'I don't do hugs. How about a hearty handshake?|||Anywhere on the Eurasian steppe, ~2000 BCE. Any major European city, 1870-1933 CE. Or my hometown in the 9th century CE.|||We may grow less bold and open to new ideas with age, but hardly dumber.|||I've dabbled, and I do own quite a few D&D handbooks and manuals, but I prefer other RPGs. I haven't played any actual pen-and-paper RPGs in almost 10 years, but I used to love horror-themed RPGs...|||135-145. But nonreligious would be a plus, and Judaeo-Christian a minus in my country, so it should be even higher.|||The only times I have cried in the last 15-20 years, that I can think of, are: when my pets died, and once (as a hormonal teenager) when I had a high fever and was all alone over the weekend. I...|||I definitely understand where you're coming from.|||I can understand why an intersex person with no (or both male and female) external sexual characteristics would identify that way. Or, in some cases, a person who was castrated before s/he hit...|||Even post-op transsexuals, or just pre-op?|||I've never been accused of being innocent. :dry:|||Meh! You stole most of the words I was going to post! Bastard! :dry:   Welkin. Pulchritude. Abomination. Cyclopean. Archaean. Protoplast. Cosmogony.|||Not really. I remember feeling pretty strongly for Akemi in Yoshikawa's Musashi, but it was more compassion (a feeling I sometimes confuse with attraction) than anything else. She was such a woobie.|||What about coopetitiveness?|||Really? In my country, everyone has to take Civics from grade 4 (I think) to grade 12. It's one of the core subjects in Swedish high schools.|||Well, a lot of people on the Iberian peninsula are of Moorish descent (especially in the south), if that's what you mean. But they usually have Celtiberian, Roman, etc., etc. ancestors as well. I'm...|||Those are all included. Indians, Arabs, etc. are not, despite being Caucasoids. And it's far from all of South America. There are plenty of Amerindians, and people of African and Asian descent in...|||Correction: I should have said one sixth, or roughly 17% of the world's population (it seems as if my original sources were written by white nationalists who wanted people to think white people are...|||For example: Do you think having a kid is a right? - #13|||I guess it depends on your definition of white, but White European people (only a small part of the Caucasoid race) only make up about 17% of the world's population, meaning that only ~8-9% of...|||That was only one of many suggested solutions.|||Some possible solutions to this problem: http://personalitycafe.com/critical-thinking-philosophy/346954-do-you-think-having-kid-right.html|||Andrzej Żuławski's Possession from 1981. Second viewing. Great film, but definitely not for everyone (it's a surreal art house horror/drama film about a broken marriage). If I were to compare it to...|||The Byzantine (East Roman) Empire under the Angelid dynasty is probably a more apt comparison.|||You are a: Centrist Totalitarian Isolationist Nationalist Traditionalist  Collectivism score: 0% Authoritarianism score: 83% Internationalism score: -50% Tribalism score: 17% Liberalism score:...|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs3aUCM8BX8  I was hoping to find a video of someone playing Hårgalåten on a nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle or key harp), but...|||No, I was just listing manly scents.|||Me: Sweat, motor oil, sawdust, and tobacco. Well, sweat and tobacco anyway.|||Yikes! How to choose? There are just too many. So many good ones by T. S. Eliot, William Hope Hodgson, John Keats, William Blake, Charles Baudelaire, Dan Andersson, Gustaf Fröding, Esaias Tegnér, et...|||Also:  That is actually how the real life komodo dragons hunt. They bore their prey to death by making them fill in forms (in Indonesian). So, unless you enjoy Kafkaesque bureaucracy, stay the hell...|||Mathematics and football (soccer).|||Hafið gleðileg álfablót!|||Merry álfablót!|||My top 5 (in no particular order):    Twin Peaks  Carnivàle  The Prisoner  True Detective  Neverwhere  If documentary series count, then replace one of the above with The Power of Myth.|||Ah. How... Qunari.|||My views on how a meritocracy should look (more Song Dynasty, less timocracy/plutocracy) does not include free market capitalism, but I agree with the last half of your post. Viva la 100% inheritance...|||According to Herbert Spencer, sure. But I think Peter Kropotkin's (Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution) model of social darwinism mimics the natural world a lot more accurately.   ...|||Dirigisme/state-sponsored capitalism all the way.|||Detectives usually rely on deduction. According to what I've read, Ne-Si/Si-Ne is deductive, Ni-Se/Se-Ni is inductive.|||x97 Laws, Sins and Rules of Satanism: A Lack of Legalism: 1. Legalism - How to Approach the Rules of Satanism, Vexen Crabtree (2002)|||NTPs and STJs.|||That's a very broad question, but basically what Tzara and EMWUZX said. There's plenty of good books, videos, etc. on the subject. Also, if you've never had a dog before, I'd recommend taking a...|||I grew up with dogs, and I now have a 1 year old mut myself. What is it you want to know?|||May Day/International Workers' Day. All those stupid socialist and communist demonstrations... The night before May Day, Walpurgis Night, would be my favorite holiday if not for all the drunk...|||Ah. I misunderstood your first post then. I thought you were saying that Marx and Engels came up with socialism.|||Errr... I never said that all socialism is communism. I said that the ideology created by Marx and Engels was communism, which is a form of socialism, and that socialism itself predates Marx and...|||That was communism, a form of socialism. Socialism predates Marx and Engels. It goes back to the French revolution. The term 'socialism' was created by Henri de Saint-Simon, one of the founders of...|||When you say capitalism, you mean...? Free market/lassez-faire capitalism? In that case, they're both equally flawed.|||Pre-1936 Italian fascism, before it was transformed by the scientific racism and anti-semitism of German national socialism, was a fine ideology. Not without its faults (e.g. too conservative on...|||As far as I know, I don't do that. Maybe in real life, but not in my posts. So... dunno.|||Annoying PDA, jealousy, and resentment. :proud:'