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Acknowledge them as they pass, dismiss them kindly. Wash rinse repeat until your mind is quiet. And remember to have fun! 💚

@Alwin Alcott Oh wow, thanks for saying that. I'd been wanting to correct my dead name for sixteen years, eight of them quite earnestly. I'm really glad a path forward has been provided.

Cosmic Chroma at your service. I'm but a neophyte truth seeker, still struggling even with basic virtues like humility. I've heard it said that identifying with one's thoughtstreams is attachment to duality and misery. They may be on to something, there.

Yeah, owning land on SecondLife was a little less fun when it involved being economically exploited. I don't know, I just recall some bitterness at the time, like our commonwealth had just been privatized by a newly-forged class of oligarchs.

The fabric is reality itself, the evidence is the natural world of which we are a part, just tiny moving pieces of the cosmos, exploring or singing the experience of material existence. How can two pieces of yourself not still be equally 'of you' just because their local perspectives are limited?

The above message gets Jeffrey Dahmer's stamp of approval. 🍽️

Straw man fallacy, much? You're the first person here to suggest an edict from the cosmos was somehow involved. Did "God" call you up and tell you this, too? I thought we already established that morality and commandments and edicts chiselled on stone are the antithesis of Universal Human Rights, but here you go trying to conflate the two!

Well, you're absolutely at liberty to reach that conclusion and argue against the existence of your Universal Human Rights. But regardless of whether or not you believe in them, they are nevertheless real. You just cited some monotheistic religious cults, but they all stem from the same Roman Catholic Empire, itself founded upon an indefensible act of betrayal against the ancients and imperious tyranny against spiritual plurality. Until they renounce the Edict of Thessalonica, and institutionalized misogyny, their religious institutions cannot speak credibly nor be cited on matters pertaining to human rights, not with that looming over them still. The snark is strong in you, but it is not an adequate response to the merits.

Okay, so I'll put you in the "does not believe in Universal Human Rights" camp. That puts you in such lovely company, good luck with that.

It's one of humanity's oldest pathologies, cultivated by a succession of cults that learned they could benefit from its effects and then proceeded to exploit humanity with this system again and again, and now once more they make their earnest push to enslave and debase everything with breathtaking cognitive dissonance and confusion of tongues/minds at a scale the western world has not witnessed recently.

The evidence surrounds you, envelops you. It is the fabric of reality itself. Much has been written about these rights, which are abstract rather than mere material measurable things. You can learn more about natural rights and the essential Enlightenment Age philosophy upon which liberal democracy and the west are well-founded over there on wikipedia and elsewhere.

No; living in liberty and equality are a natural state of being, not an imposed moral framework. It's a description, not the ten commandments.

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We are all merely thoughtforms, always.

totally a vent-- i think a pretty cool way to use technology would be to stop the evitable spread of this field-beast-virus through a program of testing and quarantine. Although inconvenient, after six weeks of containment and the fire would burn itself out and life could simply resume after the trials and so forth for the abdication and obstruction of duty that perpetuated this atrocity long after the alarm had been diligently raised by the WHO.

To begin to answer this question, the first you must undertake is to declare what it is that you are standing independent of, and then write a constitution that specifically addresses the maladies of the previous government. You'd better have a good justice system, because these sorts of revolutions are always a reaction to mass inequity and injustice. And then notice the cyclical nature of human history, how the old revolutions decayed into mazes of hypocrisy, echo chambers of sophistry. This time you're going to do better. This time you're going to write the perfect constitution, the one that cannot be subverted to illiberality.

This is not freedom. We are not free.

In Secondlife, some even imagine living without arbitrary moral frameworks in a free and equitable spiritual culture, one with room for plurality.

You *cannot* generalize three-hundred million individuals, even if literally millions among them are, regrettably, insane and perpetuating mass atrocity upon themselves and everyone around them, while everyone looks the other way and lets the rape of liberal democracy continue. See also: #Brexit.

Wrongful defamation on Second Life can be a serious problem when and where it may occur. People should resolve their differences, or part ways amicably, but sometimes people give in to baser instincts. Hopefully the damages to you are limited, and it's not something life-altering.

Can't really argue with your conclusion.

I can't get this out of my head this week: Kero Kero Bonito - Cinema (2018):