Someone can appear unconscious, but people have reported conscious awareness, for example during surgery under anaesthesia.
Having had a close shave on the operating table, I really couldn't say whether your premiss that consciousness ceases to exist is valid, or not. Maybe I didn't have a close enough shave to find out, maybe consciousness still exists after death.
If we're a collection of positive and negative charge (atoms and molecules) how is it we have thing called consciousness? Maybe all things with positive and negative charge have consciousness, but we're too stupid to realise.
Maybe cultures who believe all things have a soul, including rocks, had it right.
Maybe when we're dead and gone, our energy (which cannot be created, or destroyed according to the law of conservation of energy) remains conscious in it's own format.
I therefore conclude, in this life we should be nice to daisies.
People make sick jokes when something is too big for them to cope with. It doesn't mean they don't take it seriously, they just can't let it have too much of a negative impact upon their psyche.
Well done for impressing your employers. I really do hope (and believe) all will go well for you.
It didn't just flow from the hate for Obama, although for some of the disenfranchised white population, I'm sure having a successful black president and all that it entailed for black empowerment didn't help.
So often the disenfranchised need someone around of lower status to make themselves feel better about themselves. It's a contributory factor in the current choice of Mexican and Middle Eastern refugees as targets.
Trump's popularity runs deeper than that, though. Picking on those more vulnerable is merely a tactic in a far more complex psychosocial melee.
The soya bean comes from a legume and whilst legumes can be termed as a vegetable, the bean itself is a pulse, or seed of the legume.
I suspect the reason it's not labelled as soya oil are the consumer alarm bells that would lead to noise pollution and a health and safety issue. The the oil is most likely coming from GM crops, from starving third world farmers, or both.
Or it could be the loss of revenue which might ensue.
There also appears to be some confusion over Trump's intellectual abilities.
Here we must ask, what is intelligence? It's the premiss of our argument.
The IQ test, whilst traditionally is deemed a reliable measure only evaluates a limited range of skills. With the introduction of EQ, Emotional Quotient, we're beginning to recognise that intelligence has many forms.
Trump is extremely canny and does have some well above average skills, but in the tradition of Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic traits, he'd likely score rather pitifully when it comes to empathy for others.
The advantage of this is that he'll have a disconnect with other people. He won't truly understand what he has missing because he has no experience of it. This has the effect of him being rather easy to spot as having something missing (unless the observer also scores low for emotional intelligence), but more importantly, it means he'll lack a certain level of self-awareness. He'll likely believe he's far more intelligent than he really is because he won't pick up on feedback and he won't recognise certain intelligence traits in others. That means he's going to make mistakes.
Catching serial killers is all about their mistakes. As you are wont to say on your side of the pond, do the math.
It was hard, I did work night and day, I was by no means perfect.
The biggest issue, I began to realise as my daughter gravitated towards certain friends in her teenage years, is parental abandonment. If one, or both parents cease to have contact with the child, it's horribly damaging.
Parents don't have to live together to be parents.
Grandparenting has similar responsibilities to that of a non-resident parent which is the position I'm in now. Regular contact is important and a week is a long time in a child's life.
Or the one google result saying something different might be the true match, a lone voice of dissent against a tide of popular, but erroneous belief, or propaganda.
In the second video, is the third piece a song of mourning?
The first picture of the woman I thought was one of the performers seen in the first two pieces. Was it the woman in the centre front wearing the cloak?
And the second photo of the man in Western style clothes - who is he? His image is being held with such reverence, love and loss.
People think they have negotiated a greater slice of the pie than they really have and in part this is because the deal has yet to be actioned for the final figures to be realised.
Draegoneer, you're believing you're the best, or better negotiator than you are by proxy.
Wu also said people tend to believe that whatever they walk away with, it's the best deal they could have made further self-reinforcing their self-evaluation of their negotiation skills.
This even sounds like a Trump quote with it's short contradictory bullet points 'I know, I don't care, it might be'.
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) and it may lead to other things.
RE: Trump's shutdown trap?
I made no reference to the wall, epirb.