I think this comes down to personal preference. I am on a 24 inch screen with 1080 lines and I still prefer reading text in OS X to Windows on it. On my shabby laptop, not so much.
I know ben0x539 can speak for himself, but you seem to accuse him of some form of rabid fundamentalism in order to get a half-baked point across. He didn't make any demands, he just voiced an opinion, which is totally fine, and your attempt of framing him as a dimwit devoid of a sense for irony offends me on his behalf.
Personally, I am not affected much by the use of rape in a joke, except that in general I find it cheap and unoriginal, therefore boring. If someone like Louis CK uses rape in one of his bits, it's funny because he is a comedic genius. Otherwise it's just thoughtless, or stupid even, and possibly brings up hurtful feelings in some people for the gain of nothing.
The first two points (waking up early, exercising daily) make me happy, too. Compared to not doing those things, the difference is enormous. I would have thrown 'eating clean' in there as well.
The other points I agree with, too. But in my experience the first two points organically lead to the later ones.
On a side note: I'm an atheist and raised as such. I don't think guilt, dogmatic thinking, and the fear(!) of an afterlife would be conducive to my happiness. The intersection between The Christian Way Of Life and the OP's original points is so random and incomplete, you could just as well draw a connection to Scientology and be more spot-on (and still–for all practical purposes–not be spot-on at all).
A lot of things "work" with women. But creeps act like they do because they're horny losers, not because they're having so much success with it.
Anyway, the whole alpha male debate is besides the point. Also, I think you're confusing aggressiveness with not being a complete wimp. I often see women being attracted to dominant, strong, self-confident guys. Aggressive ones? Not so much.
"It's almost as if when the girl is attracted to the guy, it's flirting, but when she isn't, it's creepy/sexual harassment."
It's sad that these people pose such little concern about the women so much as jealousy that they can't be hostile towards women and "get away with it".
I used to be really into mechanical keyboards, but have since developed a preference for low profile scissor switch keyboards after using them at work.
I think the perfect keyboard for me would be a low profile, high quality scissor-switch keyboard with a slight split angle and the numpad on the left side.
To me part of being a grown up includes the ability to act with reason and tact under great distress. I've managed to do this once in my life when I was attacked by a good friend in a very harsh way because of complex reasons, and our friendship might have ended right at that point if I had let my emotions get the best of me.
I once had a boss who had an emotional breakdown almost every day at the office because things weren't going as he expected them to. He did not inspire me to do good work. He just instilled a fear in me that syphoned energy away and kept me from fully focusing on my work.
It was depressing, really. I will never know what Steve Jobs was like to work with, but I don't think I would have liked working for him, although he obviously got some good stuff out of his people.
> Have you personally ever taken LSD and actually suffered flashbacks? If yes, how bad were they?
No, of course not. I am a law-abiding citizen who believes in the rule of law, and I would never consider breaking it. I did, however, have some ruffian, rebellious, criminal friends--albeit, the type of criminal who goes to MIT or who goes on to get a PhD in Math--in college, and they told me what it was like.
Re flashbacks, they told me that no that didn't happen. They did, however, perceive textures on real objects (e.g., the kind in carpets or detailed wallpaper) continue to "breathe" and undulate a bit for the next year or two. (My guess is that such textures are always undulating a bit, perceptually, only you train yourself not to notice it.)
It was the actual experience, I am told, that could be very grueling. I.e., imagine watching "The Exorcist" alone in a big haunted house, only you can't turn it off, and you can't stop watching it, because if you close your eyes, it's now being projected in 3D onto the insides of your eyelids. Only multiply this by 1,000X. I imagine that this kind of stress could have lingering effects for those who already have difficulty dealing with it.
Despite the scariness of the experience, the friends who experienced it this way said the experience was still very worthwhile, and they wouldn't change anything. They just wouldn't necessarily do it again anytime soon.
Some friends didn't find it scary; they just found it fun.
One acquaintance went crazy shortly thereafter, but he was probably teetering on the edge to begin with. Friends who did it dozens of times, were invariably a bit strange ever thereafter, so I wouldn't recommend becoming too much of a rebel.
