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Zarathustra - CJS asked:


The Overman

“The fact of the matter is standard morality, at least in Western culture, is based upon the improvement of society as a whole, or the improvement of individuals, whether it be yourself or a fellow human.”
“Yes, but my point is everyone’s morals are different, be it a slight or drastic difference. My belief is that everything is subjective, which is why these drastic differences of morality, that are especially prevalent in other cultures, must be tolerated in order to improve, not only society, but the world.”
I listened intently as the two men discussed moral relativism through my car radio. I often preferred the sound of discussion than that of music while I drove, especially when the weather made visibility problematic. I found discussion kept me aware, constantly thinking, perhaps preventing any potential disasters. However, thinking in itself was a potential disaster. There were times I had been thinking in such great depth that I lost all perception of reality, almost as if I were daydreaming. Thinking, to me, is the equivalent of what music is to most people. It creates, for me, a sense of euphoria, placing me in a virtual world, and the topic being, in most cases, irrelevant to these results. There are many issues I think about and discuss, but if I were to pick out the most frequent occurring topic, it would be the meaning of life, something I’ve not yet discovered.
I was returning from a late night seminar in my History of Philosophy course. The rain fell rapidly from the sunless sky, blackened by the storm filled clouds. Every few seconds the thunder roared and the lightning illuminated the sky, creating a scene not unlike the flashing lights of a night club. Attending Brock University was an idea that regularly crossed my mind as a high school student. It was an idea that was also encouraged by my family. Any university, in fact, would have pleased them. Now that I am enrolled, however, life has been challenging, immensely demanding. The late nights of studying and writing has provided for me limited spare time, most of it spent working at the local department store. Not to mention the radical conversion of my social life that, I know for a fact, would devastate most people’s lives. Although it is the one adjustment that hasn’t completely overwhelmed me. Other than my family, I’ve never been extremely close to another person. I find it undesirable, difficult almost, to converse with the people I already know. Which is why I will leave the expansion of my social life to the days of my traveling, provided I get the opportunity. I am quite certain I will admire deeper the people of Europe than of North America.
I came to a stop sign. The storm wasn’t letting up, in fact it had become worse these last twenty minutes. I was tired, the seminar lasted about an hour and half. I checked my watch calculating in my head the approximate number of hours of sleep I would get tonight. It read eleven forty-three. I was only ten minutes from home so I figured I would sleep for a good ten hours tonight, seeing as I wasn’t required to wake up early the next morning. A rare event in my life, being able to sleep in, though I deserved it. The storm continued to gradually become worse, as if there were no limits to mother
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nature. The lightning appeared closer than ever, the thunder shook the earth beneath me, and the rain limited my range of sight to a mere five feet. I tried to use my knowledge of the road as a guide, because I knew if there was a turn up ahead, I wouldn’t be able to see
it. I don’t know if it was my lack of wisdom or fear, but I decided to remain at the same
speed of eighty kilometers per hour. My reasoning being, “the quicker I get home, the quicker this would be over.” Then, an enormous clash of thunder rattled my nineteen ninety-eight Nissan Maxima, sending a chill down my spine. The strike of lightning that followed, however, was devastating. The surrounding environment shone a bright white, temporarily blinding me. It was then, at my most vulnerable point, unable to see the turn up ahead, that I veered off the road into a ditch, rolling for what seemed to be an eternity. The bending and snapping of metal filled my ears and finally, after hitting a tree, the car came to a halting stop. With blood in my eyes, and freezing rain pelting my body, I lay in a car that was once twice the size, desperately gasping for breath. Then, suddenly, I feel something, something horrendous, something unlike anything I’ve ever felt before. It was a feeling of resentment, of decadence if you will, which consumed my whole being, the affect governing my mind more than my body. As I lay there, on the hood of my car, knowing my life will soon end, I find my self reluctant to fight. I merely lay there waiting, waiting for death to take me. And then I remember. My curiosity and interest over-power my fear, as the last few seconds of my life fade away, I wonder, what will happen next?
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Jake5282 asked:


Not a joke, but I know my friends will like this…

ROCK AND ROLL MYTHS…………..

1: ‘Mama’ Cass choking on a sandwich
When ‘Mama’ Cass Elliot died in her London flat in 1974 at the age of 32, a hasty postmortem suggested she had choked on her own vomit while chomping a sandwich in bed. At 5′ 5″ and 240 pounds, it was easy to believe that - like a female version of Monty Python’s Mr Creosote - Elliot had simply gambled on one mouthful too many. Not so. The coroner’s report after her death concluded that Cass died of massive heart failure, brought on by obesity and the strains of crash dieting. Though a sandwich may well have been found at her bedside, the autopsy revealed no evidence of food in her trachea. Tragically, it appears she died peckish.

2: Marilyn Manson starring in ‘The Wonder Years’
This fuels every parent’s fear that the most innocuous geek-child can go stone bad. Did the young Brian Warner (aka Mr Manson) play Paul Pfeiffer, goofy pal of Kevin Arnold, in the schmaltzy rites-of passage TV show? ‘It’s kind of irrelevant whether these rumours are true or not,’ quoth Manson. Well actually, Marilyn, it’s not irrelevant to Josh Saviano, who really did play Paul Pfeiffer.
3: The Beatles’ spliff in Buckingham Palace
Sometime after our four young heroes bounced into the Palace in October 1965 to receive their MBEs, John Lennon claimed they’d shared a toke in the loos. Not the most reliable witness - he once claimed he wrote ‘Eleanor Rigby’ - Lennon later ‘fessed up, admitting ‘we’d have been far too scared to do it’. McCartney, meanwhile, remembers simply having a ’sly ciggie’ with the chaps to calm nerves.
4: Keef’s blood transfusion
Keen to clean up for a European tour, Richards reportedly replaced his poisoned old claret with an infusion of healthy blood in a Swiss clinic in September 1973. In reality, it was probably only haemodialysis, which filters impurities from the bloodstream. ‘Someone asked me how I cleaned up, so I said I had my blood completely changed,’ Richards said. ‘I was fucking sick of answering that question, so I gave them a story.’
5: Stevie Nicks having cocaine blown up her bum
It’s tempting to believe Fleetwood Mac’s queen bee followed her addiction to such deliciously depraved depths - but sadly, untrue. ‘That’s absurd,’ said Nicks in 2001. ‘Maybe it came about because people knew I had such a big hole in my nose. Let’s put a belt through my nose, because that’s how big the hole is.’ So she just talks through her arse, then. Maybe.
6: Robert Johnson’s pact with the devil
Famously, Johnson sold his soul to the devil in order to play guitar like a demon. You want prima facie evidence? How about ‘Me and the Devil Blues’, and the fact that young Robert was a poor guitarist whose improvement was remarkable. Actually, he used that little known voodoo technique ‘practice’, and was tutored by a bluesman called Ike Zimmerman. Not Satan.
7: Jacko and the elephant man
Reports surfaced in 1987 that Wacko had offered $50,000 for the remains of the Victorian patient Joseph Merrick, aka the Elephant Man. The offer may have been genuine, but Jackson doesn’t own the bones. Merrick’s organs were destroyed in an air raid on the Royal London Hospital during the Second World War. Casts of his head, an arm and a foot survived, but were not up for sale.
8: Sid checks in at Heathrow
Punk romantics believe that Sid’s mum scattered his ashes over Nancy’s grave in Philadelphia. It’s more likely that Ma Vicious arrived back at Heathrow with his remains. Malcolm McLaren claims she knocked them over in the arrivals lounge; hence the fanciful myth that Sid’s essence still circulates, wafting through the air vents and moving among the travellers.
9: Richey Edwards lives
Ten years on, Richey’s disappearance remains imbued with a Lucan-like mythology by those who love a good mystery. Given the extent of his problems - self-harm, alcoholism, anorexia - and the fact that numerous sightings have amounted to nothing, it’s safe to assume he’s probably no longer alive, sadly. But don’t expect the rumours to evaporate.
10: Led Zep and the mud shark
‘A pretty young groupie with red hair was tied to the bed,’ claimed Stephen Davis in Hammer of the Gods. ‘Led Zeppelin proceeded to stuff pieces of shark into her ****** and rectum.’ Not quite. Zep did catch sharks from the window of their hotel, but the pesce in question was actually a red snapper, while the perpetrator was road manager Richard Cole.
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shocker73 asked:


BREAKING NEWS !!!

LEGISLATIVE ALERT !!!

The Americans With No Abilities Act

Washington , DC - (Dateline February 18, 2009)

President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress are considering sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills, knowledge or ambition.

“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the intelligence, competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said California Senator Barbara Boxer - Democrat. “We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability

(POI) to be ridiculed, passed over for promotions, or even worse - fired - for no reason except for their lack of any ability or motivation to do any given job. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing or a willingness to learn it.”

In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - Democrat - pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing

policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance.

Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest U.S. employer of Persons of Inability. Harry Reid pointed also to the public school system as another long-time leader in the field of providing secure employment opportunities to POI.

Private-sector industries with good records of non-discrimination against POI include retail sales (72%), the airline industry (68%), and home improvement warehouse stores (65%). At the state government level, highway public works departments, and the Department of Motor Vehicles both have excellent records of hiring Persons of Inability (93%).

Under AWNAA, more than 25 million mid-level positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance while building self-esteem and providing more candidates who will eventually be promoted into actual senior management positions with even higher salaries and even fewer actual responsibilities.

Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable or unproductive employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability into middle-management positions, and gives a tax credit to other businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires. Utility and cable companies, followed closely by computer customer support departments, are lobbying to have past such hires become eligible for these tax incentives.

Finally, the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, such blatantly discriminatory interview questions such as, “Do you have any particular skills, knowledge or experience that relate to this job?”

“As a Non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,”said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint, Michigan, due to her chronic inability to remember “rightey tightey, lefty loosey.” Gertz added, “I shouldn’t have to be a rocket scientist to keep my job and this new law should be real good for people like me.” With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel and be able to secure well-paying, tenured jobs just like other people who simply are more motivated and productive but otherwise identical to workers such as Gertz.

Said Senator **** Durbin (Democrat-IL), “As a Senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges and benefits that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every other American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so.”

“You’re supposed to sit on your *** and nod at stupid things.
Man, that’s hard to do.”

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I’ve been in love with the idea of lasting and loving relationships ever since I was a young teen. I would spend my free time reading about them and have books like Men are From Mars and “What works in a lasting sexual relationship” and those kinds of things. Needless to say even throughout all of high school I had some pretty fullfilling relationships but we were young so how fullfilling could they be right lol.

So here’s the scenario:

I’m 21 and have a 1-year old from my previous relationship that lasted 2 years. I finally left him because he was a chronic liar and had a hard time holding a job.

Now, I’ve been with my current boyfriend for just over a month. We actually met through plentyoffish.com LOL (my friend made me sign up). I really had no interest in him when we were talking online for about 8 months until he finally insisted we meet in person, and when we did (I had to bus an hour and a half to see him, but thats where my Dad lives so I wasnt too worried), it was like BAM instant attraction and we’ve been really good since. I go visit him basically every weekend and he comes here occasionally (I like it better at his place). One time I was there 5 days straight.

SO! Him and I are basically convinced that we’re gonna get married already and I’m hoping to move in with him next summer (can’t now because I’m in school). My friends think I’m being stupid because it’s only been a month. I say so what. I’ve been trying my hardest to really analyze his character (I have a book on that too lol) and we’ve had some pretty in-depth conversations about where we’re headed and what we have going so far (which is AMAZING!). I’ve never felt like this with anyone else. I actually TRUST him! And I respect him because he actually lives on his own (well, with his brother, who I love to death) and has a decent job and treats me and my daughter like GOLD. I’ve seen him angry (family drama one weekend I was there), I’ve seen him exhausted (he installs granite countertops), and I’m trying to pick out where potential arguments could happen (like both our bad budgeting skills lol area of improvement for both)

I know that relationships take a lot of work and never just “happen” so I won’t follow that advice, to just let it happen lol. I know it’s the little things that matter. And I’m trying my best to be the best person I can for him and my daughter.

What would you suggest for finding out if your partner really is the “One”? And don’t say TIME because it’s not time it’s situation lol. I’d like to take pre-marital couselling… read those self-help books that make you ask each other a bazillion questions… Things are so AMAZING right now and I want to make sure it’s not just because we’re new.. I know things are gonna tone down but I hope not too much! I am seriously so in love with him and if he were to propose tomorrow I would say yes and move in right away! I would prefer being married before I move in because that’s how I was raised…

But seriously is it too early for me to really make that clear of a judgment? We’ve only been seriously dating for a month.. but it feels like forever..
He treats my daughter as if she was his own, and so does the rest of his family. They offer to babysit even, something my family never does even though I live with them.
Nothing will be happening for at least another 8 months anyways, until I’m done my schooling, but I’m just wanting to know if there’s anyway that we can take advantage of this time for us to really get to know eachother? If we really have what it takes? Suggest any good books?

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Sierra M asked:


im also a girl
DONT TELL ME I SHOULDNT BE WORRIED ABOUT MY WEIGHT, THATS CRAZY. im going into the 8th grade and i want to surprise all my friends. i want to loose like 50 lbs. school ends on june 13th and i go back like september 6th. i mean, even if i loose like 20-30 lbs by then i’ll be so happy! i have a very low self esteem and i cant take it anymore. PLEASE TELL ME MORE I CAN DO OTHER THEN exersize and eat better, i know that already. also i need some motivation? im soooo lazy. i do a diet for 1 day and then get off because i see no improvement, i mean i know im not supposed to. ahahha. PLEASE HELP<3 i'll love you forever. tel me some stories of you loosing weight if u did??
thanks for all the help<3 god bless you all

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razerblaze2011 asked:


OK, he is around 6-8 months old and has never been truly “Healthy”.
This is because of lack of research on my part and i feel TERRIBLE about it…. Here are the conditions he was in prior to this past weekend.
Lighting- 2 75 watt r zilla bulbs (Realized he was getting sick so we started gut-loading crickets with extra calcium and fed him more greens) this was about 2 months after i got him. Oh and he was around 2 months when i got him
Temperatures- low 75 high 90
Substrate - walnut shell
Diet - a few crickets each day and some lettuce/zucchini/broccoli

After i while he got to where he was twitching and shaking. I looked this up and realized it was do to lack of calcium. (Didn’t realize that D3 was needed to digest calcium) so i started to dust crickets more and feed more calcium rich foods. He got better and i took him outside every day. Winter came so i stopped taking him outside because i felt it was too cold for him… he got better and ate more than normal. One day when i woke up he was dragging him self around with all of his legs.. (back included) but didn’t lift himself up.. This deeply disturbed me and i immediatly looked it up online. Then i realize my mistake and quickly changed his cage to as follows:

Lighting- 1 r-zilla 8.0 UVB/A 24″ light 1 150 watt r-zilla night heating light, and 1 r-zilla 100 watt daytime heating light. (I have 2 Reptisun 10.0’s on order as i read they are the best. I’m not sure how good the other 2 lights are but my heat in cage dramaticaly improved
Temperature- basking area 105-110 low 82-85 Night temps low 74 high 83. ( around 14 hours of UVB and bright lights on, then just night heater on)
Substrate- Newspaper (Much easier to clean and i read small dragons eat loose substrate such as wallnut shell-which i hear is the WORST)
Diet- 4-6 Crickets a day and a bowl of collard greens, Turnip greens, and zucchini-which i mist before giving.

At first, there was a Dramatic improvement. More active, alert, hungry, and he seemed to be happier as well! But, last night and today he has been down… worse than before! Last night he didn’t eat AT ALL or drink (that i am aware of) i mist and bath him daily to help him go. I forced water through a syringe last night and today because he appeared dehydrated. Now that his basking temps are higher he loves to sit on the log and bask although he cant get up there himself because he can hardly move… but when i set him up there he perks up and acctually lifts his head in the air! which is way better than laying flat and not moving much at all…. anyways i tried to get him to eat greens as well but he wouldn’t. Now today a new problem appeared.. now he doesn’t seem to want to keep his eyes open. He can because if i poke him or move him he opens them and looks straight at me, but after a few seconds he puts his head back down and closes his eyes. When i bathed him today he filled his whole body with air and got stiff.. which he never did before.. I’m not sure what this means.. i thought they could only puff necks.. Anyways i am trying to find the money to take him to the vet.. I hope he will recover and have a good life because i truly care for him.. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRICIATED!!! PLEASE email me for pics or my phone number if you need to talk to me! i am willing to do ANYTHING!!! ALL HELP WILL BE GREAT!!!

I would like if you problems specifically could be addressed, as i feel his cage, diet, temps, lighting are now ok. I am worried about these things tho

Please answer all of these seperatly so all will be addressed! thanks.
Laziness -

Not wanting to open eyes -

Dragging self around/ not lifting up body-

Mouth WIDE open when basking, not slightly like i see in pictures or described in books/forums.

Please email for pics or my phone number i will gladly do all i can. Thanks.
Could a dragon of his age be undergoing brumation? even if chance is low i am curious…

Also i am worried about why he wont open eyes for more than 4 secs at a time.. this is a reletively new symptom… please help.
I have also heard that uvb lights can damage the eye of many reptiles including bearded dragons. I am using a r-zilla 8.0 24″ tube bulb that is about 10″ away… i have 2 lights over his basking area 1 is a r-zilla incandesent 100 watt bulb that is slightly frosted and the other is a 250 watt bulb that is a deep purple so it produces hardly any light.. all are about… 9″-10″ away… the 2 bulbs are above the screen directly over the basking area, the uvb tube is below the screen back away from the basking area. but is still 10″ away… (its below the screen because i heard uvb waves are greatly reduced when passed through glass and screens)
Thanks, and continue with your answers!

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firetick2002 asked:


I’m trying to help a friend do his taxes, but not well-versed in what he is doing job wise, so thought I’d ask for some help.

He moved from Alaska to Texas in 2007 and bought a house in Sep 2007 to flip. All he does is work on the house, so I’d think that makes him self-employed. However, it seems his best tax strategy is to be a home investor, keep the house for at least a year to pay lower capital gains.

What I’m wondering, is what tax deductions can he maybe take for 2007? I would think when he flew down here to look at the job market and find the house, then that trip was deductible if he is self-employed, but maybe not if he is an investor. I would also think his mileage to drive and pick up material is deductible, but again, not if he is an investor.

My understanding is that all of his material and improvement costs will be worked into his capital gains when he (hopefully) sells the house in 2008.

What about home office deductions?

Any help/guidance is appreciated.

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jonas e asked:


Well it seems to me all that atheism offers is self satisfaction, including lust, perversion, and uncertainty about death. As a Christian my life is great, and with every single improvement in my life, I believe it to be God almighty. I don’t think there is any time wasted with Christianity, I mean praying strengthens Christians, so that’s a waste of time? This is pretentious… I’d rather have happiness than “truth”, because how does that “truth” help you in life, and when you die why does that matter? Very inconsistent… So what do you have to say about this?
Okay answer this, because it seems the only thing you atheists can come up with is “truth”. Well why is truth so important? You believe in scientific logic, but truth doesn’t confine in the areas of science. You can’t prove to me that truth is better than happiness.
check out the site thewaythetruth.com

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Larry Woofie asked:


and was not feeling his usually playful happy self. The vet said that he had a back spasm and gave him an injection of anti-inflammatorys. He also gave me a 4 day supply of anti-inflammatorys. After the four days my little dog had not improved so i had to bring him to a new vet (as me and woof had been away from home for christmas) and she gave him steroid medicines for back pain and said he had no temperature. She said that she would x-ray him friday if no improvement to find the problem. Woof yesterday evening appeared to have improved so as I had done since he got sick (as he got cold very easily) I brought him in his bed up my bedroom and placed him on the floor beside my bed so if he needed to go bathroom he would wake me and the heat was on in the bedroom all night for him. He had eaten,drank, and went the toilet that evening/night before bed. I woke up this morning at 10.45 and thought it funny Woof had not woke me for toilet. I called him twice no respond and moved to check him and found my little pet was death. My boyfriend heard him breathing quite shallow around 5.30 but he sometimes snores and talks in his sleep so he thought nothing of it. He was quite all night never made a peep. I am so upset he was my best friend his friendship meant a lot to me. He used to come everywhere with me. He had all his shots and I had taken him to two different vets and both gave the same opinion back pain. It was logical because he responded to the anti-inflammatory injection well on the night of the 26th and was acting like himself. I also had been in my family home for christmas and Woof had been quite active playing with my other dog at the family home so logic would dictate he hurt his back playing so much. I was offered a post mortem by a very shocked vet who could not understand it at all. I felt that I didn’t want this for my little pup as it meant that I could not bury him so i chose not to. Of course I am still so shocked at the freakness of this. I was wondering has anybody every heard this to happen to another poor little dog?
Unexplained sudden puppy death
Is it possible my yorkie had a Liver shunt? It effects the nervous system and makes the poor little yorkie depressed. Should I tell the breeder? I recently saw a ad in our local paper of the same breeder selling puppies again

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teamrudlo asked:


My 4th grade son used to love school. Everything changed this year. He is a sensitive kid, when he does something wrong he goes to his room without being told. His handwriting is sloppy and could use improvement but, he excels in other areas. The teacher he has yells a lot. I have heard other parents talking about their children being upset from all of his yelling. I tried to talk to the teacher. He said he would work on it. After that didn’t work my husband talked to the principal. He said he would look into it. The behavior never changed. Then excelerate math started coming home with a note saying that it was not homework but, if the kids didn’t have much homework they could do it. We do homework for 2 hours a night and if it doesn’t take that long for home work we do the packet. Now I find out he has been keeping my son in from recess to this “optional” math packet. I get his report card today and he has D’s and F’s. I have never gotten a note. I am at the school daily, the teacher has never even told me that he was failing. He has always gotten A’s and B’s. I am not saying my son is perfect, he’s not. But, I am having a tough time with the fact that he is 9 and has little to no self esteem when it comes to school. What do I do? Have you had this happen with your child? What did you do?

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