The anonymity of the internet lets people be who they really are with little fear of repercussion. The majority of people online behave in a very rude manner, which suggests that most people are secretly jerks, they’re just too afraid to behave that way in person.
This is not an argument in favor of banning anonymity, simply an observation.
Lip gloss was made with alcohol in it. Every time you put it on it dries out your lips so you have to keep applying it and buying more!
They don’t really care about the law, they have a quota to meet every day to make money free off the people.
Religious belief came into being because people did not understand the world. They did not know where we came from, where the world came from, and we needed answers to such questions. The gods arose out of our lack of knowledge. Mankind also needed moral codes and religion formalised them. But, I think, since then, we’ve learned a lot more about why we are here and who we are. And I think at some time we will be ready to put the Maker aside just like a child puts aside his toy when it grows up.
Whatever feeling of accomplishment you feel in sports will be eventually replaced by some idiot who feels the accomplishment magically doesn’t count. Doesn’t matter who wins the superbowl, someone else will win next year.
With nuclear weapons looming, there will never again be a total war like there was in World War II.
All matter is made up of little bugs. When they know I’m looking a certain direction, they gather themselves together to form what should be there. Everything behind me, though, has devolved into masses of crawling bugs. Only when I turn around (and they know when I will) do they form into the things behind me.
In my mind’s eye, though, I know they are crawling around behind me and that everything I see is really made of minute bugs.
When information gets sucked in a black hole, it goes to another universe that consists of only information.
Certain physicists who failed to make it big in Mechanics or Electricity & Magnetism needed some way to get funding so they invented a completely fake field of physics to get grants and such and to torture college students.
Religion as a whole will never stop or cease to exist. And to think that Man can live without God is also not possible. Consider this: Religion, in theory, is based on the human need to rationalize daily events. To make sense from nothing. We could not explain thunder so we said Zeus. We could not explain the afterlife so we said Hades. But that lack of knowledge gave us reason to find answers. The questions Religion could not answer, Science did. The Church said God created the Modern Man but it was Darwin’s curiosity that created the Theory of Evolution. That said, is it truly possible to rid the world of Religion? No. Because without Faith, Reason has no purpose. A child may leave his toys as he grows older, but that imagination he had drives him to become a successful person.
Think about it: scientists say that getting pulled into a black hole would tear you apart because of pressure and gravity but, honestly, how would they know? Obviously, someone would have to survive going through one to explain what happens. Call me crazy, but black holes have to lead to another universe or no one would be able to explain anything about them or somewhat understand them.
When one looks toward the sun, dust and particles floating in the air are backlit and easily visible. Therefore, you are consciously aware of the dustiness of the air, which triggers your sneezing response.
Take dogs for example. In the wild, they mostly scavenge for food and rarely eat anything good. They’re filled with disease, sleep in the cold and are at risk of injury or death from predators. But as pets, they are loved and cared for, fed good food and clean water, given places to play and explore safely, taken to doctors when they are sick, and generally live a much happier, healthier and longer life than they would’ve on their own in the wild. This doesn’t apply to all animals, but it does for many.
Just about anyone has the ability to do great things. We all can learn, if taught correctly—some may need to learn more than others to get to the same place, but it’s possible for most people to learn almost anything. What sets the great people apart from everyone else, however, is motivation to take the necessary steps. Instead of sitting down and watching TV, they choose to do something that moves them closer to their goals. They’re driven to learn and, having learned, do.
If you stepped into a hole drilled straight through the Earth from the north pole to the south pole, you would fall all the way from one pole to the other. When you got to the other side, you would start to fall back to where you started. You are always pulled towards the center of the Earth but by less and less as you get closer to it.
Using math and physics, you can calculate how long it would take to fall from one pole to the other. It takes 42.028 minutes—or 42 minutes for short.
This is why Douglas Adams chose 42 as the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything.
I think that if you really, really want something, it will happen. And don’t just go off saying something ridiculous like, “Okay, I really, really want the winning lottery numbers”, because your heart’s not in it.
The U.S. and other countries with a broad cultural mix tend to have the full spectrum of drink flavors, but in certain cultures, there is a significant lack of certain flavors. Japan, for example, lacks root beer. Cherry flavored drinks in other countries, despite their availability, are less popular than others. This is due to the fact that the flavors are used for medicinal flavoring in those countries, and people associate medicine with a bad taste.
Most people, whether or not they think of themselves as being principled, are actually pragmatists, doing what they think will give the best results in the present rather than guiding their lives by principles, even if those principles may cause them suffering in the short term.
There is no way to describe a color. When we look at something, our brain fills in the lines with a color. I see white, while you see blue. But we were both raised to call it yellow. So think about this: everyone’s favorite color is the same.
Bug sprays and repellents actually attract insects, which causes you to apply more and more in the hope of ridding yourself of the winged pests. Soon you run out and buy more, thus making the repellent companies quite rich.
Every year that we get snow, the country invariably grinds (or slides) to a halt. To pass a driving test here, all we have to do is master the “ten to two” steering wheel position and mirror, signal, manoeuvre.
In other countries—most notably Finland, amongst many others—people who wish to take full control of over a tonne of metal capable of speeds well in excess of 100 MPH must prove that they understand the basic physics of such a feat first. They must undergo intensive high speed skid-pan training and master evasive manoeuvres before they are allowed anywhere near a public road. They also, by law, have to have a set of winter tyres for their cars so that they can actually drive properly. This means that not only are the drivers actually much more worthy of throwing their huge, heavy, potential murder machines past each other, they are actually capable of driving on snow and ice and they have decent tread on their tyres. Drivers are also expected by law to take refresher tests when they hit a certain age to ensure they are still mentally capable of driving safely and well.
Here, the majority of drivers use the kerbs to guide themselves into parking spaces, couldn’t tell you what “opposite lock” means, wouldn’t have a clue if their car is front or rear wheel drive (and so aren’t able to adapt their driving style successfully to suit the conditions) and are allowed to drive right up until they decide it would be a good idea to drive up the wrong side of the motorway to visit Mabel (who died ten years ago)—how on earth are we as a country expected to cope with mildly slippery conditions? Most people here drive about on their “slippy ditchfinder” bargain tyres and basically haven’t fit a clue how to control a car. If we actually had to learn to control a car properly and our cars had decent treaded tyres on to suit the seasons then it would all go much more smoothly!
If you have a busy schedule where you have no down time and only get the bare minimum of required healthy sleep, you are at risk for a caffeine feedback loop. It starts by having caffeine right before bed one time. You have trouble falling asleep and end up getting less sleep than normal. As a result, you’re tired throughout your busy day so you use caffeine to stay awake through the day and right up until you need to go to sleep. Because of the caffeine, you, again, have trouble falling asleep and must use caffeine the following day.
Think about it. If only people who don’t sin go to heaven, it must be really boring. No one has fun or anything. Just like Mark Twain said, you go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.
When comparing two people with equal qualifications of the same gender, age, and race, one is more likely to get a certain job or promotion, based on of their name. A Terrence would be more likely to receive a job than, say, a Demarrious. Or a Jasmine versus a LaTisha. Employers expect certain people to be less educated based on their names.
Sure, they make your teeth straight, but don’t you find it odd that almost everyone has to get the full set? I’m sure there’s something that the orthodontists aren’t telling us about that can make your teeth straight in a matter of weeks. Plus orthodontists don’t even work during appointments, they come in for one second and say “everything seems to be in order” and then they leave. And now they have all of society thinking that they need to spend a ridiculously large amount of money to make their babies’ teeth perfect.
So frequently when you order a small item, it shows up at your door in a giant box, floating in the middle of a large quantity of packing material. This is because these companies hire the shipping companies to pack their products as well as ship them, and the shipping companies pack them in larger boxes so they can make more money.
A hole, technically, does not exist. A hole is the missing presence of something, therefore it is nothing. Yet this nothing has a name which makes it something. But if it has a name, it cannot be nothing. Then again, it is something which is not there. Does it exist or not? Mind-boggling.
Think about it. Nothing as bad as Windows or Internet Explorer could have happened by accident.
A tiny portion of the food we eat every day is made of insects, animal excrement, and human digits.
They say that those who can do, do, and those who can’t, teach. I say, those who can do, do, and those who can’t, write laws about what others can do.
With the exception of a few politicians who did spend much of their life working in the real world before running for public office, the vast majority are bred for or groomed for the role from a young age, or they enter public office after failed attempts at business.
Compared to an honest, productive job, politicians operate through lies and deceit, and spend much of their time sitting around and voting about how to regulate things they don’t understand in industries most of them would be unable to survive in if they were dependent on it as their sole source of income.
“Lather, rinse, repeat” is actually unnecessary. The concept was put on shampoo bottles so you use more of it, and therefore are forced to buy more.
Since 9/11, there have been a lot of laws added, giving the government more powers to violate individual rights. Now, some of the things they’ve done have been good, necessary, legitimate things, and I have nothing against those. But other actions, such as warrantless surveillance, authorization of an assassination of a U.S. citizen, imprisonment without charges, suspension of habeas corpus, torture, and more in that vein—including the latest, an attempt to strip suspected terrorists of U.S. citizenship, even before they’re proven to be a terrorist in a court of law, are harmful to the rest of us, even if they help stop terrorists in the process. The ends do not justify the means. The government’s role is indeed to protect us from force being used against us, but by implementing such policies, they are using force against us in the process of preventing force from being used against us. Even if those in charge have good intentions now, someone in the future will misuse them, and expand their powers. There's a reason the Constitution limited the powers of government significantly—not significantly enough, though, apparently.
The entire universe is one big fractal and everything repeats itself. It is never-ending, with the exception of black holes, and we aren’t meant to understand them. Once we understand what they are and how they work, we will understand how the universe was created, and that is when the world as we know it will end, and the cycle will repeat itself. We will then become the Mayan mystery to the people who inherent the earth. All that will be left of us will be buildings and information that they have to try to decipher. It’s the circle of life.
A lot of people complain about modern music, saying it’s all trash, and that the music from their generation was so much better. However, there is a lot of good music in the present, mixed in among the rest, and that was most likely the case back then, too. The bad music has been forgotten and the good stuff is all anyone remembers, so it seems like their generation had better music because time has erased all the rest.
No one actually knows how to properly use a semicolon, they all just pretend to.
Conservatives tend to be opposed to all sorts of things relating to modifying or preventing natural human reproduction—contraception, abortion, use of embryos, genetic engineering, etc. In addition to their moral oppositions, they often have claims about health risks to the mother. I posit that if, somehow, reproduction did not exist naturally and was something invented by humans in modern times, conservatives would find a way to oppose it altogether, with an assorted collection of claims: it’s dangerous to the mother, it causes great discomfort and weight gain, it affects the mother hormonally, it creates new life and people don’t have a right to do that…
There is not a God, or any kind of higher power. “God” is just a characteristic in people. That characteristic shows more in some people than in others. If God created the universe, then what created God? The universe just is, always has been, and always will be. There weren’t planets at first, but particles. Those particles collided with each other and made more complex, bigger things. Collision of the particle happened so much that planets came along. If Adam and Eve were the first people on Earth, let’s say there were both the same race, they would have kids together. Their kids would have to reproduce with each other, and so on and so forth. This means that everybody would be mentally challenged, and everybody would be the same race. People say that race depends on where you live. Blacks have large noses, Asians have slanted eyes. How does the sun do this? If there was a God, why would he let there be so much evil in the world? Why would he let such bad things happen?
All these political pundits—mostly Conservatives—who have TV shows or radio shows or write books that consist mostly of them screaming hysterically about nonsense don’t actually believe much of what they say. They’re playing a role, behaving outrageously, because it’s what their target audience wants to see, hear or read, and so it makes them a lot of money to behave like a raving lunatic. I’m looking at you, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Michelle Malkin and Bill O’Reilly…
In this age where nearly everyone in the United States has access to the internet and to a decent education, it is very bizarre to see most people still struggling tremendously with basic English writing. Poor grammar, spelling and punctuation is rampant, both on and off the internet. While not always the case, those who read well-written books as children tend to have a better intuitive understanding of basic things like comma placement and when something doesn’t quite seem to fit into a sentence. As a result, they have a better all-around writing ability than those who did and do not read much.
Every time anyone makes a decision, a number of alternate universes are created where every other possible decision is made instead, and where events play out differently as a result. Normally, everyone in each universe is completely unaware of the existence of other universes, but at night, when people are asleep, they can receive a slight transfer of consciousness from their other-universe selves, and these transferred experiences are what we think of as dreams.
Have you ever noticed the little bits of dust on tissues? That’s put there by the companies so it gets up your nose when you use them and need to use more tissues, hence needing to buy more. Don’t even get me started on toilet paper.
FOX is intentionally canceling good TV shows just to get a spike in DVD sales.
Computer manufacturers are constantly releasing new and improved products, each one touted as being faster than the previous. While technically true—the newer processors can generally do more calculations per second than the previous—in the end, computers aren’t really getting that much faster anymore because it’s a race between hardware and software. As hardware gets faster, software developers add more processor-intensive features that couldn’t be done before, and so the computer runs at the same speed as before—or slower—just with new features.
If you go to bed considerably earlier than your normal sleep time, you are more likely to wake up considerably later than your normal wake time. This is because you’re prone to first wake up too early in the morning, go back to sleep, and then overshoot your mark and wake up late.
Of the various forms of passive entertainment, music is comprehended differently, in such a way that the listener does not get tired of it nearly as easily. Most movies or books can be watched or read several times before you’ve mostly memorized them and they’re no longer particularly interesting, but music can be played hundreds of times, and as long as you don’t play a song or album too many times all in a row without listening to anything else in between, you can still keep listening to it. This is because movies and books are longer and more intricate, and use storytelling devices that often rely on suspense and lack of knowledge of what's to come, whereas music’s value comes from cleverly crafted lyrics and the sound itself, which can remain enjoyable.
Designers and manufacturers intentionally leave features out of the first versions of their products so they can be introduced in the second version, leading to greater overall sales.
All of these theories have been placed here to make us think we’re crazy for thinking these things. Really this is an elaborate conspiracy to make us stop questioning the world as it is presented to us.
The fact that this was approved just goes to show that they’re trying to trick us.
Don’t believe them! You know you’re right!
The light from a star takes thousands of years to reach our eyes and by this time it is likely that the star has died. What if we are that light and ourselves, our planet, our sun and our universe have already died millions of years ago and all that we are now is just a projection. Nothing can be random, nothing is a choice, everything has already happened, everything is set out and one day our projection will fade.
If evolution really happened then why did it stop. If we evolved from monkeys then why do monkeys stay monkeys and humans come from humans? Why would it just abruptly stop? Think about it.
After the whole tomato debate, I realized… why are pumpkins considered vegetables? They have seeds and meet all the other criteria of fruit.