Triumph

Ben didn't make any good points. He didn't make any bad points. He just played the politically correct card over and over.

This is a short and interesting debate between liberals on islam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAob0bCWpv4 Affleck definitely comes across as a dick. lol

maturity at it's finest oh btw, this is from the james brown's Ray Rice hypocracy video

I see what you are getting at Sal, but I think you have your sets and subsets backwards. if I am understanding you correctly {omnipotence^(omniscience)} is your set and {Reality} is your subset. But with god being someone who would exist outside time, past & future aren't a thing to him. There is only present. So if god made a decision to influence our reality, we would percieve it as a decision in our past, a decision in our present and a decision in ourfuture. However from his perspecitive it was 1 decision and not at least 3. Simplifying it, reality is surjective to god and not god surjective to reality.

They're not blind that men are stigmatized too, they choose to ignore it. Current feminism is where sadist women gather to find targets to abuse. They don't care about women's rights in a practical sense. This commercial is just an attempt to stay relavent, and to provide justification for more abuse for them to inflict on men and women who don't agree with them.

You want the truth?YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Forgive me for the harshness of my post. Emotional traps are far harder to attack than logical traps. Feelings of guilt and self esteem are particularly difficult to address as for every argument against them, there are several counter-arguments for the unspoken mind to seize on and keep us prisoners. My post was designed to attack some of these emotional traps. I myself have issues of guilt from 2 suicide attempts by two young men I was in charge of when I was in the military. The hazing was pretty terrible, and the abuse was only getting worse. I knew some of my guys were thinking about suicide, and I did try to stop the hazing. But it was not enough. The one attempt was more a cry for help and the other, the guys passed out before he could finish a third bottle of sleeping pills. So I used to self-attack about it, if only I had been there at the right time to stop it. Or if only I had given him a little more encouragement to keep going and said the right thing. There is truth in it, which is why I couldn't stop self-attacking. If I had been there at exactly the right time, neither one would have tried to eat a couple bottles of pills to kill themselves in front of me where I could've stop them. If I had given them more encouragement and watched them closer they wouldn't have tried to kill themselves that night. And that is a truth. So I am not saying one day when you are stronger, you will stop self-attacking yourself . What I am saying to you is to understand the bigger truth, just like I did. I could have prevented those two kids from almost killing themselves for 1 night, if I had been smarter, faster, or more compassionate. But the night after that? Or two days later? A week? A month? The truth of it was I couldn't stop the source of abuse that was the reason that caused them to try and kill themselves. The only real solution to that situation would have been to of had the rank an authority to of stopped it. That was something I was already working toward as a goal for myself. I just wasn't there yet. And I believe, if you think about it and are honest with yourself, you will realize that you were already doing what you needed to do in order to rescue her one day. You just ran out of time, and that is something no one can do anything about. For me it's not that I have stopped self-attacking, it's that I have answers for the questions I use to attack myself.

Sorry I'm late to reply. Apparently I've been murdering kittens somewhere O_o The first point I am going to make, has little effect on the broad argument put forth by the article or those of us who have posted in this thread. But it is quite potent in illustrating the lack of sophistication imbedded in both. And it is simply that Gray Wolves are extinct. The author's only direct reference to breed, as well as a certain other internet warrior's, both took the bait in referencing a rather unscientific taboo when they associated the researched behavior with Gray Wolves. For those that don't know, Gray Wolves was the name of the breed of wolves that existed in the lower 48 states until they were hunted to extinction in the 19th century. What little remains of their lineage was absorbed into Canadian Timber Wolves. Since then those genetics have been diluted to nonexistence amongst the Timber Wolf populations, what was once called Gray Wolves no longer exist. Today, the name Gray Wolf is mistakenly interchanged with Timber Wolf. Now I have gone through that lengthy explanation, to explain why I instantly disregarded the Article linked as an Editorial and not a scientific article. Scientific articles are meticulous about the language they use. They also highlight specific portions of the scientific research they are use to support their claim and not to provide links to studies they are debasing without direct contradictory evidence. To give an example, if she had wrote, "During a study of three wolf packs in West Yellowstone, in 2002-2005, by Dr. ImaWolfexpert, he observed no aggressive dominant behavior among the individual members of the packs, not even during feeding." That would have been actual scientific statement used to support her assertions. Then a proper link could have followed it. But you don't see that. Her arguments are weak but appealing to any person who has felt wrongly judged by the Alpha/Beta standard. Linking a couple out of context scientific articles to readers who don't have the specific knowledge to decipher them , is fairly common place misdirection in modern journalism. It is an editorial piece buried within a hollow shell of facts and research to give it the appearance of science. But honestly, unless you are a baby face internet warrior with an IQ of 50, terribadd photoshop skills, and a thumb up his butt, you are going to catch on to the fact the author is full of shit and question the article's validity. I think itsmassive linked a poor article and said as much, but I think he did something quite valuable in questioning the use of the alpha/beta stigma in human society. It's a good subject, quite unworthy of the trolling this thread has received. It wasn't long ago that Stef called Robin Williams an alpha male, something almost all of us would agree too. However contrasting someone like Robin Williams with the stereotypical alpha in wolves, the comparison falls apart. Middle aged to older male, average height, average build, amazingly humorous and witty are not the marks of a hyper aggressive & physically impressive alpha male in a wolfpack. The pros and cons of such comparisons are a worthy topic. Just not in reference to that wolf article. If certain idiots want to keep arguing with me over trivial questions like, why don't we see male pups in wolfpacks trying to assert their dominance over their father as the new Alpha so that they can then fuck their own mother, I just going to link articles on inbreeding. Then question if you weren't a victim of a brother sister pair yourself, before dismissing you completely. Social animals like wolves have complicated behaviors based on multiple driving forces making the specifics of their behavior hard to identify. It is why you need top grade research, and not armchair speculation by journalists distributed their articles as facts to inflame preexisting prejudices among the vulnerable or just the idiotic. Hopefully a few, will find some value in this post and reexamine some of the flaws in the linked article that you may have missed or pointing out some that I missed. Anyways later.

Betas like you are so adorable when they bare fangs at an Alpha. I haven't had this much fun since I played with a newborn kitten keep going

Honestly I think it is just emotional fatigue. Feeling too many strong emotions for too long. From what little you have told us about your history, it is more than reasonable to believe that is the case. Like any fatigue the answer is to rest. With emotions that is all about environment.

Wait what? So, it's not opinion because she's a journalist? Therefore it is fact, even though she is not a wolf researcher? Please call into Stef's show and make that argument. There's a lot of other things wrong with your reply. I doubt it is wolves that you are really arguing about anyways. Perhaps the reason you are defending her article is because there are people who hate the idea that they qualify as a Beta. It probably makes some people feel better to attack the source of the Alpha concept.

My father never yelled at me. Maybe once a month would he raise his voice, and even then it was corrective more than mean. Anything he ever asked me to do was something he would do himself with twice the effort. My mother was and is a kind soul. She raised her voice more often than my father but for every 1 angry word she would say it was after 100 words of kindness. Very loving and very compassionate. When I had a test or contest I was worried about, she would just tell me if I did my best that she would be proud. And I always did my best for her. I was spanked by my mother when I did wrong, and spanked by my father with a belt when I really did wrong. But I would never say that I was beat. Spanking might be wrong and a huge taboo with stef and others, but there is a big difference between parents that love you and don't know another way and abusive parents hitting their kids. Regardless I was a happy kid. The reason why I am telling you this Ms. London 22yro, is that you really were robbed of a good childhood. You were robbed of a chance to be a happy kid and I was lucky. Right now you are letting your subconscious beat yourself up because you were not the perfect daughter. You're beating yourself up because you could have saved your mother, and didn't. You've beat yourself up because you're not as pretty as you should be. Then you beat yourself up for the eating disorder. Enough Answer the questions from your subconscious that are attacking you and be done with them. A person eats because it is good for them. You are more than beautiful enough already for any man to fall in love with you and any woman should be a little jealous. You were not the perfect daughter because to be perfect at anything requires a person to know all the important information to make only the best decisions. No child knows enough to ever make perfect decisions. And your mother's suicide. It's a lie to say you couldn't have done anything that night to stop her. It's a lie to say if you hadn't cut off contact with her that she wouldn't have killed herself. We don't know and it's a lie for anyone to say they do. But keeping her alive is not the same as saving her. And what you were doing by cutting the bad out of your life so that you could grow into a stronger happier person was in fact a way to become a daughter who could one day reach back and save your mother. A drowning person can't save anyone else until they are in fact no longer drowning themselves. Your mother made her own decision. Don't be so arrogant to think you were the only one in her life she could have reached out to for help. Answer the questions that torment you and put them to rest, and never touch them again. Arrogance and pride make us think we ever could have made the perfect decisions in the first place. Don't let those two things keep you from forgiving yourself for making mistakes. It's ok for a person who made mistakes throughout their life to find happiness.

Yes and no.If the question is does walking more improve fitness, the answer is Absolutely. If the question is, did walking more achieve your fitness goals, the answer is hell no. Currently as I am typing this, the skin around one of my knees is peeling. Too many knee surgeries, and I have walked on it too much recently. Once upon a time I was a pretty good distance runner. But I can tell you, when it comes to motivation there is no magic answer. You have to figure it out yourself. The best place to start though is with the things that are easiest. For me, walking was a stop gap exercise. I only ever did it a few times, because I found it boring, and not demanding enough. That's where the hell no comes from. Because I always moved on from walking to more ambitious things like swimming, biking and running (when I could). That said, walking was a great motivation for me. And if walking seems too easy, get a backpack and add a thirty pounds to it. Still easy add more. Even the simplest exercise can be made challenging if you add reps or weight.

Wild wolf packs... which kind? Timber wolves? Gray wolves? Red Eye wolves? Maybe Asian or European wolfpacks? Where did she do her research...oh wait what research? If you notice the author links numerous studies she considers outdated, but never links a single piece of her own research. In other words she spends the entire article refuting the articles of experts while quite clearly ignoring the fact that she is no expert herself. She super imposes her amateur opinion as fact, and then displays expert research as outdated opinion. I get a little frustrated when other people can't identify such an obvious schemer.

Consider yourself a bystander to a confrontation between 2 guys in a similar situation. In one version the bullied character never fights back or says anything, in the other version he has enough one day and tells Bill lets go to the gym and settle this in the ring?! Which of the two do you respect more? It's obvious to make the Alpha male connection. But it is really more than that. As social creatures who depend on other around us for survival we find ourselves more at ease surrounded by capable individuals. Now imagine you meeting two new guys, and both of them are categorical beta males. One of them though has a PhD in Astrophysics, and you can immediately tell talking to him that he really is intelligent. The other beta... not so much. If you're like me, the Astrophysics degree causes you to respect that individual a lot more. It's not an issue of him being an alpha or beta, it's about knowing him to be incredibly capable. anyways, my $0.02

A good start, would maybe be to walk to bus stops further away from home. Or just get dropped off further away from home than normal and walk the rest of the way.

Sorry itsmassive I have to throw the flag that the article is"bullshit". I've seen enough alpha/beta behavior among dogs and other animals to know for certain that it is a prominent component of pack psychology. The one thing I will agree with is that the Alpha/Beta paradigm is over emphasized. Most behavior can be related to survival instinct, and not dominance.

Good to hear you are doing well.

those subjects but the opposite position. The best speech & easiest speech I ever gave was why Christ couldn't have really existed. I did this at a Christian school. A+ from a Christian professor. ...it's always funner to play the villian.

Dude you don't need a dick punch, you need a Chuck Norris dick punch. So at best, it's temporary insanity you are dealing with here. The ditching your first date to help her friend isn't a bad thing, friends are important. The whole cuban guy marraige thing, after only 5 days is simply insanity. So yeah walk away because you need to. And the reason you need to is for as much of her sake as yours. Because nothing good can ever come out of that marriage if it happens, and the woman you are trying to date will be dragged in as emotional support every time cuban dude cheats, or beats this girl's friend. If she ever clears her head and returns to sanity, she will think more of you for walking away and not enabling her in a self-destructive relationship.

Sad and disturbing, but good info Waleed.

It's a bit rude to post links without any description or summary. An alarmist title only makes it worse, as spam and viruses use such tactics. Please reconsider your post. With a bit more effort I am sure more people would be interested in the contents.

My answer of choice in interviews for the greatest weakness question is "I'm terrible at interviews".

I know I don't go to certain restaurants anymore because of tipping. If a meal is only worth $10 to me, and I am expected to pay $10 + tip, I suddenly find an excuse to cook for myself or pack a lunch. I guess that is the free market solution to things. Less business for the restaurants because of the added expense for not looking cheap.

As Sal was saying, there can be quite a bit of wear on electronic components. Most of it is heat related. Laptops are something incredibly susceptible to heat. Electronics simply aren't built to last because there is no demand for it. You can't resell a laptop, even if it is as good as the day you bought it. As such, there is no reason for a manufacture to design them using expensive components that last.