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You certainly elucidate several excellent points regarding your unique perspective in dealing with narcissists and I'm positive the board appreciates what you have to say.

There are way too many possibilities to this scenario. He likely had hundreds of thousands of thoughts from the time he entered the mall to the time he ate. And those thoughts are in addition to thoughts that led him to go to the mall in the first place. He could be influenced by his habits. He could be influenced by his body signaling hunger. He could be a compulsive shopper and eataholic testing his resolve. He could be looking to fill some hole in his life or he could have simply planned his day before leaving and executed his plan. Hundreds of thousands of thoughts went into the decision. Some were conscious, most were not. Most are just running like water. I have seen data estimating anywhere from 50,000 to 200,000 thoughts per waking hour. Most are not even noticed any more than than the air that we breathe is noticed. It is the noticing of the thought that makes it a conscious thought. That leads me to the question of whether the unnoticed thoughts are unconscious or subconsious? Here's my theory. Any thought that is unnoticed and then becomes noticed was unconscious but has become conscious. What I mean by this are all of those thoughts that are seemingly endless that carry the voices of our many ideas about ourself. I'm "this" or I'm "that" or I'm "like this or that". They are the thoughts that we live with every day upon awakening. We can know exactly what these thoughts are if we pay attention to them. An unconscious thought can become a conscious thought -- and vice versa actually. Repetitive activities lead to creating unconscious thoughts that just run their program and we can brush our teeth without really thinking about it. Subconscious thought would always be "sub" or "below" conscious awareness. A hunch, a feeling, an urge to go one way or another. A drive to be a musician or engineer or teacher would be subconsious. A subconscious thought would always be there as an urge or desire coloring our choices but unidentifiable as a specfic thought with sentence structure and story. "I just want it and I don't know why" is an example. This might be distinguished as follows. Do you desire the career or is there an unconscious thought pattern of choosing a career based on "following in your father's footsteps". You may desire that career or you may just do it because it is expected. The desired version is subconscious. The expected version is based on unconsious thoughts of yourself based on your "father voice". It could also be both. Great topic.

I agree. Marriage is a bad deal for western men, that's for sure. The law is against them, the culture is against them, and marriage can even be forced upon men with tenfold its drawbacks and none of its benefits. However MGTOW lays this down at the feet of women alone, when it's the state that corrupts them. MGTOWs telling men it's women's fault takes away blame from the state which is a changeable factor. Women have been the same for tens of thousands of years and if there's indeed no advantage whatsoever in marriage then surely the MGTOW phenomenon should have come into existence a long, long time ago. If only there was a way to get a lifelong partner without involving the state. If only there was some way 2 people that want to spend the rest of their lives together could find some way to reach a mutual understanding without involving a third party...

Audio books. Reading, as in the actual action of looking at text, is a very archaic form of communication and counter-productive to our nature. Learning how to read is as an arduous process as is learning how to draw, or play an instrument, diet, and so on. Silent reading is a phenomenon only centuries old if I'm not mistaken. People used to have to read out loud in order for them to comprehend what words were written. The spacing between words is also artificial because there is no such thing in human speech. If you look at the audiogram of someone talking it's basically impossible to distinguish by looking where one word begins and ends. We didn't evolve to hear sounds with our eyes. Given the same text, the brain has to work a lot more to understand it by reading it than by listening to it. Audiobooks are far more efficient, you don't have to sit down and focus all your brain power on them, you don't have to make periodic pauses, you don't have to liner on phrases you didn't understand because you read them wrong, etc. I got into audiobooks about 10 years ago, and it wasn't an easy process, but now I can't consume books any other way. In fact I have had a period when I would "read" 2 books per week. I don't anymore because I kinda ran out. I don't worry myself with how much of the book I remember after reading it because not all books are worth remembering. I trust my brain to sort out from the barrage of information I give it what is interesting and useful to me and not to waste precious brainspace with pointless data. I know some people sell reading as a mark of intelligence. It's no more a mark of intelligence as is watching movies/documentaries.

Trump couldn't negotiate his way out of a paper bag. He's NOT a politician; he has no political background whatever, and I don't care that he's the newest celebrity president. Sorry; I'm not a fan of Trump. He's a misogynist, ableist, and racist. And that pig has his finger on the button, for God's sake! I understand why people voted for him: it's because he had the most extensive media coverage during his campaign, and because he literally shouted down any possible opposition. He appeals to the rednecks and to the gun-crazed morons down in the southern part of the country. And Stefan sanctioned him, which, really, to me, just goes to show how even the most intelligent people can make hideously misinformed decisions. I'm not saying that, of necessity, I would have preferred Hilary (I'm Canadian, not American, so I can't REALLY talk), but she did strike me as the lesser of two evils.

Soulfire, you're hilarious! Keep up the comedy; I like your style. Also, "we" aren't fucked. Just you people. This idea that you low-IQ sex-deviant arts major welfare recipients consider yourselves our equals....

Cute twang lol

This is a self-contradictory statement. Take care, tuts! ♥ *woman

Is human life worth more than animal life? If so, why would human life be worth equal to a more intelligent, more sentient machine?