'Identity is a funny thing. Lifetimes ago, teenager still, I reached a destination with a bus. People were getting out ahead of me, and out of the back pocket of the person in front of me fell money....
reckful I am actually quite versed in the science and history. Three decades worth of research confirm over and over and over again that if you like data and ideas you also like people and...
No. Because there's really no such thing. The Meyers Briggs has its uses, but it's not to define yourself. It confronts you with introspective topics, makes you think about: Why yes, I do...
I need to write teenagers having a nice day, a good time, a little bonding memory, something signifying friendship, out in the countryside, and I'm pulling things from my own experiences and...
The next big religion will be crowdsourced. In whatever new sacred texts we will create we will declare ourselves gods. We will declare power and responsibility to be one and the same thing. If you...
I want to tell you the story of two people. John wants to go to Albuquerque for his vacation and knows that his wife Jane wants to go to Massachusetts. He doesn't tell her what he wants because...
God is dead, said a man once. Stripped of its context and used as a punchline the meaning of his words have been lost over time to a great many. Nietzsche didn't mean that there was a literal god and...
Ha! Maybe unless they actually are.
I had a mental breakdown once. Worst best thing, or best worst thing, something along those lines. Terrible, terrible experience that did me a lot of good. But I've talked about it before. I don't...
I'm reading some history texts right now about the foundation of the Roman empire, and there was this bit about the split of the settlers that led to colonizing two different cities, one of which was...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk7wJaMi72s
Ever wanted to break it off with someone, and you had good reasons that were in mutual best interest if looked at rationally, but instead of seeing reason the other totally loses their shit and...
Movie detectives of PerC, I call upon you and your exceptional powers of memory to help me, and perhaps other that find themselves in this situation. Could you guys help me find a movie? It's a...
I first read it here. It's a good read, especially if you have an interest in music, I'd wager :) Speech by Karl Paulnack of Boston Conservatory « Not Just Another Pretty Voice
As a little kid I wanted to grow up to become a mechwarrior, no joke :) The present has shown a few even cooler possibilities ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=402asYLG_b0
In ancient greece music and astrology were seen as two sides of the same coin. One was the study of observable objects moving outside of the body, and the other the study of invisible objects moving...
I don't think there's much you really can do. In the end it depends on the why they are afraid, and if you know that, maybe, maybe you can go after the underlying reason. The last time I was in a...
My old man asked me to help him find some new songs for his band. It's an amazing thing for him, trying something new, and asking for help, and I really wish I could help him, but I'm the wrong...
I think Dean Kamen is one. He's a real inspiration to me. In the sense that it's not enough to care, but one must also act. When I think giver he's the first one that comes to mind. He's probably...
It's how he says it's the first all black movie, and I think he actually believes it. The other day I read in an interview where he said that Han has never shot first in Star Wars, and I think he...
After watching the Half A Bag review of Red Tails, an inquiring mind wants to know http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAcEPIz43Mk
I can relate to, well, some of that. I don't accept it, though. Trust, ect. Yes, that stuff isn't cool but we ourselves decide how we engage the world, and all our decisions have some underlying...
The weirdest thing ever. One of my coworkers once walked up to me, gave me a hug and said it's all going to be ok. I just said ehm, ok. I had NO idea what he was talking about. I was just...
It's not ridiculous, it's the reality. Women facing child neglect charges for how they treat a fetus will avoid authorities rather than seek medical help. That's the way things work. You make the...
TxWolves Since you're in the habit answering questions posed to others don't mind me doing the same. Women will get abortions whether or not they have ACCESS to professional medical help. That's...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpiZTvlWx2g
I love how subtle they can be WARNING: Wifi is a Health and Safety Risk to Staff and Students! See it? http://www.chambanamoms.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/sad-kid.jpg /facepalm
Follow up: Police, child services visit man who shot daughter's laptop - KCBD NewsChannel 11 Lubbock
I'm ok with arrogance. It can have it's charms. West Wing Presidential Debate - YouTube (In case the time linking didn't work, what I'm referencing to starts at 1:40)
movies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHaJY6SL7GE&hd=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmSO07r_zTc music
The latter, I'd say. I like that visual, by the way.
Is there a pattern to it? Think it's possible you're picking up on emotional vampires? Or do you think it's possible you're somehow realizing that the suffering a person goes through at that...
like a part of me is dying and screaming out in agony... but I did the right thing. please, let it be the right thing.
My comparison is there to showcase that the potential for an eventual state does not equal the state. This also applies to coma patients, those merely kept alive by artificial wombs. As soon as...
Unborn fetus - not child. In the best of circumstances women will get pregnant. Girls will get pregnant, and they will do so for stupid, hormonal or tragic reasons. There will always be the sweet...
Nobody is killing kids. An acorn is not an oak. The egg you had for breakfast is not a chicken. A fetus is not a kid. That's a fact. A fetus has no thoughts, feelings, memories, sensations, is - in...
I don't understand people who want to outlaw abortion except in cases of rape or incest. One one hand they believe a fetus is a human person, but then on the other they admit that a woman's...
I don't think he's in his right mind. Waging war against a teenager can have that effect. My boyfriend is all these things, really a wonderful guy, but he can as sure as anyone be driven to...
I really don't think that's the case. goguapsy I don't know if this helps any at all. I stumbled across this video some time back of someone explaining how to employ Fe. ...
My thought was ESTJ when I saw it. Brutal in his follow through, no tolerance for emotional venting, harsh disciplinarian, no respect for privacy (you just know he used a keylogger) and yet, a...
I think he means if we hate sharing those specific personal things. That we consider most people we know mere aquaintances rather than friends, or sharing the fact that we have some type of disease. ...
Hi Sarge, hope life's treating you well I wrote about my thoughts on the subject here a while back...
Yeah. I think it's a good process. Thank god for Ni-Ti. Without those phases I would have probably just kept making the same mistakes over, and over, and over again. In my case I found it to be a...
If it is a doorslam, he'll have his reasons for it. It's not something done lightly. When I was at that point myself I'm sure that those on the other side of the door often didn't understand what...
Tower Heist is a new Ben Stiller movie but it really doesn't feel like one. It's a little more of a drama-dy than an outright comedy, and a very good one at that. Great chracters, great writing, good...
You have all these possibilities you think are worth trying. Do you think it might be possible to motivate him over his initial hesitation with some sort of kick ass and instantaneous reward just to...
Emotional stability is a big one for me. It makes me feel safe. I like carefree sillyness because it's something I'm not good at myself. Trustworthiness should be a given. Open. I like to be open...
You give a gift because you want to give it, not because you expect to get something in return. Receiving an organ donation is a gift, and not a right, nor is it something that is purchased, or makes...
chickydoda I know you mean well. Heart in the right place, and all. The way I see it you can't really force people to donate, though. Actions guided by the words everyone should have this taken...'
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