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Relationship relativity

I don’t tell people what they want to hear, but what they need to hear. If you want someone to stroke your ego and make you feel better, then you have your other friends for that. I can’t be that kind of friend because I’m not that kind of person.

– A conversation many moons ago

Sometimes people wonder what my “secret” is. How I can be the way I “am” 1 and it’s not something positive from what I heard but still somehow have everything in order. If you take a random group sample of anyone, and put me in that lineup… chances are, I would be the one with the most positive disposition of the lot. I would probably have just the same amount of “issues” as the next guy, but I’m quite confident that I’m one of those who are better equipped to handle the emotional stress. Why is that?

I actually wanted to make a post entitled “A manual to my life” – where I break-down all the subsystems of how I discern, etc. What weights do I use to decide if I should be practical or idealistic. Stuff like that. But just like any human being, apparently it would take forever to cover everything 2 considering how thorough I tend to be So I guess for this post, I’ll just focus on some relationship stuff. Here’s my take on some questions that people have asked me – as well as some other concepts. And you should pay attention to how I treat the issues when I discuss them… it should give you a glimpse of how I “rationalize” things… and perhaps make you decide that should I give my opinion on the matter, if it’s worth any salt or not. Read More

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⇡1 and it’s not something positive from what I heard
⇡2 considering how thorough I tend to be
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It’s all relative

Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity

Oringally posted on Slashdot: “…a new paper by scientists at the University of Victoria has demonstrated that one of the prime observational justifications for the existence of dark matter can be explained without any dark matter at all, by a proper use of general relativity!”

via digg

Assuming this is true (which I think it could very well be) – it’s nice to see that Occam’s Razor, and Einstein’s amazing foresight have been proved effective once again.

And, if you’ll allow me to take a somewhat tangential remark, take it further to a metaphysical point of view and it can segue to an “it depends” situation… and we all know how popular an answer that is.

What camera is the best? What’s the best car? What is the ideal man/woman? Is x form of government good? What’s the best conduct for competition?

I’m beginning to wonder if this too, is answer the age-old question: Why are we here?

I must be really bored… to be coming up with [pathetic, corny] digressions such as these.

Seriously, going back to the actual topic, I dare anyone to try visualizing the paper’s abstract. I wish they’d include pictures so my small brain would understand it better.