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OK, this is just about the craziest thing I've ever seen: http://www.internet-grocer.net/hypnosis.pdf

Same here (more or less). I have been a writer since I was a teenager... although the content and context have changed considerably from my original predictions!

lol, well i guess i'm in the minority on the non-fiction thing, but yeah: nonfiction by (1) David Foster Wallace (2) Mark Kurlansky (3) whichever philosopher interests me most that night... from Jan Assmann (yeah, he can be a philosopher!) to Galen Strawson.

Thanks for all the info, folks! And yeah, Gloomy Optimist, left-handedness is not a simple genetic story, as I understand it. I've heard that hormones in the womb can cause left-handedness... and of course, the disposition of a woman's womb is something of a genetic matter, but it's not quite...

One more detail I'm confused on: Billy, you came from a fatherless, drug-addled family of white people who lived in the projects and all ended up becoming millionaires?

Ha! True enough... I also wanted to comment on this: Adam Smith is very very dead now, even if he argued for his arguable theory once upon a time. The moment the words "too big to fail" crossed conservative/libertarian lips, the so-called free market officially died. And don't anybody forget...

Why are you speaking of this in the future tense rather than past? (1) Just that stupid. (2) See 1. (3) See 1. SOLID GOLD! It's about time somebody dealt with this fiction...

FTW! However: The "both sides are wrong" position has a quaint Yankee appeal, but in this day and age, we need facts. Which "special interests," exactly, stand (stood?) to benefit from a public health insurance option? And: This really gets to the heart of the cognitive distortion (not...

From this thread: Why, yes I could! :-D But I'm not quite sure where to start... Although, as I mentioned in the Zarathustra thread, I'm also a huge Nietzsche fan, and have more than a passing interest in the philosophy and history of religion, my main focus is philosophy of mind. I'm...

Good call.

haven't tried that, but there was this awesome full-scale laser-tag arena called Photon where i spent many a childhood allowance...

YES! This combined with gross-motor clumsiness pretty much seals the deal... Baseball was my nemesis. The pressure of being at bat! ...it was like a public colonoscopy. I liked dodgeball, though, and especially the variant called "elimination," which was all about defense until the final...

Wow, after just now reading through all four pages of this for the first time, those were the very two I was thinking of quoting, up until you did it, Grey Wolf!* On the other hand, as much as I absolutely 1000000% agree with and/or relate to every statement made throughout this thread...

Thanks! Of course I could just be suffering from confirmation bias...

Wow, this really resonated with me. It's always been a problem that, until recently, I wasn't at all aware of. I'm still grappling with it (look how many posts I've put up since joining!), which is to say I'm not sure whether to put it in the "Things to Improve" list or the "Accept Who I Am" list...