The Reasoner

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1. Love at First Sight.

   The entire idea of love at first sight revolves around the concept of sexual attraction. Many people get into the marriage relationship solely because they are sexually attracted to someone they meet during the first few times. That is one of the reasons people cheat on each other, because of finding someone else after the marriage to whom they are sexually attracted to. Love at first sight is simply the same as sex at first light.

2. To Plan a Wedding.

   With the idea of individuality comes the concept of recognition. It is easy to be recognized as part of a group if you are religion, political, or part of any kind of affiliation. Such affiliations exist solely to promote their idea and to tell all other ideas that they suck. Well, for many people, marriage allows them to stand out from others because of the wedding. Wedding day is a status quo for many people, allowing people to focus on food, the wedding dress, the people and the setting. So many people spend their entire effort on a wedding day that their marriage gets no effort or thought whatsoever. No wonder so many people appear to be stuck with each other unwillingly after the wedding day.

3. To Follow Their Family, Cultural and Religious Order to Get Married.

   The most brainwashing and popular reason, getting married because your family, culture or religion tells you to show that your life purpose is to serve and obey those 3 brainwashing elements of family, culture and religion. Many people get married solely because religion tells them to. In the end, the 3 elements of brainwashing or control are just telling everyone to get married so that the woman can get impregnated in order to create more followers and supporters for that family, culture or religion.

4. To Keep the Boy/Girlfriend forever.

   This is a very popular reason to get married in order to make sure the significant other does not find someone else. Putting a ring on someone or being in a wedding ceremony kind of makes people feel they own the other person. Such marriages exist because the husband or the wife would otherwise not be able to stay together with the other person.

5. To Take the Relationship a Step Up.

   This is the trickiest reason to decipher, yet it is also a very common reason among many people. Many people get married because it seems like the logical thing to do. They may have already done a lot of other things in the relationship in order to be with one another. The only thing left to do would seem to be getting married. While the logic behind such a move is understandable, the reasoning is weak because it creates a marriage based on creating further interest in the other person, instead of being in a marriage based on existing interest in the other person. This may be the least stupid reason of the other 5 stupid reasons listed here.

Did You Get Married for Stupid Reasons?

So many people spend so much time on the idea of a marriage that they forget why they are getting married. And with so many weddings around us, we ourselves slowly start to forget some of the typical reasons that may influence our own marriage plans.

What do you think of the above points? Do any of these points apply to you or your marriage? Do you know any people who got married for stupid reasons?

Please share your thoughts, stories or questions by commenting below. Thank you for reading. I really appreciate it! :)

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1. You need someone or something physical around you.

   The most common reason for many people to get a pet is to have someone or something around them. This is not actually a focus on avoiding emptiness. It is a focus on having an actual preference of a creature, like a dog or a cat, to roam or live in the same house as yourself. The physical presence of a cat, a dog, a bird, a hamster or a snake makes things around you feel different, which you prefer.

2. You need something to fill the void in your life.

   Many people get a pet because they feel something is missing in their life. Whether or not getting an animal fills that void or distracts people from realizing that the void is still there is something that can be determined mainly by the pet owner or sometimes by the people around them.

3. You need something to control.

   Many avoid admitting the fact that they get a pet to control that pet. Whether it is to harm or to raise and train someone to be a certain way, many people get pets in order to enforce a control. That control can be good or bad, depending on what the pet owner has in mind.

4. You need something or someone to need and depend on you.

   One of the most severe cases of loneliness, getting a pet to have that pet depend on you is a very popular reason why people get pets. Of course, in today’s society, such a reason is usually not admitted, and instead many people say that they got their pets because they love pets. While it may seem like an innocent reason, it is important to know such a reason in order to realize why and how many pet owners simply stop caring about their pets later on in life, the same way many people stop caring about some other people after a while.

5. You need a purpose in life.

   Probably considered the most depressing reason to get a pet, this may be one of the best reasons to get a pet in my view. The same way you get married, get friends and find different things in life, many people get a pet in order to assign themselves to a certain task or idea in life, like taking care of or being friends with the pet.

Do you know why you have a pet?

Now that you have a good idea of what having a pet may be all about, why do you think you have or want a pet? What kind of a pet do you want or have?

Please share your thoughts, pet names or stories, reasons or any questions by commenting below.

Thank you for reading. I really appreciate it! I now have to stop and go check the sounds in the other room to make sure my cat friend Whisper has not broken anything on the nightstand, where he for mysterious reasons loves jumping and moving around every night these days.

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1. It makes you realize what you are afraid of so that you can think of workarounds.
2. It tells you what motivates and demotivates you.
3. It tells you the situations where you may be weak, so that you can work on such situations.
4. It identifies for you the elements that make you uncomfortable. You can then either avoid such elements or take advantage of them.
5. Probably the most important point, fear gives you the motivation to actually try harder and smarter for something in order to get rid of the feeling of fear while attempting something.

Do you think you are a better person because of fear?

We spend several hours almost every month trying to do things that help us avoid things that scare you. Yet, what we usually fail to do is to actually learn from such situations or to obtain something useful from them. While something that really scares you may not always have a good side to it, you can try to improve yourself by focusing on the reasons something defines fear for you.

Do you think fear makes you a better person? When was the last time you felt afraid? And the scary question today for you: what defines fear for you?

Please don’t be afraid sharing your thoughts, comments or questions through the comments below. Thank you for reading. I really appreciate! :)

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What is it about a blood family that makes you like them? Your blood family could be comprised of good or bad people, or both. They may raise and give you shelter till you are older. They help you in things and they also make sure you are safe from harmful things. Society does not tell you why you should value your blood family, but society does tell you to respect them and be loyal to them forever. You are not allowed to choose your blood family, and you are not allowed to choose whether or not to change such families with a replacement. You were brought to this world to carry on the name of your blood family and to carry on the traditions passed down to your blood family by their past blood families. In the end, a blood family exists so that you can live your life to promote the idea of a family.

Society also trains you through your blood family. Your blood family makes sure to tell you, or brainwash you, since birth to respect and be part of your blood family. Your blood family is a catalyst for you to accept a certain culture. Your blood family rarely gives you choices. Instead, it tells you what is right and tells you what is wrong. Being conditioned to this every hour of the day for 5, 10 and 15 years surely has a life-long or maybe a very long lasting effect on you. Your views of culture, people, world, internet, cars, life, love, cell phones, hatred, animals, and everything else is probably affected by the teaching your blood family bestowed upon you during your childhood. And that is of course, as our society says, nothing to worry about! Blood families are meant to teach you what to like and what not to like.

Would you have preferred to have a choice of choosing a family?

Do you live or keep in touch with your blood family? Do you like or dislike your blood family? What is one thing about them that you could change? Do you know anyone else that you may consider a real family as an alternate to your blood family?

Please share your thoughts, comments or questions in the comments below. Thank you for reading. :) I now have to go and talk to some friends. You know, the people I chose to associate with in life with my own free?

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The human mind is a very interesting thing. Not only does a human mind remember birthdays and the days when a country was legally formed on a piece of paper, the human mind also conveniently forgets all other days when that country did some very, very bad things. For example, in America, it is very easy to say “We are celebrating being free!“, while conveniently forgetting that the legal government in America fought hard against giving rights to the black people as recent as the late 1960′s, only to bulge in because of the immense opposition in the form of the millions of minorities protesting the racism and non-free views held by many in the majority.

The KKK is more legal than you may think.

6 Random Things Independence Day Should Be About

• Realizing mistakes have been made.
• Realizing Independence Day is about people, and not a piece of land.
• Helping innocent life, regardless of where it is.
• Celebrating different ideas and harmony or peace that one observes in the area they are in.
• Doing things to help around different things in the world. That would make almost any American Red Cross Volunteer, who helps the homeless in America or elsewhere for free, more patriotic than a soldier who gets a monthly salary for fighting a war.
• Realizing that one is not a superior race or country of people compared to others.

Why Do You Celebrate Independence Day?

So why do you celebrate Independence Day? If you celebrate such a day, where do you celebrate it and in which country or area? What things do you like about 4th of July or some other Independence Day? What should an Independence Day be about?What things do you not like about the idea of an Independence Day in today’s world? What things above, that I have mentioned, do you think need more thinking or may be incorrect in some manner?

Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. I now have to go and drink some water before I dehydrate further, because of coming straight from a 9 hour July 4th celebration day in Berkeley and immediately writing this article.

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3D Glasses are special glasses designed to produce 3-dimensional depth effects in many 3D movies which feature 3D effects. They weigh almost the same or less than regular sunglasses, and are usually disposable. The 3D glasses at movies are usually handed out for “free” to anyone who buys a ticket to a 3D movie, though many movie theatres charge more for 3D movies in order to cover up the costs of the 3D movie and the 3D glasses. 3D glasses do make some movies appear better than their non-3D counterparts.

3D glasses are easy to use. You are usually either given 3D glasses by movie theatre attendants when you present your movie ticket, or you have the option of picking up 3D glasses before you enter the movie hall in which your 3D movie is playing. You wear your 3D glasses during the entire movie, the same way you wear any regular glasses or sunglasses. After the movie is done, the movie theatres usually request that you return or recycle the 3D glasses by handing back your 3D glasses to the movie theatre people or by putting them inside special boxes placed outside your movie halls. Returning your 3D glasses to the movie theatres is usually promoted so that the cost of such 3D glasses for the movie theatres goes down in the long run.

3D Glasses Have Been Around Since 1950s.

3D glasses for movies have been around since 1950s

Why 3D Glasses Are a Step Backward!

There are 5 very simple yet powerful reasons why 3D glasses for movies are a step backward for you:

1. You have to wear them to enjoy a 3D movie, making them the equivalent of extra luggage.
2. They make it hard for people with prescription glasses to properly enjoy the movie.
3. They are one of the reasons 3D movie ticket prices are higher than regular movie ticket prices.
4. They are annoying for many moviegoers, who do not wear prescription glasses.
5. They cause many people to have headaches or nausea.

A real step forward should be 3D movies which do not require 3D glasses. There are many devices in production right now which feature 3D screens that eliminate the need for 3D glasses. Two such devices are the Fuji FinePix W1 3D 10MP Digital Camera, which is available now, and the Nintendo 3DS, which will be released in 2011. 3D screens for movie theatres that will not require moviegoers to wear 3D glasses have yet to be announced for production anytime in the near future. Eventually, as with many other forms of new technologies, people will start considering 3D glasses to be a nuisance.

3D Glasses Need to Evolve or Move Out!

Are you like these people?

Do you like 3D movies which require 3D glasses?

What do you think of 3D glasses? Have you ever seen a movie in 3D? What do you think of 3D glasses? Do they make you feel sick in any manner? Do watching 3D movies with 3D glasses make you realize throughout the entire movie that you have some extra pair of abnormal glasses on? Or do you think that 3D glasses of today do not interfere with your movie watching experience?

Thank you for reading. I really appreciate it! :) This article was written mainly because I watched The Last Airbender in 3D today. I gladly kept wearing the 3D glasses after the movie, while ignoring the “Recycle Your 3D Glasses – Help The Environment!” labeled bins that I saw outside the movie hall.

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1. You expect to use the gift yourself that you gave someone.

   This may sound strange, though this happens regularly with many people. You could be the person who gives gifts to someone, family or friend, and expect to be able to use that gift anytime later. For example, if you give someone a laptop, you expect them to let you use the laptop even for a few minutes anytime you visit that person, if you need to use the laptop. This kind of gifting is actually like sharing something, with you keeping some usage rights.

2. You are a de-gifter.

   This concept became famous because of “The Label Maker episode from Seinfeld Season 6“. For whatever reason, you are a person who may have the tendency to take back a gift back after giving it. You may have an argument with the person you gifted, or you may simply have a change of heart after you yourself got a bad or no gift from the person you gifted.

   Either way, you are a bad gifter because you have the tendency of taking back gifts after giving them. I personally think this is one of the funniest forms of gifting in the world. If you take a few moments to think about it, you may be able to think of at least one gift you gave to someone that you would take back, if you could, for some reason that is justifiable to you.

3. You gift in order to announce to the world what you are giving.

   This is a sign of someone who may be infamous in the world of gifting. You gift others so that everyone else, besides the person you are gifting, knows what you are gifting. Whether it is a car or an expensive pen, you make sure that the concealing nature of the wrappers on your gifts get overcome by the overexposing nature in your character to somehow leak or directly tell others what you are capable of giving away. This may be a trait found in people who usually try to show others that they are rich, regardless of the reality.

4. You gift in order to tell others that you gift.

   This one is a bit simpler than the idea of telling others what gift you are giving. You may not tell others that you are giving something expensive or that you are giving others something very cheap, but you try your best to make sure everyone at the party knows you are giving a gift. This is usually a trait found in people who try to be in conformity with the traditions of gifting, so that they can either be accepted or so that they themselves can be gifted by others.

5. Your gift to someone depends on what others gift that someone.

   This requires a lot of work, though you are getting good at it. You analyze what others gift, and then you follow suit. You tend to give gifts which at least of the same standard as other people. You find out what others are gifting by either asking them or by seeing what people buy at stores. You also base this decision based on what you have been getting as gifts in the past from the people whose gifts you are comparing your gifts to.

6. You gift in order to get gifts.

   You buy gifts for the sole reason of being on the receiving end. If you do not buy that birthday present for someone this week, you will surely not get a gift back next year for your birthday. Thus, you buy gifts for people so that those people can buy you gifts too. Sometimes you even force yourself into buying something expensive so that your chances of getting an expensive gift on some future special occasion related to you can be high.

7. You are a re-gifter.

   Another popular idea that became famous because of The Label Maker episode from Seinfeld Season 6, re-gifting is actually a very simple concept of taking a gift that you already have and giving it to someone else. This may be the trickiest concept of all the bad gifter ideas. If you got someone as a gift, you may consider it your property and thus also think that you can do anything with that gift, including re-gift it. If someone was getting such a gift, they may feel offended or disrespect, because in their mind you did not consider them important enough to spend money on.

8. You give gifts that are more suitable for you, and not the person being gifted.

   Many people think the entire concept of giving a gift is to give a gift. No, the “It’s the thought that counts!” is a stupid mentality to follow if one does not even try to think about things. Buying someone a TV just because you love TV means you are simply not paying attention to the person you are gifting. You give gifts to people so that those gifts can help those people in some manner. Giving someone a gift that you yourself would prefer does not help and can instead make people realize that you are not good at gifting.

9. Your gift depends on what you got as a gift.

   This may be the most widely noticeable trend among many people. You give someone a gift that is almost on the same level as the gift you got. If someone buys you an iPod Touch for your birthday, you buy them an Apple iPad for their birthday. If someone buys you a pen for your anniversary, you buy them an organizer for their new house party. This very sign, or trend, results in you engaging in the concept of gift giving just so you can get gifts, as mentioned in point #6 above.

10. Your gifts require extra work.

    This happens on a few occasions compared to all the other bad gifting trends above, though this is a regular habit of many people. Many people give gift vouchers to specific products that result in the person getting the gift to work more and do extra things before actually getting the final prize. Giving someone a gift card for $200 to any AT&T store so that they can buy a specific smart phone, for example, may require that person to actually send in a mail in rebate in order to bring their total purchase price within or around $200. Buying a phone yourself and getting the scammy mail in rebate process completed yourself, so that the person you are gifting does not have to go through it, becomes the preferred real gift in such an example.

Are You a Bad Gifter? Have You Gotten a Gift By a Bad Gifter?

So what do you think of the above signs? Have you ever given someone a gift that borderlines on any of the above trends? Has anyone ever complained about a gift you have given them? Have you ever gotten a bad gift? Have you ever complained or disliked a gift you got?

Please share your comments below. Thank you for reading! I really appreciate it. Remember to forward and share this article with someone you want to get a nice, well thought-out gift from!

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1. If you convert from Islam to any other religion, you must be killed.

   While Islam talks a lot about tolerance, there is absolutely no tolerance for people who may decide that Islam is not for them. Of course, you cannot simply claim yourself a non-Muslim. You will be arrested or simply killed by some crazy neighbors if you live in an Islamic country. This is not a central war. It is a local law requirement in any Islamic state where anyone who was once a Muslim and now has converted to anything else like Hinduism, Christianity or Judaism, must be killed. You can imagine how many Friday beheadings, that happen every Friday in Saudi Arabia, involve people who converted to some other religion.

2. Jihad, killing others in order to promote Islam, is central part of the religion.

   Islam is one of those religions that puts the value of an idea over the value of innocent lives. No wonder majority of the Muslims in the world were happy when 9/11 happened. The big reasoning back then was that Zionists were wiping out the Palestinians, and that USA supports Israel. What better way to strike back? This is another reason why Islam sucks. By the way, Islam also says that the parents of anyone who die in Jihad will go to heaven. That is why so many parents send their kids off to fight in wars. Or Jihads.

3. Islam claims to be the last of all Holy Religions, while fighting those very religions.

   Islam does acknowledge that Judaism and Christianity are ancestor religions to Islam. Islam also says that it is the last, true religion. That logic makes it suck a lot. How can a religion claim to be eternal and true, when all of its ancestors have resulted in bloodshed and chaos? Islam came to be the successor to Judaism and Christianity, by actually waging wars against Judaism and Christianity? What kind of a message is that? Why would “God” create a religion like Judaism and Christianity when he in the end needed to also create a religion like Islam to end all other religions? It does not make any sense. In the end, Islam is just another religion that claims every other religion sucks. Well, Islam sucks too for that very reason.

4. Women are not equal in Islam.

   Any person who supports Islam may cite that women have a lot of rights in Islam. Sure, compared to the previous Hindu religion that it fought, Islam does have more female rights. However, compared to today’s society and the concept of equality, Islam does not even come close to having equal rights. Women cannot lead prayers unless in an emergency, which shows that even inside the religion itself woman are not equals. Islam is also one of those religions which promotes the idea of having multiple wives, while disallowing the idea of multiple husbands. The reason? Directly from the Quran, the Holy book of Islam: “Because it will become harder to find out who the father of a child is.” Great religion for guys, I guess. Either live in Utah or become a Muslim.

   The biggest example of female suppression can be seen in Saudi Arabia, where any man who accuses another man or woman of theft or anything needs one witness, male or female, to support his claim, while any female accusing a male of anything serious, like rape or theft, needs at least 2 male witnesses to support her. Saudi Arabia, the capital of Islam, also has an innocent Saudi Muslim woman, Fawza Falih, lined up for execution because she has been accused of witchcraft. Why? A man accused her of causing him impotence through witchcraft. I wonder how many guys in America will start calling their exes a witch after reading this article?

5. Islam says that no non-Muslim can ever be your friend.

   How can any religion claim to co-exist with other religions, the way so many Islamic scholars have started claiming to after the 9/11 attacks, when every day your religion tells you that non-Muslims are going to go to hell? Is such a lie there so that you can co-exist until you are a superior religion? Or do you fake being friends just to get things? Islam says clearly in the Quran “No Christian or Hindu can ever be your friend.” How can such a religion talk about peace when it tries to brainwash you since childhood that non-Muslims are out to get you and can never be trusted?

Bonus Point: Hitler and Arabic Muslims

By the way, it is not a proven fact from letters and correspondence that more than one Arab state offered Hitler life-time refuge and a safe passage with full escort during the last month when he committed suicide. Hitler was not the only person who supported the idea of killing the Jews, as you may have guessed. Of course, Hitler was also not the only Christian to rejoice over the Jews being killed. We will cover that topic another day, very soon.

Do you think Islam sucks?

In the end, an idea is as good or as bad as the people conforming to that idea. Similarly, people are as good or as bad as the idea that they support.

Do you think any of the other points apply to Islam? If you are a Muslim, do any of the above points not make sense or do you think they may not apply to Islam?

Thank you for reading. I really appreciate it! :)

Tomorrow we shall go over the religion that gets hated by Islam the most. In fact, due to the almost 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, this religion is probably the most hated religion in the world, at least in Islamic circles. If you can guess what that religion is, you are in for a treat tomorrow.

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While many people believe that it is the people that make an idea look bad, I think that it is both people and ideas that do bad things. Many people can abuse good ideas, and many bad ideas can influence good people in a bad way. Many times, many bad ideas end up being the focus of many bad people, which can result in chaos of different sizes? However, how can we figure out what is good or what is bad?

The concept of what good or bad is can be very relative, though one way to be sure about the absolute bad nature of something can be the reasons behind the existence of such things. Almost all religions, in one way or another, try to show how other religions are bad without doing anything different than the other religions they try to condemn. This The Reasoner Series will focus on at least 5 different things I have noticed either in the religion or the religious people that make those religions suck. Remember, religious people need a religious idea to be religious, and religious ideas need at least one follower to practically exist or survive. Thus, both religious people and religions attract one another to either create happy life for themselves or a very sucky life for people who do not follow those religions.

Are you ready? Do you think any religion sucks?

Our first religion for this series will start with the religion that gets criticized the most in today’s Western world. If you can guess it, you will be happy to know that the most criticized religion in the West in today’s world will be covered next.

Thank you for reading. I really appreciate it! Please avoid praying for a curse on my life or health, if possible. :)

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1. You think they look like criminals.

   Many movies and societal stereotypes have taught us that criminals are scary and ugly looking creatures. You may be associating the same images with the homeless. Homeless people may appear thuggish to you and you may actually feel like a weaker person to get into an argument or cross parts with a homeless person.

2. You think they look filthy.

   You avoid dirt and garbage around your house. Homeless people you run into are usually very dirty, and thus you automatically feel like avoiding them. The same way you enjoy the aroma of the drinks in your kitchen but throw up when you smell anything in the restroom, you had rather look at the concrete foot walk in front of you than at the dirty, filthy homeless person sitting by the side.

3. You do not know what kind of scary people they are or what kind of scary things they may be thinking.

   The same way you feel hesitant asking someone in a foreign city for help, you may be hesitant when it comes to figuring out what a homeless person may be all about. Things you are not aware of usually attract or scare you, and a homeless person is something that you know nothing about. Was he a murderer? Did she kill someone? Did they end up being born to homeless parents? The answers to those curious questions lie in front of you in the form of the scary homeless person, and thus you simply avoid having anything to do with the homeless person that may make you think of the reasons behind their homelessness or them.

4. They are poor and thus may rob you.

   You try not to put your shopping bags on the floor when you eat at a fast food chain. And for a good reason. You do not trust the people who may walk by and walk away with your shopping bag without you noticing. The homeless people are poorer than most of the people you may see at a fast food place, and thus you think they are after your money or possessions even more. This is one of the most powerful reasons you pretend you do not hear anything they say because in reality you do not want to give them any of your hard earned money or belongings.

5. They may be deranged and thus dangerous.

   What if someone became homeless because of being psycho? Living or working with others drives you a bit crazy, so you wonder how psychotic the homeless people may be feeling because of always being around dozens of other homeless people or because of having hundreds of people walk by them on the streets on an almost hourly basis every day. Such craziness can make a person do anything, which is exactly why you avoid being around the homeless people.

Why are you scared of homeless people? Or are you?

So, are you scared of homeless people? Is there some other reason, in addition to the above list, that you think may justify your or someone else’s fear of the homeless? Have you seen someone else who is scared of even thinking that a homeless person may cross their path?

Please share your stories, comments or questions in the comments below. Thank you for reading, I really appreciate it! It is now 12:24am, so I now have to make sure the patio door is closed and locked, not to keep the homeless out but any intruders or monsters. Whether or not the intruder or monster is homeless is a completely different article for another day.

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Many non-teaser trailers are the same as advertisements for books where the entire plot and ending has been laid down in the back cover. Movies offer a story telling, letting you know about an imagination that you want to engulf yourself into for different reasons. If you already know the entire details of something, then your imagination is sort of limited and you know what to expect. There is usually no fun in such a trend.

That is what happened to many people around the country who were waiting to get the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6), when some other people, who had already gotten their hands on the book earlier in the day and had already read it, spoiled the ending for others. Following is an example of someone who recorded his adventure of spoiling the fun for Harry Potter fans by telling them what happened in that book, and how even the small kid at the end yells “&^% YOU BI#@$!” in terror and shock:

Non-teaser trailers destroy the fun! Finding details in other ways is fun!

I know that many people, if not the majority, love watching trailers which have all the story explained briefly. Many of those people do not like teaser trailers, because to them a teaser trailer simply wastes time by not telling the viewer anything specific. I would personally like to watch only teaser trailers, and only good and well made trailers if they are not teasers. Of course, there are bad teaser trailers too. They deserve their own ignoring or review. Such trailers are one of the reasons most movies do not impress you.

If you fall into the category of wanting to find out about some movies, the way I do for many movies too, there are either the stereotypical trailers out there or there are some popular websites like MoviePooper and The Movie Spoiler, which tell you the general plot of a movie and the specific details of the entire movie respectively. Wikipedia has become another resource where the entire plot, from beginning to the end, is usually listed for a growing number of movies. These are, of course, options for people who would like to know everything about a movie. I personally like finding out the details of many movies before I watch them. The teaser trailer preference, thus, comes down to the concept of a trailer: it is supposed to be a seducing trailer, and not a CliffsNotes summary of the movie.

Do you prefer teaser trailers? Or do you prefer knowing everything about the movie in a trailer?

What do you think? What kind of movie trailers do you like or dislike? Do you prefer watching the trailer of a movie because watching that movie? Do you like knowing the entire story through a movie trailer?

Please share your comments or stories in the comments below. Thanks for reading! I really appreciate it. :)

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All this news of the holy wars and fight against the evil,
What about the fight inside of you to lead a normal life?
You’ve got problems of your own, including a soul you feel is corrupt from within,
How can you go on to save or want others, when your own heart hurts you like a knife?

Is it the person that attracts you, or the actions?
Is it the character that binds you, or the personality?
You feel lucky to have someone to guide you when you feel lost,
When most of the time, including now, your heart seems to be made up of frost.

Maybe you simply want to be wanted!

You wish for the day when simplicity will be evident,
When people will say what they mean, they will sign your pact,
When a person you get close to will get close to you for the sake of friendship,
Not for a piece of favor, and definitely not for the sake of signing a contract.

You end up adhering to the rules of this contract till the day you stop meeting,
You help them the most since you fear them the least,
You want to help in the least way possible,
You focus on caring how the other person can repay you back at least.

So you feel merry, not trusting anyone, not trusting your own self.
You tell others “Let us call each other friends!“,
Yet only you know what you really mean,
That you simply want to be called a friend by any living being.

Maybe you are simply passing time!

Such are the rules you want to live by,
Since such are the goals people use to reach for the sky,
Whether it is success or satisfaction that such a mentality achieves,
You simply want to climb the ladder and be above other feet.

You are happy there is some hope in your heart,
That sometimes keeps you away from thoughts with holes,
For without trust you feel like a machine, with no feelings, no soul,
Your actions devoid of any meaning in such a case, and your life devoid of any goal.

So what do you think of all this story?
Does it reflect your life or how others around you believe?
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How you or someone you know may view relationships to simply feel at ease.

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Garbage truck drivers have a lot of skills. They have to drive a big truck on smaller roads in order to pick up your garbage. A garbage truck driver and any assistant he or she might have try to navigate small roads, avoid parked cars, and use a folk-lift type system to pick up your garbage. They usually do this without getting into any accident or without hitting any other cars. And for some reason I get very interested to see Garbage Trucks always parked in reverse in their stations or on the street between buildings.

People who try to act like garbage truck drivers by reverse parking usually do not have a lot of parking skills. They get nervous, they look in the front more than they look in the back, and they end up spending a lot of time getting distracted than they do thinking or acting.

Why People Park in Reverse

Many people with regular cars think that reverse parking is a phenomenon that will make their life better. Here are 5 reasons people like parking in reverse:

1. It will save time when leaving, like driving off quickly away after a burglary. Parking in reverse at your home to take your pregnant wife to the hospital in an emergency or to leave the home in case of a zombie infection are two good reasons for such a form of parking.
2. It is more convenient to simply pull out, since driving requires a lot of brain power.
3. Because others are doing it. You would be surprised how many people park in reverse only because they see others doing it too.
4. Because at night time, reversing from a parking spot requires more focus on the dark areas behind the car. Whereas if you parked in reverse already, you can simply turn on your car lights, spot the squirrel standing in front of your car, and avoid it when pulling out.
5. Because one can park in reverse. This may probably be the only good reason on this list.

Why Many People Should Not Park In Reverse

With many good things come bad things that people love to follow. Here are a few reasons why parking in reverse creates drama for other people:

1. People spend 2 minutes reverse parking in order to save 30 seconds when pulling out of the parking spot. I have seen people take up to 2 minutes and more than 7 attempts to park in reverse. If the lanes are small in the parking area where you are trying to reverse park, you will be holding up almost all the traffic in that lane. The only reason the record for reverse parking, or garbage truck parking, is 2 minutes and 7 attempts in my book is because I stopped keeping track and reversed myself in the lane I was in and parked in another lane normally.
2. People tend to hit other cars or even people when not knowing how to reverse park while reverse parking. Reverse parking means you get to keep an eye out for incoming traffic, and also any traffic in any direction behind you. And reverse parking means you have to watch out for pedestrians more than the cars in front of you.
3. People end up parking too close to other cars on one side, while leaving a lot of space on their own driving side. Majority of the reverse parked cars I see leave little room for any cars parked next to them, resulting in other car drivers or passengers unable to get in those other cars.
4. Reverse parking requires more attention and stress. People try to reverse park everything, from small two door cars to big 7 door vans. And majority of them take a very long time to do it and end up parking normally in another parking lane.
5. Reverse parking is worse than reverse leaving, which is the idea of pulling out when you originally parked without reversing into the parking spot. Parking normally, with the front of the car going in first, means when you reverse out, you simply leave the parking lot. In contrast, reverse parking means you not only try to reverse in slowly, you keep reversing in and out in order to park your car.

Do you pretend to be a Garbage Truck Driver?

If you like the idea of reverse parking, consider this: reverse parking is not the same as parallel parking. Parallel parking usually means you are taking use of some space and there is probably no other better way to park. Reverse parking usually means you dream of garbage trucks. You are the reason garbage truck drivers get a bad name.

Next time you want to park like that, check to see if you are parking a garbage truck. If you aren’t, then check to see if you would be blocking anyone else while you try out a form of parking that’s normal for people in normal conditions but you would like to make it into a stunt. If you are blocking people, then just park normally.

Please share your thoughts, comments and any parking tips or stories in the comments below. Thank you! :) I wonder how many Garbage Truck Drivers will read this post and tell me that they never park in reverse to begin with.

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