Straight To The Point

I've come to conculsion that there is no such thing as free will, because there is no such thing as true randomness. Even the roll of a dice could theoretically be predicited if all the variables are known. Therefore, everything from weather to human brain functions, can theoretically be predicted, meaning that everything that happens must always have been going to happen.

To put it another way, if time was re-wound back a year, exactly the same thing would happen again, since there would be nothing to cause it to be any different.

If you work for the council and are going on strike, you're about a year too late. You should have been protesting when Labour gave all our money to the banks. There's no point striking now: there's no money left to pay you with.

I was just browsing the RPGCodex forums when I came across a thread about gay marriage being legalised in California. And, to get straight to the point, I was quite taken aback with the homophic comments I read. It's not like it's a Christian Fundamentalist website or anything where this kind of thing might be expected.

The thing that irks me most however, is that these people are arguing against a decision which doesn't affect them in any way whatsoever, but has a major impact on the lives of others.

Stuart Campbell, the famed games reviewer from yesteryear, continues his quest to get the truth from dishonest and corrupt product "review" site BenchmarkReviews.

In a nutshell: Don't trust anything BenchmarkReviews says (or rather, has been paid to say by the manufacturer of whatever product is being "reviewed").

Crikey, what a day today is for this blog. Not only am I giving you the reason why humans are more intelligent than animals, but now for the secret to a happy life! I should charge for this.

Anyway it is this: Do not compete or compare yourself or your circumstances to anyone else's.

This is why: The "happiness quotient" of any given situation is relative to someone else's situation. So if you don't contemplate how happy someone else is in their situation, you'll be none the wiser as to how happy you should be.

For example, take being stuck in a traffic jam, of which there are two lanes, and suddenly the other lane starts moving forward. Does this make you more peeved than when the other lane was stationary? Probably, as we're only human. But your situation hasn't changed, but the H.Q (my acronym for Happiness Quotient) has gone down relative to the other persons, since they are happier since they are moving. But if your situation hasn't changed, logically there's no reason to be unhappy. So stop it by not comparing your situations!

A theory to answer this popped into my head the other day, so I thought I'd better write it down before I forget:-

My theory is that it is because we are hardwired to desire social interaction almost as much as pure survivial. Animals are only hardwired to survive. The human desire for social interaction requires much more intelligence (e.g. to learn to communicate) and in turn we gravitate towards those that seem the most "social" (e.g. witiest, more friendly etc...), thus increasing social/intelligence skills in a Darwin kind of way.

(This is all coming straight from my head as I type it. One day I might re-word it to make slightly more sense).

If life was fair, we'd all be dead at 67.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy_variation_over_time)

Why is the slogan "a family company" always paraded like it's a good thing? All it means is that the family gets to keep all the profit, unlike a publicly traded company where the shareholders (usually pension funds) get a share.

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