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Luke Skywalker has OCD
I think i locked it.
Did i? I seem to remember clicking it... but did i? or did i think about it and not do it?
I'll just open it and close it again then i'll know.
Ok, cool i had to unlock to open it so it must have been. ok cool. Close it then and go.
Crap, i closed it but i wasn't concentrating, i was thinking about going. Did i actually lock it this time? I don't know.
I can't have not locked it since that's why i opened it.
...but i wasn't paying attention... I must have done. Just i'm not sure. I don't remember i kinda went on auto pilot again.
... better just check...
Poker Face - A Cappella
Burka + Spaghetti = Schadenfreude
The Nom Nom Cat
Butterfly tries to fly in space - fails
This is why we don't have a Moon base - because of stupid scientists wasting money on experiements in space where the outcome is OBVIOUS.
But wait - we might see what it does to their physiology?
I say: who gives a shit! are we planning to fly to Mars on giant moths? It's hardly relevant to human exploration.
Looping Around The House
Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP
Let's See you perform a full backflip in a 7000 pound boat.
The double pendulum gives an example of chaotic motion
Vertical Farms - Indoor Hydroponic Agriculture
In a controlled environment like this where pests, nutriants, air pollution, and even bacterias can be completely controlled from seed to delivery without antibotics - the food is likely to be far healthier. Potentially even organic certified as long as the process is carefully controlled.
Unfortunately it's when greed steps in and the ethics of producing healthy food gets completely abandoned. And since this takes money and investment it's almost guaranteed they would move to GM food's, articitial growth cycles and hormones, lower the nutriants but increase the speed and out put of the factory line etc...
Shaolin Monks Balance On 2 Fingers
Compressed Bondage
Compressed Bondage
Swype > iPhone typing
(I'm just jealous cos i don't have one.)
Reebok Talking Boobs Actually Sell Shoes
Time Lapse Visualization of US Unemployment
GOP Introduces Reagan Purity Test - Reagan Fails
...and then take a fanatical position that doesn't believe in freedom to have an opinion or democracy to represent the people rather than "The Party"
I'm sure the Taliban have a purity test as well.
Natural Morality
There are plenty of contradicting 'law of the jungle' behaviours.
While penguins mate for life and appreciate their children, female spiders kill and eat the male after mating, some bird species have two eggs as backup and let only one chick survive.
Some bird species will raise another's chicks, while it's also quite common for birds to kill all the chicks of another species to steal the nest.
Lions as a pride family, cooperate as a social unit, in yet a new male lion will kill and eat the cubs of any other male to secure his line when he becomes the alpha male.
In many species the alpha male only gets to that position by maiming, killing, or at the least exiling both the previous alpha and any younger challengers.
It's not morality, regardless of religion, for both people and animals it's about power.
The lizards don't kill each other because they are evenly matched if they both poison each other it would be suicide. But given the chance to kill the offspring of the rival without fear of retribution - the weak get crushed.
Crazy Girlfriend Smashes Xbox
Natural Morality
Justifing actions as unquestionable dictates from god, combined with heaven providing reward rather than consequence from death ... Actually by passes the natural imperitive to protect other humans!
You could argue that without religion the world would live in harmony with more morality as there would be no reason to kill, torture, or abuse anyone who your god judged to be inferior.
Sure there will always be those who hurt others for greed or power - but belief in god has never stopped those people - more othen actually - gave others reason to help them.