Distinct Lunatic

Any celebrity, actors, musicians, etc. anyone of status, fame and so on.

Marry, fuck, kill celebrity edition

I'll hitchhike my way across the galaxy, discovering the meaning of life to be 42.

Talking about real life name, not name here. Obvious story time, but I want to hear what others have to say on getting a name changed. Also if I were to, how do I go about doing so? Would I need a lawyer or would it be as simple as going to a courthouse and filling papers? Simply put I've always hated my name, my first name eventually came around though, back in the 90's and early 00's it was a name stereotypical for nerds, though since then it's moreso accepted. My last name though I really want changed, it being my step-dad's, and I have very mixed feelings towards. I'm 27 now, and I'll say that as a kid I was somewhat fearful of him, and then for well over a decade (into my early 20's) I've hated him, it not being until recent years that he's finally become a pretty decent person, but I still don't think fondly of him. Another issue I have with my step-dad is how my first and last name is named after his loser brother, my middle name I take pride in since it's my mom's dads middle name, I consider him the greatest man that I'll ever know, him dying back in 2010. I've always hated my last name, it being a very German sounding name, starting with a B. As a kid everyone would mispronounce it, and with how kids are a weird sounding name usually results in them making fun of it, something I wouldn't want kids of mine dealing with if I ever have any. I also feel like there's no need for me to carry the name anymore, cause my mom and step-dad had a kid of their own back when I was 19, the kid can continue that name now. When it comes to my real dad, I have no relationship at all with him, he had 5 years where I had to visit him for weekends and Summer, and during all that time he made no attempt at making me like him. I don't hate him or dislike him, I have no relationship with him and likely never will, and I'm alright with that. It's his dad, my remaining grandfather that I care strongly for and moreso why I want to take on what would have been my birth name. As it is right now, since my dad's sister is married, and my sis got married sometime ago, my dad and his dad are the only ones left with the name. Their last name starting with a C, and it being a Welsh/English name which is much more fitting considering I'm around 74% English/Welsh with the remaining percent being Irish and less than 10% German. While I don't care for my real dad at all, their name sounds a lot better than mine, and one that I can get behind. The problem comes more so from the fact that I'm worried about a reaction from my step-dad, he's definitely been a whole lot more of a dad than my real one (even though I hate a lot of things about him and went through so much because of him, I also blame him for a large contribution of stress that played a part in my mom's dad dying back in 2010). He has done a whole lot for me, and will continue to do so. I bought a house of my own a couple months ago, and he's willing and able to help me with anything without asking for payment. I also worry about his feelings, since I'd imagine he'd probably feel betrayed to some degree. I think the thing that could help is since he knows my gramps, my step-dad has been going to AA for several years now, and my gramps despite being sober for around 40 years still goes to them on Mondays. While my step-dad doesn't like or think highly of my real dad, he has a much better opinion of my gramps, so with him being my reasoning I think it will be alright. Or who knows, maybe I could be one of those guys where if I ever do get married will take the wife's name instead.

Say nothing, but slip away before the scientist can continue his rant.

Your grandmother invites you to tea, but you're surprised when she gives you a pistol and orders you to kill another Vault resident. What do you do?

You discover a young boy lost in the lower levels of the Vault. He's hungry and frightened, but also appears to be in possession of stolen property. What do you do?

While working as an intern in the Clinic, a patient with a strange infection on his foot stumbles through the door. The infection is spreading at an alarming rate, but the doctor has stepped out for a while. What do you do?

You are approached by a frenzied Vault scientist, who yells, "I'm going to put my quantum harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber!" What's your response?

That's another type of atheist I also see, there's those that are that way because they're angry about something happening to them or someone they know, there's types that are more serious minded and view it as fairy tale nonsense, and then there's the type that's that way because of overbearing figures. That last one I've seen with many folks, hell I was pushed to that one back in high school as a result of a friend of mines mom as well as this one friend of mine in school. My friends mom has her Christian faith define absolutely everything about who she is as a person, and very much so pushes that onto everyone around her. As for the one friend of mine at school, he was a friend of mine since 6th grade, but come high school the dude became so absorbed in God and the bible, pushing that onto us at any and all opportunity. The dude was a straight up redneck, him now living as a preacher down in Arkansas or some other redneck state. He'd also legit try claiming the US to be the only place in the world with freedom. Between him and the one others mom that pushed me toward Atheism, then I graduated high school and snapped out of the edgy shit. Being around those kinds of folks I feel pushes people moreso toward irreligion than to religion, being away from those types I think has a better effect on peoples growth.

who knows, maybe. The bible says Adam and Eve were the first humans, which means everyone that exists by definition would be inbred.

Gotta love the unavoidable of being on the internet, I don't entertain atheist thoughts and opinions at all, it sure as shit isn't good for my mental health, and even less for a friend of mine.

I feel like people hinge on certain factors, using them to justify lack of belief (though same goes for the other side). But when you get to the point where you got yourself a Richard Dawkins kind of person that wants it to be universally agreed upon that you mean nothing and there's no point in anything, then you're a problem. Hell, even Adolf Hitler while he himself was a skeptic hated the idea and promotion of atheism (something communism and the Soviet Union were spreading). I work with a couple guys that at any mention of God have knee jerk reactions and want to remind everyone in the room they don't believe in that. I had a talk with one of them once, him telling me he used to believe in God but then had an uncle that was very devoted that died in a completely random accident out in California or somewhere, them leaving behind a pregnant wife, that being what made him stop believing, and get militant whenever others talk of that stuff. In the way I see the world, I think it's because the nature of free will and chaos theory in general that people linger on things that happen, choices and actions made by other people that end up having an effect on other people, or random actions that goes beyond anyones control happening and a negative outcome resulting, against someone that didn't deserve the negative action, but because it happened people will use that to justify disbelief, the same can be said though when random acts result in positive effects and outcomes. I see things in a spiritual way but at the same time using realism, I think there's an underlying reason for existence that goes beyond me and you, referring to why do stars exist? why does hydrogen and helium exist? why do atoms exist? Since if there is no point to anything then why would it exist then? I see things in way of if there isn't an underlying reason why it exists then it shouldn't exist, or that it won't exist. But at the same time I think people that spew creationist vomit such as Earth being 6000 years old because the bible says so (something I say a lot here whenever I'm shitposting) or that humans came into existence in thin air because "God made us in his image" are living in a fantasy world that isn't our world. My interpretation of that though is we weren't "created" but instead every event that lead to where we are now, and all the branches of evolution life took was influenced by something that goes above me and you. I read something before that suggested any intelligent alien life we may discover might resemble ourselves in appearance, considering the human figure (bipedal, two arms, two legs, opposable thumbs and so on) is the best form biologically speaking. People that say a god made us in his image I think think too high of themselves, but this figure in general is something that's a path evolution will always take when it comes to intelligent life. Another thing to note, I'm not a bible thumper, I never read it and I don't ever plan on it. While I think some events that are mentioned in it could have happened, I think the vast majority is either exaggerated for the sake of story telling, misinterpreted, or shaping things to suit an agenda.

Going off that, I'd say the "filter" is behind us, and getting to this point is the challenge. There really is so much that goes into a species getting to the point we're at now. For starters, our location in our galaxy, supposedly if our system was located in the spiral arms (the ones that are colored) it'd be bad since we'd receive a lot more cosmic particles and radiation from the galactic core. Next is our sun is considered rare even among others of its type and mass, they say even when compared to others exactly like it a major thing to note is ours in its life time has been so much more mild and calm. They say red dwarfs would be better suited for life since they'll last 3 to even 10 times or longer than the lifespan of a yellow star like ours, but there's a lot of hurdles there, such as the majority of red dwarfs are very active. Also planets would have to orbit them much closer than the Earth to the sun to receive sufficient heating, but a problem from that is all known planets that orbit dwarf stars (or the majority at least) are tidally locked, being arid on one side, frozen on the other. There's also the mass of the planet that plays a huge factor, taking a look at Mars, which has only around 10% of Earths mass, it being around 8 times the mass of the moon I believe, and because it was smaller it cooled down quicker than the Earth and started developing life, even after at least 3 planet wide catastrophes (including the one that made the big dent on the planet) life still managed to come back, but it never had the chance to move beyond bacterial because the core cooled down because it was much quicker, making the planet geologically dead, Mars going on to have a significantly weaker atmosphere that's incapable of retaining heat, as well as unable to protect against solar activity. I read somewhere that the Earth has around 80 times the mass of the moon, Mars having 8 I think, and the minimum mass needed for a planet to support life in the long term being close to 20 times that of the moon, so a planet would need at least 20-25% of the Earths mass to even have a real chance. Then when it comes to the Earth, there's been so many fireball and ice phases that happened, supposedly the atmosphere was originally entirely carbon dioxide (they say this was what allowed life to survive cause the early sun for the first 1-2 billion years wouldn't have been able to give us as much heat as required), then life evolved in the form of plants and algae that consumed the carbon dioxide and produced Oxygen which is a very, very flammable gas, turning the Earth into a fireball world, us being fortunate that in the end Oxygen (and nitrogen) became the dominant gas. We also have a moon which greatly helps us out, stabilizing our wobble, and insuring consistent seasons year round, our rotation of less than 50 hours (don't remember the exact cut off) being a big factor. Then there's all the extinction level events, the big one with the dinosaurs being what finally paved way for mammals and in turn us. Another big factor going back to our solar system, looking at our gas giant Jupiter, considering the majority of gas giants of that size go on to orbit close to their parent stars, something that would have happened in our system if it weren't for Saturn there to pull it back. Jupiters existence also goes on to do wonders for us, attracting asteroids and so on, so they're less likely go further in to the inner planets. There's all these factors that's like winning the lottery hundreds to thousands of times in a row that I think is another big reason why you don't see other species like us. And another reason why I truly think that people that deny the existence of a creator to be fucking retarded. That doesn't mean they're actively in control of our lives, just that something set up the order of events that lead to this happening.

As long as we can agree that Tali is best girl.

Guess it just depends on their ability to make it that long. It's hard to imagine what life here will really be like in 1000 years, let alone an intelligent species existing for over a million years (that said it's believed that if an intelligent species were to have existed for a million years they'd be the type of civilization that would span across countless star systems). One possibility is of the intelligent life that does arrive if only few are able to colonize another planet. Years back I saw something that was talking about extinction level events, they have confirmed that somewhere between the years 2600 and 2800 there will be a major collision on the level of the dinosaurs one (that said though if we still exist by that point then redirecting an asteroid I'd imagine would be trivial), but that's the thing though, it could be possible we never manage to colonize Mars, or even Venus, and a extinction level event happened. It just takes something like that to be the reason why we haven't discovered other species. Who knows, maybe we have and the government doesn't want us to know.

That said though, it's not impossible to say an alien race couldn't arrive tomorrow even. Anything with mass can't travel faster than the speed of light, however it is scientifically possible to bend space in which it'd be like riding a wave, space being able to travel faster than the speed of light (they say potentially even 40-100 times the speed of light). This is something scientists and those in the astronomical community do state to be possible, just not with our level of technology.

My thoughts honestly is considering how the universe in 13.5 billion years old, and realistically life (depending on conditions of planet) only needs a few hundred million years after formation to begin, I think alien life is a pretty common thing, intelligent life however is a different story. Considering that homo sapiens have existed for around 200,000 years, but it wasn't until the last two centuries that we got to the point where we could start sending out radio waves, and roughly 60 years ago that we were finally able to start reaching for the stars, if you look at that 200 year span in comparison to the 13.5 billion years of the universe chances are we either missed our window of opportunity or we're in a period where there just aren't any other intelligent species anywhere around us. That could be a possibility, there being gaps of millions of years or longer between intelligent life, and any overlapping species are separated by too much distance to ever find out about the other, considering the light from stars can take hundreds to millions of years, billions even to reach us, even if there was in fact another species at the same exact level as us scientifically speaking, us existing at the same exact time, but lets say they live on the complete opposite side of the Milky Way, the MW is roughly 52.8 thousand light years across, so even if another species at the same level as us exists even if only 1000 light years away, you're still looking at them 1000 years in the past, and considering for us it wasn't until roughly the last 200 years we could send and receive radio signals (much less in the ways of sending and receiving them from space) the window of time doesn't line up.

My favorite kind of cookie is the one that doesn't say it was just a one time thing and avoids your phone calls.

I once read a post on 4chan where a guy was talking about how one night his wife/gf was passed out drunk and he had a bag of marbles, him proceeding to stick all of them up her ass while she was asleep, and then the next morning she was runnin to the bathroom thinking she had to go, just for a hail of marbles to spew out instead.

If someone had the sphincter strength to shatter marbles I'd be very impressed

We need someone to volunteer, for science of course.