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You’re projecting

Nonsense

Not like what, exactly? Science is nothing but varying levels of confidence and uncertainty based on varying weights of evidence. It's always provisional at best.

Maybe. All depends on the definitions you’re choosing for those words in your sentence.

Even the most precise logic rooted in invalid premises still leads one to wrong conclusions. Logic is necessary, but not sufficient for correctness.

Good Omens was fun. Was glad they didn’t completely ruin the book. Was pretty stoked when I discovered there were a bunch of Jeopardy episodes on Netflix so watched them all. My wife and I are right now “trying on” Another Life with Katee Sackhoff from Battlestar right now. A bit slow and predictable with just a touch of forced drama, but overall a nice show thus far to end the evening after we get the kids to sleep.

My post equally doesn’t apply to fruit flies or cactus or most forms of life. While whimsical as a commentary on modern times and human politics, it’s really quite crap when applied to the overall thread topic and I’d like to retract it.

The purpose of life is to choose, and the choice itself is simple. Choose kindness or Choose blindness Your purpose is to choose.

Your logic is flawed. Saying time is required for change should not be conflated with "time drives evolution." Selection drives evolution, not time. Time is merely prerequisite.

Bananas execute purple. See? I can post meaningless word salad, too. Evolution as a process requires progress through time, otherwise lifeforms would remain static (no time = no change), but this is an otherwise completely useless statement that provides no insight or explanatory power.

Being more blunt than Zap above, this myth was debunked long ago. The technical term for what you just shared is “nonsensical bullshit.” Are you familiar with the concept of a coincidence? Yes, it feels synchronistic, I agree, but the technical term here is “confirmation bias.” Said another way, explain how you account for the millions of times you think of others and nothing whatsoever happens. You simply don’t remember those. They’re less salient. You ignore them completely in your analysis Perhaps the phenomenon you describe truly exists, but for now the intelligent position is to assume it does not. You’re making an extraordinary claim and simply failing to offer extraordinary evidence that appropriately scales in support of it. I’m interested in your idea and welcome the aforementioned extraordinary evidence to convince me it’s worth accepting as valid.

They’re jumping ship from Fox and have signed with Hulu for future seasons

I kinda wanna eat it

A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St Peter at the pearly gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, “What are those clocks?” St Peter answered, “Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie, the hands on your clock will move.” “Oh,” said the man. “Whose clock is that?” “That’s Mother Theresa’s. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie.” “Incredible!” said the man. St Peter continued, pointed to another and said, “That’s Abraham Lincoln’s clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life.” “Where’s Trumps clock?” “His clock is in Jesus’ office. He’s using it as a ceiling fan.”

Psithurism

Let's say you fill a sink with water. You place a toy boat into the water and it floats on top. What happens when you remove the drain plug and the water begins to flow out? Does the boat immediately fall down the drain, or does it follow the whirlpool path and circle around the drain for a while until it finally gets close enough to drop down. The waste into a star (whether our sun or one that's collapsed into a BH) follows roughly the same pattern. It WILL eventually fall in, but it will first orbit for a really long time before it does. This is only a problem if you want it to fall in immediately like an arrow driving itself into a target.

LOL! I almost spit coffee out my nose. +1

I anticipate this answer feeling deeply unsatisfying, but in some cases yes they are and in other cases no they’re not. It will vary from one person to the next. Personally, I find solipsism absurd, and I’m no absurdist.

Nobody is advocating ostracizing victims. Quite the opposite. They need love and kindness. Who are you responding to?

All of these things are true. They remain true even while acknowledging the validity of Phi’s point I’d be cautious referring to any of them as meaningless. While the causes potentially differ, the impact on one’s life can be extremely meaningful regardless of cause. It's not the depression that’s meaningless, but meaningless is often how the depressed person views existence itself.

Are you familiar with social learning theory, or even the copycat effect?

Seriously?

Who's trying to assign fault? Contagion is not to be conflated with fault.

The confusion seems to be with people who don't recognize contagion as a real thing. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/30/718529255/teen-suicide-spiked-after-debut-of-netflixs-13-reasons-why-report-says This is a valid approach, and is not mutually exclusive with the idea of contagion.

I won't say I understand, but I do get it. This is why I acknowledged in my post a recognition that your situation is harder than that of many people. I was letting you know that my points applied more to a median audience, and that outliers always exist and maybe don't fit so neatly into what I was saying. Regardless, my warmest thoughts and best wishes are with you.