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Ray stated that making love with someone vaccinated runs the risk of shedding exposure. But what about general exposure to different toxins in making love with "unhealthy" people?

Any risk from damaged DNA, inflammation, stress hormones, and other things being transferred? Obviously short term the body is designed to deal with such things, but what about long term partners

@tea Nitrosamines, spermicides, parabens, etc.

Condoms seem to be fairly toxic, at least conventional ones. Lots of junk on them. I wonder how are most people avoiding accidental pregnancy? Just pulling out and cycle tracking?

@CO3 said in Dialectical and Historical Materalism - J. Stalin (1938):

Danny Roddy: I'm probably thinking about this too simplistically, but is that just the admission that we don't know that there is consciousness and memory, but it doesn't have to have ... The starting point is obscure?

Ray Peat: Yeah. You could make good guesses in all directions, but you can't work anything out in terms of forms, like that idea of Greek forms and atoms being number.

Danny Roddy: Is taking the leap to a specific creator not warranted?

Ray Peat: Yeah. If you have to leap, you're not there. The experience of, like Lenin said, that we have knowledge and experience, but where it comes from is always beyond what we know. It's always the future and potentiality. That means we're experiencing the nature of matter constantly. The present and the potential of our experience is what matter is. That's also the creative essence, which they call, "God," and put remotely somewhere else.

what about Aquinas' five ways?
https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/100/st2.html