http://videosift.com/video/Best-of-A-Normal-Day

Once it's done, can you publish the total number of votes made during this experiment and a number for a comparable time frame on a normal day?

And here we are back to the immature need to find meaning and simple causation for everything in life. There are an uncountable number of moving parts that make up the world we live in. When you are living your normal day-to-day routine and something extraordinary happens, you can see God or you can see an amazing and complex world. You see a butterfly land next to you on the park bench and see God, or you can see that butterflies share our planet and land places nearby occasionally. You can walk out your front door into a beautiful spring morning and see God, or you can see the amazing complexity of seasons and weather.

It is very, very easy to look at things around you that are beautiful or rare or confusing and see God. Because then you simply don't have to think about it any further, and can go about your day. But others have the curiosity to look at it more closely, or think about it more deeply, or reason out what may have caused something to happen. The more you do that, the less you see God in everything, because you simply don't need a conscious presence and invisible hand to explain anything. That doesn't make things any less beautiful or amazing. That doesn't make me appreciate life any less. I love life, I love this world. It's awesome, and there are endless things to explore and learn about it. Or I could turn off my brain, call it God, and mentally live in a church instead of expanding my mind and allowing all new knowledge to freely enter my consciousness.

I am open. I am loving. I am ethical. I live by the golden rule of Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You. If God wants to make his presence known to me, then He knows what forms of evidence I will accept. If I make changes to who I am, then I am denying the person God supposedly made me to be. The God you claim exists made me who I am, made me think the way I do. And now you say I can't feel his presence in my life because I am not changing to suit Him? Do you see the nonsense here?

Scroll up a bit and you will see yourself saying "Ask Him to show Himself to you, ask Him to reveal to you that He is Almighty God and He will do it!" But that's not true. I asked Him for a long time. Every time I realized how something I was taught didn't make sense. I said God, if I'm on the wrong track here please let me know. Silence. I only want to understand the world as it truly is, because there are many people making may different claims about the nature of God and creation. So I thought, and prayed, and read. And more and more it revealed itself to be an illusion. A pretty story that was actually very, very ugly when you really look at it. I mean, have you read Genesis? The things that God does, commands, and permits are breathtakingly horrible. This is not the story of a loving God. This is the story of a vengeful god of war and blood. And the more you read about how the Bible was cobbled together by many authors, with many perspectives over a long period of time, the more you realize that it is all just revenge fantasy for a persecuted people, and justification for their own atrocities. The story is still playing out in Israel and across the world as we speak.

But you say I need to abandon my search for truth and rational thought and just accept that God is always right in everything He did as described by the Bible. Don't bother questioning it because God's thoughts are higher than mine, right? Don't ask why. Just believe that he loves you and would prefer that you worshiped Him. Of course if you don't worship Him he will abandon you to silence and coldness and of course, HELL after you die. Because that is the very definition of love right? When your children make poor life choices you condemn them to eternal torture, right? That's God's higher thought. "I gave you a chance. You could have chosen to believe in the Bible (while of course rejecting the Qur'an, Tripitaka, Bhagavad-Gita, and all the other books claiming to have the answers). But no, you chose to have an open mind and think for yourself and make your own decisions."

It is painfully clear to me that what I just described is not love. It is selfish, covetous, rapacious. We are to worship and obey God for our entire lives, prostrating ourselves before Him, or suffer eternally. You can't explain that away. You just can't.

So let me be clear. Even if this God of the Bible that you love so much were to truly exist, I would not worship. I will not love anything under the threat of torture. Even if "hell" was merely defined as the absence of God's presence, it's the same thing. Either I love and obey or I will not be allowed to enter the club in the clouds. Sorry, not going there either. Even if for some reason I was allowed in and there were others who were not, I would not go in. I love people more than God? WHAT?

Either God's love is unconditional, like any decent parent, or I want nothing to do with Him. And that is simply not what the Bible describes. It is clear that "Heaven and Hell" is a fantasy for people who want to believe in epic justice in the afterworld. The world we live in is horrible unfair, and some people need to think that bad people will get what's coming to them somehow, even if it's not in this lifetime. Sigh. But that is a topic for another epic post, and I think I've rambled on far too long as it is.

efficiency in heating water is no more or less efficient then current natural gas and nuclear tech

Solar is inefficient in the sense that it costs more money to produce per watt of energy. It takes 25 years for a solar facility to break even. That's 25 years of citizens paying bigger power bills to subsidize a questionable technology.

you would have seen they has solved the day night cycle problem by storing the heat

Molten salt heat storage has existed at least since the early 1980s. I remember watching an episode of NOVA as a kid talking about this. The Spain plant is the first one in the world to use salt thermal storage tanks to run the plant for between 6 to 8 hours without sunlight.

Even in ideal locations, sunlight is interrupted by weather, cloud cover, and normal day/night cycles. These all reduce power generation capacity. Heat storage is not enough to make up the gap unless you live in close proximity to a few very specific geographic locations. Solar plant in "non ideal" locations require a fossil fuel backup for 75% of their total capacity. Essentially, the solar plant you see is just a coal-fired plant that burns 25% less coal.

Of course that fact that there are no fuel cost or waste by products mean that solar towers and the like will have no harmful impacts on the future like every other method of providing electricity out there.

Well, I'd debate your language a bit on this. There are fuel costs in the sense that you have to buy solar cells, and so forth. They require rare earth metals and other materials. There is waste also because you have to replace those things every few years. Modern nuclear plants are just fine, as are most modern US coal plants (if they would just let them be built).

I think that judging Cartoon Network on its Adult Swim block isn't really fair. I believe that the most creative work airs then, even if I dislike much of it.

The tendency to simply show cartoons all day and hope that it's good enough is what I find disappointing. Groovies were aired during the normal day when I first saw them, and they really broke up the regularly scheduled toons. I saw Rolling because I was channel surfing and heard a song that I really liked. For the next few months I'd stop at Cartoon Network for a few minutes, hoping I'd see more like it. It was a fresh way to show cartoons, and I wish they would do more of that instead of showing Dragonball and Star Wars cartoons back to back.

It's a perfectly normal day, then suddenly you realize how much money you could have saved by switching to geico.

Most of those "slutty costumes" really weren't that bad. Being "slutty" is an illusion a lot of the time. Any of those girls, wearing a normal skirt and shirt on a normal day wouldn't be slutty, but costumes like that are perceived to be even if they don't show more skin than a normal outfit. People don't judge on how much skin is showing but the context and theme of the outfit a lot of the time. I once got told to go home for wearing very short shorts....with very THICK, non see-through winter stockings, so I wasn't showing ANY skin on my legs. They were white against black so it was the illusion. Girls were wearing normal stockings, see through ones, to school, with just long shirt and no shorts underneath, and I get sent home for ADDING clothing to my attire. Interesting interesting.

It's refreshing to see a video where the cop is clearly in the right and the citizens are clearly antagonizing the situation, rather than the reverse.

This cop obviously doesn't want to go around enforcing skateboarding laws. But when somebody complains, he has to go check it out. And instead of going "oh shit, let's stop breaking the law since there's a cop around," they bitch and moan and call the cop a dick. Rule 1 of dealing with a cop, DON'T PISS THEM OFF! THEY CAN PUT YOU IN JAIL ON A WHIM! They have that authority so that people will listen to them when they talk, so that situations can get resolved. That kid is fucking idiot and deserves a night in jail, at the very least.

Arguing with a police officer will not change the laws! If they tell you something is against the law, believe them until you can go home and prove them wrong! If they arrest you, cooperate fully, and if you later find out that you were not breaking any laws, you can file a complaint and perhaps sue the police. But you will not accomplish *anything* by arguing and resisting.

Of course this doesn't apply to situations like protest rallies, but in a normal day-to-day situation just do what the fucking cop tells you to do, get the name and badge number, and worry about everything else later.

^ Not your regular conservative, libertarian. Not against reform, I'm 100% in favor of reforming by reducing government interference. Changing people's opinions is not my immediate concern, maybe helping them think, talk about alternatives, common sense?

More government interference implies in increased costs for the private sector to cope with added regulations. How is that an "arbitrary hyperbolic statement"?

If someone gave you hoops for you to jump through during your normal day-to-day activities, would they:

a) Make your life more fun for each added hoop you have to jump through

b) Make your life easier for each added hoop you have to jump through

c) Make your life harder for each added hoop you have to jump through

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>> ^poolcleaner:
>> The key to getting away with wild office behavior is the same method used in high school to go from being an A student, getting yelled at by dad for getting an A-, to a C student, getting a "Well at least he passed" when you get a D: First, make people believe you are a crazy, yet still an effective worker -- this may take some time, maybe even up to a year, to achieve. Then slowly increase the loudness of your outbursts. If your coworkers give you annoyed looks, you've jumped the gun -- slow it down, work on erratic behavior, and always, ALWAYS have the ability to change your expression from insane grinning trouble maker to competent, psychologically sound cubicle occupant.
If you do it correctly, one day you'll be shouting at the top of your lungs and no one will care. Just another normal day at the office.


Dude, you're putting too much effort into this. I'm sure Mrs. Johnson wouldn't give a shit about much of anything you did, really, as long as you made sure to get the leaves out of the deep end.

>> ^demon_ix:
If I had a lighter, it would be lit and moving repeatedly from left to right as my mouth was shouting "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" as loud as it could.
Being at work, however, I'll curb my enthusiasm to a simple upvote and this cheerful comment


I'm at work, I have a lighter and I am shouting "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."

The key to getting away with wild office behavior is the same method used in high school to go from being an A student, getting yelled at by dad for getting an A-, to a C student, getting a "Well at least he passed" when you get a D: First, make people believe you are a crazy, yet still an effective worker -- this may take some time, maybe even up to a year, to achieve. Then slowly increase the loudness of your outbursts. If your coworkers give you annoyed looks, you've jumped the gun -- slow it down, work on erratic behavior, and always, ALWAYS have the ability to change your expression from insane grinning trouble maker to competent, psychologically sound cubicle occupant.

If you do it correctly, one day you'll be shouting at the top of your lungs and no one will care. Just another normal day at the office.

I don't celebrate it, and I donate money to charities in friends/family members names. I will buy my GF one nice thing, but other than that there are zero gifts purchased.

I don't decorate my house, no tree, no lights. It's just another normal day here, except everyone's quiet and the traffic is non-existent. I usually take this time to travel locally, and this year is Hawaii for a few days, by myself, on the beach, with a fucking coconut.

Thank you baby jesus!