PunkMonk
@PunkMonk@lemmygrad.ml
For your experience to be a happy one, the experience is not primarily reliant on what is being experienced being something which brings happiness to you, it is the you, which is experiencing, that needs to be of happiness.
So, although the outer world affects the inner being and a better world will improve the inner experience for many and is therefore a just cause, the search for a life of personal happiness is primarily about the situation within you and not the situation around you. - PunkMonk
- Comment on Trans children ‘will lose any hope of happiness’ under school gender guidance 3 days ago:
Where we were at as a country 15 years ago when it came to homophobia is approximatelynwhere we are at today with transphobia in my opinion. It is far too normalised, I’ll hear people joke about a friend of a friend of a friend being a ‘they/them thing’ same way I would hear about someone being a ‘bender’ back when I was still in primary school.
Like this person you know nothing about has decided to come out as non-binary, one of the bravest and hardest decisions in their fucking life, and here you are laughing at them you pathetic, ignorant, gossiping man-child.
- Comment on Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney 5 days ago:
9.) Ask whether the hypothesis, at least in principle, can be falsified. Non-falsifiable and untestable hypotheses cannot be checked out, and hence those ideas are incapable of disproof.
Number 9 encapsulates religious debate well. I have come across these unprovable ‘facts’ a few times when explaining what God is or what the self really is or what our purpose is e.t.c.
I could be considered religious depending on your definition, I have no issue with other people having a personal religious belief, just please be honest with that it is a belief and using the above quoted argument to prove it as true is not reasonable nor concrete evidence.
If you have experience something which proved that religion as real to you, then good for you, I think I might have had something like that, just be fair to others about that they have no idea what you happened to experience and be fair to yourself that the brain is not a perfect witness.