Odracirys

I recently came to the realization that I am, in fact, a psychic.  What separates me from others that believe in psychic powers is that I am also a skeptic.  How did I realize that I had the powers to deduce things before they were revealed to others?  Scientific tests.  I have repeated these tests and have come to the same conclusion.  Thus, I believe in my exceptional powers.  I may apply to the FBI or CIA and see if they can make use of these abilities of mine so that they can solve crimes or even prevent crimes from happening.  You may still not believe that I am a psychic, but I will give my testimony of one recent example below: A few days ago, I was speaking to my mother.  I hadn't heard about any news related to this...but my mother told me that there had just been an attack on US Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  Now you may not believe this, but I immediately blurted out, "By a Muslim, right?" Fast-forward to now, and it has b...

For a while now, I have been wanting to correct some things I said on one of  's posts a while back on Google+.  Most of what I said in the comments of that post were correct, and I stand by them, but the following is something I would like to revise.  I wrote the following to Heather and  : "Many Japanese people actually admire American students, because they can (both regulation-wise and culturally) ask questions.  In Japan, teachers prepare full lectures (which is probably what a lot of that time is used for) and basically just read the lesson out, and the students take notes.  It is rote memorization.  They are excellent at it, and if it involves memorization (including of math concepts), they can beat nearly anyone else in the world.  However, if they are asked to go outside the script, they stumble.  For example, ask what year a war started, and they will know it (for the test, at least...then forget later on), but ask why the war ...