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Once I wrote...
http://ocean-depths.livejournal.com/284927.html
Now, of course, I can see that every decision we make is directly influenced by every decision and everything that happens around me for my life up to that point. Everything I am _aware_ of. Now that's a strange concept to get my head around. -
The Western world, and charity
We were brought up to believe that our £5, or even our £100, won't make any difference to the world's unfairness. However, this argument is fundamentally flawed: it doesn't matter what happens in the world. We get one roll of the dice, and what we experience is far more related to our decisions than what's going on in the rest of the world. Besides ( Read more... ) -
If you really love someone,
Take it slow ( Read more... ) -
RAR
I like my vroom vroom ( Read more... ) -
The system/driving
I have reached the climax of the system: you go for gcse's - they're supposed to open so many doors. Then, you get into the a-levels you didn't want, because they couldn't timetable the ones you wanted. You do ok, and it opens a couple of doors you maybe wouldn't otherwise have had open, e.g. specific uni's - most would've let you in anyway though ( Read more... ) -
scrappage scheme
Finally figured out what the scrappage scheme is/was for: an attempt to win support from those who might otherwise have voted conservative (yes, Labour Brown became Tory Blair for a moment). Conservative voters would normally be the types who would buy their darling son/daughter a new car when they came of age, but this year (and last) it's been ( Read more... ) -
RC Car
Hi all ( Read more... ) -
Politics :/
Media spin -> people dislike the 'new' policies from pre-budget time (1% increase in NI, for instance). If he doesn't do that now, we'll have to fork for a 3% rise in a couple of yrs instead. WAKE UP PPL IT'S SIMPLES... ... ... Oh and bank bonus tax lol - it's not luddite politicians that want it, it's luddite Brits ( Read more... ) -
I must...
Start letting people down. I feel terrible. I can't do everything, and my life is a mess at the moment. However, I believe what has been had to be, and that is the way of all things. Everything works out. If you can want the best for everyone, the best for everyone will happen. If you can't find the ability to do that, then it will not. Or ( Read more... ) -
Backward causation?
Nielsen (string theorist, renowned) and Ninomiya (probably also string theorist, renowned) proposed backward causation. Let's say the world has a set of possible futures, each with probability Pn (n indicating which future we're talking about). Let's also say that this probability depends (at least to an extent) on what's in each of those futures ( Read more... )