Reginold

I need to know the process please, not just the answer. Whenever you have a reference angle and one of those 3-letter-things (csc, cos, tan, sec, sin, cot), you can just type in the degree and then press the letters on the calculator to get the answer. But how do you get the answer as a fraction instead of a decimal?

I'm the author of such hit questions as:

"If a man greatly enjoys sex with women but feels no attraction to women's bodies, is he at all heterosexual?"

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"Are these good reasons for me to go back into the closet?"

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and of course,

"I'm coming out as bi or pansexual. Formerly identified as homosexual. Advice?"

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These were all questions à clef of a sort, only loosely tethered to my real-life identity, but I hope they arose interesting questions about our understanding of queerness in modern society. Au revoir, mes amis.

Because I'm too young to be naturally bald, I think that some people might jump to bizarre conclusions, which I wouldn't appreciate.

A little over 2 years ago, I was a high school Junior with a lot of issues. I had terrible grades, no friends, a poor self-image, and I felt sickly and depressed. I decided to drop out, get my High School Equivalency Diploma, and focus on getting my life on track. Now I'm happily enrolled in college and doing well! I absolutely hated high school, and in the daytime I hardly ever think about it.

But every single night for months, I dream about being back in my high school classrooms, usually around people I was friends with in middle school and my early high school days before I started dropping off the radar. Nothing major ever happens. I just talk to students and teachers I haven't seen in years now, do class activities, and work on assignments. They're really very dull dreams. Why might this be though? My friend suggested that it could be because I feel guilty about not finishing HS the "right" way, or because now that I'm worrying about my major, getting a job, finding my way in the world, etc. I feel nostalgic for the simplicity of HS. But consciously, I don't feel guilty and I'm enjoying the excitement of adulthood. I feel like somehow there must be unfinished business relating to my high school days that I need to take care of but I can't put my finger on what it is.

I don t want to take a college phil. course, so I compiled my own list of philosophical works to read autodidactically. (I ve read almost no philosophy: Epicurus, some Bakunin, goofy stuff like De Sade and Ayn Rand. That s it.) The list is confined to western philosophy (and a little Islamic stuff) because that s what I think is mostly topical in my society. For what it s supposed to be, is this list a good, balanced curriculum?

1: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

2: The Portable Atheist, assembled with commentary by Christopher Hitchens

3: Hackett Books Five Platonic Dialogues, and The Republic by Plato

4: The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)

5: Oxford Quran

6: The Middle East: A Brief History by Bernard Lewis

7: A History of Islamic Societies by Ira Lapidus

8: New American Bible

9: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon volumes 1-3

10: Oxford s Selected Philosophical Writings of Thomas Aquinas

11: Selections from Martin Luther

12: Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes

13: Ethics by Spinoza

14: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government by John Locke

15: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

16: Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract by Jean-Jaques Rousseau

17: Complete Works of Thomas Paine

18: Prolegomena and Critique of Pure Reason by Kant

19: The World as Will and Representation by Schopenhauer

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I've been openly gay for 6 years but will now be going back into the closet and trying to fake a heterosexual lifestyle to whatever extent I can for the following reasons:

Western societies like the US and EU are facing a serious population decline, which is destroying our economy and weakening our civilization. Homosexuality contributes to this, and even the few homosexuals who become surrogate parents must waste vast amounts of resources to do so.

The male homosexual population is the population most likely to carry STIs like AIDs, partially because of the promiscuous culture of the community but also because anal sex is inherently riskier than vaginal sex. (The lining of the colon is weaker)

The LGBT community has ceased to be transgressive, but has been assimilated into the sickly hierarchy of leftist society (beneath feminists and Muslims), with its own language and norms. In many countries, such as France, gay people have become oppressors rather than oppressed by stifling "hate speech", a newspeak word for free speech. For those seeking a society which values truth, freedom, and efficacy, in all matters up to and including sexuality, one must now engage with right-wing groups that generally frown upon

Fascism aims to create a unified, economically prudent and productive, militarily powerful, hyper-lawful country with a high birthrate and an extremely disciplined, hard-working populace. It's the only political ideology which puts the strength and improvement of the nation as its primary or even sole goal. Communism/socialism is willing to sacrifice economic prosperity in an attempt to combat social class. Democracy obviously allows a large amount of time to be wasted on individualistic pleasantries. Theocrats have to assure people are performing their religious duties and traditions, even if it's unscientific or counter-productive to their material well-being. Those who think to bring up the fact that the Nazis lost WWII should keep in mind the fact that they were also vastly outnumbered, but that relative to population, their economic growth and kill-death-rate were significantly better than that of any other country. Despite the fact that it's fallen out of fashion, fascism seems to be the face of power and efficiency. (Despite this, I'm no fascist.)

Probably because in our minds it can be framed as a sort of sexual abuse.

Also because we've stumbled upon comparatively more articles about scientific and psychological perspectives on spanking as a form of discipline in our constant Googling of "Sexy principle spanks naughty schoolgirl" (Hint: the consensus is that it's really, really counterproductive.)

Looking for some movies to watch on Halloween but can't bear the thought of sitting through some mindless slasher. Anybody know of any deep horror films that make an important social statement or harbor interesting philosophical undertones?

Probably because it's too similar to sexual abuse for our taste.

Also because we've encountered a lot more articles about scientific and psychological perspectives on spanking in our constant Googling of "Sexy principle spanks naughty schoolgirl" (Hint: the consensus is that it's really, really counterproductive.)

Fascism aims to create a unified, economically prudent and productive, militarily powerful, hyper-lawful country with a high birthrate and an extremely disciplined, hard-working populace. It's the only political ideology which puts the strength and improvement of the nation as its primary or even sole goal. Communism/socialism is willing to sacrifice economic prosperity in an attempt to combat social class. Democracy obviously allows a large amount of time to be wasted on individualistic pleasantries. Theocrats have to assure people are performing their religious duties and traditions, even if it's unscientific or counter-productive to their material well-being. Fascism seems to be the face of power and efficiency. (Despite this, I'm no fascist.)

I've been openly gay for 6 years but will now be going back into the closet and trying to fake a heterosexual lifestyle to whatever extent I can for the following reasons:

Western societies like the US and EU are facing a serious population decline, which is destroying our economy and weakening our civilization. Homosexuality contributes to this, and even the few homosexuals who become surrogate parents must waste vast amounts of resources to do so.

The male homosexual population is the population most likely to carry STIs like AIDs, partially because of the promiscuous culture of the community but also because anal sex is inherently riskier than vaginal sex. (The lining of the colon is weaker)

The LGBT community has ceased to be transgressive, but has been assimilated into the sickly hierarchy of leftist society (beneath feminists and Muslims), with its own language and norms. In many countries, such as France, gay people have become oppressors rather than oppressed by stifling "hate speech", a newspeak word for free speech. For those seeking a society which values truth, freedom, and efficacy, in all matters up to and including sexuality, one must now engage with right-wing groups that generally frown upon homosexuality because of its justified associations with disease, socialist totalitarianism, and societal decay.