Rust Cohle

Plain leaf is fine. Synthetic was created from demand because of bans and restrictions. New bans and restrictions create new analogs. The government can’t keep up. The synthetic stuff is probably fine too. A large percentage of our senior population takes opiates every day. There’s just some people who will do anything to get high, including sniff gasoline.

Mormonism has real named witnesses to their miracles, real martyrs, no one would die for a lie. Unprecedented growth and the highest life satisfaction that could only be if their beliefs were true.

The sheer magnitude of influence upon us is undeniable. There are dozens of major unexposed influences affecting us in simple task like what we will eat for dinner, not even considering genetic and epigenetic phenomena. Take an alcoholic who is now sober for example, it seems they exercise their free will to do so, or maybe they’re just the type of person that can make it happpen.

Maybe, just maybe there is a narrow spectrum of Will that we can exercise, but even then that spectrum is probably predetermined, and some people have more agency than others. Because here’s the thing I can influence you and you can influence me, but can I influence myself. The answer is likely, yes, and that ability is likely predetermined.

What most people care about is that their influences are uniquely theirs and something they can identify with. People are OK with that.

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Our deaths are pre determined

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It would follow our lives are as well?

It’s fascinating how religious traditions grow in dialogue with their historical context. By the time Christianity emerges, Judaism had already evolved through Persian and Hellenistic influence. The idea that any tradition is culturally isolated doesn’t really match history.

One’s beliefs does not determine their dispositions or how they treat people. You could find this spectrum in any belief system. For most people, a belief system is shallow, or an identity marker to defend.

One of the biggest arguments against Christianity is that Christian are scripturally said to be more fruitful, and on average they are not more than anyone else, and by their own definition.

CITY PORK!!

The movie is insufferable, not one likable character, and so depressing.

2 billion find refuge in Islam, 1.2 billion in Hinduism, half a billion in Buddhism

People are not their emotions. Someone can feel happiness, but are not happy in themselves. In the negative scenario people adopt feelings of sadness as identities, I am sad, I am depressed, and can create depressive episodes.