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by thret 12y ago
SWM: still several orders of magnitude harder than being a beautiful woman. Seinfeld as evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb72AJDFAjE
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by thret 12y ago
Following your link and comparing the Hindu and Buddhist explanations of Karma, that makes more sense to me. It seems I've been co-opting the strictly Hindu interpretation while Buddhism is a bit different. Anyway, thank you. http:&#x
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by thret 12y ago
From the Karma in Buddhism wiki, Complex Process: Karma is also not the same as "fate" or "destiny". Karmic results are not a "judgement" imposed by a God or other all-powerful being, but rather the results of
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by thret 12y ago
Are you able to give a more accurate representation, or point me to a source that would do so? I am genuinely curious, this is the first I've heard someone say differently (I know several Buddhists/Hindus although none could be co
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by thret 12y ago
Unless I'm completely misunderstanding Buddhism, they would also see suffering as a result of accrued sin. Karma works both ways.
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by thret 12y ago
I'm Australian, 34, and yet to see a gun outside of a policeman's holster. Gun control: working as intended.
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by thret 12y ago
Once someone's already gone to all the effort of making a crop circle they are precluded from being a credible witness for other 'related' phenomena.
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by thret 12y ago
Unreal: "A WB receipt was leaked online, showing that the hugely successful movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ended up with a $167 million loss on paper. This is especially unusual, given that the Harry Potter film series
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by thret 12y ago
I care so little that after a few rounds of this I just made everything public by default. I've never used it to share personal information anyway.
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by thret 12y ago
Given how often those Monopoly sets get completed (never) I am assuming this will be equally rare. It is one of the better promotions I've seen though - spend the advertising budget on free meals to customers, get shared like crazy thr
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by thret 12y ago
That may be the most compelling game review I've ever read.
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by thret 12y ago
“We cannot think of any other, and simpler, explanation for the behavior of the chicks" Dr. Rugani said in an email. -- Is anyone else skeptical about their findings? I am reminded of the Feynman story about the rat experiment by Mr. Y
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by thret 12y ago
Me too! I've always thought losing my legs would be nothing compared to losing my eyesight. Good to know even that doesn't prevent you coding.
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by thret 12y ago
Only a few times have I watched a full three movies in a day, and I found it exhausting. I think having to watch movies all day every day would be much harder than it first sounds.
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by thret 12y ago
For the masses who spend the majority of their time watching sports, movies, tv, thinking about celebrities... How is gaming wasting their lives? What value do these other things have that gaming does not? I submit that hedonism is a purpos
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by thret 12y ago
Brett's father had retrofit a metal lock on his Celeron computer to prevent his son from gaming. (age 12) he was in the tenth grade .. he stopped bathing or brushing his teeth regularly. Basically these parents have 100k to shell out
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by thret 12y ago
Am I wrong in thinking a VR movie would be something like the experience in 'Being John Malkovich'? Even without a compelling narrative I can see that being quite enjoyable; especially for things that are difficult to do in real l
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by thret 12y ago
Related: A Unified Theory of Superman's Powers http://www.qwantz.com/fanart/superman.pdf How does Spider-Man Move So Fast? http://www.qwantz.com/fanart/spiderman.pdf
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by thret 12y ago
My understanding is that in battle, there were very few knights in full plate - it was very expensive, required training, ie. tended to be nobles. So while swords were effective against the peasants, knights were usually captured alive and
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by thret 12y ago
Woah there, it doesn't take a year. It takes several hours to learn how to touch type slowly, the speed comes as you type every day - which you're going to do anyway. You will save time whenever you touch a keyboard for the rest o
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by thret 12y ago
Do you mean the first episode? I think they can be viewed freely online http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/
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by thret 12y ago
You can download the paper in pdf for free here: http://libgen.in/scimag/index.php?s=10.1038/nphys3196
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by thret 12y ago
"Most people who quote Einstein’s declaration that “God does not play dice” seem not to realize that a dice-playing God would be an /improvement/ over the actual situation." (5.1)
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by thret 12y ago
I think sports are great, good exercise, good fun, team work and strong friendships and a healthy night out each week. Watching strangers play sports is insane. Without some personal vested interest, where is the point? The answer is sports
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by thret 12y ago
There's nothing modern about sports. We are much LESS* excited about them - than the Romans were. We also don't pay our sports stars anywhere near as much . https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VPENAAAAQAAJ&p
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by thret 12y ago
This is about the future, but I think can be applied equally derisively to talking to the dead. Also My Dinner With Andre is a great movie so why not share it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vGpBYJ5_6E&t=91m00s
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by thret 12y ago
I haven't played this game, but after I posted OP on my facebook feed I went out to a party and one of my friends confessed that it made him think of Mass Effect also. Apparently he put quite a lot of time into trying to build a relati
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by thret 12y ago
"Also true story I generated this data and actually wrote a for-loop that would print out the top ten most highly-correlated words from 10 to 1 and pause in between each word to build suspense (for me alone at my computer)." Adora
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by thret 12y ago
It probably comforts and reassures them, knowing that they are intrinsically smarter/more hygienic/law-abiding than other people. And they don't even have to prove it!
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by thret 12y ago
Wow, this just ruined my day and a lot of my childhood memories.

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