philosophy
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In the matter of Homeowners Associations v. Common Sense and Individual Liberty
Before us stands a scourge upon the American landscape, a festering boil on the backside of freedom – the Homeowners Association. Are we truly to stand idly by, while these petty tyrants impose their will upon the rightful owners of property, turning our suburbs into Stepford-esque dystopias where individuality is a crime and conformity is…
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🌿 Modern Dowsing: Pseudoscience, Persistence and the Human Need for Answers
Modern dowsing lives in a strange, fascinating borderland where rural craft, New Age metaphysics, ghost‑hunting theatrics, YouTube tutorials and quiet personal ritual all coexist without ever fully acknowledging one another. In rural America, especially Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Mountain West, and pockets of the Midwest, dowsing remains a practical skill, passed down through families who…
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Plant cognition
Plant cognition or plant gnosophysiology is the study of the mental capacities of plants. It explores the idea that plants are capable of responding to and learning from stimuli in their surroundings in order to choose and make decisions that are most appropriate to ensure survival. Over recent years, experimental evidence for the cognitive nature of plants has grown rapidly and has…
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Plant Rights
Plant rights are rights to which plants may be entitled. Such issues are often raised in connection with discussions about human rights, animal rights, biocentrism, or sentiocentrism. Not to be confused with Plant breeders’ rights. Philosophy Samuel Butler‘s Erewhon contains a chapter, “The Views of an Erewhonian Philosopher Concerning the Rights of Vegetables”. On the question of whether animal rights can be extended to plants, animal rights…
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Pharmacy (Etymology)
pharmacy (n.) late 14c., farmacie, “a medicine that rids the body of an excess of humors (except blood);” also “treatment with medicine; theory of treatment with medicine,” from Old French farmacie “a purgative” (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Greek pharmakeia “a healing or harmful medicine, a healing or poisonous herb; a drug, poisonous potion; magic (potion), dye, raw material…
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👉 A neomort is a braindead person who can be kept on life support for organ transplantation, medical and nursing education, and drug research. 👈
A brain-dead human being that could be kept on life support for organ transplantation, medical and nursing education, and drug research.
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The extermination of the incurably ill and the mentally defective prompted the most effective episcopal protest against the actions of the Nazi regime
It was, in fact, the extermination of the incurably ill and the mentally defective that prompted the most effective episcopal protest against the actions of the Nazi regime. In a sermon at the St. Lamberti Church at Munster, Cardinal Galen publicly revealed the facts of the top-secret euthanasia programme, and cried out: ‘Woe unto the…
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Etymology of Pharmacy
pharmacy (n.) late 14c., farmacie, “a medicine that rids the body of an excess of humors (except blood);” also “treatment with medicine; theory of treatment with medicine,” from Old French farmacie “a purgative” (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin pharmacia, from Greek pharmakeia “a healing or harmful medicine, a healing or poisonous herb; a drug, poisonous potion; magic (potion), dye, raw material…
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Organ Donation Back In The Day
The Aztecs were particularly noted for practicing human sacrifice on a large scale; an offering to Huitzilopochtli would be made to restore the blood he lost, as the sun was engaged in a daily battle. Human sacrifices would prevent the end of the world that could happen on each cycle of 52 years. In the 1487 re-consecration of the Great…
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Rule According to Higher Law (Not To Be Confused With Rule of Law)
The rule according to a higher law is a statement which expresses that no law may be enforced by the government unless it conforms with certain universal principles (written or unwritten) of fairness, morality, and justice. Thus, the rule according to a higher law may serve as a practical legal criterion to qualify the instances of political or economical decision-making,…