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Most two and three year olds have it slightly. I'm pretty sure it starts to disappear after then. The problem isn't that you can't remember that period of your life, it's that you can't remember the way you truly thought back then. For example: when I was three I remember putting a fork into the mouth piece holes of the phone and twisting it and breaking the phone. But I don't remember what the fuck I was thinking when I did it. We remember actions of our infancy, but we certainly don't remember our psyche. If that makes sense?

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All young children have a form of solipsism to a point. They view their experiences to be indicative of reality and what everyone else would also be perceiving. Something a baby can't see doesn't exist. If a baby can see something, it exists and everyone can see it too. Having it as late as 7 or 8 is definitely rare though. No, I certainly didn't have it then. I'd like to see the rates between people with solipsism later in life and their chances of developing narcissistic personality disorder. The two seem somewhat linked in a way. But I don't know much at all about psychology and I'm highly sceptical of a lot of it. I'm not the best person to comment.

This is very much the old school way of thinking. It certainly seems to be correct, and I think it is correct when we are talking about petty criminals and their lifestyle choices, but recent evidence suggest that nature takes quite a lot of precedent over nurture. The studies and tests that have shown this recently are incredibly complicated, but to give you a brief over view: - A personality test is devised by team of psychiatrists and psychologists. It's goal is to measure how people interact with the world and apply their individuality to the situation. It also measures their behavioural traits. - Two people at a time are given the personality, their results are compared. If they get a score of 100, that means their personalities are virtually identical. A score of 0 is the opposite. - They start to test hundreds and hundreds of random people. Random people, from the same culture have about, if I remember correctly, score about 40. This is the "nurture" base. Random people from different cultures usually have a score about 20. This is the "human" base. - Siblings are tested. Siblings are three times as likely to score higher on the test than strangers are. Make sense. - Identical twin siblings are tested. They are even more likely than siblings to score higher. - Now here is where it gets interesting. Adopted siblings are tested. People who have been adopted into a family as a baby are tested against their siblings who they have literally known and grown up with all their lives. The results? These adopted siblings had the same chance of scoring high on the personality comparison test as two strangers did. - Identical twins and siblings that have been split apart through adoption are tested. They have the same chances of scoring as high in the personality test as siblings who have never been split apart. There were a few minor problems with the way the experiments where conducted, but the experiment has been repeated in different countries since and the results have been largely identical. Truly ground breaking when you think about social science. From a medical perspective, we've been taught that nature seems to favour itself over nurture too. But the experiments that suggest this are far too complicated to type out. Plus I have a shift in an hour. So yeah, no conclusions, but it seems evidence is starting to suggest nature over nurture now. Which is absolutely incredible, because it certainly makes more sense for nurture to matter more. And just thinking about it, your opinions make perfect sense. But the truth seems far more interesting.

Hope Gwyneth goes wild tonight for him.

It's good you still care about his birthday. Not so weird.

lol omg how did u com up wit dat. hilarious!

The trouble comes with the way you define the word good. My definition of good and your definition of good are similar in ways, yet I'm sure different in ways. One act of a man I may see as heroic and you may see as irredeemably bad. Humanity has been around for two hundred thousand years and we still haven't reach a conclusion on what "good" is. And we never will. But what is important to note is the intent behind the actions. Even Adolf Hitler was doing what he though was "good" for others. Yes, with a bit of rational thinking we can see that he was probably wrong about most of his opinions - but don't forget that he sucked a lot of people in. Normal, decent, hard working people not dissimilar to you or me were sucked in. People weren't sucked in by Nazism because they wanted to be evil and wanted to destroy the world, they were sucked in because they thought this was the chance to really stand up and fix the problems of Germany and at a larger scale, the Earth. I think many of us tend to misremember bad deeds and skewer them completely out of perspective. You could encounter one hundred people one day. Ninety nine of them are perfectly civil to you, some even go out of their way to help you out. But one person makes a rude comment about you and upsets you. What do you do? You leave at the end of the day thinking "God! People are so horrible!". Even though the overwhelming majority of people did nothing of harm towards you, our minds get ever so caught up with the one thing that offended us or hurt us and that's all we focus on. I think we are all guilty of doing this. I catch myself doing it a lot. I've had awful things happen to me throughout my life, and I grew up in a country with virtually non stop warfare. As a result I lost two brothers and a father. I hit rock bottom and by the time I turned 16 I was, for all intensive purposes, an absolute shithead. I was so caught up on the intense feeling of loss I felt that my entire world view was warped. I saw the bad in everyone, even my family. I had trouble with the police, I was self destructive and I was very quickly running out of life. I felt as if I could walk in front of a bus and my anger would remain long after my soul had left. I felt as if my anger was eternally tethered to the soil. Skip forward a few months and I am sitting eating breakfast in a juvenile justice hall with some friends when I had what I think was an epiphany. All those years during the war I felt like someone owed me something. I felt like someone was to blame. I let my cynicism for humanity completely erode the person I was and even to this day I haven't recovered from that. Then I realised something important. I realised that I didn't need someone to blame any more. I didn't need to feel angry any more. The bad things that happen in life happen. They just do. It doesn't matter if you're a theist, an atheist or a fuckin' monkey - the bad things are still going to just happen. And there is nothing we can do to change that at all. Being cynical or distrustful just makes this worse, because it is an admission of defeat. It is the intellectual equivalent of lying down and proclaiming "I give up!". Are people inherently good or bad? Hell, I don't know and to be honest I don't think it matters. What matters is making sure that yourself and the ones you love are thoughtful, compassionate people. What matters is making sure that a few bad eggs won't spoil your day. The more people who do this, than the less people there are who view people to be innately bad. I guess my thoughts are summed up with the classic adage; "life is what you make it". If you think people are mostly bad, then you'll both perceive and receive them in that fashion.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! This made me happy today too. That's fantastic. I hope all is well.

More cute laughing Martin for everyone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9YDbXi7Vc#t=2m36s 7:17 is so cute And 3:13! Martin: "Alright David?" Ricky Gervais: ".....Hey" Maritn: *giggle*

Haha it's so cute.

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Martin Freeman will always just be Tim. He's had lead roles in Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the Hobbit. But he is still Tim.

When I'm tired I tend to do that. I need to get everything perfect. Otherwise I don't really care.

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Xana

I don't remember :huh:

Because you've never asked. Dee asked, well she begged, so she got them.

I've already sent her loads of n00d pics. Oh no. :shame:

Dee is so lovely and wise she seems older than 14.

What does what mean :huh:

*faints*

:blank: You're 22 Brent. 22.

How many communists does it take to change a light bulb? NONE! The light bulb contains the seeds of it's own revolution! -- How many hipsters does it take to change a light bulb? Oh? You don't already know?... -- How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb? That's offensive. And it's not funny. -- How many Freudian psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? 2. One to screw the lightbulb in and one to steady the penis--I mean the ladder! -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to change a lightbulb? You wouldn't know man. You weren't there man! -- How many Coldplayers does it take to change a lightbulb? 1 to screw it in. 2 to laugh about it. 1 to write a crappy parody of Paradise about it. 4 to hate on it. 40 to claim the lightbulb has sold out 20 to claim Radiohead does it better. 100 to post sexually themed pictures of Chris Martin about it. and 150 to post mindless speculation about it. --

Hehe aw :)