Randox

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If it doesn't harm others or infringe on other peoples rights, and its not harming you in a way that is going to cost other people money, I generally don't see the harm. On a totally different track, this thread has gotten me thinking about something. Discussion is all well and good from a theoretical, and philosophical perspective, in a pursuit to try and define morality, but it has very little relevance to most of the descisions we make, because most of the time, you either don't have the time, or don't take the time, to actually think about it. Most of the time, your decisions are going to be made the same we you pick a product in the grocery store. You subconscious mind will use markers in your memory to quickly go through your entire life experience for everything relevant, tally up the pros and cons using whatever criteria your specific brain uses, and provide the decision to your conscious mind before your even aware your making a choice. This is what happens every time your say, looking at the various penut butters on the shelf, and you just pick one without being aware of thinking about it. This is how most decisions are made. As a point of interest, if you can simplify it down to yes/no conditions, an MRI can tell you what your choice is before you know it yourself. The subconscious does a lot of leading. My actual immediate point, is that for example, I can try to figure out what I base my moral choices on, but it doesn't really work. There is going to be a lot of inconsistencies, because the mechanism being used to analyse myself is not connected to the one that actually makes most of the choices. Someplace in my brain there is hardwired into it, if not the actual rules that my mind uses, the source material that my brain uses every time it makes a choice. I would also suspect that it has made a lot of shortcuts so that it doesn't have to go through the whole process every time, which would mean you can set your own precedents. If you make an exception once, your brain is probably going to use that as the basis for any similar situation in the future, because it requires a lot less work.

I don't believe I ever said I derive my morality from my faith. I believe that the commandments are worth observing yes, but that doesn't mean they preclude my morality. I do not believe in absolute morality. Everything has some flexibility. I can't really go more in depth into how that doesn't cause me a problem here, since this is not a religious thread. If we're done with our religious debate, maybe we can get back to morals and ethics in general now?

ABORT ABORT! Been there, done that. You've accidentally hit on underage girls Randox? Nope. I mean I've thought about going up and talking to people, and then realized before I did so that they weren't nearly as old as they looked at first glance. I hate waking up, because all I ever want to do is go back to sleep. If only I could train myself to get up and get dressed before I woke up. I feel like if I woke up ready to get on with my morning, it might help.

For the commons it would be (in cell G16): =SUM(D2+D3+D6+D8+D10+D11+D15+D17+D18+D23) You wont need to reorder anything, but you will need to add every relevant cell to the equation manually.

Ah, a great point. But here is the thing for me, I don't consider your examples to have a right and wrong side, just two wrong sides. I have no expectation of myself or anyone else to starve rather than steal, but I don't think the circumstances make it right. I don't believe in a universal "do this", but that doesn't stop me from believing in universal principles. The nice thing about principles is they can be broken when the greater good demands it.

That blows both for her, and how you found out about it.

ABORT ABORT! Been there, done that.

Your assuming that the religion even really tells you what to believe. Some most certainly do, but not all of them. Some exist as a means to helping you find your own faith and beliefs. Here are the beliefs that my faith would actually require of me: 1. I believe that Jesus was the son of God. This is essentially what defines me as Christian. I could however reject this and still be welcome in my current faith, I'd just have to ignore a couple things. 2. I believe in the 10 commandments in so far as I believe that following them is the right thing to do. Since none of them violate what I would consider right, I have no reason to question them. Pretty much everything else would be left up to me to decide. I have discussed this sort of thing with my mother before, and I know that our beliefs are not the same (I'm not sure that my dad even believes in God, its never come up with him). That isn't a problem for us. My faith exists as guidelines to living a peaceful and kind life in this world, and as faith that it doesn't end when we die. It's really that simple. As for indoctrination, where you are taught to believe without question. I do believe that its wrong, but I also wouldn't expect someone who is indoctrinated to do anything less than brainwash their children. It does not seem reasonable to expect that having a child would allow you to step outside your own life experience which is what would be required to do otherwise. If society wants to pass a law against it, then they should face the consequences regardless of if they believe they are doing right (welcome to my world). To really explain my point of view, I believe in doing what you believe to be right, but if what you believe is right is against the law, then you must also pay your debt to society for your actions. The bolded portion being my choice of answer.

My religion does not preclude my morals, nor my scientific understanding thanks. It does for some people, but I do right by the law (with perhaps a couple exceptions), and I don't look to the bible for scientific understanding. Mostly, I am interested in ethics in why we do what we do. I find this to be quite interesting. For the indoctrination, I believe that parents should pass on those beliefs that they feel make their life better. To do less would be irresponsible by me. This includes things such as teaching right from wrong, or matters of faith. On a grand scale, I would define "right" as being whatever brings the most benefit to the most people. "Wrong" would be anything else.

I don't mind Gimmie what you got. Frexxx is tolorable. Dance is just terrible. I won't argue that any of them are quality music, but the first one in particular does seem to appeal to me on some level. And while we're on the topic, I hate people walking in an inappropriate or misleading times during a movie.

Edited in the link for the second page. The animals on page one were a big spider, slavemaker ant, and ganges shark. Page two is a flower, a bird, and a surprise (its not disturbing to like anyone, in any way, no worries). If you don't want to scroll up: http://www.cracked.com/article_16054_6-endangered-species-that-arent-endangered-enough_p2.html

I had a friend with, I guess moderate or maybe mild arachnophobia. From her I leaned that even seeing a picture of a spider was enough to make her really uncomftorable, and I actually started using it as threat if she ever talked to me about parasitic intestinal worms again, especially near or during a meal.

I actually really like the song Alone Again. But then, I'm Canadian :-P The song Over by Drake, is the worst thing I have ever heard in my life. I hate everything about it. The intro is soul crushing and his voice would slay the undead. Every single thing about the song rubs me the wrong way, and I can no longer bear to hear it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lTB1pIg1y0&ob=av2e

Forgot about that. Now has a warning for the arachniphobes.

This is one of the better articles in the last month or two I think (First place for me is 7 Charming Amenities of the World's Grossest Motel Room). The worst part is, it all makes perfect sense, at least for all the shows I am really familiar with (such as Winnie the Pooh and Thomas the tank engine). But my favourite article they have published, and possibly the first one I read after the things you wont believe aren't photoshopped article, is[spoiler=Warning, First Animal is worlds largest Spider] 6 Endangered Species That Aren't Endangered Enough. For arachniphobes, here is the second page (no insects or arachnids): http://www.cracked.com/article_16054_6-endangered-species-that-arent-endangered-enough_p2.html Weather finally did something. Been raining all day. Not sure if I like this more than snow or not. It's less work, but wetter.

I suppose this question is aimed at muggi, because I am interested in his response, but anyone feel free to weigh in: Do you think that a history of divorce (or lack therof) in the histories of the partners families might have an impact on the success of a monogamous relationship. The reason I fight so much with your idea is that there has never been a divorce in my mother or fathers family in living memory, and only one remarriage when a partner died. As far as I can tell, they all still love each other and are happy with each other, with one exception in an older cousin who would be my generation (and if I had to pick an unhappy marriage in either family, it would be her parents, and her husband is navy which brings a lot more stress into it. Frankly, I think he hates being around her, and they never should have married in the first place). My current partners family is in exactly the same position, with no known history of divorce. In fact, the longest running current marriage in that family is 60 years. It's pretty hard to beat that since someone normally dies by 85. I guess the part I can't know for sure is that everyone is happy, but my observations can see signs of strain in only one couple, so I'm going to assume that everyone above me in my genetic line (so parents, aunts and uncles and up) are all still happy. In all honesty, the concept of divorce is actually pretty foreign to me. I've never seen it, and I don't think I know anyone who has. This promted me to look at the canadian divorce stats, and where the hell did you get an over 80% divorce rate from? The one I would be interested in is: Also, that seems to be the last year we have any published stats for, which is why I am using fairly old numbers. I imagine its climbed a bit higher since then, though I doubt its cracked 45% yet. I'm not really interested in remarriage stats. Not until I have a relationship that fails because of age (I don't do distance relationships, which has killed all of them thus far). So monogamy does seem to work for more people than you give it credit for. Yes, some people are unhappy, and don't get a divorce, but its not fair to assume that there are all these unhappy couple out there. This begs the question, what is your experience. If I had to guess, I would say that your family, and the families of your friends have had a lot of unhappy marriages and/or divorces for you to be so against it. Am I close?

To the video on the last page, I am very happy to live in a country where that kind of conduct would have you brought up on multiple felony charges, like assaulting a minor and assault with a weapon, and you'd be seeing many years of jail time. I'm not even sure that spanking (bare handed, once) is strictly legal in this country. Started playing galactic empires again. I need to rethink about creating a map that caters more to my play style. And not building an economy that actually requires war profiteering to maintain peek capacity without running at a deficit.

You also have to deal with strait up jealousy. Polygamy goes beyond an open relationship where as I understand it your still only supposed to have an emotional bond with on other. If you have multiple emotional bonds, you are going to have a favorite. Normally your favorite is the one you marry, as opposed to marrying a friend. Has anyone here ever been in a trio friendship (3 really good friends). From my experience with them (been in more than one, which should tell you something right there), and my observations of them in other people, it is inevitable again that two of the three friends will form a better friendship with each other than with the third, and as time goes on the third person will resent the other two for it, and eventually the friendships start to fall apart (either you become a duo and a solo, or your become three solos). You see the same thing in any odd numbered relationship, since in a group of 5 or 7 say, people still form up into pairs, and one person is left over. Standard polygamy is one man with multiple wives, but the reverse suffers the same problem. There can only be one top position for whichever side has the multiples, and if the lesser partners don't grow to resent the single gender, you can be very sure they will at least grow to hate each other. If you try to fix it with say 2 wives and 2 husbands, then congratulations. Your marriage now has all the intimacy of a perpetual double date. This would still work a lot better though, since you couple form into couples and do different things, even if you didn't always pair up the same way. Unless both people on either side prefer the same person on the other side, in which case you still have an extra. And I'm not refering only to the bed, I'm talking about emotional intimacy as well.

If its a fight I can win,I'll fight for my spot. If I'm not sure I can win, I'll just move.

I can't remember where they left their car, but a while back we got a really good windstorm, and I think we were at the gas station getting fuel for the generator, and a family friend pulls up and their car is just caked in salt. Like, I think they got to the gas station by driving with their head out the window because their windshield was opaque. We weren't terribly far from the ocean, but I think their car was actually at the beech for some reason, so it got a salt water bath that dried on it. My parents seem to be close enough to a salt water body that hurricanes normally salt all the windows on the front of the house. You can still see through them fine, but they look filthy.

My brother once gave me some very sound advice that once your drunk, with the exception of calling for a ride, or some sort of emergency, you don't touch your phone to talk or text, and you don't get on the internet and use it to post anything or talk to anyone. In general, I find this to be very sound advice (not that I can claim to have been 100% sober every time I have posted here or logged into RuneScape myself, much to several peoples amusement). Even if you are sober enough to objectively realize you are saying things that your shouldn't be saying, you might not be sober enough to care. Today I realize how much I miss the game Galactic Civilizations. I could never get into the regular versions of the game, but I like the changes the space version has, and I really like designing my own space ships.

[bleep] I was wrecked. :thumbsup: Not much happening right now. Into the third season of Babylon 5, and it just keeps getting better. Just a spectacular show, and I can't believe I never watched it before. It also got warm today, at around freezing or maybe even a little above. I wish we could get a little consistency in the temperature even if we can't get any in the other aspects of the weather. Oh, and I have what I suspect is a dehydration headache, but I'm not the least bit thirsty. Just the opposite. Haven't been thristy since it started <_<

I don't have any skittles either, mostly because I don't like them. But the recess pieces version of smarites... =P~ I also didn't even notice Tripsis has a blog :???:

There is a point in that if your say building something, or 'doing science', you can't have results that are more accurate than your least precise instrument. But I would agree that it largely just exists to make everyone's lives less fun.