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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What ideas or inventions have you made up? |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 02 Aug 2021, 5:56 pm
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Replies: 44
Views: 5,976
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I made a calculation in Excel that saved taxpayers $ 35 million a year...
... that's just about it... 
... not exactly equivalent to the discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson...
... and I guess someone else than me will have to discover the even more elusive massless spin-2 particle... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why religious circumcision? |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 01 Aug 2021, 2:46 am
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Replies: 88
Views: 4,957
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| Happy to say that even though non-therapeutic circumcision isn't exactly illegal in the UK, the British Medical Association is against it, which I guess means that any parent wishing to impose it without the child's consent isn't going to find it at all easy to get the op done. It appears to be rat... |
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Forum: Adult Autism Issues Topic: Adult cartoons! |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2021, 3:35 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 775
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There can only be one... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are you still loving Biden? |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2021, 3:25 pm
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Replies: 954
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| Is it ever conceivable that America could get rid of the two-party system entirely, and just elect the best and most qualified people for the job? That would include the senate and the Supreme Court, over time. Call me naive. Call me an idealist. I just don't understand why it needs to be structure... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why religious circumcision? |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2021, 12:47 pm
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Replies: 88
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| "If you start a post by announcing "folks should be free to use drugs", and then launch into diatribe about how they should keep pot illegal- you are contradciting yourself. Similarly you dont say "I am for the freedom to bear arms" and then say that the govt should confisi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why religious circumcision? |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2021, 11:20 am
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Replies: 88
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| We recently had a political proposal in Denmark to raise the legal age of male circumcision to 18, so people - and not their parents - could decide on their own if they wanted to get circumcised. Polls showed that 73 % of the Danish population was in favour of the age requirement (and less than 10 %... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: California to pay reperations - forced sterilization victims |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2021, 11:10 am
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Replies: 19
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| Shades of Nazi china Germany!! ! EEP!! ! 8O Unsurprising, as the California eugenics movement *inspired* the subsequent Nazi sterilisation programme... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._S._Gosney#Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Goethe#Eugenics_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wik... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why religious circumcision? |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 31 Jul 2021, 10:43 am
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Replies: 88
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| Religious freedom should be a right everybody enjoys. So why do the U.S and EU not ban circumcision of children, until the child can voluntarily agree to the surgical procedure? Because ... religious freedom is a right everybody enjoys . You anwered your own question in the first sentence of your o... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Is anyone here not narcissistic at all? |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2021, 10:07 am
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,735
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I am not narcissistic at all...
I *am* the most interesting and fabulous person in the world... nay, in the entire universe. 
And as a symbol of my magnanimous beatitude, I hereby grant you all permission to shower me with praise and gifts. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Biles withdraws from gymnastics final to protect team, self |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 30 Jul 2021, 4:33 am
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Replies: 19
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| Simone Biles is 24. That's actually close to the average retirement age for elite female gymnasts. And given all her records and medals, Biles has probably pushed her body a lot further than her peers. That's why I have always been ambivalent about elite gymnastics. It's truly impressive to see what... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Communicating pain and discomfort - sensory abnormality |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2021, 4:38 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,842
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| I used to sprain my ankles a lot when I was young, but it never really hurt or bothered me. Also I was able to do weird things with my shoulder joints, so maybe I was just really flexible. Oh yeah, I got that one too. As I recall, I can dislocate my left shoulder at will. Let me just check... Yep, ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Biden's Planned Vaccine Rule Meeting Large Resistance |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2021, 4:31 pm
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Replies: 4
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| This has left Biden between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, he will likely face significant domestic backlash... On the other hand... https://i.ibb.co/H4msvjk/coronavirus-data-explorer-1.png Source: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations ... the US vaccination rollout has basically ... |
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Forum: Health, Fitness, and Sports Topic: Communicating pain and discomfort - sensory abnormality |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2021, 10:50 am
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Replies: 28
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| I also have both alexithymia and hyposensitivity to (some types of) pain. For instance, I used to suffer from chronic ankle instability some years ago because of recurrent ankle sprains. Whenever I suffered a sprain, I would just ignore it because the pain was manageable (and sometimes it even felt ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Resurrection of Jesus - or not - why does it matter? |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 29 Jul 2021, 4:27 am
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Replies: 42
Views: 2,762
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| Belief in the resurrection is central to Christianity. To deny the resurrection is to fall outside the pale of of being a Christian. It is one of the few non-negotiable doctrines of the Christian faith. Resurrection did not happen, say quarter of Christians. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpspro... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: No, liking rainbows does not make someone gay. |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2021, 9:03 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,979
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Well, the rainbow flag as a symbol for the LGBT community was invented in the 1970s.
Both rainbows and gay people have been around much longer than that. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What religion is more suitable for us? |
| GGPViper |
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Posted: 28 Jul 2021, 1:23 am
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Replies: 139
Views: 10,827
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| Well, my impression is that "no religion" seems to be the most prevalent here on WP. I am personally fond of several aspects of both Mahayana Buddhism and Daoism, but I don't really see a reason to subscribe to "the whole package" of any belief system. And one can find rigid fund... |
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