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Are you suggesting I should not have the right to express my thoughts about their thoughts?
It has been the single most incredible experience I've had (5 times over).
I feel like, primarily, the reason why our society isn't having children is because of a growing selfishness and entitlement; which happens to be the very thing that Rome was suffering from when their society was collapsing too.
No, I'm not rich and I'm not old. But I was brought up in a family that cherished loved ones and family. Love was agape, not eros.
Also, I think this point is salient:
> He pointed to the risk of selection bias: those who volunteer are likely to be “spiritually hungering for a mystical experience,”...
I would go further and suppose that any Christian elder or leader who volunteered to do this had already demonstrated their unsuitability to speak on the matter of psychedelics and God.
I'm a Christian and, oddly, don't suffer from the same existential dread as most admit any more, but I used to be consumed by it.
The simplest way I could say it is this: once you are shown what is behind the curtain and you place your trust in the one who's running the show then dread gives way to overwhelming peace. That's what happened for me and I guarantee that anyone who seeks the same true God will find the same peace.
Easy to dismiss, I know, but I guarantee it's true. Odd, eh?
Part of dealing with your existential dread is accepting the fact that you're right to be afraid, but not for the reasons you first think. This will be a bridge too far for some, but a discerning reading of this could be the catalyst some need: https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/edwards_jonathan/Sermon...
The idea of mechanical equality, where all are masters, is absurdism.
The great problem with this approach is that there are very many groups happy to see discussion of divers topics quashed and they're already familiar with how to get it done on platforms like Twitter.
They're much more business-goal minded now. In this instance, making their users dog food their new shiny enterprise play.
Admittedly, I've steered clear of NVIDIA products which may have helped.
A psychological game of mutually assured destruction.
I mean, obviously generated images can't be used as proof in the court of law, but this feels like we're slipping into crummy USA show territory.
Call me a fool, but I'm also loving Gnome 40+ and GTK 4.6+, especially with libadwaita.
There was a lot of pre-reformation work that went on before it culminated in the 95 theses, but yeah, that was one of those watershed moments.
One has to ask what the purpose of keeping such a list is. When considering that, I don't see many arguments with much weight to them.