do you know how people got answers to their questions like ours in earlier times? most of the times they found them out themselves?
or they asked their friends (in reality) or, if the question required some professional opinion, they went to the corresponding specialist on the topic.they used to go to the library, they used to find and read books to find their answers.don't you think that the format of asking and answering questions online makes everything more simplistic, less challenging and in the end much less enhancing development, power of will and supporting laziness and being satisfied with incomplete, simplified picture?a culture that encourages to turn life into entertainment, to turn self-responsible actions (of enquiring) into lazy clicks and typing on the keyboard, to replace social interactions and discoveries by a bad simulation of such.don't you think that the forums like this one are rather to regard as a phenomenon of intellectual zombifying and degenerating parasitism than as a helpful exchange of knowledge?clearly by healthy usage real actions of enquiring are not completely replaced by forum activities. but even a slight replacement should be maybe considered alarming or rather not? what do you think? is that overthinking or the ugly picture of truth we turn ourselves away from? (my opinion is not existent though it might appear it were from the choice of words. or you can think that i am intentionally trying to implant some idea in your mind to let you be less objective by giving your opinion... for some reasons. but, lol, the forum has so much influence on me that i am to lazy to think of my real opinion on that. lol)
i understand in the old days, you did asked around to your friends and family, or teachers. and everything was a hush hush bc we didn't have the advanced technology that we got now. the books were another way of getting further information too, and dictionary and thesaurus were big part of how to communicate with everyone around in society. lots of information was learned and apply in reality right away, and we became pretty much smart by keeping our brains active and resolving our own problems and then we taught others by teaching them about issues i learned along the way. if i wanted to learn anything it had to be done in pen or pencil and in writing it on papers, and keeping things as a record too. time has change, now its a chore to write, a chore to think to keep our brains active, chore in lacking to ask questions that we might think its stupid so our computers now do the asking for us... there's nothing left that we need to do personally by hand that enables us to think logical bc our technology is so advance that now we are becoming lazier and not so active in going out anymore. sad really. i rather not have technology only for job or a cell phone for emergencies only. but thats not reality now, i got it all bc i have too.
long before wikipdia, there were encyclopedias! you actually had to look up information - it was not at your fingertips on the www. you practically answered your own question: it's a sarcastic remark to a know-it-all: someone with a lot of knowledge like in an encyclopedia. wy do they use the saying? it's a relatively creative remark - especially this day and age of technology. i'll suppose that you're telling the truth, which, i'm sure you're not, simply by a few of the tells in your message. i'll suppose as such because your imaginary situation is possible.
i don't believe christians are necessarily idiots, and not many taoists believe that at all. it's not very logical to say "creationist = idiot" because that implies a million and one presuppositions and a very very jaundiced psychological map.
you have to ask the question "why do they believe in creationism as opposed to evolutionism despite the fact that they've been thoroughly educated on evolution, and the fact that the world could not have possibly been created in 7 days 6000 years ago."
there can be a million answers, but the most prominant one is this: "it's too much work to find my own answer, and this one fits--if i die, and i'm right, wonderful. i go to heaven, if i'm wrong, oh well, i won't remember anyway. it's a good guidebook for morals, and keeps me doing the right thing. christianity has made me a better person."
does that make you an idiot? no, it just makes you weak in one area of development. who cares if you're weak in one area if you're strong in countless others. if you do good work, helping people, making the world a better place, that's really all that matters.
the conflict arises if you're pushing theocratic reform in government, that tries to subject the whole world to your ideology simply because you haven't got the mental reserves to focus on what you really believe happened in the beginning of it all, or when you're one of the loud voices screaming out against stem-cell research technology, or any other philosophically possibly morally objectionable science on the premise of a few verses in a book.
with all of these considerations in mind, i don't care that you don't accept the science on evolution, it doesn't effect me, and it doesn't effect any of us. it only effects you, and your personal psychological map. how you view the whole, how you interact with the people around you. guilt is rarely a useful response after one has recognized that whatever one did was indeed wrong - the valuable response is then to go on and work out why it was wrong, what to learn from it, and how to avoid doing that again. 
<br/>loneliness is tough, and our society isn't kind to lonely people. and the media ( songs, tv, etc., sells to us an image of lerv that few of us achieve and which isn't actually as practical, easy and desirable as they represent it as. at least phone sex, so long as you limit it to that, is safe sex. 
<br/>work on developing friendships, at work, at church, through voluntary work, hobbies, whatever, and be open to the possibility of love when it turns up. 
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<br/> Life is what we make of it, so it is really YOU yourself who give your life a purpose. If you feel you need friends, go out and make friends. If this is difficult for you, look up for ways to make friends. There are many sites that give good tips. If you think you need to pep up your life, go out, get a hobby, try something new, be brave and explore. You will not change your life if you don't try.Ultimately, it is down to you to make the effort to do something about it. Sometimes the best way to feel cared for is to go out there and share your love with people (that's why people who volunteer at old folks' homes, shelters or orphanages find joy in what they do - the more love they give, the more loved they feel).   

  

But having a busy social life and having thousands of friends will not make you happier or less pathetic. Try to rethink your values on what is 'pathetic'. Whose values and perspectives are you basing your assumptions on? Who's to say your life is pathetic? Some people have very few friends and don't go out much and can still enjoy their lives because they acknowledge that they don't need to be part of the crowd to be happy or have fulfilling lives.   

  

Also, if you still have family who give you food and shelter and don't abuse you, it's unfair to say nobody cares. the voting & ratings system is very different.

you get ratings usually from the other answerers on that question, & votes come from people who go to the vote section to vote on multiple questions for some extra points.

there are also answerers who vote for themselves, & yes, some of them do cheat & use email to tell their friends which answers to vote on. i've seen it done many times. hi maddie,the purpose of any manipulation is to convince another person that their previously held beliefs are incorrect. one example of a way to manipulate another person is through the practice of gaslighting. think of it as someone who continually turns down the lights in a room (turning down a gas lamp) but tells another person the light is constant, it's their perception or eyesight that is affected. the purpose of gaslighting is to convince another person that they are losing their sanity. how does this transform societal values? on a large scale, if you can convince a large number of people to change their values then society will inevitably shift in its core beliefs and practices. a positive example of this is the icelandic women's protest in 1975 when every woman in the country went on strike for one day. after this protest, women were given equal wages and equal rights under the law. though this strike was not manipulation but civil rights protest, you can see the impact of change on societal values. think about efforts to take away civil rights for one specific group of people: is the language used as a weapon? is it manipulative? deceptive? how would that impact independence and personal identities? if your civil rights were taken away, say your right to vote because of another person's manipulative argument, would you feel less independent? would you feel as though your voice mattered? would you feel more valued by society or less valued by society?good luck with your homework!jessica the base of every thriving society is education, and today people are trying to find different ways or means to bring innovation that improves the student's engagement and learning. and here comes the virtual reality that can effortlessly transform the learning process as it not only allows the see the objects but also allow them to endure the interaction. when a student gets immersed in what they are reading or learning than it can help them realize the concept thoroughly. vr allows the students to learn any subject by experiencing it i.e. living it. it motivates the students to discover by doing rather by reading. vr easily engages the students by creating a simulated environment that helps the students to visualize the mechanisms or functions and let them comprehend easily. HM ok, another day, another try, but I gotta say: The seemingly endless lessons about numbers and numbers on top of numbers and more numbers are really disencouraging me a lot. It's been a lot of fun up to this point, but I really don't see the point in filling out so much about numbers for the sake of numbers o\_o Could you, like, do a little less of that? some people have not been equipped with the coping or social skills to create and maintain healthy relationships. yet, one can develop social skills by accepting that although a group of people are related by blood, they are not automatically healthy or beneficial for all. 
one can create new, healthy relationships by reshaping their outlook, possibly with the help of therapy, and taking up new hobbies for adults....joining co-ed groups to meet both males and females and not only will this be fun, but this will provide the healthy socialization adults benefit from. some people are introverts, which psychology has adjusted to mean where u get ur energy from. like, an extrovert get energy and life from interacting with lots of people and feels uplifted and empowered by this, whereas introverts can actually be social as well, but prefer limitied amounts as too much interaction makes them feel drained. it does not mean the socially awkard kid who people have only say one word, two years ago, sitting in the basement with no friends. <p>i run an in house team for a large ecommorce company in the uk. we all work from the same office. i love having the team around me to bounce ideas of and debate new ways of solving problems.</p>
<p>i can fully understand how you feel, yes they are not yours and the site i work for i don't own - but i have put it a lot of long hours making the site as good as an experience as possible - i would hate for someone to come in and take control.</p>
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