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It's unfortunate that most people influenced by the assumptions of Western philosophy first have to die, or have a near-death experience, or maybe fall into some sort of deep psychosis, to get a glimpse that consciousness is eternal and everything. And even then it's usually misinterpreted as some ...

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Most people that identify as Christian bare very little resemblance to their super hero. If you really nose around almost everyone engages in morally questionable behavior at some time. Agape is a myth that some people think they ought to believe in, in a Pascal's wager kind of way, though it often ...

People are buying that trump actually had relations with "Stormy Daniels"?

It's bread and circus.

Is the belief in substance, full stop, psychotic? No; nor does anyone claim that it is. In that case, to say an apple is an apple, and not a homogeneous clump of mass, is psychotic. Up until it's chewed and swallowed, it's an apple. After that, it's a clump of mass, then chyme, etc. It's quite sane...