Need I say more?
In mandarin, it's called zhou2 huo3 ru4 muo2
Too much gaming. Watch out, my chubby friends.
The guy in GIF in the previous article was doing something called "kitten huffing" and more information can be found here.
- Obtain a fresh, live kitten.
- Obtain a fresh, clean huffing tube.
- Place tube at rear end of kitten.
- Call local Poison Control Center
ROFL
check the webpage if u dont get what this is about.
Gandhian economics' emphasis on peace, "trusteeship" and co-operation seems like a good idea but if used on our society would be too idealistic.
After playing several empire-building games i finally get a feel of the importance of an army. If you still dont(well u can talk about its importance all day but to actually feel it would be a different matter), just try playing Europa Universalis III. Without a decent army, no matter your size, your reputation and prestige you will be prey. The army is completely necessary to the well-being of a country. In several situations, when someone declares war on me, i tried loading an older saved game and built a stronger army before the month when it declared war. Always works. Having an army that is both strong enough to slow their attack forces down, and at the same time siege their cities with another strike force is a great deterrent to voracious nations. Even in the game series Civilization a strong army is sometimes necessary to prevent a declaration of war in most situations.
This is one common trait in most empire building games, and from this I conclude that this is a reflection of the real world. The defense forces do not need to be strong in all these games, as long as it can slow down the attacking forces enough for the defending country's attack forces to do enough damage to the right cities. Once the offending side is feeling their butt kicked hard they will naturally want to pull back.
So now I understand why I need to go for NS, but I still don't have to like it
The world is not mad, even when you think it is.
If any "God"-like beings saved us from all the bad things people do, this world would be a really bad place to live in cos free will won't truly exist. Yes, even the Holocaust must not be interrupted by such "divine" presence. But on the other hand, natural disasters like earthquakes and volcano eruptions have nothing to do with free will. So if "God" or any such beings exist, they must be ignoring us. Therefore, even if they really are there, their presence would amount to nothing.
And prayers! Prayers and offerings that are given to higher beings freely are fine albeit wasted IMHO. But praying to gods for certain favours like saving your life, or offering food and objects while expecting the god will give you wealth or fortune in return, is complete B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T! Why, that is manipulation if it is anything at all! Such people are trying to bribe or tell a higher being what should be done! If higher beings like those that people believe in really exists, what makes them think they can be bribed at all? And to tell them what to do! Hell, they're supposed to know what to do better than you! Who are you, with your mere decades of life's experience? Or do you think they're are less intelligent, therefore with your little experience you can still know and think better than they do?
So therefore, if they think your life should be saved, you will be saved. There is no need to pray to them and ask them to do it. It must seem somewhat similar to an insult to suggest to them what should be done. Thanking them, if you actually believe in anyone of them, is enough. Or if you're Christian, it is worse. God is supposed to be all-knowing, omnipotent and etc. He won't even need your verbal thanks cos he knows. So you do not need to say anything or do anything physically because all these are not necessary. Unless you're Taoist or believe in another religion in which not all deities are telepathic, in which case you may need to thank them somehow. Or be like me, an atheist. Well no matter what you believe in, if u need to be saved, you will be saved. If you need to be helped, you will be helped. Even if you do not believe in anything, you still play a part in the great mechanism that is all that exists.
To pray for help, or give offerings in return for better fortune, is a kind of self-delusion. It is like saying that doing many good deeds can make everyone forgive your evil deeds. It is illogical and all it does is to allow such people to escape from the truth. And the truth hurts. Nothing you can do will offset your wrongs. What is done is done. What will be done after is a separate matter and should not be mixed in with history.
Jails! Never mistake them for places where people stay in order to pay for their crimes. No it should not be seen as such. Prisons are places where criminals should learn why they were wrong and why they should not have done it. Prisons are places where the most dangerous and most stubborn criminals should be kept for the rest of their lives. It is a facility to correct wrongs and keep the ones who are deemed too dangerous from the rest of society. Not a place where people stay and suffer to pay for their crimes. People cannot pay for their mistakes. They can only try to offset them by doing good. But that doesn't mean their mistakes will become as if they were not done at all. By offsetting their mistakes, they can make themselves seem a better person and people will be able to have something to balance the scale when they decide if hiring or befriending the person is worth the risk of the same crime being commited by that person again.
However, such a concept does have an exception. Child molesters should never be given a chance to stay near a child alone. No matter how long it has been since they last molested a kid. When people display a tendency to exploit the weak and helpless, it is almost impossible to detect whether they have changed. They can say for years that they have changed but how can one tell until it is too late? Yes, they can tell you in your face they have changed, even from the bottom of their souls, but that is still not worth the risk of a child being traumatised for the rest of his/her life! I don't know about you, but I can really understand the feeling of temptation even when I have promised from the bottom of my heart that I will never do something again. And I have succumbed to temptation under such circumstances when I know I will not be caught. It may not truly convince anyone who has never succumbed to temptation despite a promise given whole-heartedly, but for anyone who has, they know what I am talking about. The possibility of such an event is infinitesimally small, I admit, but it is there alright. And even such a minuscule chance is too much risk for the life of any children.
The price of free will, indeed.
Lily Allen sounds like a good singer.
Despite the fact that Oscar Wilde isn't all that great, he did make a big fuss by being known to be gay at such an early time. And they did make a big matter of him at uncyclopedia, for reasons i can only guess at.
The truth hurts, but the truth attracts people too. Like a flame that attracts the moths. They must know that they'd be burnt but they still fly towards it. Therefore, should I say that people live for pain? That they live to suffer? Or should I say that pain is the price to enlightenment?
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