Brainiac said...

Brainiac at 09:30 AM JST - 3rd May

Hard to name just one. But I'd go for John Lennon, followed by Paul McCartney, then probably Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. What about the Gershwins? I wonder if anyone will name any artist born after 1950.

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Brainiac at 07:45 AM JST - 2nd May

Who knows? Maybe in the future, there will be a world government, located in Washington, and we will all be voting for President of Earth.

Posted in If it were possible, do you wish non-Americans could vote in the U.S. presidential election? at 07:45 AM JST - 2nd May
Brainiac at 10:20 AM JST - 30th April

What a ridiculous idea. How about changing one's lifestyle, exercising and eating more healthier?

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Brainiac at 08:30 AM JST - 25th April

I wonder how prevalent hitting children as a disciplinary measure is in Japan. Yes, we read a lot of stories about parents who go too far and beat kids to death for whatever reason. On the other hand, most Japanese mothers I see in public seem to have only three…

Posted in What are your views on parents hitting young children as a means of punishing or disciplining them? at 08:30 AM JST - 25th April
Brainiac at 04:52 PM JST - 23rd April
RomeoRamenII

Three questions for you.
1. Why are you so obsessed with this topic that you should post so many messages on this thread, when you could do it in one?
2. What do you keep referring to Obama as barack?
3. Why don't you capitalize names of Democrats?
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Brainiac at 08:51 AM JST - 23rd April

I never believe what's on any of those drink or food labels, whether it's the calorie count or use-by date.

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Brainiac at 08:47 AM JST - 21st April

Smartacus

I am no psychiatrist but I think that those old veterans who ramble on over and over again actually don't know how to give up that hate. It's become part of their life, their psychology. When something's been part of your thought processes for 65 years, it's near impossible…

Posted in Back in the 1940s, every newspaper, every magazine, the movies, the radio, everything was geared that the Japanese were short, myopic, everyone wore glasses, they all had buck teeth, they were all interbred, they were rapists and they were just evil people. We had that drummed in our head. When I look at movies from the 1940s that I saw as a kid, they're absolutely ridiculous. You never saw such evil people. at 08:47 AM JST - 21st April
Brainiac at 07:48 AM JST - 21st April

Various reasons. My guess is such people have very little self-esteem and no well-defined boundaries. They are looking for somewhere to belong. They probably don't see the organization they are joining as a cult, and by the time they are sucked in, their sense of reality is gone.

Cult recruiters…

Posted in Why do people join cults? at 07:48 AM JST - 21st April
Brainiac at 07:28 AM JST - 20th April

I doubt that many people would be willing to pay higher taxes or more money for renewable energy. I suspect most of us would say we are willing to help as long as it doesn't cost us anything. A more interesting question might be whether people are willing to give…

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Brainiac at 01:28 PM JST - 18th April

greenteaonsens

The answer to your question is that it is the humane thing to do. The measure of a civilized society is how it treats its disadvantaged, disabled and elderly.

You are badly in need of a lesson in compassion.

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