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orangeboats , 22 days ago

The reason why English sounds so different from its relatives like Dutch and German.

orangeboats , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

You see, shit like this is why I think some of the Eastern philosophers like Xunzi hit the mark on what "God" is: God is not a sentient being, God does not have a conscious mind like we do, God simply is.

Of course, those people didn't call this higher being the God, they called it "Heaven", but I think it's really referring to the natural flow of the world, something that is not controlled by us. Maybe the closest equivalent to this concept in the non-Eastern world is "Luck" -- people rarely assign "being lucky" to the actions of <insert deity here>, it simply happens by the flow of this world, it is not the action of an all-knowing, all-powerful deity. But like I said, it's merely the closest approximation of the Heaven concept I can think of.

The side effect coming out of this revelation is that, you can't blame the Heaven for your own misfortunes. The Heaven is not a sentient being after all!

orangeboats , 1 month ago

It is obviously talking about "the continent Europe, excluding Russia". What is there to be confused about?

orangeboats , 1 month ago

But personal files are... personal?

Research journals are published. Public.

orangeboats , 1 month ago

I've noticed that many Reddit users with the username format Word_Word_Number (for example Absolute_Bot_1230) are almost guaranteed to either be a bot or extremely inflammatory -- it's like everything they post is meant to generate controversies.

orangeboats , 1 month ago

r/worldnews is just a propaganda sub disguised as a hub for world news.

orangeboats , 2 months ago

Society in general encourages and rewards those who speak more, even if the things they speak have zero contribution or are absolute nonsense.