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To look at the SDI through a scientific lens, one can formulate a lot of arguments for and against its legitimacy. However, to what extent do you guys believe that Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative brought about the end of the Cold War?

It is beyond physical.

Anticlimax for sure. This was the first time in a long time that I didn't watch any of the world series games. No interest. For me the world series just never happened this year. I am not in denial, I did lose a bet. But this whole big curse thing was just not as exciting to finally see broken...

Johnson committed 580,000 troops to VietNam. Bush has committed about 180,000. That's for starters. The two wars are very different in nature. The fact that both met a lot of opposition b/c people believe the US had no business there makes them seem more similar than they are. Iraq is a war...

Has anyone read any exceptional books about the strategic defense initiative and its effects on the cold war? Not some same old theory book.

Red Sox suck still suck even if they win. They suck so bad that Babe Ruth had to make a deal with whoever your god is or isn't because he's been blamed. He pleads to let them win once because he is suffering so bad from the blame. Next season baseball will be baseball again.

The belief that an adult person cannot remember anything before the age of 3 is absurd. My earliest memory is of liking an outfit that I used to wear when I was a year old. My earliest concrete memory without pictures to accompany it occurred before I turned 2. How old were you at the time of...

Oh yeah I definitely believe in that. I wrote an essay that conveys a similar idea. But nowadays, we have meds to treat these disorders. Does this effect the quality of writing? Also meds are prescribed so readily that many of these people may probably be able to alleviate their symptoms through...

It's definitely your guitar baby. I get the same feeling. And the fact that you were inspired and channeled that inspiration into an accomplishment..yeah, kind of like alcohol. The more you get or accomplish, the more you want. And you are also probably in love with your guitar. I am in love...

Does agony expand ones natural ability to write creatively? If so, does the availabiltiy and frequency nowadays of prescribing medications for mild to moderate mental disorders supress the natural talent of a writer?

I still don't buy that IQ tests can fully measure intellectual capacity. There are so many other factors involved. For example, someone may have a certain anxiety and not do well under pressure, but if he is studying not under pressure he can absorb more than someone who may score higher on the...

Well if you're going to say that there is no such thing as truth because everything is relative, then relativity is a truth and you contradict yourself.

Man, that's ignorant, are you trying to be ignorant?

You want basis? Look in the Koran. The Muslims are taught that if they kill Jews while killing themselves then they will go straight to heaven and get a bunch of women up there. Over the course of time, some Muslims have taken the word of Mohammad to the extreme and some, the peaceful, civil...

Creativity + logic..thats what I say. Someone who has dominant creativity and dominant logic at the same time. But that leads to a lot of mental tension. It creates an anxious person, a person frustrated with himself. That is how I feel, that is why geniuses often suffer mental disorders. My...