Recent content by Shaihulud

The reasons could be geographical in nature, there is the rivers and canals facilitating communications between different parts of China, also China has a custom of sinicizing people they conquered or even conquerors, the package includes the language, customs, religion etc.The most obvious are...

Going to Salt lake City for a course in a few days time.

What I never did understand about Thailand was how the Shinawatra consistently won popular votes at elections, yet was overthrown illegally. Going to set up a bad example for Thailand.

I predict that whatever kind of war it is, USA will be heavily involved in it.

How would dying stop gay marriage? I am suspicious that it is a code word for terrorism. I have stopped calling myself a Christian and stopped going to church because I can no longer stand the growing corruption of the church and the faith.

Memories are the results of how our brain is shaped and patterned after our experiences. Consciousness is a physical thing, not an ephemereal nothingness that can be imprinted so easily on another. A 13 year old you is a different person from you. It will be a terrible thing to override and take...

In the book he died needlessly. Any swordsman can be overthrown, even the best. Besides Brienne cheated by using her fists. I remembered that a gladiator guy put in a few licks on Barristan and he survived only because of his armour.

If untrained, yet you can fly a plane, that might prove something. Have you seriously attempted to prove to yourself your fantasies?

Loras Tyrell or Jaime Lannister were the ones lauded as being extremely good swordsmen. Oberyn was more of a spearman, never read that he was good with a sword.

Asian girls are like that too. I think it was influence from Japan or something.

It came from humans, I don't see anything wrong with that.

Nothing less than 5 million will make me vacate my position.

Mostly Deadlifts and Squats, 50kg. Perfect form is of utmost importance for reducing injuries, which I had sustained.

The value of growth is in "competition". Without the relative comparison between different people/countries growth is meaningless. Government makes economic growth their indicator for excellence in their administration because people in the here and now thinks that it makes their life better.

Cheeses have most of their lactose broken down into lactic acid, lactose intolerant shouldn't have any problems consuming cheese. I am probably lactose intolerant, but have no problems ingesting dairy products or milk.