Topics Started by Qcmbr
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The craziest thing I have ever read...stunned!
by Qcmbr innot certain whether to be horrified or laugh - .
why marriage and family commitment sucks - a response to the traditional christian by rock jagar.
preamble.
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3 Christs of Ypsilanti - has anyone ever read this book?
by Qcmbr inhttp://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/the_three_christs_of_ypsilanti.
"the three christs of ypsilanti is a psychiatric case study by rokeach, a detailing of his experiment with a trio of schizophrenic patients at ypsilanti state hospital in ypsilanti, michigan.
the three menwho each harbored the delusional belief that he was jesus christ returnedwere forced to live with each other in a mental hospital to see if their beliefs could be challenged enough to effect a break-through in at least one of them.".
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So I shaved off all my hair
by Qcmbr in..on my head.
in some small way i think i understand one reason for shaving new recruits or prisoners.
as i did it i felt sick in my stomach and it felt like i was losing some of my personality.
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Ace Windows 7 Tip
by Qcmbr intype 'psr' in search field and run the psr.exe.
it pops up the problem steps recorder.
click start and everything you do will get recorded with screen shots and instructions.
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States of hypnosis - getting people to face facts
by Qcmbr inwas looking at hypnosis ( always wondered why it works so well on some people - not because i want to convince everyone i meet to be my slaves - honestly ;) ) and i read something that stopped me in my tracks.
the articles author stated that most of the time we are in a state of hypnosis which is no more than our automated systems taking over from our conscious ones for example, when we drive home and realise we didn't think too hard about driving we just 'arrive home' we are in a mild hypnotic state; when we get immersed in a movie and lose our sense of where we are we are in a suggestible world where we potentially get moved by what we see etc.
all these are indicators of our conscious self focusing in such a way that our actual behaviours are handed over to our sub-conscious brain which is also our long term learning process.
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Where did AGuest - and others - go?
by Qcmbr inhi - i almost miss sparring with her.
what happened ?
did i miss something?
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Scale in the universe - awesome site
by Qcmbr inhttp://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1qgoe9/www.hoagames.com/game/the-scale-of-the-universe-2.
no narrative required..
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Atheism 2.0
by Qcmbr inapologies if this has been posted before or even discussed.. this ted talk gets at the heart of what atheism is missing and my wife an di discussed this for a long time last night.
in short religion provides a framework for meeting, for ritual, for art, education and sociality.
without this framework atheism can seem lonely harsh and certainly disorganised (the general idea that education and culture can replace the gap may well be true but without a formal structure the route to personal mental fulfillment is somewhat piecemeal and patchwork.
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Had very intense discussion with Mum
by Qcmbr inmy mum is hard core lds and of all the family (3 boys 1 girl) i was the favoured son from a religious view point.
my defection to the atheist side has hit her hard since i was the one who married in the temple, served a mission, was the wards elder's qurum president etc.
we've never really talked face to face but she's been using the usual long distance stealth tactics (christmas presents of church quotes, church dvds, mormon abc type books for the smallest and inviting the kids to church activities while having covert one on one 'what shall we do?
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DVD Ripping software
by Qcmbr indang don't even know if i should post this - ok - feel free to delete this mods if this crosses the line and apologies to all as i hope my post history will exonerate me from spamming.
eek here goes.. no desire to promote any software or sell anything but if you are looking for a dvd ripping software i had an interesting experience on one unnamed site.
i was about to buy and got really annoyed that they quoted a gbp rate but when i went to pay it showed only dollars / euros so i cancelled.