Legal ethics might be better suited to forums of politics or philosophy for serious discussion.

eg. the argument for third party legislation is passive victimisation, or, the reason some wish to ban public smoking is because non-smokers are being physically victimised by smokers. The reason punitive taxes are lobbied for cigarettes is because more deserving patients are being out-competed for medical care in the public health system by smokers.
None of the legislators nor anyone else cares about what smokers want to do to themselves, it's not about the right to self govern. More about failing to do so properly as a member of a community.

But each of these points can be argued...what it comes down to is whether the arguments are going to be things like, "Well I'm an American and I'm armed so I can do anything I want," or more like, "Well according to this study published in (...) in fact socioeconomic environment has shown greater influence in individual health pro rata than smoking, road tolls and alcoholism combined, and I would remind the legislators when making statements about causality, that correlation does not infer cause."

ie. this might not be the best forum for a productive discussion, unless you just wanted to wave your fist and say, "I'm an American and I'm armed so I can do anything I want."

Dude, the word literally means "all that can ever be stated about anything and everything" in etymology.

In order for it to be anything else, a different word, like multiverse would have to be used to describe everything. And then it would still be encompassed by 'universe' whenever speaking about it in entirety.

ie. M-Brane Theory is in fact another mathematical nomenclature and not an actual physical description. The multiverse hypothesis is created by failing to solve singularities in the current models and simply setting them aside, so you have a new brane (dimension) for every part of the observable universe that current theorum can't yet describe being incomplete.
Taking it literally is like saying, my car can't do 50mph but can do 49mph or 51mph so it must be in another dimension at 50mph.
Instead of saying, maybe there's just something wrong with my car.
The car of course being the math.

Another FYI, maintained awareness of the present moment can also be achieved simply by tapping your primordeal eyes.

It's a very very bad idea, but it works.
Do that like, only when in an extremely potent, dangerous immediate environment. And some professional combat training is fairly important here if you'd like to survive it, considering where that angle on whom we all really are deep inside, will absolutely lead anyone everytime.




dancing to music, an excellent element of professional combat training, just can't stop the FYI's today I guess.

been there, done that, it's a gift O_o

And FYI never follow the visual example of other "artists". Half of them are industrial constructs created by marketing gurus, and it's not artistic expression at all. Most singers don't write their own material, actors are chosen by their look and are professional liars, etc. That's industry.

The artists are the screenwriters and songwriters you never hear about, that get incomes from the faces the entertainment companies place upon their produce. Very few are actually artists, most are just secretaries and salesmen pretending to be artists.

Making it as an artist is even rarer than it looks to common folk, because salesmen lie and business is about sales.

eg. George Clooney isn't an artist. The guy who wrote his script in the film you liked is. Clooney is the salesman for the script. He's a cool guy because of which ones he backs and which ones he turns down, are the right ones for each towards good folks. So I like Clooney, but talk art and he'll agree it was the script.

Relax. Quieten your mind. Practise humility. Appreciate yourself by observation, without justification. Appreciate your world around you with care and not concern. Gather your biological self. Stop and start again with fresh eyes. Show small animals kindness. Care for some plants. Appreciate oxygen and air. Let yourself cry and make yourself smile warmly. Say hello to some relatives. Give some good friends and decent people a nice thought. Stop and start again. Just breathe, gather your biological self again. Appreciate the spirit of your feelings in tune with your surroundings.

Now. What is it you'd like to say? Say it in the way you would like to artistically express. Start with a colour, or a single thought or a latent feeling. Hold it like a bird, too tight you crush it, too loose it flies away.

But you prove my point.

The Earth doesn't revolve around the Sun at all, both revolve around their Lagrange Point. All astronomical bodies revolve around relative Lagrange Points, complex evolutionary diversity is causal to the array of varied astronomical observation but to be very clear if you suddenly deleted half the bodies out there then all the motion and positions of all the rest would change. Disintegrate Alpha Centauri and the orbit of Earth would change.

It's actually why Chaos Theory came about, when you try to mathematically model the motions and evolution of our solar system, you can't. Even entering the same values each time renders different results every calculus.

The Earth isn't the centre of the universe except in subjectivity, certainly, but it is in subjectivity, certainly. And it doesn't revolve around the Sun nor does the Sun revolve around the Earth, each does the other, but a proportionate amount within a wild array of imperceptable, direct influences.

So you go from simpler statements like "the Sun revolves around the Earth, no wait, it's falsified, now the Earth revolves around the Sun..."
To get, "no wait, it's falsified, they both revolve around each other."

Yet during each step of the way, to the perspective of the day, the facts known at the time, each statement was/is in fact, Fact.

And it's like that.


ie. the word "Fact" in the world of science is an entirely conditional statement. No such thing, actually, since there is never ever ever ever a time when a statement, postulate, assertion or any other type of rendition cannot be falsified.

Footyheads and thugs, basically. Oh and artists, which act like thugs and talk about footy.

I keep having this dream every now and then, infrequent, but same dream.
I'm being shown around my new work duties by a supervisor, and we're on board some kind of gigantic airliner, like a 747 and then some. Maybe one of those humongous Antonov Russian cargo airliners...crossed with the space shuttle judging by what the interior decks looked like. It was ridiculously gigantic inside, I only see the inside in the dream, getting shown my new job.
I'm a steward.

Okay here's the thing, I wake up believing, and I mean really honestly believing that dream is real life, and the world I'm waking up into and my actual life, is just my imagination.

And it's actually a bit upsetting, because that seemed funner.

Anyway that was my first thought this morning. I woke from that dream again today, haven't had it for about a year.

You're supposed to respect yourself and love others. That's when both come knocking at your door from the most unexpected places and you realize you had them both from some all the time.

What, you never went to church? These are some of the very few things they don't lie about.

Consistently expressing whom you actually are as a person is a natural filter for people you should and shouldn't be with.

Trying to be strategic or tactical about what you say to a relationship prospect is like trying to control who you should and shouldn't be with.

The only reason to do that is a dishonest agenda. You want them to want you because they're good looking, or they have something you want, things like that.

And yet when you do it, what you'll find is it never works out for you, it's like by trying to have power over what works for you makes the situation no longer work for you.

When you're not being yourself openly, you chase away what you really want, to win what you're going to find out, you never really wanted but just thought you did.

In other words, have a little faith. The alternative is create your own hell with your life.



I have noticed however than often the maxim among women is "being with the wrong guy is better than being alone", when in fact the opposite is the truth. Hence many guys often refer to women generally as crazy as a two-bob watch.

Clearly no, because your grammar is seriously screwing with my head O_o

It would certainly follow that everything which is in everything contains everything all the time.

Strict definition of the word 'universe'.

Scientific fact is always limited by its falsifiability. There is no limit to how much more detail any observation can corroberate, so there is never actually a point where science says "there is nothing more to know about this".

eg. at 2pm I state my car is blue, later that day at 6pm I state my car is green. Both are statements of absolute fact.

q: is my car blue or green?
a: at sunset the sunlight is more yellow than white.

So when I state a physical observation that my car is green, and you're the painter who painted it blue and calls me a liar, actually you're the liar. It is green...if I shine a yellow light on it.
But if I call you a liar for saying it's blue when I see it is green, then I am the liar because it is blue...when I shine a white light on it.

Can you understand how both are statements of concise fact?
That is what a scientific fact actually is, as opposed to the concept of "proving a theory". Science doesn't do that, it never ever does that. Anything in science is always

always always always always no matter what

no matter what it is

even talking about god or mighty dragons or magical magic people

always

everything

is falsifiable.

Personally I've got a thing for it. Taller women have always been good to me and I just love being in the presence of so much lady.

But there could be another angle on that. I've always found the shorties tend to prefer super tall guys well over 6ft and don't even consider average height, which I am at 5'8". Counter-intuitive but there you go.

And nobody likes people who don't like them.
So I try to tell the taller women that I think tall thoughts, they believe me more than shorter women do. Or maybe they just appreciate that height hasn't anything to do with compatability.

Make education free and I see no reason for a garbage collector to earn any less than a surgeon. A working community is serious business, it isn't a joke. You should have a person best suited to being a surgeon a surgeon, and one who would happily collect garbage and concentrate on family life if they earned as much as a surgeon.
Since the only intrinsic justification for a differential wage establishment is the cost of schooling, make it free and then level wages for all workers in all industries.

Sure the only downside is the only car make would be a Ford, no Ferraris but don't you get it, the people who really deserved a Ferrari in the first place would modify their Fords in the garage to perform and seem like a Ferrari. This is what people do anyway, it's just without nepotism and socioeconomic circumstance on your side, the world is against you. How is that a good thing, unless you're not the one on the bottom rung?

The way it is now what you are compelled to do is minoritize to elevate. And that's what causes all, all, all of the problems.

How about self respect is the only true success?

Never listen to neurotic schizophrenics or brain dead thugs, but make up your own mind about things and for godsake learn to fight.

It was an illustrative lesson.

somebody clearly hasn't heard of a penetration bomb.

But as to my earlier point, when the veil of "race" is deleted from offensive behaviour for sake of itself, as it should be, and the assertion of conspiracy left unto itself, as it should be, one is left with simply offensive behaviour and the question of what constitutes offensive behaviour.

ie. if you feel offended that someone calls you privelaged when you are not, perhaps a nice glass of milk will make you feel better. I see no need to tie up the legal system and taxpayers dollars with tantrums that really serve no purpose other than to stamp feet and go, "waaaaa", whilst pretending to fight apartheid that really isn't actually present in the instance.
edit add, on either side of that equation. Don't answer an irrelevent individual's tantrum with another one just the same in reverse.

Our governments may claim "might makes right in all things" and assert the best defence is attack but these are blatant, infantile falsehoods for adults. Invulnerability is the best defence, and right either involves demonstrable correctness or else is just opinion without any power but that you provide by choice.

Ukraine is more like Ohio than Texas.
Crimea is more like Hawaii than California.

The name Ukraine is new (post '91). It was always called The Ukraine. It means "The Frontier" in Russian, an early mediaeval term for the Russian borderlands. After the soviet collapse and independence it called itself herefore simply, Ukraine as a national name.
Over time it had become the Imperial/Soviet hinterlands, it becamse known as the "breadbasket of Russia" and the primary provider of foodstuffs for the whole empire. It gained sense of identity here.
In early ancient times it was more asiatic than slavic due to ancient greek trade onwards, a different path of evolution to isolationist slavic lands northeast of the Don Valley.
Due to regional conflicts, the Don Valley wound up becoming the immediate frontier to Russia itself in the black sea region, "the ukraine" or "old frontier" became more a buffer state from overland invasion south of the pripet marshes (ie. through the balkans or hungary).
Due to the greek/asiatic influence the ukraine had long since developed its own regional dialect, one of the primary justifications of independence from Russia, since they speak/write a different language for thousands of years now and have quite their own regional culture as apart.
It's really the same argument places like Georgia and Moldava used for independence. Enough isolated cultural development and exclusive outside influence to constitute different national identities.

Belarus is a weird one. It's a shortening of b'elorussia, which means "white russia", or monarchist/czarist russia, very pentacostal orthodoxy over there, they were never really very communist but are very czarist and isolationist so preferred the reds in favour of the west or asia, even though they effectively lost a war against the party. The main push against the early bolsheviks from western europe happened through here.
So they're more russian than ukraine considers itself, but funny part is the russians consider them less russian and whilst totally devoted to the kremlin, pretty much forced their independence out of distaste.

That whole corner of the world is really none of the west's concern. NATO's only interest in it is what advantage they can take out of it.