Beyond satisfying scientific curiosity, the discovery could have practical applications. Some organisms in the “ship goo” appear to be methane producers, potentially useful for biofuel production

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Tale as old as time, and also how species survive.

Kidnapping doesn’t necessarily involve torture.

Famous Zen teachers would just whack you with a stick or cut off a finger. bam! Instant enlightenment.

I believe it’s honest to give proper credit for the idea.

Vocabulary matters, too. People will search the wildest things for hours and cba to look up unfamiliar words.

Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendition_(law)

They’re doing it to get them extraordinarily renditioned.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Plcogp1zxao

Maybe we value the wrong things. Maybe greed is a lack perspective, too much isn’t enough. Kind of like people who lived during the Great Depression or had parents who insisted no penny would be spent on bubble gum.

Something about being careful what you wish for.

Strangely enough, we are often able to see each other’s shadow (Jung), and not our own.

Like Schrödinger and his cat?

I know and believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

No we don’t. Some unforeseen cosmic cataclysm could happen as I type this and obliterate our yellow star. I don’t believe it will, and have faith it won’t.

Like we believe in colors but there aren’t. It’s just the way light bends, reflects.

I went through that for the same reasons. If it was under our caregivers, they went through their traumas that caused that.

A scythe can be used for harvest, cutting a path, or murder. Tools are neutral, intent not so much. And purity doesn’t matter here. I can have purely loving intention and rob someone of their own. Or purely base intention and something beneficial occur by happenstance.

They have a belief that “it doesn’t matter”.

Maybe the belief is that it does matter. Gotta grind beyond what’s normal or healthy for too-long-extended periods. Or be homeless.

We can’t see wind either.

There’s something to be said for practicing detachment, too. Or rather the impermanence of things.