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  • Had they passed a fish out of water.

    This wouldn’t have been a thing in Eden to begin with, presumably. I don’t equate Eden to a literal place and all of these things literally happened, so it’s irrelevant to begin with.

    So you don’t think Eden really was a place? Great! Neither do I. (I think we are discussing the story not from a historical perspective, but maybe one of psychology and philosophy.)

    My statement about a fish out of water is hypothetical. It didn’t have to happen to illustrate a point. Further, we are in agreement that Eden was not a historical event, but a story. It didn’t happen either.


  • op, 5th paragraph:

    God wants us to replace our fear, worry, and need for ourselves (selfishness) with fear, worry, and need for everything else (selflessness);

    to reunite ourselves with it and gain this true life;

    of a life striving for others as opposed to ourselves;

    that we can’t help but being inherently drawn to.

    I understood “reunite” to mean regaining something we no longer have. I was paraphrasing, and apparently not very well.

    The rhetoric stands, however. It doesn’t matter if selflessness was something we lost, or if it is in God’s plan. If God wants us to be selfless, why did he first create us to be ignorant of selflessness?







  • Here are some tips once you have chosen:

    You can change your desktop environment later.

    If you do your install with seperate partitions for /home and others, leave 10% unallocated. Also make /bin about 15gb and /boot about 1.5gb. When you eventually run out of space, you can use KDE Partition manager to add the unallocated space to the partition you need, even if you set up encryption (gparted doesn’t play well with encryption). You can install Partition manager as a package, you don’t need to use KDE Plasma.

    Using a drive mirror is a good idea. Maybe use it the second time you install.

    If you want to use a cool filesys like zfs, just use btrfs for now (licensing issues). Ext4 will also work for desktop user needs.

    If you go with Debian, you can add repos to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. But it is a one-way trip, so before adding sid, consider running your program in a vm. Non-free non-free-firmware and contrib are fine







  • Here’s two places I have considered:

    Argentina

    Pros: fairly easy to get residence, liberal for south america, free college, free public hospital, easy to start business with no license.

    Cons: Hard to make ends meet without skills. Apartments can restrict to women only

    Spain:

    Pros: Very accepting of LGBTQ+ from what I’ve heard. Eurozone. Some small towns have rent incentives for new people (check with locality).

    Cons: Some declining population.