Pain is preferable to boredom. An experiment was done were people were locked away for 15 minutes without distractions, with only the option to shock ...
It doesn't have to be fun, it just has to be interesting. Disappointment is a by product of expectations. Have lower expectations, be more easily plea...
Nah, it's wish fulfillment. We identify with, and live vicariously through the hero, they're us. The problem is that war isn't glorious like it is in ...
Yes, I unabashedly point out that life is drama and misery, and that is precisely what makes it so great, interesting, and worth living. The depressio...
I'd rather just complain and not actually do anything. That's what heroes do. There was a very popular book called "breaking vegan" which was topping ...
Well, I don't have much issue with the genuine healthcare industry, and of course am using only data from the genuine medical industry to counter "hea...
On Futurama society crumbled at the advent of sex robots, because impressing the opposite sex was the reason anyone did anything, and without a need f...
And we actually can and do synthesis b12, I should mention, but just too low in the colon to be absorbed by the body, but human waste is still full of...
There is loads and loads of bullshit about b12 on the intertubes, but see if you can find any cases of vegans that have actually developed b12 deficie...
Well, sure, foods that are high in calories but low in nutrients are not so good for you, but you can lose weight eating nothing but Twinkies, and gai...
You're 70, sounds like you're in pretty good shape to me. I take care of my dad, and he's 6'3 320 lbs, and has diabetes. He's only 55, and can't even ...
I know that you can't cook the sauerkraut or it ruins it, but I read that the bread is supposed to count, don't know how that works. I'm going to have...
I have two coffees in the morning with soy milk. Then at night I have a large spinach salad with sauerkraut, no dressing. 1/3 cup of beans, and 1/3 cu...
Should also say to eat yogurt. Worry about your gut flora, which is directly linked to weight management, cognitive function, stress resilience, and t...
I wouldn't do a low carb diet, it really isn't good for you. Carbs are plenty satiating, just avoid the combination of fat and carbs, that's what will...
A few other things, carbs don't make you fat. You'll lose more weight on a carb free diet than a fat free diet, but that's because you'll just harvest...
Yes, but it's also very important to point out that one doesn't have to be huge to be on steroids, that is the biggest misconception. In bodybuilding ...
The performance enhancing drugs hit the gym scene in the 1950s (and is readily available at pretty much any gym, for pretty cheap, less than $150 a mo...
There are no such thing as pyschopaths. Not that I take psychology all that serious, but it's not in the DSM, its closest analogue would be anti-socia...
I grew up with guns, definitely did it first. Shot plenty, used to throw knives, axes, and hatchets too, I like axes and hatchets the most, and still ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC534695/ That's a study that attempts to link memory consolidation to dreaming, and goes into the distincti...
There's different kinds of dreams, mostly we focus on REM dreaming, because it's more interesting, but non-REM dreaming is way better described as rec...
You misunderstand what I mean by form, and characteristics. I don't recall him talking about sensory modalities, chronology, spacial, or physical char...
Hmm, didn't remember him making that point, which is unfortunate. I've heard it made a lot, about how feeling with someone is inferior to being motiva...
Tell me what the difference is then, you figure? What distinction does he draw? My own view is that Nietzsche shouldn't be taken as endorsing a lack o...
"com·pas·sion k?m?paSH?n/ noun sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others." - dictionary. In any case, quoting authoriti...
Notice that, on its face, pleasure derived from misery is evil, whereas feeling empathetic, sympathetic misery for the suffering is good. These are ca...
No, hedonists can think what they like (though I highly doubt that they'd actually practice that opinion, and would rather viscerally feel this to be ...
That clearly isn't the case, and I don't know how you can reasonable maintain that. If that were the case, then it wouldn't matter if you cause the ha...
I don't think that I'm suggesting anything controversial at all, but quite universal, and ubiquitous. Causing someone harm and deriving pleasure from ...
No, that isn't the case. If it were just the pain that is caused, then whether or not pleasure was derived from the pain wouldn't effect how evil the ...
That is an amoral view, however, and not conventional. Normally there is more to it than just pleasure, as it matters what one takes pleasure in. Taki...
He thinks some things schop thought was stupid, you think some things he thinks are stupid, and it's a big circle. Smart people say things I think are...
When I went back to adult highschool, we were all talking about our pets for some class exercise, and this 30 year old woman with the fashion sense of...
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