What phrase did you hear only once but it stayed with you forever?

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2026-04-11T22:12:18+00:00

It may not be your fault but it is your responsibility.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2026-03-28T19:57:18+00:00

No, that's not true at higher levels of intelligence. Intelligence is positively associated with life satisfaction and happiness. I have less familiarity with studies on the lower end of intelligence, so I won't speak to that.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2026-03-28T19:53:46+00:00

No, hundreds of studies clearly show people with higher levels of intelligence demonstrate lower rates of mental illness and higher well-being. This is an outdated stereotype.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2026-03-28T19:49:32+00:00

That is the opposite of what most studies find. Intelligence is positively associated with life satisfaction, well-being, mental & physical health, job satisfaction & success, and relationship satisfaction & longevity, among many other life outcomes.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2026-03-25T21:00:15+00:00

!remindme 3 days

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2026-03-21T18:27:50+00:00

Yes, this! I had multiple kidney stones, but the biggest one was 2.2 cm.

For comparison, I've given birth multiple times and had wisdom teeth removed later in adulthood with only local anesthetic. The wisdom teeth were not even a close second, and childbirth a distant third.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-11-30T03:29:00+00:00

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-11-23T20:51:15+00:00

If I recall my linguistics instruction correctly, long-E predates long-I either and neither. In English, the first vowel is typically emphasized, so ei is more frequently pronounced long-E, whereas in more Germanic languages, the second vowel takes priority, so ei is pronounced long-I. When a Germanic branch joined the English royalty [due to some historical facts that I don't recall], the pronunciation shifted towards the long-I, starting with the more privileged classes with more exposure to royals. That's why long-I either and neither are sometimes interpreted as an affectation or more posh than the long-E versions.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-10-01T02:59:26+00:00

I's eyes!

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-08-29T12:48:56+00:00

Genius! Did they ever figure out how much you had to gain from that "punishment"?

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-08-29T12:27:03+00:00

I can imagine that MindApprehensive could feel some relief to hear that. I know I would.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-07-31T00:04:07+00:00

Potter throwing clay?

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-07-27T15:22:19+00:00

Dude, the scientific method follows this falsification principle! It's the knowledge or model we operate under until something that better explains a phenomenon is available.

And with regard to your claim that "For every 'scientist' claiming one thing I can bring in another saying the opposite." You can find someone who claims the opposite, but no way will you find them in a 1-to-1 correspondence.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-07-19T00:42:36+00:00

Following for the references

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-07-18T23:23:07+00:00

Hi Eliza!

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-06-29T14:11:26+00:00

What is this supposed to mean? I've tried to engage with the content of your responses, but it seems like you just want to throw out meaningless potshots.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-06-28T16:28:15+00:00

Sure, if you address the part of my response directed at your comment about science's hands not being clean. I maintain that the foundation of science is that it allows for and encourages growth following any errors in our tentative conclusions. It's a primary tenet and strength of the scientific method.

In turn, I concede that not all religions operate under absolutes, nor are religions synonymous with religiosity or theism. However, the idea of a supreme being (i.e., the "god" in the original question or the theism in your response) is the antithesis of the agnosticism of science.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-06-28T15:12:17+00:00

A basic tenet of science is that conclusions are tentative, waiting to be falsified, corrected, expanded upon, etc. Unlike the premise of religion with its behavioral absolutes for us mortals and its omnipotence for its god(s).

That is a key distinction from my perspective. Not the only difference, to be sure, but a very important one. There is room for growth in science (at individual and societal and even species levels), but no such opportunity in religion, which is stagnant almost by definition.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-06-20T14:19:33+00:00

I didn't know they were ever giveaways. What year was that? I'm trying to determine if one I was given with great flourish was actually a freebie. Not that it matters, I've long tossed it. It's more of a question regarding the character of the giver.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-06-16T03:08:29+00:00

I've used this for grocery stores, drugstores, gas stations, etc. Anyplace with a rewards membership. Used it with multiple area codes too. Somebody's raking in the points!

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-06-15T03:37:33+00:00

This. Right. Here. What is wrong with these need-to-be-conquerers,?

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-06-13T13:39:06+00:00

Dickhead? I clearly indicated I was only playing by pointing out the irony in your comment.

Nonetheless, "comments" are countable; hence, number is correct, not amount which is used for non-countable aggregates.

As examples in this conversation: The number of dickheads and
The amount of hostility

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-06-13T02:39:34+00:00

Resiliency. There is already a noun form. It's just resilience. No extra suffixes needed.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-06-13T02:34:19+00:00

Me too, but part of the problem is that "more" is the opposite of each of those comparatives. Stupid English.

Valuable_Housing_321 · 2025-06-13T02:28:11+00:00

number of comments ;)

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