Thats crazy because rich people keep telling me low tax on them funds growth and helps everyone.

I mean, why would rich people lie?

Nice one, what you did there was remove the idea of death from a future abstraction that could happen at any second and moved it into the present moment which made you aware of the lack of imminent present danger, calming your anxiety.

It's kind of a rough and ready but, respectable go at unguided Zen. Mindfulness is just the parts of Zen that are backed by imperial evidence, repackaged for a western audience.

We don't have the right word for it in English. It's not a religion and it's not really a philosophy either, in the way we mean it here. It's not a modle to understand the world or a moral framework to be put to the test etc. It's by far the closest word though.

It's kind of a way of trying to experience the life, be more present and more spontaneous. The Spiritual stuff isn't meant to be taken even slightly literally but, as representations of things.

I think you might find even more peace adding in some of that.

The real winning is the love we have for each other and the moments we share together.

Thanks Jesus!

The old internet was like the wild west. Who'd have thought it would meet a similar fate to it too?

Say goodbye to the old school, ergh, boring - I hate school!

Say HELLO to the patriot Mcschool of dreams, brought to you in association with Coca-Cola - to ensure your patriot Mcschool dreams have Real magic - providing children with the very best school-like experience and for prices lower than you'd expect.

There's only one superpower now.

How else am I supposed to get rid of the agar huh?

Sales tax as well as VAT are also, by design, regressive taxes.

We turned the planet into a human labour farm.

That's the same thing though.

The phrase is more of an indication of a lack of hostility on their part. Even something neutral like "what country is that" could come across as a bit confrontational, in English. It would almost be like asking the question with an assumption that you can't answer because it wasn't correct when clearly it is and they would just like to find out more.

Theres a fair amount of performative politeness you have to go through to take the edges off of English. It's not just fake-ness, as it can sometimes come across to non-native speakers. As I'm sure you know already, English is the a very information efficient amalgamation of 3 different languages. For example, some people find poetry and literature far more rich and descriptive in other languages. Due to it being particularly efficient at information exchange, it can also come across very blunt too.

Just thought you deserved a proper answer, with context, as you were kind enough to give one yourself.

Always have done. They just take time and, not that you've said otherwise, they're not a magic bullet.

I'm an atheist who doesn't beleive in god and, also, a christian.

Don't worry, as the Internet is forever, you've already criticised dear leader. We just have to hope they don't get into power.

I mean, you might as well call it the Walmart expansion model

I feel like 37 glasses of water should technically count as drowning

And they say you guys are humourless!

I wasn't being too serious tbh. However, as we're here, I feel like fairytales might have been around a little bit longer than nazis.

You should read about how the Franks "christianised" German saxons and then cross reference that with the time period those kinds of fairytales come from, as we're swapping reading ideas. It's just a guess on my part of course.

Apologies for interrupting your work.

There's no paradox. Although, Karl Popper's words are as good as any.

My point is, no one said "the left have to tolerate everything." In fact, not tolerating capitalism is the defining feature of all left leaning ideologies. More so, where you are on the scale of leftism is based almost entirely on the extent to which you won't tolerate capitalism. Rhetorically, for what possible reason would the left ever have to tolerate nazis, in the first place? Who said they did? Where are they? Of course, no one said they did.

I found it's best to, rightly, just reject the false premise of it being a paradox out of hand. The type who use it know its BS too.

Burned alive for using the wrong sewing technique / burned alive for worshiping the wrong god or maybe the "right" God but, in the wrong way, who knows?

Either way, somehow, someway, the idea of being burned alive for not following rules seems to be almost literally burned deep into the Germanic saxon psyche.

They're not a humourless people. They're just terrified someone might catch them not working or following the rules and laughing isn't working.

Conservatives want you to carry on working for them. Talkies just want to change who you work for. Both can get fucked.

Yup, I took a large venti in your bathroom