I feel alone, I'm 18 and I can't seem to connect with anyone. I don't know why but whenever someone tries to interact with me in a socially fun way I immediately become nervous and draw an imaginary boundary between me and that person. I am not a good conversationalist either, and I can't make complicated jokes that that most other guys are so good at. I also sometimes hate people for no reasons or just for small reasons. What can I do?
Good you guys recommend me any good books that are able to explain micro/macroeconomic concepts very clearly, and can serve as alternatives to reading boring unclear textbooks?
So I've reached a point in life where things are changing fast and it's a confusing period without much answers and too many questions, my mind is basically in a blank slate right now and I was wondering if you guys could recommend me any classical works (ex: montaigne,locke,lao-tzu etc). Specifically works that are very logical, gives you analytic clear coherent arguments and teaches you a certain type of philosophical thinking (ex:sherlock holmes=empiricism).
Sagawa served time in a French jail for the murder of the Dutch student Renée Hartevelt, a classmate at the Sorbonne Academy in Paris, France. On June 11, 1981, Sagawa, a 32 year old student of French literature, invited Hartevelt to dinner under the pretense of literary conversation. Upon her arrival, he shot her in the neck with a rifle while she sat with her back to him at a desk, then began to carry out his plan of eating her.[1] She was selected because of her health and beauty, those characteristics Sagawa believed he lacked. Sagawa describes himself as a "weak, ugly, and small man" (he is just under 5 ft (1.52 m) tall[2]) and claims that he wanted to "absorb her energy".[3]
Sagawa said he fainted after the shock of shooting her, but awoke with the realization that he had to carry out his desire to eat her.[1] He did so, beginning with her hips and legs, after having sex with the corpse. In interviews, he noted his surprise at the "corn-colored" nature of human fat.[2] For two days, Sagawa ate various parts of her body. He described the meat as "soft" and "odorless", like tuna. He then attempted to dump the mutilated body in a remote lake, but was seen in the act and later arrested by the French police.[1]
His wealthy father provided a top lawyer for defense, and after two years without a trial the French judge Louis Bruguiéres found him "obviously" legally insane and unfit to stand trial and ordered Sagawa to be held indefinitely in a mental institution.[1] Through a visit of the author Inuhiko Yomota his memoirs on the murder were published in Japan with the title In the Fog.[1] The constant publicity and macabre celebrity of Sagawa led the French authorities to extradite him to Japan. Not to cause outrage, he was first taken to Matsuzawa hospital, where upon examination psychologists all found him sane but '"evil".[1] Japanese authorities found it impossible to pursue him, purportedly by lacking some pertinent papers from Louis Bruguiéres. As a result, Sagawa checked himself out on August 12, 1986, and has been a free man ever since.[1] [edit] Post-release
Sagawa now lives in Tokyo and is a minor celebrity in Japan. He is often invited as a guest speaker and commentator.[4] He has also written restaurant reviews for the Japanese magazine Spa.[5] In 1992, he appeared in Hisayasu Sato's exploitation film Uwakizuma: Chijokuzeme (Unfaithful Wife: Shameful Torture) as a sadosexual voyeur.[6]
Besides books about the murder he committed, Sagawa wrote a commentary book Shonen A in 1997 on the Kobe children's serial murder of 1997, when a 14-year-old called "Boy A" ("Shonen A") killed and decapitated a child.[7]
Sagawa's story inspired the 1981 Stranglers song "La Folie"[citation needed] and the 1983 Rolling Stones song "Too Much Blood".[2] In 2007, the avant-garde noise-metal band Gnaw their Tongues released an EP titled "Issei Sagawa," the cover of which depicts Sagawa posed with a fork and knife over what appears to be a pair of human legs.[8]
A short film by Olivier Smolders called Adoration is based on Sagawa's story.[9]
Really f***cked up, how the hell could he become a minor celebrity in Japan?
I sometimes really hate this world because generally, I don't understand the irrational mechanisms by which the people and the institutions operate in this world, and the stupidity of rational people. I was thinking the other day about something, something I didn't understand. Now, of course this has been pointed out in the past and some of you are going to pounce on me, but I am not trying to be original. The thing is that I don't understand why the rest of the world wants to imitate American culture so badly. Not to say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with things like the philosophy of the founding fathers or the whole idea of having a chance to rebuild yourself; what I don't understand is why people take this current modern culture of this country to such extremes as to incorporate it into their mindsets and take it's programmings. Why does everyone want to copy "American" fashion trends, have American accents, buy the same things as Americans etc? (you get the question I'm trying to ask)
What is so superior, so attractive, so elegant and enticing about the modern culture of this country? I'm confused but I hate people for following this culture so blindly because there's a certain characteristic of this culture not allowing any room for rational or intellectual thought.
Recently I was asked a qeustion that has been boggling my mind for a while now, and alas my thought processes behind answering this question is not too qualified nor too logical toward answering the question; it has been bugging me and driving me crazy, so I thought I should post it here. My knowledge of physics is quite small, but here is the question: "if a car is travelling at the speed of light, and while travelling, turns it's head lights on, what happens?"
I'm on a library computer as I write this, recently my computer has suddenly stopped working. In this situation I'm really confused because I really don't know what happened. It started yesterday, when I was on the computer watching a video. I suddenly notice that the monitor is a little blurry, there are lines near the top of the monitor and I have an LCD screen comp, so I am like wtf? I try to change the screen settings, alas to no avail. Suddenly, like 2 minutes later, my comp suddenly stops, and before I know it, the screen turns white, and there is like this white solar light thing flashing on the screen and my comp turns off. I try to turn my computer back on, but its not turning on at all!!!! I unplug, re-plug several times, and the damn thing is still not starting. My monitor seems to be working because on the on/off switch on my monitor, there is orange light that indicated whether my monitor is powered and is ready to use but my CPU doesn't seem even seem to be turning on. What is going on?
I'm getting tired of visiting the usual forums that I visit (which includes Tl.net) and waiting for some exciting and interesting discussion to pop out, basically just to kill time, which isn't really productive for this kind of activity of course; so I ask what other popular/unpopular/known/small/big forums do you visit on a regular basis?
