GENIUS FORUMS

It's a huge deal because that 5% is making 90% of the GNP. Do the math and you'll see what happens. If you can't do math, ask me and I'll do it for you.

Nat, In other words, while a certain degree of economic growth is necessary to maintain a desirable society, growth should not be an overriding goal in and of itself. The goal should be to have just enough growth to achieve humanistic aims, and no more. Ok, this sounds good on paper, or on our compu...

jupta said,

EDIT: I should have a clarified my stance on the subject. I'm against all women and braindead liberals voting.

The USA would be better off if we kept all Repukes and religious people from voting. George Bush would've never been elected once, let alone twice.

Good point, broken.

To me, the concept of free will is just as far-fetched as the concept of God.

Thanks, dudes.

For some reason, I keep getting a message that I need to upgrade to AVG 8.5, and when I went to the website, it said I had to pay for it. But I found the free version now.

For almost 30 years I've had the same family, same siblings, same parents all with the same birthdays. Father's day and Mother's day fall on the same day every year and all other holidays too. But damned if I can remember them! Animus, do you use Yahoo Calendar? It is an easy way to keep up with ev...

Animus, it's only March 31 in the western continent.

Dan,

What are you using as virus protection for your comp? I use AVG, but now they want money, and I just don't like to pay for stuff if I can get it for free legally.

I appreciate any suggestions / advice.

Cory, By the sounds of it, what you're talking about is the thrill of accepting and being accepted by another person you really like, which may produce physiological changes in the brain that are of a different nature than sex by itself. Acceptance is part of it, sure. It's the difference between lo...

I see a lot of differences, especially for women. Masturbation is boring. Sex with the right person is not.

Edit: Oh, you said physiologically. Sorry. Technically there should not be.

Don't these people (who you say are bereft of sex) just masturbate?

Are you saying the effects are the same?

Cory, Being bitter, cranky and irrational is a sure way to ensure you don't get laid. The former might be causing the later, rather than vice versa. I don't think this is it, because when they go back to happy and rational is after they have sex, not before. I bother to verify this by asking them (w...

Diebert, Could you try to make that case? That it damages the body or the physical abstinence itself creates chemical imbalances? So far you're just asserting it as fact. My conclusion is based on decades of observation. I can't show you proof, but I have a chemical imbalance myself (caused by ADHD)...

Diebert, When our thinking, our being is still attached to illusion, still longing, still deeply seperated - everything eventually will function as sexual image as long the core of the illusion is not shattered. So purification only can easily lead to the opposite of the desired state. Same with sup...

Good idea, David. I forgot that function existed.

David or Dan, I'd like to ask a question about sex. Our bodies have evolved to have sex with regularity, and this has affected our brain chemistry. How do you deal with the chemical imbalance that comes from not having sex? I have noticed that women who are abstaining from sex do not function well. ...

Jason,

None of this would have happened if all these women had been where they were supposed to be.

The site you linked to is hilarious.

BMcGilly, Religion may very well be the antlers of Mankind. The wisdom of those about whom these are formed created the backbone of the rules governing civilization, perhaps civilization's spine may become too calcified and Mankind will be too rigid to change as needed. Any genetic predisposition to...

David,

When you're not sure about how you want to lead your life, as was the case for me back then, your future becomes a lottery.

IIRC, your son was born in 1991 (or 92). I'm curious about when you became sure what you wanted to do with your life.

Gretchen, of all the reasons you listed, you really nailed it with this one:

bad mortgage lending policies for which Congress is to blame

Very few people understand it, but the mess we are in now was caused by government intervention, not the lack of it.

Dude, you gotta do some serious reviewing of that view if you're to get along with the Libertarians, because that is really dumb. I have no need for acceptance within the libertarian party, or to "get along with them". I stated that a lot of their views happen to coincide with mine, that ...

You libtards are just too stupid and stuck-up to debate with. I should have guessed that all the non-enlightened members of a philo forum would be liberals. I'm not a liberal, you idiot. My political view is very compatible with the Libertarians, especially Ron Paul. And I don't think I'd be wrong ...

jupta, So what do you think US interventionism is 'all about'? Imperialism, colonialism, expansionism. Empires grab sovereign countries so that they can steal their land and resources. I suggest you read a history book such as "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire". You are seriously igno...

Are you saying you think the US's interventionism is all about altruism? If so, you're dumb as a doorknob.