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Is having a religion or not having one more good?

I'd say this question is one that has a category error. There reason is because the question is about morality, and the categories do not have a direct mapping to it. The nature of question rests upon the idea that religious people have a moral code to follow, while the non-religious do not. But the moral code of the religious can be problematic, and the non-religious may have a moral code of their own. As for the question of the existence of different moral codes, I'll kick that aside. That is because different perspectives exist, and there is no set of logical principles (and there never will be,  at least by my religion) to determine objective morals. So then, regarding the question, my answer is this: Adherence to or Non-Adherence to a Religion is not an Indicator of Adherence to or Non-Adherence to a Moral Code. Religion provides a moral code. But that does not mean those who claim to adher to a religion follows the same moral code. And at the same time, those who do not h...
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That one time when I tried to download files from my slow uplink

It was when I was either in 9th or 10th. It should've been in 10th, because it was after I'd gotten used to hosting WordPress (wordpress.org) websites with MAMP, and that was after I knew how to host websites directly with Hostinger's 000webhost, x10hosting and other free hosting providers. I used to host forums based on Simple Machines Forum (SMF), to replicate the forums of San Andreas: Multiplayer (SA:MP) and the United Islands Freeroam (UIF) SA:MP server. We had a bustling Facebook community back in the day, for anything from Web Development, General Software Programming, Gaming, Memes, Game Development, 3D Modelling, etc. So, it was during that time, when I wanted to do a computer exhibition, and I ended up choosing to display how to host a website as my project. For that, I would have to get my tools in my pendrive. The tools were basically WordPress, a good WordPress theme, MAMP and No-IP Dynamic Update Client. I knew how to port forward to enable accessing files fro...
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Thinking about how to understand systems

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Table of Cohesion and Coupling (Source: https://feature-sliced.design/docs/reference/isolation/coupling-cohesion License: MIT | Copyright (C) 2018-2025 Feature-Sliced Design core-team) This is a method by which we understand systems in programming. As the image shows, cohesion is how much similar things are grouped together, and coupling is how much different groups are connected to one another. If I'm thinking about nature, there are a plethora of behaviors, but all of them have common fundamental behaviors. It is easy to understand it as how if we consider the known materials of the world, they are all built up from the same types of elements, which we call atoms. Elements of reality, as we could call them. At the same time, the combination of different elements is what makes reality wonderful, as otherwise everything would have been so stagnant or predictable. This is the general principle of art, to bring into attention a new perspective, and that is ingrained with every part o...
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The universe has nothing to make me feel bad about

I did my best at all points in life. I was an excellent student, and then they sent me to a military school, hoping I could have an easy military life, which actually meant I'd just be unable to use any of my abilities and feel useless. In 2021, I decided to clean plastic waste and do gardening. It was my insecure father who fought against me and stopped me from doing so, leading to nothing but him being ignored and me losing my health. Same in 2022 when my father would criticize my projects because he wanted a normal life, and I couldn't care less about it. Fighting ensued, I hit his nose and my spine health deteriorated from the pressure I was carrying.
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"Even if the Bible's credibility is questionable, it still contains centuries worth of meditations, more than what we could've ever achieved by ourselves"

Except that's not how meditation works. You don't be meditative by cramming all the information you can get. You get it by being like a child, free from the chains of thoughts. Like a blank canvas. Listen to "Daft Punk - Giorgio by Moroder", where Giovanni Giorgio describes his history of learning music.
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A peek into the design of smartphone camera lenses

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Smartphone cameras use a complex set of lenses, that aren't simply convex or concave, or a simple combination of them. I first saw it while looking it up in a patent paper by Apple, but then recently, a person named Stephen Remillard has uploaded a video on YouTube explaining one such paper. I found it interesting, so I'm linking it here:
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You cannot blame someone for teaching something without knowing perfectly what it is

#Draft You cannot blame someone for teaching something without knowing perfectly what it is. Because no one knows anything perfectly well. Your parents don't know how to be the best parents, they are imperfect. In case of science it is still the same. Isaac Newton did not know everything about colour theory. He just knew what he observed. He isn't god. Maybe he was, but on planet earth, he is a human and has the same problems as everyone else. I did something there, didn't I? (EDIT: I was referring to the idea that god is a supernatural entity, but in this world, he will be limited by the confines of this reality, such as the limited storage space on their brains and the time it takes to communicate ideas by writing or speech.)
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