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! Moderator Note That's not going to work here. If you want to take other people's time to discuss science, it needs to be mainstream science, and if you introduce any speculations they need to be accepted by everyone, and yours are NOT. Further, you've been asked questions, and had misunderstandings pointed out that you aren't "dealing" with. Please go back through and correct the mistakes, negage with the other posters, and adjust your ideas accordingly, otherwise I'll have to shut the thread down.

! Moderator Note It is most certainly NOT a theory. A theory is NOT a guess. A theory is the best current explanation we currently have for a particular phenomenon. It's the best science has to offer. Does that describe your paper? NO. You don't need to respond to moderator notes, you just have to follow the rules mentioned in them.

And then want to claim they're the victims of prejudice. It's so SAD!

It's a really good thing you discovered this before you wasted a lot of time here! Thanks for stopping by, and good luck elsewhere.

I couldn't find that. Rule 2.1.1 states: "Slurs or prejudice against any group of people (or person) are prohibited." If that happens in a thread, the member gets a warning. If it happens a lot in a thread, or if the OP is the one expressing bigotry, the whole thread gets closed.

Some call them "spurious reasons", others call them "the rules you agreed to when you joined".

! Moderator Note This is a speculative work in itself, so you can't use it to support further speculation. You'll have to have this paper discussed in a thread all by itself.

! Moderator Note Enough said. Thread closed.

Banning is for rule-breakers. Is the site taking up too much of your time, and you want to do something else? His name is Robittybob1, so that's why your search came up empty. He posted in this thread a few weeks ago:

Since vegetarianism is well-known, can I assume you include eating plants as cruel (to the plants)? I think, at some point, you need to recognize the necessity for the biological process of nourishment, and resolve to minimize the cruelty involved in your eating behavior. Honor the meat by preparing it well, thank the plants for sustaining you. Make the very necessary process meaningful for yourself. Your present perspective can never be positive. If you look at natural nourishment as cruel murder, you're going to make yourself sick.

Do you need more than what swansont and Janus provided?

Why would they be? Progress seems to be "the road" and success seems to be "the destination". It's important to acknowledge both.

Outstanding!

franco malgarini has been banned for not obeying our advertising rules, and for not listening when warned that he was breaking our advertising rules.

I was talking about life progress. Success is yours to measure for yourself, and might reach a plateau where you're most comfortable. Progress, to me at least, is an ongoing process of accumulating knowledge through learning and experience in order to best adapt your behavior to your environment (and perhaps vice versa) and improve the outcome of your endeavors. You never know what passion a human is going to stumble upon as they try to figure out what "anything you want" should be. Passion is probably more closely tied to progress (and success maybe) than talent is.

Many worldwide are pushing an anti-intellectual agenda, seemingly to make the average person mistrust educated people. Claiming the textbooks are wrong is one of the main themes to this propaganda, so I hope you aren't a part of this. Personally, I think it's part of a movement by the oil & gas industry to deny climate change by calling all our knowledge/expertise into question in order to delay phasing out fossil fuel use.

We have a richer, denser, higher level of intelligence than most other animals. We don't have rows and rows of replaceable teeth. We don't have razor sharp claws. We can't flap our wings and fly. All animals use their talents to adapt to changing environments, and our intelligence coupled with some other skills (cooperation, communication, too use, for instance) allows us to be this "different". As vertebrates, our ancestry goes all the way back to tiny little fish that were the first creatures with skeletons on the insides. We've diversified much since then.

When you lumped yourself in with the OP by claiming Royston's narrative might be what vexed you at the start. I suppose one could read that you were claiming Royston had talent you lack, but I didn't. Does not being as talented change the necessity of trying to better your situation? Don't you still have to be the person in charge of driving your own progress, even if you get help from others?

If you won't accept advice from people who have changed the way they look at their life's progress, and you won't change it yourself, what kind of narrative will be effective? Where are you going to find more motivation than someone who has been at rock bottom and managed to change what was wrong? How is it in any way meaningful to complain about something, and also reject all suggestions about how to deal with it? If you want a different lifestyle, don't you have to be willing to change your lifestyle? So yeah, you could argue that way. It's pretty vexing when you realize you've painted yourself into a corner. But unless you're willing to wait until it dries (which would be stupid, since you obviously don't like the color), you're just going to have to suck it up, relish the experience, and start the job over. Don't let the extra work vex you. Start now, so in ten years you can be talking about your new life instead of how you wished you'd started ten years ago.

Dude, that's amazing! Congratulations on the progress. The plunge is scary but how else could your story have ended so well? If someone had come along 10 years ago and handed all of this to you on a silver platter, it wouldn't mean as much to you as it does right now. Along with the experience, you showed yourself your own capabilities, and built the necessary levels of confidence every day. A round of applause for taking the plunge! Great to have you back, btw.

! Moderator Note And we're done.

And how do you feel about that? Whose fault is it? Progress is a positive proposition. It's doubtful you can achieve it with a predominantly negative outlook. Is there anything you can think of that makes you less bleak about your future? If you can't fix that, then it makes it look like you just enjoy whining online. Frustrating for those looking to help. Why don't you fire the current you, the one that complains all the time but won't lift a finger to change, and hire someone more effective? Nobody, including you, really cares much for that guy. He seems like he wants everything handed to him. Surely there's a version of you that cares enough about progress to actually work towards it?

! Moderator Note If you're posting about a science topic, please leave your religion out of it. It's against the rules you agreed to when you joined.

A liner for bike helmets, maybe. Also, it would be funny to challenge someone to a duel with Silly Putty gloves (they look like rubber, hit like a rock). I don't think a single material has all the properties you'd need for the kinds of stress you're talking about. Seat belts have multiple systems, including the woven straps for restraint, the tension mechanism, height adjustor, and latch mechanism. Also, the seat belt is a proven mechanism. It's ubiquitous from mass production and therefore inexpensive. Anything new has lots of hurdles to overcome in terms of cost efficiency vs lives saved. It's estimated that seat belts save about 15K lives every year in the US alone.

The problem here is that it snaps if stretched too quickly, such as in the case of a seat belt in a collision. It would make a great bumper though, wouldn't it? Or boxing gloves?