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I've heard alot of conspircy theorists in my day, due to having the tolerance to befriend people that believe in such inane stuff.

The best one was a friend that claimed that people have never put ANYTHING outside of the atmosphere at all. He claims escape velocity is impossible to achieve with our technology (and even had the mathematic "proof" which I could never have decoded) and the space shuttle justs blasts off from Florida and lands in Spain. Other launches are just sounding rockets for upper atmosphere research. GPS is actually a system of HAM radio signal triangulation and satellite photos are taken by spy planes or "stealth blimps" and hubble-telescope images are from earth-based scopes.

Footage shot from outer space was computer imagery.

However, this was before the NASA channel and their endless footage of astronaunts floating around the ISS. Guy explained everything in such a scientific manner I almost believed him, but I can't think of any way he could explain some astronaunt giving a tour of the boring crap inside the ISS.

I think he probably just made that "theory" up to fuck with me now that I think about it.

That made me chuckle.  It's also getting entered in the List of Things I Am No Longer Allowed to do in ShadowRun.

You play pen and paper Shadowrun? I used to GM Shadowrun sessions and after that group disbanded its hard to find folks that have even heard of it.

If this was a bar I'd buy you a drink. Well, a cheap drink, anyways.

7/10

Looks cool. Would be 9/10 if it was certain what the hell it was, grim reaper? Minotaur wearing a robe? I can't say for sure.

Well, then that brings up things like destiny vs freewill. Maybe god really is putting chicken sandwiches in your hand, like it or not.

But if you knew somebody else was making your choices for you and limiting your options, you'd be unhappy about it. So then there would be a point where the lack of options would be the largest obstacle to your happiness.

Well, Barba is the latin word for beard. Hence, barber.

So, barbarian is literally "Bearded guy" or something like that.

You could always drop out of school and go join the military or something if you really want to be away from your parent's influence.

Well, if having your Maslow's hierarchy of needs taken care of is your sole concern, you could just go to prison. I'm sure you can be happy in prison, you can read books, make friends, have food, shelter and everything provided for you. You just don't have your freedom.

I take freedom as being more of a physical thing, rather then a societal concept. You can smoke all the reefer and run all the red lights you want so long as you don't get caught doing it. You can't do either of those things if your legs don't work.

I don't get terriby offended by people being jerks on the internet, I'm interested in your take on this.

I take it that so long as you are free, you can take a course of action that can lead you to happiness, or at least take comfort in the fact that you can do what you want.

Not sure freedom requires happiness. Its convicable you can unfree and happy, but I can't see how you can have no happiness so long as you are free.