I am now in a pub
But the people I have come to meet aren't due for another two hours
I have just had a pint of Diet Coke
What should I do for the remaining two hours?
At some point I will have pork scratchings, got to have pork scratchings!
I have a bad back, one of my vertebrates is out of position, it hurts if I try and move anything beyond only small distances, I am going to have a scan in a few weeks, I am not very mobile
I am practically housebound and probably will be for the foreseeable future
Had to give up my dog as I...
I feel as though in my life I have next to zero free will
I feel that everything I do is predetermined and that I have no agency
What can I do to experience free will?
I want to experience the feeling of not being predetermined :(
I think these are the top three most significant UK Prime Ministers:
Churchill
Attlee
Thatcher
Churchill first because he secured the UK's existence
Attlee because he introduced the National Health Service and the welfare state
And Thatcher because she transformed the UK by dismantling the...
If you're on Facebook is there any one reaction that you tend to use more than the others?
I tend to use "Wow" the most
I must find FB things more wow-worthy than anything-else-worthy!
I have made a website in which I share some of my personal beliefs.
My beliefs have been almost twenty years in the making. I began my journey back in 2004
I have decided that the first people I’d share it with would be the good people of RF because you guys are great :D
I would especially...
I have 7 to 8 hours to go before it's bed time
I am just chilling in front of my computer listening to music and eating some grapes
I have nothing else to do and can't be bothered playing any computer games
Does anyone have any interesting YouTube documentaries they could recommend?
There are some pretty crappy places to live in the USA
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13201903/tyler-oliveira-youtube-poverty-west-virginia.html
But what are the nicest places to live?
What is your favourite satire?
I am a big fan of Yes Minister
It is all about the relationship between a government minister and his senior civil servant
It is very clever and outrageously hilarious
It is quite old but has aged well
I am now an Agnostic
I don't know and I don't think anyone knows and I don't think it is possible to know
Is there such a thing as an Agnostic way of life?
If so, does anyone know what it involves?
What do people think about Khan Baba?
https://www.facebook.com/khanbababeast123
And his comical feats of strength?
(the further you scroll down the FB page the more ludicrous it gets!)
And look at all the food he eats, that guy must clog the toilet up big time :eek:
In the UK there was a 1980s children's TV show that taught children to be kind to society's rejects and that there is no shame to being a reject (should they ever become one!) and that there is nothing to fear from a person simply because they are a reject
As one of society's rejects I think it...
Paranoia is when you believe people are out to get you and do horrible nasty things to you - when they are not
But what do you call it when you believe that people are out to help you and do lovely nice things to you - when they are not?
Like "I suspect my neighbour from across the road from...
They sell underwear on Amazon
I did not know this until I just looked
I think others ought to know
So I created this post
Good price too
Not used underwear though, like what sleazy perverted Japanese salarymen buy from vending machines
Japan is weird
I have Netflix but haven't used it in aaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssss
I have a new computer screen too, it's massive
Does anyone here have any recommendations?
Anything awesome you think people should watch, that you want to evangelise about?
There is so much stuff on...
Do you have the number of any famous people stored in your phone?
I'm not asking who, only if
If so (and without naming names) how famous are they?
I don't have any famous people in my phone so I have nothing to share
What do people here think about Confucianism?
I have only just started looking into it and so far I have liked what I have seen
It has been said that contemporary Chinese society owes more to Confuscianism than it does to Communism
Why is it dangerous to mix water and electricity?
If I'm taking a bath and someone throws an electrical appliance that is connected to the mains into the bath-tub how and why would I die?
Is it something to do with water being some kind of conductor?
I have a question:
What things should a personal manifesto/ideology cover?
What should it address?
When I was a young man I wanted to go into politics
I wanted to become the socialist dictator of a European Federaton (years and years after I abandoned this I voted for Brexit...) and to...