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I just can't be a cynic, and believe that everything ultimately reduces to prudence, or selfish benefits. Call me averse, but I can't. Goodness is gen...
October 21, 2017 at 16:54
Empathy makes contentment impossible, for as long as even a single feeling thing remains discontent. You can be content some of the time, but not all ...
October 21, 2017 at 16:26
"But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat ...
October 21, 2017 at 16:07
I'm a big fan of the idea that you can know a lot about people based on their bodies, and there is some recent literature that links depression with i...
October 21, 2017 at 15:25
Lies are evil as fuck, but I always remember that deception is a double edged sword, and people just don't understand just how terrible they are. Trus...
October 21, 2017 at 14:28
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Same reason I've never met a leprechaun, I suppose.
October 20, 2017 at 19:07
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I did, and do. People are only super humans in stories, I've never met one.
October 20, 2017 at 18:15
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I'm sure that they were all horrifically, unrecoverably traumatized.
October 20, 2017 at 18:12
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I don't know if it's true, and I don't know if that even makes him full of shit about anything he said, or stood for, but just wanted to point out tha...
October 20, 2017 at 18:12
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I've had my arms felt, like checking out my muscles, ass slapped a few times, been kissed when I wasn't interested, and had a co-worker try to get me ...
October 20, 2017 at 18:08
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The world I live in, men do the propositioning, and make the initial moves, that's just how it's done, and consent is never explicitly given. Trump sa...
October 20, 2017 at 17:58
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They aren't children, they're complicit to the extent that they do not protest, or tell them not to. Kristnamurti was doing his best bud's wife, whom ...
October 20, 2017 at 17:48
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Loius C.K. apparently forces female comics to watch him masturbate, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer guy's ex-wife wrote that he wasn't behavin...
October 20, 2017 at 17:33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP2WlfTiohw Can't watch it all now, just the first few minutes, gotta go to work, but will when I get home!
October 20, 2017 at 04:42
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Cosby though, I thought was actually drugging and raping women though... I thought that other guy was just making use of the casting couch, not litera...
October 19, 2017 at 18:03
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Well, I think that since something like this is becoming such a big deal, it is probably a sign of its decline anyway. If everyone was doing it, and i...
October 19, 2017 at 17:52
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I have two sisters... I think you're just imagining what kind of monster would do that. I of course am not saying force, or rape or anything. You'd ba...
October 19, 2017 at 17:35
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I also mentioned like hollywood star level hot, man.
October 19, 2017 at 17:32
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I excluded teacher and student positions.
October 19, 2017 at 17:31
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I was talking about this, and I clarified some with my subsequent post. I simply don't believe people when they say that they're immune to such things...
October 19, 2017 at 17:30
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I know that I definitely never use my riches and influence to get laid. Never.
October 19, 2017 at 17:28
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A lot of things people freak out about reduces to them never having been in a position to do it, rather than just not doing it out of their virtue.
October 19, 2017 at 17:28
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If I was like in an important producer position, and totally could just give roles to anyone, without breaking any laws, and like some of the hottest ...
October 19, 2017 at 17:25
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I stopped really at the "firstly", as I didn't feel like going to equality dynamics, and incentives in general, both of which are more complex.
October 19, 2017 at 17:19
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There are many factors to consider. Firstly, it is inappropriate for subordinates and superiors not because of coercive incentives, but because positi...
October 19, 2017 at 17:17
YES!
October 19, 2017 at 09:24
Okay?
October 19, 2017 at 07:08
They're too fancy for eating, only shitty one's are eaten, not good ones. Who'd eat a fancy one? https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-942b646a916932e...
October 19, 2017 at 07:04
What good is half a camel? Presumably they aren't for eating...
October 19, 2017 at 06:56
C'mon, you can't divide 17 camels in half either!
October 19, 2017 at 06:54
I didn't just guess, Sterling actually have 17 cigarettes in their 20 pacts.
October 18, 2017 at 15:49
? https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/c/ca/Ff14-monster-morbol.jpg
October 18, 2017 at 15:34
Lol, I really have to quit...
October 18, 2017 at 14:03
Well, you're fucking weird then.
October 18, 2017 at 13:58
It isn't physically impossible, but it isn't something that is done. You technically can divide a cigarette in half with a knife, but "technically cor...
October 18, 2017 at 13:52
Sterling. Though you can't give someone half of 17.
October 18, 2017 at 13:35
I felt like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESGKpMHBSoQ
October 17, 2017 at 16:22
You called me that once, I had to look it up.
October 17, 2017 at 16:12
I do think that Thoro is right though, and it totally is anti-intellectual to boot someone for their views, even if they are a Nazi. As long as they a...
October 17, 2017 at 15:01
Don't be ashamed of your undying love for me. Sing it from the rooftops.
October 17, 2017 at 14:57
I point it out when people start with that kind of stuff because it is kind of a big shrug. Not because I feel attacked, but because it isn't addressi...
October 17, 2017 at 14:50
Glad to be of service. :D
October 17, 2017 at 14:43
I qualified with "apparently", I read your objections, but also Thoro's response to it.
October 17, 2017 at 14:41
Are you coming on to me?
October 17, 2017 at 14:40
Pfft, I don't race to the bottom, trying to be the biggest victim, I'm a lion.
October 17, 2017 at 14:38
Oh, I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about how I think someone that doesn't always win feels.
October 17, 2017 at 14:36
We should all just hug it out. We shouldn't be too lip biting, about views, evaluations, or even witticisms that personally amuse us. The thing is not...
October 17, 2017 at 14:33
I should also point out that at no time did I say that compassion is a bad thing, or anything like that, I was saying that it doesn't make a good ruli...
October 17, 2017 at 08:29
I don't know what to say to that compassion isn't an interaction... so you can be compassionate completely regardless of how you interact with people?...
October 17, 2017 at 08:16
When do you ever actually interact with "humanity in general"? How can what I said not be true? Why you callin' me names, man? I gave sources, I didn'...
October 17, 2017 at 07:49