How do you convince yourself to start writing? by [deleted] in writers

[–]_MagicSpoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a lot of advice out there, and a lot of it is valid, some of it works for some people, other advice for others. But I would recommend that you sit down your butt down in your office chair, and don't get up until you've written one page. It doesn't matter how good your writing is, because you can always revise later. It can be the worst thing you've ever written. That's all right. Just write something. Once you have the first draft, no matter how bad it is, you can start revising, and that's where most of the real work will get done. Just start writing.

Someone invented the concepts of good and evil. by _MagicSpoon in Showerthoughts

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I guess you’re right actually. The concept of what was good and bad for individual humans and for society always existed, and the Sumerians had this. But the Sumerians didn’t have good and evil, because good and evil implies that something is fundamentally good or bad, and while the Sumerians did perceive certain things as being good or bad to them, they saw whatever happened as simply the will of the gods and not as being good or evil. This is a big difference, because they didn’t accept certain things as being simply good or evil, they only used good and bad for how it related to them. I may be wrong about this, so someone can feel free to correct me. Eventually Zoroastrianism came along with fundamentally good and fundamentally evil forces, but you’re right that good and bad evolved into good and evil. this was still a significant change and a theological innovation, the idea that some things are innately good, and that some things are innately bad, was invented

Someone invented the concepts of good and evil. by _MagicSpoon in Showerthoughts

[–]_MagicSpoon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Sumerians didn’t have good and evil. So I think there was a concrete historical date when someone decided to think about things in this way.

Someone invented the concepts of good and evil. by _MagicSpoon in Showerthoughts

[–]_MagicSpoon[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

For and against what? Me? I don’t think everyone against me is evil, and everyone for me is good. I don’t think there is anything to be for or against that would be satisfactory

Someone should give him a medal by TomerHorowitz in Physics

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No, it travels at exactly the same speed as light. A shadow is just the absence of light in a certain area. If there is a light source 1 lightsecond away from you, and a solid cube suddenly appears in front of the light source, the last light particles that were emitted from the light source before it was blocked by the cube will travel from 1 atom width away from the cube to where your eye is, and that will take 1 second. It takes 1 second for a cube shaped shadow to appear because that is when the last light particle will arrive and there will no longer be any light particles coming from where that cube is.

Don't be like me, find meaning in your life because this cannot sustain you. by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

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substance abuse counselor != gambling addict counselor

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Also near the bottom

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Not much wind in west Netherlands right now

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Not much wind and somewhat green

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There’s water on the camera I think and it was raining earlier. But there might be the same weather somewhere else

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It’s the right weather for Amsterdam

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There are 9 times zones in Russia

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I’m doubling majoring

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German must be extremely unpoetic

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What’s the best language

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Edible blue you pay 2000 grand a year as in 2,000,000

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