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#existence

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Why are we so afraid of dying? I mean, if I die tonight, does it really matter?

Is it simply because death is a mystery? Or is it that we feel life is too precious to let go?

What if life is the worst, and death is precious?

I think it’s because even with all the suffering, we enjoy the experience. Sugar, love, music, sex, flowers, rain…maybe we’ll miss it. Or maybe our consciousness ends.

I know I’m not afraid to die.

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@lproven @theregister as much as I love the #freedom and #autonomy of #linux it's definitely a #purest #technically #adept approach to self #digitization

The majority of people I've worked with want nothing to do with knowing how anything works. They just want their computer to auto-load all their bents like #magic , be able to access anything on the #Network without getting permission and install any #app on their #device they choose.

#Government , #libraries especially, need to untether from #broZone #architecture and do things for themselves again.

I'm not a #statistician and only have #anecdotal #evidence to go by, but I don't see a whole lotta folks doing, or even wanting, to do things themselves. Let alone, pick up the #skills required to do so.

The worst part, the people actually willing and able to help, can't afford to, because it doesn't #pay well, enough.

So, we all have to figure out a way to fix "that" first. But, that would require everyone believing doing #work themselves is better for them and the #Earth in the long run rather than #automating each and every #human #interaction out of #existence

#InvisibleTouch by #Genesis

youtu.be/jpmiZ7zsHXY

#MuzakLessons #Automation Don't lose your #touch make them #visible and #purposeful each time; every #time

youtu.be- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

YouTube has decided to serve me up videos about #atheism today, and I don't think I'll ever really understand how it ever came to be that in a modern technological society, we are still being put into the position of being forced to justify #nonbelief in things for which there is no #evidence of #existence.

#OnusProbandi. The #BurdenOfProof of epistemological truth is upon the person who makes the assertion. Atheism asserts nothing, at all. "There is no $deity," is not an assertion of anything.

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⬆️ #EcstasyAndAmnesia #GazaStrip

The #Arab-#Israeli conflict isn’t a normal conflict, and the cause of Arab #Palestine still isn’t a normal cause of national liberation.

The fundamental fact of this conflict, that one side believes the other’s #existence is a metaphysical crime for which a just resolution can only be #elimination, means that standard diplomatic practice is much harder to apply at best, and gets scrambled, inverted, and abused at worst 🔥🔥🔥

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