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Think about it. No, seriously. Think about any person you have ever met? Strangers on a train, dead relatives, school teachers etc. What are they? They are just neurons firing an electomagnetic pulse somewhere deep inside your brains. Even everything you have ever done! It's nothing. It no longer e...

Azathoth wrote:how did he manage to light the cigarettes

Never saw him smoking any. He just asked me once for one, that I left in his palm, and I kept giving him a couple every morning...

A cardinal characteristic of serial killers is a lack of empathy. They view their victims as objects. "It puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again." Empathy is over-rated in human beings when you look at the species objectively. It's often the charming sociopath that'll put the knife ...

I read an article that MRI scans show that atheists think about the world as if filled with agencies just like theists. This shouldn't be surprising as our brains aren't too different. Atheists just tend to rationalise it away. Only the likes of autistic people don't see the world like this. Talk o...

What I've always suspected snip snip a train of nonsensical statements in form and content t Any reason why you didn't paste the last sentence of the article by its own author? Is this: i mage: obviously made up data, but enjoyable nonetheless. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/...

charlou wrote:Some people just like to bloviate.

Yes, I learned a new word today

beautiful word. I want Ratz to issue the "Bloviator of the month" prize.

Seraph wrote:Mine went for 186 words. Pass?

It is a good example of my point. Your answer was a fast and sharp slap much better than the verbal onanism of the other guy.

2.720 words... Do you really need 2.720 words to address the imbecility of the original article? Do you need 7 pages to make a point? If anybody working for me would give me a 7 pages file to highlight a point, I would throw them back with the demand of rolling them and shoving the bulk up their ass...

War settles people who are above fighting. War is the perfect excuse to emigrate. War is a great reason to run like a bunny. :tup: Anybody who willingly stays in a war zone is nuts. That's why I did 2.33 tours. Considering I regard you as an equable tempered person, well read, and I don't buy the n...

I keep saying it, you keep ignoring it, atheism can be, and most usually is, much more than a simple lack of belief. Must be a defect in your brain that disallows you from understanding such simple concepts. Simple concepts like "I'm talking total bullshit"? Yep, that's a defect everyone but you ha...

Crumple wrote:The Chinese paid him a hell of lot to do this didn't they? How long ago did they buy him?

No need of Visa or citizenship. A permanent residence permit (green card) can be issude by, say, the Director of the Central of Intelligence... All problems easily solved in one panel... Meh. The Director of the CIA can't issue a green card. It is very, very common in intelligence services to provi...

No need of Visa or citizenship. A permanent residence permit (green card) can be issude by, say, the Director of the Central of Intelligence... All problems easily solved in one panel... Meh. The Director of the CIA can't issue a green card. It is very, very common in intelligence services to provi...

No need of Visa or citizenship. A permanent residence permit (green card) can be issude by, say, the Director of the Central of Intelligence... All problems easily solved in one panel... Meh.

If you're not patriotic, you don't like the place in you're in. Your choices at that point would be to move, to do something to make the place better, or to whinge a lot and do nothing. I wonder what most people chose... 7 countries in 10 years... ;) 72 in 20. The ship is still american territory.....