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Random question of the day:

Is it fine to hate Christmas as long as you don't treat people in a spiteful manner the way Ebenezer Scrooge did before he redeemed himself?
 
I mean, it’s ok in the sense that you can do it and it’s your business. I’d still say it’s not completely ok, but only in the sense that disliking such a big celebration can be isolating or at least prevent you from having fun from it, as much of a truism as that may be.
 
No answers yesterday. Eh...

Random question of the day:

How would you describe a friends-to-enemies dynamic in fictional media like Spider-Man/Peter Parker and Harry Osborn?
 
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The height to weight ratio, presumably.

Edit: Throwing in some guesswork, I think one is the ratio at which you are considered obese in medical terms whereas morbidly obese means the ratio is such that you may be in grave danger of suffering serious medical issues because of it, potentially fatal ones.

Do take what I'm saying here with a grain of salt though, it's just guesswork on the names.
 
Random question of the day:

Do baby giraffes ever experience fear when being born, given that they have to drop a short distance to the ground due to the height of the mother?
 
I can't speak on behalf of a giraffe, but I think it'd be more confused as to why I suddenly need to breathe haha
 
I'm not sure how conscious they are when that happens. It may be like falling down from a playground structure while high (with weed, or something, I don't know, I'm not Walter White).
 
AlexneushoornTheGreat said:
No answers yesterday. Eh...

Random question of the day:

Would you be able to solve world hunger by having all overweight people in the world go on a diet?
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We already produce enough food to feed everyone in the world. More even since western economies at least throw so much out for not meeting aesthetic criteria of what food should look like, or what marketing says food should look like. You can't have weird carrots, because they're supposed to be straight so you throw them out. Nor can you have weird watermelons so they're crushed. This may in part be to control supply to keep prices above costs to produce some food; but the truth remains: we have enough.

The problem is often infrastructural, political, and economic. Not all countries have the same level of access to food either because they're not able to store in refrigerated stable environments as we can in the West. Nor may they as a country produce enough high-value exports or be historically strapped with so much debt imposed upon them they can't meet an appropriate balance of trade to get high-quality food for everyone or a broader section of society beyond the international subsistence aid sent to them by the international community. AND EVEN THEN, if they *could* get it countries like those in Africa do not have infrastructure set up to actually service them as a whole. They exist on legacy infrastructure from the colonial period which was built only to meet the demands of extractive industry and to not actually develop physical markets within the country; so the ability to move high-quality produce is not equal in a single country.

And finally, if the nation is experiencing conflict you can't readily or easily move food and produce across a country or get it to populations always on the move. Even at the best of times when states of siege are not an active program it's incredibly difficult to move humanitarian supplies through conflict zones. Infrastructure is destroyed, regions depopulated because civilians don't want to caught between two fighting armies, and even productive labor-qualified people may not even be in the fields producing food, or in the trucks or trains moving it, because armies consume manpower at a very high-level for one purpose or another.

Fat people don't need to diet. It's not your moral imperative to body shame them for the sake of Sudan.
 
AlexneushoornTheGreat said:
Random question of the day:

Do you celebrate Hanukkah or know anyone who celebrates it? If so, what are your experiences with it?
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I do! It's a nice holiday, not very special, it's only well known because of it's proximity to Christmas, just another minor feast holiday celebrating a "they tried to kill us, we survived". It is a good holiday though. my family gets together, we light the haunukiah (and on the last night, we light ALL of the ones we own.), we exchange small gifts. we dont do a ton of gifts since all of our birthdays are in the December area anyway.
 
No answers to yesterday's question. Eh...

Random question of the day:

If an afterlife does exist and the Lord of said afterlife doesn't wish to see people entering too early into their lifespan, why do so many people continue to die young?
 
That heavily depends on the specifics.

Within Christian, or at least Catholic faith, it's not that God doesn't want people "entering the afterlife too early into their lifespans". Life is not yours to take, not even your own. A person's life is something which must be respected and preserved.

And yet God wants to preserve our free will. He wants us to choose communion with Him of our own accord. Because of this we must have the ability to choose to do evil. He wants us to be able to choose that act even if He doesn't want us to make that choice.

The rest has to do with the natural world and honestly with that one I'd enter into far more complex, abstract and speculative territory. What I said above is essentially the cannon within the Catholic church. Anything further I would start getting into just my own reasoning of these things.
 
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A person's decisions and circumstances decide whether someone dies young or not. Even though God is in control and can rescue and protect us. We have free will, and that will contributes to short life spans. Anyway, just my two cents.
 
I don't recall it ever being in any Abrahamic faith that 'you cannot die young' is a proclamation God made. If anything, that would be really weird considering the whole 'Death of the Firstborn' plague of Egypt... So ignoring that isn't an actual thing:

1. Would interfere with free will which is pretty important to the Abrahamic faiths.
2. You can want something, or wish for it to be, but not force it to happen. I want and wish for everyone on RP to be happy. But I am not forcing it to happen or going out of my way to be RPN's personal hypeman/therapist [I don't like y'all enough to do that.]
3. Its.... really not.. a thing, so it just... is weird? Its like telling someone 'Hey, did you know that Dinosaurs were amazing ballroom dancers?', just because it sounds good and interesting as a soundbite doesn't mean its a thing.

If you are speaking hypothetically, like, 'Hey, I want to make a fantasy world where there is a capital G, God and He has declared that the young may not die, what would happen?' then I'd say every person under the age set by God is immortal and cannot die. So, for them, the world is the Rick and Morty themepark.
 
Random question of the day:

How would a video game character that's famous for killing things (Doomguy, Kratos, et cetera) be able to adjust in a video game world where killing isn't the recommended playstyle such as Undertale?
 
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