JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Confrontation
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U.S. Navy investigating how parts fell off aircraft near Atsugi
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California court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
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Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi
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jonnyboy
i'm a firm follower of quantum mechanics, and the 11 dimensions (or more) it describes, but i'm skeptical that this is supporting evidence for the experiences you have described. none of the theories regarding the "higher" dimensions explain them on the macro level. they are either very small (ie. wrapped up within our familiar 3 spatial dimension) or very large (ie. our 3 spatial dimensions are contained within the higher dimensions)
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jonnyboy
28, means the dread 30 is approaching. must get baby... any baby
Posted in: Woman arrested for allegedly kidnapping baby girl from Chiba station building
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jonnyboy
and conversely, believers are subject to confirmation bias, in that they see that which they already believe
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jonnyboy
who supervises the supervisor?
Posted in: Elderly care
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jonnyboy
not an especially large quantity if she was planning on setting herself up as a dealer... i wonder what her side of the story is
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jonnyboy
are you suggesting he was taking the lyrics a little too seriously? in which case...
our man hammer hasn't been successful in reducing occurrences of train groping
Posted in: 27-yr-old man arrested for bashing father with hammer in Tottori
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jonnyboy
was that in response to my post? if so, i don't particularly agree with you. sex is as natural as breathing/sleeping/blinking, so to regiment it so strictly does not strike me as "normal" at all
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jonnyboy
they should search his house for a copy of the texas chainsaw massacre. might explain the hammer connection
Posted in: 27-yr-old man arrested for bashing father with hammer in Tottori
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jonnyboy
LostinNagoya, you might like to read up on cognitive bias. go look at some optical illusions and tell me that you still feel 100% confident that your senses give you a true picture of the world around you, 100% of the time. it isn't true. our senses make a lot of assumptions, and fill in a lot of gaps in perception in ways that have been evolutionarily useful to us. i can't say i know the truth of your experience, but just because you saw a man standing by a window is not objective proof that there was something there
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jonnyboy
jesus! you've got to be kidding me! do you actually believe that? in case it has escaped your notice, the present financial crisis started last year, if not earlier, under bush's watch. he was the president between 2000 and 2008, remember? obama took office in january, this year. under what twist of logic is this obama's financial crisis?! this tops the guy on another thread who said that obama was "our most failed president". seems to me that the right-wingers have a rather casual relationship with reality
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jonnyboy
let's face it, cheney was the president, bush was the pubic relations front
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jonnyboy
i don't actually believe this is any more common in japan than anywhere else. mundane but fatal accidents in the home happen everywhere, everyday. the only matter of question is how often they are reported in the national news
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jonnyboy
i'd like to see stats about partners in japan. seems to me that a lot of japanese have a very small number of partners (perhaps only 1) before getting married, having the expected children and then more or less ending their sex lives
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jonnyboy
it's not the power of suggestion at all. whether or not the sweater truly belonged to a killer is irrelevant. the point is that the only reason people would be unwilling to wear the sweater is under the belief that it might contain some form of "evil", which is quite clearly a superstitious belief. it goes to show that even those who make conscious efforts to act rationality are still prone to superstitious in certain circumstances
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jonnyboy
one problem with driving is that cars are a such a status symbol, regardless of their usefulness. at least many other countries don't have the excellent public transport systems of japan's cities. i remember when i lived in nishitokyo and people would complain about not being able to find anywhere to park in ikebukuro. wtf? take the train! use it or lose it
Posted in: Why I hate driving in Japan
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jonnyboy
definitely. seems that care work is far too sensitive a profession to let people wander into it. this is how abuse can happen. shame that they would rather let some emotionally unstable Taro do the job rather than some willing and able nurses from overseas...
Posted in: Elderly care
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jonnyboy
anyone interested in this topic should look into the psychology experiment known as the "murder's sweater". long story short, many people will refuse to wear a sweater if told it used to belong to a murderer. furthermore, they will be uncomfortable with anyone who does agree to wear it, even though no evidence is presented. the suggestion is that people are "hard-wired" for superstitious thought
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/sep/04/religion.uk
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jonnyboy
if memory served me rightly the statistic is much more than 30,000 a year at the moment, so 30,000/365 averages more than 80 a day doing themselves in, so if the peak is 100 a day in april then it's easy to believe
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jonnyboy
which guarantees any opinions she expresses (good on her) will be completely ignored. so much for blazing a trail for thoughtful tarento
Posted in: Meisa Kuroki adds swordplay to her list of achievements
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jonnyboy
joseph smith, dum dum, dum dum! lucy harris, smart smart, smart smart!
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