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Cake day: 15. kesäkuuta 2023
  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your faith/religion?English
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    3 kuukautta sitten

    Atheist.

    As far as I see, there are 2 basic possible states for being(s) with regards to divinity: either they’re omnipotent or they’re not omnipotent. (Partial omnipotence may perhaps be great power, but it is still non-omnipotence by definition.)

    The Stone Paradox demonstrates that full omnipotence cannot happen; and any being, however powerful, that does not have full omnipotence is inherently no different than me or you and thus has no right to be considered a god.

    and if you switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?

    Well, I used to be a Christian, but only by virtue of being raised as one. As I grew older, I grew out of Christianity. It makes no sense to me from the perspective of the scientific method or Occam’s Razor. Also, my very traditional Christian family did not exactly live up to the Christ-like ideals of love and tolerance, so that definitely put me off it, I can tell you that much.

    As I got older, I tried other religions: Islam, Zen Buddhism, Earth paganism, various other forms of paganism. They were excellent experiences that taught me the value of different faiths but they were, in the end, not for me. I like the rock that the scientific method provides, and I like how it teaches and encourages critical thinking ability. With science, I don’t need to take some reverend’s word for it that a magical sky-daddy is watching me masturbate while my great-great-grandmother judges me from past the celestial gates. I can be confident to know that it’s far more likely they’re dead in the ground, disintegrating back into the earth from whence they came.

  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does tea taste different when I drink it outside?English
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    3 kuukautta sitten

    To be fair, although admittedly a nitpick, I will say I never said that the caffeine dehydrated you, just that the teas and tisanes do, the latter of which may or may not have caffeine.

    That being said, I looked it up and yeah you’re right. The evidence does seem to demonstrate that the diuretic effect of the caffeine in teas not substantial enough to really affect hydration levels.

    However, it does lead me to wonder why my body seems to dehydrate if I drink more 2 cups of tea in a day. Like, it doesn’t cause me to pee more (at least not more than an equivalent amount of straight water would cause me to pee); my body just dries out.