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This seemingly simple question is actually very difficult to answer. Happiness is a highly subjective concept and applying it to even a small group of people is quite difficult. If we look at the animal and plant worlds, we will hardly find any of its representatives who are objectively unhappy. Signs of something that resembles a state of dissatisfaction, which we could call "unhappiness", appear only in higher primates (possibly also dolphins and whales, but this is too complex a group to understand). Other groups of mammals can also show behavior patterns similar to the state of "unhappiness", but they are usually focused on some specific immediate problem and pass as soon as this problem is solved.
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Recently, Orthodox Jews, who had gathered to have fun in honor of the anniversary of the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, staged a stampede, as a result of which half a hundred participants in the celebration were crushed and three times the same number were seriously injured. This was not a terrorist attack at all. It was just that someone slipped on the steps of one of the narrow streets of the town of Meron, after which a hundred thousand crowd of die-hard followers of Kabbalah immediately fell on him.
What is the meaning of Lag B'Omer? Shimon Bar Yochai, a disciple of Rabbi Akiva and the author of the book of Zohar, having died on this day almost two thousand years ago, managed to bequeath to his followers to celebrate and have fun on the day of his death, since on this day the disciples of Rabbi Akiva, a sage of the first century, “stopped dying” AD, who taught that our life is a shop in which everything is issued on bail.
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The “miracle” that occurs when a sperm and an egg unite, or why masturbation is more humane than abortion.
One of the hot topics around which heated debates continue is the question of banning or allowing abortions. We are talking about killing the fetus currently in the mother’s womb. The paradox of this problem is that in order to kill someone, it is necessary to at least first give birth to him, because death by its very meaning is the opposite of childbirth and the killing of unborn babies is logically a rather non-trivial task.
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In order to have an idea about something, it is necessary to have at least minimal information about this phenomenon. No information – no phenomenon, period, there is literally nothing to talk about, because due to the fact that our higher nervous activity is largely determined by the use of language, it is necessary to at least know what this phenomenon is called. With God, in this sense, it is difficult. All information related to him is found exclusively in the Bible. However, the Bible does not tell us anything special about him. All that is described in it is the consequences of eating an apple with Adam's rib (later named "Eve"), for if it had not listened to the talkative reptile, both bipedal creatures would have continued to wander mindlessly around the "garden in the east" to this day.