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Why do most people talk negatively about things that they have no knowledge about?

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I have noticed this in many people, including my own family members. My grandmother and some of my uncles are extremely racist against against hispanic people but they have never talked to a hispanic person before. I am not like them, I have met hispanic people and have hispanic friends. I have noticed that some people think buddhism is stupid and they know absolutly nothing about the religion. Why do people talk about stuff they have no clue about. I have heard many people say that "Muslim" is a race. To those idiots who think that, muslim describes people who practice Islam. I have heard many people say that muslims worship a different god than christians. Muslims worship the same god as christians, Allah is arabic for God, and the entity who delivered the message of islam to muhammad was the angel Gabrel ,or however you spell it, form the christian bible. People should stop talking about stuff they don't understand.

Just so you know, i'm not buddhist or muslim. I am a Christian

Why do most people talk negatively about things that they have no knowledge about?
Only reason I can think why people speak negative about things they know nothing about, is they speak what they are taught to believe. Instead of researching the facts, and studying to know people, cultures, and religions, they find it hard to believe that others aren't just like them, and everyone should be 'just like them'. I am white, Christian, and I feared blacks, hispanics, and religions I was not fully aware of. It was taught to me that way.

I wanted to find out why I feared the unknown, and found there is nothing to fear but the wrong education.
Reply:I like your respect to other people. I hope everyone can do the same.
Reply:People want to be popular and important, to the detriment of all involved usually. We do not stand in judgment of anyone, only God is the judge.
Reply:because its easier to go by a stereotype than to research and ask questions to find out if it is true
Reply:ignorance equals bliss my friend.............as well as stupidity

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Can mlm people please explain this?

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Just if you hope to attract 3 people to your front line... and those people somehow get 3 people to their front line... it will look like this...

3

9

27

81

243

729

2,187

6,561

19,683

59,049

177,147

531,441

1,594,323

4,782,969

14,348,907

43,046,721

129,140,163

387,420,489

1,162,261,467

3,486,784,401

10,460,353,203

So after 21 levels, you have exeeded the population of earth. Then what do you do? This is why mlm will never work, ever. But if it can be explained to me... then I would be more open.

And please don't say... yeah but you only need like 1,000 people in your organisation and you are doing well. No, cause those people need continual expansion or the people at the bottom will quit. Then the people 2nd from the bottom will quit. Then the people 3rd from the bottom will quit, and so on. So please explain... here is your chance once and for all.

Can mlm people please explain this?
Not defending MLM, but you are partially right.

Indeed all they need is a total of 1,000 , or even 500 to do well.

People at the bottom can fail, stop, quit or whatever, but the pyramid will not collapse if the people on top do their own selling. This is true of all businesses, NEVER depend on others, whether they are on top or on bottom of you.

More importantly, people who do good in MLM need to understand, that they can do even better in traditional sales, because if you can get 3 people to get 3 people to get 3 people (and have a total of 3+ 9+ 27 = 39), there's no reason you can't get the 35+ on your own and keep all the commissions to yourself. In real world business, nobody is stupid enough to start up competitors for themselves.
Reply:first of all not all mlm compensation plans are designed this way. There are binarys, matrix, unilevels, aussie 1-ups %26amp; 2 ups, breakaway plans, etc... Marcello has only described ONE.

2nd there are actually mlm companies out there that you need less than 500 people to do QUITE well.

3rd it seems irrelevant to me that you go down 21 levels in your example. VERY few companies pay down that far, so to me Marcello's example is a bit ludicrous.

4th mlm DOES work IF you have a good product(s), a good compensation plan, strong leadership ... ie.. management, good policies and procedures.

There's a whole lot more to MLM than the perception you have, but I'm not in the convincing business nor the recruiting business, so I will just leave it at what I've already said.

~jennifer

Helping others create income from home through education of the system and how it REALLY works.
Reply:Tory, should I consider this flattery that you merely cut and pasted one of my answers as a question? Well, its still a good point, so good job anyway.

I wanted to address a couple things Jennifer stated which is a HUGE part of the problem.

First – all the compensation plans that have downlines require growth…so it doesn’t matter if it’s a 3x3 as stated here, or a binary, matrix, unilivel, whatever…they are have multiple levels which is the problem. This point merely detracts from the heart of the question (nice dodge).

Second – the fact that YOU can succeed with less than 500 people is EXACLTY The point addressed in this question. Sure, you can get in early and get 500 people and make some money, but the people below you will also need 500 people, and so will they, and in ANY system if you do the math its expands so fast its mathematically IMPOSSIBLE. This went RIGHT over your head because you are thinking only about the functionality from a single persons point of view, but EVEYRONE has to have a chance to succeed or it goes bust, and everyone does not because of the math.

Third – the fact that you think 21 levels deep is irrelevant merely because you don’t get paid that far is again you missing the point. You don’t need to go that deep, but surely your downline also needs to build, as does theirs, as does theirs…meaning if the whole thing goes bust before 21 levels, MASSIVE amounts of people will have ZERO chance to succeed. This is basic math, and you are overlooking it again.

Fourth – mlm works for the owners of the company, not the reps. If the product is great, and can be sold by an individual to make enough money to earn a living, than that individual will be fine. The question is clearly directed as the mathematical impossibility of expanding downlines.

You seem to have the GIANT misconception that MLM organizations can remain static…meaning they do not need to continually grow. If you think you can get 500 people into your downline and the last people in are going to stick around even though its not growing, then you are being shortsighted.

With all do respect, the fact that such a simple concept has eluded you gives concern to the fact that you suggest you are the one helping others. I really wonder what advice you are giving people that is helpful.
Reply:MLM is a ripoff unless you are one of the very first people to sign up. Then you can alienate everyone you've ever known trying to sell them overpriced crap that doesn't work any better than grocery store brands.
Reply:The following link explains MLM and how to counter negative responses.

http://www.firstclassmlm.com

MLM is either something you understand or you don't. People can say what they want about MLM. However, it gives someone who would not otherwise have the skills or money to open up a storefront business a chance for success at very inexpensive start up costs. Additionally, it allows a person to keep their regular job while learning to run a home based business, increase thier network of contacts, earn extra income and enjoy numerous tax deductions that do not come with a regular tax paying job. Of course, we wouldn't want to have anyone earning some extra money to pay off some bills and help their family.

While it is true that most people fail in MLM, the truth is, people fail at 80 percent of the things they try in life such as sports, real estate, acting, music, diets and more. People join MLM with the illusion that just because it is cheap (compared to regular business) and many other people above them are successful that they will be guaranteed success with little effort. MLM is a results based business while a regular job is performance based.
Reply:Tory,

For the sake of the math question you have here, you are assuming that this takes place in a matter of months. It takes time to build this type of downline. During that time, do you think that the population will stop growing?

I'm not going to waste my time and energy trying to convince you that MLM works because you are so closed minded on the subject that you refuse to accept any positive posts anyone has on the subject. But I do want to share some statistics with you that was published in Forbes Magazine, which this "naive, 25 year veteran of MLM" subscribes to.

Network Marketing is a $100 billion dollar industry worldwide and is one of the fastest growing trends in home based business. More than 10 million people in the US are involved in a Network Marketing business. It allows anyone, from any background or education to create a significant income in a business of one's own.

Many Network Marketing Companies are Fortune 500 companies, traded publicly on the Stock Exchanges and many are held privately. Mary Kay Cosmetics; Tupperware; Jafra Cosmetics and Avon are just a few well known and well respected companies using a network marketing / direct sales business model.

•Network Marketing has been written about favorably by major publications such as Forbes, Fortune, Success, Fast Company, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.

I suppose that all of these professionals, including Donald Trump, who has spoken favorably about MLM in interviews are all idiots.

One of the main reasons that people fail at MLM is the same reason they fail at any job they try and that is lack of willingness to learn in their field in order to succeed further. People had rather stay opinionated and listen to the people who have tried and failed. My Daddy always told me that if I ever wanted anything in life to find someone who already had it and ask them how they got it, then follow their lead.

Why would I listen to someone who is NOT successful to achieve success? No, thanks! I will keep doing what has worked for me for over 25 years.

Bonnie Ramsey

Well, it is obvious the only reason you even posted this question is to bash something you don't even have the intellegence to understand nor the desire. When anyone tries to answer your question or explain something to you, all you want to do is launch a personal attack against them. So I will do what I know works and spend my time with people who are open to learning instead of attacking someone who has what it takes to make a good business work.
Reply:I'm very proud of you...you can multiply by 3 on a calculator! Very good.

But that's not the real world. So put your calculator down and run down to your nearest book store, grab a cup of Starbuck's and start reading "Chicken Soup for the Network Marketer's Soul".

You (Marcello) keep saying in each rant "Please explain...here is your chance once and for all". But when anyone tries to explain...Blam!! You belittle them and tear what they say into shreds.

The good news is, you have brought many people together who are like-minded and helped them to concentrate on the positive. Thank you for that.

Hope you're having a wonderful day! Earning lots of money....wink wink!
Reply:Maybe I can shed some light. What you choose to focus on is the hype and the exponential growth in the hype. NEVER has it worked hypothetically, yet there are a few who succeed. Are you suggesting that there are not some successful people in network marketing who have been bringing in a lucrative amount of money. All successful MLMer's have experienced

people dropping off. MLM is obviously not for everyone. As you know the marketing comp plan is based on recruiting. If you choose to look at how it can work, this can be used to bring an income as you build the residual side.(commission from products being sold) Not all customers of MLM products are representatives. Yes some products are overpriced, yet somehow people enjoy buying them along with the positive relationship between the distributor or rep. Troy, I would not expect you to understand how it will work. It takes an understanding from within, You have to make the choice to find out how it will work. What works for me may not work for you.

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I know this term is overused in MLM mindset, yet how is it that there are many who choose to be "close minded" and focus on how MLM does not work. The traditional way works for few as you have noted. There are many ways to be successful. You choose to point out the fact that Trump and Kiyosaki do not do MLM yet they found a way to profit from it. There are also several like you who have harsh feelings towards mlm yet profit from writtings and make lucrative money doing so.

So any smart business man or woman "could" find a profitable position in MLM. You don't have to be a Trump or a Kiyosoki to do it either.

Why are people so racist- "Why can't we all just get along"?

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Why is it that pro-illegal people claim that "white people" are racist or racially profiling and yet seem to be the one's that are racist or racially profiling. I saw an answer someone gave and just had to shake my head.

“If you are hispanic you are illegal. That is how they base it. The other night I went to walmart with some kids from my apts. I took them to get ice cream at the mcdonalds. It was about 10 kids and we walked into the mcdonalds in my head i was thinking these people are staring. the kids werent loud or crazy just waiting in the line to tell the cashier what kind of ice cream they wanted and I kept getting looks. I knew right then and there that they were assuming the worst seeing me with all those kids. Made me laugh but I bet those same people were out saying oohh i saw this illegal at walmart with her 10 children. Now everytime I go everywhere and I see a white person who might be staring I say to myself they probably think I am illegal. I do want to know how people assume someone is illegal. I speak english but some of my family members dont and they are US citizens. I wonder how you decide who is illegal and who isnt.”

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

I like how she ASSUMES people are looking at her because they think she is illegal, it couldn't have just been they were amazed at how she could handle so many kids at one time, I know I would be, I can barely handle my one kid, but no because I guess there were "white people" there, she automatically ASSUMES that they think she's illegal, because she is Hispanic and all the kids are hers. You know what happens when you ASSUME ...

Stop.. all that is happening is you are spreading racism and hate, and this is what you are teaching your children.. for yet another generation of racists. Please look in the mirror before you call other people racists. This is the year 2007, it’s time to get over the past and look to the future.

Why are people so racist- "Why can't we all just get along"?
I agree with you.This racism on all fronts needs to stop.Whether you are speaking racism or feeling you are being looked down on because of who you are.Most intelligent people aren't racist.The rest don't matter.

Very good question and follow up...a star for you.
Reply:katjha20 you are so right i think racist people are so old minded, racism is the oldest and probably dumest thing ever! common like you said we are in 2007 stop hating people! Report It

Reply:People aren't allowed to stare at a bunch of kids now without being rude? The nerve!
Reply:so now you think its racist because people think you have 10 kids?( I'm shacking my head) it is not racist to assume anything. the majority of spanish people who come from the south have a bunch of kids and you know it. the majority of illegals can not speak English. and it is not racist to say that. there are White illegals as well as brown. silly rabbit.
Reply:Shall we go through this AGAIN?!

Illegal immigration has NOTHING to do with race. Mexican is not a race. The 20 to 30 million people that have crossed our borders are criminals because they have broken the law.

I don't care if the illegal is from Canada, England, Ireland, Egypt, or Peru. If they are illegal they shouldn't be here.

We can't "get over the past" with the illegals since there is no PAST. They are currently here and they are destroying our country. There is NO FINANCIAL benefit for their presence in our country. This is the finding of EVERY legitimate group.
Reply:ur soo right man.....

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR!!
Reply:What do you call La Raza who says the Americans are illegal and not the illegal Mexicans?
Reply:It is not necessarily racism but xenophobia. Also there are several economic issues tied along with immigration, some positive and some negative.

Why are people such jerks in 5th Grade?

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Hi! I'm a guy in 5th grade and I've noticed that a lot of people are jerks to me and other people. In 4th Grade people were nice and respected each other. I'm a little plump and in 4th grade no one made mean jokes about other people's weight or other things like that. Now people are like, "Andrew, I'm amazed you kicked the ball in kickball," and, "You know Andrew, you sacrifice athletic abilities for brains." Why are people such jerks?!?! They make fun of each other and are mean! This one kid, Peter, liked this girl, Julia, but so did Austin. On valentines day Peter got julia some chocolate and a necklace. Austin got her chocolate. BAM! Next day Austin is at School with a necklace! They hate each other and Austin is a jerk to peter and made him cry several times! What is wrong with people?!?! Can somebody please tell me why people are like this in 5th Grade??? Thanks

Why are people such jerks in 5th Grade?
They are immature, you are mature for you age, I know I was and it was kind of hard for me to deal with this childnish. I got along okay by just ignoring it, they'll grow up some time, you guys are still young.

Why are physically attractive people given special treatment by society?

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This is true not only on the dating scene, but in all arenas. Studies have actually shown that parents treat attractive children better than they treat unattractive children, teachers give better grades to attractive students than they do to unattractive students, attractive people get more job promotions than unattractive people, and attractive people are acquitted of crimes more often than unattractive people. Don't get me wrong. I can understand why attractive people would get more dates than unattractive people, since sexual attraction is very important when it comes to dating and mating. However, why do attractive people have so many advantages in so many other areas of life? After all, giving so many advantages to physically attractive people isn't always necessarily advantageous for the people giving them the advantages. Not only that, but why are people being rewarded for hitting the genetic jackpot? After all, it's not as if they worked for it or earned it. Being beautiful is

Why are physically attractive people given special treatment by society?
has to do with eye appeal, and hardwiring. Men notice large breasts, nicely shaped derieres, etc. Women notice either cute boyish features or muscles, size, etc. Sex appeal, respect. We naturally tend to love and admire beautiful things--who feels sorry for a person who is gangly and unattractive and socially outset, when you can feel sorry for the pretty young girl with the sunny smile--who dies suddenly.

Ive found that some people have an inner light that is so bright you cant help but notice and not judge, but this is rare.

I think its mostly about appeal like strength and height for men, and breasts and buns for women, and facial beauty for both sexes of course.

Concepts like reincarnation suggest that we get what we need to advance spiritually, so by this philosophy we do choose our looks!
Reply:Let me say first, you seem to have put much thought into your question. Simply put, people respond more positively to things of a pleasant nature than not. Would the typical person prefer to be surrounded by delightful blooming flowers, luscious green grass, and trees w/ branches swaying in the wind or by a baron desolate scenery? The same applies when it comes to giving esthetically pleasing individuals advantages in life (as you stated often times not deserved). How many times have you interacted w/ that individual so pleasing to the eye it makes you ache? Yet once you realized the personality or even their demeanor did not mirror the outward shell, how quickly did your opinion change? Riddle me this, which is stronger the cactus or the rose, one all prickly with thorns, the other with thorns but beautiful blooms being the first thing to draw ones eye? Which might benefit one more in the long run? The one that was pleasing to most of our senses or the one that can provide us a means to stay alive? What's more advantageous is not what first drives an individual to action. Now that I've waxed philosophical, if you care to review opinions based on scientific research, check out http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_updat... or other such sites.
Reply:cuz jmen enjoy watching me..
Reply:Sometimes we only see the positive side to what we think "good looking' people are going through.

I used to get away with more things when I was younger and "attractive" then I do now that I am getting old.

Even attractive people have to grow spritualy or they will be miserable when they get old.

I used to have a friend that was a high-fashion Vouge quality model.She often feel in love with men who didn't care for her at all they only wanted to be seen in her company.She had very low self-estem as far as men were concerned.

Humans basically have to go through the same experiences in life, some just get a head start from their looks.
Reply:I DO AGREE WITH U BUT NOT IN ALL. THERE ARE MANY UNATTRACTIVE PEOPLE WHO R MORE LUCKY THAT OTHERS
Reply:Because it's not a set up, there is no 'father' type god ensuring fair play. You are the culmination of all your ancestors going way back each choosing the best mate they could get to make a better offspring, you. OK, maybe they weren't the sharpest tools in the box but you aren't all covered in fur and craving bananas (are you?) The marvel is that in this ruthless quest to build a better mousetrap Humanity has developed its own rules and principles of fairness and equality (and creator myths) that it willfully imposes on the world in spite of the fact that Science is correct and inevitably will have to impose Eugenics and turn away or not accept many who are not 'figuratively' already on this life boat (Earth) as it can only hold so many.
Reply:It is easier when your attractive most of the time but not all the time. I've heard some of my employers say that they like having attractive people around them because it makes them look good also. Plus attractive people attract people to them which makes things easier.

When it comes to dating they come to you , you don't have to go to them. So yes it helps a lot with dating also. The only people I run into that give you hard time about it is feminist and jealous people, but I can understand why most of the time and it doesn't bother me.

Being beautiful doesn't do it all, you still have to work. Plus you have to put up with people that puts you up on a pedestal in a sense and then looks up to you or down at you depending on how they feel about themselves. It's not always nice.

Some beautiful people are snobs and others aren't, the ones that aren't thinks everyone is beautiful and treats them as such.
Reply:Because nature has set it up that way. Beautiful features usually mean that you are probably healthy and will probably reproduce the same way. This is why it we view people as beautiful on the outside and there is nothing we can do to change our views. Also beautiful people are probably looked at as better value to company advertisement.
Reply:Because of biology....its in our nature to favour more attractive people as we have primal instincts that tell us they have better genes than less attractive people and would breed healthier children. Look it up on the net somewhere. Just harsh reality. People cannot help it.
Reply:Due to the gift of Sight...We tend to get attracted to people who are good-looking...and thus, preferential treatment....
Reply:Because regardless of what people think humans are still first and foremost animals and what we find attractive influences us more than our reason and or or rationality.

Your second question is basically asking if that's fair. Nature isn't fair, human nature isn't fair, it is what it is. Over time we can change natural habits to be more moral but that's a very slow process
Reply:it is presumed their genes are superior therefore you can breed with them to make superior babies.... in the absence of breeding rights.... it is a case of living in hope of breeding with them.....

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People from each area of the United States?

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Simple enough question - what are the majority of people like from each area of the United States? I live in the US, but just want other people's opinions. Let's divide it into categories: New England (New England States and sorrounding states close by), the south east (Carolinas, Virginia, Florida, etc.), the deep south (Alabama, Lousiania, Mississippi, etc.), the mid-west (Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, the Dakoktas, Montana, etc.), the south west (Arizona, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, etc.), and the pacific northeast (California, Oregon, Washington, etc.)....

I just want to find out people's opinions on how the people are in each area of the country, the general "feel" or traditions or styles of each area, what life and culture is like there, and what kinds of people would like it there. People who know all areas of the country would be best to answer these questions... thanks everyone.

People from each area of the United States?
I live in New Orleans and its pretty much all about food and music.

We're known for our festivals like Jazz Fest and Mardi Gras which is just about hanging with friends, meeting new people, eating some food, drinking some drink, listening to some music, etc.

Its a real laid back place and the people are mostly friendly.
Reply:The Pacific Northwest is beautiful and the people are laid back......lots of out door activities .camping, sailing, surfing and a great spiritual place.

Southwest is really dry in the summer but beautiful too.snow isn't a real subject here ,Foods are great ,green and red chili,peopleare culturally diverse and friendly Many indigineous peoples ,and hispanics,also a large anglo population.

Midwest flat, cold, bible belt, conservative.

southeast beautiful great universities, cultural diversity , conservative/ rural areas , christian conservative slower income areas

New England Democratic, highly educated, lots of things to do! Love the east Very expensive to live here...lots of museums, etc.people are kinda snobby.....
Reply:I am from Oklahoma. People here are pleasant and friendly. Lots of "good ol boys". Things are not to expensive here when you compare it to things on the west coast. I wish we put more importance on education though. The weather is great. Few tornadoes but nothing to much to worry about. Oklahoma is a good place ot live and raise a family.
Reply:I live in upstate NY, 500 ft. from Lake Ontario, and up here it's about surviving the snow and cold and making it to the next summer. Other than that it's great..........
Reply:I have lived all over the world and by far where I currently lives is my favorite. I am attending school in Ames, Iowa.

The people here are so nice, and friendly. It doesn't matter what you need if you ask someone they are more than willing to help. the lifestyle here is more laid back and less fast paced. I mean we don't move at the speed of snails but slower than NYC.

Many people in this area are very centered around our families. it's important to see them, spend time with them and just have a great time. I used to live in Omaha, Nebraska and I also liked that city because it isn't a huge city but not a small town either but can offer everything that a big city does.

I take great offense when people say we are all corn frowers who wear overalls. While attending school I work for a top 10 insurance agency that is headquartered in iowa.

Hope that helps

Some People Focus On America's Best Points , Others Look For Negative . . . Which Group Is Better Company ?

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Sometimes, no matter how good the news is, some people are so negative that their negative attitude won't let them be happy . Not a day goes by where these people don't relish in whatever bad they can find . These are the same people who are willing to go back a hundred years or more to find anything that would damper current American pride and success.

While others truly Love our country and really enjoy spreading the good news . These are the people who truly appreciate living in the greatest country of the world .

This is also why people in the second group often call people in the first group , Unpatriotic .

I tend to agree because by it's very definition, Patriotism implies Positive , not negative .

Which Group Of People Make Better Company ?

Some People Focus On America's Best Points , Others Look For Negative . . . Which Group Is Better Company ?
The positive people are definitely the ones I want to be around. I don't care to spend any of my time being depressed by what could be. Even though there are lots of negative things going on, that isn't outweighed by living in the greatest country in the world. I still have my freedoms and am incredibly grateful for that.

Come to think of it, I think there are a lot of negative people that seem to live in a bubble and perhaps due to lack of exposure aren't aware of just how good we have it in this country.

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Oops, I deleted my last paragraph.

All that said, I don't think the negative can be ignored entirely. The best way to rid the negative is to turn it into a positive.

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I CANNOT stand Americans that have nothing nice to say about our govt. Sure they've screwed lots of things up but they've also done good. I can't think of one single govt out there that hasn't screwed something up or allowed something tragic to happen to someone else. Oh how I could go on and on right now, but I won't. And not everything that is wrong with our country is the govt's fault. I think Political correctness is a nasty disease that needs a cure.
Reply:I like realistic optimists. Can you tell me which group is which,in your opinion?
Reply:If your a optimist then the glass is half full,likewise if your a pessimist then the glass is half empty.To each their own.

Swoosh 2 points!
Reply:I prefer the company of realists. :)
Reply:you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life. I loved that show:-)

some people think we have to be optimistic all the time and others seem to think we must more pessimistic or we will get taken advantage of. I do not agree. one must be a realistic to ever truly be optimistic or to be justified when seeming to be pessimistic.

I understand that as a country we haven't always been right and have made great mistakes but the good that we have done out weighs the bad. I will be 41 in a few months and I am, and have been all of my life proud of this land that I call home the United States of America. with all her imperfections and sorted history she is still the Greatest Nation under God.
Reply:I prefer to be around optimists.

I am a pessimist myself and don't need help coming up with doomsday scenarios.
Reply:Patriotism in neither optimistic or pessimistic, by definition it is love. People who love something wish to see it grow, and that means seeing it for what it is, and allowing it to grow.

Thomas Jefferson once said that Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism.

Living in reality and looking at what is there, not what you wish was there is patriotic. Whether what is there is positive or negative, you are not a patriot if you chose to ignore what exists. To love a county - as patriotism implies - means to hold it to a high standard and to wish to see it grow. If a person simply looks for negatives at the point of vitriol, lacking a motive to improve a negative point that person is not a patriot. Likewise if a person chooses to live in a self-induced mental fog, because it would involve seeing things they don't want to see or accepting things they don't want to accept that person despises their country. Truth is beauty and beauty is truth.
Reply:Neither. They're both irritating and delusional.
Reply:As a single tear runs down my cheek......give me a break preacher....There's a difference between optimism and blowing smoke up people's a**es.....and the people in your second group call the people in the first group unpatriotic because they(unlike most beople with a brain) cannot seperate their "country" from their "government". This IS the greatest country in the world...but if you can't acknowledge that our government is responsible for some pretty silly, and awful things, and should be held accountable for it...that's not being patriotic, it's being ignorant.

Oh...to answer your rant posing as a question....the negative people make better company....they're more fun at parties.

Why do people let criminals talk them into believing that people who try to arrest them are bad?

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I mean, criminals are people who have done something wrong to another person, and they are people who are willing to hurt other people with any necessities nearby, so why does society make a big deal out of criminals being bashed by cops? If you ask me, I think the criminal getting bashed to the ground by cops for doing something wrong, getting handcuffs put on him, and being put into a jail cell, so that people on the street who would like to kill him can't kill him sounds a lot better to me, than being put back out on the streets for people to eventually kill him (because people out on the streets who are after him are not worried about whether they will hurt his little legs or arms, while they are bashing him to the ground-seems kind of ironic, huh?

So, why do people fall for the non-sensical belief that criminals are deprived and that they should be treated exceptionally well by cops, when the rest of humanity would crush him, if this criminal messed with them?

Why do people let criminals talk them into believing that people who try to arrest them are bad?
I wish more people like you sat in jury on criminal cases.

2 Tim 3:13 -- But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

People know me but I don't know them?

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This has happened a few times over the past 2 years.

People will come up to me and begin talking to me like they've known me their entire life.

I don't think it's mistaken identity because i'd think they realized they had the wrong person after a few minutes. A couple of the people knew my name.

But people just begin talking to me, asking how everything is going, how my summer was going.

Most recently someone came up to me and said "Hi! How have you been? We haven't talked in so long. How have things been?"

I don't really know what to say because I can't remember ever meeting or even seeing these people for the life of me.

It's happened almost only with people who go to the same school as I do, so I don't think they are really completely strangers.

Any reason why I just can't remember these people. I must have some importance to them by the way they speak to me, but I just cannot remember them.

Any ideas?

People know me but I don't know them?
Some people make bigger deals out of small things than others. You may have sat next to them in a class, or one of their friends liked you or whatever. But since it probably wasn't particularly significant to you, you won't make any mental note of it.
Reply:Do you drink alot? Maybe you've partied with them and were blacked out.
Reply:drinking or drugs could cause this. or you could just be totally self-obsessed and float through life not caring about and ignoring others.

don't get me wrong, it's happened to me a couple times. but i smoked a lot of pot as a teenager. but it sounds like it happens to you more than that, so i'd say you have some sort of intelligence/memory/ego problem.
Reply:okay, here is my theory about not remembering and alzenheimer,s diease, one not having to do with the other,,,

so you don,t remember, now don,t get upset,or even miffed, but the people you do not remember are not worth it, somewhere in the spiritual world, they are not worth remembering, sounds weird or crule, i know, but this is just a passing thought about this,

sure the entire thing about not remembering people who seem to know you is, or can even be a bit unnerving, i don,t know what to say about all this, as it being in school, let another ten or fifteen years go by, see about remembering, some people are just being friendly and know you don,t really know them, well i shouldn, t say friendly , i don,t know what is going on here, anyway, hope you have some answers,

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Why are people scared of dying?

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When people die everyone looks at it as a tragedy. I see it as a part of life. People live to die. and when people are scared of dying in a sense that makes them scared of living. which influences the type of lifestyle they live. When people are not scared of dying usually they will do more crazy and unexpected things than people who are not scared of it. It also influences the way people see others. when you look at someone in disgust or hatred this comes from the person fearing there own death and even the death of them. not necessarily in the same way but in a way it does. because if a person truly wants to live they have to make it by there own standards not anyone else's. so why do people constantly try and sway other people into doing something rather than informing them of other ideas? and by this i mean a list of ideas that they were unaware of... not ideas that the person telling them is involved with.

Why are people scared of dying?
We are not afraid of death; death happens; dying can be slow, painful, messy and emotionally debilitating
Reply:They either they dont know or dont take comfort in the promises of God. In the bible, he promises to resurect the dead, both rightous and unrightous and they will be judged. Those being found in gods favor will recieve the gift of everlasting life on earth. But in order to be judged rightous, and worthy of everlasting life you need to meet his riquirements found in the bible, from the ten commandments, to the preaching work that he requires, to the things jesus taught on earth in his sermon on the mount and the other things he tought. Theres a lot that go into being a follower of christ.
Reply:Huh? Your not scared of dying? Are you a Spartan?
Reply:I've asked myself the same question time after time. I mean we are all going to die. It's the cycle of life, so why be afraid of something you know is bond to happen? I've realized that it's fear of the unknown. not knowing what happens when you die. you know there so many unanswered questions and when people have unanswered questions they tend to be in an uncomfortable state. And as far as for people telling others how to live their lives-i mean people give advice, you either take it or leave it. sometimes it's good to listen to what people have to say-it might help. people only talk because they feel that it is necessary, at least for the most part.. other times what people say is B.S. you have to know when to listen to what you're told, and when to go with the flow.
Reply:complex question.

Why do people try to sway others rather than informing them of other ideas ( ie. not ideas that person is involved with)? It sounds like you are asking why people are not objective, but seek others to support their belief systems. Your observation about so called 'human nature' is quite descriptive of a lot of human interaction. There is debate about why this happens. The explanation largely revolves around a more social psychological view, that our personality is developed in a social context in which we interact with various types of people. To a large extent our social self ends up being made up of beliefs and attitudes about who we conclude we are and what is right and wrong. This belief system is seen as at the core of our identity. There is a saying 'i think therefore i am'. That sums up a lot of how we function, we are identified with our thoughts and beliefs as the anchor of who we are. If someone thinks or believes differently from us, especially regarding more primitive or core beliefs, we have to sort out how to maintain the integrity of our beliefs by discrediting the other, or getting them to agree with our 'world view'. This is most obvious in religious or political discussion. A very strong are to deal with is life and death. As we are trained in the west to understand and gain security or sense of control from that, it is very intense to face areas we can't prove. The realm of death is not understood well, and there are many theories or theological views on it. So because there is no solid proof that it is OK, fun, safe, or good, there is fear about it. A lot of religious thought has appeared to go into controlling people to behave, by giving them fear about what will happen to them after death, ie. heaven or hell. Why are people afraid of dying, well they are taught to fear it in many cultures. You say if a person truly wants to live, they have to make it by there own standards, and not anyone else's.... and that is very important. But as you can see for strict religions your idea is scary, for the followers are not encouraged to have their own standards, it is the church's standards that must be believed. It would be a radical shift for someone to trust their own feelings or thoughts regarding life or death, if they have been steeped in strong institutional beliefs that have become part of their identity. You will find there are very open minded, balanced folks who can talk with you more objectively, about various viewpoint, and not need to sway you to support their own belief systems. These relatively rare ones, identify with their own unique selves more, and the level of thought and belief less. So they can accept diversity of belief in others, as it does not threaten how they identifiy themseles. Good luck with being unique.
Reply:I actually don't fear death because of the unknown. I have my own religious beliefs that keep that fear at bay. But I DO fear pain. We don't know what it feels like to die, and so while I think I know what will be waiting on the other side, I am scared of the journey there.

Anyone else ever thought of that? Maybe that is its own question. Do you think it hurts to die?
Reply:I think its because they dont want to leave people behind. They fear what they dont know, and are unsure of what happens next. I think this is the time when peopel really question "is there a god" if theya re on their death bed. As for me, Im not afraid of dying in itself. But its the HOW I will die that scares me. Im sure people are haunted of images of drowing, burning ect ect. Thats what scares me the most. Id rather it be quick and pianless. But Im not sure if I want to know when I will die, or how. I just wanna go when I go.
Reply:Reason to scare: What will happen to my hard earned money and property ? Will my loved ones be left unattended?
Reply:People are scared of death because they are afraid of the new, the unknown. They don't know where they'll end up after dying. People who are left behind grieve for the deceased because they can never know if and when they'll be able to meet their beloved ones again.
Reply:Fear of death

1. lack of control

I don't want to suddenly pass away in my sleep or be hit by a car and have left my life in disarray for others to witness and have to deal with. I am dead at that point and shouldn't care. As long as I am alive though, I will care how I am perceived and how my life/death impacts those that love me.

2. sense of loss

You can't make people reenter your life. You can try to pretend they went on vacation, you had a break-up, etc. Ultimately, you know you will never share any thoughts or actions with them again. That is sad. I don't want people I love taking unnec. risks that could lead to an immature loss.
Reply:I think it might be a fear of the unknown. People are, generally, not afraid of things they are familiar with, thus, since we cannot die and tell about it, it remains an unknown.
Reply:There are many logical reasons for people to be scare of dying. First think about it, you are buried 6 feet uNDer the ground, covered with a sheet of concrete, small animal eat away at you, its not something to look forward to, even if you don't know what's going on. 2nd, you will no longer see the people you love, or have the things you love, etc....we know what we have there, no one knows for such what you will get on the other side. So fear of the unknown is always scary. However, if you have strong faith, and hold on to the notion that we are only energy, which cannot be buried or burn, then death become another transformed state of being, because you energy never dies, only the flesh.

Do these people really think others will take them seriously?

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the people i am refering to are the people of the square earth society. the interesting stuff is under the FAQ. Link to their website for information on them: http://pw1.netcom.com/~rogermw/square_ea...

just so you know, as an atheist, i try to respect other people's beliefs, but this is just, i dunno. I can't really take them seriously. maybe seriously isn't the best word, i dunno. At first i thought these people were kidding, but after some reading and thought, i realized that these people are probably pretty serious, just as there are people who don't think 9/11 happened.

I don't think that it's all christians, 'course not, it's just, these people have some...interesting thoughts. but what kind of person says, and i quote from their page " God won't let any half-assed believers into heaven."? I respect people who have strong religions, but i think things like "Hollywood is in league with the devil" and "Airline pilots are also in league with the devil." are a bit much.

Do these people really think others will take them seriously?
LOL

Don't let the ignorance of this guy (and whoever believes him) get to you. There are really stupid people everywhere and there's nothing you can do to stop it. People choose to be ignorant. Best to just let them wallow in their self-created bliss.
Reply:I think that it is some one pointing out that the bible can't be taken literally.

It is an interesting site. I wish more Christians would get the point.
Reply:Go to the guys main page. It's full of satire. They aren't serious.

But the very real Flat Earth Society does exist. Here is their forum: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/

They will talk to you if you're nice. It is a real trip.
Reply:There's no reason to even try respecting beliefs like that.

Do we know they're for real? Aren't they really just pretending they think that?
Reply:Sarcasm IS a delicate art, but your link is absolutely dripping with it.
Reply:There are some religious groups that the church teaches stuff like this. I went to a school in the summer once when I was little operated by the Church of God. I went because the public school teacher said if I didn't have some more school over the summer, I probably would not pass the next grade.

That is a long story, but to help you understand, these school teachers were called sisters and they were really strict. They didn't believe in TV, Make up, or Doctors. My mother was a registered nurse and they told me she was a servant of the devil. They allowed two children to die when they were sick because they would not go to a doctor. Now do you see how legalistic and stupid some sects of religion can get. My advice is, ask questions and discern everything. God gave you a brain to think with and a Spirit to guide you. Listen to that voice that tells you right from wrong.

Rev. TomCat
Reply:This is a LOT more alarming

http://www.dhmo.org/
Reply:I'm pretty sure they are a parody of biblical literalists. Although I am surprised they expect to be taken seriously.
Reply:It's like Christianity for hillbillies. That sure is strange. Makes me look at trailer parks in a whole new...light.
Reply:You don't believe the bible when it says the earth has 4 corners?
Reply:They aren't serious. If they are, they're insane. How can you dispute the world isn't round when there aren't any corners?
Reply:Thanks for posting the site. I had no idea there was such a group. I'll try to comment on this if I can stop laughing long enough. LOL!

I'm completely unable to respect their beliefs. Respect isn't given, it's earned and they could never earn my respect because it's just too ridiculous. I simply have to believe that it's a joke or someone trying to make a point!

You're a very kind person and I've enjoyed your question very much.....Blessings!
Reply:Im a christian, and i try to stay away from saying stupid statements about whose with the devil and all... but i believe in God because hes real. Your probly just sitting there listing me off as another stupid jesus freak who runs around the street yelling at people saying they're going to hell. And yes, some christians are like that. But most christians believe in a relationship with god (your thinking: man this guy really is freaky). Theres a video, its called the gospel journy, and it takes you through what we believe. The pastor in it is truly teaching to several people with different backrounds, most of whom dont believe in jesus. Greg just shows them what christianitys all about, and gives them the choice of believing or not. You should check it out.
Reply:put simply, yes , they take themselves seriously and expect others to also, else their loving god will bash you with his invisible stick
Reply:That website is brilliant. I love it!

Read up on the God/Baseball/Square Earth connection, then go to http://pw1.netcom.com/~rogermw/vegetable... for Biblical evidence that vegetables are evil.
Reply:There are some pretty baffling beliefs out there. I don't normally do links, but I do know that there is/was a Flat Earth society, too. Weirdness.
Reply:not quit sure about this
Reply:1. I have read theories there is an electrical grid surrounding to the Earth to quarantine the population, with four or eight or twelve sides. (scientology anyone), I do believe what Half God Half Ape is saying is plausable. There may be many more dimensions to the Earth than we can understand at this time.

2. 0therwise, just laugh. I'm not convinced either way.

3. I respect their belief, ultimately it is just an illusion anyway.
Reply:Well, some people are just stupid. There is no help for them. BTW, there is no rule that we have to respect stupidity.
Reply:As an Orthodox Jew I think that this is pure bull ****.

Joe
Reply:LOL. I've heard of the flat earth society, and that was bad enough. But the square earth society? Oh lawd, that one has to be a joke.
Reply:LOL! RETARDS!

Why cant people be a little more complicated than what they are already?

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people are always the same, its always the same identity in a different person, its like there isnt enough identities going around its always the same thing, like, theres only like 5 kind of persons, you can be a rebel, who are the only people that kinda know themselves and know what they want, or you can be a gothic wich they dont know what do they want and its not because of them, its because of people around them make them be who they are, you can be a raper wich they dont really know who the heck they are because they dont even have a special identiy cuz they are always changing it to make people like them, and people are so stupid that they do, what i can say about it is that they are the more ignorants ones, because they are the ones who more like to make people feel bad, wich is them who make goth people be who they are and so does the rebel people who doesnt care about anything because they have learned more than what they had to, then they make someone feel in pain and get to%26gt;

Why cant people be a little more complicated than what they are already?
Why is it that you feel you need to worry so much about others?

The only person you need to please and be pleased with is yourself.

Stop worrying about things you have no control over.
Reply:Umm yeah:) I think u should talk to a doctor cus ur making the world way more complicated. There are lots of different people, u just need to look deep inside them to find that out.Just stop worrying cus now u made me upset
Reply:Well you anwers your own question.
Reply:IT ALL DEPENDS ON TRUST. Don't you get PEOPLE ARE COMPLICATED!!! You look at them and you see a 2 dimensional character. Did you ever think that is just the side they present to you. We are different things, to different people. When you get to know people they begin to trust you more, therefore they start to reveal more about themselves. The human behavior is like an onion there are so much layers, just waiting to be discovered!! Obviously you are not going to find a lot of people out there, just waiting to bare their souls out to the world. The reason for this, is because most people are very insecure with themselves and think their inadequate.

So people are complicated!!! It's just hidden sometimes!!

Remember: "We are all humans!! Just like you and just like I. We breathe the same air, if you cut us we will bleed, and are emotions are not numbed!!"

Just remember it is all about the trust levels!!

Good Luck with your journey into the human behavior!!.. :)
Reply:Do you have a PH.D ..does that make you a people expert..you left out the serial killers and getto ppl and mexican's and blacks..and whites and RASIST..i MEAN if you are going to sterotype and sound like a FOOL than say them all..I mean..you sound like a hater so make it worth talking about..HATER..I'm not a hater..and you should not put ppl in groups you have a right for self expression but..keep it REAL..

Are Black people the new kkk?

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Before I start ranting about the way I am mad at some people I would like to state that I am not racist...I think black people should have the same rights as white people AND the same standards to be held to...

-Don Imus - Just because he said something about black people does not mean he needs to be fired and attacked....The black activists should mind their buisness and stay out of other peoples battles...

-WET? I don't think so ...but BET is plenty acceptable...

-Holding white people to higher standards and jumping on every remark they make is not the way to end diversity...It is only making it worse, It is a cheap move and I for one will not accept it....

Please post things about any race you want that makes you mad...this is not just about black people and its not just about any other race...Discuss what some people are allowed to do and say and what some aren't...

Are Black people the new kkk?
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Reply:WET=CMT
Reply:There are things like BET because black people have their own culture. They should have these seperate things because they have invented and introduced new cultures that are very much a part of America. And you know what? They aren't telling us we can't listen to rap or endulge in their culture just because we're white, asian, etc. They share their inventions with us very generously with little racism involved.

Maybe the reason you're seeing all these white people be jumped on by African Americans is because they're using a words or phrases they had invented to demeen and degrade african americans 100 years ago or so.
Reply:how the hell can you say that type of shyt when we get talked about every damn day on here and nobody says shyt about you whites.

.I know you didnt mean KKK literally im not stupid,and naw we dont do that its you guys WHY ARE YOU EVEN ASKIN this shyt when you just told me "yes you all do" shut your *** up you just want to look at what you wanna hear
Reply:no, black people are not the new KKK. if history serves me right I have not heard black people get together to murder white people because we want them out of the country. I think this "white man playing victim" is getting out of hand and ridiculous
Reply:BET is owned by Viacom along with MTV. I wouldn't be against a Black station though. Why does anyone think we want to watch programs of other cultures 24/7? It's not racist to show positive images of your group. TVone has potential, but re-runs aren't gonna cut it.
Reply:You are racist. Blacks are very fair.

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People Eating People?

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Well ever heard of the (true) story where people were stuck on a mountain in the alpes and had nothing to eat but dead human meat(the people who died in a crash). They get hungry have nothing to eat and decide to eat the meat of the people who died on the crash in order to live.

Well does anyone have an answer thats in the bible or closely related as to wither it's ok or not to eat the meat of those people. I personally would rather die then eat a person but it would ease my mind to have a yes or no answer.

here are a few things i heard from people

-*Romans 14:14-16

-it's fine because it's flesh and it will just become dust anyways

-*That's nasty!

-*If that person has aids or something don't do it.

any answer is hopefully helpful thanks!

People Eating People?
right now I could say that I would definatly not.

But who knows what would happen if you got that hungry.

I'm sure God doesn't smile upon it, but i know he'd forgive you in those circumstances.

I think I'd rather die though personally, or even eat plants or dirt that was in the area.

eating people would be so nasty!

unless your Hannibal...
Reply:Well, well, what an idiotic comment. I would expect better from you, Clarice... Report It

Reply:It was in the Andes following a plane crash and some of the people were soccer players who actually ate flesh from team mates. there was a movie about the incient. Alive (1993)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01...

A similar incident occcured happened in Donner Pass in february of 1847. Report It

Reply:Yes I would. I am not saying that I would be proud or that I would be happy about it, but if it meant living or dieing I choose life.
Reply:If you don't like it, you can always order something else.
Reply:There is a mentallity that goes along with cannibalism -- it is usually the weak minded. Remeber though that these men could eat or starve to death. They did not eat it because of a like for human flesh. Even Domeer repented for his cannibalism. I do not have scripture I will edit my answer later with it.
Reply:It's no different that eating a cow or a bug. Just cook it really well and use a flavor of BBQ sauce that you like.

Have you ever seen the movie Alive?
Reply:In an emergency situation, where a person has left his body behind on the EARTH for good(what we call death), it would be O.K. if you could do it. But remember, thou shall not kill!!!!!!
Reply:People who eat people are the luckiest people in the world.
Reply:The bible doesn't really cover the issue, so I don't think that it condemns what they did. They did what they had to do.

I bet that they thought they'd rather die in those circumstance until it actually occurred, and ended up starving to death. I believe that we never truly know how we'll act until l things happen.
Reply:you do what you have to do to survive... tastes like chicken really
Reply:well if you don't eat you don't **** and if you don't **** you know, animals eat there Owen kind and we are only animals who have evolved, it is survival, so if it came to the point that every thing had gone and the only thing left was the body's the deceased...it is your choice

Why don't people every try to start friendships or conversations with me?

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Why don't I meet other people who are looking for new friends? Like people I don't know never start talking to me like I do with them. People I have never met. Whenever I ask for advise I am told to be outgoing, so i do that but other people are never outgoing to me.

I'm was very shy but have pushed myself out of it. I try to meet people and make friends but it seems like I am the only one trying. What I mean is I talk to people in class and such all the time, but no one ever starts a conversation with me. I don't mind doing it, but always having to be the one to do it gets tiring and is confusing me. Are most people uninterested in makeing more friends? Do they have all the friends they want? Are there many people who are looking for friends?

(I don't smell bad)

I'm not pushy, most of the time i ask people if they like this class.

Why don't people every try to start friendships or conversations with me?
Maybe is the approach u r adopting. Sometimes, ppl feel arward when someone approach them in an unnatural manner.

I always believe there r lots of ppl who is friendly to meet up with u, the only things is r u in the right place and time?

A pointer, when making friends , try to be as natural as possible and subtle, don't not make them feel like u r doing it intentionally, otherwise u looks like weirdo t them instead. Gd luck. cheers!
Reply:Friends are like mirrors you can see yourself in them.
Reply:i have somewhat the same problem. except for the part that you try to make friends and i don't. i want to make friend but i am shy. some say i look mean and i laugh because i am not a mean person. sure i can be really mean but i don't show it to my friends. maybe you have the same problem as me "the mean look"
Reply:Well, maybe they just don't seem comfortable talking to you. Try to look more happy!

But you know what? It's probably nothing.....maybe it's just a coincidence.....just keep trying to make friends!
Reply:People are generally reserve and usually keep within their own cycle. Only once in a while that they break free from their circle to interact with another, this is because of need due to business or advantage in another circle.

People are inert, you don't push or kick them, they won't move. Nudge them a little and they will talk to you, I guess you would have to initiaite the ice breaker then ^_^.
Reply:you have to be the one to start the conversation introdouce yourself to them.
Reply:Do you have any abnomaties or growths? Facial hair? Are you ugly? If you arn't then maybe you just have a terrible personality.
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Reply:Hey I know for a fact every single person at my school would want a cool new friend so never give up. Hell, If you sarted talkin to me we'd become good friends and I think most people are like to so I dont know whats the problem.. Maybe you just unfortunantly picked a bunch of wrong people. Keep going Im sure you'll make wonderful friends
Reply:I had a hard time making friends in school too. I'm now 32, and I still have a hard time making friends. Most people these days have their own family, their own friends already established and they have their own lives. A lot of them have friends from elementary school,and they remain friends all through school. Some people don't meet friends until high school and they stay friends through adulthood. I met my friends in high school. I only had two true friends and we are still friends to this day. All the other people who I made friends with through life have either moved on somewhere else and I never here from them again, or they only contact me once in a while. You can still have friends, but they are not always going to be what you think they should be. I know it sounds confusing, but you will understand better when you get older. For now, if you want to try to make new friends, just say hi, How are you today. I don't think I'd ask if they like the class. Just saying Hi is enough. If they want to talk to you they will. If not, that's their loss.
Reply:they probably dont want to talk? im like that, i dont want to strangers that just comes up and says stuff to me.
Reply:To have a friend you must be a friend. Quit acting like your better than everyone else. Look people in the eye when you have a conversation with them...like your interested, you will soon have friends. Dont keep talking about yourself.
Reply:Maybe to some people you come on to strong. Try to be cool and just say hi nice to meet you,or just be yourself and if they don't like you, oh well something is probably wrong with them.
Reply:Most of the people are shy too, you just cant see from outside.

I have same experience as you. Keep trying. Good Luck.

Add me to msn or e-mail if u want, maybe we can talk about this.

freeman71386@yahoo.com.hk
Reply:i want to be your friend : D

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Reply:because a lot of people are just plain rude these days .. most talk to people because they want help with something, or they want to know something. At least that's in my experience! I remember at time when you could strike up a conversation with someone at a bus stop, now a days if you do that the other person looks at you like your sh*t and if you're not careful you could get hit!! What's wrong with the world today, why are people so mean to one another? *sniff*
Reply:Maybe they think you are an ugly weirdo. People sometimes don't talk and/or ignore ugly people that have a weird thing about them.
Reply:dont try too hard and just be yourself
Reply:i hink i already answer this question so ill just put what i did last time, contrerasamuel@yahoo.com email me im in school to on my way to highschool in the next year
Reply:Are you "too" outgoing, and get into details about your personal life 2 minutes after you meet someone? I've seeing people like this and it really turns potential "friends" off.
Reply:maybe they are shy as well? Or maybe they are intimidated by you? I always thought I was very nice and then my sister informed me that I can be a bit intimidating... I never knew!
Reply:I was a quiet girl who hung around the wrong crowd but now that I am older I feel similar, at work people are always laughing and talking , noone really iniates a conversation with somertimes I will slyly ease my way to be included.
Reply:Because you want friends so bad, no one is coming to your rescue. People can sense when someone is trying so hard for something. Most of the time that's a turn off. Relax. Don't try so hard and you will have friends in no time. What are you talking about anyway besides class? Try to talk about stuff that is interesting. A new movie? TV? Sports? Fashion? These topics should start some meaningful conversations and hopefully many friendships. Good Luck.

Why are people are so mean and hateful.....?

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Were people always like this? It seems like people are so rude lately. It's like everyone is out for themselves and has a "whats in it for me" attitude. People don' care about others. Especially on here people are so blatantly mean to other people- they are insulting and can be downright cruel. Road rage is getting out of control-- manners don't matter anymore...people are impatient and always in a hurry---of course, I know that this doesn't apply to everyone and I'm generalizing but it just seems like times have changed so much and people have lost all respect and compassion for other people. Lots of self-centerdness. What's going on?

Why are people are so mean and hateful.....?
It's not so much the people as it is the standards that get lowered whith each generation . . . one can get use to

anything if need be for there survival, so much so that if

that way of survival is threatened we all go balistic . . .

Think of this, why is it that young people go to there peers

instead of going to some who is older for advice . . . such

as ther parents or teachers or just some older person . . .

if you wanted to learn an instrument who would you go to some one who's been playing 20 minutes or 20

years?

we don't have to look hard to see that even the most docile

person can break out into a rage given the right provocation.

look at what goes today, every body is offended by either

some one or some thing, this offends me that offends me

so we relinquish this and ban that, and what do you hear

alot of? when i was your age i never did that or the oppisite

when i get to be that age i'll never be like that, no you won't

you'll be worse because the thruth is little by little we're all

a prouduct of the what came before us so in order to improve

things we think banning things will cure the situation, never

realizinng that all we're realy doing is confirming that old

saying, " The More Things Change The More They Stay The

Same " all we're realy doing in plain english, is getting more

and more pissed off at our selves, and blaming every one else for it, like smashing the mirror cause we don't like what we see in it . . .

If one realy studie's life from when it first began do you realy think you won't discover thruths that have been covered up?

ah but there in lies the secret, what is now has always been

and will continue to be, young people will grow old and have to live with there own dirty little secrets just as older people do now and you can bet your @ss your kids will tell you where

to get off eventually when they come up with new ways to

set new standards of survival which will be even lower than todays . . .

Accept anything and eventually anything will be acceptable.

allow any type of behaviour and that will be the blueprint for

future generations to come . . .

interfer with that blue print, and mark my words, what we

call hate and war now, and non tolerance of each other,

will pale in comparison as to what's waiting in the wings

for any one unfortuneate enough be around then . . .

forget the meek inheriting the earth, at the rate we're

going with all the hate and spite and falseities that we

pass off as love and compassion, they won't need to

freaking inherit it, they'll own it . . .
Reply:ty 4 your choice great question and well presented i might add . . .and your not alone in your thinking or observation . . . take care . . . Report It

Reply:This is not a recent phenomenon. People have been that way for ages. Why each people are mean is up to each individual, there is no one right answer.

Besides, this has been asked a million times here. Next time just see what those other answers were.
Reply:Troublesome people are people in trouble. There have always been bullies and bigots. There have always been enclaves of gentility.

Much of what you are seeing today are people turned into pressure cookers because of the difficulty of earning a living. Many don't want to work, or can't find work. Others are going without sleep to work two jobs. Or, working at a job they don't like. They are fighting with the bad choices they made in a marriage partner. Add in a snootful of drugs or alcohol and you have a powder keg. A cloud hanging over all of it is a cultural mindset that one is not responsible for their lot in life. It is always someone else who is to blame. When they are ready to explode they grab a beer and dial up Yahoo Answers and we all pay for it.
Reply:Bella, it may seem that way sometimes, but in actuality it isn't. Now obviously over in the Middle East, they've been fighting forever and for what, I don't know. I am surprised they haven't wiped themselves out yet. 15-30 people lose their lives a day over there. At least it seems that way. If more people live by my motto, "Treat people like you want to be treated" then things would be much better. In the broader scheme of things, you sometimes have to look at the little things to see the overall goodness of life.
Reply:Everybody these days are taking everything for granted. They're eating out not thinking about how fat you can get. They waste paper thinking that trees grow everyday. Not really, they're getting bulldozed all the time for new malls, resteraunts, and whatever. Everybody just doesn't know what they're doing. They'll hear about the war in Iraq and think, "Damn, I-raq-ians!! Having all of that oil and making us spend more money." They're all also ignorant, some people won't even try pronouncing a name that's easy to say. It gets to me too, but, what can you do? Really, how do you change 3 million people's ways? I think it's more.....
Reply:Because their parents failed in raising them.
Reply:Although I don't have a direct answer for your question, but just remember that the sun shines on the just and the unjust, and the rain fall upon the just and the unjust.

and

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. [Proverbs 28:4]
Reply:With the invent of the internet now everybody with a computer or access to it has a chance to vent their pent up and suppressed feelings towards the world and don't have to pay a fortune to express it on TV. or have it edited by the newspapers editor.  Places like this allow anyone to say anything to anyone who leave themselves open for criticism. Everyone is fair game and they usually get both barrels. SO dont ask a question if you can't handle the answer. If it offends one to read a question then you've triggered a response they have been holding back for a long time. And if you get an answer that offends you then you know what your personality is like. It's not weather or not either one of you is right or wrong.  Think of it as the cheapest THERAPY IN THE WORLD. You get to ask a question and you get to see the results unless YAHOO suppress it too....   The Internet chats are just global cafeterias, people get to sit and chat and learn the thinking of millions of other humans on the planet in an relatively protected and uncensored environment. This somewhat anonymous safe zone allows a comfort and freedom unlike no other. Hooray for the internet. Now you can experience the world with out having any or much fear interacting with strangers. It will bring the humans together as one this I firmly believe, its just gonna take a while. As you can see in your question alone people are STILL offended by other humans, We first have to over come this roadblock if we intend to be viewed as one race, The HUMAN race... and not separated by countries, language, culture, or color... YES the humans sure do know how to hurt one another this much is certain, but the real trick is teaching them how to love and accept each other... SO far we haven't even scratched the surface... someday though it will win out and all will be nice. Till then dont let words get your down life is far too short for this. Live Love %26amp; Laugh, all who view this as stupid know just how far they have to go to heal.... Love to all take care and TEACH ONE ANOTHER HOW TO GET ALONG BECAUSE WE ALREADY KNOW HOW NOT TO.... SMILE.

Why do people do this to me?

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Why do people hurt me? i don't get it. i tell them to please not ask about my personally life. and people do if i don't reply to the qustion they become all "wtf bicth?" about it. like i don't want to be know as that. but i can't stand it. i hate talking about MY PERSONALLY LIFE! i hate talking about my past or if i'm sick. i just don't like talking about it. i like talking about boys and other things. yet people bring it up and fight and yell and make it into a drama about why i wont talk about it. and then they add lies and other things!! why do people like to do this? its not about them. my dad, my heathly everything like that isn't about them, they shouldn't care about it. i hate it caz people wont talk to me caz people said i'm to "stuck up" and stuff and i talk about other people thats why i don't talk about things like that. if they only.. if they only lived in my house. or was me they would understand!!! i don't know why people feel like hurting me thorw. at school!! AHHHHHHHHH

Why do people do this to me?
idk. ppl judge ppl too much by what they've done. but i have to admit, that i am the same way. i don't like talkign about my past %26amp; i wouldn't judge you if you needed to talk to someone. you can e-mail me anytime you want. we can talk about anything.
Reply:YOUR TO NICE OR YOU JUST LET THEM TREAT YOU ANYWAY THEY WANT STAND UP FOR YOUR SELF
Reply:you could say something but the things you don't want people to know don't say. don't tell them things that will hurt you if they repeat it. its MFEM of their business keep it to your self.

they don't need to know everything.

changing the subject is good

shoe materials

3 People, 10 Truths (equal oportunity - everybody gets a whack)?

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10 Truths Black And Hispanic People Know, But White People Won't Admit:

1. Elvis is dead.

2. Jesus was not white.

3. Rap music is here to stay.

4. Kissing your pet is not cute or clean.

5. Skinny does not equal sexy.

6. Thomas Jefferson had black children.

7. A 5-year-child is too big for a stroller.

8. N'Sync will never hold a candle to the Jackson 5.

9. An occasional butt-whooping helps a child stay in line.

10. Having your children curse you out in public is not normal.

10 Truths White And Black People Know, But Hispanic People Won't Admit:

1. Hickeys are not attractive.

2. Chicken is food, not a roommate.

3. Jesus is not a name for your son.

4. Men don't wear hair nets.

5. Maria is a name but not for every other daughter.

6. "Jump out and run" is not a substitute for car insurance.

7. 10 people to a car is considered too many.

8. Buttoning just the top button of your shirt is a bad fashion statement.

9. Mami and Papi can't possibly be the nickname of every person in your family.

10. Letting your children run wildly through the store is not normal.

10 Truths White And Hispanic People Know, But Black People Won't Admit:

1. O.J. did it.

2. Tupac is dead.

3. Teeth should not be decorated.

4. Weddings should start on time.

5. Your pastor doesn't know everything.

6. Jesse Jackson will never be president.

7. Red is not a Kool-aid flavor, it's a color.

8. Church does not require expensive clothes.

9. Crown Royal bags are meant to be thrown away.

10. Your rims and sound system should not be worth more than your car.

3 People, 10 Truths (equal oportunity - everybody gets a whack)?
OK, you got my attention now.
Reply:rotflmfao
Reply:I love love love it, i haven't heard anything this ****** funny in ages and what makes it even better is everything's true... but you forgot two other things

*It's not cool to walk talk and act black if you aren't

*You can't show a girl how strong your pimp hand is, if you aren't a pimp...

Anywayz, we all need more stuff from you, pleeeeeaaassssseeeeeee come back again =) x
Reply:Well, then! LOL. LOL. Now we do know! LOL.
Reply:Much better. At least this one is Equal Offensive Opportunity!
Reply:lmao @ oj did it
Reply:LOL my favorite one on the koolaid and the mami papi thing, lol!
Reply:nice Praying mantis on your picture..i love those creatures

Why people don't evacuate when there is potentially dangerous hurricane?

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I don't understand these people. They did polls on the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season and most don't have a plan or would defy evacuation. Another example is when Hurricane Katrina. The day before landfall city officals along the Gulf Coast issued mandatory evacuation orders and I got to you I believe they did everything they could to prepare the city and the freaking people won't evacuate. PEOPLE WHEN A CATEGORY 5 IS HEADED FOR YOUR AREA LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... I MEAN HOW PEOPLE DOES IT HAVE TO GET TO GET YOU TO LISTEN. When Katrina was coming on shore people kept calling emergency officals crying that the storm surge is rushing into their homes. You wouldn't be crying if you evacuated. Now 2 years later people still don't have a plan. For all the people answering let me tell you this NOW and listen carefully: GOD IS GOING TO TEACH YOU A LESSON. He is a going send a hurricane more destructive than Katrina. It could be this year or next year but be prepared.

Why people don't evacuate when there is potentially dangerous hurricane?
I agree 100%. I followed Katrina ever since she took a turn into the Gulf, and knew it was going to be trouble, with the extreme warm waters to fuel it's fury. I knew if and when she took a turn towards New Orleans it would be especially tragic, considering it's low sea level. Living in NO is like living in a large soup bowl. For this reason, it was probably the worst major city along the coast it could have hit. I remember even saying to myself, "anyone who stays and thinks they can ride this one out is very, very ignorant."

I was right. People were warned this was the storm of the century, and yet they still stayed - thinking they could defy the power of nature.

Being poor with no car is no excuse. Even if I had to walk by foot on the interstate out of there, with nothing but the shirt on my back and the child on my hip, you better believe that's what I'm doing to save myself and my family. They chose not to save themselves before the storm.

Having pets is no excuse. I have two dogs that I love like they are family. But, if it came down to me making the choice to get on that bus with my kids and live or die with my dogs, I'm choosing my children and life. Still, they chose not to save themselves.

Being uninformed is no excuse. Days before it hit, every available communication device from radio to internet was nothing but warnings and information. The national guardsmen were even going door to door to warn, beg people to go, and sign disclaimers stating that they were at their own risk. Emergency services were announcing that it would be days before they would be able to get to anyone, and not to rely on 911 or outside help because of dangerous conditions. Still, they chose to ride it out.

But yet, in the end, fingers were pointed, the race card was pulled, and they blamed everyone for the tragedy but themselves. Even worse, a good number decided it was the perfect time to defraud the very people who were trying to help them.

The moral of the Katrina story should have been, to always be prepared and have an evacuation plan if you live near the coast. I have a waterproof box that I keep a second set of ID, passports, important documents, an extra set of keys to both my cars, extra changes of clothes, food, water, and cash in. So if anything were to happen suddenly, I can grab my family and that box and I'm gone. No one should ever expect anyone to save you, assume some personal responsibility and save yourself.
Reply:Some people don't have the resources to leave. The local governments need to make plans. Texas had a great response. New Oleans needed to do more. The flooded school buses were a sad sight. They could have been used to evacuate those people left behind. I left when Rita came in, because the predicted strength at the time was not something I wanted to go through. I live in one of the highest areas in my neighborhood and do not need to worry about surge unless the storm is a 5, but will leave for anything larger that a 3 or potential to strengthen to plus 3 before landfall. If I was closer to the coast. I would leave for a lower strength.
Reply:a lot of people were not able to leave because of lack of transportation and money. they went to the superdome (like they were told) and look what happened there. and a lot of people don't leave because they've lived there their whole lives and never had to leave before. yes, a mandatory evacuation was ordered for katrnia, but it was the day before landfall. not much you can do in a day. try sitting in a car for 20 hours in standstill traffic to get to texas when it usually only takes a few hours. and there's also the problem of having nowhere to go. if you don't have family somewhere else you're screwed because all hotels will be booked. so it's very hard to have a well thought out plan. and the city did not do everything they could to prepare, because if they did they would have had transportation for people to get out before hand.
Reply:A lot of them don't have the funds to do anything but walk out of the area with their own two feet
Reply:I sure would evacuate. Then I'd get the heck out of there pronto.
Reply:A lot of them don't have the funds to do anything but walk out of the area with their own two feet. Do not assume that everyone is as well off as you are and have access to a car.
Reply:I've written a book, now in its third edition, about hurricane preparations for sailors, so I know a little about this subject.

I'll agree with a lot of the other posters, including karma

but I would like to add that people don't evacuate because, until they go through a storm they really don't in their guts know how bad it can be.......they don't know that wind force goes up as the square of the speed...they think 100 is 2 x 50; its not, its 4 times; 120 is NINE times that of 40; few people KNOW that a one foot wave of water will knock you down and a two foot wall will rip your house off its foundation.......

I will guarantee you that anyone who lived through Katrina.or Opal or Hugo or whatever will be on the road this year..

now, down here in the Caribbean, we all live on islands so evacuation just isn't an option, but that's another story.......
Reply:A lot of people do not think that it will be as bad as it is or have no mode of transprtation out of the area or they are attached to their life and cannot imagine it gone, just washed away, so they think that if they stay then the hurricane will not affect them. It is the fact that if they evacuate they will come back to nothing so why not just go with your life, if you are not going to have a life when you come back what is the point of leaving when you can just stay.
Reply:They don't believe it will come to them, or they are afraid, or they believe they can protect a lifetime of accumulation of

'things' with sand bags and wood. Sometimes the reality of a situation is so harse, a person cannot, or refuse to accept the possibility, until it slaps the sh-- out of them.
Reply:a agree with you
Reply:If they don't evacuate, then there is no reason to rush to rescue them and putting the lives of rescuers in danger. I mean if you don't have a car, are you telling me that you don't know a single soul who has one? That you can't even afford a bus ride or a taxi to the shelter? It is a bunch of BS.

Then there are those people who say "Oh I've been here for 80 years and I don't plan on leaving now". Well good for you. See ya. Don't be crying and screaming for help when the hurricane uproots your mobile home.

And I'm with the other commenter, God doesn't send hurricanes. And using God's name for things like this is simply ignorant.
Reply:Do you live on the coast? I don't leave because I don't want my house broken into, and I have alot of animals, shelters don't allow animals. God has nothing to do with hurricanes, We board up all the windows our house was built in the 1930's and is a strong house, it has survived many storms, unlike new houses today that are cheap.
Reply:i agree with you but people cant always afford to leave shop and take a bus ride/plane somewhere it costs money to do that also they dont always somewhere to go to.
Reply:As you can see by the responses, it's a complicated matter.

Having lived in Charleston, SC for 9 years, I can assure you that there is a sort of socio-economic segregation that exists in virtually all of Hurricane Alley, i.e. The South.

Many poor and working class people, usually Black or Hispanic, do not have the means to evacuate. They either do not own a car, or they own a car but cannot afford to evacuate. (When I evacuated for Hurricane Floyd, I spent about $250 on hotels, gas, food, and supplies.)

Other people have the "I survived Hurricane X. So I will ride this one out." mindset. And yes, I feel this is a foolish approach. Hopefully, the horror stories that have come from Katrina will make people think twice about riding out a hurricane. Think it's fun? Watch this video that was filmed by people who probably thought they were going to die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZi1Mk2Nj...

Finally, hurricane landfall forecasting is still not an exact science. And there have been plenty of false alarms that can cause people to develop evacuation fatigue. In 1996, Hurricane Fran made a beeline for Charleston and then at the last minute, turned away. Same for Floyd in 1999, which was supposed to come ashore due south of Charleston, but veered east.

Regardless, it is wise to have an emergency plan since many forecasters are calling for a busy season.

People say that young people don't have manners or respect...but!?

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I open doors for people, let older people on buses first, get up on trains/buses if there are no seats left for older people or people with children...

I usually only ever get dirty looks and no thank you...

I'm 19, and a girl...i make an effort be polite to older people,and i seem to get no respect or anything in return! A thank you costs nothing!

Does any one else get this?

People say that young people don't have manners or respect...but!?
Oh yes, but keep in mind. You were raised to be respectful to elders, and that is getting more and more rare in todays society. Just keep in mind that when you do that, your parents look good. Don't worry about what other people say and do, you can pat a hole in your back that you did what was right. Kudos to you.
Reply:I have no idea why people have a problem with younger people being nice. I've had better manners then people twice my age since I was eleven years old. My friends used to stare at me when I held a door open for someone or helped an older person get on or off a bus.
Reply:Good for you, you are obviously a polite well mannered young person.

The problem lies with the other person not you, and to answer your question I believe that young people do have manners and respect, unfortunately they can be a little too selective when they choose to use those qualities. Secondly I sometimes get the same response as you from the elderly and I am 44 years old. Don't worry it is not an exclusive thing to you.

Keep up the good work, it will get noticed even if you don't think it does.

Well done.
Reply:Thankyou.
Reply:You're so right! People are very rude. The other night we were kept awake by a guy who parked his car outside our house with his cd player on full blast. Singing loudly to the music for hours. To Country and Western! So how old was he????

There's no age barrier to bad manners. It's how you were brought up, I think. So your parents did you proud. Well done.
Reply:I'm 18 and I get that too, I get the odd thanks but not very often. All old people think we want something in return or are goin to mug them. Fair enough males might but us girls are jus poilite and are courteous to our elders and so we should be.

Hope u get sum thanks soon :-D
Reply:your true politeness will be tested when you can still be polite while others are rude to you. It's hard, but it feels better afterwards, for having clear conscience. Sometimes the crowd is just plain wrong. Cheer up girl.
Reply:Hiya you are a breath of fresh air, and sadly these days rare,you must know yourself that the sad yobs have put terror into many people,but it is just very rude if you are not thanked for being kind,it's not only rude but sad,as you say it costs nothing to be nice,it is FREE,so please don't change just stay the way you are,as you are a symbol of how kind us British are
Reply:Nah pet it's not you it's them. They expect you to be rude so they prejudge you.... My gran does it all the time. People are just generally rude and defensive.

I'm 32 and I get it a lot as well. I look at it as long as you know you've been polite than that's all that matters.I don't wish to tar everyone with the same brush but the further south you get the more ruder they get.
Reply:As a soon-to-be "old git', I always appreciate, and show consideration for others. Whilst there are some well behaved young'uns, like you, the fact is that the majority are not. Have you ever been on a bus full of schoolkids? Nightmare! Some older people may be naturally miserable, or withdrawn(many live a lonely life) - others are conditioned/accustomed to bad behaviour, and may be surprised by a sudden show of courtesy. I don't see much difference between the north and south, though.
Reply:others who are not hurt.the ones who are...polite..just contine been who you are
Reply:not really... sometimes, though, I do... i'm from asia... but that's just the way some people are... don't get bugged down by them...
Reply:yeah, im the same, i got out of my way being polite to poeple and they dont even acknowledge what you do, thats when i start being rude
Reply:Yes im in scotland, i think older people have less manners than younger people in most cases, if you hold door etc they never say thank you.
Reply:I'm the same age as you, and I was always taught to be respectful to others even if they wouldn't show you the same common courtesy. Some people are going to take your kindness for granted (too bad for them). But if you truly know that you're doing the right thing by being polite, that should be enough to justify your happiness. You know that you're making an effort to be nice to people...you know that you're showing good citizenship...you know that you're being respectful. Even if someone else won't acknowledge it, acknowledge it yourself. And just because someone doesn't acknowledge your kindness doesn't mean you should stop it. There are those who think highly of people like you.

On behalf of those who haven't said thank you, I want to say thank you for being kind to others. You won't believe how many young people like us set bad examples...
Reply:No, what part of the country are you from, the Northeast? That's probably why.
Reply:that is because they do not know how to use them.
Reply:Cant stand it when little old ladies barge you with their shopping trollies cos they want u to move but dont say excuse me!
Reply:Are the thank you's ,inwhich you miss, exspected in your acts. Most acts towards respect are done out of good habits in behavior. It's nice to reciece a thank you, but not exspected. You should have a feeling of gratification that fills your needs.

People that hate America,answer this?

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If you do not live in the US what do you really know about us? What you see on TV,read in newspapers,watching our movies,or perhaps listening to our music,does not really reflect us as a people.Do you really know the freedoms we enjoy here that people in other countries can only dream of having?

You say we have no history and no culture but yet people all over the world try to emulate all that is American.Can you explain that with your snide remarks?I never call people from any country names or make insidious statements about them..I am most surprised at the English,we have copied so much from your country as you onced ruled here long ago.I do not hate England,I do not hate its people.Most of all I think of England as Americas friend and allies.I wonder why you voice so much hatred for the US and its people?

People that hate America,answer this?
it is kind of funny the responses you have gotten for your question. one person says it is not the people it is the government, but the government represents the people, some say our freedoms are being taken and one person accused us of murder (even though he seems to forget that we are at war, and that is what happens in war). perhaps many other countries and their people forget that they receive lots and lots of money from our government. perhaps America should be more frugal in their charity to other countries and reserve it for the allies only
Reply:i'm English and would just like to say that most people here don't hate the people of America, rather the government at this moment, and the teaming of Bush and Blair. also i think Europeans have a different political outlook-mostly being more liberal in outlook.

also, in London, it's American tourists which people get annoyed of, not all of them of course but people only tend to remember the loud or insulting ones, the people who say things like, 'wow, isn't that cute'-pointing at the houses of parliament.

also certain things annoy me like when Fergie from the black eyed peas filmed her debut solo video here called london bridge she filmed it around tower bridge, claiming it's because american's think tower bridge is london bridge- it just showed a slight disrespect to our culture in my view.

mostly you just got to remember we're all different, and different countries will always have different views and i personally would never judge a whole nation on the few Americans i've met, especially when i have American friends who don't act at all like that.

anyway i could say Americans are the same, it can come across you think of Britain in a certain way, like we all speak like the queen, or we're really posh etc. when we're not!!
Reply:I wish you understood its not towards the people....Its towards this govt., many see it as a imperialist regime.....

Why do you consider those who question this govt. policies as UnAmerican? Did you know the Nazis party also called those Germans that opposed the war Anti Nazi? You just can't follow blindly, you must always hold your govt accountable....

I am not comparing America to Nazi Germany, I am simply stating that it is important to always question your govt!
Reply:I am an American living in Argentina, and let me tell you. In foreign countries, in general they really don't blame the people for the horrible things the U.S. government does. They understand that we don't have much of a voice in our own democracy, and that we are being manipulated, and they feel sorry for us sometimes, and they are definitely favorable to our people and our culture. They just don't like the fact that we start wars, and they don't even blame us for it. Here in Argentina, they're not even against the people on the right who, for example, want abortion to be illegal, abortion is illegal here. But they don't like the war, and they don't think we protest enough against it.
Reply:You are right I do not know you. I do not hate Americans. I do not hate other cultures or other countries. I do not discriminate because of colour or religious beliefs. It is the arrogance and the I am better than you attitude that irks me. Sure you put out awesome entertainment, so what? I am not sure how to say this without offending anyone, but as a whole Americans are not well like worldwide. I do not think it is jealousy, it is mainly the way that the U.S insinuate itself in matters that do not concern them. You feel threatened if someone so much as mention the word terrorist, believe me when I say I am sorry for all the lives lost in the attacks of 2001. Nobody ever said that being a superpower was going to be easy. No nation on earth is immune to envy and hatred. Would it be so hard to resolve conflicts by communicating with each other? Forgive me, I digress.

If you believe in yourself, what does it matter what the world think?
Reply:I am an American and like somebody said before, you are not speaking on my behalf. And I really don't believe that other people and nations try to emulate our culture. They have their own. And while I understand that there are many countries that do not have the freedom and luxuries that Americans do, we are NOT the only country. Nor are we the best. I think many others hate the US because of people who have this kind of arrogance. (Not saying that you are arrogant, however the people who say the US is the superior nation of the world.. are)

to below. we should not be the police of the world, thats the problem.
Reply:This should be interesting. I love America, but I'll be keeping an eye out on this one. I suspect 2 things, jealousy, and propaganda. Of course you won't be getting those answers, only the result of what those two things cause.
Reply:we don't hate you Americas you are our Allies and our best friend.
Reply:zclifton2, we may have made those bombs, but we didn't launch them. That's like blaming glock for a drive by shooting. It's not our fault what happened in Lebanon and as MANY people see it, they brought it on themselves for harboring Hezbollah, a known terrorist organization. Please do research before you advertise your stupidity.

I think people mostly hate America because of our big brother mentality. They don't like our cowboy attitude of being the police of the world.
Reply:Maybe it is because America killed over one million Vietnamese, or because America is now militarily in charge of Iraq, and look at all the killing that is going on there. Or check out our destruction of Lebanon. Who is going to rebuild Lebanon?

You realize don't you that those were American made bombs that leveled Lebanon. Don't you?
Reply:just live your life
Reply:I live in U.S and i like it. Everyone outside of U.S probably wants to live here too. Its not that they dont like American ppl, they hate the government and what it is doing to their land. They dont like the fact that U.S has to stick its nose in everything and the fact
Reply:I don't hate America per say, I know that everything in the media is just a stereotype... but I think your ignorant attitude is not doing anything to help your case? FYI: People who hate the USA AREN'T jealous of you.. how egotistical can you be?? I am proud of my nationality and wouldn't be an American if you paid me. People all over the world trying to emulate all that is American?? That is such crap... you say we know nothing about America, but it is obvious from your rant that you know even less about the rest of the world. Heads up to America, you are NOT the only country with freedom, you are the only country that can't shut up about it. Give me a break.

The reason people have bad feelings towards the US is because of the attitude you have just so kindly demonstrated - pride is one thing, arrogance is another.. you are only one of many, many, countries, but you seem to think you are the only one in the world. Your leader is a bumbling idiot (the result of the democracy you are so proud of), US foreign relations is a joke, and you force your culture upon people who want none of it, and then tell them how lucky they are.
Reply:I am an American and you do not speak on my behalf. The arrogance of your statement brings us all into disrepute. Holy Smoke!!!!!
Reply:I believe that some of the US bashing in questions and answers on this site are opportunities to anonymously show off their spite, not withstanding ignorance. I live in Mexico, which is constantly bashed, and we US expats are never blamed for the antics of the Bush cartel and clown show. Our history is respected. With all due respect to my Canadian friends, I find that Canadians on this site are very smug and arrogant.
Reply:Wake up dude, the "freedoms" that you talk about are quickly going away. W and his cronies are turning this country into a fascist state.

I love my country, but I hate what it has become under the fascist rule of W and the Neocons.

Furthermore, Bush has wrecked the good name and image that the United States used to have in the world. By spearheading a foreign policy based upon hubris and arrogance, we have alienated just about every other country on the face of the earth.
Reply:and why most Americans hate Arabs in the middle east..do they know anything about their suffering or pains..dreams or desires...NO..only judging without even looking..
Reply:No culture, No history ? far from true...but you just need to study a little and not accept the already prepared info from the medias.

If America was the same than the one depicted in movies and others mass media...ouch...it would be more dangerous to live there than anywhere on Earth.

A strange thing : if I believe what I have seen on tv, how did I go to US and came back in one piece ?

I do no hate America...In fact, I love America, I bless America everyday. I will always defend America in a talk with friends.

Just because Freedom %26amp; America worth it.

God bless America and its citizens.

If you don't like America...seek why : you will understand that in fact, it is because you hate yourself, your way of life and your country.
Reply:It's not the questioning of the American government it's the constant comparison to Nazis that make them seem anti-American. Really? The Nazis? Hitler didn't give the land back with a democratic government. Whether or not you believe in the war in Iraq, the fact is it would have been over already if the US behaved like the Nazis. They'd be in line or dead.
Reply:Maybe all these American haters should spend a little time in the cemeteries of france ,England and other countries and think of the blood that was given by our GIs during the two world wars.Germany was at England's' door step.We had the lend lest act that made it possible for all the Western Allies to have everything they needed to win.What have we asked in return,Foreign aid ..lol?Germany and Japan would have taken the ME and the Holocaust would have been carried on in those nations.Our loyalty has always been given to the Brits.But now we have a new generation who hate us for our ingenuity and wealth.We share,science,engineering and medical with everyone and ask nothing in return.
Reply:hate who when why
Reply:I hate you... two points... score...!

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Why Do People Support A Criminal US President (Revisited II)?

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This is a poll question. I am not here to argue and waste my time. This question asks only for SHORT answers. Why do some of you people support a criminal US President? Aren't you aware of his lies and the illegal war that is killing innocent Iraqi people? Do you like to see these things happen?

Are you an honorable people, upright, and God fearing?

If the President of your nation lied and your military consequently went into a nation, any nation, and slaughtered it's people. Would you be proud of this?

The way as you can clearly see (I'm sure you're not stupid) for any US president to get his way is to lie about the situation in hopes that he can convince enough people to believe in him and convince enough people to do his bidding and support his cause (do in other people and to do in the opposition, people who may be godly

For the sake of this question and your own reasoning, you need to follow events truthfully and you need to follow the true and accurate reasoning of the law!

Why Do People Support A Criminal US President (Revisited II)?
If Bush has so many crimes, lies and illegal actions against him why doesn't the majority of the democrats in office, including Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and the big Democrat names come together and present the "evidence" they have showing all the crimes, lies and illegal actions of the President to a court?

Answer: Because they have nothing but the hot air that comes out their mouths!

Think about it! If they actually had something against Bush, Cheney, or Petraeus, do you not think they would not have ran directly to the Judicial system with it all instead of talking about it on TV trying to turn the majority of the public against them all?
Reply:For the same reason Hitler had such a huge support base, he knows how to use propaganda to confuse, distract and frighten the citizens.

don't forget, GWB is nothing but a Charlie McCarthy doll on Cheney's lap.
Reply:I do not choose to support a criminal president.

why do you choose to support a congress with an approval rating less than 50 % of the man you falsely call a criminal?
Reply:By your opening accusatory statement, you ARE here to argue and waste time. A legitimate poll question doesn't bait those being polled. You have interjected your own opinion and influenced those who share your opinion to skew this so called poll to your side. This is just a feeble attempt to interject your own, uneducated opinion on some unsuspecting sucker. It's painfully obvious that you aren't seeking to poll anyone, rather you're seeking to argue, waste time, and make statements that have absolutely no facts to back them. Remember this, everyone has an opinion and most of them suck, including yours.
Reply:Your misguided OPINION that he has lied or that the war is illegal doesnt make either a reality. It is fine to disagree with policies or not to like someone but these childish games help no one.
Reply:Bush is an inept idiot.....but just because you dont like his policy does not make his actions criminal......please list the specific law he violted
Reply:People in general do not have time and interest to weigh so many issues.They will elect some one on very few grounds which are peculiar to each person.
Reply:You refered to the law,

Anyone who is accused of the charges you have mentioned in both parts is entitled to be charged, due process, then either aquited or sentenced. He or she is then concidered innocent until proven guilty. I keep hearing about how we are losing our rights in this country and I for one will NOT take away the rights of any American to include the President of the United States.

If these charges were true AND he were convicted you have my full support. I would also include a "vote of no confidence" by the Congress. Don't misunderstand my support for the President as blind, just fair.
Reply:Congress approved the war. It is as much their fault....in fact, we voted them all in to office. That means that it is your fault!

You are a criminal and should be locked up....I hope you like Cuba.
Reply:you wont know who supports Bush until someone tells you. if you think he is criminal that is YOUR opinion.

but realize there will ALWAYS be another point of view. crybaby1
Reply:People support him as they are sticking with the devil they know, since 9/11. I figure lots of people are afraid that if Bush lost power, the new President will pull all the troops out of Iraq and USA will be over run by evil, cheers.
Reply:Bush is the worst president ever - no contest.

That said consider what you are saying.

Many would argue that Bill Clinton committed criminal acts in his sexual voyages and cover up but was seen in the eyes of the world as one of the better presidents. Many people and governments still see him as that!!

So if Bill was guilty of crime but could save the world would you sack him as president?

Your mistake is using the word criminal - Bush is, and will I am sure, be labeled by historians - the worst President the US has ever had!!!
Reply:So, if I were living in your little fantasy world, this president would be the only world leader who ever lied, who ever went to war, whoever stood up for the rights of those less fortunate? And of course in this little world of yours, you'd have all the right answers, you'd never be wrong, you would always know what's best for everyone, and you'd be able to please all 6 billion plus people on this world? My, my... I'm certainly glad I don't live there. I can't imagine a place where everyone is as perfect as you think you are.
Reply:I don't support him. I agreed with Clinton's impeachment, and call for Bush's impeachment. Impeachment is the only way to find out what "really" happened. Impeachment is not removal from office, but an inquiry into what's happened.

American troops don't want to abandon the Iraqi people.?

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Why They Fight

American troops don't want to abandon the Iraqi people.

by Jeff Emanuel

05/17/2007 12:00:00 AM

Baghdad

THE DEBATE ABOUT the war in Iraq often focuses on America's national security, other countries' opinions of the United States, "what is best for the troops," and, of course, the Bush administration. Only on the rarest of occasions is lip service paid to those who will feel the effects of our decisions on the war most immediately, most acutely, and for the greatest length of time--the Iraqi people. At the end of the day, Americans can, in the short term, simply click off their television sets and forget about the situation in Iraq. For the men, women, and children living there--and the American soldiers fighting for their security--no such option exists.

While in Baghdad, I spoke with many soldiers about the current situation and the effect of the American political debate on their lives and actions. Though their views, like those of American civilians, span the spectrum of possible opinions, most of the troops I met had one thing in common: an understanding that the Iraqis need our help--at least in the near term.

"'It would be a disaster if you leave now'," said Lt. Colonel James Crider, Squadron commander of the 1-4 Cavalry ("Quarter Cav"). "I've had several Iraqis tell me that. They want us here--not forever, but for now, until they can take care of themselves."

"I had people coming up to me as we patrolled the neighborhoods saying, 'We heard you were leaving!'" another officer with Quarter Cav told me. "They don't understand our process; they don't know that this is just rhetoric, or that it will be vetoed. All they know is that the leaders of our Congress said that it's a lost cause, and that our government has voted to pick up and go home."

Such statements by America's political leaders are "terrible," an Army public affairs officer told me. She continued, "I understand political posturing and all that but it really is terrible. If the war is lost and we need to go home, then why do we need to stay here five more months, when I could die or my friends could die before we go home? The war is either over or it isn't; this just doesn't make sense. . . .What we want is to keep helping the people here. The people at home who say these things, they don't understand that these are people who have to live here after we leave, whatever the situation is. These people and the things that happen here aren't real to them, and they can't understand unless they've been here and seen it."

Like many Americans at home, there are some soldiers who would like nothing more than to see the United States end its involvement in Iraq as soon as possible. There are many more, though, who, having established a presence on the ground, and having spent time among the people of Iraq, want to see this mission through to its successful conclusion, not only for America's sake, but for the sake of the people of Iraq whom they have gotten to know during their time in country.

I had a remarkable conversation to this effect with a bespectacled infantry captain, who was on his second tour in Iraq and had been there since just before Gen. Petraeus's confirmation as the new head of MNF-I. We spoke at length about the war, and about the differences between his first tour and now. I asked what he thought about the mission in Iraq, and what he thought our prospects for success were. Gazing pensively at the ground, he took a moment to collect his thoughts, and said, "Well, politically, staying here probably isn't the best decision." Given the situation at home, he added, "winning here seems less possible all the time, even though we're now doing what it is we probably should have been doing all along." Moving on from that moment of near despair, he paused and glanced up, looking earnestly at me through his thick, military-issue glasses, and said, "There's not a single one of my soldiers who doesn't look at the neighborhood we're in, look at the children there, and not want to do whatever they can to give these kids as bright a future as possible. We want to finish this job, and we know we can do it."

Another obstacle to success, though, is the Iraqi people themselves. "What has to happen here," one noncommissioned officer told me, "is that the Iraqi people have to take a chance, risk their lives, and stand up against al Qaeda and everybody else. Once they decide that they want freedom and peace, and want to work with us, then it will all be over. . . . It's easy to live as a coward. If they want to be free, they will have to take the risk."

That risk has finally been taken by a good number of the people in Anbar Province, an area that has seen a turnaround in the past six months that has been nothing short of remarkable. It is happening in a somewhat different way in southwestern Baghdad, in the district of Abu Dischir, where, rather than throwing out the large number of Sadrists present in the area, the people have learned to coexist peacefully both with the sectarian militias and with the Coalition.

Once the example set by these areas is followed by regular Iraqis in all of the other boroughs, quarters, and districts--once the Iraqi people, who are accustomed to being under the thumb of a tyrant, decide once and for all to stand up for themselves--then this war can finally be won, and al Qaeda, the Sadrist hardliners, and the other violent sectarians can be driven out. But only if the American and Iraqi governments maintain the will to do so.

Both sides will have to live with the consequences if the wrong choice is made. The belief amongst so many of the troops I spoke with is that these people deserve a chance at a better way of life, and that we should continue to do everything we can to help rebuild and secure this nation and to smash those who would destroy what the Iraqi people are building.

That after so much work and so much bloodshed we ought now to abandon the Iraqis to their fate is a notion held by almost no one I've encountered here in Iraq; rather, it appears that such ideas are much more common on the home front. What the troops, and the Iraqi people, appear both to want and to need is the support and the resources that will allow them to establish a free and secure state--and, more than anything else, the time to do so successfully.

American troops don't want to abandon the Iraqi people.?
This is more like a book than a question, but I'll try,

First of all, we had no business in Iraq, as they were no threat to our security, and if we left today, they would still be of no threat.

Why are we loosing men and women for Iraq's security, where in our laws or constitution are we obligated to take care of other sovereign nations and their people, and by what right do we take it on ourselves to promote or try to install democratic governments around the world.

When this country of the United States was founded, it was by design to offer sanctuary to those oppressed, yet here we are, invading and oppressing people of other nations. If these Iraq's wanted or desired a democratic government, they should have revolted and fought their own war for such rights,as we did.

We have so many problems right here in this country, there is no justification for wasting our badly needed resources on fiasco's such as Iraq.

Just think, if the United States would by some miracle, spend as much time and money on fixing our society, finding a cure for cancer and other diseases, fixing and maintaining our crumbling infrastructure as they do killing innocent civilians around the world, it would be again the "greatest country in the world". and again looked up to by others. Not until we the people can take back our government as provided in the constitution, this will never happen.
Reply:i hate the 'we shouldn't have gone there' excuse so many here use. it simply has no relevance. we should stay there until the infighting has waned, the borders secured and the right of iraq to survive as a sovereign nation is assured - period.

the 'i don't care about the iraqi people' excuse is even worse.

every innocent life is equally valuable.
Reply:You must be another loyal Bushie spewing all the wrong rhetorics about why we should stay the course in Iraq. If you are truly concern, try and talk personally with soldiers without any superiors in hearing distance. You also forget, that the military personnel are there to serve and obey orders and commands. They are trained not to question their superiors, so don't be using them as your pawns for your Bushie kissing comments.
Reply:It will be disaster if American troops leave Iraq in a hurry. However, there is need to end the insurgency. Situation if much complicated. People of Iraq must overcome their problems.
Reply:YES, This is a FACT!!!
Reply:Very true. I hear about it daily, right out of the very mouths of those who have served. Many have been there more than once.
Reply:Jeff Emanuel is a staff writer for a blog entitled Redstate.com

Do you post anything but blatant propaganda?
Reply:If we were really there to help the children and families, there would be a lot more people from a lot more nations helping us. Humanitarian aid is always popular. What we have is a no win situation - if we stay we lose, if we go we lose. The only question is how many more of our soldiers will we sacrifice before we choose one form of loss over the other.
Reply:Soldiers don't make those decisions, our elected officials do. The job of a member of the armed forces is to do what is ordered of him. Personal feeling, thought and emotions have nothing to do with a mission. Sometimes I wish it were not so, but that is the way it is. When you put your name on the line, you are handing your life over for four years.
Reply:The democrats in power are voting for defeat in iraq. It's good to know that our soldiers know what's right
Reply:Yeah, i agree with you on that. We shouldnt pull out until they (iraqis)are stable. i'm too old to fight in iraq, but i support the troops from home.

hell, i also support the peacemakers over there. I think the iraqi's are learning to stand together, I mean during that last goverment bombing, i noticed they didnt run, they stood together.

When ever i see a soldier over here, i thank them for keeping us free and fighting for the country, wherever they are.
Reply:I've met lots of people in the military who will gladly tell you they want us to get the heck out of there. They just can't say it in the wrong place at the wrong time and they won't tell you that on TV.

Stop using our troops to spread more lies.

the military has a strict code of conduct.

What they tell you and what they really feel are going to be two different things entirely for at least half the people who signed up. There are several reasons for this, the mission, morale, opsec, the list could go on and on.

Go get on military.com and see how excited to stay in Iraq they were then thier deployments were extended!!!
Reply:I'm happy to be paying billions of dollars to protect people that stone young women to death for wearing makeup.
Reply:Thank you!

For some facts.

Most of what we hear is "The Big Lie", by Democrats and their partners in the News Media.

(Democrats learned about the effectiveness of "The Big Lie" from Lennin, Marx, and Stalin.)

Democrats loved Mao, and now they looooove Kim Jong.
Reply:The so-called 'War in Iraq' is primarily between domestic Sunni and Shia factions. This internal struggle will continue, until both sides have had enough, whether U.S. troops leave or stay. The current U.S. troop presence is as an occupation force...and with most occupations will remain a complete mess, placing our troops at unnecessary, illegitimate risk.

Why do people lie about penis size on Yahoo!Answers? Why does everyone say they get straight As?

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People claim to be 14-17 and have 7-9" penises when the average adult male penis is 6" Do people do this to feel better about them selves? There are people who post honestly with real questions about they're size, and there are people who post "claiming to be honest" about if they're penis is big at 7.5-8"

Second thing, I'm not in America but why does almost every teenager I see claim to get straight As? Are straight As that easy for everyone? I know some people speak the truth but others it's ridiculous. Since I joined, everyone who mentioned their grades (maybe 25-45 people) all said, I'm a 4.0 student. If this is so, I'll have to go to America and get easy marks. Where I'm from, people don't get straight As. There is no such thing as an A for art, or an A for creative writing unless you are way beyond gifted. I think American's encourage by giving As, here it's more realistic. People aim higher for the A, not get it for free..... Any comments? Any explanation. No offense to anyone.

Why do people lie about penis size on Yahoo!Answers? Why does everyone say they get straight As?
well, you never know when someone is lying or not, so my theory is take it all with a grain of salt. very few students actually get a 4.0 average. in our whole graduating class there were 2 out of like 350. mine was fair at 3.5, and i consider myself fairly intelligent, though i suck at spelling.

anyway i'll say it, i am 6" and i am a grower not a shower so to see me naked i am very small. depsite this women usually comment on my skills in bed. i am attentive and giving, and i love sex. i suppose a person tends to be good at what they love.
Reply:One may please lie on the bed but not on the Penis!
Reply:they can only dream
Reply:Insecurity and immaturity.
Reply:i dunnoe.. recently.. i didn't get straight A's on a public exam...LOL.... so angry.. i juz got 5A's and 2B's... so angry...

People don't like me...so I think I am going to do everyone a favor and live alone somewhere?

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I know I shouldn't be so self-centered but it's true. I try to help people through volunteer groups and in my daily life with money..shelter..advice..etc. All that happens is that people will take advantage of me. Most peole don't even want my help. I'm mostly a quiet person so that is not conducive of keeping company. all and all I really don't like people as company anymore as crazy as that sounds and I would like to live a life of solitude. What are your opinions on this sort of lifestyle? Some people say that people need human interaction, but I don't feel that is neccesarily true. My docs say that I am depressed...but Ifeel that people just use me and bring me down. of , course he is against it, but no offense but I take everyting I heasr from my shrink with a huge grain of salt

People don't like me...so I think I am going to do everyone a favor and live alone somewhere?
Have you tried taking something for depression or reading self-help or self-esteem books. I once new someone like that, the only thing I couldn't get past about them was the fact they were always down on themselves, complaining about people not liking them or coming down on them. Other than that he was totaly likable. We are no longer friends because of it. He seemed to have really bad self-esteem issues.
Reply:do it and quit whining
Reply:It's true that as humans we do need some interaction. Before going off on your own, I would suggest that you attend counseling and talk to someone about how you are feeling and what you are experiencing. It would be a good move before becoming a hermit. If you aren't doing well with the therapist you are seeing now, could you see a different one? You have to trust them for them to be able to help you. If you take what they say with a grain of salt, I would definitely check on a second opinion.
Reply:Don't move. I'm sure someone likes you.

What about your parents? Siblings? Friends?
Reply:what if people doesn't like U, when a person doesn't see the good intensions that u seem to have, that person has a low self-steam, never give up, one day u'll get a smile and find someone who can apreciate all the things u've done.
Reply:nope, you are not crazy or something. i do feel the way you feel too sometimes. but instead of busy thinking a way for not being used by others, i choose to think of a way to get advantage from them after i'm being used. it's normal i think. people use u, so why don't you use them back? that's called symbiosis (or something like that). and the best interaction is when it benefits both parties right? so, in my oppinion, u just have to let it go when people use u, just use them back instead of grieving. there is no such thing in this world that is free! you help them, then use them. they don't need your help, fine, but if they help you, don't forget to help them back sometimes. :)
Reply:hey there you are depressed. try liking yourself, you don't need others to like you. what is important is the outlook you have about yourself.maybe you should listen to your shrink,
Reply:if you wanted to live a solitary life, you wouldn't feel the need to socialize on yahoo groups with other people. everyone needs someone to accept them for what they are. you just need to find a group of people that you can hang with without judging or being judged. everyone needs someone. even jesus was lonely for heaven sakes.
Reply:Go to a monastery.
Reply:i know how you feel. my problem is low confidence, maybe it is yours too? people take advantage of those with low confidence, especially if they are quiet and helpful. just a thought.
Reply:u don't have to help people all the time to make them love you,be ur self..

helping ppl is avery good thing if u want to , but doing that to make them love u that will not work ,don't try to please ppl by doing things they like , be confident of ur self don't think that if u disagree with ppl that will make them to hate u , i think that will make them respect u and then like u ,ppl like it when u help them but they will like it more when u guide them to help their selves , i said that cuz i can feel that ur the kind of person who push himself to please other ppl more than himself to avoid being hated...

im sure that not every body hate u like what u said but ur extreme kindness attract those type of exploitative and selfish ppl

i dont mean to be a bad person but help ppl who u think they really need ur help,and don't care if they love u or not cuz their the ones who need u,i advise u to change ur surrounding environment if u can by traveling or moving to another area rather than live a life of solitude love urself first then im sure ppl will love u after............THAT WHAT I THINK.............good luck
Reply:i suggest porn
Reply:if you do,can i stay too.
Reply:ok...have a great day
Reply:People dont relly like me either. i am very friendly and unintentionally flirty. i .get on well with guys so i try to make friends with them but because of my flirting guys take me up the wrong way and girls think im a slut. my advice to u is just not care what ppl think. if they dont appreciate u the way you are good and bad points included then they aint worth it are they? you are not depressed just maby a little too sensitive to teh oppinions of people whos oppinions dont matter in the great scheme of things so just consider the oppinions of thouse who matter and the rest can go suck on a lemon :) hope my words were usefull keep ur chin up and be prowd of the caring generous person that you clearly are
Reply:donot do anythig that might harm you.ifeel this is not a good idea.instead i feel u should try talking to people abt ur great help to them.it might be true abt ur depression but one advice is NEVER be depressed as it hurts both mental and physical status. instead convince and retalk to people and also argue a little over matters u should.also dont help people not in need.this makes them take advantage of ur happy survival.

happy and peaceful life ahead.one more thing-dont take everything over yourself and ur mind.just stay calm under certain situations and ignore peoples views abt u cause u know urself better than anyone else.
Reply:Later...
Reply:see , first of move to a different town

start a new school or a job

and listen no point in going to a doc or shrink whom u dont trust..
Reply:I don't want to sound insensitive because I've suffered from depression and I know how it feels, but you need to stop focusing on yourself and whether people like you or not. If people don't like you, that's okay! The important thing is that you love yourself, and by the sound of it, you don't.

There are ALWAYS going to be people that will take advantage of you or who won't like you. It's the same for everyone, love. That's just a fact of life. Don't go into seclusion, because there are people who love you and need you in their lives, because they care about you.

The most important thing I've learned in my recovery (and I'm still in the process) is that you can't focus on yourself constantly. Share your time, talent and sense of fun with other people and before you know it, you'll start feeling better about yourself. There was a time in my life, when I didn't want to get out of bed, I just wanted the world to leave me alone. But you know what? I just ended up being more miserable.

Once I started getting out, focusing on other people and becoming interested in their lives, instead of being preoccupied with mine, or lack of one for that matter, I started feeling better.

I know... I know... this all is a lot easier said than done. It won't be an easy journey, trust me, I know, and you may not even get to the point of a "full recovery" whatever that may be, but you'll certainly feel a lot better about yourself and about life if you do this as opposed to hiding under a rock for the rest of your life. I wish you the best of luck, love. You can do it. Good luck!
Reply:It sounds like you need to find some other people to hang around with. People who show appreciation for the things you do for them and help you when you are down. See if there are any support groups in your area where you can discuss your depression and also be surrounded by people who understand. One resource you could use is the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill they have a website www.nami.org

You can find a local chapter near you or contact your counties mental health board or clinic. Good luck.

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Why do people in Southern California act the way that they do?

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I have lived in So Cal for two years now, and I'am still trying to figure out why people act the way they do down here. I have noticed in my time here that so many people are shallow, stuck-up, and full of themselves. People don't say "Hi" to you when you walk by them in public. Instead, they look the other way. It seems that people really judge others down here, especially by how much money a person has, and what kind of car that person drives. They are also the most rude drivers around. Many people also walk around with a bad attitude. Why are so many people unhappy down here? So Cal is a very beautiful place with the best weather in the country. There is so much to do here. Shoudn't people be happy to be here? I know that I'am and I plan to live here the rest of my life. I know that there are a lot of people here in So Cal that are not like this, but they are a minority, and I would like to know what the hell is going on with the majority, and why do they act the way that they do?

Why do people in Southern California act the way that they do?
you must be from a small town with cold weather.
Reply:they are just too busy i guess...almost all big cities here in the west coast are like that..u have to exert more effort....to say hi....use my 3 strikes rule...say hi 3 times....stop on the 4th if they dont say hi back...lol

Some people when they see a Cockroach and start Jumping ,screaming and running as if their life is going to?

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End.And some people will not only hold Cockroach - they will eat them - why diffrent people react to different people react diffrently to same stimulus ???

Some people call it - Adult educational video -some call it pronography /blue films - why do some people look at it as positive -usefull thing and for some its "Immoral- unethical -"

Some people will not mind slleping with anyone of opposite sex and some people will remaim with one person for life ..why

Whats going on ?????

Some people when they see a Cockroach and start Jumping ,screaming and running as if their life is going to?
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
Reply:To each, their own.
Reply:Because we're all different man, and that's the way it's supposed to be. Thank goodness we're not all alike. Can you even imagine how BORING that would be???
Reply:There are many different reasons why people react differently to the same stimuli. To give the short answer, it varies depending on the experiences of each individual. Culture, religion, beliefs of parents, events that happened in the past, can all have a role in forming an individuals reactions.

Why do people still confuse psychotic disorders/mental illness with intellectual disabilities?

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It's like when you tell someone that you have a psychotic disorder (like: schizophrenia, bipolar, depression, etc.) they think that it's the same as an intellectual disability or formally known as mental retardation? Yes, it's possible for people to have both, but why do people think that people with psychotic disorder can't function? Most can function like normal people if they are on medication. Even some people that are not on medication can function as long as they do not have a severe version of the disorder.

I have nothing against those with intellectual disabilities, but I'm sick of people expecting me to foam at the mouth when I say I have something. Plus, I have met a lot of people with intellectual disabilities and they can function perfectly fine too. Why can't people let go of complete BS?

Why do people still confuse psychotic disorders/mental illness with intellectual disabilities?
because their idiots and they don't know so they assume everything with an illness is mental and call them retards, i hate them 2 words so much
Reply:You give people credit for being more intelligent than they really are. lol

I have OCD and am bi-polar. I agree with what you're saying and have experienced this sort of reaction from people as well. Even doctors treat me like I am "slow". "Oh, you poor, sick, stupid thing." I quickly squash that. :)

I may be ill, but I am FAR from being "slow". I am able to walk, talk, eat with utensils and bathe myself.

Imagine that!

Ignorance is certainly NOT bliss.
Reply:personally and simply I would l say "total ignorance"

When I went for SSD review by a dr. suffering from Major Depression. I was asked if I am so depressed how can I drive or do cognitive skills like math, etc. I said "because I am depressed not retarded!!" I was pissed.

Why do some people think being gay is a sin?

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Hi my friends.I'm a Moslem from Iran. I would say gay people are not born that way.Their environment has caused them to be attracted to the same sex as theirs.So first of all people need to know that being gay is not a sin, nor it is evil.And also it's not a mental illness.It's the way you feel.It's The way you fulfil your sexual needs.There's absolutely nothing you could do to change your feelingsA feeling is not a sin.My best friend is a gay because he hadn't visited many men when he was a child.And he's a very good and kind person,very clever and honest.So being gay is not a sin by itself.The way you choose to fulfil your sexual needs determins wether you commit sins or not.Gay people must agree that in God's law gay-marriage and sexual affairs between men is a mortal sin.But this rule goes for heterosexual people too when they tend to commit evil deeds such as pre-marriage sex.It's against God's law and a mortal sin.But unfortunately some people think because their government allows them to do so it's OK while it's not in God's law.I think no one has the right to hate gay people because they haven't chosen to be that way.Gay people are just like hetrosexual people as long as they don't commit sins.In my mind some heterosexul people must be blamed for the way they choose to fulfil their needs such as pre-marriage sex.So you'll go to heaven if you live honestly and not to let your sexual feelings to control you and make you commit sins.Thanks.

Why do some people think being gay is a sin?
I don't believe anyone would choose to be gay. The prejudice and even violence experienced by gay people is terrible and who would choose to face that.

For those who believe in God, would he really turn his back on a person for something like being Gay?? I don't believe he would.

I believe in equal rights for all.xxx
Reply:Okay let's get something great we all can go to heaven by the grace of God and isn't that nice instead of humans. God is a loving God and I believe if you believe in him then you will go to heaven and the one thing that will keep you out is turning your back on God Report It

Reply:Homosexuality is a sin because between Men the sex act is called Sodomy Or Buggery.

Unclean in Gods eyes.

Christians know all about Sodom %26amp; Germorra. Report It

Reply:You are not born gay, the gay movement started with the coming out of the closet day mess, it's a fad tat attracts people that are confused about their sexuality. I hate to admit it now but our societal values and norms are being dictated by religious hypocrit who now have the means to spread their words of hate, the television.
Reply:Well to answer your question~%26gt; people think homosexuality is a sin because it says in the Bible that it's "a detestable sin". But, we as people have no right to judge others, that should only be left to the Creator when the time comes.
Reply:Being gay isn't a sin. Its just... sick and nasty.
Reply:Nope, you're either born gay or straight. Kinda like being born left-handed or not.

Christians (which I'm not anymore) think the same stuff. Being gay is a sin against God, all that silly, silly nonsense. You are born gay or straight, and as the Seinfeld show said "not that there's anything wrong with that".
Reply:Man-made God laws? Homophobic, sexist, mysogynists translated the bible from its original text. The only laws you need to follow are the 10 commandments. It does not say "homosexuality is a sin" on there.

People often fear what they don't understand, so they run around like that annoying little bishop on the new Casanova movie, meddling in to everyone else's lives.

People who are homosexual, are in fact born that way. They were created by God just like the rest of us were. Don't hate others simply because someone else said so. The biggest accomplishment you can do for yourself is to accept others "just as they are".

Being homosexual is not a choice.

Every human foetus is initially female, which is why men have nipples. If the father's sperm contains a Y chromosome this triggers the mother's body to produce testosterone which happens in two bursts between 6 and 8 weeks into the pregnancy. The first burst causes the male reproductive system to be formed with the clitoris growing to become a penis and the labia closing to form the scrotum.

The second burst changes the wiring of the brain from female to male. We now know that female and male brains are wired differently. Sometimes the second burst does not happen for some reason and the individual is left with a male body and a female brain.

This at least explains why some males are attracted to males.

Why some females are attracted to females is something I have not yet heard a good explanation for. I can only assume that the foetus skipped right to the second burst without developing the body yet. Anything is possible.

Choosing to be homosexual makes no more sense than choosing to be left handed since it brings nothing but disadvantages in life. There is always a motive when someone makes a choice. We can choose what we do but not what we are.

Oh yeah. Forgot to mention. God is more loving an understanding than what hateful people make Him out to be. He loves everyone.

People often fear stepping out and thinking for themselves because of what they were taught. They limit their own thoughts. It must be very suffocating in their limited little world.

Btw, I'm not gay, but i have many friends who are. I love them for their compassion, courage, creativity, and acceptance of everyone.
Reply:the christian holy bible says homosexuality is an abomination to god. this is why it is considered a sin. REMEMBER....hate the sin, NOT the sinner.
Reply:As a Christian I have made the decision to follow, to the best of my human ability, the Words of God.

Now since He says being gay is an abomination I leave it at that.
Reply:As others have said, The Bible says it's a sin so I say it's a sin. Where others are wrong is when they say that we should not judge each other. They need to open their Bibles. We are to judge righteously says God. Which means that we are not judging but rather it is God's word that is judging. Homosexuality is a sin that is called an abomination and two cities, Sodom and Gammorah were uterly destroyed because of it. God also says in the book of Romans that it is a sin. We need to be able to stand up for God's word and rememeber that it is God speaking and not us. Also the reason why you have no problem with it is because you yourself are a sinner. Islam is a man-made religion just like many others and if you continue to follow it and not accept Christ and be baptized you too will go to hell. I do not wish this for anyone so I would recommend picking up a New Testamemt Bible and start reading my friend before Christ comes back or before your life is taken away. Good Luck
Reply:Hmmm...that's a pretty convoluted question if you ask me, but in essence I think you're saying that it's no sin to be born gay (although your first sentence dismisses that as a possibility and blames the environment--huh?), and it's okay so long as you don't "fulfill your sexual needs."

I think there are more similarities between the black/white good/bad rules of the muslim faith and the christian faith than you might imagine, especially given your interpretation of them. And I think you of all people should understand why some people think being gay is a sin. But then again, re-reading your question, I'm not so sure you really understand much of anything.
Reply:THIRD POSTING. it is in the bible that god said that man/womankind would SIN with each other and it is IMMORAL and wrong!
Reply:What does it matter if Religions say it's a sin,gays don't murder thousands in the name of gay,Religions should look at their own sins and move on,gays are hear so live with it and no I'm not gay but I have friends that are.
Reply:It depends from person to person. I think that being gay is normal although I'm not!
Reply:People think being gay is a sin because they are afraid. It's all about fear.
Reply:This is your opinion, and you are entitled to it, and i respect it however, as a christian, i follow the bible and he bible says that it is a sin for a man to lay with a man as a man would lay with a woman. So yes, it is a sin. However, God does not look at this sin or any other as one being worse than another. That is what society has done. So, we are all sinners. And we must all repent to get into heaven. To repent does not mean feel sorry, it means to be sorry and not do it anymore. Sin is Sin, one is no larger than another. Also as a christian it is not my place to judge anyone, that is God's job, so with the measure you use to judge that is the measure God will use to judge us. I do not hate anyone i may not agree with what they do or care for their lifestyle however, I do not hate anyone. To hate is sinful, to judge is sinful. Good luck and God bless.
Reply:I'll answer UR first question as UR question descends in2 rant mode.

Homosexuality is a sin because between Men the sex act is called Sodomy Or Buggery.

Unclean in Gods eyes.

Christians know all about Sodom %26amp; Germorra.

%26amp; yes U're right at the end of UR question it will inevitably come down 2 self-control.

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For people who say believing in Jesus is delusional-I have a question?

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For millions of people who embraced Jesus and it changed there life

Here a few some say Jesus changed there life.

1. Helped them stay away from drugs

2. Gave people in prison a reason to believe they have forgivness

and can become better people

3. Has given people miracle healings

4. Helps people love and forgive better

5. Helps people daily in life with there exsistence in many ways

If this is all delsuion as some say why would people be better off without this delsuion as you say (Although I say it is the Holy Spirit) what is a better way for a person to love, understand forgive have hope without Jesus?

Rememeber Jesus did ot come to the arrogant but for the humble?

So what is it???

For people who say believing in Jesus is delusional-I have a question?
it's called a placebo. people can do all those things with out an imaginary friend
Reply:It depends on WHAT you believe about Jesus. If you believe he was a good man who taught people how to live in peace and harmony and love one another I don't see anything wrong with that. If you believe he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, well thats a fairy tale. As far as the list of things you mentioned - you can do the same with an orange. If people truly believe that an orange can make them a better person, then it will. Why do ya need Jesus?
Reply:So it's OK because everyone is doing it? I manage all of the above without Jesus' help, funnily enough, and I suspect quite a few people do.

Are you suggesting millions of people are incomplete enough in themselves to not manage without him?
Reply:Claiming to be a Christian and actually being one are two different things. "Christian" is a word. it what's on the inside that counts.
Reply:Agreed that delusions may indeed help some people have better lives.
Reply:1. I've seen a lot of Christians relapse into drug use.

2. Everyone gets "Saved" in prison, I think it helps them get paroled faster..

3. Miracle healings? I don't believe in miracles. I think this stuff is faked or would have happened no matter what belief system the person has.

4. Helps people love and forgive better? like the wife that shot her cheating preacher husband? Or the lady in texas that cut her kids arms off?

5. Well it does help us in our daily existance, without the SUN there would be no life on earth. Your belief system is based upon ancient sun worship, basic astronomy, and simple astrology, not to mention ancient mystery schools, and a wide assortment of other pagan practices, and teachings before it. It's a fraud just like every other religion in the world light and dark.
Reply:I think it's sad that people cannot take credit for changing their own life... and that they need to believe in some imaginary friend looking after them to make the right decisions.

I'm atheist, I have stayed away from drugs, never been in prison, I am a happy moral person, I always try to do the right thing, I live a very good life and I have done this without JESUS!
Reply:The same can be said about Krishna. Why do you not believe in him?

(That's right, appeal to emotion and appeal to majority are STILL not logical.)
Reply:I've done all of those things (except the prison thing...and my "miracle" healing was not killing myself when I was completely depressed and a total basket case because of the harm done to me by my religious upbringing) with the help of my friends that I can see and touch and hear.

You rely on an imaginary friend that you can't see, and I rely on the ones that I can. You can believe what you want, and I can believe that you're a silly-head.
Reply:I have seen people turn to Paganism and have the same things happen. I have also seen this in many other faiths. Christians do not have these things alone. So if no other faith is real why do they have all christians do.
Reply:no THEY did that...not god. THEY changed their own life. Your own beliefs say that god gives people free will therefore he/it could not interfere, change, alter, hint, etc. in anyway in any aspect of our lives or he would be proving his existance, which would in turn remove the "free will" to believe or not. People would actually see more beauty if they gave themselves the credit for their own actions instead of a mythical figure.
Reply:The problem is that that delusion has worked with many other things that people have believed in .You could easily take Jesus out and put Athena in and it would still work. If it did work with Jesus and not with anything or anybody else then yes you could say that Jesus had something to with it but since it does work with anything that people believe in the positive results cannot be attributed to Jesus but rather to the positive power of self-delusion.
Reply:1. I am a former drug addict and can tell you that in the Narcotics Anonymous meetings I went to it is based on God. After each meeting we'd say the Serenity prayer. Everyone there was looking to hold onto ANYTHING that they thought could possibly save them, and Jesus was the only thing that people thought could help them. Really, there, Jesus was like a placebo effect. When they thought all was lost, the leaders of the meetings would pretty much brainwash the members into believing in Jesus, thus inducing the placebo effect.

2. In prison, pretty much all there is to do is lift weights, play cards, and goto church services. Of course they're going to do all they can to occupy their minds, so why wouldn't they start believing? Once again, brainwashing.

3. Do you mean when Jesus gave people miracle healings in his time? Or in modern times? Most people don't think that the fact that Jesus existed is delusional. They think the opinion that Jesus was the Son of God and died for our sins is delusional. I believe that Jesus was a special guy. But definitely not the Son of God or died for our sins. It seems quite silly to me. So yes, I'm sure it is possible that he could have miraculously healed someone. I think a lot of people could do that, if they simply opened their minds to their more spiritual side.

4. Obviously Jesus isn't doing a good job helping others love and forgive. Have you turned on the news lately?

5. Only people can help themselves. They just use the excuse of Jesus to improve their lives. People think that just because they say they believe in Jesus or whatever, will get them into 'Heaven'. No. People can only help themselves, no matter what is said.

Also, where was Jesus' miraculous help when my mother god cervical cancer, had three miscarriages, and when my father attempted to murder her? Where was Jesus during my drug addiction? Where was Jesus when I had to drop out of highschool because of pre-cancer?

See there. He is only fictional. If he could help me with my existence, then where was he? If he could show me love, then PLEASE do!

Silly concepts Christians have.
Reply:That's just it. Jesus helps people have better lives. Atheists are so miserable, they try to get people not to believe in Jesus because they want everyone to be as miserable as they are.
Reply:"1. Helped them stay away from drugs"

If a belief in the supernatural helps, then good for them. But who's to say they couldn't be helped just as much (if not better) by secular means?

"2. Gave people in prison a reason to believe they have forgivness[sic] and can become better people"

Well, when the system won't forgive them, I guess they would turn to someone who will. But why didn't Jesus make them better people before they committed their crimes? Perhaps they wouldn't have done the crimes, and that would've kept them out of prison. Know what's the best way to stop them from going back to prison once they get out? Give 'em jobs! (A secular solution)

"3. Has given people miracle healings"

Really? When? And please, no anecdotal evidence. Show me a study where cure rates are higher among believers than non-believers. Also, why won't god heal amputees?

http://www.whydoesgodhateamputees.com/

"4. Helps people love and forgive better"

Please explain? Do atheists have a hard time loving others? Does everyone deserve forgiveness?

"5. Helps people daily in life with there exsistence[sic] in many ways"

Details? Are you referring to taking directions on how to live from a ~2000 year old book written by goat herders? Have you read any of the advice in that book? What do you think of the advice it gives on selling your daughter into slavery? Just curious.
Reply:some of us do convert and we dont regret it...comforting to know this life isnt just a waste of time..
Reply:It takes 21 days(3 weeks) to change a habit.
Reply:All those people did it all themselves. They just used Jesus as a crutch and excuse to "give them strength" when it was themselves all along. They needed to focus on an abstract because they don't believe in themselves but rather an imaginary being.
Reply:i love him :]
Reply:Its waht you make of it. I embraced Jesus and didn't feel anything, I embraced Shamanism and I got more out of Shamanism in a week then I got out of Christianity in years!

Shamanism has helped me stay away from drugs and forgive people. Has seriously given miracle healings, not just like once a year like you christians, I'm talking about great healings all the time.

As for your little "gaev people in jails reason"....ARE YOU SERUIOS???? Go to a jail with 1000 people in there, 900 of them are christians! the other 100 are scattered and as how many pagans or shamans you see in there...the answer is a big fat *** zero.

Love and forgive better??? You guys are constantly sending people to hell because they don't follow your ways, I'm sorry that is not love.

And it is delusional, there is nothing, nothing original about christianity except Jesus. Even Angels, Angels date back pre christians! And you guys claim Angel's have wings??? The bible does nto mention angels having wings at all, it is the Egyptions that claim that Angels have wings. Isis has pictures with wings. Another thing stolen from Paganism.

As for the things you learn about Jesus now. A lot could be made up, It was the Nico something councel that established Jesus's connection to God. Also I think he makes a great teacher but in no sense is he a savior.
Reply:Delusions are sent for these reasons, Jesus is not a delusion :)

Isa 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose [that] in which I delighted not.

2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Reply:75% of Americans are Christian.

75% of the U.S. prison population is Christian.

Faith proves nothing.
Reply:I thought he came for everyone.
Reply:Living your life by certain rules is great...like no stealing ,respect for each other and always be kind to strangers ,help the poor etc. etc. etc. but why do we need some crackpot man in a dress to tell us what we should already be doing as decent human beings. All I see as far as religion goes is the opposite of the above . The cause of most conflict between people is religion. They cant all be right can they ? so the logical answer is than none are.We are in fact just well evolved (in most cases) animals nothing more.No divine creations here.

Religion was created to explain things man did not understand 100s of years ago.Science tells us the way things work , grow , live so why believe ancient story's. I don't need to find my conscience in a book...its right here in my head.
Reply:It has hurt other people, and other religions or none do the same things, so this proves nothing at all. This is circular reasoning that Christians use so often.
Reply:Ok so that is 1/3 the word that believes that. That 1/3 is telling the other 2/3 of the world they are wrong. But YOUR arguement, the number of believers determines its validity. Christianity is outnumbered.

You still loose.

Just be secure in your faith. Why do you care what other people think?
Reply:There were never any healings, without medical intervention, and there is a logical explanation for the rest.

When someone does finally find the ability to get clean it is possible that the meditation from prayer gave them the inner strength they needed. Purely psychological and nothing else.

The whole purpose of the bible was to change lives. Change them by using fear as a means of control. After all, knowledge was a punishable offense.
Reply:1. Therapy and jail made people stay away from drugs

2. 65% of inmates return to prison within a year.

3. Miracle healings are fake, ripoff of poor people

4. Love is something each human being is born with, religion has nothing to do with love.

5. You exist untill you die, Jesus has nothing to do with your existance, read a book and you'll understand, what in your body is responsible for your existance. lets start by thanking Oxygen, and H20.
Reply:I don't think people who believe in your god are delusional, I'd just like to point out that there are millions of people who have done the things you listed without believing in him. Sorry.
Reply:I agree that some don't have the mental capacity to deal with life without that crutch. It doesn't stop the fact that the belief in this being is delusional. Some mental patients would not be able to function without the belief that they are a banana but it doesn't stop them from being any more crazy.
Reply:I am drug free, and happy and love life, and i think it is a delusion, so why wouldn't it be better? it has nothing to do with a god, but if you cant explain it, it must be huh?

Why do people judge people who self-injure so severly?

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As a survivor of self-mutilation I have come across many people who believe that if people are going to cut then they deserve to be made fun of. This makes no since to me; most often when people self-hurt it is because they are hurting on the inside and need help expressing what they feel. Being someone who has self-hurt before I know that there are many reasons and methods to harming yourself. What I don't know is why people judge those who hurt themselves. These people need help, a friend, someone to be there and to understand. Why do people think these people evil or demented, and why do they make fun of them? Instead of actually trying to get to the roots of the self-harm we stereotype them and place them in mental facilities sometimes causing their depression to deepen and forcing them to believe that they are alone and incapable of being helped.

Why do people judge people who self-injure so severly?
Its down to ignorance. When people dont understand something its easier to laugh about it than try to comprehend something which they really dont get. I had an aunt who self harmed (this was about 10 years ago) and i caught her cutting herself and it made me so angry, mainly because i didn't understand why she would want to do that to herself. I think i understand better now though.
Reply:I am a self injurer although on the mend and have been since I was 8 years old . I equally find it perplexing why people judge so automatically although can also understand it to some extent. Up until recently self injury has been very hidden , under the carpet and like with anything that comes out people dont understand. In history it has been seen with lots of mental health problems for example they are just not understood. The thing I find very confusing is the fact people think it is for attention I myself,and many people I have known have not harmed in places visible to others. Only my sexual partners, who are always my romantic partners, know of my self injury, anyone who I interact with doesn't and if they found out I wouldn't enjoy the attention at all.Those who have found out I have never talked in length to and have tried to not at all. It is hard all the stigma behind it because when you are judged severely for it it makes you feel even more useless and depressed. However, I do believe mental facilities can help self harmers after being in hospital myself I found it useful it's just finding whether that is right for the individual I guess.
Reply:Good question and some very wise words.

I think unless you have self-harmed yourself it is difficult to understand, that is why some people make fun of it, because they don't know how else to react.

I, personally, have never had that experience of having my own self-harm made fun of it. I find it the opposite in that people think that it is either an attempt to kill myself and are really really worried, or they ask how I could leave such ugly scars and don't I care what other people think? But most people just think I am a bit crazy and mentally unstable, and so keep their distance and maybe whisper about it.

Most people are ignorant - like jojo above.....great answer love, shows how ignorant you are!! Go jump.

Well done on overcoming self-harm, this is a brilliant achievement you should be really proud of! xxx
Reply:I try to have patience and understanding with people like yourself, but in all honesty I fail. I get irritated by such action because it is self-inflicted and shows a great need for attention. People mostly in this life are very busy with other things and consider people such as yourself "a waste of space and a pain in the a...."

I have (I think in common with most people) greater sympathy with people who have illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, arthritis.

I am afraid this is human nature. I know u have a mental health problem and obviously you should receive treatment, but I only have so much sympathy to go around and your not included. I have given a very truthful answer. I think its because I consider u so selfish and not interested in anybody bar yourself but it probably has more to do with perhaps some sort of brain dysfunction (i.e. chemicals/hormones in the brain not functioning properly). I do not make fun of you, I just dont have sympathy. I am glad to hear u r a survivor though.
Reply:because they don't understand the reasons behind it. they think its 'weird' and yeh theyre ignorant
Reply:People are quick to judge, but it seems to be accepted when they turn to over-eating or drinking to find comfort...is this not too a form of self abuse?
Reply:jojo is a perfect example of ignorance. i'm becoming quite annoyed by people like her who open their mouths and don't know a thing about it! i completely agree with everything you said. it's a shame because it only prevents people from getting help. it's basically thought of something you only do to get "attention". frankly, majority of people who do cut hide it from their family and friends. quite the opposite from "attention seeking". to add to it, the whole "emo" movement did not help. just spreads more stereotypes and another reason to make fun of us. even my own family sometimes makes fun of cutters when they don't even know that i am one of them.
Reply:I dont know, i asked a question on here about cutting, im not even a cutter, and yahoo answers deleted it. Its so weird
Reply:because they are seeking attention - just like you are with this dumb question

you should have written:

'pity me im so special and write me compliments to reassure me that im not just a weird fool'

Do people find that jobs are more tolerable working with people own age?

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I currently work for my local council, i'm 24 and the youngest person in my office next up is 34. I have worked for the council for almost 5 years in different roles and I can't help but feel bored at listening to these people go on about their cars, wives, kids. I know this sounds prejudice and I have nothing against these people, i'm sure I will be talking about this in 15 years time or so but I feel like working with people my own age would be more worthwhile.

Has anyone else worked with older people and then younger people, and found that the work was more tolerable with people same age?

Do people find that jobs are more tolerable working with people own age?
I did.

Some time its boring however at times its learning opportunity also. Look at the positive side of life.
Reply:What do you want them to talk about? Certainly their interests will be different than yours as they are in a different stage of their life. Learn from them! I agree having someone your own age is easier because you have something in common with them, but make the best of it or look for another job.

Why do people keep saying the average American size is "normal" ?

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This somewhat relates to the thread about models. Basically Madrid has banned models with a BMI of 18 or less, and people are in support of this because supposedly "girls puke and starve themselves" to get this thin. Not really true. I have a BMI of 17.5 without starving myself and I eat whatever I want. My parents are both thin, even my mom after having me. They have fast metabolisms.

Then people say "how can you say banning skinny people is discrimination?" Why? Because it plainly is. They don't legally ban obese people; they should not ban skinny people.

Then people use the average American size of 14 to equate what is right, normal, and healthy. All I can say is, a size 14 is not close to normal nor healthy for any other country in the world.

All I can say is, not every skinny person starves him/herself. Some people are just naturally skinny, as some people are naturally bigger. And also, using American standards to judge what "healthy" is is ridiculous.

Why do people keep saying the average American size is "normal" ?
sorry hon, but you are in the minority here....more people are overweight and starving or puking to get thin than there are naturally thin people.
Reply:America is 67% overweight. That is RIDICULOUS! What I think more people should be concerned with is the unbelievable unhealthy foods Americans eat. If most people just read what was actually in a Twinky, or those deep fried foods we all love, then maybe fat America would understand how to make themselves feel better. I understand that there are naturally skinny people, and others who will just naturally be bigger than "normal". But eating 3 times the fat your body needs is just plain unhealthy, and will cause you to die sooner. I'm happy for those who are happy with their body image, I love my body too!
Reply:Americans are way too big...I think it's sad how they call overweight 'healthy'. I was amazed after a trip to the US, how huge the food portions and the people were! The average isn't necessarily 'normal', it is just the average! Be proud to be slim and healthy!
Reply:Nothing wrong with being skinny. Wish I was skinny. If you are cold you can borrow a friend's shirt or jacket and it will always fit. We chubbies can't do that. I just have to stay cold and pretend I'm not 'cause I know no one else's sweatshirt or whatever will fit my big self. You'd think the extra fat would keep me warm but I think it's all that extra surface area that's being exposed to the cold that counteracts any warming effects of the fat. Anyway, models need work too. I don't care if they barf to be thin. If that's what they want to do, that's their business.
Reply:ugh i dont know
Reply:say wha

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How can people still be racist?

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This is not just for whites because every race has people racist against another group.... Also I don't understand how most black people are from my area (the north) don't like almost all white people even though white people did go to war with other white people for no more slavery, so it's not like it was all white people.... I mean I get along with anyone that doesn't make me mad... So wouldn't you just want to hate the people that are just blatantly racist? I mean I see white kids go out and try to be black and then turn around and say I hate them N words which is absolutely retarded....

Also, why do darker skinned people say the N word when they aren't even black and still get away with saying it? I personally think no one should say the N word especially black because M.L.K Jr. was fighting against that stuff.....

How can people still be racist?
Some of these fools are taught racism by their racist parents.
Reply:I thinkk that you explained the hypocritize in the world. I agree with you 100%.
Reply:Stop the hate!

Racism is one of mans greatest crimes.

And just so you know,the north went to war to stop cessation of the south.Not to end slavery.

The south wanted cessation for the purpose of keeping slavery.
Reply:Because people refuse to act as equals but demand to be treated as such, thats why racism still exits.
Reply:because the older generation taught the younger generation how to spread hate when i get older i wouldn't teach my kids none of this racial crap it's annoying
Reply:The answer to all of these questions is simple: People are still idiots.
Reply:It is true that there are still many "secret" racists. Hell we live in a government that is still racist. We all say that we are all equal and fair and that we treat everyone the same but do we. We are all driven by stereotypes that we have seen in the media or have been told. I mean if you get on a plane today and you saw a man wearing a turbin would you be hesitate. Wouldnt you feel safer if he was off the plane. Now if you think about this situation you have just labeled a Middle Eastern person as a terrorist. Do you really think that if he came up to you that you would have treated him equally. Most likely not. All you no the person could be a Sikh which has nothing to do with Islam but is its own religion. We all wish we can be equal but cant. We can try but to do so we have to see these stereotypes as they are, as not always true images.

I do agree with you that racial slurs should stop no matter who says them. It seems wrong that one racial group have the power over a racialized word where if anyone of a different race says it is considered a racist.

As for being from the North it doesnt mean that they are racist free. The south left the Union that is what started the Civil War not the fight over freeing the Slaves. Slavery was never on the goals of the War until January 1863, 2 years into the war. As saying that the North had no slaves even that is untrue. Kentucky who fought along with the North had slavery going on in the state during the war.

For the White kids that you see acting Black a lot of that is how media portrays Blacks as "in fashion" or what is in right now. Hundred years ago acting Black was called Blackface which has been seen as racist yet today it is accepted.

It is good that you look for friends not by race but how you can get along with them. That is a good step but just remember how much of your friendship is shaped by the stereotypes of their race.
Reply:So, would you like to Supersize that order, Binky?

Are fat people really this clueless?

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Yes, I am going to pick on overweight and obese people, please feel free to defend yourselves because I am so curious. When ever I go to the grocery store and compare the people to the foods in their carts, it is always the same. Fat people have hot pockets, cookies, cocoa puffs, chips and dip, and maybe a can of vegetables. Healthy sized people have fresh food: fruits, vegetables, stuff with fiber. Yet fat people complain all the time that they do not understand why they are fat. How can this be? Just look at the food you eat, isn't it obvious? Have other people noticed this while food shopping? I understand that some people are just naturally larger, but I have only once or twice seen a fat person with a cart full of healthy food. Explain yourselves because I am sick of people with otherwise healthy bodies abusing themselves.

Are fat people really this clueless?
I'm sorry I disagree with your basic premise. When I go shopping I see crappy food in everyone's cart. I see people stuffing their toddlers at McDonald's. It's amazing how junky people can eat and still be skinny. But it does catch up in the form of overweight eventually or heart conditions or diabetes. It's kind of the human condition to take the easy way out and the easy way out is to buy prepackaged sugar laden foods.
Reply:Why are you so concerned about what people have in their carts? LOL Report It

Reply:go ahead, pick on us!!!! you are right! even i am sick of seeing junk in their trolley! then they go on complaining why are they fat. duh! i am glad coz i don't do that. seen a dietician about my eating habits and she told me i just need to excercise!!!! am glad you mentioned this....fo rme its funny though, when skinny people see what is in my trolley.....fruits veggies, oats, calcium milk etc........ i am never a potato chips junkie nor a carbonate freak....so this statement you make though it is harsh and hurt feelings {not mine :) } , i applaud your bluntness and radical question. keep it up...
Reply:Your observation is harsh but unfortunately true. I really believe that some people simply do not know how or what to eat. They are completely ignorant of nutritional and health guidelines required to maintain a healthy weight or even good health. I think people really need to see it spelled out like specific foods to eat or not eat, portion sizes etc.
Reply:for one you are ********* and you are probably ugly. i might be fat but you are ugly and at least I can diet and lose the weight you just will always be skinny and ugly. oh yeah did I tell you, you are a stuck up *********!!!!!!!!!
Reply:I have been on both sides of the spectrum, the fat person you are dogging out, and the healthy person you praise. I remember a slim friend of mine saying "Just stop eating" like it was the easiest thing in the world. I had to do actual research to figure out what is going on with me. First and foremost, most people who are overweight are allergic to certain items most of the time. They are common in our American diet...wheat, sugar, corn, dairy and flour. Unfortunately, the effects of being addicted to these foods is that you crave them constantly. The reason being, when you eat them, your blood sugar shoots up and your body begins to crave that boost. It's interesting to read that the process for making sugar and for making cocain is basically the same, resulting in a product that is equally addictive.

The food industry bombards us with food that is jam packed with sugar, processed flour etc and empty calories. They spend billions of dollars on research to make consumers addicted to their sugar puffs and fried cheeze doodles and unfortunately, as you have so accurately observed, it is working. But this is a process. It is not just fat people who are being effected. Some people are more active and able to burn off more calories, but the same damage is done.

We all need to clean up our diet. Period. Water is 1.25 per bottle, but some places you can buy a water and sugar juice drink for $.25 You can get a $.75 apple or a $.25 bag of chips. It is a concious choice to eat healthy, and sometimes you really have to go out of your way to be healthy. It means you have to overhaul your programing. no McDonalds, no Leona's, no Olive Garden. No restaurants. Cook your own food, pack your own lunch. Who has the time...hot pockets take 1 minute and you're done......
Reply:I completely agree! And then it's the fat people that call us skinny people anorexic, not all skinny people have eating disorders. Cause I know that I love food, and I am skinny. What you eat, will affect the way you look.

And I apologize if I offended anyone. It just gets annoying after awhile.
Reply:im not fat i eat good stuff all that juck its not good
Reply:You have it all figured out don't you. You know, a doctor would have to run thyroid tests and get a full medical history to know why a person is overweight. But you're not constrained by such nonsense. You're able to look at a few people and from your limited perspective you're able to tell ALL us fat people what we're doing wrong.

Up till now I thought my weight might have to do with taking steroids for 10 years to treat my arthritis. But I guess you know more than the doctors. With your insight, have you thought of running for public office? I think you would make a wonderful democrat (don't try the Republicans...they think for a living).
Reply:That's a bit of a generalisation isn't it? Lots of normal sized people have junk food in their shopping carts, but that wouldn't concern you would it, because to you, it's not an issue unless they are overweight right?

I really have better things to worry about than what overweight people have in their shopping carts. Really, this is a very uneahtly obsession you have. Try to focus on more important things in your life. Take care : )
Reply:There are two kinds of fat people: those who have always been fat, like, since childhood, and those who became fat later in life from bad eating habits.

Those who have always been fat are the ones who wonder why. But, they generally try to eat well and even some of them give exercise a go.

Those who became fat later just don't care and eat crap all the time.
Reply:I work at a supermarket and its true. Although some fat people pretend their looking at salads and healthy food.
Reply:Have you ever thought that maybe these people do have a reason to be overweight? There are many reasons: depression, chemical or hormonal imbalance, genetics, lack of education as to what foods are nutritious, lack of the funds to buy healthy foods, and a myraid of reasons that you obviously do not understand. Walk a mile in someone else's shoes before you condem them.
Reply:Not everyone in the world is obsessed with their looks as you are. Some people feel its more important to live life to the fullest and not have to worry about what type of rabbit food they're going to eat for their next meal,,,,People like you are are too superficial to truely enjoy life. If you were in an accident and lost the looks you think you have now,,,would your friends , still be your friends,,,,probably not,,,,if you weren't with"the IN- crowd",,,you would be left with absolutely nothing in this world at all,,,,,but I'm sure ,,,a cute,,,spoiled little Daddys girl like you,,will never understand how others feel,,,,and tell the truth,,,,you REALLY don't care
Reply:i'm not fat at all, and i buy junk food. what, do you have a problem with fat people? waifs who only eat a piece of lettuce a day are just as unattractive.
Reply:hey i think what you have said could have affended alot of people...but anyways...i am actually watchign a prgram now, and this man always excirses but always gains weight through his eatingn so he's not lazy....i think many fat people gain weight because they are addicted to food...like some people are adicted to shopping so there in debt...it's the same thing if you think about i that way....so i think you need to do some reasearch about the reason people are fat and there causes to being the size they are, maybe you should ask...Fat people...what made you fat??
Reply:I see thin and fat people who have those items in their cart. Everyone has a right to put what they want in their body. I don't care if they're making a bad choice, its their choice.
Reply:yep i've noticed this too! I think most of it is to do with laziness....at the end of the day i know when i'm putting a few pounds on I think i best get down the gym and do some sit ups...most of them moan about being over weight all there lifes and have tried every diet under the sun....at the end of the day if you eat chips, pies, chips, mcdonalds your gonna end up big or stay big.....to be honest tho here is another good point why eat stuff you don't like and live say 5 years longer? maybe they just don't like healthy foods!
Reply:Are the people in the store with all of this junk food in their carts the ones complaining to you about being fat? I doubt it. Kinda seems like you judged everyone who is overweight by what you see in other peoples grocery carts. I am a thin person and you can find me with junk food in my cart all the time. If I complained to you that I was tired all the time would you judge me by the way I sleep? Good thing that I have an open mind otherwise I might be ignorant enough to judge everyone with your avitar as being an idiot!
Reply:Why do you care? I'm 5'4, 110 lbs, size 0, etc. and if I saw someone studying my cart, exactly the way you describe you do, I'd tell them to mind their own f'ing business. I buy healthy foods, and I buy junk food too. That's my business. I don't really care why people are fat, what they purchase at the store, etc.

You need to get a life. Worry about your own health and weight.
Reply:These fat people you see buying all this junk food are they in the same economic class as the healthy people. Go to the grocery store and see how much more money it cost to buy all this healthy food. Fruits and vegatables are expensive and so are meats unless you want to eat hamburger helper at every meal. Even that is $3.00 a pound for the greasy low grade hamburger. If someone ate a hot pocket as a meal or a bowl of cereal they wouldnt' be fat. That eat a bowl of special K diet can go for any cereal . Eat 2 meals of cereal and 1 regular everyone would be thin. If this country didn't make a profit on selling cheap , fat, greasy artery clogging cheaper than it's leaner alternative. We wouldnt' be in the predicament we are now being such a heavy nation.
Reply:I think some really are clueless and don't have much common sense. Sometimes it's just out of habit. I think that people should be more educated about health and get help applying it to their lives, maybe even having a nutritionist track what they eat. Some people don't even question it. They think: I don't care if others think I'm fat; it's my body and I'll do what I want to it. But the fact is, people who are obese are seriously hurting society. Not only are they sending the message to younger ones that it's okay to be fat and unhealthy but they're probably costing billions in the medics. If people ate healthier, we wouldn't have to deal with medical problems that can easily be fixed with a healthy diet and exercise. There would be less people with diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. With the money that has been used to pay for these preventable diseases, we could've used it to help those less fortunate. But instead, most people continue to selfishly eat what they want, do what they want when they could help others just by leading a healthier life style. And I wonder, where do they find the money to buy all this food?? Four people in my family work, and it's still hard for us to buy food for only a family of seven.....I can go on forever about this subject but I'll just stop here.......
Reply:Oh my God, I could have written that. You're so right!!!

I work in retail and see it all the time, usual lunch for them is

1 small bag of chips, 1 chocolate bar and a diet coke. Go figure!

For the normal ones,

1 bottle of water, 1 salad with turkey and a yogurt.

It always boggles my mind.

Good Job, girl!!
Reply:You sound like me! Every time I go to the grocery store, I have a bad habit of looking in people's carts and sometimes I want to take the bad stuff out and replace it with healthier choices. I have also noticed that their kids are usually on the chunky side too. However, what they have in their cart may be because it's cheaper and more convenient. Quick to fix because they are too busy to prepare an actual meal. That's a big part of the problem. Most healthy foods are too expensive for the average American family and in a lot of families, both parents are working and they don't have time to fix a healthy meal, so they buy the microwaveable stuff.
Reply:some people are addicted to junkfood just like cigarettes. and some people may be depressed and i know that if i get depressed, i eat.... junkfood usually... im not big, but i know how it is...

White folks preoccupation with black people . is this a form of worshipping and envy?

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i ask this because i dont see any other race on the planet obsess over any other race. chinese people only think about chinese people

japanese people only think about japanese people

hispanic people only think about hispanic people

black people only think about black people

its only white people who think about black people 24/7. this unhealthy obsession with black people i can understand to a certain level considering all white people worship micheal jordan, kobe bryant, mohammed ali, oprah, vince young, reggie bush, fifty cent, obama, allen iverson, luther vandross, barry white etc etc but when they overdo it, is it bnot detrimental to their mental health ?? it cannot be healthy, or can it ? i see a few white folk cracking up on here and i can tell by their posts that they are borderline psychotic and this is what obsessing over black folk will do to your mind. you simly cannot understand such a dynamic race so just sit back and enjoy the ride. dont fight the feeling and yet dont

White folks preoccupation with black people . is this a form of worshipping and envy?
From where I'm sitting, I see plenty of obsessing coming from both "sides". I realize that this is probably not the experience of EVERYONE. I'm not going to argue with what you or anyone else has experienced. But, as I said, I do see plenty of it coming from both.

As for here on Y!A- None of us have any idea who anyone is. Therefore, it's rather silly to assume that a particular user is either white or black. Things aren't always so obvious. This is a faceless forum, as it's located on the Internet. Photos and the complexions of avatars tell us nothing more than that particular users are using certain photos and avatars. Questions tell us nothing, as posters could be pretending to be either black or white in an effort to stir up a bunch of nonsense. The only thing that we can conclude with any amount of certainty is that there's a great deal of black/white fighting here... And, if people spend enough time on Y!A, it shouldn't be long before it becomes clear to them that the fighting isn't all directed towards just one or the other.
Reply:I am far to busy to be obsessing about any race. You, however, seem to be the one with the problem.
Reply:Nevermind reality... believe whatever makes you feel good.
Reply:Interesting, I had no idea I was so obsessed. All this time I've spent my life not realizing that I was obsessed with this subject. Who knew?!

I'm not really sure who you've been exposed to, but the statements you made are a bit, ummm, untrue.
Reply:I don't know, I hadn't really thought of that. But it doesn't remind me of a similar question I have with straight people obsessing about gay people.

I mean if you're straight and secure in your own sexuality, why are you spending so much time thinking about gay people to the point where you actually take action to prevent them from having the right to marry?

It just seems weird, if you're so straight, why do you spend so much time thinking about what gay people should and shouldn't be "allowed" to do? It's just odd.
Reply:...And you are? God allmighty?
Reply:and you're doing what exactly?

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Reply:do you have statistics that can prove this?
Reply:What are you talking about? The only thing people should be obsessed with is Turkey day. lol. Seriously dude, it's not that serious.
Reply:Could it be because the races you mentioned (Chinese, Japanese, etc.....) don't have a minority "problem" in their countries. Yes, I said "problem". Because for the most part blacks are a problem. Sorry if that hurts a little.

If a bunch of Germans moved to the outskirts of Beijing and destroyed neighborhoods with drugs, crime and violence; then believe me, the Chinese would be obsessing over the Germans.
Reply:If what you say is true, how does your question help this "situation" ? If the problem exists and you are not a part of the solution then YOU are a part of the PROBLEM.
Reply:I stopped taking you seriously when you mentioned 50 cent. You may be interpreting things incorrectly if you think races are so self-centered. Those you've listed may govern their own people but does not mean they are bordering themselves from the rest. 'White people' is also a bit general. I'll assume you mean American 'white people'...To that I can say that if you put oil and water in a 'melting pot' they'll still clash.
Reply:People are worshiping Barry White?

If it helps you sleep at night, believe what you want.
Reply:I'm white and i'm not envious of black people. I think YOU need MENTAL help. HOW about OJ SIMPSON? DIRTBAG.
Reply:As for the black race being to special to you that you think alot of whites are obsessing over it.. Its not about that it is about OMG I cannot believe they are acting like this and want to be unsegregated. When you have clowns like Sharpton and Jackson bouncing around like idiots about an offensive remark do the whites act like wild animals when a black person calls us an "offensive" remark like whitey or cracker. the japanese chinese mexicans and so on dont put on such a spectical about things. Believe u me your race is NOT dynamic at all it is rather sad.(not all blacks are like this i must say there are some very respectful ones too bad for stereo typing)
Reply:Roflmao!
Reply:You are so very right about this. It seems there is a total obsession especially amongst white men, they even pose as black and white women these men to rant on and on about black people. I have a feeling you hit it right on the head, its about jealousy and they should be proud of themselves as well. Look at the character of all the people that answered you. Very very hateful.
Reply:Way too many 'black' questions in this forum. It almost sounds psychotic if you think about it.
Reply:Lol you make a great point

Why shouldn't people with peircings and tatts work around children?

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My mom has vollunteered to tutor kids, teach confirmation classes ---( that no one else would to do cuz they have a problem with teenagers ) and various other things. She has taught classes on tutoring kids, and has run programs encouraging people to take the time to help other people out. And there have been some people that make comments in the class she teaches that people with tatts and piercings shouldn't be around kids. There have also been people that write anonamus letters talking about how she shouldn't do it, like teach the confirmation class because of her appearance. Is this because people don't want their kids to see how people really are? and because if they are actually around these people, they might not believe in the negative stereo types? Somehow it's wrong for kids to know how kind and intelligent people can be, even the one's who look differently. ( my mom has her nose peirced, several earings, and two tattoos. the tattoos aren't usually visible though )

Why shouldn't people with peircings and tatts work around children?
why shouldnt children with tattoos and piercings work around adults?
Reply:I'm surprised no one thought of the danger to the person with the piercings and tattoos. If a small child grabs a dangling ear ring or nose ring, it could result in injury to the wearer. Report It

Reply:yeah, lets get real. theres a whole world out there, before you know it someone will say well you cant work around children cuz your obese, it sends a bad message, or what, youre missing an arm, uh sorry not around my child.
Reply:u look ugly and little kidzzz dont lik uuuuuuuuu lol lol lol lol
Reply:that is too mad that people stereo type her because I am sure that she is a wonderful person and teacher.
Reply:I'm a school teacher at a private school and have tattoos. I used to have earrings but I took them out because they were becoming too common. Nobody has a problem with that.
Reply:Becasue most ppl think that ppl with earring and tattos are dangrous.
Reply:There are still hypocrites out there that preach, "Don't judge a book by its cover" and then discriminate against something and or individuals that choose to be different. There's not much you or your Mom can do other than hold your ground, and politely inform the finger pointers that they're wrong in placing judgment on your Mom. Good Luck:)
Reply:For some reason many people think tattoos and piercings mean drug addict. The sad part is kids relate better to someone with tattoos and piercings because they think the person is cool.
Reply:Absolutely not. If some one is a kind caring person who wants to deal with other peoples kids....Who cares what they look like.

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Why do people believe they can change the minds of 100,000 people and put an end to terrorism .?

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that many people are on the edge and willing to take as many people as they can with them .

We have experienced Oklahoma ,and the loss of dozens of lives from home grown terrorists.

Our military ,embassy's , and foreign workers have been killed ,tortured , kidnapped and held for ransom .

I would like a clear assessment of why we have people attacking other people .

When is enough enough . When will people see that violence is not the answer .

Backing people into a corner only results in a bad outcome for all concerned .

It is policy that kills people .

Those who enforce policy are at risk of dieing to defend what .

What liberty does anyone have when freedom must be given away to the police military and government in order to provide some minor feeling of security .

We are not now or have we ever been able to defend from those who would seek to take that which we have done for ourselves without the loss of life in great numbers by the few who defend the many .

Why do people believe they can change the minds of 100,000 people and put an end to terrorism .?
You give no solution. If fighting back is not the answer, then what is?

Those people who are taking the path of terrorism do so because they feel oppressed. Can their minds be changed? Yes, but not at the point of a gun.

I question at this point who was considered the enemy first. Did America think Arab and Muslims nations were enemies before Muslims thought Americans were enemies?

That question must be answered before any minds can be changed.

In defense of the state of Israel, the U.S. has been performing political arm twisting in the Middle East for generations. It has been going on so long that the original concept is completely lost. It has become an accepted notion that Americans and Muslims are enemies. Both sides have a horde of reasons why the other side hates them and want to kill them.

The conflict between the USA and Islam has been brewing since 1947, nearly 60 years. Only the Hundred Years War in Europe was longer than this conflict.

Perhaps it's time we revisit the beginnings. If in fact America was the first to consider Islam as the enemy, then America must be the first to offer resolution.

BTW. You need to work on your last sentence.
Reply:If we are able to kill 1/3 of them, that is 33,000 that won't be able to harm us...
Reply:You keep focusing on terrorists, while we are being invaded by mexico.
Reply:It's an evil ideology we are fighting.

The war on terrorism is a very harmful misnomer.

We can't allow people to keep on attacking us. We need to make it too costly for them to do so.

We ended the fanatic death cult in Japan, and I bet they're grateful now that we did.
Reply:maybe not change their minds,but turn their minds inside out.
Reply:it's more than 100,000 people

Why do people believe in Jesus when there is so much evidence against him???????????????????????????...

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If Jesus actually existed and did all the miraculous things he is said to have done then surely many people would have written about it during and immediately following Jesus' life. Writing was common at the time, yet an extensive search by many scholars over centuries has turned up nothing. The very few references to Jesus that allegedly date back to his lifetime are clearly forgeries, forged no doubt hundreds of years later by people who realized this embarrassing lack of evidence needed to be rectified (see Joseph Wheless Forgery in Christianity).

Even if we ignore the evidence that they are forgeries, the very small number of these questionably authentic writings that allegedly date back to his alleged lifetime are still far too few. There should be a huge wealth of writing about this person that was written during his lifetime.

Jesus allegedly had crowds of thousands follow him around. Once he fed 5000 people with only a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish (Mark 6:39-44). Later he repeated the miracle again feeding a crowd of 4000 people (Mark 8:1-9). Jesus cured sick people miraculously and raised people from the dead. He changed water into wine at a wedding reception. He exorcised demons. He commanded 2000 pigs to rush into a lake and drown themselves, inciting the people of the nearby town and countryside, who asked him to leave. (No mention is made of what happened to the poor pig hearder whose livelihood must have been ruined. Mark 5:1-20).

Wherever Jesus went a crowd gathered and wondered in amazement who this person was. Jesus was a very controversial person. Finally he got himself into so much trouble that huge crowds of Jews demanded his execution. There was a controversial trial followed by his public execution. Three days later he is seen walking around alive again. And no one wrote any of this down when it allegedly happened?

Even the earliest full account of Jesus in the Bible, the Gospel of Mark, is admitted by the Catholic Church to date to at least A.D. 70, a full 40 years after Jesus' alleged death and resurrection. (Mark makes reference to an event that happened around A.D. 70, so it could not have been written any earlier. Modern scholars now date the Gospels as being written near A.D. 170, a full 140 years after the alleged event, since no one makes any reference to a Gospel of Mark, or any other Gospel, prior to this time.)

It's inconceivable that no one at the time bothered to write down anything about the most important person in the whole of human history. Writing was common back then. People wrote letters. Historians wrote commentaries on current events. The Romans wrote and kept legal documents about trials. It's considered one of the best documented periods of history. Yet no one wrote anything about this Jesus; no one painted a portrait of this Jesus; no one drew a sketch of this Jesus; no one cast a coin depicting this Jesus; no one made a statue of this Jesus; no one makes any reference whatsoever to this Jesus. The historical evidence is overwhelming—the Jesus of the Bible never existed.

Why do people believe in Jesus when there is so much evidence against him???????????????????????????...
Much of the New Testament was written within 25 to 40 years after Jesus death.
Reply:You people are not religious and i love Jesus! He is the only one who will save y'all from your sins! If you are too scared to realiz it then fine, but NEVER criticize what you do not know! Please, I am very passionate about my beliefs and i dont appreciate you answers. Report It

Reply:Ummm probably because their is so much more evidence for him. Do don't go off feeding 5000 people without someone remembering your name
Reply:You need to look at the Bible as a historical work. In which case all 40 writers point to Jesus or allude to Him.

Josephus Flavius (Jewish historians also wrote about Jesus, though just in passing. )

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.

8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Reply:do you see the air NO but you know it is there Do you see electricity NO but you know it is there when you turn on the switch or stick metal in a plug end what makes you think Jeasus and God is not there They are EVERYWHERE Beleive and have faith it will do wonders for you
Reply:we believe in Jesus, because he said he is the only way, and he also said that there will be many people who will deny him, and those types of people are controlled by satan, if you already didnt know this earth belongs to the devil, and he will do everything and anything to make people stop believing that there was a Jesus so at the end of times when satan is killed by God all of satans followers ( all these people who deny jesus) will not be able to go to heaven unless they accept him before these things happen.
Reply:This is only spectulations as all that they write or say about Jesus. Jesus is the only one whom we can trust in and the only one that can lead us in the truth, in which he will set us free from all bondages.
Reply:"The very few references to Jesus that allegedly date back to his lifetime are clearly forgeries, forged no doubt hundreds of years later by people who realized this embarrassing lack of evidence needed to be rectified"

That is absolute rubbish.Theey are not forgeries,and it is impossible to discount Jospehus and the others unless one is deliberately ignoring the evidence because of an agenda.If you want to say that Josephus' views on Jesus and his other writings were forgeries,then you will have to discount the other subjects he wrote about,and that means losing an extremely valuable resource of history.

What historical figure is going to be denied next? Several of the Pharoahs don't have much written about them and their famous exploits (such as wars and hostile take overs) but no one denies that they existed.

"Even if we ignore the evidence that they are forgeries, the very small number of these questionably authentic writings that allegedly date back to his alleged lifetime are still far too few. There should be a huge wealth of writing about this person that was written during his lifetime."

They are not forgeries.Jesus mythers are the ones ignoring the evidence.

I wasn't aware that there was a set number of attributions needed before something was considered a historical figure.

"Jesus allegedly had crowds of thousands follow him around. Once he fed 5000 people with only a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish (Mark 6:39-44). Later he repeated the miracle again feeding a crowd of 4000 people (Mark 8:1-9). Jesus cured sick people miraculously and raised people from the dead. He changed water into wine at a wedding reception. He exorcised demons. He commanded 2000 pigs to rush into a lake and drown themselves, inciting the people of the nearby town and countryside, who asked him to leave. (No mention is made of what happened to the poor pig hearder whose livelihood must have been ruined. Mark 5:1-20)."

Your point is?

"And no one wrote any of this down when it allegedly happened? "

Yes,that's why we have records of this happening by different authors in the Bible.

"Even the earliest full account of Jesus in the Bible, the Gospel of Mark, is admitted by the Catholic Church to date to at least A.D. 70, a full 40 years after Jesus' alleged death and resurrection. (Mark makes reference to an event that happened around A.D. 70, so it could not have been written any earlier. Modern scholars now date the Gospels as being written near A.D. 170, a full 140 years after the alleged event, since no one makes any reference to a Gospel of Mark, or any other Gospel, prior to this time."

Oh really?Show me evidence of this.The Gospel of Mark dates back to long before 170 AD.See here:

http://www.abu.nb.ca/courses/NTIntro/Mar...

which dates the Gospel to about 40 AD.

The most trustworthy source on Alexander the Great was written in the second century AD,hundres of years after he lived.

"It's inconceivable that no one at the time bothered to write down anything about the most important person in the whole of human history. Writing was common back then. People wrote letters"

Yes,hence the Gospels and other attributions by non-Christian writers.

"Yet no one wrote anything about this Jesus"

You have got to be kidding me.

"no one painted a portrait of this Jesus"

So what? If I don't have a portrait painted of me,does that mean that I never existed? Not to mention that painting a picture of a figure wasn't very common amon devout Jews of that time-there was a commandment against making graven images.

"no one drew a sketch of this Jesus"

See above.

"no one cast a coin depicting this Jesus"

By that logic,the billions of people in this world today whoa ren't well known enough to be on a coin don't exist.That means you don't exist,and that means I don't exist.

"no one made a statue of this Jesus"

Refer to graven images.

"no one makes any reference whatsoever to this Jesus. "

Why are you ignoring the facts once again?

"The historical evidence is overwhelming—the Jesus of the Bible never existed."

Actually,the historical evidence is overwhelming-the Jesus of the Bible existed.

Please stop ignoring the evidence and scholarly consensus.
Reply:You must remember, Christians were not popular after Jesus' death. In fact, almost everyone during that time who believed or spread the belief of Jesus' and his death and ressurection was either stoned, or put in with the lions, or killed. You must agree, any written record of any such thing that went against the Roman government or belief of the Roman gods was probobly burned. There were probobly VERY few written records that survived. Hence, the ones we have today.
Reply:Because we walk by Faith not by sight and yeah i know what's coming " that's not enough evidence", well it is for me dude. You don't have to believe but let us believers just stay faithful to Christ while you guys just sit there busting your heads trying to think of every way to discourage us.
Reply:nice copy-n-paste job, attention seeker!!!
Reply:In your last sentence, you stated, "The historical evidence is overwhelming--the Jesus of the Bible never existed." I believe that is an opinion. Many people profess the Christian faith to be theirs, and they simply believe in Jesus Christ through strong faith and the Bible.

Speaking of the Bible, many people, probably with a mindset like yours, think that the Bible is just a bunch of stories made up by great professors and teachers. And that's partially right. Except for the part about it being made up. The Bible is real, and if you choose not to believe it, then that's your descision.

In your second paragraph, you also stated that these are forgeries. Historians say that, right? If they think that, and you as well, where is the other place that we can get these stories about Jesus?

In Paragraph 4, you said that many Jews wondered who this miraculous person was. If you really read the Bible and understand it, you'll know that these things that Jesus did were not troublemaking doings, but healings and removing of demons. For some reason, the Jews felt that this was some kind of socerer, which was why he could heal all these people. Therefore, they put him to death. Your last sentence says that no one wrote this down. Where did you get this story from if "no one 'allegley' wrote it down?"

To conlcude myself, I also noted that in your last paragraph, you said that its "unconcieveable that no one at the time bothered to write down anything about the most important person in the whole of human history." By the way, whatever happened to, "Jesus Christ never existed?" You went from "non-existent" to "important person in whole of human history." And you don't know that people didn't make coins or drew pictures for Jesus doesn't mean he doesn't exist. What if archeologists haven't found these things yet? And written work. Once again, your stupidity has mangled your thinking. The Bible. I have made my point. Email me if you have any more questions: iluv_19990@yahoo.com
Reply:To put one word on what you say: Speculation
Reply:You need to cite your reference when you blatantly plagiarize...
Reply:There is plenty of writings about Jesus, the whole new tesament of the Bible is about Him.
Reply:Duh??? Look at your calender.What does A.D. stand for??
Reply:my friend your wrong Jesus existed then and he existe now since your love to listen to the world view about him I suggest you look at the history channel , go to you public library find what your looking for, when they speak of Christ or religion its self, the fled to let one now its Satan whom rule this world and he confuse many to trap them, but i strongly suggest you really study research the bible itself, have an open mind look, listen and read.
Reply:Do you have an original thought or a real questioon.

You plagaraized is entire diatribe from a website.
Reply:People believe in the christian faith out of the fear that the religious leaders instill in them as children. If there god was so loving and forgiving then he wouldnt have to have poeple scared into believing. People have to have something to believe in and are afraid of controlling their own lives and beliefs and the christian faith has that extra something that provides a controlling figure. It provides an easy way to answers and takes out all mysteries that are a natural part of the earth and life.

The things that Jesus was supposidly able to do is common practice amongst many pagans and natural healers. The walking on water and levitations are still practiced by many today and can easily be achieved by practice, training and meditation. The laying of hands on the sick and healing is very close if not exactly like reiki or energy healing. This has been practiced for thousands of years.

People dont know how to use common sense when it comes to things like this and they are afraid to go against their family's beliefs and traditions. However if they were to study their history they would find that most of the modern christian beliefs are ancient paganistic beliefs and traditions only modified to go along with the so called "truth", the bible.
Reply:why do people deny the existence of buddha or zeus? why are there records of jesus-like figures in egyptian hieroglyphics thousands of years before he existed? there is no real proof either way. and frankly it is possible he was a real man whose story just got embellished obver the years and its possible he existed long before the chritsian jesus did and was adopted by other religions.
Reply:I do not know, but it is because they dont question they dont ask they dont say... wait just a damn minute there and tell me the whole story.

they blindly follow, and at the same time are totally convinced they are totally correct. retarded

But at least ther are some sane people left, who dont have imaginary friends that they ask for things and expect it to happen. has any prayer ever been answered ever by jesus... i think not. Jesus is a scare tactic to control the populous. As Agustus himself put it ......Christianity is the opium of the people.

and the worst part is they are the ones in charge of the worlds banks, economies, governments, trade, etc etc
Reply:You are quite dumb, historians have written about him, even apostles in letters and such, its called a Roman Census, it was taken at the time of Jesus's birth by Augustus Caesar.
Reply:John 6:47 Verily, I SAY Unto You, He That believeth on Me hath everlasting Life.! %26gt;%26gt;.%26gt; "HE that believeth on the Son has everlasting Life: He that believeth " NOT the SON" shall not see Life; BUT The Wrath Of GOD abideth on Him ! John 3;36 WHAT in HELL do you want?? It would be life changing and future happiness, if you realize there is nothing in Hell You Want!! Everything you really want is in Heaven! However.....Let's look at what you Believe.... If You choose not to believe in Jesus.. and a real Hell or Heaven, then You Have nothing to be concerned about until You Die. THEN, Of course--------It's too Late to change Directions and no matter your concern or belief, it's eternity in HELL with the Devil and His Imps, forever burning in torment. GOD SAYS: It's A " FOOL" who says there is no GOD!-------------Jesus said unto Thomas, because you have SEEN ME, You believe: BLESSED, are they that have NOT SEEN, And Yet Have Believed! They Shall Enter Heaven. JESUS IS OUR SAVIOR, IF YOU BELIEVE. IT IS YOUR CHOICE.
Reply:It wasn't the Jews that killed him, because he's born in Bethlehem, making him a Jew. But Romans killed him.
Reply:My faith and opinion strongly counters your statement. Evidence of Jesus Christ and His works are overwhelmingly in His favor. The world could not hold all the books of Jesus had he written them, for His word was beyond the magnitude of His mission.

But of course, you are free to believe as you will. The underlining truth in your question is the abundance of question marks.
Reply:Flavius Josephus the historian was a contemporary alive at the time of Christ and he wrote of Him

In Rome, in the year 93, Josephus published his lengthy history of the Jews. While discussing the period in which the Jews of Judaea were governed by the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate, Josephus included the following account:

About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.

- Jewish Antiquities, 18.3.3 §63

There is more historical record of Jesus than Julius Caesar,

And by the way what year is it?

2007? 2007 of what?

You can deny His historical existence, yet even you keep time by the fact it is 2007 years after Christ was born.

Biblical archaeology is a discipline in its own right, because there are numerous archeological evidences of people, places and things the bible speaks of.

For someone who is an unbeliever it seems as though you have put a lot of effort into studying what you don't believe.

Strange.

I know He lives because of the relationship I have with Him,

Not because there is an empty tomb in Israel.

Jesus is God, He loves even those that hate Him, and it is only by His payment for our sin can we have a relationship with God.

Truth is a Person, Jesus Christ, and He loves you whether or not you acknowledge it.

Perhaps that is why you protest so stridently against Him....
Reply:They have....... wait for it....... FAITH! Shocker!

*Edit* Oh wow. Thanks for posting that clip Joshua.
Reply:Very interesting, but there is another reason why there are no other records. But this argument is one that I doubt that any skeptic of Christianity would consider, because it shoots your theory right down the drain. I

The "paper" that was used in that day and age did not last very long. The odds of any manuscripts being able to be preserved for 2000 years are miniscule. The fact that the Bible was copied should tell you the significance of that book, versus the other manuscripts of that day that disintegrated with age. While the Dead Sea Scrolls were salvaged, it was because they were hidden in special containers for many years in a cave and it's highly unusual that those records were able to be preserved. Those manuscripts were preserved and cannot be regularly accessed because they will crumble if exposed to the elements. That's why so many scholars were necessary in those day and ages to preserve the manuscripts by copying the manuscripts.

Religious scholars would not have been interested in saving all birth and death records, so I don't buy the idea that just because there are no Roman Records from that time still saved today means that Jesus didn't exist. It simply means that the records if written in any other manuscripts would most likely have disintegrated.

If you need a source, check out the preservation methods of the paper during that time period. Most lasted about 75-100 years at the most.
Reply:I take it you have never read the book; A Case for Christ.
Reply:Christ came to heal the sick and broken hearted. You sound like you're well and don't need Him, so don't worry about us who do.
Reply:Beautifully well said. The reason is that they're in denial. Jesus didn't actually exist but many people on this planet are too weak to conceive of it.
Reply:Now I believe in God 100%. If you don't believe in him, This is you

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Why do people like to see successful/rich people fall?

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The media is often full of stories of successful people gone wrong. Be they celebrities, rich people gone poor ect. The fact that these stories get supplied means that there has to be a demand for it. Also why is that people are resentful of successful, often inteligent people, eg, The McCann's, regardless of the truth with Madaline, all the negative post on here over the past months, obviously stem from peoples resentment to the comfy lives they lived before, its almost as if people were happy their lives were turned upside down, yet when they failed to see the McCanns break down, and instead saw two strong intelligent people, they started to resent them even more.

Why do people like to see successful/rich people fall?
either cuz they hate the person. Thats just the way they are. Or maybe they just need help. People should stop focusing on those bozos.
Reply:I personally don't feel any more emotion or interest for a successful person falling from grace than I feel for a person who never achieved success.

I tend to celebrate the anonymous ones who become successful and remain true to their heritage, and continue a deep empathy and caring for others.

Celebrities, be gone. I will continue to revel in the anonymous ones who maintain their grace throughout their lives rather than the ones who fall from it or have never had it.

Dream people...people that you haven't ever met in your real life...?

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how about you? Who have you "visited" in your dreams? any re-ocurring dreams?any people that you "revisit"?

When I was growing up, I got along so much better with the people that I would dream about, rather than the ones that I had to "worry" about each day who went to my schools! We had some not too fun kids! Some scared my friends and I, alot! I always felt happy to be with people who loved and honored me, by "visiting me" and or, just letting me be around or "with" them as a family member in my dreams! I was accepted by all types of people...one group was a bunch of wild kids that lived in a chevy and hung out at a Safeway parking lot! I would often dream of the same people for many years and months! These people ,even though just in dreams, made me content! I felt a lot less stressed!

Real life was hard at times,and I just didn't want to "deal" with the mean kids!

what about you, was your dream life rich or not?

if you remember, can you share,please?

thank you!

Dream people...people that you haven't ever met in your real life...?
I have discovered recently that more and more people worldwide are beginning to recall their dreams in greater detail and are often greatly impacted by their dream occurrences. I find it nearly a surreal fact itself that people from all walks of life dream of very similar places and events almost as if we are all connected somehow.

To gain better consciousness during your dreams and therefore a higher level of recall the best tool available is keeping a dream journal. As our subconscious mind is in control during our sleep we frequently forget our dreams upon waking. The more vivid ones have flashes throughout the day, but we even lose those details also over time. With a dream journal you simply write your dreams down as soon as you wake and give the dream a simple name so it can be read at any time and recalled.

At first, keeping the journal is more difficult, but in time you will remember your dreams just as if you were fully awake. It took me about a year of keeping dreams written down in a wire bound paper notebook before I achieved full consciousness in my dreams. Now I remember as many as seven dreams a night while my body sleeps. It is like going to college class every night because I learn so much and meet so many people in my dreams.

For me it has really raised my consciousness and I have proceeded to a point that I can think of places to see before I go to sleep at night and I visit them in my dreams. Who knows what this will lead to if it proceeds globally with many people beginning to do the same. We may begin meeting each other with certain regularity and accuracy in our dream world, the possibilities would be endless.

Last thought to ponder: There are many people in the world that have been blind from birth or very early childhood that dream in vivid color each night just like anyone else. They dream of flying in the clouds, riding in red cars, and all the other grand things that are real and imagined. If they have never seen these things then where are they going during their dreams? Yes, a thought to ponder.
Reply:Oh I dream a lot. There are many recurring greams as well but not about people that visit me. I frequently see more than one moons; see myself in beautiful clothes but without shoes; that I'm a widow and have a daughter.
Reply:...mmkay....

I have book characters. And I have a alter self. Not in the bizarre way, she's more of a pen name turned character/self. I have way with my characters that, when trying to create a scene in a book, or trying to work out a plot line, I can converse with them. They're kinda like my own muses. I do it more out of fun, I'm not just crazy. I'm writing a story where my alterself's characters are her muses that she consults when she's writing. It's really funny. bye.

Why are people racists?

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i dont know why people are so mean and racist towards different races, I have seen questions on yahoo saying people are afraid of leaving their homes because of wat people will think of them. Why are people afraid of racism, and why are people racist? Why do people make fun of people oneline in foroums and youtube videos? Should people be afraid of racists, and wat can u tell someone that is afraid of racism? Thanks!

Why are people racists?
because people are ignorant thats why.

and no, you shouldnt be "afraid" of racist.....

...although i'm not sure what you mean by that, ...or by what you mean with ..."wat can you tell someone who is afraid or racism"????

...my soon to be husband is black and i am white, ..and i see all too often the "looks" ...and the remarks, ..and i dont even care anymore, the people that say and do things that are racist, ...will get whats coming to them one day...

..so i dont let it bother me, ...these people are...ignorant as i said......Racist are the ones who have ruined this country, ruining the world.
Reply:Because racism is taught to them and they believe every bit of it.
Reply:there is no reason to be afraid of racists , when klanfronted they run because they are cowards , seen it , done it enjoyed it . one on one 5 against one nothing but whinning and snivilling a a big mouth female in tears pure trash dont even worry about these idiots .
Reply:people are racist towards cultures they do not understand. prejudiced against anything different to what they are used to.

racism can be hidden, as in jokes, or very nasty and in ur face, and thats why people can be afraid of it.

i am white. i have not encountered any racisms, but i am in a minority in the country where i live, so i have come against some prejudice. when u can ignore it then do so. if it is getting too much, remember that its against the law, and report it.

Do people think people under the age of 12 can't be serious about god?

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People always act like I dont know anything about the bible; But I love god. Im planning om writting a wonderful poetry book about him when Im older; but people act like I can't be serious about him. Why can't I show people that I may be young, but Im willing to cut my heart out for me; I'd do anything he asks. People think I can't love god as much as they do because Im younger and they think Im less experianced, but I've suffered through lost of freinds, deppresion, and god has always been there for me. I just want people to know that I care about god, but I need help.

How can I prove that I love him to other people?

Do people think people under the age of 12 can't be serious about god?
Religious indoctrination and blind devotion make no sense.
Reply:I don't the lord said except those that come unto me like children will they enter the kingdom of heaven something like that and there is an age of accountability to think of.
Reply:I think most of believers religious people have a mental age of about 4 or 5 and with age it doesn't get better, look what happened at this mosque in Pakistan I'm sure those dead people have a nice dialog with Allah...

Ah yeah to prove you love him ask him too marry you and if he doesn't answer then maybe he doesn't love you????
Reply:Can they be serious about anything?
Reply:You've been indoctrinated, sweetie. And it's not your fault. You believe because you've been told by so many people you trust that god and religion is truth. But truth isn't absolute. It's based on what people are told, not facts.

Again, not your fault. Maybe when you get older, you'll be able to understand... especially if you attend an institution of higher learning and keep your mind open to facts and science.
Reply:no, I don't think that.

they can also be serious about atheism.
Reply:Just like an adult should. By walking in the fruits of the spirit. By showing your testimony of Christ through your actions. That is all any of us can do.
Reply:You don't have to prove anything, your relationship with God is between the 2 of you, and the 2 of you only.
Reply:No I feel that all people have the same amount of understanding towards God, none! Only people who have faith will appreciate faith.
Reply:In most cases, people under the age of 12 are NOT totally serious about God, simply because of their lack of experience and education. In many cases, those under the age of 12 believe everything their parents tell them; their understanding of God is not from what they have received by revelation or studying of the Scriptures or Church history.

The most important thing for a Christian to do is love. As far as that goes, I would say Christians under the age of 12 have the ability to properly fulfill that law. However, being a Christian involves understanding and establishing doctrine, things that are difficult for people who have not finished high school.

All in all, it depends on the person. But I know one thing. I was raised a Christian my whole life and never really understood what being a Christian was until I was around the age of 17. Being a Christian is also being an individual, something that takes time.

In retrospect, however, people under the age of 12 can have one single thing that people over the age of 12 oftentimes have lost: faith. The faith of a child is the strongest of faith, but that does not mean every single child has that intensity of faith. Additionally, faith is important, but understanding is also important—something that is gained with age.
Reply:People can be blindly devoted at any age, but in most cases (not all) people need to be a bit older to fully comprehend what it is they believe for themselves rather than what they believe because they were told to believe.
Reply:You seem to be a little extreme in your beliefs, however, I would have to disagree with the people who claim you can't be serious in your beliefs. Younger people by nature are more open to faith than people who have been jaded by age, science, etc.. As long as you know what your beliefs are and what you're willing to sacrifice for them what does it really matter what other people think? Religion and faith are not contests where you have to prove yourself to others. They are for you and you alone.
Reply:Kids much younger are serious about God and know exactly what they are doing. Twelve is not a young age to understand and accept Christ.

You do not have to do anything. You do not have to prove it to anyone. You answer to God alone on this matter.
Reply:Duh. That's exactly how Christians indoctrinate them. They're gullible. You can make them believe anything. And once they grow up, they'll keep believing in the Bible because if they question it for one second, they're on the highway to hell! Those clever Christians.
Reply:That is BULL age has nothing to do with it..You don't have to prove anything your life in Christ will do the showing for you..If you become cocky then nobody will listen or pay attention to you..Just build your relationship and read and study and let God do the teaching and building...
Reply:It is fine for you to be enthusiastic for what you are being taught, but your true lessons do not really materialize until you begin to challenge authority.
Reply:I don't think that, actually people under the age of twelve are closer to God then most adults. They are innocent and have no reason to doubt, and therefore open up their hearts to God without every doubting it. So little girl , just hold your head high and keep walking with the Lord and don't worry about what the others think. You will be fine.
Reply:12 is considered the age of reason; the age where your brain and logic are developed enough that you can choose whether to believe in Jesus or not. Some children are able to do this younger than age 12, some aren't mentally able until a few years after 12. God knows your true heart.

You don't need to prove your love for God to other people. You only need to love God. I'll pray for you.

Don't worry about what people think, they don't think too often.

Here's a Bible verse to help you out:

Mark 10:14 "But when Jesus saw [the disciples turning away the children], he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God."
Reply:Never listen to anyone but yourself .. if you Love God and know deep in your heart that you do.. No one can convince you other wise.. if you Bond and connection to Jesus christ is Strong and there is Devoiton and Submission .. then you will never have an issue..

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Why do people judge people with an eating disorder?

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Recently there's been so much in the papers and on tv about people with eating disorders. I htae the fact that a lot of people judge and say it's anattention thing or they strave themselves to look good. Yes some people do do that. But there are a lot of people out there that don't want to lose weight or want attention. Becuase of the bad media and the horrible comments about people with eating disorders it makes it hard for people to want to get help in case they get judged. I had an eating disorder two years ago and things on the tv brings it all back. I don't understand why people can't just help eachother get better, why they have to judge?

Why do people judge people with an eating disorder?
I have a friend who is bulemic. I didn't judge her. She is a great person. She is getting help for it which is good!

I don't think it is just attention seeking middle class people like one person has said. She doesn't want anttention she doesn't want to be bulemic but is like a disease and she can't help it.

I think there should be more support for people with eating disorders as it is not very easily available at the moment.

Well done on getting over your disorder!! :D
Reply:I think people judge people on any disorder because they think that their life is all so functional LOL like anyone in this world doesn't have some dysfunction? Give me a break! They are more messed up than we are. Good for you for getting through your problems, I simply give up on trying to explain anxiety, depression and panic attacks to those who don't have a clue, I with my doc %26amp; hubby's help keep it under control. Judgemental people judge everyone on everything.
Reply:Fear and ignorance!!

Well done for doing so well, please don't let others get you down and make you feel bad, you should be proud of yourself.

Discrimination against people with mental illness is still rife even though it is talked about more than it ever used to be. There needs to be more education and information to try to teach people that these are real and genuine problems that are shattering lives.

I have suffered from depression for many many years, and I still do, like you I believe that the majority of people do judge others..... but what they don't realise is that at some point in our lives 1 in 4 of us WILL suffer from a mental illness, so they really ought to stop and think before they talk about people they have no right to comment on.

It's a pity we can't put them in our places for just 24 hours, I'm sure then they would think about things differently.

At the end of the day, it's these people who have the real problems but don't realise it!
Reply:I understand what you're saying... that goes for any type of problem. Eating disorders, drug addictions, self harm, ect. The media puts them into catagories. "Druggie" "Emo" "Cutter"

They don't look at the root of the problem; they thoughts that make them behave this way. If they looked at it from that perspective then maybe people would try to help people intstead of look down on them for coping the way that they do.
Reply:they dont understand. people judge others with depression or whatever too, simply because they dont understand what the condition is like. you cant understand until you experience it, or someone close to you goes through it.

i think people just need to learn more. i know i was very judgemental of people with depression, until i was diagnosed myself last year.
Reply:No one likes self-indulgent borderlines. They're boring and should find some way of occupying their time other than obsessing about their weight, food, appearance etc.

Like the others said.......there aint no eating disorders in developing countries. They really have got better things to think about!
Reply:I only know people who starve themselves so that they look thin. They want to lose weight because they think they will look better. I would be interested to know of any other reasons for not eating, apart from wanting to be ill, which I guess is a form of attention seeking.
Reply:People who are strong and in control of themselves and their lives always judge people who are weak and not in control of their lives. It's just a fact of life. Not saying it's right or wrong, but that's how it is.

It's like you just want to say to them, "Get your act together, for goodness sake, and stop snivelling."
Reply:You never see poor people with eating disorders, or the starving in Africa.. Its always the self obssessed middle classes who - imo - are doing it attention seeking. Sorry that seems harsh..
Reply:every body judges everybody for everything!! it is unfortunatley a fact of life and something we all have to deal with, I try not to judge people unfairly but sometimes I do it without realising, I think it is part of human nature to judge.

It is a tool that can be useful in our lives, if we use it at the right time and the right way.

When you are judged unfairly, let it go over your head, say to yourself 'they don't know me, they are not living my life, their own ignorance is their failing'

and let it go, it is hard at first but you will get used to it and it will stop bothering you, also Y!A is a very judgemental place, I was suprised at how much when I first came on here, but now it doesn't bother me anymore.

Good luck I hope you are truly over your ED now. xx
Reply:If you've never been in the situation (or a similar situation) before, then it's harder to understand. Ever since I've been through various things, I've became an extremely understanding person. It's because I know what it feels like to be in a tough situation and I'd be an absolute hypocrite if I judged. People who judge may seem like mean people, but they probably don't realise what they're saying.
Reply:People can't understand it until they have it. Nice one for overcoming it.
Reply:I've had anorexia since the late 1980's and have never been a normal weight or recovered. I've had a lot of people judging me because they see it as a superficial vanity thing. Something I should of grown out of.... Something I chose to do and could chose to stop if I wanted to. People don't understand how a person can have the distorted body image and say they are fat when dying from the medical complications of emaciation.....

Most people enjoy eating (too much so!) and its then hard to understand why someone else can struggle so much with something so "simple" "basic" and "instinctive."

When people judge me negatively, I think it says more about THEM and their own "insecurities" and "issues" than anything to do with me. People want you to be thin.... but NOT too thin. I have found in this country people ARE very judgemental, shallow and narrow minded.

Recently went to Italy and spent a few weeks living there with my sister... the Italian people were FAR FAR FAR more accepting of me and were NON judgemental. They saw beyond the superficial "scary" "shocking" emaciated appearance of how I look.... (I guess they just looked deeper because of the language barrier).

Diamond Kiss (HUGS) I am right with you and what you said. I find it shocking and sad to read some of the replies written here. Starving people in Africa has bugger all to do with anything... and if you think its just shallow, self indulgent nonsense why are you even in the mental health section replying to questions? To feel all superior I suppose???

I am impressed with some of the empathy from people here.... disappointed with other! It does seem to me that if you have suffered any sort of "pain" "trauma" and "unhappiness" in your life, and BEEN judged BY other for it.. (self-harm, depression etc) then YOU as a person end up FAR nicer and less judgemental than the so called "normal" people who just want to feel superior and sanctimonious. Mental illness is full of stigma. Lock um up out of sight out of mind etc. If you ask me, people who have a shallow judgemental opinion are shallow and up tight! Anal retards SCARED of looking too deeply at themselves for fear of what they might find!!!
Reply:im suffering from an ilness thats made me extremely skinny and i am sick of every1 assuming i am anorexic or bulemic. people dont seem to understand that there are othere reasons people are soo skinny.

it sickens me!!!!!
Reply:Most of the TV programs I have seen have been sympathetic to people with eating disorders.

Personally, I have seen people, whom I valued, die rather than eat one ounce more.

Karen Carpenter is an example. She had everything but chose not to eat and died of anorexia at 32.

There are new treatments for eating disorders. And it is not want of attention as much as where you focus your attention.

I'll leave it at that and hope you do a little research on your own to discover those new treatments and how you can conquer your fears.

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Reply:Because alot of people are pathetic, unsympathetic human beings...period! One should only be allow to judge certain issues only if they've walked that mile in their shoes! Ignorance is NOT bliss. Everyone of us has issues of some sort, whether it being drugs, alcohol, overspending, gambling, smoking, mental issues, family problems, medical,etc. When I got divorced from my first husband, he left me and three tiny children with no money, nothing. He let me know that no one else would want a woman with three kids. And that my butt was too big. Well, I had to get some control over my life that was falling apart, so I became one of thousands that became anorexic. I was depressed, so I didn't eat. I lost weight and people said I looked great...because I had just had a baby months before. But the eating became more than that. It gave me some control over my life!
Reply:Just been reading through all the answers here.

Impressed with the ones from those who understand and aren't judgemental, the ones that are, well I've come across a few people like that in my life.

I've had an eating disorder for 14 years now and unfortunately still haven't managed to 'pull myself together', 'just snap out of it', 'just eat a few cream cakes', 'stop attention seeking' etc, etc, etc.

One girl accused me of my wanting to be thin as 'vanity' as she thought I was wanting to be thin in order to look 'nice'.

Quite the opposite, I wanted to be thin to look horrible. It's how I feel inside so I don't want a body that attracts attention for looking 'nice'.

Usually people with an eating disorder have a very low self esteem so hearing and reading negative comments certainly not going to help them.

The same girl I mentioned above also decided to write a letter into our local newspaper to attack people with eating disorders by calling them stupid %26amp; idiots if they damage their internal organs by their stupidity. Although she didn't mention my name myself and a few other close friends knew she was directing her vile comments at me.

She made herself look stupid in the end as she got quite a few letters in response to the paper for her spitefulness including one from the EDA themselves who were 'disgusted at her ignorance and lack of understanding'.
Reply:It's because they don't understand mental illness and are probably not understanding peopleg genrally. I've never had an eating disorder but I understand why it happens and never judge.
Reply:dont listen to bugaboo. Its because shes never suffered. Ive still got an eating disorder and its NOT for attention because NOONE knows. Its a mental illness so before you go making idiotic comments research the topic. People starving in africa is nothing to do with people with eating disorders so dont even bring it into the question. I think its because people always need someone to blame and/or judge to make themselves feel better. I dont see the fat people who eat themselves to death being victimised like us.
Reply:People are frightened of eating disorders and think it's something that can be just dealt with. Many people have an eating disorder of some sort and praise be those who don't. I have at one time or another had anorexia and bulimia and binge eating. I have found the reason for this and have dealt with it but it is not the easiest of things to do. There are organisation's that will help and want to help and they don't judge mainly because they have been through it themselves.

The main point of judging is to protect and to belittle. pure and simple.

Basically you are unique and what you need isn't the same as what other people need.

And ... some people are Rsols.

Take care.
Reply:my kids were watching hollyoaks tonight and talking about anorexia, i was trying to explain to them its an illness not just someone starving themself for attention. people can be ignorant, my daughter is size 4/6 and everyone asks her "are u anorexic" i say if they ask that they are ignorant as to what anorexia is cos she eats loads worries shes too thin but shes getting paranoid about her weight, a boy came up to her at college and said do u only eat lettuce, its not true she eats breakfast lunch dinner and snacks in between but burns it off. she looks like beyonce and should be able to enjoy looking like that while she can as it wont last once she has children/gets older but she cant enjoy it cos of peoples comments. we seem to be obsessed with size and some peoples comments dont help. well done on getting over your problems.
Reply:well im replying this message to buggboo wat ever that names is ment 2 be?? i came from a poor family and ive suffered with eating disorders most of my life, not because i was self obsessed but cos wen i looked in the mirrow i really thought that i was fat. your mind plays tricks on u so wen u look in the mirrow u really think that the reflection looking bk is horrible.

Do people look more youthful today?

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When I was a child, I remember I used to see people in their late teens as adults, and people over 30 (or 35) as being too old.

But by the time I reached 25, it appeared to me that in this time and age, if not all, at least many people look young.

I knew girls of my age who had got married, and when I saw them I was surprised to see, that judging from their appearances, they didn't look like married ladies, but.. like teenage single girls...

I'm in my thirties now, and I still have the same impression.

(It's obvious that there are people whom I can see they passed their youth a long time ago...)

Is this a natural change of perception as people grow older, or do people today look better than people from previous generations?

Could this also be a reflex that "the then 20's are the 40's" today?

And do you sense the same?

Do people look more youthful today?
I agree. Today, most people are aware of their health. There have been so many medical advances as well. Illnesses that we common long ago have been eradicated ( wiped out ). However, the ongoing obesity problem in this country is alarming. So, now we see more Diabetes, heart attacks among women has increased drastically. On the more positive side ( sorry but, I got side-tracked ), the roles of the male and female have changed. And, thank goodness, the style of clothes, physical fitness awareness, the dangers of sun-exposure, etc.
Reply:Yes old chap
Reply:First you are older and have higher comprehension. The second is that years ago they had a lot of stress and usually drank, smoke, and used lead based products, which ages you quickly.
Reply:Little kids always think that anyone over the age of 9 is old. Higher the number, older they seem.

Why don't people want the illegal immigrants to get citizenship?

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It seems like people think that if we don't give them citizenship they will all eventually announce that they are illegal and be willing to go back to Mexico. They won't do that. They will just stay here like they've been doing wasting our tax money. If we give them citizenship we get taxes. If they have already brought down the salary of our jobs giving them citizenship will not bring it down anymore. Also, you need people to do the lower class jobs. In this country all the people mostly have good jobs but, you need people willing to do stuff like working in factories and on farms-this is why we are sending all our jobs over seas but, if we get these illegal immigrants to do these jobs then, we have people doing them here and it won't mess up our economy because the people are living and buying things here helping our economy-not China's economy. Also, if we don’t give them citizenship we will have millions of undocumented people here. Also, another problem we have is entitlements and the working class has to pay for the huge baby boomer population when they get into retirement. It would help if we got more of a working class to pay for this. (read more here http://www.understand2008.com/standard.a...

To summarize

They are wasting our money by not paying taxes.

You need people to do lower class jobs.

They will continue to stay here even if we don’t give them citizenship.

We must give them citizenship-it is the only realistic solution.

Also, last time I asked this people said that giving them citizenship is like surrendering. I don’t think it is because there punishment would be paying a fine and other requirements. This is actually more like a compromise.

Why don't people want the illegal immigrants to get citizenship?
You are totally correct when you mention sending our production over to China. This is exactly what happens, at least we can try to reduce the carbon footprint on an items production, whereas in Beijing...where you can barely breath......they have no care for emissions of any kind....therefore creating terrible global warming. Mind you....if Bush was to agree to limit their ...would be modern civilisation (said through gritted teeth) emissions...that would be a huge step forward.

Anyway...heres to more production and engineering in Britain
Reply:U.S. Citizenship is precious and a gift that few people in the world get.

Why do i want law breaking illegal immigrants to get it?

If they want Citizenship, do what millions of LEGAL immigrants do. Come legally under our laws, wait your five years, and become a citizen.

I am proud to call people that do that my fellow American.

Why don't YOU understand that?
Reply:There is a process for acquiring American citizenship. People are currently going through this process. Giving a very large number of people a free pass to ignore that process would only encourage many, many more people to ignore the process.

Thus, Amensty isn't /just/ Amnesty for current illegals, it's abolishing immigration law entirely.

And, less you think I overstate that, just look into the last Amnesty. In '86, Amnesty was offered to the aproximately 3 million illegals in America at the time, it was ultimately granted to about 5 million. In the 21 intervening years, over 12 million more have poured into the country illegally.

Amnesty of any kind, no matter how it may be dressed up as a 'compromise,' is not a solution. It can only make things worse going forward.
Reply:Gee, this same question keeps being asked in the same manner by different people. I'm thinking that this is some sort of campaign.
Reply:Very simple - they're criminals. If we start prosecuting people who employ illegals, they won't hire illegals. So if illegals can't get jobs here, they'll leave!
Reply:I not only do not want someone who broke laws to be rewarded with citizenship.

I want businesses busted for hiring illegals, I want all social

programs to require background checks so that no one illegal is gettin welfare.

I want it so people will not come here illegally ( well maybe a drug dealer still would be those can be dealt with ) because they won tbe able to get a job or social benefits.
Reply:Giving them citizenship is rewarding them and essentially saying,it's okay to break our laws.

Deny them any help or reason to be here and they will go,it's simple really.
Reply:....THEY BROKE OUR LAWS THATS WHY!

Why are people so surprised at the evil in our world (school shootings, etc) when it's b/c people suck?

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People suck. People are naturally selfish, can be conniving, and are very generally fast-paced. I personally myself have gone through a lifetime of bullying, abuse, people not caring, stepping on me, giving me a hard time, personal losses, and so much and have gone crazy so many times that I learned how to see through the eyes of the school shooters or other criminals. People who get all surprised, and wowed are people who have never been pushed to that end, and good for them. But thats why everyone freaks out.

Our society is going to hell in a handbasket, and people on top who never had to worry are going to go all,

"oh my gooddddd. How could this beeeee??"

When the answer is so blatantly obvious.

You say, find God, and find personal hope/peace, when you really can't b/c Churches can be total bs, and our society's pace and needs for money make it hard.

Life itself is crazy, the things you need to learn/know, and having any "true" friends is hard.

People wake up!

Why are people so surprised at the evil in our world (school shootings, etc) when it's b/c people suck?
I have to agree with you on the majority of your comments/question. I must say that we can't use it as an excuse to open fire on a classroom full of innocent ppl. The time has come that the innocent pay the price. In defense to the shooter... he needed some serious help. There are millions of Americans who walk this earth and carry some kind of evil in their hearts and don't get it dealt with. Is it pride that keeps them from asking for help? I know if I ever felt like shooting 20 plus ppl... I would tell someone and instiutionalize myself until I'm better. Although it is our nature as human beings to be evil and animalistic, we can learn to evolve into better beings by CHOICE. The truth is that I come from a background where I was raised to think that being angry and violent was okay. Now I still struggle with not being able to pop someone in the face when I get upset but I deal with it. The root of it is ... what is the condition of the soul and the state of mind of the person? There are millions of Americans walking this earth with mental illness and never get diagnosed and treated. We must advocate this!!!
Reply:two words GUN CONTROL.

the rest of the world laughs at the total lack of gun control in USA.

Im from Australia and believe me we have just as many nut cases per capita as you do but we dont have massacres at all since gun control was introduced. If guns arent an option peopl channel thier anger differently.

I hear what you are saying, i dont get how some people can treat others and still sleep at night but it is a big world and its not all bad. You and i are just two people.

how about you and i set an example for others and try to be good to our fellow humans and anyone else who wants to join us, can.
Reply:Your experience of life is not mine. I haven't had an easy life but I am not a victim. I think you can only speak for yourself. Your perception is not definitive.
Reply:I too was bullied and do agree to a certain extent that people suck, however, not everyone seeks revenge on others when life doesn't work out so well.
Reply:See a doctor soon, you need some help to overcome your in maturity. Please get help

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Can a single person be people?

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For more information, see the chat log provided below:

Alex: But... Animal's aren't people. People are people. There very differentiation between the word animal and people is proof enough

Pyro: people = group of humans

Alex: no no, people: Type of human

Alex: Such as the ignorant people

Pyro: yes yes, the group of people which are ignorant.

Pyro: But according to wikitionary, people =/= type of human. you couldn't say "look at those people there!" if it meant type of human, unless you were referring to the type of human which stands over there I suppose..

Alex: Wiktionary is full of BS then, Because a single person can be a people all of his own

Pyro: No he can't! A person can't be people %26gt;_%26gt;

Alex: I beg to differ

Alex: But I'm not going to

Can a single person be people?
a single person cannot be "people" in the strict sense of the meaning of people. However, a single person can be his/her own type of people. In other words, a person can be a people type. In common English, one would not say "jim is a unique people", one would say "jim is a unique type of person, which conforms to no other group of people". However, these statements are logically the same. So strictly speaking, based on logical equivocation alex is right that a person can be a people. However, his argument "But... Animal's aren't people. People are people. There very differentiation between the word animal and people is proof enough" is terrible, and proves nothing.
Reply:Yes, people ARE a type of human in a collective sense.

But a single one of those types of human is a PERSON, not a people.

Sounds like someone is trying to baffle someone with BS.
Reply:a person can't be a people.

even if you're doing your own thing, it's not a "type" unless there is more than one.
Reply:monarchs used to refer to themselves as we since they represent the will of not only themselves but also of the country
Reply:Of course - just as easily as I can be a men.

Why do some people see themselves as superior to others when they actually arent?

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putting aside the people who for one reason or another maybe ARE superior to other people, like high intellect or a lifetime of righteous deeds and just look at the people who actually ARENT better then the people they look down on. how is ti that someone with no special talent or skill ,just ordinary or below ordinary intellect and nothing to show can think there better then other people. my boss at work likes to lord it over everyone there and i am one of his favorite people to exhibit his insolence to for whatever reason. he likes to make people feel as if they could never achieve what he has (being the manager of a small cabinet shop his dad owns) and makes fun of anyone's problems as if we all deserve anything that comes to us because we are some kind of lower class. is this maybe a mental disorder of some sort he has going on? why are people like that and how can they perceive themselves as better then people who they aren't "better" than.

Why do some people see themselves as superior to others when they actually arent?
First of all I would like to say that a lot of people put down some really good answers that I agree with.

I just wanted to add that some people just think they are the s*it because they have always had a person telling them all their life that they are smart, beautiful or talented etc., and instead of observing that other people can be like that too (or better), or acknowledging that they also have a flaw (because we all have some), they just accept it and marvel in themselves.

They spend so much time thinking about how great they think they are that they don't observe others enough to notice them and their abilities, so they are underestimated.

That isn't the case with you. This guy was very observant, and is unhappy with himself or with what he is doing.

That's why he is so mad. He has had his job handed to him by his dad, but he may not have wanted that job in the first place. A lot of people don't like the jobs they have and he may not like the fact that you enjoy yours. Not only that, you may have learned a lot more in a shorter period of time than him, and have exceeded his abilities. And after all this time he was talking down on you, you've gone out and found a better paying job. Shame on you! ; )

My dad told me once that no matter how much talent you have, or how much money you have, or how smart you are, or how beautiful you are, there is always someone who will exceed that...and no matter how bad you have it, someone has it worse. In other words, be thankful, be humble.
Reply:Usually the types that act like they are 'superior' in some way are the most insecure people on the planet...
Reply:i think that comes from ignorance, a smart person never says he is superior than anybody else
Reply:Good Luck in your new job. As for that ignorant p*g he has to put up with himself for the rest of his miserable life, just imagine what kind of hell that must be.

Cheers and Good Luck again.
Reply:You have no idea how much I agree with you.

Ever met a copper ?

During your life you will meet and perhaps have to deal with ppl like that.

When you do, smack them.

You will get nowhere, but you will feel good....!!!

Bless you xx
Reply:see that's just it, i don't think i'm better then everybody........ just the people i'm better then
Reply:Sunshine is right ,they aren't happy with themself very insecure, its a front for there shortcomings
Reply:H e thinks he is superior because he isn't, he has less imagination, and less compassion than those around him, and an inability to see anyone elses point of view, this is born of arrogance, and arrogance, as we all know, is a sure sign of stupidity!

In short, he is an arrogant, ignorant prick, beyond educating, but through the accident of birth, he is in a position of power! Find yourself a new job as soon as you can, before you are sorely tempted to kick some humanity into this ********!!
Reply:Delusional ego trippers. I don't know a cure, thoroughbred w a n k e r s, cutting off their thumbs might help that ego?
Reply:He could be narcissistic or have a superiority complex but is very likely to be very insecure underneath it all. Proping up his own self worth by pulling down others gives a short term fix to his problems but long term this will make him feel worse. People who are comfortable and secure in their own skin don't need to resort to this behaviour :o)
Reply:Sometimes those who think themselves superior do it out of arrogance.

Arrogance is what grows on top of a dung hill.

(Arabic saying)
Reply:your boss sounds like a tw*t

Do people like the attention ?

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Some people might answer this question in a bad way, yet other people are very positive and answer this question like normal people in a positive way.That's the kind of people that most of us admire.After reading all of these you might think that I'm one of those people who like the attention, yet other people may think the opposite.But anyway just answer my question.Do people like the attention?

Do people like the attention ?
I personnaly dont like attention, (bad experiences) but u cant say u dont totally like it, depends in what way. Such has when u talk to someone u want them to listen to u, or to be counted as a person. ppl who NEED attention(as the ones u can spot in a crowd) i think they have insecurities.
Reply:Some do, if they are an extrovert.
Reply:I do like attention, because it is my character...

some people do hate attention, they better hide, better not known. It because that`s his/her character.

maybe there`s a strong background which build some people`s character...
Reply:I don't like much attention myself. I try not to call attention to myself. I am a bit of a shy reserved person. So no, not all people like attention. Depends on their personality type.
Reply:Some people do like attention, but others just prefer to remain on the down-low. It's not a bad thing to want attention, just don't overdo it and go crazy.
Reply:Yeah
Reply:everyone loves attention.
Reply:i think it's human nature to require attention - even if they dont want it!
Reply:i like attention if i dont lo like crap. and if im in the mood . not like icky though
Reply:yes they love it.
Reply:yes i think everyone likes attention it makes them feel important to somebody.
Reply:Very much so. Consider the man who fights for the aknowledgment that he has never had, and the the man whose always had attention but still wants the attention he hasn't gotten. Both want attention, but rather than the amount, it's the KIND of attention they seek. This is different for each and every person.
Reply:some people like attention. they are called attention whores.
Reply:I do-the day I don't get it is the day that i have lost "it"!

Why do people generally refer to Yoga and Buddhism as practices that originally came from Asian people?

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I know, I know, India is in Asia, but Indian people from India are not Asian people. They are white people who have resided in Asia for a very long time. India is a continent in Asia, so it's safe to say that Buddhism, Saddihartha Gottama, and Yoga originated on a piece of land in Asia called India (since that's where Yoga and Buddhism are from), but not by Asian people, but more rather by white people who have been residing on India, the land, since the beginning of India. So, why is it that people keep on referring to Yoga and Buddhism as as a religion and exercise that originated from Asian people?

Why do people generally refer to Yoga and Buddhism as practices that originally came from Asian people?
First of all Aryan invasion theory of india is a myth. 'Aryan' is a Sanskrit word referring to "civilized people" and not blonde people. Hindu religion is indigenous to India but was once spread far and wide including east Asia. Haven't you heard about the lost land of Lemuria which sank in the ocean. Second, Yoga and Buddhism came from Hinduism(Sanatana Dharma) and Buddha was a born Hindu.

http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Relig...

Aryan invasion theory is a myth my friend.
Reply:Well, thank you for putting us all right on that. It will make a huge difference to my life.

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Reply:You question displayed your ignorance. Asian people encompassed all of Asia. Asian doesn't just refer to people in East Asia. So please broaden perspective of Asian people.

A lot of East Asian culture are due to early Indian influences. Indian monks make their way through China and Korean. Buddhism is very much a part of East Asian culture.
Reply:If Indian culture is too bad to you what made WHITES to settle in india for centuries %26amp; WHITES created a new race ANGLO-INDIAN!!!!! Before Buddha, PATANJALI %26amp; 100S OF RISHIS WERE HERE.If you want the credit of YOGa go ahead.%26amp; reform thh world.
Reply:What is wrong with that. Buddhism is the oldest and sensitive religion on the earth. I am a Poland guy. But after i went to Sri lanka( the country that the Buddhism and yoga is still exist) I though the most truthful and correct religion for people is Buddhism. And now the whole world getting know about these thing. Because of that most people try to go with those things and get to know the importance of Buddhism and yoga to there life.

THERE IS NO MATTER WHETHER IT CAME FROM ASIA OR FROM ASIAN PEOPLE.

SO who is telling indians got white peoples DNA. It is proper wrong. I suggest that u can put another question about that.

Indians dont have white peoples DNA. British people control india for 150 years.(nearly). That is the one and only main relation ship with white people and indians. But if any one think indians have white DNA it is wrong.
Reply:Maybe the spirit of life is in Asia (China, Iran, India)
Reply:I thought the Dravidians were the first to go to India and white people came after that. Can you just explain that or provide links please?

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People like you 1980's tv programme song ?

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trying to find out who did the song for a tv prog in the 80's about courage shown by ordinary people.think the song went like - people like you ,people like me people we long to be someday and tell the story of our lives to people like you and people like me -i think it went something like that,any help would be great.

People like you 1980's tv programme song ?
"People like you"

"People like me"

"People we long to be someday"

"and tell the story of our lives"

"to people like you"

"and people like me"

Wow, what a nice song, got a nice rhythm.

Hope you find it, cause now i want it too.
Reply:Dunno 'bout TV show , but think this sounds like Stevie Wonder / Paul McCartney's "Ebony %26amp; Ivory"
Reply:maybe it was the show called real people.
Reply:Think you dreamt that one love!!!!

All the lonely people where do they all come from?

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WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THEM?

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I look at all the lonely people.

I look at all the lonely people.

Ella Marigby

Picks up the rice in the church where her wedding has been;

Lives in a dream.

Waits at the window,

Wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door.

Who is it for?

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

Father MacKenzie

Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear;

No one comes near.

Look at him working,

Nodding his socks in the night when there's nobody there.

What does he care?

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

I look at all the lonely people.

I look at all the lonely people.

Ella Marigby

Died in the church and was buried alone with her name.

Nobody came.

Father MacKenzie

Wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from her grave.

No one was saved.

All the lonely people where do they all come from?

All the lonely people where do they all come from?
men are from mars

women are from venus

lonely people are from earth
Reply:We know it's a Beatles song. What's the point?
Reply:I love the Beatles! I don't think that was the question though.
Reply:I'm guessing you love the Beatles.
Reply:We all get lonely sometimes....
Reply:You must have gone to Buckwheat's School of Song writing! (Buckwheat was a character played by Eddie Murphy on SNL).
Reply:That sounds like a poem and I say you did a good job at making it up. But to answer your poem I would say that lonely people are people who do not like other people and do not want to make friends and just scares off possible friends. I think that it is sad that some people are lonely and have no friends you can just hope that you have a family that cares about you if not then life is just sad and a boor

People that smoke: Why do you do it? If you know it's bad for you, why you do it?

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You are putting yourself in danger and risking your life. I personally don't care about people who smoke because they are making a huge mistake. You are only consuming 20% of the bad chemicals you are smoking so you are not only putting yourself in danger but the people that are around you, some of which care about you! I know it can be addicting because I know people who do it but that is no excuse. If you don't smoke, bless you. Then you are making a great decision. 1 person dies every 17 seconds in the world from smoking. If that many people are dying because of smoking, imagine how many people are dying from hanging around with people that smoke.

People that smoke: Why do you do it? If you know it's bad for you, why you do it?
I feel the same way. I have no sympathy for those who start smoking knowing that it is addictive, like people who smoke crack for the first time. If you didn't think you would get addicted, then you are delusional. I don't smoke and my husband doesn't smoke, so there is a great possibility that my son won't smoke. Us, as parents. are the most influential role models for our children. My mom smoked and my dad didn't, but I wonder if he did would I have turned out to be a smoker like my sister?

And for the people that continue to smoke with all the programs out there to help you quit, stop making excuses and do something good for you, your family and friends. Quit.
Reply:It's an addiction. And a very powerful one at that.

Incidentally, I don't smoke but everyone else in my family does. I find it absolutely disgusting.
Reply:I didn't think I would be addicted since I just occasionally did it for fun, but now I am and I enjoy it but regret it at the same time.
Reply:people know all about the dangers of smoking cigarettes just as people know the dangers of drinking alcohol and beer. and people doing drugs . They do it because they want to . So don't just label the cigarette smokers. cigars , chewing tobacco . snuff it is all addictive . it is their choice .
Reply:No one lives forever. Also , I can't get well without my Camel.
Reply:It's not as easy to quite as you would think, even knowing the dangers. Also although it is disgusting and unhealthy it's very Calming and Addictive.
Reply:The only thing I agree with here is that you are right about the fact that others who don't want to smoke should not be subjected to my smoke. I smoke because I want to. It is not an addiction. I am not in denial. I like to smoke, period, no excuses or apologies. You don't have to like it as long as it doesn't affect you which I can honestly say my smoking does not adversely affect anyone else in my family, friends, or in public. I don't smoke in restaurants even if it is allowed. I don't smoke in my home because my boyfriend and my grown son don't smoke. As to fairies theory that because she and her husband don't smoke her child won't. Sorry, not necessarily so. I have smoked all my son' life. I didn't preach to him about not smoking all the while blowing smoke in his face. He decided that he did not want to smoke. I have always smoked outside so that he would not be adversely affected by second hand smoke. She had better be more concerned about her child's peer group starting at about age 13-15. That is the group who will probably determine whether or not the child smokes. In closing let me just tell you that while you have a very reasonable concern, you shouldn't just assume that everyone who smokes is weak, or addicted, or unconcerned about the people around them who don't smoke. You are wrong.
Reply:How naive. They are addicted. You are too young to understand addiction. I don't smoke, and I say screw you for your dumbness.
Reply:They are too weak to wean themselves off of the nicotene. It's a drug addiction.

How many people have a mud fetish as people refer to sex as dirty so surely that means people like doing it in

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How many people have a mud fetish as people refer to sex as dirty so surely that means people like doing it in mud.

Why else would it be refered to as dirty, flithy etc?

If most people's love making does not involve mud or worse poop and usually couples shower regularly shower so not stinky.

Then surely all who refer to sex as something dirty or filthy are all lunatics or on drugs as seeing stuff which is not there and should be placed in a nut house.

Think litterally.

If a car if covered in mud or dirt you refer to it as dirty. if the car is clean you do not.

And funny if things involving sex in single people and teenagers, inc feelings and thoughts

Then why not about marriage couples and having children as surely thats firlthy and dirty too.

And surely married people are the dirtiest as they do it all the time and share beds so muct be dirty.

Or more like how about everytong stops refering to sex as dirty or filthy, inc porn (bar mud wrestle vids)

How many people have a mud fetish as people refer to sex as dirty so surely that means people like doing it in
Within the marriage bed, sex is noble, beautiful, righteous, and God-given. It is only "dirty" when it is done outside the boundaries of marriage. So maybe it is that people who don't get married and have sex still like mud.
Reply:You again

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Are beautiful people more popular? Are people more attracted to beautiful persons, men and women alike?

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I have often wondered if people are more attracted to beautiful

persons just because they're beautiful. Is it a sexual attraction?

Do people like to be in the company of beautiful people, be seen

with beautiful people, have beautiful people as friends.

When someone beautiful or handsome comes into a room,

everyone turns to look.

Many people think that if they become beautiful , people will

come to them like a moth to a lightbulb. This happenned to

Marilyn Monroe. She knew the value of beauty, and kept many

beauty secrets.

Are beautiful people more popular? Are people more attracted to beautiful persons, men and women alike?
Yes! Sadly its tru..People are just drawn to people who are attractive. One time i seen this show and they where trying to see who people where more drawn to and would people help an unattractive person. Well the studies show that people would pick up an attractive hitch hiker and kids liked the attractive teacher. Unfortuneatly thats just how life is..♥
Reply:yes but beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Reply:first impressions always work until you see the real person sad but true
Reply:yes, ppl are more attracted to beautiful people.
Reply:You don't have to be beautiful to be attractive. Your mannerisms, ability to converse, put most people at ease when meeting for the first time, will undoubtedly win you more bouquets, than the most beautiful girlie on the block or blonde in the town, or, the movies.
Reply:I guess that is how it is.

What is on the outside attracts. But if you note, it is not always good looks; it may be how well one carries oneself and the clothes you chose.

It is always how you project to others. Your personality rather than good looks. Any look gets converted to "good" as you carry it.

Everyone is beautiful. It is in the eyes of the beholder.
Reply:everyone is unique and beautiful in their own ways...noone is ugly...i believe being popular is not fun because you have to be beautiful 27/7 to 'not get thrown out of the group or to just fit in'
Reply:u can say that again!
Reply:Everyone loves beauty.

That's why there is art, fashion, and design.

Not only is it just being beautiful, but YOUNG and BEAUTIFUL.

Humans are visual creatures. So, the desire for visual beauty is a basic part of human existence.

http://www.plaininsane.com
Reply:yes certainly
Reply:Hey. Who doesn't like to look at a pretty face or a handsome man? Image is the god of love. People can't help themselves. And it is held up for all to see. It doesn't mean pretty people are better or nicer, or anything...they are just pretty. I know enough very attractive men and women to tell you they are not kinder or more compassionate. Their insides DO NOT match their exterior facade. So it's a good thing they're cute, 'cause otherwise no one would even give them a second chance.

Marilyn Monroe was pitiful insecure, addicted natured type of person who's looks inevitable couldn't save her from herself.

I truly believe the old axiom:

" Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder."

Or, "Beauty's only Skin Deep. Ugly's all the way to the Bone!" lol.
Reply:yes that's how fickle the world is unfortunately you have to be beautiful to be accepted.
Reply:well it is true that the (physically)attractive get quick attention from everyone but ultimately its the inner beauty which matters....beauty is something which is very tough to define and varies from one to another.....you might call this person beautiful but someone else might call him/her ugly..........these days beauty has become something which anyone or everyone can have by just owning a heavy purse (overflowing with money) and visiting a plastic surgeon......so the beauty of beauty is lost

although being beautiful can do wonders to one's confidence....people should realise that beauty is not the only solution for leading a great and happy life....we should be happy with what we have...

its a person's attitude which actually makes him/her beautiful and not the appearance

Why are people bad?

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why do people do bad things? how come kids in school talk back to teachers and parents? why do people act like they are all that? why do people bully others? why do people mug others and rob stores?how come people do drugs? why do brothers and sisters fight with each other? why do people act stupid and then they get real sick? why dont people belive in god? why do people do these things?

Why are people bad?
The human brain is made from dirt, this is what you wash off your body, the brain is weak and damages easily, the Ancient Egyptians had the best idea, they through it in the garbage. When ever someone does something good, it is coming from the heart, spirit or if I may? the God in them.
Reply:Because you touch yourself at night.
Reply:I really don't think there is one set answer for this question.

Every person you ask will give you a different answer.

If we knew why, then we could fix it.

People who go out of their way to disrespect...?

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People seem to think that now they can group Green Day with the un-punk bands and say that they aren't punk and that the ONLY people who listen to it is girls rebelling against their daddies. ut, have they forgotten what punk was all about? It's rebellion, anarchy, and people tend to apply music to their life in general anyway! I am a grown up dude and I like them and respect them as artist.

They say that Green Day is getting old, but like wine- things get better with age. There are alot older bands that they don't complain about.

Every one has the right to their opinion, but you shouldn't go out of your way to diss someone. If some one post a thread pertaining to Green Day, then automatically some people are thinking how funny it would be to piss them off.

Further more, people again start to complain about the rebellion thing. They say, "This song is nothing but teen angst." I think it is weird for the mere fact that it's mostly people who like other rock genres.

People who go out of their way to disrespect...?
One thing people seem to forget is when you have a band like Green Day that has been around for over a decade (my god I am getting old, I have been a fan since the beginning), they age! They get older! They get married and have families and settle down. And guess what? They have different things to say, different styles. People change, music is ever evolving. You cannot possibly expect someone to be singing and writing the same exact way after over a decade of life. Now I think Green Day has shifted from punk, but when someone has had such a big impact on music of the mid 1990s (a fantastic impact at that) I think they should be allowed to do whatever the hell they like. And hell, we should be praising them for lasting as long as they have, most bands never make it past 1 year of fame, let alone 12.

Another thing to keep in mind is most of the people saying Green day sux monkey ballz aren't even old enough to remember Dookie playing on the air as new music so what do they know about punk music anyway? Punk barely even exists anymore so they need to stop talking about things they don't know anything about.
Reply:As it happens, it's not a personal opinion that Greenday aren't punk. Its an actual fact. Jesus, Johnny Rotten the King of Punk said they weren't punk, and who would know better? I have nothing against fans of Greenday. I have something against people saying they're punk, but then not knowing who Black Flag are.

And baby, I'm all for teen angst, believe me they're my people...
Reply:Green Day sux dude but i luv metal 2 so............
Reply:Green Day has never pissed me off, I just don't like a group of people who always say they are right and you are wrong. Always. Like the Bush Administration is on the other side of spectrum. Both sides have been pushed to the far right and left and the people are the battle field.

Lebanon people, who in our category......?

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are the most interesting %26amp; / or amusing......

1...questioners...

2...answerers...

3...funny people..

4...serious people...

5...helpful preople..

6...lovable people..

7...clever people

8...gentle people

9...noisy people

10...frustrating people ..

Lebanon people, who in our category......?
1...questioners... you

2...answerers... you

3...funny people.. you

4...serious people... you

5...helpful people..you

6...lovable people.. you

7...clever people you

8...gentle people you

9...noisy people you

10...frustrating people .. you

Now i don't like to be the center of attention, but come on!!! who will top you!!

Yes "you" The one who is reading my answer!! "you"
Reply:1...questioners...

Aussie, Ghanouge, Kumara, Webby, Pinky, G

2...answerers...

Kate, Aussie, Ghanouge, Webby, Samsooma, Fatma, all of us when we got the time.

3...funny people..

Ismaily, Hasafer, Ghanouge, Aussie, Chloe, Fatma, all of us when we are in a good mood.

4...serious people...

Kate, Hallambra, Kalooka, Reiko, prd, all of us when we are in a bad mood :DD

5...helpful preople..

Kate, Kate, Kate, Hallambra, Aussie, Chloe, Eve, G, Webby, Fatma, prd, all of us when we are in a tioleshekov mood :D

6...lovable people..

All of u sweet people

7...clever people

Kate, Hallambra, Aussie, Webby,

8...gentle people

Aussie, Chloe, Hallambra

9...noisy people

Ghanoooooooooooouge :D

10...frustrating people

Ghanouge, Reiko.
Reply:1. questioners: all of us.. depends on the days really..

mama hallambra asks every now and then and it's always a pleasure to answer :D ... ghanouge every day but friday.. cause that's her day off.. Aussie asks every two days and less by the weekend cause it's family time.. also webby, kate ask every week but not every day.. eve and leila ask too :D smutty ask by accident here when he means to ask over polls and surveys.. reikominder, and ismaily rules ask here every week, although they haven't been around lately.. ggg is supposed to be back and he's nowhere to be found.. as well as gbone who's just watching us.. **looks up to the screen and waves**

but i dont think i am one of the ppl who ask questions all the time.. i have nothing on my mind for weeks and then i ask two questions... besides those points are precious... the lavender smell is not like any other so it's hard for me to let it go :(

2. answerers: everyone.. although we choose who to answer and who not to..

3. funny: isn't it contagious!! :P all

4. serious: when we take those serious pills..

5. helpful: mama Hallambra, mama Webby and jeddo Aussie

6. lovable.. what is this mushy lovey part of the question!! %26gt;:P

7. clever: we also have moments... haven't you witnessed me on a coocoo day!!

8. gentle.. Hallambra and Aussie :D

9. noisy! the trolls who visited us

10. frustrating: also the trolls and some ppl who asked some political questions although we dont care about them :P
Reply:1. You, Kumara, Webby, Ghannouge and Chloe (I'm sure the others are too...but those came to my mind imediately)

2. Hallambra, Ghannouge, Kumara and Leila

3. Webby, Gh and Smutty

4. you and Hallambra

5. everyone

6. Fatma, GB, Reiko and Hasafer

7. You, Gh, Webby, Hallambra, Kumara, Leila and Chloe...

8. gentle like how?? I can't think of anyone gentle but YOU

9. Gh and Fatma

10. Milo
Reply:1...questioners...

Aussie, webby, pinky, fatma...

2...answerers...smutty,ismaily,aussie,... u all)...i guess all cause each has a way of answering depending on the question.

3...funny people..ismaily,smutty,hasafer,fatma...e... has had some good times.

4...serious people...now that depends on which day of the week are we talking about...hallambra,kumara,reiko,kate

5...helpful preople..kumara,hallabra,webby,kate,auss...

6...lovable people..everyone

7...clever people...smutty,chloe,kate

8...gentle people...hallambra,reiko,pinky,brown eyes,samoosa

9...noisy people..ghanouge

10...frustrating people ...those who post their political questions here by mistake -_-
Reply:1. Webby, Jeddo

2. Webby, Chloe and yes, you Jeddo...

3. Smutty, Jeddo, Fatma, Webby

4. Josh

5. Kate

6. Kate, Fatma, Hasafer, Jeddo

7. Kate, Smutty, Ghanouge, Webby

8. Exchanging, Brown Eyes

9. Ghanouge, Webby...Me.

10. Milo...Me. ;-)

Sheeze, there are a lot of Webby, Jeddo %26amp; Kates in my list...

(btw...thank you Hasafer...that was really too sweet of you to say...*wipes a little tear away*)
Reply:donno all of you that well yet, and changing your names is not helping...

1 jeddo

2 I like normally the answers of Webby, Kate, Angelo...

5 jeddo and Kate

6 most of you guys

and for #10, donno why Milo comes to mind... :-)
Reply:1. jeddo , webby , kumara , gh

2. me me me lol , then all

3. smutt hole , gh , webby , fatma , ggg , jeddo , chole , hallambra , reiko

4. josh , prd

5. all

6. all [ kate , pinky ]

7. in flirting me , in teasing jeddo , in sarcasm mama , in any thing gh

8. shrinking , exchanging ,samosa

9. fatma , kumara [ I love her ]

10 . our big heart GB when his mood is down

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Why do people believe in an angry and hateful God?

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The bible tells us that God is All "Knowing", All "Loving" and All "Forgiving", but yet people still want to believe that God is an angry and hateful Being that does not forgive people, sends people to Hell, curses people with illnesses and deformaties (sp?).

This contradicts one another. You can't have an All "Forgiving" God that sends people to Hell. Forgiveness is forgiveness. Just like you can't have an All "Loving" God that hates gay people. Love is love.

If it is well known that the Bible was edited, and it was well known that people blamed earthquakes and other natural disasters on God before they knew any better, then why do so many people still believe that God is so angry and hateful?

Any thoughts?

Why do people believe in an angry and hateful God?
Oh, you mean the kind and loving God that sends all non-believers to a place of eternal torment? Yeah, why do people believe such nonsense.

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Reply:My thoughts are there is no god.
Reply:God is not all angry and all hateful. Neither is He all loving and all forgiving. You reject His Son Jesus Christ and you will feel his wrath in the Day of Judgment. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

If you aren't walking in the Spirit then you are fulfilling the lust of the flesh.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings and such like; of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

God loves people. God hates the sin of homosexuality which is lasciviousness and uncleanness.

I have the "hope of righteousness" because I strive hard to walk in the Spirit. The Holy Spirit purifies and refines, but none are perfect - no not one.

God is Love, but He is also the Divine Judge of all mankind. God will have His angels cast the wicked into the Lake of Fire . . . eternal hell. Just as a fornicator can refrain from having sex, so also can a homosexual refrain from having sex.

God expects it and commands it.

You are commanded to know the Holy Bible the Word of God.
Reply:your right.. the scrptures say.. GOD IS LOVE..

that is why the idea that most people think of as hell... a burny firey place of torment and torture... does not exsist.. god would never do that to his people.. the worst punnishment people will get is eternal death.

hell is the comon grave.

dirt.
Reply:There is no forgiveness without repentance. This is the warm and fuzzy Jesus heresy. There is forgiveness for every sin, once the sin is forsaken. Forgiveness is not a license to sin.
Reply:It's called Brain wash not believe.
Reply:The I AM isn't angry or hateful at all the true Lord is pure love absolutely pure and beautiful. The Lord loves all his Children on earth because in his eyes all of us are unique.

He created this universe and this planet as a class room for us to learn he is good his creation is good.
Reply:God is not the one who decides who goes to hell... that is the decesion of each individual... God does not cause all the illness and infermaties of mankind... they are the result of mankind's actions from the first rejection of God. The forces of evil and sin are the origin of all of mankinds suffering.

God may, and has, on limited basis, used "natural" disasters, sickness, and "accidents" to chastize mankind... but the vast majority of what afflicts man are brought about by man's own actions. Past and present.
Reply:God does love everyone... but he is perfect, so he can't be around sin. mankind chose to sin... so we can't go to heaven... were God lives. (im sure you know all this :D) but God loves us so much he sent his perfect son to die and take all our sins on him. he rose again and if we want to live forever w/ God, we need to accept God's gift of forgiveness thru Christ. he loves us, yet, since he's perfect, he has to be just. makes sense to me. does it to you?
Reply:Who thinks that God does not forgive people? I believe you are confused here? Forgiveness is what God does...it is for us to accept His forgiveness...

and by the way, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Reply:Where does this monsterous misconception originate that God somehow is incapable of hating someone? That "God is LOVE so let's all get together and have a big group hug" is straight from the "Love Doctrine" of nutjob theologians from the 60's and 70's, and is entirely unBiblical. If you think otherwise, you're actually helping to proliferate this fraudulent doctrine. God most certainly IS capable of hating someone: "Jacob have I loved; Esau have I HATED" (the root word for hatred simply means "love even less") - God.
Reply:I have a thought, shhhhhh! Wraithful, Spiteful, Mean God will hear you and put a serious smiting hurt on You!
Reply:They like it that way

they like to be controlled

they can't live without it
Reply:Why do you believe God is all loving and forgiving?
Reply:I believe that God is just and loving. It is not hate or anger that causes God to condemn, but justice. We all deserve eternal punishment. (*ooh, no, I don't! You're mean!* etc, etc. Yes, you do, and you know it.) It is evidence of God's love and grace that we don't all go to hell.

If you foolishly persist in believing that people are inherently good, and it's God that is evil, there's nothing I can do about that. It is pretty clear to me that it's people that are evil instead.
Reply:Fear of the Lord as mentioned throughout the bible is incorrectly observed by many.

Fear as depicted above is not defined as being scared.

The true definition is the desire to humble ourself before God.

After all God provided His only son to die for us, if the latter is not love than what could it be?
Reply:And your God is One God; there is no God but He, the Gracious, the Merciful.

And to God belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth. He forgives whomsoever He pleases and punishes whomsoever He pleases, and God is Most Forgiving, Merciful.
Reply:The Old Testament is full of examples of Angry Hateful God.

The New Testament's prophet puts a nice loving spin on things (mostly,) but the threat of getting sent to Hell for eternity as a result of not believing that Jesus paid for the sin of humanity sends God right back to being Angry and Hateful.
Reply:because, if god has the power to end suffering but doesnt, then he cannot be loving/merciful.

could you watch children be neglected, abused, molested and stand by doing nothing? (claim that because adam and eve ate some fruit it is their punishment, and they deserve it...?)

could u stand by watching someone get raped, robbed, beaten? could you say they deserved it because of their sin against god?

what loving being could do that...? what loving and merciful being could watch these events take place, while having the ability/power to stop it, yet refuses to on grounds adam/eve ate some fruit. (or that those people deserve it for any various reason...?)

- a mothers love must be greater than gods. a mother will continue to love her child even if her child does not love her back.

edit: im going to assume the thumbs down means that if you had the power to stop any of those events you wouldnt. and that in doing so you would still be considered a good person. this is why i dont like religion.

What Group Of People Do Conservatives Hate Most?

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Conservatives,

Below I have in random order, groups of people that it is very well known most if not all conservatives despise with a passion. However, I would like you all to rank them most to least despised, so I get a better sense of what group irks conservatives the most...

- Communists

- Hippies

- Black People

- Welfare State Citizens

- Unions

- People Who Contain Human Sympathy

- Academic Elites

- Woman That Don't Put Out Easy

- Terrorists

- People That Aren't Techically Terrorists But Look Weird

- Atheists

- Fact-Checkers

- Criminals

- People Who Prosecute Republican Criminals

- Pacifists

- Kids That Don't Shut Up Even When You Beat Them

- Feminists

- People Who Own Less Than 10 Flag %26amp; Eagle Related

Bumper Stickers, Lapels, Underwear, etc.

- People Who Like Hummus

- People Who Don't Like Nascar

- People That Don't Go "WOOOOOHOOO!" When Fox

Shows Soldiers Blowing People Up.

Rank em.

What Group Of People Do Conservatives Hate Most?
any group the bible tells them to hate.
Reply:Unions, Pacifists, Liberals, People who like Humans, Fact checkers, Feminists, Crminals, People that prosecute Republican Criminals, and leave the rest out. The types above are only specific types the ones similar to Ronald Reagan the types which back Death Squads and such.

On another note here is anInteresting little factoid which is that Shiite Death Squads in Iraq have been said to be commiting crimes independant of U.S. control but just on their lonesome Maybe this time around the good ole U.S.A is not to blame
Reply:i agree with pony soprano ! however,the exception would be that I enjoy when our soldiers are blowing up the rag heads !
Reply:Your list speaks volumes about the type of person you are. I doubt liberals would claim you as one of them, so what are you....besides a total jackass.
Reply:Idiots named Bo D.

Do people who criticize Islam have a higher IQ than people who defend it?

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Ive come to realize that the issue of Islam is largely one of intelligence. Intelligent people can connect the dots, and dumb people typically cant. Intelligent people do their homework before the knee jerk defensive pc cliches, dumb people spit out cliches, without having done their homework, and do so as if these simpletonisms are nuggets of wisdom never before heard (ex: hey, you cant judge the whole by the actions of a few).

Almost all armed conflict worldwide is Islamic. Intelligent people who read, know this and make judgements about the religion based on the data, as opposed to the propaganda (religion of peace).

Dumb people narrow everything to dufuss dichotmies like "Haters vs Good Guys". So, again, living by simpleton cliches, when dumb people hear some criticize a religion, their little "hater" program is triggered, and being too lazy for homework, they simply regurgitate dufuss platitiudes as opposed to looking at the data.

Do people who criticize Islam have a higher IQ than people who defend it?
This is an interesting question, because the answer is "not necessarily" despite the apparent obvious answer of "yes".

IQ is the attempt to measure "intelligence", which applies to many different aspects of what the human brain is capable of- language, math, rational thinking, logical deduction, three dimensional thinking, etc.

Ivy league schools are full of leftists/liberals who score high on I.Q. tests, but rate very low in common sense (i.e. "real world thinking").

The reason for this is because the brain is far more complex than people realize. Everything in this world must be processed through the human brain and is subject to the filters and pre-conceived notions that exist in everyone's mind.

There is a phenomenon called "delusion" that is a prime characteristic of liberalism. Delusion is the exact opposite of clarity. What this means is that despite overwhelming evidence and indisputable facts, the brain of a leftist STILL takes reality and turns it into fantasy... it's an EXTREMELY powerful phenomenon, and is directly related to the fact that emotion and logic run the human brain- and one can turn the other one off. ...

when a liberal from Yale has no emotional connection/investment to the math or language questions on an IQ test, he or she can score very high. However, when this same person is subject to having to overcome the brainwashing that 'muslims are victims, Americans and white people are bad!' the emotional sides of their brains overcome them, and the answers they give make them look like idiots.

Sorry.... long answer, but an honest one.
Reply:Well, they do seem to be a very credulous lot.

And they are rather language and logic challenged.

Like you said the Endangered owl does display quite a bit of it. I thought that it was common knowledge that the Crusades were started off by the Muslims taking Jerusalem and the Christians trying to get it back. So, it's unclear as to what he's trying to prove, isn't it? Also, the response of the others merely goes to prove this fact. "veged war"? And the crap about Islam being the basis for Science? That's a laugh!

But then, they cannot be blamed for what they do; after all, they're not responsible for their actions, being in the condition they are, isn't it?

Pity is that this madness is getting to a point where it endangers all others, so, we must think of solutions, now.

Peace.

ST
Reply:People have a tendency to think people of a similar mindset are intelligent people. This is very commonly a misconception. It's a common mistake. Don't beat yourself up too bad.
Reply:Its not really an IQ issue, more that people are to quick to judge and make comments with out knowing all the facts. You can not make a judgment about a religion without knowing all the facts about it, and you can not defend a religion to which you know little about. To make an argument about your own religion or other religion one would have to know about all religions in general to know how to present their argument.
Reply:I sincerely don't know my IQ.
Reply:Replace "Islam" with "religion".

Yes.
Reply:people that follow the Islamic Faith probable come in all levels of intellectual acumen , the sad thing is that the people that have HIGH JACKED the religion in order to push an agenda are some of the smartest and the best educated
Reply:Actually Islam has contributed significantly to modern society than what most would know. Some great achievements in math, sciences, and agriculture are directly related to Muslims. You just have to read. Ignorance is bliss huh! Not knowing gives anyone the reason to make any assumption.
Reply:Between those who have chosen to be Christians and those who were only born it and those who oppose it, there is no correlation by I Q.

You need to apply a Spirit Level to test them. Christians pass that test and are a brand new creation in Christ. They are able to discern spiritual things. They are born again of the Holy Spirit. Born again into a living hope. All things are become new and the old has passed away.

They are the Spiritual Ubermenschen.
Reply:Well I can only comment about the people I know, but generally those who justly criticize islam (not just bash for the fun of it) are pretty intelligent and have read the quran, ahadith and other books about islam. Many non-Muslims who defend islam are ignorant as to what those sources actually say. They have simply believed the lies and propaganda spewed by Muslims. The excuses Muslims use to defend Muhammad are asinine at best, yet many buy into them because they are taught that all religions are good and promote love and peace. I believe it's mostly ignorance that causes someone to defend islam, although ignorance isn't a great excuse either. In the case of Muslims, they have no choice. They are threatened with death for criticizing or leaving islam. At least self-preservation is a valid reason for defending the evil of islam.

I should add that I deliberately use lower case letters when typing islam, quran, allah because those things are not worthy of respect. I've had many comments about that, but I don't care.

God Bless.
Reply:A higher "I.Q."???

I wonder.

Let's find out.

MY hate-e-mail is ALWAYS open.
Reply:What is with you and islam? serously, do you not REMEMBER A THING CALLED THE CRUSADES?
Reply:Why dont u read the history of Islaam. For thirteen years Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) preached Islaam to the people of mecca and its surroundings and he never used force or fight with the people mecca. for full thirteen years he preached peacefully he and his followers had to bear hardships, they were beaten by lashes, some of them got killed, they put in captivity, they had to migrate to other countries leaving their homes, even Prophet Mohammed had to leave Mecca and migrated to Madina when the pagans of mecca tried to kill him. Prophet MOhammed used force in defence when people of mecca veged war on muslims.

I again advise u to read Islaamic history carefully.

People and their loved one in a nursing home?

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people that put their loved ones in nurseing homes let me tell you something,first of all if your going to put them in there, then go see them often and never go at the same time ,and if there is something you dont like speak up and let the nursing home staff have it , but first find out whose fault it is. and this is for every body in every city big or little,but listen to this please, for those people that are in small cities who are still in school and really anywhere in your small towns alot of your CNA's are people who cant or dont want to go out of their town to find work are mostly the people who take care of your family member, so before you become a bully in your school or work place just remember who might be taking care of them or you later on.this is the truth. im not saying every cna is like this , iv worked in a nursing home and ive always had a heart for old people but ive worked with peoples grandparents, mothers, fathers ect... and so has other people who i know.

People and their loved one in a nursing home?
It takes a special person to do what you have done and say what you have said here.

I worked in an Extended Care Unit once. When I was sent to the floor to work I found an old fellow on a striker frame. As per usual I set out to retrieve help to turn him give him a sponge bath and back rub. When I got him turned I was mortified! It had been so long since he had been turned that he had bed sores on the side of his face and body he had been left on for so long. I wept for this poor man. Turns out he was a former clown with the Barnimum Bailey's Circus, retired.

Where was his family? Where was the nursing staff that was supposed to have been turning him every 4 hours and bathing him daily?

That was the last of my nursing home type experiences. I soon after that went into the secretarial part of nursing. It was something that I will never forget.

It is not just nursing homes, it is in hospital's also, where you expect better care.

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Would people rather talk with people who drink and party on the week ends or people who don/t?

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who would you rather hang around with and talk with, people who drink and party on the week ends or people who do not , we talk with all kinds of people, but for friendships people to work with, who would you rather be with people who party or people who do not , not an inbetween answer like it is alright to party sometimes, just either or okay

Would people rather talk with people who drink and party on the week ends or people who don/t?
Party people are okay, but people who drink alcohol like it's going out of style need help and I don't like spending time with them .there are already enough people like that around me that I can't get rid of (meaning family members) and I'd rather not willingly associate myself with more of them. There are exceptions though.

And I know that this qualifies as an "in-between answer," but I really don't care because life isn't black ans white like that. It's gray and there are always exceptions in questions like this.
Reply:DON'T!!!! they are a BAD influence and can ruin your life forever!
Reply:Everybody loves the designated driver. It's kind of fun watching people act like four year olds, and making total idiots of themselves. I know that, for me, if I am drinking I really like a sober guy that has it all together. Not a sloppy drunk mess. Besides, sprite looks like gin and tonic, just put a stirrer in it.
Reply:defantly friends or co workers and enjoy a few drinks . I love to party.....
Reply:I would rather party with a person that I can trust!! A person that I can talk to! Not a person that can just kill themselves in a second!!
Reply:i party hard!!!!. but some weekends i settle down... and decide that sunday after THERES NO HANGOVER. i dont know exactly wat ur question is so desperate about... is it what u want to do or peer presure... look im only 14... so u might think... woah she is young y the **** is she answering this... but im accualy trying to get over my partying habit and try to create a better person alcahol and ciggeretes have ruined me so far... so i hope u get my point

Why are people leaving ?

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why are people leaving?, they put Q that they are not coming back.

yes you will come here and get thumbs down, reported, Q deleted , people will be rude. people that don’t approve with you, people would never agree at one thing , we all have different opinion,diffrent views of something.

remember wolf she left because people accused her of being non-Muslim, although that is wrong from us Muslims to accuse people of not being Muslim(even al-Qiyamah had a Q about that(http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

we come here to learn, to see different opinions, thoughts of people, to meet nice people. Nothing that happens in yahoo answer should be the reason that people leave.

if you don’t like someone just ignore them, don’t answer there Q.

Why are people leaving ?
I think a lot of people are leaving because of disrespectful answers, I am a new convert and every time I ask a question because I want to learn, I get this rude answers and fingers being pointed at me because I am not a "good Muslim" we should all be more tolerant here, and more respectful towards other's opinions.
Reply:i was sad when wolf left! even i left for two weeks because people said some very rude things to me!!! my question to say bye got deleted, but i am still thinking of leaving. if people start being nice answers will be a great online community for people!!
Reply:It's hard to constantly be targeted, reported, harassed and insulted, that is why so many people leave. I have cut back my time here for those same reasons. I am sure people who do this mean well, but only Allah knows their true intent. I can only hope and pray they are guided by Allah and not Shaytan. Bless you all.
Reply:Yeah, all the people with knowledge that actually try to help are leaving. That's shameful. I will be leaving also because I am on vacation and have nothing better to do at the moment. Add me if you'd like some of my answers!! :) THANKS... but it's really shameful... see if everyone leaves then who will answer the Q's?
Reply:I agree, but maybe they have other priorities, we don't really know there situations (",)

~ I'm still here~
Reply:i'm not gonna leave as long as my account is alive. If it gets suspended, thn i'll pack my bags too.
Reply:I'm leaving only cause I spend too much time on here, and I really prefer to talk to people on messengers and stuff, when you attempt to talk to someone on here through a question, it gets deleted, so I'm tired of trying to do that :P.
Reply:The question gets deleted not only if we report, it even gets deleted if the question is against the yahoo answer comunity guideliness.

There are certain questions which should not be asked over here.
Reply:i left for a while too, but i came back. why should we leave and let the radicals and the closed minded bigots take over?
Reply:All the nice people are leaving. It's a shame. If this continues there will be no one left except trolls.
Reply:Yes it is wrong and I agree if you dont agree, like or understand the question just ignore it.
Reply:I remember "wolf", she has a cool site by the way.

I'm here!
Reply:Sis you are soo right!!!!

please everyone who has considered leaving its not worth it!

if i had left when i said i would have i wouldnt have meet all the nice people i know today!! like:

Red Tulips

Fasn

Envy 412

Ninja %26amp; Proud

Tyler

that other dude....with spiky hair (sry 4got ur screan name) from Pakistan

Islam 4 life

Nancy

Sen

Unique

Chloe

Job/ Ibrahim

Kimo

From the Lebanon

all the Mimis lol

dont do it, you'll regret it not now maybe not 2marrow but you will.
Reply:yeah we do come on here to learn and i have definatley learned a lot here and hope that ppl remain on yahoo
Reply:I just got three abuse reports so I don't know how many more days I will be allowed to remain...two I understood, the third was ridiculous. Given some of the responses here, all three of mine were relatively benign.
Reply:There are allot of racists in here, i can see how someone could get sick of it. With what Ive seen some people say, it disgusts me!
Reply:I agree with you. Reporting and all is a coward's act. If you are true or if u believe that the other person is not right, then you better argue,discuss and come to the conclusion. The other person replying is a normal person like you. if you are good at A then s/he might be right at B. No one is perfect.

Just reporting and deleting etc, is really absurd. We are like a family here, and not all the fingers are equal, but when the fingers unite we unite~!
Reply:As-Salaam Alaikum/ (ASA)

I'm not leaving...I just got here and I am enjoying my time in this section....so all the good people please don't leave I like you all here. You maybe we could expiate shaytan from this section by greeting each other here every time you use this section and by always remembering Allah we will keep out the bad users of this section who wish to cause buffoonery!!
Reply:people will leave until there are handful of Muslims who will defend any offensive question by giving good answer...............

as for me.......

I have no friends...

This is my job to invite all the people towards Islam........

with wisdom and wise teaching,,,,,,,,,

And whenever someone abuses Islam........

D@!Z will always answer that question....

Inshallah!!
Reply:people are gonna report regardless it gives them a smug sense of superiority to do that i personally do not report anyone or anything i dont agree with people but so what who cares im not gonna be a vindictive twat and report stuff

ive had questions deleted that were not offensive and they never gave a reason why they were deleted where the reason for deletion was a blank space

it sucks but everyone gets reported and deleted for bull sh!t

Why do people with basically no true dental knowledge, give people dental advice?

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I realize that this is a site for people to get advice from many different sources, but I don't understand why some people with only vague dental knowledge or no dental knowledge, are on here giving dental advice. That would be like me getting on the section about vehicles and telling people what is wrong with their cars. I wouldn't have a clue and would be giving bad advice. I have seen some dental advice on here that is so off the mark, that it is almost funny. I don't know if some people are making up what they are telling people or they are repeating something they heard somewhere. There are alot of people getting on here and asking questions, really looking for good, solid dental advice and they don't know what to believe when they are getting so many different opinions. I have seen people give totally wrong advice to someone, and yet they get voted Best Answer, when someone else actually gave them a more accurate answer. Why are people giving such bad dental advice?

Why do people with basically no true dental knowledge, give people dental advice?
They just want to amuse the rest of the world. I love it when people say, "I doubt you are a real dentist, but..." That's one reason I disabled my e-mail connection through Yahoo!
Reply:Absolutely, but sometimes, I think the asker gets what they deserve. (haha) "I've had a toothache for 6 weeks now. What can I do and do NOT say go to the dentist. I hate dentists and will not go." Have at 'em, I say! Report It

Reply:"cause there's not much to dentistry is there? It takes 6 years to be a doctor and learn about the whole body but 5 to learn just about teeth, how slow are dentists?
Reply:good question, i agree 100%, but i did see a question asked by a dental nurse a month or so ago, wondering if she should use gloves whilst developing xrays, as the pt had HCV, so maybe she should not be answering any questions either, somebody gave her some great advice, told her that she could get a vaccination for hepatitis C.. so they are people out there that are giving info that is potentially dangerous...

ps i am a dental nurse aswell, so i am not saying that all dental nurses have lack of knowledge

pss this was a brilliant question though good one
Reply:I agree with begrimm666. I know that I answer dental questions based on my own personal experience. I won't answer questions that I know nothing about, like questions about braces. Now questions about veneers and getting teeth pulled I will answer because I have been there. Most people just want to feel like someone else knows what they are going through and have people help them the best way they can. Some of the questions on here are quite ridiculous-they should know to go to the dentist, but most people are looking for a quick fix.
Reply:I agree with you I have been in the field for about 20yrs and I do read the answers and sometimes do not make any sense. I always tell them they should consult the dentist first for their problems because if we just give advise then we are not really helping the person by telling them what to do at home. They always need to see a dentist to get the problem solved. The advise by the dentists do help these people on the site.
Reply:Some people answer questions based on their personal experience of having dental work done, maybe it isn't to exact detail but at least they are trying to be helpful. As for the outright stupid answers, I would think that the person asking the question would have basic common sense to realise that it is way off the mark.It's better to have feedback off 10 people than none at all. Maybe I am guilty also of answering questions I know little about, but if it is constructive then why not try to at least 'help' others, it's only 5 minutes of your time.
Reply:I agree with you partially. Too many people are giving bad advice. Having said this though, dentistry isn't exact. There isn't a right and wrong answer all the time. I have seen self proclaimed dentists give answers I don't agree with and I have seen self proclaimed dental assistants miss the answers as well. I am a dentist in Indiana. I answer these quesstions for fun...normally I would get paid for it :) (by the way...I'm not always right but I have researched most of my answers) but I don't mind. I think some people just want to vent (not many people like dentists). Others have personal experiences which they would like to share. But all in all, if I were someone in need of dental help, I would go to a dentist...not someone in a yahoo answer forum. Good question!
Reply:I try to give Dental advice an the information I have obtained on here so far I have only been a Dental assistant for about 9 months so if I don't know what the answer maybe than I just leave it alone like most of the lab and fake teeth deal
Reply:And the same goes for the medical section, and I suspect most of the others. What is disheartening is seeing someone obviously post a homework question, someone answering with patently wrong information, and then the asker choosing that as the best answer. If they used it on their homework/test, they got it wrong!

There are some questions/categories that require nothing more than life experience/common sense, which at times seems to be lacking. If the questioner is Level 1, I generally just skip on by, as it appears they never, ever check back.
Reply:I agree with your opinion and understand your feeling. One time after I gave a professional opinion to a question, not only my answer was not voted, I got an angry email from the asker!

Nevertheless, I think, even though the system is not perfect, it is a good place to start. I am just so happy that many people are concerned about their teeth and their oral health.

I believe with good intention, eventually, in the long run, the dental professionals, like yourself, here will stand out as "true."
Reply:I know quite a bit but only answer a question if I have had personal knowledge of the situation. I cannot believe the people who answer questions and that they have NO clue what they are talking about. I cringe when I read some of the answers and I think people just post to try and get their numbers up. For example: Someone asked about dental implants and someone answered "they look daft on your head" now what kind of answer is THAT? Totally uncalled for.

I am not a dentist but my own prosthodontist knows that I try and do the best by people and be helpful. It is because I read and read and read. I will only answer a question if I truely have the right answer to give them.
Reply:Half the time it's a homework question a kid is cheating on, and people give wrong info just to confuse the lazy kid.

I really wish Yahoo would do something about these lazy kids getting a free ride.
Reply:we all have teeth and we all have some sort of experence with dental problems

secondly, dentistry is unaffordable for many people - a visit to the dentist can cost hundreds and some people simply cannot afford it.

the goverment should help, but they are busy spending a billion dollars a day killing Iraqi children

Why are people so racist especially against black people?

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i am not racist in any way my boyfriend is white, but i dont get why people are racist especially white people, i mean im not sayin my race is perfect no race is perfect! but some white people are so quick to judge other races when its other groups of people who have a right to be racist. i mean look at the past caucasians have done more to other groups of people i think that we all need to stop judging others. the day ur own race becomes perfect is the day u can talk about others, i dont feel that white people owe me anything i work hard for what i get it is handed to me, but this country was taken from native americans and build off the backs of slaves. I cant stand when racist people tell me to go back where i came from, for one i am not from africa i was born in america and this isnt white peoples land they took it, i think for all races to understand eachother, we need to go through what others have gone through, too much has been done in the past! until then there will be racism!

Why are people so racist especially against black people?
This is an age-old and shameful prejudice. But things a changing rapidly, since mankind has reached its maturity about two centuries now. The new lesson stresses that man is one, and selfless love is the secret for our collective advancement.
Reply:im half black and im light i live in southren virginia and personally im tired of the racism in this world so what someone is a different color than you are get over it there just racist cause there scared of somthing they dont understand. Report It

Reply:when will humans learn that they are inferior to us robots -_- Report It

Reply:yeah, it is terrible. But there are many racist black people out there too but you mentioned that too.
Reply:I agree! I found that yahoo answers is a breeding ground for racism. I've also found that many people have very prejudice, stereotypical views about blacks. They assume A LOT about us. Like all of us have that "angry black man" syndrome and that we feel whites owe us something. They take our pride as racism. They take us uplifting our people as racism. Blacks can have the United ***** College fund, but there's no white united college fund, so that means they're racist! Its ridiculous!

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Would people rather talk with people who drink and party on the week ends or people who don/t?

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Do people still actually laugh and make fun of fat people?

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I was reading a question here the other day, obviously from a troll, who said they laughed at fat people (their question was something like "Why do people think I'm insensitive", and then they named all the insensitive things they did, e.g., laughed at fat people, people with mental issues, were racist against black people, etc.), and it just got me wondering: do people actually laugh at fat people anymore? Is it just in high school or something (to which I have never been; I'm home-schooled)? I've just never seen it in real life, and, in fact, only occasionally in fiction. It seems that in this politically correct world, you just wouldn't (quite rightly) get that kind of thing anymore.

Do people still actually laugh and make fun of fat people?
Yes, some people do that...I don't think it is because of their weight, I think it's because many of them have less self-confidence than others, people sense that and some of them start making silly comments....and that's really bad.
Reply:yea it happens.
Reply:yes, people do.

people laugh at anyone who is different than them.

it still happens.