Are great, and dense. Any thoughts? I see populations split between superstitious-savage "pharisees" who pine for the next world (usually at the expense of this one) and materialistic-atheist "scribes" who view us as complicated machinery with no more meaning than there is in a bubble. Both are shown (at least in Tolstoy's writings) to be fatally flawed in their outlooks.

if growing up with *natural* intelligence is any indication, i predict that artificial intelligence will be an awkward virgin until his late teens. it will also be good at chess and starcraft.

to find out what interests & VDs you have in common.

the only one who can rock one's world is The Rock himself. Available as a rock.

it also bears mentioning that the world is largely a (molten, radioactive, magnetic) rock. therefore, date a geologist. they do it underground.

Baby don't hurt me.. don't hurt me... no more.

simpsons, regarding Moe's *success* with Russian models:

"After Chernobyl, my penis fall off."

why did simba like "hakuna matata"?
because it justified him just lion around all day.

i can say i'm tech savvy. i'm not, but i can say it. i trust this has been helpful.

While I agree that choices are constrained by a collective/social/environmental set of factors, final guilt and innocence are inevitably atomized into individuals.

The basic reason is moral agency, even in minors. School and parents are "guardians" of minors in a legal sense, but that does not deny that minors Nicole's age (and younger) have enough sense to conduct the very basics of their own lives. (such as decision to live or die). They are minors without full rights when it comes to military service, the vote, alcohol and the like because they very very likely cannot handle such stimulants or decisions at their age.

However, they can decide whether to live or die. "shared responsibility" puts a pre-emptive burden on schools to know, with almost magical accuracy, when a group of teens is "just kidding" and when they're serious. No school administrator/teacher/counselor could make that decision with accuracy if for no other reason than because there are simply too many kids, each with their issues.

Nicole had moral agency. she was not an automaton set on "suicide". If Nicole got bad grades, bullied someone, or, conversely, did something praiseworthy... in all cases there would be external constraints and social structures that "share responsibility" for her success/failure. But she would have large degree of success/failure all of her own (otherwise, what is the rationale of handing out grades, or punishing bullies or rewarding praiseworthy conduct?).

the $ecret i$ to have $ome courage, confidence, $tyle, $tay in $hape and have at lea$t adequate $ocial skills.

Of course, there'$ one factor that can override deficiencie$ in all of the above. Gue$$ what it i$.

the opposite of "stop" is not "go". it is "pots."

**x-files music**

nobody would know what kind of Starbucks drink I had, nor would they realize the comedic dimension of cats.

Despite endless attempts to answer it, I see this question popping up like dysfunction at an urban high school. I won't try to talk about what to do to get girls because

1. I'm not Casanova (despite my sincerest attempts..)

and

2. This has been said before (money, confidence, social standing, style, aggression/dominance).

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Instead I take issue with the notion that getting a girl will "make you happy". Even if you have a million girls... A problem I'd like to have, but even then one wouldn't "be happy" in the sense that I think is implied.

You can read of former male porn stars who got paid to sleep with beautiful girls of every sexy shape and indulge in whatever kinky fetish they wish. Oh, and and had fans throwing themselves at them. With that, they descend into drugs, depression, etc... Really? Rich, good-looking, 1000+ notches on the belt and depressed? Seems crazy, but it happens.

I can't speak from a female perspective, but the notion that a guy who gets girls, even if 3/day, will "be happy", seems mistaken. Once again, this over-success with girls is problem I'd like to have, but I sense that it would be a "problem" nonetheless.

Girls are girls. They are not the gates to paradise.

how to block:

If they're coming at you with a direct punch or other attack, don't seek to absorb the blow at a right angle. Rather deflect the attacking arm/leg. This way, the force experienced by your deflecting appendage is small while the overall attack vector points at a sufficiently wide angle to dodge the blow. As a sidenote, even if a deflecting attack still hits, it will have less force since some of the momentum was absorbed by the deflecting move. Additionally, the psychological impact of a successful deflection on the attacker weakens his/her confidence in their assault, while simultaneously boosting yours.

If the attacker has a weapon such as a knife or blunt object (stick, etc...) of course seek to get out of range. if that's impossible, quickly move in to block the attacker's arm at the forearm or closer. Angular momentum is far less prominent closer to the point of rotation (forearm/elbow area), resulting in less impact to your blocking arm/hand.

Note: remember weak points such as fingers, wrists, elbows, nose, eyes and throat. these areas cannot be "made tougher" from training and are perpetual vulnerabilities on even the strongest attacker. Also note the benefit of leverage on attacker's fingers or wrists. Even the smallest/weakest person has sufficient strength to twist or even break a finger/wrist of the strongest attacker, especially if using both hands and their body weight/momentum. the consequent disability (not to mention pain) will dissuade virtually any assault.

I hope this has been helpful.

which god in particular? Vishnu, Allah, Jesus??

*grabs popcorn*

same issues. even a so-so girl gets 100s of messages, nevermind a "hot" one. being overwhelmed by numbers, a response by anyone would depend on fickle whims that had little to do with the merits/qualities of the sender. so don't take it personally when you rarely/ever get a response. Any forum where sex is implied will have a high guy/girl ratio (note such ratios at bars/clubs, and for the same reason).

tho the above responder is right, all i could say with regards to "game" (which I have little-to-none of, yet have had substantial success) is the following pointers:

1. go for international girls in your vicinity and/or recent immigrants. doesn't matter from where, as long as they're from outside the west (sorry, europeans and canadians don't count). This is not to flaunt your relative wealth or success by 3rd world standards, but that western girls are far more bitchy, rude, superficial and unpleasant even if you do get with them. On that note, many non-western nations are getting quite rich (China, Malaysia, Argentina).. so that angle is disappearing anyway.


2. go for religious girls, but non-christians. This isn't a swing at xtian theology, but the fact that in the US, even a "devout" christian ffemale is a pop-culture-infested joke. a devout jew/muslim/etc... is a different story and far more likely to have her head screwed on straight, but don't expect a quick lay.

3. I heard that 90% of game is your frame. get in shape and keep it. you'll know success when, even dressed casually, you get looks from girls, and guys will ask if you've been doing P90X or Zumba or whatever. with real-life success, you won't need Mingle, at least not as much.

Agreed. here's a romantic poem that never fails:

Roses are red,
sex.

Thomas27 handled this flawlessly.

^LIKE