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« on: November 21, 2015, 11:44:42 AM »
Anyway, your question.
Like Verb said. Halo stuff. Names that would be taken by a particular alien race in the series.
Like I said.
Xenophilia up in this thread.
2342
« on: November 21, 2015, 11:41:09 AM »
It's been a quiet couple of days really, not just on sep7 but on skype too.
I'm guessing it's just one of those weird moments where the world crawls to a halt.
It's a Saturday. Everybody dissappears on Saturday for so
It's almost as if they have things to do in the real world. Weird.
If only we could all be deadbeats like me.
Then we could all hang around together and just sit there. Posting on Sep7agon.
2343
« on: November 21, 2015, 11:38:09 AM »
Xenophilia up in this thread.
2344
« on: November 21, 2015, 11:37:28 AM »
It's been a quiet couple of days really, not just on sep7 but on skype too.
I'm guessing it's just one of those weird moments where the world crawls to a halt.
It's a Saturday. Everybody dissappears on Saturday for so
It's almost as if they have things to do in the real world. Weird.
Saturday is usually the time where everybody fucks off to relax doe. I don't know what upside down country you live in, pal.
2345
« on: November 21, 2015, 11:36:20 AM »
It cost 400,000 dollars to be sexual preferenced.
For 12 seconds.
2346
« on: November 21, 2015, 11:34:45 AM »
It's been a quiet couple of days really, not just on sep7 but on skype too.
I'm guessing it's just one of those weird moments where the world crawls to a halt.
It's a Saturday. Everybody dissappears on Saturday for som
2347
« on: November 21, 2015, 11:29:24 AM »
Chally smh
2348
« on: November 21, 2015, 11:23:39 AM »
I guess that's it then.
Without Brute we just can't sustain ourselves.
2349
« on: November 21, 2015, 10:48:41 AM »
Actually when your neurons die, them not coming back is a myth.
Neurons actually do regenerate, but they do it very slowly. And I believe more recent studies have shown that learning, even in mature brains, stimulates neuron growth. New experiences open new pathways.
Neuron growth, sure, like filling a balloon with water--but not popping the balloon once filled, and expecting it to have itself repaired overnight, right?
As for brain cells regenerating, yeah, it seems you're right--but they still don't regenerate fast enough for your body to be "fully" replaced over a seven year period. But apparently they're trying to get stem cells to behave like brain cells as a means to cure paralysis. Pretty cool.
Obviously, yeah. Chop off any body part or damage it and it won't be as good as new overnight. There's only so much trauma you can take and recover from. Speaking of brains though, they recently took visual recordings of what happens during a seizure in the brain. Instead of neurons firing normally, they pulse in a cluster, as if all the electrical current being directed around your head was stuck in a sudden traffic jam.
2350
« on: November 21, 2015, 10:28:03 AM »
Actually when your neurons die, them not coming back is a myth.
Neurons actually do regenerate, but they do it very slowly. And I believe more recent studies have shown that learning, even in mature brains, stimulates neuron growth. New experiences open new pathways.
2351
« on: November 21, 2015, 10:03:52 AM »
That's fair.
You gotta like the D if you're riding Jesus so hard.
2352
« on: November 21, 2015, 09:40:20 AM »
Hype
Now spend thousands of man hours to get enough req cards to unlock it.
2353
« on: November 21, 2015, 02:08:19 AM »
It's just a bondage day special.
Hardcore mode apparently, since the locks seem to have their keys thrown away.
2354
« on: November 21, 2015, 01:55:10 AM »
2355
« on: November 21, 2015, 01:53:17 AM »
Well, there's no other forum that holds my attention like this place does.
There's actually people here that I either care about or think about beyond when I'm talking to them here. I wonder if they're doing okay or whatever.
Like I told Cheat a long time ago. If he couldn't fund the place, I'd help.
2356
« on: November 20, 2015, 09:23:31 PM »
I don't see the argument that suicide hurts those around you to be valid. I think you should condemn suicide for the same reason you would condemn cutting, binge eating, bulimia, or addiction -- that is, because it comes from an illness.
Condemn seems like a harsh word for that. You don't condemn people for any of the things you listed.
You don't condemn addiction, bulimia, or self harm? I recommend you double check the definition if you think it's harsh.
No, I don't condemn. I don't think it should be chastiized. You don't chastize somebody who's addicted, or bulimic, or self harming. You help them. You don't shame the idea or concept of it like some stone age neanderthal. Because people fall into it fairly often, not by choice. Being surrounded by people who are too keen to condemn it, but do fuck all to help it, aren't exactly the best motivators.
2357
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:58:05 PM »
2358
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:56:57 PM »
Well we canadians use monopoly money so...
I prefer to call it plastic fantastic. Rainbow plastic fantastic that is.
2359
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:55:54 PM »
2360
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:53:05 PM »
Kinda funny if you think about it. Characters often emmulate real world people in some form.
You gotta find yourself a relatable homie.
2361
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:51:35 PM »
Who's dressing up as Santa?
Who's dressing up as Santa's gay elves?
2362
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:49:04 PM »
Living's nicer?
Seriously, life can suck but has good as well as bad, with proportionally more good if you know what you're doing. Hell, you don't even have to know what you're doing and life can be fine.
It's also finite. Death, whether or not you subscribe to the belief that there is an afterlife, is eternal. Eternal nothingness because you physically don't exist anymore is a pretty shitty end, and eternal paradise, isn't, because that's not possible. It's like eating your favourite food every day, watching your favourite movie every day, listening to your favourite song every day, forever. (I don't think I need to go into details with Hell here...).
Making the most of the relatively already short time you have existing on this plane is worth it even if you believe your life is shit.
You face an end, no matter what you do. And in all likelyhood most people are either going to live lives of medicority or shit, with a small percentage of them being truly content by the time their respective end shows up.
Doesn't it seem....I dunno, like a waste of time? Almost like pointless meandering about while you wait for an outcome you can't avoid? Think about it. Enjoying your time while you have it being worth it?
How so? Eternal nothing is just that. You're not gonna wallow in some dark room for eternity beating yourself up over how you didn't "enjoy your time." So why beat around the bush, essentially? At the end of the day, your enjoyed time doesn't amount to much if you won't even know you ever had it in the first place.
I'd rather know I enjoyed my experience on my deathbed than be suddenly regretting what I wasted in the end if I decided "fuck it all".
We'd be a short lived species if we all thought "What's the point?" and just gave up living then and there.
Short lived species or no has nothing to do with anything. 3 billion years or so our sun's going to either expand and absorb just about everything in the solar system, or just explode. Running to any other world only stalls this effect. Meanwhile, the universe lines up to starve itself to death as everything drifts farther apart and atomic bonds wear down. The success of a species means little to the argument here. And, I suppose it's a fair point you have on the first sentiment. Although it comes down to personal preference at this point. Personal preference is where things get sketchy. With some people, if you ask them, "Would you do it all over again?" Some say yes. Some say no.
2363
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:43:31 PM »
'member.
Just cause they dead don't mean ya can't fuck em.
2364
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:37:19 PM »
The only argument I have against it is that giving some unlucky driver a nightmare experience is pretty shitty.
Otherwise, I have no argument against it. If someone does not want to be alive anymore, no one else has the right to tell them they have to be.
Well, that's where things get sketchy, a bit. Right or no, people will act for those they care for. And certainly, tell them to stick around. I agree about messy suicides though.
I'm more going into how suicide/ attempted/ assisted suicide is illegal and more the 'suicide is for cowards' mentality some people have. Or the mentality that someone who does commit suicide should be demonised for not wanting to live a shitty existence just so their family/ friends don't get a bit sad.
Can I just say how funny it is that suicide is illegal? What the fuck are you gonna do? Charge the family of some hanged guy a fine? Throw the depressed attemptee into the slammer?
2365
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:33:35 PM »
Living's nicer?
Seriously, life can suck but has good as well as bad, with proportionally more good if you know what you're doing. Hell, you don't even have to know what you're doing and life can be fine.
It's also finite. Death, whether or not you subscribe to the belief that there is an afterlife, is eternal. Eternal nothingness because you physically don't exist anymore is a pretty shitty end, and eternal paradise, isn't, because that's not possible. It's like eating your favourite food every day, watching your favourite movie every day, listening to your favourite song every day, forever. (I don't think I need to go into details with Hell here...).
Making the most of the relatively already short time you have existing on this plane is worth it even if you believe your life is shit.
You face an end, no matter what you do. And in all likelyhood most people are either going to live lives of medicority or shit, with a small percentage of them being truly content by the time their respective end shows up. Doesn't it seem....I dunno, like a waste of time? Almost like pointless meandering about while you wait for an outcome you can't avoid? Think about it. Enjoying your time while you have it being worth it? How so? Eternal nothing is just that. You're not gonna wallow in some dark room for eternity beating yourself up over how you didn't "enjoy your time." So why beat around the bush, essentially? At the end of the day, your enjoyed time doesn't amount to much if you won't even know you ever had it in the first place.
2366
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:19:30 PM »
The only argument I have against it is that giving some unlucky driver a nightmare experience is pretty shitty.
Otherwise, I have no argument against it. If someone does not want to be alive anymore, no one else has the right to tell them they have to be.
Well, that's where things get sketchy, a bit. Right or no, people will act for those they care for. And certainly, tell them to stick around. I agree about messy suicides though.
2367
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:17:31 PM »
Muslims do it, so.
LOL But honestly, it doesn't solve anything. Everything just ceases to exist, that's not a solution. There's always an out.
But I can understand some people that go through with it.
Well, not really, actually. About the solution part. I want ya to imagine a big long stretch of bear traps. Just bear with me for a moment and assume that this is your existence and all you know. At the start of the course you're handed a gun, and told, with that gun, you can kill yourself. But, you are also told what waits ahead of you, and at the end of the course. Along the course filled with bear traps, which you will fall in without any doubt whatsoever, there's medication. Let's say painkillers and really high powered psychedlic drugs. These drugs are placed in spots along the course. They're essentially happy moments that allow you to escape the reality and pain of the bear traps. But they're not placed close enough to each other so that you don't suffer a painless run. And at the end of the course? You die. You get to the end, you die of fatigue or whatever. This is essentially life in a nutshell. Ups, and downs. And depending on your luck of the draw, and other conditions, you might have more ups, or more downs. So would it logically, therefore make sense to just save yourself the trouble of going through the entire course to reach the same end result anyway, as if you just shot yourself at the start of it?
2368
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:07:09 PM »
I don't see the argument that suicide hurts those around you to be valid. I think you should condemn suicide for the same reason you would condemn cutting, binge eating, bulimia, or addiction -- that is, because it comes from an illness.
Condemn seems like a harsh word for that. You don't condemn people for any of the things you listed.
2369
« on: November 20, 2015, 01:14:17 PM »
Buck felt incompetent as a leader and thus stepped down from his leadership role.
One example could be Buck questioning or challenging Locke's leadership, since he himself is still so used to being a leader.
Now, I'm not tryin' to be mean here. But that's a really damn good way to give a poor example.
Please do feel free to give a better one and ill be glad to replace it. I did say I was looking for input in the OP
Well I certainly wouldn't write up a contradictory statement for starters. That's Brian Reed tier writing at that point. Although I'd have to actually play the damn game first to really get a solid opinion on what they could change. Assuming things work out, that won't be too much longer.
2370
« on: November 20, 2015, 01:11:19 PM »
Just some interesting question to ponder on some common statement often brought up when arguing against suicide.
The first and foremost being, that it's a self centered choice, so to speak, in that when somebody commits suicide they often leave behind hurt people. I use "hurt" loosely. Destroyed would be a better term.
Which is a fair point. But consider this. If you were to die suddenly, regardless of your choosing, you would still leave people behind. You would still leave people behind, hurting. And, one way or another, they would have to adapt to your absense. Which means that the only difference in the two outcomes of death, is the type of pain inflicted on those you leave behind.
Which brings up an interesting question. People argue against suicide, usually bringing up points about how the person in question could have been helped to change that view into something better and more positive.
But if either way, we arrive at the same conclusion no matter what we pick, even if we don't choose to die, then what exactly is the point of stopping somebody from committing suicide?
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