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It's considered after all that psychopaths make up some of the worlds most successful, richest individuals. Or at least, if not psychopaths, morally ambiguous at best.

We are all capable of 'releasing' our emotions, so to speak, when required. I suppose, though I hate to say it, the 'switch' that some people speak of. So, why don't we do this more often?

This stems from a conversation I had with my wife as, I am quite easily capable of turning emotional feelings on or off at will.

My belief is that anyone is capable of doing it, they just need to come across something that hurts them in a way that forces them to learn it.

My wife on the otherhand believes it's more only those who have at least somewhat psychopathic tendancies.

Which do you people believe to be the case? Or do you feel it's something different still?

I was doing a personal reading and drew 3 runes. One fell to the floor so I figured it wasn't right for the read and so left it.

In the 5 minutes since, it has vanished and I can't find it anywhere... It was for large changes, so do you think I'm in for a large change after all?

To explain further, how have you taken to understanding the existence of your deity in the modern world?

For instance, those who follow the Egyptian pantheon, we now know that the sun is not, in fact, Horus travelling around the earth, fighting Apophis on an eclipse or at night, so how have you adapted this in to your beliefs?

For me, it's more about the spiritual essence of things that the deities are close to, so in the above example, I find Horus would represent the essence of all things that require or thrive in sunlight, or the essence of the danger it can bring, whilst Apophis would represent the dangers that the night can bring etc.

Just curious how, if at all, others may come to understand their Gods.

The simple fact is that a large portion of people are psychopathic, it's not something to brag about, it just is...

Perhaps it's increased recently due to Suicide Squad?

An example of what I am after:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG28TM7rKOs

After all, they show up in almost all old cultures, why is it so hard to believe they had the ability to move these huge stones?

Not to mention that there are texts explaining this from Egypt if I remember correctly.

I have been called many things in the past, by friends, therapists and hell, even my wife genuinely swears that I am at the very least narcissistic...

I've looked in to such things and, though I personally find myself to be perfectly normal with one or two minor traits from some of the 'disorders', I have to ask, what's the point in them from a medical point of view?

They can't be cured, they can't be helped and they can't be alleviated in any real manner... At least not that I've found.

So really, they strike me as nothing more than a way to catelogue people that societies current standards dictate to be 'undesirable'. A way of basically saying "Avoid this person at all costs".

As a second question, with this in mind, why would anyone willingly allow such a thing to be put against their name by being formally diagnosed when it cannot be helped to begin with?

I am in no way a left wing person, I am heavily right wing to be completely honest...

But with that said, have you ever considered that it is not Muslim people, or the Muslim religion, that is causing the problems?

Instead, think that it is the self-righteous, intolerant and hate-filled extremist assholes causing the problems?

In stating all Muslim's are the same, you make yourselfs out to be just as judgemental and intolerant as the terrorists you despise.

Worse, half of you sound one step away from them as well...

I've been trying to get used to using my camera in manual mode, and I can't seem to get the lighting right.

In a lower light room, I've tried taking some photo's of simple things and it's always too dark.

I've set the ISO to 1600, the shutter speed to 1/30 and the aperture to F/5.6 (as low as it goes). The camera in question is a Nikon D3100.

If I then change to night mode, it uses the exact same settings, changing between /30-/40 shutter speed and the image is crystal clear, so I've no idea what I'm doing wrong... Clearly the camera CAN do it...

I've struggled feeling things like guilt for as long as I can remember, so it gets me thinking.

Do others 'genuinely' feel bad for thing's that they've done, or are they just imagining the feeling of what's ingrained in societies expectations?

This is not a query on how to do it, more a query on how you actually 'see' your spirit guides or totem animals? Purely born out of curiosity really.

For me, I do not see a physical thing in front of my as some seem to, but I can see it in my mind's eye and feel its answers.

Just curious if it's the same for anyone else, or not.

I see many questions on here asking what people with no faith's purpose is... Or, that how they can have morals etc without God.

This is a pretty poor mindset for any person, religious or otherwise...

So I've been having almost constant deja vu lately, for a few months in fact... It got me thinking of a possible philosophical idea behind it...

What if we are currently living through our memories at death. They say you see your life flashes before your eyes after all...

Deja Vu may just be your brain trying to tell you.

Many people accept theoretical physics, be it quantum mathematics, right up to the big bang. Now, although working, there is no 'evidence' that proves these things took place.

I'm not saying they didn't or that they are fake, but even the big bang theory is not scientific fact, it's the most commonly accepted 'theory' based on an educated guess from our understanding of science.

Yet, so many people say "A supernatural thing cannot 'possibly' exist. There is no evidence".

As a teenager I was betrayed quite badly by someone I believe I loved... It taught me how to stop caring towards people.

This is something I can still do to this day if I so choose... All with the exception of my wife. She's the only person I can genuinely see myself caring for, unconditionally. I couldn't stop that if I tried.

So my question is this: Without something to force those thoughts into action, how do we know we truly love someone, rather than simply having convinced ourselves of it?

First, to have free will, there has to be temptation. So, Lucifer must've been created knowing full well what he would do (God is supposed to be omniscient after all). So what this tells us is that God knowingly invented evil.

Secondly, it tells us that either the angels WERE given free will, or a number of them were, otherwise there couldn't possibly have been a rebellion in the first place.

When you piece this together, it tells us that there was no great betrayal. It was all part of 'the plan' we are always told so much about.

As the legend goes, Adam & Eve brought on the original sin, yet later Jesus supposedly died for our sins.

One thing I could never understand about the religion is that baptism was supposed to resolve one of their original sin.

Isn't that what Jesus' death was supposed to be for?