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https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-change-negative-thinking-3024843 Identify Your Negative Thoughts As you observe your thoughts, work on identifying and labeling cognitive distortions and negativity. For example, if you tend to view yourself as a complete success or failure in every...

I forget that we're an international forum sometimes. The satire is kind of hard to understand if you don't have a good understanding of American civic history.

https://www.theonion.com/most-terrifying-ways-the-deep-state-is-trying-to-destro-1851287374

They used to burn people at the stake for practicing necromancy.

Well, if it survives, or that you make a successful religion out of it ;)

I think the phrase "being conscious" and "consciousness" are different things though. Consciousness, is more about the experience of reality. You still experience reality when you sleep, in that your consciousness rests.

I think 'souls' is a pretty loaded term. From a shared secular standpoint 'consciousness' probably is a better term to encompass the meaning that you're aiming for. The question could be phrased like "does the consciousness exist? and what is the justification of its existence, or its...

If you ever get to take classes on ecological conservation or enviornmental studies, you'll learn that disrupting the ecosystem in a major way harms not only that region, but can have effects on surrounding systems as well. Land reclamation projects are costly, and not only are they costly, if...

Oh it's inspired by Johnanath Haidt. A bit misleading but that's okay. It's a bit of a western-centric test but that's okay.

This is actually the subject of my study. Korea has it the worst right now, so there's a sense of urgency for those who think about the problem. The unique dynamic that South Korea faces is North Korea though. If we do not raise our birthrate, our defense minimum posture becomes suspect. North...

Intelligence isn't having answers to things, it's being able to give back and forth. If you don't know, you don't know and that's perfectly fine. No one dies knowing everything in life. What's better, having one single good friend or all the knowledge in the world, but you live on a deserted...

What do you think death is? Even if there is an afterlife, what good does intelligence have there?

It doesn't mean much to be very intelligent because in the end, you die. :doh:

Right, the US helped Japan get back on its feet and was made into an economic bulwalk against the Soviets. I wonder if you know about the Plaza Accords, this is the piece of legislative treaty that stifled Japan's economic rise and sent them into the Lost Decade. This was all orcestrated by the...

Right, I think from the perspective from Europe, they would see America as their cultural lesser, because of the difference in the depth of history. From Japan however, Japan sees America as a benevolent conquerer. America, (FDR and MacArthur), never punished Emperor Hirohito for allowing his...