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2017-11-21 at 4:43 PM UTC in Do you think there will ever be self driving cars?Yes it will happen and overall it will make transportation safer, but like the Unabomber said, as technology/the system continues to grow it will continue to erode humanity and freedom, changing human behavior to suit the needs of the system, and then one day before you know it we won't even be humans anymore. So it goes.
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2017-11-21 at 4:35 PM UTC in Does any culture not have holidays?
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2017-11-21 at 12:14 PM UTC in CLOSE_REG_FFSso it goes
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2017-11-20 at 8:49 PM UTC in Dropping two tabs of acidSo it goes.
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2017-11-19 at 9:41 PM UTC in Dropping two tabs of acidThe inexorable universe doesn't care about our lives. It's up to us to make life what we will. Sometimes that is a pretty poor showing and sometimes it's fantastic, so it goes. Sometimes awful things happen to innocent people, so it goes. Sometimes the most beautiful things happen to awful people, so it goes. Sometimes everything works out just the way we want it to, so it goes.
I really don't know, it's just me and my mind making things up.
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2017-11-19 at 9:35 PM UTC in Anyone ever get "voices "in there head?
According to Jaynes, ancient people in the bicameral state of mind would have experienced the world in a manner that has some similarities to that of a schizophrenic. Rather than making conscious evaluations in novel or unexpected situations, the person would hallucinate a voice or "god" giving admonitory advice or commands and obey without question: one would not be at all conscious of one's own thought processes per se. Research into "command hallucinations" that often direct the behavior of those labeled schizophrenic, as well as other voice hearers, supports Jaynes's predictions.
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2017-11-19 at 9:20 PM UTC in Dropping two tabs of acidRecommended lesson:
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2017-11-18 at 4:29 PM UTC in best cerealI like "Life" cereal. Also sometimes "Harvest Crunch".
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2017-11-18 at 4:17 PM UTC in Does any culture not have holidays?
Originally posted by Lanny Do primitive societies have holidays? Holidays in sustenance farming communities seems a little weird (it's not like "here's free money", it's like "I'm paying not to work today for some reason") but they seem to exist. Do we have any evidence one way or the other for hunter gatherer societies?
Guess it depends what you mean by "holiday", they did have celebrations:
"The solstice may have been a special moment of the annual cycle for some cultures even during neolithic times. Astronomical events were often used to guide activities such as the mating of animals, the sowing of crops and the monitoring of winter reserves of food. Many cultural mythologies and traditions are derived from this. This is attested by physical remains in the layouts of late Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological sites, such as Stonehenge in England and Newgrange in Ireland. The primary axes of both of these monuments seem to have been carefully aligned on a sight-line pointing to the winter solstice sunrise (Newgrange) and the winter solstice sunset (Stonehenge). It is significant that at Stonehenge the Great Trilithon was oriented outwards from the middle of the monument, i.e. its smooth flat face was turned towards the midwinter Sun.[4] The winter solstice was immensely important because the people were economically dependent on monitoring the progress of the seasons. Starvation was common during the first months of the winter, January to April (northern hemisphere) or July to October (southern hemisphere), also known as "the famine months". In temperate climates, the midwinter festival was the last feast celebration, before deep winter began. Most cattle were slaughtered so they would not have to be fed during the winter, so it was almost the only time of year when a plentiful supply of fresh meat was available. The majority of wine and beer made during the year was finally fermented and ready for drinking at this time. The concentration of the observances were not always on the day commencing at midnight or at dawn, but at the beginning of the pagan day, which in many cultures fell on the previous eve.[5] Because the event was seen as the reversal of the Sun's ebbing presence in the sky, concepts of the birth or rebirth of sun gods have been common and, in cultures which used cyclic calendars based on the winter solstice, the "year as reborn" was celebrated with reference to life-death-rebirth deities or "new beginnings" such as Hogmanay's redding, a New Year cleaning tradition."
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2017-11-15 at 7:11 PM UTC in No, I'm serious, how do I meet more women.Aren't you gay?
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2017-11-14 at 11:43 AM UTC in How do you keep yourself from becoming absolutely obsessed with all that is going wrong in the world
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2017-11-13 at 10:48 PM UTC in I'm alive, but not well.
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2017-11-13 at 9:37 PM UTC in I got some books today
Originally posted by LegalizeSpiritualDiscovery I'm about 70 pages in and really enjoying it. A couple parts at the beginning made me actually chuckle, which isn't too common for a book. It's hard to find time to read with all the shifts I've been working lately, but I try to read some before or after work.
The whole Bokononism thing made a big impression on me. -
2017-11-13 at 9:22 PM UTC in I got some books today
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2017-11-13 at 9:17 PM UTC in Louis C.K. accused of masturbating in front of women
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2017-11-13 at 4:38 PM UTC in Louis C.K. accused of masturbating in front of women
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2017-11-13 at 4:36 PM UTC in I got some books todaySo it took me a while to finish Slaughterhouse 5 as I was only reading it for about 15 minutes a day on my coffee break at work. But I had a chance to finish it this morning. I really enjoyed it. It's about war, time, life and death. It's good.
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2017-11-13 at 12:29 PM UTC in How do you keep yourself from becoming absolutely obsessed with all that is going wrong in the world
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2017-11-12 at 6 PM UTC in Louis C.K. accused of masturbating in front of women
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2017-11-12 at 5:58 PM UTC in Louis C.K. accused of masturbating in front of women
Originally posted by Captain Falcon I've already addressed this you mexican discount-Jesus looking motherfucker.
It's not about them being physically intimidated into doing it.
What happens if you say no to Louis CK? I don't know and neither do you and neither do those women.
You ever met a celebrity? I have and it's gonna sound faggy but even though I think I have a strong mental constitution, I have felt the feeling of being "star struck".
It's weird and hard to describe. It doesn't even have to be a celebrity you particularly like. That star-struckedness is basically a straight up physiological response to someone who's essentially abduction to you, someone you see in films and on TV and in the news, actually becoming real to you.
So Kevin Spacey could ask you to finger his asshole just so, just in an apparently half joking manner, and he could probably get you to do it. Of course you don't want to finger Kevin Spacey's asshole and you'd be highly uncomfortable, but I can almost guarantee he'd be able to make you do it.
So you think nobody can consent to sexual relations with a celebrity?
