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What stage do you think Vladimir Putin is at? Since there's so much to consider with him, I kinda have a hard time estimating his level of development... Your thoughts?

@lewis-j Nice. It comes out of the blue, no introduction, no lead up, no nothing, it just kicks in your front door and suddenly you're there, realizing that you were there all the time

Can somebody please explain to me how exactly Trump wanted to justify to stop the voting? "We don't want them to find any ballots at 4 am in the morning." What?!

This has gotta be some of the most undemocratic shit I've ever heard a western politician say...

Exactly.

@Leo Gura Why do you keep insulting people? Since I started checking out the forum and your new video a couple of minutes ago I read two new cases of you insulting people. 1. Somewhere in the comment section of your new video about science, 2. in the thread about the presidential debate you said you'd gladly pay a shit load of money to get rid of dumb people Not no mention the other times you call people dumb straight to their face (and even dumbest, like in the conspiracy video). This is not okay, at all. I politely ask you to stop doing this. You know how many good reasons everyone who backs this up has.

Mental health is a relative notion and adjusts/orients itself according to the psychological condition of the majority of the population. What happens, when we discover the relative nature of "healthy" vs "unhealthy"? How will this affect society? What happens when we find out that the "unreality" of the hallucinations of a person with a "schizophrenic disorder" is just as real as anything else? Will we still arbitrarily classify certain behaviors and perspectives as "mental disorders"? Who gets to decide? @Leo Gura Will you make a video on this issue? I think it's really important because it already peaks its head out here and there... The rest of this giant socio-psychological iceberg still lurks in the murky waters of our naive scientific, materialistic absolutism about reality, but it will flip, and I think it will happen more rapidly than we can handle.

Yes, uh.. Is Rudolph part of the Amanita muscaria shamanism? Did Santa drink Rudolph's pee to get high?

What about cuckoos? Cuckoo babies are parasites but they grow up and once they leave the nest, they aren't parasites anymore.

@Origins You said that which is simply not true. That was my only point

It's the other way round

Yes, I've also experienced that. The visual distortions make it difficult sometimes. On the other hand, I sometimes get "visuals" with closed eyes, but it's way more pleasant - my head sometimes fills itself with white light. Haven't figured out what that might be but it's kinda nice.

@Leo Gura Thank you so, so much!! Now I can take you everywhere with me <3

No they're not. Babies are, unlike parasites, part of the mother, during pregnancy they are literally the same organism (and yes you could go "oh but aren't all organisms basically the same organism, where's the boundary? It's only concepts!" or whatever, but in that case you wouldn't have to declare anything as a parasite in the first place), whereas a parasite is a foreign organism which feeds off some other organism, either from within the body like worms or from the outside, like that fish in the picture Leo posted above. A baby is not a foreign organism. Even when he baby is born, it doesn't feed off the mother like a parasite, because parasitism is a one-way relationship, only the parasite gets something out of it. A baby is part of the mother's strategy, so it's more like symbiosis.

Is this actually a conceivable possibility? I think I read about him in the forum being a possible candidate but I really thought it was a joke? Because... if it actually were to come down to Kanye or Carlson as the final candidate for the republicans, you guys are properly f'd.

I pray for America and the rest of the world that Trump was just a glitch in the history of the US. “If history teaches us one thing, it is that history teaches us nothing.” - Peter Ustinov I sure hope he's wrong this time. Just imagine, maybe Trump was just a foretaste of what is yet to come?... Who knows, with a country as deeply split in so many regards as the US?

The best and most difficult) way is to try to unite both intention and interpretation. Have a good intention and try to get it across in consideration of the way your collocutor might interpret it.

What do you think reality is?

@Shin Wouldn't go that far tho

Lol And what do you have to say about Trump's interference in social media and the press? I'm not an American and (hence) not as conversant in American politics and laws, but as far as I've understood, the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to restrictions imposed by non-government actors/organizations (such as social media and the press), right? Which means that Trump can't interfere with social media censoring their users posts. He still does it tho. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/?fbclid=IwAR0x1LYue5Nrq45LPJ_-bIiAd4pTYGpjxm1h0SigOMMbz9i703kht61J5Ds How exactly is this aligned with freedom (of speech) and he constitution? He is a sneaky liar who has no interest other than himself.

Couldn't have said it better. @bejapuskas @Preety_India Totally agree. It can be incredibly frustrating to try to raise awareness, no matter the regard. Being confronted with so much ignorance can drive you mad if you're not carefully detached. Maybe that's an explanation. Edit: Ok hang on.. I think I might've been overlooking something. To say there's no compassion when calling someone dumb and in the same reply admitting that it's utterly frustrating to be confronted with so much ignorance, ignores the difficulty of this whole enterprise. @Leo Gura As long as you don't sail under false pretense I understand why you would call someone dumb. I get it now. At the same time I still hold the position that even if your intentions are good - calling someone dumb won't work in most cases, neither for you nor for them.

Yup. I'm starting to think about how to take this information into account when interpreting the replies on certain questions. On one hand it doesn't really matter how old a member is, on the other hand it does. Experience comes with age and nothing can substitute for that.

I'm curious about the average age of the users in this forum? The names of the voters won't be made public, so it's anonymous.

How would you've done it? Didn't want to take leaps of 10.