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Thanks ; ). Now I know.

Doesn't that imply that you hate yourself? Or is it that you actually believe you're any different from them? I'd be surprised if you didn't find most people to be worthy of contempt.

You don't understand what I said. I shared my hope that funtamentalists of any kind won't get to be in the position to enforce what others should do/think. Tann's post was about prescribing what's best for others considering that the topic of the op is influencing theist neighbors and Tann...

"You're dumb!" *Throws sand in the sandbox*... "No! You're dumb and very ugly" *Throws some more sand and hits the other child with a plastic shovel* You didn't add anything new to the exchange, you've simply 1uped what someone else was saying and you were quite hostile about it too. I know...

Cute. Except I exposed your bias and you call me biased for it.

I hope in the future there's less people like you to get in the position to prescribe on behalf of others. Whether they hail as religious or not, it's the same flavour of fundamentalism.

Interesting. Your message sounds totally dogmatic in its anti-religiosity/anti-dogmatism and it mythicises christianity as the big bad thing.

A degree of randomness is calculated. If you monitor cosmic background radiation and compare it to a single stellar radio source you're going to get a different moving average of randomness. You can turn a chain of values into a delta of the predictive factor. The equation isn't that...

Stupid move. I hope you had a laugh because: a) you just made a potential enemy who is also your neighbour b) you achieved nothing to enlighten them, in fact they'll be even more hostile towards whatever you and others like you have to say c) it's a lose-lose outcome and a good laugh is the only...

I don't know the details of the early warning system in Japan but I'd assume it's very good. They're able to warn 99.9% of the endangered population early enough to give them a comfortable time window to move to safe zones. (In case of 2012 tsunami for example). Likely their national/regional...

I like your poetry and all that. But in this case it's simply leading you into grandiose bullshit. There will never be peace or equality, such absolutes are unachievable, what is at stake however is a relatively undisturbed existence, free from major conflicts or disasters and this is what...

Ah, but to the contrary. My experience with the catholic/christian church has been quite positive and I've met a fair share of valuable and intelligent people among the clergy. What might be surprising is that their private views/lives do differ quite significantly from the outdated by 2...

Stop defending charities, especially religious ones. It's a huge scam similar to scientology. So what they feed the poor? Of course they can afford to look charitable when they have masses of clueless sheep donating money every sunday. It's not a big sacrifice to use 10%(an insignificant %) of...

I see the utility of it, though I didn't acknowledge it in my previous post. I'd be interested in having access to a detailed kind of "intelligence" feed from across the world to help build my outlook and awareness, provided the information wouldn't be manipulated and the coverage was decent. I...

What joy! I can't wait to download a newest disaster app for smartphones! Tourist info: "Witness amazing mushroom clouds in a city near you, a spectacle what many claim to be once in a lifetime experience, admission free, make haste, can't miss this opportunity!" "Recent car bombing 3 streets...

You mean anti-abortion? On the surface they aren't, but the basis for their worldview is that they believe they can dictate what others can and can't do with themselves, which violates individual right for self-governance. What I meant to say that this can't really be discussed, it would then...

Pro x/y, it shouldn't at all be a discussion. There's no way a woman can be forced to continue the pregnancy without ignoring her freedom. People who think they have any right to participate in any decision pertaining another person (unless requested by said person) are deluded and greedy. The...

Let's wait till they replicate this study 2 more times and have them change their mind completely to suggest opposite results, oh wait, they won't replicate because: a/they are too lazy b/they won't get paid to do that and nobody cares about replication studies c/even if they do nobody will...

You probably aren't that deep as you seem to think of yourself being. You haven't had the chance to meet intellects that dwarf you with their presence in that you can appreciate their brilliance long after they've left. People complain you're deep when they're in casual conversation mode and...

I find it quite "frightening" that before this video was posted so many people, including forumites, seemed to be unaware of the advances of genetic engineering. I wonder what the future will hold, do we need to be spoon fed critical information about the future of our world? Before someone...

I was talking about ALL quantum phenomena that involve entanglement, not only interference. You clearly took literally what I said and applied it to your skewed understanding of the video. That said you're wrong even in this narrow interpretation. An interference pattern is random in that...

I don't get your point. I'm fairly confident you have no point to make and you're pushing this tangent to weaken my position by misrepresenting myself or making yourself feel affirmed in your views. End the rhetorics please.

No information is preserved when acting on quantum entangled bodies. So all you can achieve with it is bound to produce random noise. That seems to be the rule, no FTL or retroactive quantum interaction is known to transfer information.

I save irl curses for those special people and those special moments when I put passion behind them to make them count, to show how happy or appreciative I am of the recipient. People tend to look afraid, give me their undivided attention and they respect that I cut the bs with a few measured...

That's hugely unrelated to the topic. Celebration doesn't have to be wasteful or detrimental to others' well-being, celebrating birthdays is an established social convention that depends on one's choices and company, celebration/commemoration itself is an important part of state/personal...

Way to be all apologetic about state-sponsored propaganda. Of course there are hundreds of more pressing matters that those money could be spent on, but hey, we can at least pretend every voiceless citizen was just as proud and satisfied with the results as the officials put on the spotlight had...

So in a way attaining buddahood and removing oneself from the samsara would be equivalent to graduating kindergarten code academy? Sounds perfect for my depreciating outlook on the uniqueness of mankind and its achievements :p. Analogously we could be under observation by more enlightened...

Are you trying to deny people their opportunity to be snarky on the internet when they feel like it? I have nothing against the athletes whose personal goals include excellence in the physical realm and competing in the olympics. There are many things wrong with the way olympics are...

Full immersion VR would become progressively indistinguishable from our own "reality" assuming we ignore the debate whether we are inside a simulation or not. VR would be subject to laws, just as various game servers have their own laws and restrictions. Many most common ones wouldn't allow...

I do what I normally do at 10% efficiency. Or I sleep twice as much or have idle thoughts that lead nowhere for hours. I understand less things, communicate less, work more slowly, I feel dull, weak and stupid when I'm depressed too.

I see, you were having a personal kind of meltdown, that just happened to be on a public forum and by chance happened to indirectly indict a few bad people of doing not-nice-things. I think Fukyo was a bit too harsh, but you can't expect everyone to adjust to your personal "needs". You probably...

Can you actually display some humility yourself? I don't have to look far back to find instances when you couldn't accept my criticism of your town play as you went pretty blindly against my own and others' evaluations. Sure, there are annoying or insensitive people who might be rubbing you...

I was going to reply but then I noticed this search button at the top of the page... I mean, it's too good to be true right? There has to be a catch. I'm sure it's a conspiracy, this forum's nazi reptilian leaders wouldn't be that foolish to allow me to search for "iron cross" and learn their...

Sufficiently expert to mention topics in which you aren't nearly knowledgeable enough it seems. Thanks for being a good sport and taking my correction well : ) .

Wrong. He was doing both. As an example he supported adoption policies for racially promising children from occupied countries into german aryan families, he extended german status to similarly looking Volksdeutche citizens, he also sought to develop eugenic medicine and tech. Aryan carriers...

Quake 2 or Doom are classics of the fps horror genre. That said I'm not a fan of "jump scares" and other similar devices. I'd much rather play a game that slowly builds the feeling of peril, keeps the tension high and never releases, until my imagination starts seeing threats in every shadow and...

It's tough, on one hand Yellow's explanation is so complete that I don't feel inclined to add much of my own, on the other hand I don't want to discourage Yellow from sharing excellent thoughts by possibly admitting that it's the effect her input has in many cases. So if you're Yellow, please...

1) user cp > edit avatar, follow instructions there 2) depends where you want the quote, user cp > edit signature is most common

I played the original HF and Portal 2. Portal was cleverly written and humorous, very nicely put together, can't say much about HF, but it was that kind of survival/exploration akin to Dead Space. I like the theme of exploring abandoned stations or buildings in horror/thriller scenarios. Maybe...

Just to show to what lengths people are going to be able to brag about their pokego account to their friends, or to be able to participate in the fad, there are auctions with pokego accounts and people are certainly buying accounts leveled up by someone else. Not to mention the in-game utilities...

It's not a discussion until both parties agree to participate. I didn't and you also agree that you don't have the will to do it, ie. to persuade or prove/disprove your/other's points (that's what I meant by discussion that could be challengeable). I feel perfectly free to discourage whomever I...

Sharing a trailer for scorn: [SPOILER] I liked both Dead Space and Alien Isolation, it taught me quite a lot about building the atmosphere for narrative and pacing.

Just to clarify, I wasn't implying pokego isn't social, I was asking a question, looking to disseminate an example to the contrary. The rest of your reply are angry false assertions/strawmans on your part. Not true. False. You can't challenge me on this. It's not a discussion. I'm not, I...

I wanted to link a Skinnerian analysis of progress addiction design, but I thought it would be a bit condescending, cognitively at least. Is it really social though? Do you interact with those people besides the bare necessity of shouting which pokemon is nearby or exchanging a few words...

I haven't played, though I find a great deal of amusement observing the phenomenon unfold. It's questionable whether this can be considered a "game", it was designed to be an addictive "level up" activity to occupy the mind with endless mode and illusion of progress. Interesting how it...

I'll opt /out. I got myself involved in a summer job and I'll stay away from internet for a while.

I don't use cologne and I don't like to smell people, a neutral, weak deodorant may be fine. Some women/men have overwhelming perfumes that I can feel from a few steps away and they linger in the room which is especially annoying. Some are quite intent on using it to their advantage/notice when...

I'm busy this weekend, I can play in 50 hours.