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Sun 06/22/14 01:51 AM
Well actually it's all falsifiable hypothesis, the very first rule of true science.

Most brain mapping was done between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, much of it France, most of it by studying the effects of brain trauma and the results of brain surgery.
It is by inferrence.

More recent medical research, in the last few years in Germany and Wales have found that in fact brain mapping is erroneous, that brain function is actually amorphous and not confined to specific regions, but happen upon specific regions by evolutionary convenience only as a likelihood.

eg. one German patient in particular was born with only the right hemisphere of her brain, the left hemisphere left unformed and useless. In early childhood she had many troubles and experienced fits and siezures, however by her late teens her right hemisphere had adopted virtually all normal brain function that anybody has, and currently doctors describe her as a happy and intelligent young lady with a great sense of humour.

Similarly severe brain trauma victims and post brain surgery outpatients with entire sections of their brains removed have subsequently recovered most or all healthy brain function as it simply moves somewhere else when the place it normally resides is lost. Again this is published in medical journals and directly challenges the neurological assertion of regional brain function.

Where brain mapping came about however, was in the field of psychiatry, in modern times evolved as neurosciences, its role is largely in therapeutic treatment as opposed to surgical. Neurosurgery causes brain trauma to save a life, it's the therapists who have to try to work at rehabilitation following surgery. And brain mapping, whilst fallacious in the strictest biological sense, is an effective tool for them to use to help with that.

Put simply, if your speech centre of the brain is cut out, assuming a healthy lifestyle and effective therapy, your brain will simply reinvent that same brain function somewhere else.

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Fri 06/20/14 02:41 PM
Fine steel, love of a good woman, and to see my enemies crushed before me.
-conan the barbarian

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Fri 06/20/14 04:57 AM
Do you mean like if you dye your hair blonde and I go omg your hair looks so awesome blonde? because I can totally do that.


just let me know if you're going to come home from work unexpectedly because you know, wouldn't want you to catch anything you didn't really want to see...


tanz you're playing the fake game, even if you win, you lose.

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Fri 06/20/14 04:52 AM
what if she wants to stab you is that okay?

white ladies in need can be very stabby.

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Fri 06/20/14 04:47 AM
okay are we talking about a realdoll because I can think of a lot of advice about that.

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Fri 06/20/14 04:45 AM
sex

der like you had to ask o_o

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Fri 06/20/14 04:45 AM
If by "ol schoolers" you mean 'beat you with a rubber pipe' yes I saw tanz post in here.

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Fri 06/20/14 04:41 AM
I believe pathetic to megalomaniac is a change.

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Fri 06/20/14 04:40 AM
April, you're experiencing karma: the mirror of you.

Just as you primarily care about what you're interested in to the exclusion of others, so as do those you recieve: you.

You see how that works?

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Wed 06/18/14 08:37 PM
So I take it you've never read any of Einstein's General and Special Relativity.

Has a few sentences.

And math.

Thought experiments.

More math.

Appendices.

And some colourful stories.

To make one single simple point...that only becomes simple when you follow the line of thinking as a detraction from common wisdom.

Physical reality is counter-intuitive, not common sense. Right wing extremists function on common sense as rule for all. Common sense being. of course only what you say goes.

Extolling to limit the contributions of others would naturally make this easier, it's a bit like if I punch you in the mouth every time you challenge a statement and say, see you've no comeback do you.
When you do, I'm the one not listening.

And so you're the one not listening. Oh wise one.

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Mon 06/16/14 11:49 AM
You're not very streetwise if you don't know the value of a truth.

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Mon 06/16/14 10:03 AM
When someone you've only spoken to on the phone is standing over your bed when you wake up with a breakfast tray in their hands that's a sure sign you're being stalked...









either that or you really need to quit drinking

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Thu 06/12/14 05:50 AM
I saw this movie. The girls aren't what they seem and even the survivor dies in the end.

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Sat 06/07/14 07:57 PM
Edited by vanaheim on Sat 06/07/14 07:58 PM
There is also the fact the Constitutional Republic is a Magna Carta era form of governing bureacracy.
European forms such as the Westminster model in fact evolved beyond the Magna Carta period through the assembly of peerage and legislative council, two institutions the United States completely lacks.

So whilst the United States makes a political claim of belonging to "the New World" where European nations represent "the Old World", in actual fact Europe continued politically evolving and the United States did not.

It remains frozen in a mediaeval governing bureacracy, which inherently generates medieaval political and legal bureacratic cultures.

That's why the US criminal justice system is barbaric compared to modern Europe, and why the US political culture is overburdened with bureacracy compared to modern Europe and the Commonwealth.

Best Americans can manage is to compare themselves with rogue nations in central asia and the middle east but c'mon with American jihad on the commies, jihad on crime, jihad on drugs and now jihad on terrorists, as well as guns in the hands of any idiot with citizenship, that's just the pot calling the kettle black.
American Conservatives and Muslim extremists are just two peas in a pod, doing the same thing and saying the same thing. What they both really are is two cultures locked into mediaeval routines.

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Sat 06/07/14 06:26 AM
Honey if your sister wasn't so uptight we wouldn't be arguing about this right now?

:D

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Sat 06/07/14 06:14 AM
Edited by vanaheim on Sat 06/07/14 06:19 AM

The lowest form of wit but often the funniest.


People often confuse satire with sarcasm, I think you'll find you appreciate hilarity in satire and only youthful redress in sarcasm.
Unfortunately excellently intelligent satiricists are often accused of being merely sarcastic personalities. There's a world of difference.

Sarcasm is basically where you say the same thing backwards, satire is where you imaginatively depict a fallacious premise.

eg. "You look stupid"

1. sarcasm, "Of course I do, I wore the same clothes as you today."
2. satire, "It's always been my dream and now you've finally justified it."

in example 1. someone gets punched.
in example 2. someone looks confused.
both make their point but one takes a fighter to bring it home, with a fight, you have to win for anyone to get it if pressed. The other you don't need a fight or to win a fight and the point still hits home everywhere that takes any notice.


ie. if you can make a point to teach an idiot they're just being idiotic without demanding an aggressive response, you've got social skills. And thus the difference between sarcasm and satire is skillz.
But most people are appreciating satire when they mention sarcasm, wtf knows why that is >.<

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Sat 05/31/14 01:59 PM
Negativity washes off a truly positive person because if it's more than just lip service and play acting, you've self esteem over the opposition.

Sustained unhealthy personal environments however, do require self affirmation and resilience. But the instant the environment becomes healthy it is as if the bad never was. The trick is just don't corrupt yourself whilst you're there.

Some would say easier said than done but it's not. You just have to be okay with seeming a bit scattered when you're in a place that's inappropriate for your personality, and being okay with that. Just a case of getting over ego.

Humility is the lesson. It is a strength, not a weakness.
When a group of idiots call you an idiot, learn to have a sense of humour about being an idiot. It's funny. That's strong of you. Later, a group of awesome dudes will go, you're awesome, and you can go, no you're the man, they go no you're the man, you go no you're the man, etc.

:D

Positivity just being cool with things being cool even if they're not. It'll work out.

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Sat 05/31/14 01:52 PM
Sounds more like business law than marriage court, your laws on divorce must be mediaeval over there O-O

Without prenups, everything before is yours if it was yours and hers if it was hers, everything since split right down the middle, here. Easy, a truth.
When you feel inequality in that instance it's about your attitude and not truths.
If she's been a lump and you made a big business since you've been together and that makes you feel an inequality, it was poor decision making on your part getting married with someone you didn't like so much for who they are. It's a lesson, get to know them better next time and wear it either way.

Too many roosters in the hen house in america.

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Sat 05/31/14 01:46 PM
ask her who's wife she wants you to bring home because if you bring home the boss's you might get sacked! -_-

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Sat 05/31/14 01:43 PM
yeah I've seen her at train stations wearing moccasins, a loose singlet and faberge jeans. She goes 'wtf are you looking at' and then three guys with tatts come over and ask for a smoke, then take your whole pack, then your wallet, watch, shoes and beat you for being weak.

you're supposed to say 'get lost idiot' coming out of the gate.

o_o

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