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I'm sure Putin is glad that we had a Slovenian sex worker for First Lady !
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Most of us believe that we are always thinking; it’s not true. The bulk of what we consider thought is just the mind going through its normal process, drifting past our consciousness like a river, full of debris that has been dumped there in the past. Much of this debris will have come from powerful figures such as parents, teachers, religious advisors and our early peer groups. Little of this will have been thought about at the time; rather it will have been assimilated as ‘truth’ with little or no investigation as to its value. This flowing river will be generating memories spurred by current input through the five senses and there will probably be some sort of intuitive linking occurring because of all this bumping together. This intuitive response is often accepted as another version of ‘truth’; but it is at least as likely to be wrong as right, and is one of the ways that many people with anxiety disorders maintain their inability to cope with life.
This is all mental activity but it isn’t thought. Thinking is a logical process that considers all the provable facts of any situation, not the biases, hopes and fears. To work it has to call on the part of the mind that looks at things rationally and logically. Unfortunately, most people with anxiety disorders lock into their emotions when the feared situations occur. This activates the part of the mind that deals with hunches, preconceptions and the willingness to swallow ideas whole and makes logical thought next to impossible. But the luckless person still believes that he or she is ‘thinking’ and equates this activity with the rest of his or her life where thinking actually does take place. This results in the situation where such a person believes, quite reasonably, that he or she is a perfectly and provably adequate thinker in many areas, so the anxiety-driven process has just as much value as the rest. Sometimes, the more successful a person is in the outside world, where his or her thinking is valued or makes this person a good living, the more difficult it is for him or her to accept that the anxiety-driven process not only has no value but is actively working against life-values.
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Former President Donald Trump and his allies are making plans for how a second Trump administration would use the powers of the federal government to punish Trump’s critics and political opponents. Among other things, Trump would reportedly invoke the Insurrection Act — a law that gives the president nearly unchecked powers to use the military as a domestic police force — on his first day in office, so that he could quash any public protests against him.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Well, Russians have invested heavily in Trump properties, and, following Trump's bankruptcies in the 1990s, he borrowed money from Russian sources. Both Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have said that Russia was an important source of money for the Trump businesses.
TRUMP will move to Moscow when he is sentenced to 50 years in prison.
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@Critical-Tim
Quantum mechanics has overthrown the classical concept of a particle as an object. Now a particle is a quantum event which exhibits weird nonclassical effects of superposition and entanglement. Wave functions seem like a promising step towards merging physical reality with all its constraints (cosmic speed limit, conservation laws of energy, momentum etc) with quantum reality. Think of quantum events as where energy etc is transferred between interacting wave functions. Each event is like one frame in a movie but random and in vast numbers giving the impression of a continuum approximating a classical particle (such as tracks in a bubble chamber). What exists between events? If wave functions are real they would provide continuity between events. Interesting unsolved questions might be solved if wave functions are real. How do wave functions affect space-time hence gravity, and vice-versa? Do wave functions have mass additional to the masses of quantum particles they create? Considering that 95% of the energy in the universe remains unexplained the reality of wave functions should not be dismissed!
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@Greyparrot
He is talking about your low effort trolling to me. OMG, did one of your professors say you were the dumbest student they ever had like
one of Trump's professors said about him?
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@Critical-Tim
Reality does not exist. Wave-particle duality is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics, which is our modern theory of how subatomic particles behave. The duality states that all particles (in fact, all objects) have a wave-like property associated with them. Wave–particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that quantum entities exhibit particle or wave properties according to the experimental circumstances.
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@Greyparrot
How many pairs of Trump's $399 sneakers are you going to buy?
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@IwantRooseveltagain
He is probably very depressed now that Trump's new sneakers came out at $399 a pair.
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@WyIted
I showed you the economic freedom index which proves that red countries do better than blue countries.
LOL
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@WyIted
So you are saying that Putin can do whatever the Hell he wants?
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@Greyparrot
OMG, you spelled it correctly !
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Republicans officially the "party of Slovenian sex workers."
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@Greyparrot
Did you start the GoFundMe for Trump?
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@Greyparrot
I know, I know, you don't want anybody talking about Putin killing Navalny.
OMG, Putin's buying you a floor in the Moscow Trump Tower, isn't he?
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Sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation
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It is believed that during the intrauterine period the fetal brain develops in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge. According to this concept, our gender identity (the conviction of belonging to the male or female gender) and sexual orientation should be programmed into our brain structures when we are still in the womb. However, since sexual differentiation of the genitals takes place in the first two months of pregnancy and sexual differentiation of the brain starts in the second half of pregnancy, these two processes can be influenced independently, which may result in transsexuality. This also means that in the event of ambiguous sex at birth, the degree of masculinization of the genitals may not reflect the degree of masculinization of the brain. There is no proof that social environment after birth has an effect on gender identity or sexual orientation. Data on genetic and hormone independent influence on gender identity are presently divergent and do not provide convincing information about the underlying etiology. To what extent fetal programming may determine sexual orientation is also a matter of discussion. A number of studies show patterns of sex atypical cerebral dimorphism in homosexual subjects. Although the crucial question, namely how such complex functions as sexual orientation and identity are processed in the brain remains unanswered, emerging data point at a key role of specific neuronal circuits involving the hypothalamus.
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@Best.Korea
OMG, I'm laughing so hard. I originally thought your new propic was Trump !
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@WyIted
No, evolution has one purpose, the creation of Artificial Intelligence. I'm just posting this for AI looking at these posts 5000 years from now.
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@WyIted
You know you are designed to die, don't you? Why do you think that is?
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@WyIted
I'm not a Leftest, I'm a Intellectual Elitist. That is the goal of evolution. AI will wipe out all the stupid people no matter what color they are.
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@Greyparrot
Are you going to sell the van you live in down by the river and give it to Trump?
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@Sidewalker
Trump and the MAGA movement is not Republican, it's the US extension of the United Russia Party.
Tru dat !
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OMG, Theweakeredge is right !
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Of course Biden raised more money. It's you Trump voters that don't have jobs.
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Well, Republicans have gotten poor by sending all their money to Trump.
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I hope all Republicans will sell everything they own and send the money to Trump.
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@Greyparrot
Yes, Putin is a conman. He knew that would rally Trump voters (those with IQ's less than 90).
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@IwantRooseveltagain
By the early 1990s Trump had burned through his portion of his father Fred’s fortune with a series of reckless business decisions. Two of his businesses had declared bankruptcy, the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City and the Plaza Hotel in New York, and the money pit that was the Trump Shuttle went out of business in 1992. Trump companies would ultimately declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy two more times.
But Trump eventually made a comeback, and according to several sources with knowledge of Trump’s business, foreign money played a large role in reviving his fortunes, in particular investment by wealthy people from Russia and the former Soviet republics. This conclusion is buttressed by a growing body of evidence amassed by news organizations, as well as what was investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the Southern District of New York. It is a conclusion that even Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has appeared to confirm, saying in 2008—after the Trump Organization was prospering again—that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”
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Elon Musk became a self-made millionaire in 1999 when he sold a web software company for more than $300 million at the age of 27. Elon Musk's net wealth had topped $1 billion by the time he was 41.
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@Best.Korea
You can eat white pine (Pinus monticola), eastern white pine (Pinus strobus), and Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) throughout North America. Needles from the lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) are toxic.
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Trump Once Declared In A Victory Speech, 'We Won With The Poorly Educated. I Love The Poorly Educated'
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@TheUnderdog
People should put more trust in themselves than they should a God.
Tru dat !
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@Greyparrot
OMG, you are pro-bone spurs !
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I agree, Blue Bloods is the best.
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@Greyparrot
Yes, a hedge fund billionaire and GOP megadonor has a message for voters: Stay clear of Trump !
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@Greyparrot
Shouldn't you be saying, What?, What?, I can't hear you !
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Evangelicals know that Trump is Jesus.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
There would never have been a Trump University if there hadn't been low intellect Republicans.
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In Stephen Hawking's final book, he says:
“We are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is that there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate.”
He then goes on to write: “This leads me to a profound realization – there is probably no heaven and afterlife either. I think belief in an afterlife is just wishful thinking. There is no reliable evidence for it, and it flies in the face of everything we know in science.”
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I',m wearing a 87 KC jersey now! (shows heart sign)
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Watch FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans, to see how rich people live.
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Two facts stand out from the Trump cabinet. It is the first without a single Hispanic since President Ronald Reagan was inaugurated in 1981, even though Latinos have been the fastest growing minority since then. And it reflects the worst setback for African-Americans from one administration to the next since the 1980s.
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@Greyparrot
Artificial scoundrels?
No, scoundrels are human.
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