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I actually remember watching that movie for the very first time when I was like 14. I was at my mom's house kicking it with my brother. I can't say that for many movies, but I thought it was a particularly awesome movie. Norton was great. The twist completely took me off guard.
How so?I heart cockComment
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Yeah, I was in college when I saw it, but I remember being surprised. There have only been a couple movies where I was really surprised by the twist, and it was always when I was younger. I am never surprised any more. I remember watching "The Color of Night" which is kind of film noir / soft porn movie from the 1990's, and I was genuinely suprised in that one too. The Usual Suspects got me too. I saw all of these movies around the same time, so maybe I was just naive then.
As for Primal Fear, it is pretty silly the way the lawyer tries to deal with the supposed mental illness. He tries to draw it out on the stand, Perry Mason style if I remember right (I may be jumbling my movies together here it has been years and years since I have seen that movie). None of that would be allowed in a trial, and even if it all somehow happened, the judge can't just determine insanity like that, with no evidence or mental examination. The plea of insanity was never entered in the trial, so the judge can't find it. Also, the trial would be stopped and reconvened after the State had a chance to rebut with expert testimony... but none of that would happen, it would have been a mistrial and they would have just started over.Last edited by MMA_scientist; 07-05-2012, 02:07 PM.2012: +19.33
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At least in regard to stars, they are always there to be studied. But as a rule scientists tend to reject as worthy of study anything that can't be replicated or studied on their own terms.
They also tend to drop back to convenient explanations for something they don't want to bother with even if those explanations have been debunked. You know I am interested in a lot of speculative topics. I am just tired of hearing, "Oh, near-death experiences are caused by anoxia" or "near-death experiences are caused by medication" when anyone with even a general familiarity with the subject knows damn good and well that that's not true.
Etc. . .
Even many of the scientists who viciously attacked Velikovsky and campaigned against his book later admitted that they hadn't even read the book. And that's the very definition of dogmatism, to express hostility at a foreign belief without actually examining that belief and assessing the evidence.
That would be awesome if you did that.
I think that history itself is a strange discipline. We try to piece together what happened from official documents, journals, diaries, paintings, pottery, etc and understand what happened hundreds or thousands of years ago.
I often wonder how badly we've actually fucked it up.
I've seen and read some stuff about these attempts at recreating the way the pyramids were built, but I've never seen anything that really convinces me 100%. I get moving a giant ass stone block from HERE to THERE but I have to shake my head a little at the idea of a bunch of dudes using ramps and ropes to get one of those huge ass blocks to the top of the pyramid.
Then again, I don't think aliens did it, either. So I guess there had to be a way using fairly conventional means.Last edited by SPX; 07-05-2012, 03:38 PM.I heart cockComment
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I remember reading about it years ago when I was first getting into chess and thought the concept sounded interesting. I really do like the philosophy behind the game, that it's about creative skill rather than rote memorization.
Speaking of Bobby Fischer, I thought this was a very interesting documentary:
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That's interesting. Too bad the UFC still hasn't found any really solid Chinese fighters. I guess Zhang officially just didn't really pan out.
I rememeber seeing some shit about a Chinese MMA organization a little while back. Can't remember what it was called. But it was interesting. I was hoping it would succeed.I heart cockComment
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I've always been really terrible at figuring out the twist in movies. I am almost always surprised. I think that might be a good thing, though. It seems to me like it would be gay to watch movies all the time and predict the ending.
You know, I actually wondered about all of that. It did strike me as kind of unrealistic, even without having any legal education.
Here's the real question, though: If all that actually happened, would a mistrial be declared and then would the most likely result be for him to be found insane in the second trial?I heart cockComment
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They would call a mistrial, he would sit in jail waiting to be tried again... and they would probably not even examine him unless he paid for it. There have been many cases about disassociative personality disorder thou, and it has even worked before. But multiple personalities are not really like that irl, from what i am told. It may not even be real.2012: +19.33
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There have been a bunch of sleepwalking cases too, which i always thought raised some interesting issues2012: +19.33
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Well if it does exist at all, it is beyond rare. Probably so rare that it could just be classified as psychosis. They supposedly hear voices and stuff, so it is not like the movies if it exists at all2012: +19.33
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