Misterio

I was about to open this thread weeks ago but there wasn't so much certainty about it, but now it seems that this interstellar object is not a comet nor an asteroid, and it's heading towards our solar system.

I've said many times in DART that we're in crucial moments because there will be many revelations about our origins (the apocalypse).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlPd0Ffa804&t=402s

Do you think the 3I/Atlas is an alien tech? Many scientists think so.

We'll find out in December or maybe before when the object passes close to Mars.

But it sounds like he wants to make a philosophical point about Exodus 3, so it works in either forum.

Something tells me that it's going to be a mormon interpretation which has nothing to do with philosophy. But let's see what the senior poster has to say.

If this is what I think it is, you should have put it in the Religion forum.

Well, every typography is an art form as @Leaning says. So, yes, it's art. The fact that it's part of a language doesn't make it less of an art.

In fact, art is a way to communicate as music, literature, cinema, painting, sculpture, and so on.

they have to figure out what the actual question is that 42 is the answer to.

Maybe the question is about the best age to settle down. Lol.

I love her more today than on day one,...

Congratulations. There are few people that can brag about it. It reminds of that memorable scene in Titanic where an elderly couple are lying in their bed embracing together while the ship sinks. Most elderly couples are fighting one another.

If you see a woman that looks good and is 28, then think about what she will be in 20 years. If you would reject her when she's older by 20 years, then don't date her now.

There is a very old advice that says that if you want to know how a woman will look in 20 years, you just have to see her mother. There are women that age well.

Did you not get the Hitchhiker's reference?

No. Explain, please. I'm not used to the American stuff.

Well, maybe you can give some insights about a relationship, taking advantage of your ultra very long experience.

I think sex is non negotiable in a relationship. If you don't like your partner, physically, and don't get you aroused, then it's a waste of time. Don't you think so?

I like sex but I also like to share my time with a person. If there is no sex, it's just like having a good friend which is not the point because we all have friends around all the time.

28 is a good age for a woman, it's still appetizing. I guess if she gets older she will get less attractive but at least I would be so used to her that I wouldn't care. How did you do with that detail? How was the sex with your wife along the way?

I mean the woman that I'm going to date should be enough beautiful to make me have a hard lasting erection, like a red hot iron.

Who says that? You?

Come on, man. You may like young girls too.

Besides, a 28 yo woman is already mature so I am not going to have any problem to get along with a woman of that age.

I'm getting old and I feel like I need to settle down with a partner. I used to be a fkboy all my life, more or less like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump together, which means I used to date girls just for a one-night-stand and also used to be with a sht lot of escorts, much more the last because it's less risky in terms of health. So, now I want to hang up gloves and date a woman to have a long-term relationship because I think all this fun have to finish sooner or later.

I was thinking about dating a woman the same age as me (I am 42) but to be honest I don't like what there is in the "love market". Most of them are disgusting. I have the Leonardo di Caprio syndrome, I like young women so much, the problem is that I'm not as handsome and rich as Leo, I'm average. So, surfing a bit on the internet, I came across a cool dating rule called "half your age plus 7" which only applies to men because only men can date young women, it's a natural behavior. According to this rule, the youngest woman that I can date should be 28 (42/2 + 7). This rule gurantees that I'm going to have a good relationship with any girl that is at least 28. 28 is close to the MILF zone, but I think it's enough to get bricked.

Do you think this rule works?

Is your post by any chance an advice for the Americans of this forum to be measured in their spending?

Japan is mostly atheist and its most depressed country on Earth by far.

You've got to check out the data FLRW provided. Japan is very far from being a depressed country. Idem South Korea.

Maybe you're confusing it with suicide rates which is a bit high in Japan. Maybe it's easier for an atheist to take his own life than a religious person who doesn't do it because he thinks papa God can get mad at him.

Pure willful nonsense.

You'll get it sooner or later.

I used to love dogs and I still like spending time with them if they’re well behaved but I f****** hate modern dog culture. The furbaby thing thing is extremely real and it’s caused dog behavior to get totally out of control. Idk I mean I am a softy with my dog so I’m probably part of the problem too. But as a kid I really do not remember stuff like the dogs stealing food from people, or the dogs demanding attention to the point that they bark so much that the people struggle to talk. Or the dog having to come along on a social visit at all. Behaviors I see ALL THE TIME now to the point that I just don’t even want to be around them.

There’s also been an increase in pit bull and pit mixes which living in a nice suburban area I honestly view as the greatest danger to my kids because people who are clearly not prepared to handle those dogs adopt them all the time. I’ve personally been chased away from the local park by a snarling pitbull that got loose, growling at me and baring its teeth for the crime of walking. No collar of course and no owner in site. I’m not really a gun person but I’ve seriously considered carrying solely because I think these disgusting animals are a legitimate threat and they’re only increasing in number

This guy here really knows what I'm talking about. Thank you, man.

The best way I found to scare off fkn dogs is to pretend you're picking a stone from the ground and throw it at them. I did it with the dog that bit me ad tried to bite me again along with the other dogs that were with him. It worked nicely. Though, I don't kwow how it would be with violent dog races like pitbull and rodweiler. I heard a wooden stick is very good to defend yourself from these kind of dogs but in my case it's not necessary since I don't live in a place where people have that kind of dogs. In urban areas people have small and medium dogs.

As it stands now, the AI is lifeless, but consciousness is a tough concept that we can't even understand.

Maybe in the future the AI can gain consciousness but with our help. There are things that we have never seen before like for example aliens controlling their spacecraft with the mind, as if the craft were part of the them, the object is alive and follow orders of the alien master.

It reminds me of a Jap anime called "Knights of the Zodiac", where the main characters had armors that are alive and are one with the people who belong to. It's like these cartoons were preparing many generations for a new way of life. Ironically, this cartoon had many references to Eastern beliefs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0LT_0b9878

Aren't MAGA's dirty, smelly, annoying, dependent, noisy, dangerous (even more in a herd)?

You definetly inherited the IQ of uncle Albert.

That still doesn't justify human existence. Humans are no different than a parasite or a virus. Those wipe out more life than anything else.

The animals exist because of the human beings, and the human beings exist because of the aliens, and so on.

Let me see if I understood correctly. Mormons say there is just one life but at the same time they're convinced there's an eternal process of learning to become perfects as "God".

I've got to say mormon doctrines are funnier than conventional Chrsitianity. At least, you acknowledge there is a natural learning process to become "Gods", though the only-one-life belief doesn't square with the eternal progression. You need reincarnation to make it square.

As to the Tower of Babel, it's related to Atlantis, a pre-diluvian civilization that was more advanced than ours. They even managed to make interplanetary travels but the planet was reseted for some reason. These people had psychic abilities, their communication was telepathic, meaning it was a universal language, or a cosmic language since aliens also use telepathy. Aliens cut it off from our DNA, that's why our world has multiple languages.

Being higher on the food chain doesn't justify your existence other than to eat everything below you. Humans serve no logical reason for existing anymore than a dog.

I agree with you about treating all animals well but in the end we have the last decision in this planet, for better or worse.

Well, let's say that in the West, Karma has a more simplistic definition, but I wasn't that wrong when I said Christians are believing more in reincarnation.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2015/10/21/25-percent-us-christians-believe-reincarnation-whats-wrong-picture/

In 2015, 25% of American Christians believed in reincarnation. I guess now the number is higher and in crescendo. People are paying more attention to the several solid cases of reincarnation and also to the scientific research about it that points to its existence.

We're witnessing the appearance of a new religion.

That is, I think, the lesson from the Tower of Babel: get along in spite of differences.

I'm sorry but I can't help it.

The theory of contactees about the Tower of Babel is that the aliens (the Gods) were afraid of human biengs becoming as powerful as them, so they decided to turn off a gene that corresponds to the faculty of telepathy, and other genes related to psychic abilities. If human beings can communicate using telepathy, it's not necessary to have an oral language.

Well, I don't know who your post is intended for but it would be good if you mention with names who are these people that "mock" at religions.

As far as I'm concerned, it's quite imposible to refrain from being sarcastic with religions. There are so many contradictions and nonsense that I just can't.

I'll try to mark my sarcastic posts as offensive if you wish but so far I didn't pretend to be sarcastic in the religion forum.

I explain what is the problem of separating karma from reincarnation.

Karma is supposedly the reaction to an action. So if you do something bad the karma will make sure that you pay for that bad action. So, all the fvckers that exist in this world should pay in this life for the bad they did to others, which is honestly "wishful thinking". I met people that did a lot of terrible things and died getting away with it.

Here is where the reincarnation comes to our assistance. Reincarnation allows not only to do justice by means of karma but also teach the soul what it feels to be the victim. By doing so, the soul learns to have empathy and then evolves. For this to work, the soul needs a lot of reincarnations.

But, reincarnation is not a good explanation why the population of Earth keeps increasing. It should be relatively stable since it is repetitive. We do not reincarnate to separate individuals.

This is if you think the Earth is the only planet with life in this universe, which is not true.

This universe is plenty of planets like ours with people in the same level of evolution. So, technically, the soul can experience different lives in different planets, depending on the availability. For instance (according to fkn aliens), Jesus and Maria' souls came from a more evolved planet, they didn't need to reincarnate because they were already evolved, but came over anyway as voluntaries to help out. Another instance, some aliens that are watching over and helping us are reincarnations of the apostles of Jesus, aka the Christ.

Karma and reincarnation are associated by definition, unless Christians are borrowing the word and making their own concept as @Polytheistwitch states, which is ok to me.

What I don't understand is why Christians use the word karma if they already have their own concept of justice, which is to send all the non-believers and sinners to burn in hell.

So apart from the minority who choose to be Christian obsessives, for others who were unknowingly baptised as Christian, Christianity is just an element of their background noise and information clatter. Such noise and clatter has infinitely variable possibilities.

Yes, it's good to see people using their gray matter. There are Christian zealots that are incapable of questioning what it's written in the bible. I mean, there are biblical things that are undefendable, but these people stubbornly insist on making up new interpratations to sustain the lies they believe in.

When you eat those bio yoghurts to improve your gut microbiome, all that good bacteria is cultured from shit.

What are you talking about, Victor? You've got to denounce that practice, it's unhealthy.

I don't know about you but I see more Christians using language that doesn't correspond to Christianity. Karma is perhaps the word that they use the most. Not sure if they fully understand what karma is but I perceive they use it as a way to hope justice. For instance, if someone does bad to another one, Christians would say this person will receive karma anytime soon as trying to give some hope to the victim, meaning that the perpatrator will very likely suffer the same pain he produced. At least this is a better way of doing justice than being burnt in hell.

Nevertheless, karma is associated to reincarnation, so if Christians believe in karma, they necessarily need to believe in reincarnation. As you might know, reincarnation is when the soul is reborn in a new body, so according to this belief we experience many lives in order to learn and evolve. Karma is then the mechanism that makes souls understand what it feels to do certains things to people. So, for instance, if a soul insists on mistreating people, he will reincarnate in a body that will experience the same mistreatment in order to have empathy for the other.

And so it seems. More Christians are getting attracted to the concept of reincarnation, meaning that they still believe in Jesus and his message, but incorporate other concepts related to eastern beliefs. So, I don't know what it's going on here, is it a kind of syncretism that leads us to a new religion or is christianity changing? I see it looks more like the new age, but I don't know. What do you think?