I never had a commitment device. Neither I was ever taught how to get one. In that sense, sacrificing my future in favor of my present has always been of my habits. As time goes by present becomes past and now I look back: my present self has already lost the battle against my past self (my past has won, to put it nicely!).
Now if I regret and if make myself commit to future, my present self will again lose, this time in a battle against my future self. This means that my present is the loser of all my lifespan, and life now sucks more than ever. If this is me at my worst, which is quite pleasant, then let’s drink a toast to all my selves!
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Like a clock whose hands are sweeping, past the minutes of its face.
And the world is like an Apple, working based on Mac OS.
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As far as I’m informed Jul is a cozy continuation of midwinter’s celebration in the Nordic countries. And even though Jesus Christ did not offer the planet something pleasurable to celebrate, YET happy Christmas holidays!
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This video broadcast by North Korean state media shows mass mourning of North Koreans following the death of their dictator, Kim Jong-il.
It’s very hard to get an idea what’s going on there in a land that one to two million people (5% to 10% of its population) are detained in jail as political prisoners and the rest are kept in a bigger jail, but should we get fooled by an image that their dictatorship tries to give to the world?!
An outsider should be a bit careful to make judgements when facing a received image like this. No matter how brain-washed a nation could be, this is most probably a show organized by the governmental propaganda. Compare the size of the mourning crowd to the whole capital’s population to avoid “induction”. They were the same nation with South Koreans and were divided only 60 years ago. I wish a miracle sets them free.
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Boy: “Why are you swinging hung by your knees?”
Girl (in skirt): “¡uʍop ǝpısdn ɹǝʇʇǝq ɥɔnɯ sʞooן pןɹoʍ ǝɥʇ”
Boy: “So do you!”
p.s. Its Zedge TxT version on my new peofile.
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Now he’s gone crazy and has told everyone: A man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he’s from the future!
Believe me I’m not bullshitting! This man who calls himself Eloi is right. He had left the future long before my departure. He arrived later, however, since he couldn’t time-travel directly and had to stop a couple of “time”s.
I actually met him back in 2076. I was a kid when he picked me up and flied to a far old café: “You’ll make this place happen!”, he said. And I thought he’s mental. Eloi claimed he knows me and I don’t know him yet: “Not yet!”, he was repeating. He wished he had brought me to that weird place only two years earlier, to show me an old man who so wanted to visit me but he was told not to, strictly:
You could see your-old-self! Nima died without knowing that he could see you.
It was the first time I heard this name. Let me keep the details but he told me some stories, and that after the old man died, things turned out to be very different: “Nima should have come to tell you what he knew”. And then he gave me a note:
[You will grow and this time, remember you MUST meet that little kid to tell him what you will know...]
For many years I kept that note, but it was lost before I had to escape my homeland. I knew Persian from my biological mom. So it was not hard to make up stories after I arrived here. And the note was right! Many things indeed became clear throughout my life. But I never figured out what is that I will know and how long I should wait…
p.s. By the way, P=NP in case you were wondering!
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The numbers in this group photo marks the order by which the Arab dictators have fallen during this year:
1. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisia)
2. Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
3. Muammar Gaddafi (Libya)
4. Ali Abdullah Saleh (Yemen)
But do you know what 1432 is?
1432 AH is the current year in the Islamic lunar calendar which is over this mid-night. A year which gave birth to the Arab spring, successfully removed four dictators, and gave its turn to the next lunar year!
p.s. I don’t know who was the genius who annotated this picture. It came up after the fall of Gaddafi.
p.s. With especial thanks to the Yemeni dictator, Saleh, who finally signed the power transition plan and by not postponing it to the next year gave a new meaning to this pic.
p.s. Just to avoid confusion, as I said before, the Islamic lunar calendar which is the official calendar in the four mentioned lands is different from the Persian solar calendar we use in Iran.
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Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, the Egyptian girl who – together with his boy friend – posed fully naked on the internet, is beaten up by some protesters and taken out from Al-tahrir square’s recent protests, while being protected by some others. And this is happening at the eve of the international day for the elimination of violence against women.
Her boy friend, Kareem Amer, spent four years in prison for blog posting deemed insulting to Islam and for calling Mubarak a symbol of tyranny. Now under the new regime some Islamists demand sharia punishment for this couple.
Not only what they did would be perceived as hurtful by the conservative sectors of the Middle Eastern society, but also many seculars criticized their action to be “too early”. Their argument was that the act was not mature enough and did not convey a comprehensible message for the society, considering its expensive cost of giving threatening messages to the fundamental Islamists.
It is true that it may give enough reason to the conservatives to be scared of the secular sectors of the revolution and it may make them keener on hijacking the revolution from the other rivals. But, sooner or later the Middle East would need such radical actions done not only in the sexual realm but also in other areas, simply to make the society numb to such “pain”. Bringing sexual taboos to the public sphere is an inevitable step to proceed. Let’s hope this specific act won’t cost more than it achieved.
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This was the best video I had watched in months. It came to me so intuitive and understandable. Then I absorbed it so much that I can now listen to it over and over just like a piece of music.
Now, I believe that I already knew it before watching. You too already know the brain division by heart. If you didn’t know it’s left and right you could still call it up and down. I used to do it back and forth!
So, why did we wait to know something about the anatomy of the brain? Symmetry in mind could implicate bilaterality in the brain. Such inspirations are often suppressed, and this is meant to be more than a word salad!
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Yet again the third best magician in Norway, who is for us way more than that: A violinist who understands baroque music with all his soul and composes fugues knowing the art of the fugue. The one who makes you laugh when you are depressed better than any stand up comedian. And a truly reliable friend. Congratulations Hans Henrik Verpe.
Update: And now he has applied to be the personal magician for the King of Norway! I hope he gets the job that he has dared to define for himself. He so deserves it, I know!
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