Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    PleasureGelf

    From what I see this is a body of mostly scientific theories and facts peppered with some wild speculations and suggestive questions. This is the same technique of validating fiction as used by religious cranks and charlatans. Is it going anywhere, True? What are you trying to say? If it's that we still don't know everything about our origins, I agree. If it's that we were 'make by the Anunnki' (do you mean: 'made by the Anunnaki'?), I say it's a lot of codswallop.

    At any rate I don't see how this has anything to do with a belief in the afterlife. Oh, sorry. I see now. Both belong to the realm of fiction.

    Posted in: Do you believe in life after death?

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    PleasureGelf

    Hell, I don't even believe in life before death. Work work work, where's fun in that?

    Posted in: Do you believe in life after death?

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    PleasureGelf

    My wife read it and found it interesting and amusing. I won't venture an opinion, however, having not read it myself.

    I must say that

    People don't only not show a 'deep, emotional anger' when I point out their mistakes (mostly using the wrong kanji, but sometimes just weird language - it happens when you get too tied up in a difficult translation) - they thank me and pay me for it, and ask me to do it again.

    seems a bit weird to me.

    Posted in: Traditional approaches to Japanese language learning are changing

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    PleasureGelf

    Finally, robotic beings rule the world!

    Posted in: Robotic baby

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    PleasureGelf

    I'm not sure if it's any of the 'famers', but Uniqlo requires its employees to buy and wear the latest collection clothes. I just hope I don't get sued for writing that.

    Posted in: Corporate 'blacklist' circulating among new graduates

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    PleasureGelf

    Japan doesn't need the U.S. army as a deterrent. Just imagine, if Japan were invaded and defeated nobody would recall all those Toyotas and Hondas. Japan is much needed by the rest of the world to keep fixing the goods made in Japan. Except they're all made in China, so China might invade and get the know-how in addition to the factories they already have.

    Posted in: Japan balks at $2 billion bill to host U.S. troops

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    PleasureGelf

    If he's still in high school at 19 and likes looking at naked boys, his chances for sexual reproduction are not very good.

    Posted in: High school boy arrested for running child porno site

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    PleasureGelf

    Sing the old natsukashi songs and lighten up. No one is going to convert you unless you want to be.

    We don't need to lighten up, the article presents a problem many atheists face every year and offers some practical solutions.

    Having a 'christmas' party with your family or friends just to meet, eat and have a good time is not a big deal for atheists, it can be a fun day too, just like Halloween. Having a Christmas party with your deeply religious family or friends is like a Halloween with people who believe the witches and skeletons ringing your doorbell are real.

    At best you're just treated as a lost sheep which will find its way eventually. As an atheist coming from a religious environment I too learned to keep my mouth open for the delicious christmas dishes only. But still there are other things you just can't avoid, the constant gentle pressure to conform to customs when everybody else is singing carols, going to the church or saying 'grace', 'amen', or 'praised be the lord'.

    I prefer the 'don't ask don't tell' policy when it comes to beliefs but the downside is other people just assume you're a Christian because you come from a Christian country. It may be not seen by the believers as pushing religion down your throat, but it's pretty close. If you don't think so try imaging being expected to say 'praised by Allah' or enjoy Ramadan.

    Posted in: Atheists at Christmas: Eat, drink and be wary

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    PleasureGelf

    Every year I hear stories of a crazy, knife-wielding man in the streets of Atsubetsu-ku, but I always thought it's just an urban myth. This year it actually happened. Whodda thunk?

    Posted in: Man slashes two women on Sapporo street

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    PleasureGelf

    I'd say first work on the society to reduce social pressures, change the attitude to suicide, stop paying insurance to suicide families, help the desperate, support the broke, crack down on bullying in schools and then hang some nice blue lights for decoration, which by the way will make more harm than good. If somebody's considering suicide they want to end the pain and find peace. Blue light for them is like a 'this way' sign.

    Posted in: More Tokyo train stations start using lights to stem suicides

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    PleasureGelf

    ha ha ha 'red-handed' indeed.

    Posted in: Fukushima flasher caught red-handed by female police officer

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    PleasureGelf

    I liked to burn cardboard boxes in my teenage years but this boy is a different kind of creature. I'd say he'll be telling his stories at the psychiatric ward where nobody listens anyway.

    Posted in: 10-year-old boy detained for torching Nagoya temple

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    PleasureGelf

    Ah, imagination runs wild. Would that be a chain gang at a chain restaurant?

    Posted in: Hungry gang members eat 351 lunches and run

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    PleasureGelf

    I grew up near railway and played near the tracks too. Ages six and up it's not when you know something is dangerous, it's an age when you know it's dangerous and do it for a dare. It's human nature. It's also human nature that the brother will feel guilty for the accident and his parents may blame him too. They should be given an extensive psychological support, but I'm not sure if there is such a thing in Japan.

    Posted in: 6-year-old girl dies after being hit by train in Hyogo

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    PleasureGelf

    I think 'Moroni' is a very telling name for the Mormon angel. I don't know too much about them, but isn't America the promised land for Mormons? What exactly are they doing in Japan, looking for another Canaan?

    Posted in: Mormon church to build 5 new temples worldwide, including one in Sapporo

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    PleasureGelf

    The windows vs mac vs linux discussion has very little to do with this topic.

    I downloaded and installed this microsoft anti-virus yesterday. It didn't find anything, but I haven't decided yet whether to keep it or not. Until now I've been using AVG Free, which is not bad, considering the price.

    BTW the provided link doesn't work, this one should: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/?mkt=en-us

    Posted in: Microsoft to release free antivirus PC software

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    PleasureGelf

    The future is now. You can watch it in action of youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBnu5tnpwUU

    It should take less than an hour to learn the basics and if the price is right I can see myself and millions of kids zipping by (and growing fatter and fatter). Honda's device will probably be able to avoid all the legal traps that Segway is facing.

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    PleasureGelf

    I wouldn't necessarily believe in what a magazine like Spa! has to report.

    Posted in: The age of the disposable male

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    PleasureGelf

    I always hoped they would merge with ANA and just add L to the new name. All Nippon Air Lines.

    Posted in: JAL considering tie-ups with KLM, Air France or Delta

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    PleasureGelf

    Poor girl, I know how she feels. I once left my Daiso umbrella on the train and never saw it again.

    Posted in: 18-year-old Japanese woman loses Y8 mil antique violin on Austrian subway

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