that's exactly what the fundamentalists want. that would mean the Rapture would happen and they could go to heaven without having to painfully die first.
I totally agree with you about the ultra conservative horseshit, but I've known too many people that got fed SSRIs because they were, for example, picky eaters, or insomniacs, or just not into the same shit everyone around them was into, to believe that the vast majority of people taking SSRIs really need them.
I took Paxil for 5 years. The stuff is truly scary when you reflect that in addition to its benefits, it:
1) Takes away your creativity. This is documented. I read an article by this writer that took Paxil for a couple of months and he had to quit taking it because he couldn't write any more and was about to lose his apartment and job.
2) Somehow, it causes you to see subservience as perfectly acceptable. I wanted to be a corporate bitch when I took Paxil, and I didn't mind the cubicle lifestyle, I thought materialistically, just basically I was your typical dot com hipster wannabe.
3) Removes your emotional capacity for outrage and other non-compliant or rebellious (they call them "negative") mental characteristics.
Throughout history, creativity + outrage = revolution. Subservience is the opposite of rebellion.
If you're into conspiracy theories (or you are intellectually capable of looking past the Soviet Union's perversion of Marx's conflict theory), think about it - what government wouldn't love a drug that takes away the two things that make people want to revolt and makes them think that servitude is just peachy keen?
My point is that it's only a "plague" and negatively impacting their quality of life because we have created a name and a "cure" for a personality trait, and as such these people are expected to use it or they're considered to be lesser members of society. In the past, people just accepted each others' faults, now you're somehow irresponsible if you don't medicate your personality away. I don't see how anyone can defend that. If we've engineered our society to the point that you can't meet the expected norm without drugging your personality away, I think the problem is obvious.
I don't mean that people that are truly mentally ill and non-functioning without meds shouldn't take them. I mean that if you happen to, for example, be a serious person, that you are just a serious person, not depressed or suffering from some kind of anxiety disorder. That's just who you are, and you shouldn't have to chemically suppress that just to survive.
As someone that has anxiety and depression problems, I agree. People are taking prozac to "cure" themselves of what would have been simple personality quirks 50 years ago.
The other side of the coin is that society is putting people in a position where any deviation from the personality norm will result in a reduction in quality of life, from causing someone to not be considered a "team player" at the office, to being harassed by people in their leisure time because they are different.
i don't think a lot of time is wasted. most jobs are requiring more and more availibility. this doesn't mean you are working the entire time, but are there for what needs to be done. employees who are professional will drop the "goofing off" and do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.
That would be me. I goof off, I've probably spent half the day today on various web sites, but my boss knows he can count on me when he needs me. I've worked hard to earn that trust and I'm going to enjoy it.
You're going a little off the deep end there, son. North Korea has a Stalinist communist dictatorship. There's no capitalism there to regulate. And feudalism was based on coercion, not any sort of economy. Pull out some more of your daddy's golf buddy rhetoric and try again.
All kinds of wise people say this anytime something like this happens and nothing ever changes.
The problem is that the USA was founded by Calvinist Puritans. Puritans were violent motherfuckers (just read about the Salem witch trials) that also thought that sex was evil. That value is still around today and with the aging baby boomer generation getting older going back to church in case they die tomorrow, it's going to get worse. As long as the country survives it, it's ignorable.
This is innovation in gaming. With a few notable exceptions, the single-player mode of character-based games has been getting the shaft ever since Quake I. Since Quake I's multiplayer became such a phenomenon, game companies have been tacking on multiplayer to half-finished games with shitty single-player experiences and shoveling them out the door.
I think it's great that they're trying to develop single-player AI again and that something NEW is happening in the gaming world. I play games to get away from people, not to hang out with them. If I want to socialize, I'll do it in the real world.
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professional firefighters do it for money. volunteer firefighters generally don't know what they're getting themselves into.
I have no clue who Michael Buble is, but there aren't many things more juvenile than insulting someone's musical taste. Come back when you grow pubes.
you probably could have gotten by just making some sort of gasket out of sticky foam.
that's exactly what the fundamentalists want. that would mean the Rapture would happen and they could go to heaven without having to painfully die first.
I totally agree with you about the ultra conservative horseshit, but I've known too many people that got fed SSRIs because they were, for example, picky eaters, or insomniacs, or just not into the same shit everyone around them was into, to believe that the vast majority of people taking SSRIs really need them.
I took Paxil for 5 years. The stuff is truly scary when you reflect that in addition to its benefits, it:
1) Takes away your creativity. This is documented. I read an article by this writer that took Paxil for a couple of months and he had to quit taking it because he couldn't write any more and was about to lose his apartment and job.
2) Somehow, it causes you to see subservience as perfectly acceptable. I wanted to be a corporate bitch when I took Paxil, and I didn't mind the cubicle lifestyle, I thought materialistically, just basically I was your typical dot com hipster wannabe.
3) Removes your emotional capacity for outrage and other non-compliant or rebellious (they call them "negative") mental characteristics.
Throughout history, creativity + outrage = revolution. Subservience is the opposite of rebellion.
If you're into conspiracy theories (or you are intellectually capable of looking past the Soviet Union's perversion of Marx's conflict theory), think about it - what government wouldn't love a drug that takes away the two things that make people want to revolt and makes them think that servitude is just peachy keen?
If you know of an industry where there is any job security, please share it with us.
My point is that it's only a "plague" and negatively impacting their quality of life because we have created a name and a "cure" for a personality trait, and as such these people are expected to use it or they're considered to be lesser members of society. In the past, people just accepted each others' faults, now you're somehow irresponsible if you don't medicate your personality away. I don't see how anyone can defend that. If we've engineered our society to the point that you can't meet the expected norm without drugging your personality away, I think the problem is obvious.
I don't mean that people that are truly mentally ill and non-functioning without meds shouldn't take them. I mean that if you happen to, for example, be a serious person, that you are just a serious person, not depressed or suffering from some kind of anxiety disorder. That's just who you are, and you shouldn't have to chemically suppress that just to survive.
As someone that has anxiety and depression problems, I agree. People are taking prozac to "cure" themselves of what would have been simple personality quirks 50 years ago.
The other side of the coin is that society is putting people in a position where any deviation from the personality norm will result in a reduction in quality of life, from causing someone to not be considered a "team player" at the office, to being harassed by people in their leisure time because they are different.
Grand Theft Camel: Jericho
You are Menachem, an Israelite badass with a covenant!
i don't think a lot of time is wasted. most jobs are requiring more and more availibility. this doesn't mean you are working the entire time, but are there for what needs to be done. employees who are professional will drop the "goofing off" and do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.
That would be me. I goof off, I've probably spent half the day today on various web sites, but my boss knows he can count on me when he needs me. I've worked hard to earn that trust and I'm going to enjoy it.
Strip clubs exploit men, not women. Your point is still valid, though.
You're going a little off the deep end there, son. North Korea has a Stalinist communist dictatorship. There's no capitalism there to regulate. And feudalism was based on coercion, not any sort of economy. Pull out some more of your daddy's golf buddy rhetoric and try again.
She is now.
Go back to your MBA classes.
The world would be saved in capitalism were regulated. The closer we get to lasseiz-faire, the closer we get to feudalism.
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Wow! I didn't think these letters were real until I was polishing my broomstick one day and Hermione walked in
All kinds of wise people say this anytime something like this happens and nothing ever changes.
The problem is that the USA was founded by Calvinist Puritans. Puritans were violent motherfuckers (just read about the Salem witch trials) that also thought that sex was evil. That value is still around today and with the aging baby boomer generation getting older going back to church in case they die tomorrow, it's going to get worse. As long as the country survives it, it's ignorable.
(think Jack Johnson)
I tried but I keep seeing Ben Affleck and John Mayer being cloned.
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Well said. Wish I had mod points today.
This is innovation in gaming. With a few notable exceptions, the single-player mode of character-based games has been getting the shaft ever since Quake I. Since Quake I's multiplayer became such a phenomenon, game companies have been tacking on multiplayer to half-finished games with shitty single-player experiences and shoveling them out the door.
I think it's great that they're trying to develop single-player AI again and that something NEW is happening in the gaming world. I play games to get away from people, not to hang out with them. If I want to socialize, I'll do it in the real world.
The Yuuzhan Vong are here!
I'm not concerned about impressing assholes on slashdot, so I don't put a lot of effort into it.
You think that's bad, David Foster Wallace got the assignment first and exploded 10 minutes into it.
It's a geek-penis compensation device.
no, but I often wonder why sexual terms are so plumbing-centric