beautyundone

my personal opinion is that we should teach all ideas of creation... i mean, the kids deserve a right to decide for themselves. it's a topic not yet proven as a fact, so, until it is proven, they should teach other theories as well... and make sure to emphasize that they are THEORIES and not facts.

awesome. i'll have to check those out sometime thanks!

i just don't see what makes shoot any better than sh*t... you're saying the same thing... so what's the big deal?!?

oh really? i wasn't aware of any books on that kind of thing... i'm more of a mystery novel person, myself. but yes, by all means, if there are books, read them. (they're almost always better than movies. hah.) i was simply making a connection between the movie and the topic

i suppose it all comes down to the question of whether you think a baby with FAS (or other problems caused by drug use/drinking) would be better off living its life with such a hindrance or if it would be more humane to go ahead and abort it. but then, this would bring up the issue of retardations present in babies and whether or not we should abort babies if they have known retardations to save them the pain... and i'm not going to go into it. i don't think that it is right for a mother to knowingly inflict harm to her baby through drinking or drugs, but it's not really my business. retarded children wouldn't know the difference; they wouldn't know a life any different. so essentially, they could be perfectly happy... perhaps more so than the rest of us. imagine having that child-like happiness for life... i suppose that's what i'm getting at. anyhow, i'm rambling. but it all boils down to your personal opinion and views. for issues such as these, there are no definite right or wrong answers.

^ true... without feelings, they would have no sympathy, no conscience, no guilt. so essentially, they could do anything they thought necessary without having any remorse over what happened to the people involved. because of that, i think they would be more dangerous without emotions than with. anyone here ever seen the movie Irobot? that's what this is beginning to remind me of. that movie made some good points, though.

^ hah, nice.

i have no idea... though i'd really rather not have a nuclear bomb go off in the ocean in the first place. lol.

*sigh* in a few years, the world is going to be full of wusses and ruled by bullies if they keep this up. parents can only hover around their children and protect them for so long. they'll end up facing the real world eventually. a black girl at my school got suspended for calling a white girl a "cupcake". it was deemed a racial slurr, and she got kicked out. i found it ridiculous. cupcakes can come in either color... it's not like she called her a "vanilla cupcake". my god. and i don't see where the offensive part comes in... i wouldn't mind being called a cupcake unless she called her a stale cupcake or something, haha.

i find it funny. parents will let you say the more "mild" version of cuss words... shoot = sh*t gosh darnit = god d*mnit heck = h*ll friggin = f*cking butthole = *sshole etc etc etc... they all mean the same thing... so why are some deemed worse than the others? who decided those words were "vulgar" words... afterall, they're just names for different things. if you use them in the right context, they shouldn't be offensive in the least.

i think that's ludacris. the only reason the man should have been charged is if he touched the girl inappropriately, attempted to force her to perform some kind of sexual act, or if he had inflicted bodily harm to her (by which case, he should have been charged with assault). from what i understand, he did not ask her to get in the car, did not ask her to engage in sexual acts, did not touch her inappropriately, and did not inflict bodily harm... *sigh* the justice system has some major flaws... unfortunately, innocent civilians, such as this man, have to pay for them. and what was he supposed to call her? "come here, female adolescent!!!"

^i could imagine i was eating an apple... but that would not mean i believed with all my heart that i was eating that apple.

knowing the human nature and lack of common sense in certain situations, i believe we will probably nuke one another before much evolution has time to take place. haha, but seriously; i think we do stand a good chance of evolving quite a great deal technologically... but i can't really see us evolving much physically.

i'm scared of impending storms... if there's a threat of storms, i won't leave the house. also, that summer was about two years ago when we had insane weather; severe storms every couple days and such.

perhaps... we'd have to go chase storms to do that, though. haha. i'm willing to try anything; i just wasn't sure if that was the most practical way to go about it.

i take 200mg's of zoloft and 300mg's of wellbutrin xl each day for anxiety and depression... i'm not really sure what else there is to do. i've been afraid of them for as long as i can remember, so i'm not really sure if there's a source of the fear or not. i'm very confused as to who i should see, what i should do, and what drugs would be effective. *sigh* it's proving to be quite difficult to deal with.

yes, well, the desensitization methods would be a bit difficult to use with my phobia. for people who are afraid of dogs, it's not a problem to let them get used to being around dogs and petting them. but tornadoes ARE dangerous. weather is beyond our control; whereas, dogs are a controllable variable. see my predicament?

that's normal, really. it's hard to really accept that they're gone at first. i suppose it's kind of a stage of denial, although you're willing to accept the fact that they're gone; you just can't fully grasp it yet. emotions and feeling will come with time. best of luck.

it depends on the person you're talking about as to whether or not they'll fade that much. the only reason it happened to me was because the people i've lost haven't been too awfully close. my great grandma (whom i hardly knew) and my aunt (whom i barely ever saw) so i suppose they had started to fade even before their death. sorry if it sounded like i was saying he would fade from your life altogether. that won't happen if you truly cared about him. i was trying to say that the pain would fade, not the person. came out wrong- i apologize.

yes... i'm not sure that i've ever really experienced "closure" for the loss of a loved one. for the most part, their death just faded as time went on and became just another part of my past. and though the pain fades, you never really forget them...

the same happened with my great grandmother. although she had that problem for at least a year or two (alzheimers). i was too young to really remember much of it, though. i just remember my mom being upset about it.

indeed, death is hard to accept. but it is all a part of the circle of life one must endure. take comfort in the fact that he is now at rest, whether there is an afterlife or not. yes, you will miss his physical presence, but it is my belief that loved ones never leave you. even after death, they are still present in spirit and memory. i am sorry for your loss, by the way. my heart goes out to you and your family during this difficult time. <3

yes, i have considered hypnotism. unfortunately, i don't believe our health insurance covers such treatment and we're on a rather tight budget. not to mention i have never heard of any hypnotists in the general area.

hello there. my name is ashley. i'm 15 years old and a sophomore in highschool. yes, i am young, but i enjoy discussions of this nature and found this place to be quite intelectually stimulating. anyways, the reason i've created this thread has more to do with a personal problem than anything else. i, like many others, have been diagnosed with many disorders, including OCD, depression, & anxiety. there are several others that i meet the criteria for, but have not been officially diagnosed as such. the main focus of this post, though, as you may have gathered from the title, would be phobias. i've suffered from a severe phobia of tornadoes (random, i know) since before i can remember. i naturally associate thunderstorms with tornadoes, which, in turn, leaves me with a phobia of thunderstorms as well. at one point, it got so bad that i refused to leave my house for a good two or three months if not absolutely necessary. i am tormented by this fear from the beginning of spring (early march) until the end of summer (late september) as well as during any other thunderstorm that occurs over fall and winter. to be more concise, this fear has taken over my life. it rules me. i will not leave the house until i have checked the weather channel to make sure there are no storms in my remote area. if a storm does hit, i go into a panic attack (often accompanied by hyperventalation). i've talked to my psychiatrist about this, but he has done nothing to relieve me from this constant source of stress. i feel that if i could be rid of this problem, i would sleep easier (i have nightmares about tornadoes nearly every night) and my stress level would be greatly reduced. my friends and family are always teasing me or getting irritated with me because of my phobia and telling me to "get over it" because it's "illogical". i know it's illogical. i'm a very logical person. i just cannot seem to convince my nervous system of it. so basically, what is a phobia? what could have triggered it? (i have no memory of any event that would have set it off) what can i do to rid myself of it? CAN IT BE CURED? sorry for the lengthiness of my post. i really do hope to find some answers here, though. i've looked almost everywhere else. sincerely, ashley