@spaceboy said in Cat Fish Month July:
@PetrAPark3r It will be an insane masquerade
That it'll be muhahaha :smile_cat: (evil female superhero laughter)
@spaceboy said in Cat Fish Month July:
@PetrAPark3r It will be an insane masquerade
That it'll be muhahaha :smile_cat: (evil female superhero laughter)
@Sup said in Happy Birthday Judy! **18**:
Happiest birthday to you my girl @WtfJudith I would never forget the moment of joy when me and your mother decided to have you. What a long night it had been. Time flies...you are so big now. God bless🤗
Hope she's not also married to that guy :shrug::yum: (with incest being uncool n'all)
@DIV said in TWS 2019 Awards Ceremony.. Vote Below:
Best topic maker - @Indrid-Cold, @cjko and our loved newbie @PyroDox (check out his decipher series)
Hella Avatar user - ?
Darling of the Crowd - ?
Best Tws User - EVERYONE! Think about it, we all are strangers, don't know each other, yet are nice to one another, help out whenever help is needed. You all are awesome.
Funniest User - Me
Best Replies Twsians- @wolfie_11, @spaceboy, @lurker, and our friendly 'hood spiderwoman( @PetrAPark3r )
Voice Chat Legend - @Satan0w0, @Bart
Memes god - @toeney, @TheRisingSun
Cutest Couple - @Zoob & @DafaHojao (are they a thing lol?)
Best Debater - almost anyone with free time and patience.
The Oldest User - @Indrid-Cold, I think he's 42?
Most Creative person - HAG, just look at her bio and this topic (https://chatrooms.talkwithstranger.com/topic/2487/bored)
: DThe Hottest User - @FAKEGIRL-Mikolic
MostSexiest User - @FAKEGIRL-Mikolic
MostCutest person - @FAKEGIRL-MikolicBest story teller - The ones with an interesting life, have the best stories. So you all!
Most Helpful person - @PetrAPark3r (thanks for helping me decide my stream!), @ash33 (the OG boy of the site) and @TheRisingSun (you know for what ; ) )
gonna add 1 of my own, because I can;
20. Best campaigner: @robthehood
Thanks buddy, always trying to be a good girl :heart::yum: ... deciding your stream, is that like an indian proverb?
@BigHomo33 you came back after 2 seconds. In 4 years you can see images of yourself doing whatever you did on that planet. It's just like a video recording from the past.
Did you know that the static you could see on old TVs actually is the background noise from the big bang? We can look into the past, so that's pretty cool indeed. But it's still just like a video recording. No time travel involved.
Btw, we do time travel all day long, just in forward direction only. And close to the speed of light it will even feel like time travel, since when you return, almost no time will have passed for you, while for everybody else a lot of time will have passed...
What we can never do is travel backwards in time...
This is a good one.
Being in this world of felt distance I actually feel more comfortable to be honest about my inner world. So there are definitely parts of me that you guys get to see more clearly than most people I interact with in real life.
You know this feeling when you wish you didn't know what to say or said something stupid in a conversation and afterwards a great idea hits you? Here you have the time to think and thus – as long as you are trying to be honest – can say things more clearly and be more yourself.
I must say I had some really interesting conversations with others over the internet already and I do believe that they actually shared something meaningful with me. Thus I do believe the internet really has advantages. But...
If two of us manage to have a real, honest and meaningful conversation irl – if we succeed in overcoming all the barriers and fears – it will be soo much deeper face to face.
@cjko said in How do you wish to be remembered? :):
@PetrAPark3r I see.. that's nice. We all die really soon, that where we will be. Right? I'm glad to know about that. Thanks :)
I don't get it... dying soon? being where? sorry... :shrug:
@Zen00 Science does not prove because all science can do is create theories and disprove them. That's just its nature. Proving something is not part of the deal. What people actually believe in when they think they believe in science is the current consensus of the scientists.
Even though I "believe" in evolution I want to add that there are arguments against it. To name one: Suddenly: Trees. Trees just popped up in a super short timeframe – way faster than our understanding of evolution would imply (of course our understanding might be wrong). Another one is the fact that in super short lived organisms – mayflys – evolution should be happening in an observable way when you put them into a specific environment for long enough – but it doesn't, the studies have been done. Again this indicates that our understanding of evolution might be wrong.
There is however a bigger mystery: Everyone knows DNA. But DNA is suuuuuper complex. Science has no explanation for why some carbon molecules would ever have arranged themselves in anything resembling DNA. "It just happened somehow" is the best explanation we have – and that is no explanation at all.
Well and of course there is the biggest mystery: Why is there anything at all? Let me make the paradox tangible:
Take a bike. Say I borrowed it from you. You borroed it from @Bela-Hella. @Bela-Hella borrowed it from @Adyyan who borrowed it from @Mr-Ghost who borrowed it from @DarkIce who borrowed it from @SoFa_king_Cody who borrowed it from @Kakashi who borrowed it from @Alte... You get the idea. Now assume that this chain goes on forever. It explains why I have the bike now and you had it before me. But it does not explain where the bike came from and it does not explain why there is a chain in the first place.
So to be honest I believe that life is just way too amazing, way too specific and way too complex to have just happened – just like the guy who found DNA: his research converted him into a believer. Also I believe in rationality and that chain just needs a reason to exist if we are not going to throw logic overboard (though it is certainly possible that our mind's logic is not able to comprehend existence). So what I believe is that there was evolution and that evolution was directed.
@Lurker said in TWS 2019 Awards Ceremony.. Vote Below:
I thought the one I sent was enough... greedy :smirk:
I love noodles too :joy:
Trust me, you'll be surprised by my answer. Keep on reading if you want to get an entirely new view of the world as you know it.
So what is capitalism? According to common understanding, capitalism is the use of money to make more money. First let's look at the things that are supposedly good about capitalism
but supposedly capitalism has very bad consequences too
In other words, 10% of the people have 90% of the wealth.
"So why do you call everything only supposedly good or supposedly bad", you might ask? This is where the actual journey begins. Those 6 points, the good and the bad, which are of course only the most important points about the system, they appear in places you would not expect them to appear.
The oldest known human city is Jericho, and its history goes back 12.000 years. In those 12.000 years many cities were built. And only 3000 years ago, we begin to see actual money (cowry shells, shekel, and the like) being used widely. And yet... in every excavated city around the globe, each and everyone that is older than 3000 years, we find the following:
There are 10% who have 90% of the wealth, while 90% of the people have 10% of wealth. And by riches of course we mean houses, cows, jewelry, and every other kind of things that people value, as well as influence and power.
Or let's look at every communist state: if you look close enough, you will find, that 10% of the people have 90% of the power. And they use all kinds of propaganda tools to keep that power, which more often than not results in them staying in their position of power for life. This is actually not common case in the countries that the communists call "capitalist", just as a sidenote.
And let's look at another horrible example of capitalism: in germany there are regulations, and there is exactly one product from one "capitalist" that is allowed to be used for a certain task in plumbing. Horrible right? Killing the competition... Let's look at the communist state: there is exactly one kind of product for one purpose being sold, and those at the top reap the fruits. It's exactly the same. Except it's not called capitalism there.
So, how come, that the bad consequences of "capitalism" are everywhere and in every time, before even the invention of money?
The surprising answer is the following: capitalism is not actually a thing. Or at least not that thing, that those who fight it, think it is. Instead, what we see here is an instance of human nature. It is not simply greed, that makes people be more successful. No, it is a pattern of nature, that some are more successful than others. This is nature. Not capitalism.
Hence, those who fight "capitalism" end up making things worse. Because they become blind to the actual problem. And this is the reason, why communist states are incapable of getting rid of the people who have taken power after the revolution. If you are blind against the actual problem you have no mechanism to counter what's really going on.
And this is why I am writing this, because the west is increasingly turning blind to what's actually going on, and fighting against windmills, while thinking they are giants. We will destroy those windmills (which are sustaining all of us), if this blindness isn't healed. And there is one way only, to heal it: show to people that what they fight are windmills. Show them, what the actual problem is. And... come up with actual solutions.
So... you might say: okay, I can see why you call this thing nature and why you call capitalism merely an instance of it. But, is it now good or evil?
Neither of course, or rather both. Human nature has good sides and bad sides. Every pattern in nature has good effects on us, and bad ones. And, yes, you are certainly right, we need to counter those bad effects. We need to implement something, to keep the 10% from getting richer while at the same time keeping the 90% from getting poor. But what could be the answer? If it isn't communism, then what might be the answer?
Well... I do have some ideas. And I will tell you... This here is the beginning of a few articles on my political thoughts. Maybe you do have some ideas as well. Don't hesitate to share them.
@Firefly Totally love your current pfp :+1:
I would be a dinosaur. T-Rex or something. Cause they are so cool.
Now don't say one cannot eat dinosaurs :triumph:
Tell me about your fears...
Name 3 things you fear (or feared)
What's your biggest fear? Do you know why you fear what you fear?
@Durwin said in Who is up for POEM BATTLE part 2 ? :):
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With the vocals, their lyrics here today,
Come peeps get out your comments
Of cheek or wisdom or other sonnets !
Let's keep it going, with rime and reason,
breaking the verse we punish as treason,
standing up straight with our heads held high,
we delare war on boredom this day,
letting neither fear nor shame hold us back,
we open our hearts and tak tak tak,
we type the words, that were never before,
put in this order, and will never be more,
to fight for the freedom past onto us,
freedom of speech a freedom tremendous,
to speak what we think and live how we choose,
received unearned yet we will not loose.
Counting all those posts must have been Hella work. An applause for Bela :clap: :clap: :clap:
@spaceboy said in Cat Fish Month July:
@PetrAPark3r
Also how about the following idea - to call a qualified jury at the end of July and to choose a "queen" between the participants of the party? :joy:
That's a great idea! We should ask TWS to add a reward for best "female" and ask @DIV -A to create one of his/her Best- groups :joy:
So basically I heard that indians (from india, ey) cannot say no. They have to save face. But there appears to be more than just this one thing that seems so strange to us europeans. What are the unwritten rules of indian culture?
And what other strange practices do you know of that are still widely in practice in other cultures?
And what do you non-europeans (or maybe even non-germans) find strange about our behaviour?
My choice is along the lines of @DIVa's:
The ability to see what others really need and be able to walk through the walls they put around themselves and help them find it...
@Bela-Hella said in TWS 2019 Awards Ceremony.. Vote Below:
@Lurker said in TWS 2019 Awards Ceremony.. Vote Below:
Who tf is Hell Bill? :o
Former Bela Hella haha
I wonder if reverse catfishing really works :thinking_face: :joy:
@Connor27 said in TOEEEEEEEE KNEEEEEEEE:
@DAD_ Dad, you lost your memory thru this mid life crisis
It's one of the side effects of a sudden sex change forward and then just as suddenly back a few days later :shrug: