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I indulge in hedonism all too much. I am now, in fact.

I lived in an apartment with my brother and sister for a while, but when I went back to school I had to move back home. Not particularly. Being an adult living with my parents obviously gives me the social stigma of being a loser, even if I can give the reasonable explanation that I'm going to...

I remember already being sick of hearing about them the day after they happened. It was tragic, but there are far worst tragedies happening everyday not only in America, but all around the world. The government loved it because it allowed them to justify further civil rights infringements. It...

"The Sunset Limited" based on a play by Cormac McCarthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a98W-vW0sh4

https://www.facebook.com/TheCynicalPhilosopher Something I post on from time to time - usually politics, science, philosophy, current events. I guess it's blog adjacent.

This is an interesting and amusing analysis of superpowers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbeyRwT8Uo

In my lab, we create primers* and use overlap extension PCR** to insert new/changed bases into DNA in order to create mutants. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28molecular_biology%29 ** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap_extension_polymerase_chain_reaction Get the short (and more...

It's like having thoughts you know are completely irrational and unfounded, but they are so nagging you can't help but satisfy them. For example, you park your car, get out, go into the store, pick up your first few items and suddenly it hits you "did I remember to turn off the lights in my...

I'm cynical and pessimistic, but I'm also incredibly boring. If I were interesting, I might finish this...

People are robots. We're all boring. I'm making this message short, or you would skip over most of it in boredom. You are boring, too. We're all boring. Get used to it. Everyone you talk to thinks they are just as interesting as you or I think ourselves to be.

As someone with OCD/Tourettes, I can say from your description that you don't have OCD. It sounds to me like you have asshole teenager syndrome. I had that when I was an asshole teenager, too. You think right now that it won't go away, but it will. Then you'll be confused about different things.

"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. Awesome book.

I wouldn't say that this is a valid isomorphism so much as a metaphor. I wonder if it would be more interesting if the mental states represented logic commands (admittedly, I'm not intimately familiar with Turing machines, so perhaps this is how it works anyway). For instance, q3 might have the...

Is this philosophy based on a judgment call, or is there a line of reasoning? I'd say more strength, intelligence, money etc provides a person with more privileges, not rights. I don't understand how it follows that if we are unequal, then power is wasted on the strong. I'm interested in...

There is an objective measure of "gender" from a biological sense. A case study shows that there are deep-seated ways that people feel about their own gender: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer There is also evidence abound that there is a biological aspect involved in gender identity...

I'm a ghost. I appear on occasion, haunt some people, and disappear. Most people don't even know I exist...

Anyone ever read Derek Parfitt's "Reason's and Persons"? I wonder how brain interfacing and brain splicing would feel, subjectively speaking? A book I'm currently re-writing (sometimes) explores this idea...

I might be more interested in setting up scenarios than specific victims. Maybe setup a vacant house with a warning to keep out and murder anyone who comes in. Or setup a house offering free [insert blank] and murder whoever comes in. IB reminding me of "The Wire" makes me wonder about...

Inappropriate Behavior That was the first thing that came to my mind, too.

I would want to brain scan people as they die. Most of the time, death is decided by whether the heart is beating. The brain obviously needs glucose and oxygen, but it can survive for moments without this. If someone is shot in the head point blank, do they hear the gun before they die? I...

If you were a ritualistic serial killer, how would you kill your victims? What criteria would you use to choose them? What methods would you use to get away with it? Why would you kill?

Because of silicon's larger size, it creates weaker bonds. It also has the d-orbitals t hat carbon doesn't have (hence it can break the octet rule). These may be an issue. One more cosmological theory I've heard is that the universe is currently in the "carbon age" meaning that, at the age the...

At every moment of our lives, we have all had the option of killing ourselves. Why hasn't anyone reading this done it yet?

Sorry for double post (provided someone doesn't post as I'm typing this) but I wonder if a technological singularity has ever occurred in the universe before? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GsLI8PQVQU

I'll define the singularity as such: when human input into technological systems is made obsolete - ie computers are capable of maintaining, upgrading, running, repairing, and operating other computers such that human input would actually be a hindrance. I believe this will happen within the...

Unpopular is one thing, but unmoving is another. I think everyone needs to be able to humor thoughts once in a while in order to stick with a premise. Da Blob was incapable. I'm sure I'm not liked but some people, but I like to think I'm able to humor ideas I don't agree with at times (I believe...

On a philosophical level, I'm against his banning. I think people can either ignore him or engage him, but Blob gave the people what they wanted: an antagonist who knew how to play on emotions (he admitted to me as such in a PM once that this was his tactic and advised that I should try doing...

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There has been a forum for just such discussions for a long time. Nobody uses it.

I'd contend that the best romantic gesture is probably one of creation - to make something specifically for your significant other using your own creativity and effort. I've never understood the buying a card that someone else wrote and giving it to people ritual, like saying "look what someone...

Elevated Chuck The Bile Delta

Hurl Spewings "Gastros: A Projectile Vomittage."

I'm mostly a hip-hop head, but my girlfriend has be branching out:

I'd propose that you could make two personalities for someone, one based on genetics and one that is developed based on upbringing and other environmental factors. A third could possibly even be added to account for psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, OCD etc. I'd say cognitive...

Middle child, 2nd born. ISTP older brother and ESFJ younger sister.

Try it high: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5_eGEF5dGI&feature=watch-vrec

No, I was referring to the score I got on the test. I didn't really consider myself to be that "gender normative" though. I've always considered sexual orientation an empirical observation as opposed to a categorical fact - I have not had a homosexual attraction yet, but it doesn't rule it out...

1 - Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual.

Not my usual preference, but my girlfriend turned me onto this band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwi5SJG3K5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRkc08_dR-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33U3bGZOcX8

Having always had an interest in nutrition, and now having taken an Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism class last semester (as well as having some other Biochemistry and Physiology classes under my belt), I've decided I'm going to do a series on nutrition on my Facebook community page if...

Around here: Read all about it here: http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120726/srep00521/full/srep00521.html

I didn't lose it, I just had it polished. Getting my Pness polished was a real stroke of genius, I tell you. Oh sweet Jesus molested in a manger, that's just too much pressure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3HCXh9WQSo

https://www.facebook.com/TheCynicalPhilosopher I have no shame.

Yes, but only from you. I've had enough of your abortions, though. You're right, and I have a link to support it. *waves awkwardly*

-gate as a suffix. "gaffe"

Probably have to say the same about school. During high school I hated every second of it and couldn't be bothered to do any of the work. Barely graduated in 2003, and started at college in 2009 and have been flourishing. If I told myself in 2003 that I'd be going to college I wouldn't have...

Just one, since we were both the age of four. We are still friends now. Most other people I've been on friendly relations with I've considered acquaintances, co-workers and schoolmates, nothing more.

I'd say, even if the 2nd amendment doesn't say that Americans have the right to privately own guns, then the 9th and 10th amendment, and maybe even the 4th amendment, do.

I thought the movie was decent as a standalone. Obviously I think the book was better. However, I do think that some of the stuff in the book would not really have worked out as well on screen, so they definitely seemed to try and market it as more of an action/adventure than a fantasy/adventure.