When we think, there are nearly imperceptible but medically measurable movements in our vocal cords. When a mute person thinks, there are analogous muscle movements in their hands. It appears they think in sign language.

He would then launch into a non-sensical rant about "Chhhhy Na", the radical left, patriotism and that no-one is a better, more successful "insufferable, hateful, moronic twat" than him... while continuing to be completely unaware... of... well, everything. He would then try to f**k his daughter and get mexico to pay for... ? something so bizarre i cant even think of it ?

My mother went blind as a young baby so had no memory or concept of sight. She went by what other people told her - for example, associating colours with emotions/sensations like red is warm, blue is cool etc. She thought clouds were solid, like cotton balls, and imagined the internet as like entering a giant, echoing hall. Some of her analogies were very strange until you realised that she was coming from a completely different perspective. She said she didn't need to know what her daughters looked like as she already knew that we were beautiful people. And no, she did not dream in vision as it meant nothing to her - no frame of reference.

In truth, we all have a small-scale Jeff Bezos inside us. For example, when your daughter wants a stunning prom dress when she already has a decent dress, you buy her one. You don't think of how she already had one. You don't think about how those 80$ could have fed a poor family in Africa for a week. When you feel tired and exhausted and take your family on a vacation to Hawaii, you don't think of how others could have benefited from those hundreds of dollars you spent on your leisure time. You don't think of the other people who have it worse. When you wear make-up, you don't think about a mineral called "mica" hidden inside it., which makes it shimmer. You don't think about poor kids in India working in dangerous mica mines so you can keep your youthful shimmer. You think about you. You do all these things BECAUSE you can afford it. Please comment on this comment. I want to know your thoughts about the facts I stated!

Supply and demand. Free market. I might get downvoted because people hate that reality, but if you're sincerely asking, there's the answer. I say that as a member of a profession that matters a lot, gets paid poorly, and particularly for the amount of education it requires. But lots of people are drawn to it as a career.

I think they format for you sometimes. Like, if you put in paragraph breaks, they will eventually come up after they check your work. I think that's how it is.

1) Good and evil are not universally accepted terms and black/white positions like children's movies make them out to be. Everyone has unique motivations and inspirations. To him, bringing space travel from a select few highly-trained scientists to any upper class people may be more important than bringing food from middle to lower class people. 2) Nobody gets rich by giving money away. It's foolish to think that the person who is an expert at amassing money is the same person who frequently gives their money away. Now there are countless people out there who have amassed fortunes and then donated the majority of it, but those fortunes are 5, 6 or occasionally 7 figures, not 12 figures, which is why they don't make the news.

Narcissistic selfish a-holes.

Because most rich people are selfish. Remember that unless they inherited it, they got all that money from people poorer from themselves in the first place.

A popular world view for the rich is that life is all about competition, not cooperation, and that poor people are proof of their success, but dangerous if not desperate on daily survival.

I need to clarify if you are asking about the biology or the way it functions. In other words, do you want to know how the house is built or do you want to know how we decorate it?

They don't "afford" it at all. Most people in the US are in debt up to their ears. Very few have any savings and most have a ton of revolving debt. The best thing I ever did for my peace of mind was get down to zero debt (other than a modest mortgage and my wife's student loans). YMMV

reminds me of a 'joke' i heard. == lost at sea in a raft - guy promises God if He saves him he will always do right and help others etc. - then he sees a boat and says " never mind, the Coast Guard is coming".

Because it's not thought of as an "innocent" pig/cow - it's just thought of as a job to provide food?

Time is measured, correctly, like anything else. For example 1 metre could feel like nothing when driving or forever when watching a snail. It's always the same length

They shouldn't be ashamed of compromising, if they had not compromised you would not be the united states, you would be British, French, Spanish and Dutch. They made concessions to achieve a goal, knowing that they could return to those issues once they had achieved what needed to be done. They could not fight a war against slavery while fighting for independence. The funny thing is, If the Northern founding fathers had made banning slavery their primary goal, the British would have send troops to help them achieve it. But then they would not be able to seek independence.

NOT rude to ask anyone what their ethnicity is...we all came from somewhere else

Some people are incapable of love. A mental disorder, childhood trauma, A personality disorder. Or all of the above. You didn't do anything wrong, it was all him. I've been through this as well, and it's awful. I'm sorry you're having to come to terms with it and that he's gone. But please know; it wasn't you, it was never you. It was his own shortcomings.

I try to believe in ten impossible things before breakfast.

Some... But they had to be proof read and censored before being allowed to be published. They are also embellished slightly. For example, it's perfectly acceptable to write a story about a secret service agent preventing a nuclear explosion by extremists because people know it's made up. To to actually write about the special operation to prevent a dirty bomb making it's way to London by boat, is not acceptable. You cannot let the public know that they were a mere few hours away from having an nuke in their city.

I’m going with love on this one, call me sappy but I just want a life companion, y’know?

Not all Americans say that. I am one of the many who would NEVER say that to anyone. It is very rude.

Painful and all your bones pierce through your organs and everything turns to mush…

Honestly, I don’t have one. I was born, I’m here… I’m just getting on with it

HUH?

2/10 for habits, 10/10 for unapologetic bravery. I approve of this Tina, but I still think we should be able to submit individual posts anonymously.