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Honestly, I thought someone was playing a belated "April Fool" joke on me about this. I still have found nothing but conspiracy garbage about it so I'm starting to think this is a prank designed to get all the nutbars riled up. Someone did a good job of setting it up though.

Well…… I might have been a bit too subtle in attempting some humour in my previous post, but at least I am convinced you are neither nihilist nor existentialist. I roomed with a nihilist for 2 years when I was stationed in Germany and have a pretty good grasp on the philosophy. The Wednesday night get-togethers he and his contemporaries held to discuss life, liberty and the pursuit of the proletariat were always rather eye-opening. Good times… Honestly, your post makes me think you are just another bored individual living a life of privilege who has questioned the objective values placed upon them by society and who despairs over the alienation and dehumanization of the postmodern first world. That doesn’t make you a nihilist, it just makes you a thinking person who is sensitive to and wondering of the world around them. And that isn’t a bad thing or something I would disdain. The difference is, those who truly embrace the philosophy rely upon it as a means for personal development and I don’t particularly see that as a negative aspect, nor would I be disdainful of someone who has honestly adopted the philosophy or its doctrines. Unfortunately, most individuals who think they are nihilists believe it’s about political anarchism when its moreso about their feelings of futility and intellectual aimlessness and use the label as an excuse for being lazy and stupid and depressed. Whereas nihilists use the philosophy to view life’s situations free of the preconditioned suppositions forced on them by social conventions thus opening their mind clear of the unnecessary clutter of “proper thought and behaviour” in order to further their own intellectual development. I guess my thought is that if you are to embrace the philosophy, do so to achieve intellectual honesty within yourself rather than dwelling on what is “right” or “wrong” or “positive” or “negative”.

What I think is that you sound more existentialist than nihilist, but whatever. It doesn't matter really, label yourself with what you feel comfortable with, it's just another artificial concept used to subjectively categorize individuals within a society's culture in order to judge and to be judged. I did find your reasoning slightly confusing, contradictory if you will, but every belief, every considering something true, is necessarily false because there is simply no true world; but then, who am I to judge how you see yourself or to provide validation of your beliefs. Liberate yourself and in that show others the ways and means of overturning their limits.

Got an e-mail from a friend in California this morning asking about security exercises here in Canada and what I thought of a news article he pointed me to regarding what may be a military/police exercise being conducted in the USA sometime this year. Unfortunately, my searches via the internet didn't reveal very much useful information. I will admit the idea does sound a bit strange, not in some conspiracy way, but that if this exercise is being conducted as it appears to be (in uncontrolled civilian environments) it sounds exceedingly dangerous to me. Having been military for 15 years and involved in many exercises including joint police/security/military ones, none were ever outside of a controlled area and certainly never in areas where the civilian population was not well informed about what was going on. While I realize this will pull every conspiracy nutbar out of the woodwork to show their "proof" of what Jade Helm is all about, I am only seeking information if anyone has heard of this exercise and if they have a website or information that is actual facts and some realistic thoughts if this does turn out to be true. Here is the website I was directed to; http://sofrep.com/40783/jade-helm-shouldnt-make/

Engaged in a bit of espieglerie (playful behaviour; mischief.) today cause its April Fools. A Deputy Chief arrived for a meeting and left the Command Unit parked on the street. So me and another Officer grabbed a bucket and some window glass from the cut up vehicles on the vehicle extrication training pad and rolled the drivers window down on the Command Unit and spread the broken glass on the drivers seat and onto the ground by the drivers door. Deputy was convinced someone broke into the Command Unit and spent ½ hour trying to figure out what may have been stolen out of the Unit. He still didn’t know the window is just rolled down when he drove away. I’m sure there will be something said soon about this.

I don't think there is any way for Mirabelle to survive the College of Winterhold quest line as she dies (or is killed) while your PC is away getting the Staff of Magnus. The quest line is fairly fixed on what happens and what choices that could be made and there isn't anything that would prevent Mirabelle from aiding everyone in evacuating the College while she stayed back and gave them time to evacuate by (presumably) engaging Ancano or putting up some magical defense against the Eye of Magnus. I do remember seeing a mod some time ago that brings Mirabelle back into the game once the College quest line is completed and if I recall correctly the "new" Mirabelle could be made a follower and could also be married. But I am sure that there isn't a way to save Mirabelle in the College quest line. If there was, I'm sure it would have been found by someone by now and posted.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/32155 Player Size Adjuster and First Person Camera Height Fix - you need SKSE and SkyUI MCM for it to allow you to adjust your PC height.

Been a fan of hers since I saw her first youtube video. She is on tour and if you have the opportunity to go see her show it is well worth it. Her performance/stage show at the event I went to was nothing short of phenomenal.

nomophobia- fear of being without your smartphone

Bring purpose to all you do.

Hmmmm….. live a just and pious life, die and the reward is wings and a harp or get 72 (or even just 27) virgins who serve my every whim? I think Christianity really needs to work on its incentive program.

nudiustertian; the day before yesterday. "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." - Winston Churchill

sastrugi (or sastruga); ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind. Hitting one slightly on angle on an overcast day at about 35 miles an hour on a snowmobile has a tendency to ruin your whole weekend and is about equivalent to hitting a concrete parking curb. It was time for a new set of skis anyway.

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/22791/ Home Construction and Decoration. Has an Orc Long House. Best part is you can build anywhere. You can also build your own furniture with the workbench (build it at any forge) so you can decorate it as you want. I would also recommend Jaxon's Positioner (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/52583/?) as it is very easy to use to position furniture (including what is made by the Home Construction and Deoration mod) and collectible items. It also has a duplicator so you can obtain anything you find in the game that you would like to have in your home. Also Solitude Furniture (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36384/?) as it has weapons racks that work and other furniture that can be purchased that are not in the Home Construction and Decoration mod. Hope this helps.

augur; to conjecture or predict from signs or omens; prognosticate.

He didn't "become" a god as such. Lore uses the term "apotheosis" which suggests that people began to worship him as a god - likely because of his accomplishments during his lifetime. It is not unheard of in various religions where an individual is extraordinarily virtuous and is seen as "godlike".

Title threw me at first, but responsible media is another one of those oxymorons..... like government assistance. As for holding them accountable and responsible.... who exactly would do that; other than viewers who should stop watching (or reading) the drivel the media produces? The only thing that matters to the media is viewers, thus the sensationalism of every story they deem fit to report. It isn't news anymore, its entertainment.

From the UESP Wiki.... at http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Bloodline If you refuse Harkon's gift and are returned to the boat landing, the quest A New Order may fail to start. http://images.uesp.net/6/66/Pc22.png You can fix this by entering either setstage DLC1HunterBaseIntro 20 or setstage DLC1HunterBaseIntro 30, followed by setobjectivedisplayed DLC1HunterBaseIntro 20 1 or 30 1 into the console.Know this because it failed to start for me the first time I played it.

Urchins? I heard it was 72 sturgeons. The news media never gets anything right.

I stopped using Avast because it installs spyware that tracks users web browsing habits, logs Internet histories and places advertisements into specific pages based on the users browsing patterns. A component called SafePrice adds shopping recommendations (those obnoxious ads everyone hates) as users are browsing the web. (https://blog.avast.com/2014/03/27/how-does-avast-safeprice-work/). SafePrice can be "deactivated" but not removed as it remains part of Avast and unless the user is constantly monitoring it, it can be reactivated at anytime. Avast has admitted to collecting user data for “storage and analysis”, but it isn't clear what they actually gather in regards to personal information or other data; they say they remove it (sure they do) before they sell the data to other companies. MSE and SpyBot are all I use and I have not had a virus or malware problem in years of internet surfing and I don't get loud obnoxious ads popping up when I do browse. Each to their own choice, but the collection and sale of data by so many companies, especially by those who offer "free" software (how do they make a profit by giving software away?), is going to be a constant threat to computer users who want to safe guard their computers.

I wondered about the assassination of Narfi myself and found that in Norse mythology, Narfi (also Nari, Narvi) was a son of Loki and may have been a demon of the dead. The name Narfi could also be related to the Old Norse word nár, meaning corpse. Narfi apparently was killed by his brother (who had been turned into a wolf) and his sinews or entrails were used to bind Loki to a rock in a cave until Ragnarok. Thus, there are a number of considerations one can make about why Narfi was singled out for assassination; including the play on words by the game developers.

dalles; the rapids of a river running between the walls of a canyon or gorge.

Don't use AdBlock, never will as it tracks what you block and don't block and sells that info back to advertisers - so you are being tracked on the net whether you like it or not for ads. My solution works great for me as the ads one sees in many web sites are based on ones internet use. When ads start being obnoxious I just go to a car dealer web site and customize a car (I like Jeep and GM trucks as they seem to work best) or I go to a Tourism Site and look at booking a camping site or look at information on a national or local park. I do this and for the next 30 days or so all I see are quiet ads for cars or some tourist destination. The ads also do not tend to have music or sound and also you have to physically click on them for anything to happen. I figure I'm going to get tracked anyway, may as well see the ads and benefit the Nexus, but they will be ads I prefer to see. I don't know if this will work for everyone (I have no idea how advertisers work in the entire planet), but it works for me and some others I know.

Torched the haystack. Found the needle.

cicerone: (a form of the name Cicero) a person who conducts sightseers; a guide.