Hope one day we will reach real democracy

Are you sure you hope to reach real democracy? Because in a real democracy, you don’t just sit on your ass hoping for things to change.

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Edit: for those unaware of how brutal Saudi Arabia is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi#Assassination

I prefer asking online

https://online.utpb.edu/about-us/articles/communication/how-much-of-communication-is-nonverbal/

Language is limited in its expressive ability, especially when it comes to non-physical concepts like the mind. By further limiting yourself to only written language, you are severely hampering your ability to understand Buddhism. You need to speak to a Buddhist teacher in person.

What do you want me to talk to a Buddhist teacher about?

I don’t want you to talk to a Buddhist teacher. I’m making a suggestion for your benefit, not for mine.

What misunderstanding do I have?

Buddhism by the looks of it.

I’d suggest speaking to a Buddhist teacher in person. From your comment I get the distinct feeling that you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the dharma.

it was not about rejecting climate change

“Yes, we know the world’s burning, we just would rather avoid doing anything about it.”

What opportunity could people have that would give rise to a Venus-Project-type utopia?

Doing what exactly?

If you see -13 on a thoughtful post you worked hard on, it makes you feel bad.

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You’re also jumping to conclusions.

Nah mate, they were given British documents

You’re jumping to conclusions.

Wrong community. This community is about Linux, not Windows.

return to the feudal age

Ummm… we never left.

Parfitt said she hoped “common sense would prevail”

Naive

Apart from that, yes

Remember when the whole point of leaving Reddit was escaping heavy-handed moderation and echo chambers?

No, that is not something I remember.

But where are they coming from and going to if matter and energy cannot be destroyed?

From nothing. No new energy is created because virtual particles are always created in a way that does not disturb the total energy of the universe. For example, one particle and one anti-particle. It can’t be any other way.

They don’t blip out of existence independently, they always annihilate each other. If you have a virtual particle/anti-particle pair, they will come into existence, exist separately for some time, possibly interacting with other, real particles, but in the end there will be some annihilation which ends the interaction and maintains the energy of the universe (no energy is created or destroyed).

Virtual particles never come into existence alone.

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