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I answered "other kind of English" because I think my English is mix of American and British English. My pronunciation is closer to Brit English but the idioms etc I use are more often American than British. I've been thinking if I should just spell everything the American style since there's no...

I used to smoke maybe 3 to 5 cigs a day and now smoke only if I go out. I first smoked when I was 16 or and it was sort of my 'teen rebellion' thing because I didn't drink at all when I was younger (most people here start with dirnking rather than smoking)... Nowadays I don't have any reason to...

The traditional Finnish foods that include rice are casseroles (e.g. carrot casserole), sausages, carelian pies and rice porridge. I guess there are other foods, too, but I think rice has been more of a supplement in foods in order to make up for meat... I don't know if it's always been so, but...

That's the way I see it, too. If you do things only expecting some reward from it, the chances are you'll eventually be extremely disappointed. When you do nice things for others because you actually like it makes you feel good yourself, too. Then there's no expectations of getting somethign...

I think the problem nowadays is more about not respecting other people's beliefs. This is just a small exmple but I was in India some time ago and in one hindu temple a priest told us it was very bad luck to donate only a little money to the temple. We only had very very small change but it just...

I saw a documentary about that a certain kind of vaccination given to small children causes autism... It isn't proven to be true that it directly causes autism, but some people firmly believe this is the case (I forget what vaccination it is, but it's somekind of a tripple vaccination?). The...

I would most definitely have to agree with this. The text looks very similar to how I type :relief: When I chat with someone, I always mistype. Always :blush: I type quite fast but have never really bothered to learn a proper typing system... It'd be interesting to see how I mistype words, to...

Do you ever feel like people just don't get you? Or that something you mentioned gets you into an argument that escalates into a battle of wills? I'm reading a book about conversational styles (That's Not What I Meant! by Deborah Tannen) and it really got me into thinking about how I interpret...

15-16 sounds okay to me (and then of course that if you're older than 18, you can't have sex with a minor). They should also put more effort in sex and STD education... There have been a couple of documentaries on the American abstinance movement and to me it just sounded ..hm... slightly...

Playing in cardboard boxes, eating food you don't like, school... Hmm... Sounds a lot like my life now :bluush: I might not take it back... I don't think I had a terrible childhood or that I'd want to fix something, so I'd rather just concentrate on making my future somewhat passable. Which...

I'd vote for marriage... :58:

When I was small, I was told that when your ears are ringing, someone is thinking about you. Nowadays I must be pretty popular since my ears are ringing constantly... Or that's how I like to see it when my tinnitus starts getting on my nerves too much. :relief:

I think that the idea I have of religion is similar to yours. It maybe doesn't have to be a religion per se but a way of thinking in any case. I believe that we all have a need for a philosophy of somekind that we can follow and with which we can explain things to ourselves. Maybe the thing in...

I suppose that it's a bit of an unconscious reaction to refer to nazism as it's probably the most obvious example of 2WW atrocities. Another example that comes to mind is Japan, of course... I don't know whether the nazis were extremist Christians for the sake of Christianity or because they...

I don't think I said anywhere that the religious answer is the right one. I was merely introducing a small thought that popped into my mind during a conversation. I suppose I was just suggesting that it's sometimes good to reflect on your ideals and beliefs and the reasons for them. A story...

For me Christmas is more important... Christmas is when you are supposed to calm down and spend some time with your family. New Year is just a night out to me. The only major difference is that you have fireworks ;P

Funny you should say that... I've always had a very firm belief in alchemy. :hanabi: ;P I probably didn't articulate my point clearly enough for you. I just meant that things can be quite relative - people used to believe earth is flat until it was proved otherwise. I'm not saying that you...

I think religions also have to do with feeling safe. Dont they say that children feel safer when they have an adult around to be in charge of things? This probably doesn't apply to all people, but some atleast. I once had a discussion with my brother, who's an ahteist, and came to the...

It's a lot more difficult to construct your own world view than to follow something that's already constructed. On the toher hand, values form religions are deeply incorporated in cultures and the values they have... The enxt question you might want to think about is whether a religion...

I like Finnish because I can make up funny words I couldn't come up with any other language. My Finnish can sometimes be slightly obscure even to native speakers because I make up words all the time ^^;