you so.

They seem to say it can happen from taking drugs too. Hard to comment on something I haven't experienced. A bit suspicious of things that cause such a big reaction. It either means you are opening things up and it's a good thing or you are holding something back, akin to holding or limiting your breath, and causing the brain to react in an extreme way.

Ethics can come from intuition and experience rather than from god. Not sure where ethics comes from in terms of spiritual research if not religion. Failings in ethics is not science's fault but discoveries make terrible outcomes possible. The answer may lie with real world solutions and laws rather than looking for answers through spirituality. The latter may be good for some things but giving a surge of ethics to the whole world through spirituality is not something I see as realistic at this point.