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What the title says. This week I will get an interview to see if I'm able to appoint to get the First Certificate in English. It would be helpful to have someone to point out my mistakes in pronunciation so I can prepare a bit, since I have near zero experience in the topic. You just need an Skype account and a fair amount of patience (A microphone would be great too so we can talk to each other) for a few minutes. If you wanna help me, PM me or write in this topic your skype account. I will check the topic again in about 12-24 hours, hopefully someone will respond!

I would ask for infinite more wishes. Also, why so much people asking for infinite money? All money has a limited value, let's call it x, so every bill you have would worth x/infinite = 0 (I'm ready for mathematicians to jump on me), and people would naturally transitionate to another currency since the fricking paper would worth more than the money it represents, leaving you as poor as you started.

The fact that we humans always put animals aside like non-conscious and without morals has always intrigued me. The basic structure of our brains is all pretty much the same (ignoring the prefrontal cortex). Dophins (and a handful of other animals) can recognize themselves in front of a mirror. That is, for me, some form of at least primitive conciousness. Anyway, I think it's to cover the sad nature that we have to put ourselves over the animals to survive. I don't wanna live in a world where eating a steak will send me to the jail.

Hey, I think I understand what you mean. By definition, science is a method. But I agree, when it comes to practice, there's some odd social pyramid of reconigtion you must climb up before you are taken seriously as a scientist. Look, I am still a teenager, and my mind is filled with idealism because, let's be real, I haven't really applied any of my 'how it should be' thoughts on the real world yet. There's a little bit of a 'do not contradict' aspect on the scientific community, an I ain't any confortable with it neither. Do not make precipitated assumptions just because of a profile picture, TJ is a vlogger that I enjoy watching because he brings up controversial topics I'm interested on a way I find hilarous. Not because of his science. I also found handy pony picture of him by chance. I am actually somewhat interested on understandig what do you mean about 'eastern' science. I can't really say anything about it before I know and understand what it is. Could you give me some practical information I could use to learn more? (Links, videos, names, etc.)

There's not such thing as 'western' science. Again, science is a method. [most] People respect science because of the simple reason that it works to explain and predict the world. Science has sent men to the moon (Newton's principles), orbits and coordinates satellites around the Earth (Einstein's relativity principle), makes electronic management of information possible (Electromagnetism and its quantum interactions), and much more, from medicine to weather predictions. I have yet to see religion, alchemy, etc. do those things in a clear and globally applicable way. People respect science because it's the only method that actually works in such way. Saying that we're light because we biophotons may be a residue of the communication of our cells is like saying that a transistor is electricity. Not. "I'm ready for people to disagree" is the weakest argument in history. Look, I'm not fighting for recognition of being right or anything like that, I genuinely want you to understand why I think this way. I'm not making of this an eternal two-sides discussion; that's what the current american politics is for.

@Alice, I totally understand you, and I can't develop a whole lot more on the topic because, honestly, I'm a bit confused about my morales when it comes to the point of complicaded things like 'getting offended'. I can't really tell when it's justified getting offended and when not, i'ts all fuzzy logic to me. If I was offended by, for example, the fact that a person walks in front of my house, it doesn't mean that that person should stop walking by. Don't take my word as the ultimate truth, I'm far from having it. @multifacetedbrony I think you misinterpreted me in the 'making use of getting offended' part, FlyBunny posted an explanation that is a tad closed to what I meant. I don't think it's your fault though, but mine; I still have a lot of room for improvement on the use of English. Edit: Oh, about the post just above this one, I think the clearer expression would be 'the brony closet'. Still, it's up to people in general, and I don't think just an argument is going to change their mind. Still I don't think this is too much of a big deal.

Could you elaborate more please? You mean like real scientific method applied to them? Excuse my skeptisism, but I have yet to see that. Look, a biophoton is indeed an observed phenomenon. A phenomenon that, like a lot of complicated biological proccesses, we don't fully understand. I'm pretty sure that the definition of biophotons is photons emitted by living organisms that isn't originated from heat. It isn't a very smart hypothesis to say that the origin of them is some 'metaphysical' mistery [i know you didn't actually gave them an explanation, but this is what I infere, excuse me if I'm wrong]. It is a somewhat more rational hypothesis to say that it's a residue from electromagnetic communications between cells, because we have some knowledge about electromagnetism. Science isn't an ideology, it's a method. If you hear a scientist saying that they're 100% right no matter what is discovered/proofed next, he/she's not being scientific.

Thanks for the friendly welcoming that I expected. As for now, I see this forum very interesting and with a nice community. Now, it's time for posting an try it out myself!

People bought the damn book, and if people obtained what they expected of it as a product, I see nothing unfair on it. If you want a book with scientific proofs and studies, don't buy the product that doesn't satisfy your needs. If you want to blame anyone for the high sales of it, blame the consumers. On a side note, what I actually hate is the word 'metaphysical'. Physics is the study of reality, so something metaphysical is something outside of reality? irreal? Non existent! If we discover that our world is subtly and misteriously affected by some underlying form of counciousness or whatever you want to say, it would be great and intriguing, it would open a brand new branch of Physics. Maybe the term is actually used to what is outside of the current knowledge of physics. Though, talking about, for example, an unified Relativity and String Theory theory doens't hear exactly metaphysical..!

I'm not on the LGBT community, but I'll drop an opinion anyway. People make use of getting offended way more than they should. I mean, it's absolutely natural to get offended by something that isn't a direct insult, (feelings have never been rational), but that doesn't mean the other person is invading your rights. As long as it doesn't objetively affects anything in your life or your rights, a posture is an opinion and nothing more. You cannot complain about people using 'get out of the closet' for mlp going out. Well.. actually, complaining is the only thing you can do. It is what they think vs. what you think it's good, and objectively you can't say anything is better than the other. About the act of 'Getting out of the closet' itself, I think it must a difficult experience to get through. Look, I'm scared to make myself look like I know about something I don't really have experience with (non-conventional sexuality), but let me relate to something I do have experience with, which is dealing with other people's attitude about those kind of things. If you belong to any minorty, be it homosexuals, bronies, atheists, or whatever, you'll eventually have to tell somebody who you are. Hopefully you'll recieve some level of acceptance, but that's not assured. What is assured is that at least one person is going to be irrationally harsh at you. And though telling everyone the truth about who you are may seem like a nice idea in the first thought, you may want to think again before you have to deal with harmful personalities. I think that's why getting out of the closet may be kind of a dilemma, or a difficult experience overall for any minorities (with greater or lesser consequences depending on the social context your minority is in) Did I deviate too much from the 'expected answer'? My forum skillz are outdated, specially the english ones.

My Favourite Mane 6 Pony: Applejack How did you find MLP Forums?: Good ol' Google How you became a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: I've always been amazed of the MLP community. I saw and still see bronies everywhere. At first I thought it was a joke of massive proportions, then I thought it was few weird people who actually watched it, and then I watched the show. It was an attempt to satisfy my curiosity of why would people would actually watch the show, but somehow I ended liking it myself and I keeped watching. Plot twist? I'm here mainly to know about the mlp community first-hand. I've been on forums since I was a little kid and this is the way I'm more familiarized with to get to meet a community. My first impression of this one is that people are very into role-playing and insanely friendly, which is absolutely refreshing. About me, I play Dota 2 almost every day, I'm a Half-life series fan, I love any science-related topic, specially if it ends up on a debate, and I'm just starting into composing. Also, I'm from Argentina, so I'll better not become a full-time brony because I'm going to be very lonely ! You may start to see me progressively more or progressively less, depending on how things go. Thanks for reading!