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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: I’m an aspie who is good with people, is this weird? |
| Prometheus18 |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 5:22 pm
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,418
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| Why would you need to tell them about anything? The therapy is for them, not for you. It isn't about you. I don't mean that in a put-you-down way, I mean they don't need to know, and therapy is all about listening and dealing with their struggles. How do you feel it would benefit you to tell your c... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
| Prometheus18 |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 4:45 pm
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Replies: 40,361
Views: 1,147,730
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| How nice it would be to immigrate to Norway, Finland or Iceland.... If only. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Three Wishes |
| Prometheus18 |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 4:43 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 777
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| I just want to be left alone. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: So Called Feminists who listen to Rap Music? |
| Prometheus18 |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 4:42 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 678
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| I don't know much about him, but it'd be a tedious affair, at best. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Favourite books |
| Prometheus18 |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 4:39 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,322
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| Largely the same ones, but in a different order. I'd remove a few and replace them with works by Peter Hitchens, Christopher Lasch and Theodore Dalrymple. I'd also add Dostoevsky's Devils. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Favourite books |
| Prometheus18 |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 4:04 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,322
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| My goodness, how much one changes in ten months. That list would no longer be accurate at all. |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Cricket - The Ashes |
| Prometheus18 |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 2:40 pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 1,789
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| Don't see what the fuss was about with Archer - he just smiled momentarily. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: So Called Feminists who listen to Rap Music? |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 2:38 pm
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Replies: 25
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| I don't know how people listen to rap music, period, because it tends to be no more than vaudevillian patter singing backed up by electronic "beats" and a vocabulary level (in most cases) for those with a room-temperature IQ. It bothers me because of sensory sensitivity & because of t... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: So Called Feminists who listen to Rap Music? |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 2:17 pm
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Replies: 25
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| "Eminem". Let's just say he isn't the sort of person I'd want round for dinner. The same goes for any other "rapper". |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are there other gods in the Bible? |
| Prometheus18 |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 1:54 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 831
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| The above is a linguistic convention that doesn't literally imply plurality. It's a "plural of majesty", and found in all Semitic languages. It implies greater worth. I believe the Moslems have it in their text as well. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are there other gods in the Bible? |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 1:36 pm
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Replies: 9
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The shema:
Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Post something that made you happy today. |
| Prometheus18 |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 1:09 pm
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Replies: 32,975
Views: 1,330,834
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| A glass of fifteen year old port. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: *sigh* "I guess we're ALL autistic!" |
| Prometheus18 |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 1:07 pm
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Replies: 29
Views: 1,259
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The remark about blindness is ridiculous.
I do agree that autism is overdiagnosed, though. |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: This or That |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 12:56 pm
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Replies: 31,873
Views: 670,138
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| Why is it odd? It gets asked a lot in WP. Aerosol. Friends or family? It's like asking what animal one would want to be if he weren't a human - how could I know, given that being human is all I've ever experienced or ever could? Family. Czech Republic or Hungary? You feel that different to NTs to d... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: This or That |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 11:53 am
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Replies: 31,873
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smudge wrote: Why is it odd? It gets asked a lot in WP.
Aerosol.
Friends or family?
It's like asking what animal one would want to be if he weren't a human - how could I know, given that being human is all I've ever experienced or ever could?
Family.
Czech Republic or Hungary? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hypothetical religion for today, common modern-day values |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2019, 10:43 am
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Replies: 3
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| A rationalistic religion would not work. Not everybody is a Descartes, and human nature is too complicated to be planned for in advance like this. All the great religions developed over time, as a series of compronises and developments, some of them seemingly illogical, to deal with the illogical an... |
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