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[โ€“] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In short: WEAR A LIFE JACKET.

As long as you do, it's as simple as swimming to the shore of whatever lake or other body of water you're kayaking in, while dragging the kayak behind you (they float even when turned upside-down). I probably would've drowned that one time I flipped if I wasn't wearing a life vest, but thankfully I was wearing one and it was no big deal.

Try it out near the shore of a calm lake at first, and you'll gain the skills and confidence necessary to have a great time ๐Ÿ‘

Edit: I should mention that flipping naturally dumps you out of the kayak as long as there's nothing in your way, so before you know it you're already surfaced next to it.

Just another item on Russia's Geneva Checklist...

[โ€“] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm doing ok, the weather is finally getting warm enough to kayak again, so I'm heading out on the lake tomorrow. That'll be a lot of fun, so I'm definitely looking forward to it. Otherwise I feel like I'm in a bit of a holding pattern rn, but nothing too unusual.

[โ€“] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, ok. I still think we might be able to measure such things in the future, but that's a much more defensible position. I don't see how that pertains to spiritualism tho, maybe there's a term that fits that better. Belief in qualia?

[โ€“] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I respectfully disagree. There's nothing inherently preventing a future technology that's able to objectively measure personal experiences, since we don't have any evidence to suggest that thoughts and experiences happen anywhere other than physically in the brain.

Thus-far unobserved spirits are an unnecessary addition to the neurochemical processes we know to occur in the brain and know to drive thinking. By Occam's Razor, an evidence-based worldview must reject these unnecessary assumptions.

Also, no, science is not "filling gaps in spirituality". The claim that there are spirits is the positive case, and bears the burden of proof.

[โ€“] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I would class those as psychological experiences, not spiritual ones. Just because we currently lack the tools to very precisely and objectively correlate brain activity with specific thoughts, that doesn't mean we can never quantify that at some future date.

This feels like a "spirituality-of-the-gaps". By this definition lightning was a purely spiritual experience until we figured out that it's electricity. Our lack of understanding on a subject doesn't make it magic, it's just something we don't understand yet, and that's ok. The laws of physics existed long before humans existed to describe them, and they'll continue to function long after we're extinct.

[โ€“] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

https://brands.town/@FoxNews

Shame they aren't as active anymore

I always love coming into the comments on posts like these to see all the lemmings going absolutely FERAL over the fact that a repost has one word that's censored lmao

[โ€“] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[โ€“] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 2 months ago

So real, I hate peeing where other people can see me, it's so uncomfortable. I always either wait for a stall or find another bathroom.

[โ€“] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Skong is real, the cake is a truth, beleivers win. It's a beautiful day.

 
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I hope this community becomes more active, I love illusions.

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