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• Today is “World Suicide Prevention Day” posted (2 months, 1 week) ago
  http://www.iasp.info/wspd/index.php (This is a public service announcement, pass it on to those wh…

• Is there something good about this site? posted (9 months, 2 weeks) ago
  If so, what?…

• How to answer questions in a helpful way. posted (9 months, 4 weeks) ago
  http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#id308223 That article is mentioned on many onli…

• Helpful Helpfulness posted (10 months) ago
  I edited all my posts to be more “helpful”. Look: http://help.com/user/149101-michael-…

• Helpful Story posted (10 months) ago
  Once upon a time in the land of Help.com……

• Helpful Feeling posted (10 months, 1 week) ago
  How To Feel Better: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22how+to+feel+better%22 It is only a simple …

• Helpful Difference posted (10 months, 2 weeks) ago
  I feel different and it is very disturbing. Most times I say something it just seems very differe…

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Michael Leibman's Top (5) Replies by other users' votes

• (7 votes) someone tell me the truth;
  

  [quote] someone tell me the truth;
  
  any truth.[/quote]
  
  We live on a planet.
  It is called, in English, “The Earth.”
  I am a human being.
  I’m typing on a keyboard to tell you something true.
  I assume that you are a human being.
  I have three decorations in this room.
  One is a sticker on the outside of the door that says, “Truth”.
  Another is a sticker on the inside that says, “No lies”.
  And there are glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling.
  I went to my parents, crying, “Please, tell me anything true.”
  My dad said, “We live on the earth.”
  I was so relieved.
  Then he started talking about the tv and politics and wars.
  I read a book, “On Truth” by Harry Frankfurt.
  He argues philosophically that truth is important.
  I took his reasoning to my parents to try to convince them to tell me something true.
  It didn’t help that I found his reasoning to be full of crap.
  Nonetheless, we live on a planet.
  I am a human being.
  Oranges are orange.
  I would be true with you even if you weren’t true with me, to a certain extent.
  Fiction is lies that contain some truth and actually truly exists as fiction.
  The adam and eve story portrays civilization as a covering up of the naked truth.
  In the emperor’s new clothes, the little child saw the naked truth, all the adults saw the fiction.
  2+2=4.
  I am alive.
  We are alive.
  Time is passing.
  To stay alive we have to control ourselves to get food and sleep.
  There are 6 billion humans alive on the earth.
  There are 3 trillion stars in the universe.
  There are 3 trillion cells in a human body.
  Some statements are more true than others.
  Some lies are more powerful than truth.
  Believing other people’s lies can be dangerous.
  Gullible *is* a word in the dictionary.
  It is hard to speak the truth about many things.
  It can be easy to speak the truth.
  It can be easy to know the overall truth.
  I wrote all these sentences to reply to your plea, “Tell me something true.”
  I also wrote them so that I could consider my relationship with truth and hopefully come to a better understanding of truth and what in life is most true or most importantly true, or how important truth is in life.
  I also wrote the word “truth” many times because I know these thoughts I present are very partial and small, perhaps by saying the word “truth” over and over, I’ve triggered enough associations in your mind that you have a better feeling for what is true by now.
  
  - written 1 year, 8 months ago – voted for by JesusMurphy, ThinkMindThink, alltorndown2, kim., chunkymove, spiritedsoul, Zeus' Beard!

• (4 votes) Two Cans and String
  

  If the cans were hearts then the string would be love.
  
  - written 7 months, 1 week ago – voted for by okei!, Risen Demon, Hellacious Haro, pink sparkle

• (4 votes) -
  

  Dear Red_Sky,
  I love you and want you to be happy.
  Sincerely,
  Someone who doesn’t know what else to say.
  
  - written 7 months, 1 week ago – voted for by Sans, Red_Sky, Nante, chunkymove

• (4 votes) My story is I like pie and flowers and cheese
  

  Once upon a time in the land of help dot com there was an anonymous poster who liked pie and flowers and cheese. This brave little anonymous poster looked like most of the other anoymous posters, with one crucial distinction: He/she had four purple squares and four green triangles! This amazed the peasants all across the land, and they came from far and wide to offer gifts of pie, flowers, and cheese.
  
  (…to be continued…)
  
  - written 1 year, 9 months ago – voted for by Queen of Lost Vampyr, PersonalPandaParty, kagamichihime, Zeus' Beard!

• (2 votes) One Thing I Like About Tom Petty — No, Wait: Two, Three, Four…
  

  Maybe he should have been a cop instead of a heartbreaker. He seems to understand what to look for.
  
  - written 1 year, 1 month ago – voted for by BaconByAnyOtherName, most-wanted-websites

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• can anybody recommend a lightweight Linux distro that will run on old hardware?
  

  arch. It’d take longer to setup than xubuntu, but then much faster and more versatile. (I haven’t tried ‘puppy’, but along those lines, I think maybe Slax, a minimal user-friendly live-slackware compilation, might be be able to be installed to a hard drive.)
  - written 2 weeks, 5 days ago

• Does anyone know anything about Ephedrine?
  

  [quote courtybubble]Ephedrine is an extremely addictive medication, and should most definitely not be used to lose weight. plenty of people have died from accidental overdoses, heart problems caused by the pill, and kidney and liver failure.[/quote]
  
  I agree with all that. I used to work at a place that sold ephedrine, and people often asked me if it was legal for me to sell it. I carefully explained as best I could that it was a controlled substance, and one of the big ways in which it was controlled was that it could no longer be marketed (in the U.S.) as a weight-loss aid, as that had been so implicated in ephedrine-related deaths and problems. Ephedra is an interesting plant with a long history in relation to humankind but the profound effect on the heart and metabolism causes almost immediate dependency as the body suddenly expects more open access to instant oxygen (it’s a bronchodilator). So then if there are negative side-effects, the choice to continue using it might seem more intuitively worthwhile than choosing to basically shut down the new normal metabolic energy and starve the brain and body of oxygen. But the side-effects can be very extreme.
  
  sorry to babble. I’m just trying to explain some of why I agree with ms. courtybubble’s accuracy about this.
  - written 1 month ago

• In the tv show Star trek when they are traveling at warpe 9 how fast is that?
  

  http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Warp
  - written 1 month ago

• So i am just curious to know if anyone on here actually
  

  loneliness makes me bitter
  - written 1 month ago

• So i am just curious to know if anyone on here actually
  

  It’s somewhat amazing that this site somehow survived while CNET itself is being destroyed. (See for example http://www.cnet.com/ ) — maybe helpbot has magic apocalypse-prevention powers.
  - written 1 month ago

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