> NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE
Anyone care to share where the idea of your victims in this life become slaves in the next came from? I'm curious about that and I remember that idea was also shared by one US killer that massacred at an elementary school.
Its an ancient tribal myth, that enemiess you slay in this life, become your slaves in the afterlife? I can remember it being part of norse mythology in modern culture?
Thanks for the info. I'm a little confused why the killers would think their victims happen to be their enemies for the relationship towards norse mythology to be true? I could see the connection if there was a personal relationship between the killer and the victim, but not when the killers are targeting random strangers they know nothing about personally.
I think it helps to consider that the killer is likely insane and therefore not applying the amount of logic you're giving it.
I've also read some theories about Zodiac in particular that he might not have genuinely believed in that storyline either, that he was just taunting the public. Whether he believed it or not I guess we cannot know, but I would still say based on his actions he wasn't the most reasonable person on the planet.
I'm sure "random strangers they know nothing about personally" made up a large portion of the Vikings enemies.
I'd also wager that the battlefield scenario that the Viking belief was developed around would simply divide everyone into "allies" and "enemies." So a killer who sees himself as following that logic would apply the same black and white logic, their victims being enemies in some personal war.
I think your opinion is valid to have. Mistakes are made that nobody would ever want to suffer from and regardless if the victims gain financial freedom from the mistakes (that rarely happens).
Realistically, I don't believe Judges will ever face real consequences and what's more probable is the system adapting towards lesser punishing modals. Also providing the ability to expunge records completely and universal income for criminals unable to obtain a job after their release. The punishment for a crime shouldn't be unemployment/homelessness for life.
There are other professions such as in the medical field that can really damage a persons life as well. Not everyone has the money to sue or even win a malpractice case and lawyers won't always take a victim's case as pro bono. Persons severely wronged, deeply need a way to feel some remedy and or we will continue to see vengeance outbursts. Especially from persons that see others being remedied for what they believe was much lesser in comparison to what happened in their own situation and where they constantly think the only reason they're not obtaining a remedy is from grossly unfairer situations they're in because of the wrong that happened in the past.
I think the foregoing is similar to why there are so many school shooters in USA. People need a remedy from being wronged and sadly all we have is a remedy system for the fairly well off. That also caters once in a while to someone that isn't so well off.
Eternal recurrence is a concept supposedly found in ancient Egypt and where one can understand all the causes & effects that made our life can theoretically repeat for infinity. The bible story about Adam & Eve is somewhat significant to highlight the cause of eating the forbidden fruit resulting in the effect of original sin but fails to highlight God being the cause for such a forbidden fruit existing in the first place; or one could even argue God being the cause for giving them free will.
Anyway from the foregoing, it makes sense scientists can benefit from looking at historical events, stories, and traditions for improving perception. I don't know why people get shamed or embarrassed about reading things like magic or alchemy as an example. Science likely benefits from creativity and what's more creative than imagination or unrealistic topics.
"My Dear Yahuda,
Newton’s writings on biblical subjects seem to me especially interesting because they provide deep insight into the characteristic intellectual features and working methods of this important man. The divine origin of the Bible is for Newton absolutely certain, a conviction that stands in curious contrast to the critical skepticism that characterizes his attitude toward the churches. From this confidence stems the firm conviction that the seemingly obscure parts of the Bible must contain important revelations, to illuminate which one need only decipher its symbolic language. Newton seeks this decipherment, or interpretation, by means of his sharp systematic thinking grounded on the careful use of all the sources at his disposal.
While the formative development of Newton’s lasting physics works must remain shrouded in darkness, because Newton apparently destroyed his preparatory works, we do have in this domain of his works on the Bible drafts and their repeated modification; these mostly unpublished writings therefore allow a highly interesting insight into the mental workshop of this unique thinker.
- Einstein. September 1940, Saranac Lake
P.S. I think that it is wonderful that the writings will all be kept together and made available for research.”
It's distasteful/unethical to attach "a spiral of alcohol, drugs and extreme behaviour" to someone's name after their death.
Some may argue that doing so will result in "positive change" for others but the same is possible without attaching the identity of a person that died by alcohol, drugs and extreme behaviour as the title puts it.
People oddly value anonymity & privacy but disregard it when a person dies.
edit: ah yes, the downvotes without comments for why you disagree is the evolution of hackernews (another echo chamber).
I fundamentally believe anyone that wants to return to the office are shills/managers that believe people in seats where they can observe them is the only way they can justify their jobs. I personally would quit my job if I had to return to the office and the reasons have all been repeated by others already. Mainly, the office environment is just worse than what you can setup at home. I personally don't like sitting in an open space around others. I can communicate to whoever I wish by slack or video chat from home. Anyway I'm hopeful this goes on for another year and until I have to find another job if managers get their ill way.
You probably have image recall. Some people have audio recall. The recall events can contain imagery, moving imagery, sounds, speech, thoughts during event. They may be historic recordings/memory, creative "visualizations" or a hybrid. Some people can insert objects into their version of reality. Dots on walls. Boxes on tables.
Your internally perceived reality is a "visualized+ object" that is similar to a visual and auditory recall of a historic event, or a future event "imagined". That object includes body impressions, smell, taste, etc. Hunger. Pain. Impatience in understanding the nature of consciousness. Etc. All of that is built from sense impressions. Buddhists call these "aggregates".
The internal model of reality is an aggregate object which is refreshed from senses. While it looks very close to what everyone else sees inside, it is very individualistic to the person experiencing it and distinctly different from the various wavelengths of light and sound bouncing around in various material configurations which are then sampled by imperfect sensors.
Would it be surprising to learn that not everyone's world model is complete, especially when attention is not being held on it? See "basketball gorilla attention" on Google. Yet, we all take it for granted so much that we forget we do it, sort of like the fact most people take for granted they can see their parents in their mind's eye but don't ever bother wondering how it is they can actually see an image representation of something without it being processed through a sense organ.
It shouldn't come to anyone's surprise that reality is hallucinated into being and we experience that hallucination inside alone and outside together. If you stop hallucinating it, you lose consciousness. Dreams.
You didn't ask a question, nor contribute an answer, yet presume to reply with a judgment which is an opinion devoid of basis. Typical downvoter mentality.
You've lived a privileged life if you fear death. In any case we've never experienced nothingness and so I find it odd that people even assume it something to be concerned about. Universe very well could just repeat all the variables again for your experiences to happen and maybe even slightly different depending on the iteration.
Not really a hope but just a theory. Nothingness is similar and for some people even better. I do find it amusing that people downvoted my earlier comment. People don't even have a grasp that their life isn't very special when something can simply just repeat it all again. It already happened, why not again, and when the maybe first iteration was possible?
I personally think remote workers living close enough to meetup if need be is the future.
As a programmer this year has been great in regard to work; while working from home. Slack or Zoom for video chats when needed, solves all situations I would've been next to someone in-person and if it wasn't for the pandemic.
I don't fear being outsourced as well, since companies still want their employees to be near and I doubt video conference will ever change that desire.
Anyone care to share where the idea of your victims in this life become slaves in the next came from? I'm curious about that and I remember that idea was also shared by one US killer that massacred at an elementary school.