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Brain fart. I actually thought about making such mistake afterwards, so perhaps I was aware of it unconsciously. I just thought about it, I of course knew that I would never make such mistake.....

I have a black bed sheet hanging over my window to block the son

It doesn't necessarily take an idiot to come off as an idiot. Sometimes it only takes a humble ego.

Yes. I don't.

It's clearly a result of evolution. As a social animal it can only be an advantage to have different personalities performing different task. And yes, you do have different personalities in other animals too. My parents have two French Bulldogs, one is a quiet reserved type that only gets to the...

Yep that can be a motivation in itself. I had a cheap home studio I had to sell when moving country, now I just have my phone to record into which is sort of demotivating when it comes to finishing ideas. I see you just created a Music Thread, I will post in there if I have any further questions.

Welcome DaviPop. Do you write any songs? If so, have you completed many?

And how come she doesn't clean your house too?

Gender role discussion - it's doesn't get any more 2014. That's all people talk about in my country - food and gender roles. Usually starts off with a man whining on a blog who subsequently gets verbally raped by women. It's a reoccurring trend.

Agreed. There are the same stereotypical notions for what men want.

Sure, those traits come in many flavors, hence why I wrote "traditional alpha male". The flavors in which the common traits come, get proportionally more complex with the level of education and intelligence in humans - and yes you can end the conversation by reducing it to horny monkeys if you...

Are you really concerned of just interested? The less educated and poor a country is, the more likely the women are to find the traditional alpha male attractive. You see the same trend in the different social classes in every country. It's no mystery really. Being attractive to the opposite...

Welcome Rick. We've been expecting you.

Perhaps because the popular MBTI descriptions are licking NTs asses. Many people who test as NT use it as some sort of social proof and thus feel obligated to share their ingenious wisdom. Here is a brilliant example (look how he almost gets off by reading the ENTP "traits")...

The very thing that makes you interesting is also one of your biggest obstacles in making new friends. I may be projecting but I think I understand where you're coming from. People like to be around authentic people, however, it is very difficult to appear authentic when you're over analyzing...

Not bad at all.

No, I gave you more credit than that. I get where you're coming from, I've been there many times. I do not by any means consider myself an expert on feelings, but one thing I've learned is that people don't always want someone to rationalize their emotions or devalue them. If that was the...

You may want to work on that.

It's simple Variform, we will just develop a vaccination for obesity. Welcome to the forum edward.

It's sort of like laughing at a movie, you do it less when you're alone. I've taught myself to laugh alone though.

Absolutely, this is the reason I sometimes get uncomfortable just watching Claire Danes in Homeland or Debra Morgan in Dexter. Especially when they desperately cry, I honestly can't stand it. I know it sounds horrible.

Interesting, I think I agree though it was not the definition of desperate I was hinting at. My thought was that we are all desperate in some sense for love and acknowledgement in various degrees. So what you will tend to find is that the most successful people, which in the eyes of the masses...

A public service channel in my country recently ran a program series with this title. It started with the producer of the program discussing this question with a person whom he himself chose, in this case a famous author, and then the author would pick the next person to discuss this question...

I see nothing to gain from it. An occasional punchline perhaps? But the best ones get posted elsewhere anyway. The only network I'm a "follower" on is Quora and I don't even follow people there, only subjects.

That's interesting. I often avoid doing anything at all to prevent any potential embarrassment. Often to the extreme - I'm working on it. Btw, your post count is 1337.

I usually start saying the age I'm becoming about three months in advance

Fascinating, I never had a cup of coffee. Now consider all of the behavioral dopamine addictions we have as well. Our future generations will not be characterized by what they do, but what they don't do.

I think when I have this feeling of guilt, it's closely related to embarrassment. As you mention, though I on some rational level understand that this moment of guilt will quickly pass, as it always does, it still always feels unique in the moment. As in, this moment is really extra-ordinary and...

You got it wrong. ENTP: Dominant: Extraverted intuition (Ne) Auxiliary: Introverted thinking (Ti) Tertiary: Extraverted feeling (Fe) Inferior: Introverted sensing (Si) INTP: Dominant: Introverted thinking (Ti) Auxiliary: Extraverted intuition (Ne) Tertiary: Introverted sensing (Si)...

Re: could homosexuality be an adaption of an overpopulated world? No I think it's just the men :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An29bdpaY70

Re: could homosexuality be an adaption of an overpopulated world? Japan is an interesting example. They're barely having any kids anymore. This is not due to homosexuality but due to education and the fact that they prefer having intimate relationships with their modern tamagotchis.

Agreed. It just seems too convenient as a privileged Western to simply disregard all charities on the basis of a few bad cases. Not only do you get to keep your own money but you also get to feel good about yourself - again, how convenient. It's the Will To Power, people who give to charity...

We're all walking contradictions

Agree. Upon writing that comment I spent almost all night intensively reading on the concept of Compatibilism. I had indeed misinterpreted and underestimated it. I have to resist the urge of writing you an essay on how my perspective changed over night - I really enjoy these moments...

Definitely a Narcissist. You could be a Psychopath, go on... :elephant: Btw, are you Enneagram 4 or 5? Not that it is decisive.

"Fuck it. Just accept responsibility. Everyone, including I, needs to learn life without a reset button."....... That's just perfect, thank you.

I should thank you. You made me reconsider my position on free will. I'm not entirely sure where I stand now, however, I'm not as immaturely certain as I was before.

Yep. It depends entirely on the circumstances. Suicide can be incredibly selfish in some cases and perfectly rational in others. Just think of two black and white situations, it's not that difficult. Now what makes a suicide rational or irrational in grey situations is a difficult topic.

Using nihilism to suppress negative emotions only works for a while until you're desensitized. After that, you will need some novelty as in a new thinking pattern. It's just like listening to a good song. I haven't had nihilistic thoughts in a while so I actually reacted positively to the OP.

That's actually impressive.

Alain De Botton

I would just be silent and have people think for a minute

Don't take it personally

Pretty impressive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtI5HM7GVGY Presenting Half-Life 21. Starting back in the summer of 2010, the estimated time for this run was thought to be roughly 27 minutes. However, after almost four years of painstaking planning, theorycrafting and execution, we...

No in fact it turned out a lot better than what most people expected. Also, nobody expected poverty would end by 1979 - where did you get that idea from? There was an oil crisis in both 73 and 78. In fact the goal of halving world poverty has already been reached five years earlier than...

True, however, there will be less people starving - at least percentage wise. Poverty has decreased world wide dramatically in the last 40 years and will likely continue to do so in this century.

She can pull it off, clearly.

I'm no expert in Spanish but isn't habla third person singular?

Haven't watched in a while but when I did, I thought it was really great for a sitcom. I think Sheldon is a brilliant character and I love how they take his lack of social/emotional intelligence to the extreme. Now that it is very popular, however, it is naturally becoming cool to bash the show...