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After my gall bladder and I parted company and after my liver decided to become imperfect, my Gastro guy took me off of ALL vitamin pills and tonics except for an eye supplement that conforms to the AREDS-2 standard. (You can look that up if you are curious.)

That's a tough question. However, animals have some sort of intelligence because it has been shown that they can grieve when a companion pet or, worse, the owner has died.. There are also videos on line where a soldier returns home from a deployment and practically gets attacked and licked to...

AI, congrats on a long-term marriage. I'm heading for 24 years with my wife. You are correct that you need good skills to argue in a way that doesn't cause her to call a divorce attorney. It goes deeper than that. Wifey has finally learned that I can't see dust. (No snickering, please...)...

This is where the analogies get a little strained, but... In the school of hard knocks, just like in any other school, you either learn or you don't. If you are hard-headed enough, it takes a REALLY hard knock to get through to you. You bounce off of the experience without learning. Take...

AI, that is an interesting attitude. As you point out, God's existence is irrelevant because we would get the same results here on Earth whether or not God existed as long as the mental image of a vengeful and stern uber-father figure was part of the culture. My problem is simple: IF God is...

Strictly speaking in physics, a perfectly elastic collision transfers all energy from one colliding body to another AND momentum is conserved. An inelastic collision has some type of wasted energy, and a soft object vs. hard object would exhibit that kind of waste. And to be pedantic, the...

Jon (your post #23) in this thread: Recognizing religion as the foundation of early moral code is not consistent with other things I have read. Morality develops first as a coping mechanism between people to keep villages from destabilizing. If you don't steal a person's cattle, wife, kids...

I think that religion is learned behavior, not innate behavior. The innate behavior is investigation born of curiosity and the concomitant desire to have a working model of reality as a survival tool. The pre-scientific mind, however, had no feel for many natural phenomena but knew it was...

Insane_AI - respond to the survey as you wish. If you state your beliefs, I'm good with that. My comment should be taken in this sense: The MOMENT you try to convert me, I am allowed to try to convert you. (Do unto others...). I will defend your right to your beliefs side by side with you...

While I absolutely don't disagree with you, your idea gives me an insight as to discussions of "government waste, abuse, and inefficiency." The thing that comes to mind is that government supervisors don't supervise that much because (a) they may be in the job they now hold due to the Peter...

My uncle Maurice told me that one secret of success is to first feed the soul, then figure out how to make enough money to feed the sharks circling around you. (Like hunger, rent, entertainment, etc.) If you think the job is neither exciting nor complex, it would not feed your ego. I read...

"Not sure I would have come out the other side sane " Lez, I make no claims on sanity. But the last 24 years have been interesting. And all the tears were worth it.

I am family oriented. I can find happiness in snuggling with my dear wife, who is my snuggle-bunny. We will watch TV or put on a DVD movie. Or sometimes I'll be reading the local news rag on my recliner sofa when my younger grandson spontaneously comes into the den and lies down on the sofa...

Those of you who know me know that I have done a lot of reading in my time, focused on sci-fi/fantasy but with occasional forays into other literature. Randall Garrett, who wrote many stories about "Lord D'Arcy" (his magic-world equivalent to Sherlock Holmes), also wrote a story called Unwise...

Interesting. That image (the head literally being plugged in) has occurred in several novels and movies. Harry Harrison's series about "Gil 'the Arm' Hamilton" (a detective of the future) in which the drug of choice is to plug in to an altered reality simulator and, if it is turned up high...

My last dream was about my wife and I getting lost in a strange city. We both like to travel and I have been known to occasionally miss a turn here and there when we play "tourist" so it might just be an expression of a desire for more travel. I know wifey and I are overdue for a vacation but...

I don't make grammatical errors. I do, however, intentionally annoy grammatical purists. Just because I can! ;)

Jon, I acknowledge the blame game is involved. I blame my paternal grandmother for the problems I had with my father. My two uncles on that side of the family (and one of my aunts) confirmed that granny was a total whack job. My uncle E. made it clear that he blamed his father for the...

I suspect that the issue is less the association to some particular image or place and more to the fact that you just reinforced the memory by thinking about it while thinking about something else at the same time. But that's just a suspicion. We don't really know how the brain works at the...

I have not been divorced, but divorce affected me strongly - twice. I am the son of my mother and her second husband. I am my wife's second husband. To me, divorce is a sad but sometimes necessary way to end an unpleasant situation. I remember how badly the divorce affected my wife. We...