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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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| Awe Crud.. Not Orcs.....fleee..flee....>>>>>>>>>>>..... 8O If you mean me (or even if you didn't), I got one like that decades ago, and it was about the scariest dream I've ever had. There were several barely-visible monster things, and my fear of them kind of signalled them in on me, and they sped... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: False Dx: Up to 70% of dx'd may not actually be autistic? |
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| Ages ago someone on WP asked if autism is a truly scientific diagnosis. I didnt respond except in my head. But he asked a good question. So many absolutly contradictory things are said to be symptoms of autism (like not being able to think abstractly, and being wrapped up in abstract thought, no im... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: False Dx: Up to 70% of dx'd may not actually be autistic? |
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| to be diagnosed with autism you had to have a delay in language development. That was considered a defining trait. The quote-unquote "epidemic" quote-unquote "happened" when they removed that criterion. Oops . This, I think, directly contradicts the all-too-common assertion that... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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| A man I know was setting up some fairly simple but clever device which he put into a tank of water (the proper place for it to achieve its function), explaining its technical details to his wife. I did a similar thing, explaining it to my wife, only I did it rather differently. I think we were at so... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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| I agree it would indeed be poetic justice, buuut on the other hand I don't want to be on the recieving end of a bullwhip. :| Your dream covered your back though. The clothes they were wearing shows that it was happening in the days of slavery before you were born. It wouldn't be poetic justice if y... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
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| The last "weird" dream I had I travelled back in time to the Antebellum Deep South, only the roles of white people and black people were reversed. Black people were now the rich slaveowners wearing top hats and hoopskirts living in nice mansions while the white people were the slaves work... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Was it acceptable to commit war crimes in days gone by? |
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| I think war may be less brutal (in some sense of the word) now than it used to be, but it depends where you are and who you get. I think it was seen as more normal. Cultural attitudes were probably more accepting of violence in general, and there were probably fewer legal safeguards and agreements i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Flowers growing in church cemetery that were unappreciated |
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| Well I'm secular, but I too hate it when people destroy things of natural beauty. I don't know that things used to be any better, but they do leave much to be desired. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Term "Antisemitism" |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:11 pm
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naturalplastic wrote: Gardening? Racist?
He's right, but only with regard to institutional toff events like the Chelsea Flower Show, which may be corrupt anyway. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you often tell white lies about your life? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:50 pm
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| If it's not too personal a question, who was doing that to you? 8O Which story would you like? 1: My ex-husband initiated at least 12 different family court cases against me spanning 23 years, mostly so he wouldn't have to pay child support - but also because he was considered by court psycholo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Term "Antisemitism" |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:21 pm
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| I suppose I must be a true antisemitist then, because I'm against both sides in that war. But for me the term lost all its meaning when they applied it to Corbyn and got away with it. I'm starting to feel the same way about racism now that gardening is deemed "racist". :roll: Are you allu... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Term "Antisemitism" |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:47 pm
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I suppose I must be a true antisemitist then, because I'm against both sides in that war.
But for me the term lost all its meaning when they applied it to Corbyn and got away with it. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you often tell white lies about your life? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:19 pm
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| I still feel guilty if I know I've said something that isn't accurate, as if the world would never forgive me for making the slightest error, like a phobia. Quite irrational. This. After 25 years in court cross-examinations where I had to back up everything with evidence, and defend myself against ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: AA and other 12 step programs - "culty" or not? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:46 pm
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| I smell cultism in the very name. I see no scientific justification for only writing protocols that have exactly 12 steps, and I think they must mostly do that for culty reasons and because it sounds a bit buzzy to people who aren't all that rational or well-educated. No doubt the number 12 is deriv... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Christian Science |
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Posted: Yesterday, 2:49 pm
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| So there's no favouritism when it comes to benefits certification, but there is in the special case of refusing medical interventions that would render a person capable of work? If so, I'm against that morally, and my preferred solution is to universally ditch the requirement for accepting medical i... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you often tell white lies about your life? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:52 pm
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| I think society expects white lies like "I'm fine", and they're an accepted norm. That's why I wish I did it. Certainly it wouldn't anger many people if they later discovered you hadn't actually been feeling fine. I suspect the answer "surviving" is usually acceptable too, and t... |
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