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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Concrete mind, concrete life |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2013, 10:53 am
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| Hey all. I'm trying to deal with all these AS issues and I find out a lot just by naming them. I think I got inspired by the caetexia theory, the context-blindness instead of only mindblindness. Many of us have something I'd call the concrete mind. Concrete means specific, explicitly given. This is ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Kids say the darndest things |
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Posted: 02 Aug 2012, 6:04 pm
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Replies: 608
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| When I had about 3-4 years, I asked my mom: "Does the toy see me?" I really wasn't sure, specially after all this play-acting that mom liked to do. Other times I wondered if these impossibly bright and colourful fish (neons) in aquarium are artificial. There's more but I forgot. I don't know why, bu... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Maintaining relationships |
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Posted: 02 Aug 2012, 3:31 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Clouldet, most people "miss" other people when they haven't seen them in a long time. Similar to a feeling of nostalgia for a childhood memory like waking up for Christmas, but not as strong. Usually for me the feeling is there, but I can't attach it to a person so I don't think of calling them. OK... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Maintaining relationships |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2012, 12:16 pm
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Replies: 9
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| This one's quite a problem. I don't know how to maintain relationships. People are to me out of sight, out of mind. I hardly ever initiate a contact, write a message or e-mail, make a call, just for the company. It feels so absurd. I need some agenda or other damn good reason to call, otherwise I fe... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: 10 types of people to meet at the swimming pool |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2012, 3:20 am
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Replies: 12
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| Also, I think your description of gypsies was really prejudiced. If you had been describing any other race of people in that manner, I'm sure this topic would have been locked by now. As for the G word, I forgot that this is the Internet and that all kinds of people go here, all around the world, n... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do spiritual things exist? |
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Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 5:11 pm
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Replies: 218
Views: 22,199
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| Still having trouble finding the link (I'ma rope some friends of mine into helping), but I did find this interesting collection of news stories, including a couple that were driven out of their town of residence: I can't let that pass without commenting. These folks aren't spiritual, they're basica... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do spiritual things exist? |
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Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 4:32 pm
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Replies: 218
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| I'm not sure. Sounds interesting but not altogether different from saying physical, mental, and spiritual as the suggestions I keep hearing is that the mind is the next stage up from the physical and the spiritual having information free and easy at such high levels that its currency really becomes... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do spiritual things exist? |
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Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 12:00 pm
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Replies: 218
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| i thought that everyone, spiritualists included, agreed that spiritual things are hallucinations? That depends if we can find a medical problem that causes the hallucinations. Does it really matter if someone knows if they're hallucinating? Shamanistic use of ayahuasca comes to mind. Some think it ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do spiritual things exist? |
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Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 5:37 pm
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Replies: 218
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| ... :cheers: :salut: :cheers: :salut: :cheers: I have to ask, have you read Kybalion or Corpus Hermeticum? If not I think you'd be stunned by the similarities between what you're suggesting and what you'd find there. I have heard of Kybalion. I know of a few untrustworthy spiritualists who use this... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: 10 types of people to meet at the swimming pool |
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Posted: 25 Jun 2012, 6:44 pm
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Replies: 12
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| I like humorous sites like cracked.com or collegehumor.com, where you get lists like this. I decided to write my own, from my observations and the life itself. So here it is. I don't have any images or photographs, my cell phone isn't waterproof and I'm not that crazy to go photographing. But I want... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do spiritual things exist? |
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Posted: 25 Jun 2012, 6:29 pm
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Replies: 218
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| "Spirituality" may be defined as an awareness of something greater than yourself, be it a family, society, humanity, universe, higher worlds and so on. But it must be something better or progressive. Something to strive towards, not rehashed old stuff like religions or shamanism. But you guys want t... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Pro-Israeli or Pro-Palestinian? |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2012, 10:57 am
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Replies: 151
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| I am pro-Israeli (by and large) because I am in favor of civilized folk. ruveyn Let's say they fly interceptors just at the verge of breaking sonic barrier a couple dozen meters above your roof. Or shoot down ships with humanitary help. Or place a military checkpoint on every street corner to separ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Should drugs be legalized? |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2012, 6:59 am
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Replies: 55
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| Yes, drugs should be legalized, because it is proven that the legal or anti-crime system is absolutely unable to do anything about them. But that is just a part of the solution. We have a bad society that is coming apart. Rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer (and more numerous. Corporati... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Another one bites the bullet |
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Posted: 24 Jun 2012, 6:27 am
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Replies: 14
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| It is a shame that you cannot talk openly with your parents on subjects that interest you :( . I have a really open and honest relationship with my son. We do all kind of things together, Watching Simpsons every day, playing Diablo2, Farcry2 etc. I also taught him english for some months beacuse he... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Approaching a girl - the female perspective |
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Posted: 23 Jun 2012, 1:10 pm
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Replies: 48
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| But I've seen the other extremes as well. Intelligent men can also be overconfident or lack confidence. The trick is to treat women you are interested in as if you both have equal rights and value, as you would treat you male friends and female friends. The key is assertiveness. Also, are you in un... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Pro-Israeli or Pro-Palestinian? |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2012, 4:19 pm
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Replies: 151
Views: 14,247
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| I'm surprised how many people are pro-Israeli. I read a lot of independent articles by activists, diplomats and so on. They say even prominent Jews of the world are disgusted by what's going on in Israel. I think there were Jewish protests in London. Israel is an illegal state, it was estabilished b... |
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