I personally would not charge my kid, as a parent I think its your job to support your kids from the moment they are born until the day you die. Parenthood is a life commitment, just because the kid turns 18 does not mean that your obligations to them change.

Now that get me wrong, I'm saying this in a normal case scenario. If the "kid" its 38 years old and he is a bum and refuses to get a job and lives in my house for free...well I'm kick his *** to the streets and i wouldn't look back.

Now if he is trying and he is temporally living at my house due to a set back, no, i wouldn't charge him. Same if he is just starting his working life (lets say 16 to 20) he has one of those temp crappy jobs, or a full time job but only makes 7.50 per hour and has college loans to pay, yeah i wouldn't charge him either; kids on that situation definitely need all the help they can get.

Probably all the 4 main characters in Martin Hache (90s Argentine-Spanish co-production). Not many will know this movie, I know lol.

Link to a synopsis: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119626/

Dorian for Dorian Grey, one of my favorite literature characters.

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I usually just go to search and look for who is online or i search via zip code, then i read the profiles of the people that show up in my search. The match thingy has never worked for me, tends to match me with people that i do not have much in common.

Pure win from The WarpZone

http://youtu.be/ZoCAXTY9btM

Well always make sure that you take it slow, you know start talking on the site, exchange emails for some time...then maybe use the IM system build into the site then maybe more to personal email addressees. From that you can either go to an other IM or chat program like Skype, then to phone and finally to meet. I know it seems like a lot, but you have to understand that some people are very cautious... and this IS the Internet; you are never 100% sure who is on the other side. The chances of you meeting a sociopath, or a serial killer are pretty decent hahahaha.

That said, if you took your time meeting the people then maybe that person was not interested in meeting at all. That could be for many reasons, as xeshm21 pointed out there are many here that only interested on maintaining contact through the Internet (for what ever reason). You should always test the ground you know, while having a casual chat throw in there a "one day we should get together to go for a walk or a coffee"
Also, when setting a first meeting, always make sure that its in a public open space, ideally in the day... you know, to give some sense of security.

All this advises apply assuming that you meet a real person, there is a lot of scammers and fake identities... you have always a chance to find that type of person in here, after all, the internet is a virtual space that many use to fulfill fantasies and desires, escape of harsh realities or in many cases simply live an imaginary life.

I tend to look at profiles more than the forums.
I put random locations of the world i see what type of profiles the site comes up with. I think its very interesting, even the ones that have almost nothing on them, at the end of the day a profile it is not you but how you chose to show yourself to the world.
There is an old saying "You can learn more about a person from their lies than from their truths".

No, there is 3 Star Wars movies...after that the director, George Lucas died of a brain stroke. I will denounce as fake any other version of reality. Thank you very much.

I would say as many as you feel you can handle and pay attention to. Everyone has different limits. I have seen couples with 5, 6, 7 kids...at some point they dont even remember their names lol. In my opinion if you can not keep track of your sons activities then you over did it lol.

I just would like to add that there is only three Star Wars movies...THREE. lol

Mine:

1-The ninth Gate
2-Igby goes Down
3-The Last Emperor
4-Let the Right One In. (the original one)
5-The Millennium Trilogy (the original one)
6-Morven Callar
7-Trainspotting
8-Autumn in New York
9-Playing by Heart
10-A Little Bit of Heaven

I would say keep doing what you are doing until it becomes a burden for you. I am sure that you are making that little girl's life a lot better. That said, she is not your child, she has a dad and a mom... they are the ones that should be making the sacrifices for her, that is parenthood is all about, its putting a little person benefit before yours.

Well i wasn't trying to refute your postulate, i was simply exposing mine. And yes, most of what i said is based to some degree in assumptions...all hypotheses are. But to be fair, how can you avoid assumptions when dealing with something of which we know so little?
I like your theory, i don't think i could share it, but the logical construction seems very interesting.
On a related note, when you correctly pointed out that me saying that the consciousness can not survive without the brain is an assumption (and while an assumption, is by far the most logic, empiric based one that we can come across as for right now) you implied in a way that it can have a non material sustentation...At that point we are no longer talking about science, we are talking about metaphysics...and well, that is not knowledge...its just opinion. You would have to start considering a soul...unicorns and god. Which it just does not seem to follow the train of though that you were having... So I am pretty sure i did not get what you were trying to say. I would love if you could re visit the point for me (if its not much to ask).
Thanks in advance.

Funny enough i do not consider my self a liberal, nor a conservative. I like to think of my self a smart person that does not buy pretty illusions from any bullsh*t movement. I see something, i inform my self and i generate my own opinion.
There is no such thing as bad knowledge, only ignorant people scare of progress. And you my friend, are sounding pretty ignorant right now.
As a final note, funny enough...without those libraries there would be no tanks or napalm or internet or light in your house. Yeah, lets burn the libraries...lets see how long does it take us to become a country like Afghanistan or Congo or Somalia.

And again as i said before, it all depends on your definition of friendship... who is to say that just because one feels a sexual attraction for the other, that is not friendship. If the person with the attraction keeps his/hers impulse controlled and they proceed with what both define as a "friendship" then for those two, that is a true friendship. At the end this type of things are fairly subjective.

As for me proving you opinion wrong... well I have no real interest in the subject, i am just having a casual chat. I seek no academic knowledge out of this. I provided you with my understanding of the case, you can take it or disregard it...that is not my problem, nobody is paying me to teach science here. Knowledge is power and power always comes at a price, I do not give free lessons :P

I will ask a small concession though, as a person with an extensive academic formation, that please do not refer as reading articles online as "research".

Ok this is last reply to this topic.

"sorry, i see no mistakes that i typed. starters, it doesn't offend me as to whatever a man and a woman do, it offends me when i see men promoting being gay in public. society tells me i'm wrong, just like your doing now. "

You are clearly homophobic, and you really need to work on it. And yes, you are wrong... i could stay here and explain to you the 10000 billion reason of why, but i think that is the type of thing you have to figure by your self.

"the only thing that makes us "equal" is the government, and they don't do a very good jab at that either. if we were all "equal", there would be no competition for anything, because nobody would win or lose. "equality" is a verdict decreed by the government to appease the masses..."

You are clearly not reading what I am saying, it seems obvious that you have your own opinion and you are not interested in learning something new, you just want to express your view to others... you are not really even having a chat, you are just making a monologue.
If its worth something, i point what i pointed previously, you are confusing equality in nature (human nature) with merit.
All lions are lions, because they are equals in their nature... that does not mean that all of them will have the same performance and same fate... again, equality of nature does not means equality of performance or merit.

In my modest opinion:

While it is true that consciousness is a phenomenon in it self it can not be deny that our mind (in the abstract sense) it is attached to a physical support (the brain). All that we are, our opinions, our knowledge, our feelings banish when the brain dies because our conscience can not exist out of the physical plane.

There for, even while consciousness can be understood as "stand alone" sort of phenomenon to a certain degree, it still is affected by the brain chemistry... it stills needs the neurons synapses to transmits its ideas...which synapses on its own way are just electrical transmissions there for can be affected by millions of different things, including environmental phenomenon. So it would seem that "will" it is shackled to natural things, which we can not control. So our will would not be truly free, at least not a 100%...where can we draw the line? its hard to say.

It certainly feels like one of those subjects in which you can form an opinion but not knowledge (from a Kantian point of view of knowledge).

Regardless, from a more practical approach the discussion seems to become pointless...since we like it or not "free will" plays an irreplaceable roll in our social constructions... with out it, all our legal systems would collapse.

So at the end, even if it turns out that there is not such thing as "free will", it becomes a necessary social construction due to the way we have build our interactions.

LOL I am not making your job for you :P
Regardless, thanks for the chat... was one of the best ones that i had so far on this site.

A) No idea who or which Scientific American is, by which academic organizations are they backed up, but even if they were the most respectable scientific organization, believing a postulate it is true solely because of its author constitutes a fallacy...and it goes contrary to the very foundations of science. You should make your own research... or at least if you want to at least form an educated opinion about a topic you should read at least several papers defending each of all the different approach to the subject at hand.

B) If the men in the study can control their impulses and they and their counter parts both define their relationship as a "friendship" then that defeats the study by itself. And I fail to see the point of this entire discussion.

C) If what you are doing if forming an opinion before making a research and THEN going into the internet and look for articles that back up what ever you already have in mind...then you are doing it wrong. Ideally you should approach a new subject without pre conceived opinions, examine the evidence and ALL previous theories and then form an opinion resulting of said examination.
If you can not do that, because you already have an opinion...to give validation to that opinion you should confront that opinion with all the opposite thesis and see how your opinion resist against them.

D) Going into the internet to read a few articles and call it "research" would be the equivalent of calling reading Wikipedia "educating". If you are interested in something in particular, go to college, get a major in a related subject... start a thesis, get founding to start studies to prove it... then you are making a research.