Recent content by plornive

You are right that IQ is a good measure of something. I would not identify IQ with intelligence, however. Nor would I confidently identify it with reasoning ability. People integrate many ideas into their brains which contribute to their abilities to make decisionis - what counts as intelligence...

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Thats retarded in several ways. Considering people are free to interpret that pastor how they wish, his comments probably helped gays and hurt Christianity - not the other way around. These things should be let to ride out without jailing people. Arresting him is just a waste. Bad news.

Mostly, people in China and Hong Kong think it is strange that in many place in the US 18 is the age of consent. I have asked around. People are always developing in some ways, while at 16 girls are already finished with skeletal growth. 18 is arbitrary, or just based on the end of high school...

Researchers in certain fields need to entertain hypotheses which contradict what they currently know. After experimentation or analysis, they may find that a contradiction is based on an idea they would like to change, and the corresponding hypothesis may actually be correct. I guess you could...

Bro, I like you, but your reply was sooo deadeningly PC. A 16 year old is off limits? I have met 16 year olds much more mature than most 18 year olds. I have had sex with one 16 year old (legally) because we both wanted it. Does that mean I'm intimidated by women my age? Was she a victim? Lets...

I would say that it takes a certain type of experience and education to be able to do well on IQ tests, as well as perhaps a certain type of brain. Perhaps you would agree. Let's take an example: Game theory. It can be used to analyze many things from evolution and economics to poker. It is...

Bingo... What the hell is it? I want to know.

Exactly. What are those pink growth things under the tit? Are you and I the only ones who can see it? Its screaming out from his avatar yet no one says anything about it. Is this a normal thing for male breasts? bright pink growths?

False. Nothing has shown that the "goal" of every person is happiness. Happiness is an idea created by society. A very good idea, of course. Pleasure, on the other hand, often guides actions. Addicticts follow addictive patterns involving short-term pleasure and inflict short-term pain in...

Our brains have sets of recipes operating on our animal machinery, much like functions on a serial computer (although ours can run in parallel and with more flexibility). Although I will grant that it is conceivable for someone to learn, develop or have brain recipes (reasoning skills) more...

18 is an odd choice for age of consent. It really is a bit too late. Don't do it if its illegal. Its not worth it. I fucked a 16 year old legally in Hong Kong. She was definitely ready. That being said, the hottest were around 24.

I figured I would spoil the joke before someone else used it. Since this is based on irrationality and we don't need to explain why really, I guess I would punch Mao Tse Tung. Or Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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Deadlifts really helps my back. If... I could squat better than deadlift, and I could keep my back up with squats without deadlifting... then I might not deadlift. In that case, good mornings would probably be better anyway. But I can deadlift more than I can squat, so deadlifts are a more...