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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Songs and anthems for hippies |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 10:11 pm
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Replies: 17
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Charismatic Leaders |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 7:01 pm
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Replies: 9
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| ^ The notion of Farage having anything like a charisma seems really weird to me, seeing as how he's so hideous to look at, but then I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe I'm confusing charismatic with sexy? I mean what is charismatic exactly anyway? I've read about it on Wikipedia bu... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 4:22 pm
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Replies: 48,766
Views: 1,592,614
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| Sycamore in winter has a lot going for it too, when the leaves are out of the way and you can see the way the twigs are arranged. They look very witchy and mystical to me. But they weren't quite as good after I'd stopped taking the mushrooms, so maybe it's just me. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Charismatic Leaders |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 2:45 pm
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| No, charismatic leaders aren't for me. I'm suspicious of any kind of leaders but I'm even more suspicious of that lot. Anyway when I vote at all (and that's rare), I vote to keep somebody out who I think is even worse. I suppose who the most charismatic one is depends on the people who have been cha... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's on your mind right now? |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 2:04 pm
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Replies: 48,766
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| A tree with a parachute stuck in it of course. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Things That Are Hard To Do For an Autism Person |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 1:12 pm
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Replies: 25
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| Oh, I had as much obsession with my appearance as any girl, but I had some weird ideas about what people would find attractive - basically if I liked it I thought they would. And I'd get very concerned about the tiniest thing that seemed wrong, and I'd think everybody would notice and they'd never f... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Feeling ridiculous being scared of thunder? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2025, 10:58 am
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Replies: 9
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| These powerful forces can bring out the superstition in people. I told a joke at work once about how it would be if God was a woman, and I had to cycle home through a thunderstorm soon afterwards. I must confess I felt a bit worried that Big G might have a go at me for my cheek. Luckily for me he mu... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Saints and archangel if you please |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 5:25 pm
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Replies: 12
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| I like St. Thomas because as a disciple he was very skeptical about the resurrection. I also like the story of St. Christopher and was annoyed when the Catholic church decided to delete him just because the story wasn't likely to be true. I just thought, if you're going to take that attitude then yo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Who studied Theology |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 5:06 pm
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Replies: 8
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| I did a bit of theology at school for the Religious Knowledge 'O' level. But a lot of it seemed like pointless, overcomplicated gobbledegook - I think the world could manage very well without the concept of Logos Spermatikos for example. We only covered 2 books - John and one of the others, I forget... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Religion and Comedy |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 4:42 pm
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Replies: 13
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| Organised religion is notorious for not being able to laugh at itself. I suppose a lot of them are scared it'll undermine church authority. But the Zen people are pretty relaxed about humour and irreverence, and that's one of the reasons I prefer Zen to the usual religions. I read somewhere that the... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Cartoons and Funnies; Apolitical |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 4:20 pm
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Replies: 207
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Feeling ridiculous being scared of thunder? |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 4:12 pm
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Replies: 9
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| No I like them as long as I'm safely indoors. My cat isn't scared of them either, but the previous cat used to be so scared that he'd hide in the cupboard. He knew when there was going to be thunder and he'd get in the cupboard before it started. No idea how he knew. The sudden loud thunderclaps mak... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Do you see random images in your mind’s eye? |
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Posted: 06 Jul 2025, 11:54 am
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Replies: 15
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| Yes I used to get hypnopompic hallucinations when I was young. I'd wake up suddenly because I'd noticed I was dreaming, didn't like it, so I'd wake myself up, and then I'd see extremely vivid colour moving pictures for about half a minute if I closed my eyes. I didn't know what they were at the time... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Are we as concerned about social mishaps as NTs? |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 05 Jul 2025, 10:21 pm
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Replies: 9
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| I would think generally speaking we're likely to be more concerned about social mishaps than NTs are because we've had more of them and, not being stupid, we're wary of making further blunders. It's called social anxiety isn't it? The kind that's rational. |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Nicknames - can't do them |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 8:12 am
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Replies: 44
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| Names are a lifelong special interest. I have big opinions about nicknames. Apparently, the OP's general experience is that when she gives her full name to new people, they ask if they can call her an abbreviation or shorter version. WHY, WHY, WHYYYYY? If someone tells me his name is Dominic, I'm g... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The United States is finally going to do away with pennies. |
| ToughDiamond |
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Posted: 04 Jul 2025, 8:01 am
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Replies: 38
Views: 4,017
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I'm scared of non-metric units. To me they're as awkward as Roman numerals. |
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