Dylan Lawrence Moore

Not really one that I think you could chat well with, but Xenogears.

I was actually referring more to entering another country. If you try to stay there, you can't work and will be forced to leave.

Right, but how is that analogous to leaving the country? Has she or have you ever tried to move to another country? It's a little more extensive than simply "an option to leave".

Which option is that?

!! That's an awesome idea. If the philosophy is potentially dangerous for the relationship at the moment, why not start with something from FDR on a different topic? Say, for example, the Bomb in the Brain series?

"Wouldn't God know the difference between you actually believing in him and you just hedging your bets, then judge you accordingly when you die?"

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In Washington State there's a program for high school juniors and seniors that allows them to attend community college to simultaneously get high school and college credit. I did this my senior year of high school and didn't have a single class at the high school the whole year. I loved it. Plus the State paid for (i.e. extracted money from taxpayers for) everything except books. It's called Running Start here. Possibly Michigan has a similar program? Also, I graduated at 18. I was older than everyone in my class. My mom took a recommendation by a preschool teacher to hold me back a year because my birthday is in the summer. Lame.

Thanks for moving the goalposts. "Okay you're right, but I'm going to use words like 'could', 'possibly', and 'maybe' to downplay it." I explained this. Read my post again. Proteins get transcribed from a string of DNA, which includes the slingshotted DNA plus what is adjacent to it. So you can know that the DNA your shooting in is going to produce the insect gut-binding proteins by itself, but you don't know what is going to be made with the combination of the new DNA and the original adjacent DNA. Thus there is no way of knowing what rogue proteins you're creating (nor is there really a practical way to identifying without making specific efforts to do so), which could very well be toxic in the same way that the gut-binding proteins are toxic for the insects. And because, as I said, one DNA "unit" does not equal one protein, which is the science the GE companies base their announcements off of. I did post a video of a genetic engineer explaining it. Sorry that doesn't meet your standards. Thanks for the strawman. Not sure which popular boogieman I brought up, or what that second sentence has to do with anything. Actually, I kind of thought I was providing information that wasn't commonly known, especially as I've done some study into biochemistry.

Didn't read my post, huh?

Got it!!

I think the acronym you were looking for is GEO - genetically engineered organism. As far as I understand, selective breeding falls under GMO. However, GEO is where you do things like slingshot bacteria DNA into corn DNA. Unfortunately, I thought I had it bookmarked, but I can't seem to find it, now. I watched a video of a genetic engineer describing just how GEO's are toxic. Here's a regurgitation of that plus what I know of biochemistry and other personal research. Quick biochemistry lesson for those not in the know: DNA --> RNA --> protein RNA gets transcripted from DNA which gets transcripted into proteins. Proteins are the things that do stuff in the body. DNA just provides the blueprints how to make them. The basis is that there's nothing toxic about the DNA which gets engineered, however the proteins can VERY well be toxic. This is evident, as the entire reason of genetically engineering, say, corn with bacteria DNA is because that bacteria naturally creates a protein which binds up the guts of specific insects. This will cause the insects to starve to death regardless of how much they eat. GE companies claim that the GEO's are harmless because they know the code of the DNA they're sling-shotting into the plants. If you know the DNA code, you can calculate out the amino acid formation of the proteins it will develop. If these proteins are proven safe for human consumption, that would imply that the GEO's are also safe for human consumption. However! This is only true if one DNA code "unit" corresponds to one transcripted protein. As was explained in the video (which I can't find or remember the name of the guy talking :/ ), prior to the Human Genome Project it was assumed that one DNA "unit" corresponded to one protein. There are roughly 100,000 known proteins in the human body, and the HGP turned up a measly 25,000 "units". That means that one gene corresponds to MORE than one protein. As I learned in my biochemistry class (which was awhile ago and I sadly only took one), proteins are transcribed from a series of adjacent "units". That means that any sling-shotted bacteria DNA is going to provide protein blueprints in conjunction with the adjacent plant DNA it's combined with. GE companies are thus touting old and incorrect science when they say that 1 DNA "unit" = 1 protein. The reason I use the word "sling-shotted" is because there is no way to predict where this bacteria DNA will end up in the plant DNA. This means there is absolutely no way to predict any "rogue proteins" that may form, which means any guarantee of safety is bullshit. Hope that helps! Also, I just want to add, that the "GMO is just selective breeding" is a wonderful strawman argument that picks on people who think they're saying GEO when they say GMO. Yes, humans have been selectively breeding various plants for thousands of years (GMO), however they have not been slingshotting bacteria DNA into plant DNA for any sort of similar length of time. In addition, what I just posted says nothing about the disastrous effects of "Round-Up Ready" plants.

I'm totally confused by the independent variable. Which years is the graph going off of?

Can you get a job at 16 that provides room and board and you live on site? Like an oil rig or a lumberjack or something? Find someone to get you some fake documents so you can say that you're 18 and get out?

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Slightly beside the point of the thread, but just wanted to point out that from what I understand, aspartame (the fake sugar in Diet Coke) is also very addictive (not to mention toxic). Might be a double whammy with the caffeine.

Welcome! I hope you can start producing media in German so German speakers don't have to speak English to get a hold of it.

I apologize for not going into more detail about it, but have you considered getting in his face so badly that he thinks twice about nagging you again? I have a eerie feeling that if you simply demand from him to talk to you in a more respectful manner over and over again without budging an inch, even if he doesn't acknowledge it, he'll start treating you better. Rule #1 with predators is to go after weak prey.

They did another one on diamonds that was pretty damn good, too.

Gnostic Media Podcast #49 and #50 The Trivium, by Sister Miriam Joseph Simply listening to Stef. And I won't say the entirety of Peace Revolution Podcast, but a whooooole damn lot of it. And, loosely related, the Ultimate History Lesson (free on youtube and the piratebay).

Awesome work so far, Ritchey. It's really commendable that you've gotten so far with everyone and that you're making one more household not only safer for children to grow up in, but helping the parent get over her own obviously abused mentality. I also have to commend K for trying to so hard to change and being willing to go against the very grain of the way she thinks, even though it's so difficult. I have a few comments: 1.) Has K apologized for the specific things that she did to J growing up (belt-beating and so on)? You mentioned she apologized about some things but didn't get into detail. The reason I ask is, how can J know that K just doesn't have something hidden up her sleeve to backstab J later if K doesn't apologize for past wrongs? If this is the case, it looks like nothing can really be achieved until K apologizes to J for what she did (i.e. admit that she was wrong AND show that she does not intend to commit wrongs again in the future), because K's past actions simply trump whatever is coming out of her mouth in the present. Sounds like she's not aware of using negotiation to produce win-win situations; that is, she's stuck in the mindset that any time there is any sort of “conflict” there must be a winner and a loser, and she's not willing to be the loser. Have you brought this concept up to her, yet? I think this is a case-in-point for my first comment.. Once you admitted you were wrong you showed her that you weren't putting yourself on a pedestal above her and it was safe to communicate with you. Just curious, how do you know which movies will and won't hurt her? What exactly do you mean by hurt? And in the end do you actually forbid her from watching certain movies, or do you just show disdain if she chooses one that falls out of your accepted list? Because if it's the former I would definitely say that's ordering about, while the latter ultimately places the decision in her hands. I don't think the analogy of “You are to K as K is to L” is fair. A 13 year old is on the cusp of being able to take full responsibility for herself and her actions, whereas a 4 year old isn't even close. The 4 year old doesn't even have her rational mind accessible yet, let alone her moral one. That sounds like the most arbitrary, bullying rule that a parent could come up with. What was the purpose of that other than to piss J off and make her feel like she is in a prison? The reason I ask is because of your last sentence there “we worked out a deal”. What deal is there to work out? Going from 100% force (you can go to NO friends' houses) to 90% force (you can go to 1 friend's house) isn't any more of “working out a deal” than the mafia settling for $90 of protection money this week instead of $100. I apologize if I sound a little gruff about this comment, but I grew up in a household where “deals” like this were worked out with me and all it did was make me a seething, hateful liar. Great post! Keep us updated.

Also, is she going to public school? Maybe trusting "parents" at home isn't enough if those trusting parents have regularly sent her to the Meat Grinder where's she surrounded by not only back-stabbing peers, but more dominating adults as well. If 90% of the adults she's dealing with are manipulative, maybe you two simply aren't making a big of enough impact to be a noticeable difference in her life.

Can you give us a few words, at least? I'm not managing to interpret this in any sort of FDR fashion. Reminds me more of Frank Herbert meets Tolkien.

While not exactly being the most astute philosopher, Maddox manages to get the point across in his rudimentary sort of way:

As someone who failed to learn 3 different languages (Japanese, classical Greek, and Sanskrit) before finally managing to grasp one (German), the only thing I can say is muscle memory is everything. Teach yourself how to speak the words outloud without translating in your head, even if this involves repetition until you go nuts. If you ever want to know a language as more than something in your internal museum, you have to break that "gotta translate it in my head first" gap. Unfortunately I figured this out after studying all those languages, but the best way to remember something is to make a stupid phrase in your own language (English, obviously in this case) that vaguely sounds like what you're trying to remember. For example, I'm working with a girl from the Arapaho Native Tribe and I've been bugging her to teach me some of the language at work. I learned quickly that "Arapaho" is the English word for Hananetit--what the tribe calls themselves. I had a hell of a time remembering it and had to ask the girl several times when I finally took a second to figure out what sounds similar in English. After a few moments of pondering I came up with "Hand on a teat" and the word hasn't left my head since.