Rventurelli

I have three blogs where I write poetry, book reviews and articles. Have had them for years, but lately, working 66 hours a week I have barely had any time to add anything to them. My biggest piece of advice to you is to try to be true to yourself. Some people are better at writing, others at talking and so on and so forth. You have to find out what works for you. Otherwise, the creative content will increase stress instead of release it.

A major part of his argument was whites becoming a minority in the United States, death of religion, polarization of politics and the different racial and ethnic groups having an ever bigger difference in values/culture.

There was an excellent book by Patrick J. Buchanan called The Suicide of a Superpower that asks the question: Will America survive to 2025? While I highly recommend the book, I think Mr. Buchanan exaggerated on purpose. The United States of America will probably collapse, at least in its current form, in my opinion, around 2030-35.

I am not. What I am saying is that land is the only thing worth fighting a war for. Be it for independence, for preservation of what is yours or if you happen to be a country with extremely high population density and not near enough resources to feed your population, what would be a collective self-defense thing.

P.M me.

Steam is a platform that sells video-games. Guess what, Half-Life 3 is supposedly going to be release this year or next one! Having a STEM degree also does not guarantee anything. Cheap H1B visa people from India and other countries still steal your jobs. In fact, 35 percent of people born in America and are STEM graduates are unemployed.

No because of the low achievers in the intelligence bell curve. There would be even more drug usage, crime and other negative social consequences because those people would have nothing else to turn to. Just pick any former industrial town in America (I live in one by the way), it is like people lost their souls. There is drugs everywhere, too much inbreeding and the associated depression in IQ, extreme obesity and just these far away eyes everywhere. It is quite sad to watch those people working three different dead end jobs and still only able to barely making it. Now imagine what would happen with self-driving taxi/deliveries, waiters and fast-food workers... Those people have no other potentiality, they barely know how to read and seems like one in three kids have autism or are somewhat mentally impaired. Not sure how much of it is only psychiatrists wanting to make a profit selling drugs and how much of it is due to inbreeding, however, it is a heart braking situation already, that in this scenario would only get worse.

Adoption studies show that there is an improvement in IQ, however, it is a pretty small one, like one to three IQ points at most and it has to be a huge disparity, for example, getting someone from the ghettos of Detroit to be adopted into the Rothschilds. Even then, the intelligence of the grown up adult will much more resemble the one of his biological parents than the adopted ones.

Depends on the person. If I read something out loud I can barely remember anything. If I read it silently I have a proverbial photographic memory, to the point I can remember the font that it was written on, if it was the left or right page, any figures that were next to it and so on and so forth.

Unfortunately way too common.

Congratulations, I think your video is a 10 out of 10. Nothing at all to complain.

As for myself, my childhood adversity score is of 7, and ever since like 12 or so, I always had the big desire to be a good husband and father. My friends always tended to be older and I always tended to bond well with much older people, often becoming almost a son for the fathers of my friends. It is a quite strange situation to be honest. Every time an older gentleman calls me "son" I feel extremely emotional. Also, every time I see a functional and loving family I get extremely happy inside. It is such a difficult sensation to explain. It gets me very upset to see people with good parents treating them like crap, which I see way too often, unfortunately.

Many people from dysfunctional families want to have their own family and be different than their parents. I know many people who had very dysfunctional families and either wish to correct that by being good parents or are themselves already good parents.

The proclaimed goals in both Iraq and Afghanistan were reached: they got rid of Hussein and Taliban control in Afghanistan. Those Wars were stupid and gave rise to ISIS and the migrant crisis, but they were not lost.

I mostly agree with everything you said, although there are those rare cases where people actually diced in humanities and actuality, do to H1B visas there are over 30 percent of Americans with STEM degrees that are unemployed. As for me, I dropped out of college in my country of origin with no debt to marry my now ex-wife. I was doing economics. After I divorced, I had an 11 dollars an hour job and a roommate, later I moved to a small town in Pennsylvania where the cost of living was low and found a warehouse job that pays $13.25 an hour. It is a decent Form of living without any education needed. Then I got hired for a government job that pays 16.46 am hour. Living alone in a small town... That is excellent. There are plenty of opportunities for people to leave their parents' home and sustain themselves. In my opinion they are just too scared of giving away the comfort they have. If I as an immigrant who has no degree, no family here and only very recently made friends here is able to do it, anyone with above average IQ and decent work ethic can do it.

You have to be really careful about the way you act because that creates a vicious cycle -- if you act in a very aggressive way or use passive-aggressive methods to people for long enough, they slowly drift away from you, in the sense they start being afraid to ask you anything or appreciate your company. Their honesty and patience fades away. They become kind of "zombies", in the sense that they are just "there" but their facial expression and actions show that they really do not wish to be there but are due to circumstances or a respect they had for you in the past that has long gone away. From personal experience, my ex-wife was ten years older than me and had been living alone for a decade. When we married, I had never lived alone before (I was 20, she was 30). Naturally, there were many things around the house that I did not know how to do, especially because I came from a upper middle-class household with maids and so on and so forth. Every single time I would ask her how to do anything, like for example, if there was any specific product she used to clean the cats' pee out of the carpet, she would yell, sometimes screaming "You useless, piece of sh**! You don't know how to clean cat piss?". Thing is, I was asking if because it is a carpet, if there was a need to use any specific cleaning products to remove the smell, however, in her cat lady head, everyone is born knowing all of those cat related things. Perhaps she thought that by acting like that it would encourage me to try to figure out things on my own, however, the effect was the opposite. I would in fact learn things and do it by myself when it was my interest to do so, however, any time that it was something non-essential or related to her, I would simply not talk to her at all and leave things be. It reached a point where we would not look into each other's faces anymore or speak to each other. My theory is the reasoning she did it (and look inside yourself, it might be the same for you), was because of very low self-esteem. Getting angry and humiliating people was a way for her to feel better about herself -- I have never heard her telling good things about anyone, like saying someone is hard-working, honest, kind... No, they were always garbage, abusive, violent, lazy... Whatever. One particular case she humiliated someone for the sole reason of doing it and tried to brag about that to me got stuck on my head was this: she has a non-profit and in the non-profit page an older lady (65+) was saying that the site had a problem because she was not able to connect to it. The old lady had written the link wrong, literally, she forgot to write one letter. My ex-wife responded in the non-profit page: "Batimore? Seriously? Are you retarded? It is Baltimore!". Of course there was no justification to act like this, the poor woman probably was without her glasses or simply is not good at typing. But see? It gave my ex-wife the pleasure of knowing that she is at least better at something than someone else! So... Do you have self-esteem issues? Do you notice a trend of you bad mouthing people on a regular base? I would watch out for those.

I am not sure if that is your case, however, one of the worse things you can possibly do is to invest in a degree for something you really do not care for or dislike. You will probably end up abandoning the course or never being really proficient in the field even if you do graduate. You have to do things that you are absolutely passionate about to really succeed in any field, you have to live and breath it. Otherwise your mind will just keep coming with excuses and distractions for you not to concentrate on the activities at hand. And that is the case even for more mundane tasks like being a plumber, gunsmith or others. If you were never interested in understanding the mechanics of guns, how does cables interact or how to fix a leak and you are over 30 now, there is no way to get your mind around it anymore.

How did the United States failed in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan? In the case of Vietnam it was the weak hand of the U.S government plus the anti-war sentiment at home that led to the withdrawn, there was not a single battle in which Americans actively lost to the Vietcong. Not only that, when the United States got out of there, it was under the illusion that they had trained and equipped enough the South Vietnamese that they would be able to hold themselves on their own.

Yes, however, within Japan, Somalia or whatever, there is a variance in the bell curve of possibilities, which happens in every country.

About World War II, the reason it came to be was because Britain and France gave a war guarantee for Poland, which encouraged them not to give Danzig back to the Germans or solve the "Polish corridor" question. Danzig was an almost entirely ethnic German city that was given to Poland when the country was again created after the Versailles Treaty. The Treaty also gave a big chunk of Prussia to the Polish, which literally cut of East Prussia from Germany, creating this absurdity that you can see in the map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Germany_1937.png Even Winston Churchill, who really hated Germans and Germany said that something had to be done to fix this problem (East Prussia being disconnected from the rest of Germany). What is even more absurd, is that the Soviet Union also invaded Poland, just a week after Germany did, and the Allies did not declare war to the USSR because of a loophole in the war guarantee agreement -- it only covered an attack from Germany. The Polish were extremely foolish in that way -- Hitler made a non-aggression pact and a friendly agreement with Stalin, and even after that, when Poland knew they could be attacked from both sides, Hitler sent three ultimatums to Poland to give Danzig back and negotiate a solution for the "Polish corridor" and they answered none. Then Germany had soldiers dressed as Polish soldiers attack an outpost of them to justify the war, however, that is a minor detail, it was the fact the Polish did not went to the negotiating table at all. What probably would have happened if Poland had given in to the demands, would be that Hitler would seal an alliance with Poland, and they both would invade the Soviet Union. By 1939, so right before the war, Germany was already the Großdeutschland (greater Germany), which included Austria and the Sudetenland, also having the Bohemia and Moravia protectorate -- the population density had therefore decreased considerably and other than Danzig and the Polish Corridor, most of the Germans were united under the same country, which was Hitler's main goal. Why do I think that Hitler would get an alliance with the Polish? Simple, Italy had/has a significant German majority in South Tyrol and Hitler gave up the claim in South Tyrol in exchange for an alliance with Mussolini.

It is that old cycle: crisis times create great man, great man create easy times, easy times create weak man, which lead us to crisis.

My opinion is that if there is going to be a war in the near future, it is probably going to be in Korea, and it is not only because of Tillerson's comments only -- North Korea fired missiles in the Japanese Sea and have been doing many more provocations. One can argue that they always have behaved like that, however, they are used with American leaders that are all talk and no action, Bill Clinton said he would do anything to stop North Korea to acquire nuclear weapons, did nothing, and during his own term was when North Korea got them. This time they may push too far and get a reaction that they are not expecting to get.

From what I understand, in New Hampshire there are a lot of Libertarians.

A lot of it, as with labour laws have to do with the increased life expectancy -- if there was a big tragedy and life expectancy dropped to 40, the legal age to start working would go down to 12 easily. What astonished me most, however, other than the sex reassignment surgery before the age of consent being legal, is the voting age being 18. The average 18 year old now is completely useless. We are pretty much kids until we leave college nowadays. An 18 year old in the 1940s probably started working at 12, was possibly married and a father and fighting the war. I am 23 years of age and will tell this... Of the Millennials I know (ages 18 to 33.), I can count on the fingers of one hand how many live by themselves and are financially independent. The enormous majority are living with their parents, the few that are not still receive financial help from their parents.

One thing most people do not understand about Japan is that the Emperor in Japan's history was always a symbol and never had any real power. People thought of him as a God, but he basically never did anything and therefore was never touched, never suffered a coup or assassination attempt. When he ordered the surrender, it was the first time that anyone in the public had ever heard his voice and the first and last order he ever gave. And then again, it is not necessarily that he had the power -- it was just the influence and respect the society put on him.