Lifestyle
What do you define as white, grey, black lies?
Netfriend: Rowland: White: Bandits: ‘Where did the fugitive with the money go?’ Response: ‘That way’ (opposite direction). Ie. Lying to save an innocent person’s life. Happens all the time in oppressed cultures – by everyone… Grey: (Chris’s example). How are you? ‘Fine’. Wife: ‘Do I look OK in this?’ (Guys: supply your own response). Black: […]
Lying
‘You’re a liar!’ is one of the commonest retorts/mantras in adversarial contexts on Usenet newsgroups. Its use is not confined to one people-group: both ‘Christians’ and atheists, for example, may use it as a put-down in equal measure… In another thread (‘A Mormon Odyssey’) there was an interesting discussion on how common ‘lying’ is in […]
Lying: a commercial example
I buy a lot of my groceries online, because I don’t have time to go out each week to the out-of-town retail park where the big supermarkets are. Every time I go to the website, something I’ve bought regularly will suddenly be “unavailable”, and I’ll be offered a more expensive alternative, or the price will […]
We all Need a Tree!
I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit and his ancient one ton truck refused to start. While I drove him home, he sat in […]
What is intelligence, anyway?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn’t mean anything. The next […]
Smoking, and drugs generally
To the question: If you believe that smoking tobacco is ok, then you are ok with injecting heroin into your vein (or snorting it) Mark replied: … or use Laudanum (A tincture of opium, formerly used as a medicine) which was used by Christians (such as Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Lewis Carroll and Samuel Taylor Coleridge) in […]
A Child Prodigy: this is incredible
A Child Prodigy: this is incredible Check out this short video which was recently on CNN. http://tinyurl.com/yxewot
Reading
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. Erasmus
George Carlin’s Views on Aging
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.’How old are you?’ ‘I’m four and a half!’ You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a […]
Reversing Loss of Memory
http://tinyurl.com/38osmm By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Scientists performing experimental brain surgery on a man aged 50 have stumbled across a mechanism that could unlock how memory works. The accidental breakthrough came during an experiment originally intended to suppress the obese man’s appetite, using the increasingly successful technique of deep-brain stimulation. Electrodes […]
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