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Found this to be quite funny and thought I'd share. It's a segment from Charlie Brooker's "Weekly Wipe". British comedy at its best.
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It's not like that at all. It's meant as a character driven mystery-thriller. First two series are really great actually, then they got a contract for another 4 seasons and everything went downhill save the production value. Contrived plots and plotholes after plotholes, not even the writers knew what was going on... or cared.
In a nutshell (spoilers more or less):
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It's all fun and games till someone starts a Smarties Cartel and takes over the playground.
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Well that is quite a statement. We do not know that and I think it is irresponsible to jump to those conclusions.I have a problem with the FDR community constantly confusing wrongdoing by parents with bad intentions by the parents.In this case, maybe the parents were really worried about LP's feelings as a 4 year old and so they lied. The action is clearly incorrect in more than one level, but how do we go from that to saying they acted in self interest disregarding that of the child?
The sadness of the child comes from not having a grandfather anymore. What should it matter if he's dead or left forever? It's the same thing in the eyes of such a young child, which I don't think knows the difference regardless. All he knows is that grandpa is gone, and that doesn't change whatever the parents may decide to tell the child. Wrongdoing and bad intentions might not be so different in this case.
So we've got option a) tell the child his grandfather is dead, deal with the aftermath of the child missing grandpa; and option b) tell the child his grandfather left forever, deal with the aftermath of the child missing grandpa. I don't see how lying helps when the outcome is the same.
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I don't think they lied to you so as to spare you sadness, even if that's what they probably tell themselves also. They lied because they didn't want to deal with your sadness too. It may be hard to explain death to a child, but it's a lot easier on the parents not to bother explaining anything at all... and to pretend you just knew it all along.
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This reminded me of a great line from Catch-22: "Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains."
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Nobody should go through what you've been through. The fact that you've made it so far only attests to your inner strength. Not to mention that despite your dyslexia, you've got a very fluid writing style.
I can't find anything of value in your past so I strongly advice, like the other posters, that you should get those people out of your life. You also said that you would be homeless unless you live with your dad, and I can see how your decision now might be a good one. But you are seeing it as temporary, yes?
You mentioned a lot of failed business ventures, so I guess you're working on getting a place for yourself on a conscious level. Yet they seem to fail mostly because of your perfectionism, as you pointed out. So what you're saying is that your ideas don't fail cause they're bad ideas per se, they fail because of some of your traits. So my theory is that on a subconscious level, you're sabotaging yourself for something you did or think you did in the past.
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When you said she constantly changed the subject, what did she change the subject to? Was there any subject she was constantly talking about?
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Rather, you have no idea what I am talking about.
By "mainstream physics", I mean extensively empirically-verified physics, as opposed to anti-reality, nonempirical physics such as String Theory. That is, I mean the known laws of physics, viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics, of which have been confirmed by every experiment to date.
So mainstream physics is physics. And physics is tantamount to reality, that which exists outside ourselves. So everything that is not mainstream physics is equivalent to everything that doesn't exist in reality, meaning non-mainstream physics = fantasy. OK. But why point out that god was proven to exist through mainstream reality? Are you implying he was and/or was not proven to exist through fantasy beforehand?
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Protip: whenever you use wording like "mainstream physics" some people, myself included, might take it as clear evidence you have no idea what you're talking about.
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You could also make a piece that showcases technique over meaning. Play it on the safe side, you would not be selling your soul, nor putting your soul out there.
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I remember Hitchens' phrasing when confronted with this very exact statement, I hope I'm no paraphrasing too much:
"Regarding the statement that Stephen Jay Gould didn't believe in evolution. I have no idea how I can disprove it... except by quoting any line of any paragraph he has ever written."
And even if let's say that 99.9999% of the scientists did not believe in evolution, it still doesn't mean anything. If the facts still hold then those 99.9999% are wrong. Facts aren't chosen by committee.
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Comparing yourself to others is fine but don't confuse their values for yours.
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I hate Justin Bieber because people keep bringing up how much they hate Justin Bieber.
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It's seems to me you're rephrasing the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument. Which I agree with but I seriously doubt future 5 year olds will be inclined to start nuclear wars, assuming someone would make a future app for that. They'll be too busy collecting pokemons and playing with their future legos.
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Louis CK asks a couple of straight forward questions and hilarity ensues. It's amazing to see Rumsfeld slither away from a yes or no answer.
If it was posted before I apologize, but it's worth for a second laugh.
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But rules will exist. Rules are everywhere. Point of anarchism is that each person decides what rules to follow as opposed to a few people deciding what rules the rest of the population must follow. If I enter a store and the rule is an apple costs 100$, then I'll choose another store that sells cheaper apples. If I can't find one then I won't buy apples, and if nobody buys apples then the store owners will lose the investment they made in those apples and they will be forced to lower the prices or suffer a full loss. The government does just the opposite, it makes the store owner price the apples costly and it makes us buy apples, whether we want to or not.
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"Spare the rod, spoil the child."
Your magic-man endorses this too. So I take inconsistency to be the way for the lord, huh? I'll pass.
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I don't know anything about the stock market either, but if your solution proves to be the most effective then I'll only go into trades that holds said solution as a standard. So you knew the answer all along.
I guess my question may more accurately be "who determines the rules of the stock market without a government regulatory body?"
But the body that would establish the rules doesn't have to be a government body. Because the government is the body that regulates the stock market now it doesn't mean it cannot be regulated without the government. For example, in communist dictatorships the government was the one that distributed bread/milk/etc, that doesn't mean those goods cannot be distributed without government meddling.
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So I came across what seems to be North Korea's Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/stimmekoreas/videos
It's insane. I don't speak korean but it's so obvious everything is just a facade. Hitchens was right when he said people were wrong saying North Korea is like 1984, North Korea IS 1984.
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How would you deal with them?
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How are those dealt with now?
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So he says parenting doesn't affect personality, but culture does. And what, pray tell, affects culture if not ultimately parenting? Assuming the two aren't interchangeable concepts... which they are in most cases.
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1) Is it moral to make choices on behalf of someone else (that cannot yet express a choice) even if it's in their best interest? If you agree, then you agree vaccination is moral. If you don't then imagine you're in a wheelchair because of polio. Given access to a time machine, would you not make the choice to go back in time and urge your father to give you the polio vaccine?
2) Evidence just is, it comes from reality and not from a committee.
Moments of Wonder: Crime
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It's a segment from season 2 of Weekly Wipe, created by Charlie Brooker. It's basically a cynical brit's review of what happened in the previous week. In the same fashion he also did Newswipe, Screenwipe, Gameswipe, 2013 wipe, 2012 wipe, and so on. They're all on YouTube. Even though it's UK oriented, I find it a great way to keep up with what is going on in the world, especially because I don't watch any television at all.