1. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. You won't understand everything in this book the first three times you read it but by the time you have finished it for the fift… (View Post)

The reason we cannot Have Nice Things is, as I noted, because far too many people take things too personally. In the vast majority of cases, it isn't about you, especially on the Internet. Take a ste… (View Post)

People who find that Mizhena makes them uncomfortable need to examine themselves to figure out why that is happening. The fact that they are uncomfortable about a very minor in-game characters says m… (View Post)

@FinneousPJ Although I am routinely guilty of discussing things which may be beside the current point--and I freely admit that guilt when it occurs--I was addressing the broader issue of how we view … (View Post)

That is because I skipped kindergarten--I don't know what it was like. I was reading my older brother's first-grade books at the age of 4, as well as adding and subtracting numbers from his math book. (View Post)