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Ikram's avatarOn Becoming Fearless

As most of the kids my parents sent me to a public school, it was pretty exciting for me at the beginning to learn new stuffs about different subjects and meet new people…  yeah new people…  

I remember my years at the middle school where I was the most fat and the tallest girl of my class! yeah I was that BIG …

One of the greatest things that made me a target for those kids was being that BIG for them and everyone was like: LOSE WEIGHT FAT COW!! I have to admit that in the past it hurt me a lot to hear something similar from those I spent eight 136324hours per a day with, and the most hurtful thing was when we were having a team work or a sport activity most of them avoided me…. 

I kept trying to interact with them at first but I failed 

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Anne Thériault's avatarThe Belle Jar

Here are some typical arguments put forward by parents who choose not to vaccinate their otherwise healthy child (by “healthy” I mean they’re not asking they’re not asking for an exemption because the child is immunocompromised or otherwise couldn’t medically tolerate vaccinations).

For this example, I will pull quotes directly from a recent New York Times Article, Vaccine Critics Turn Defensive Over Measles:

“It’s the worst shot,” [Missy Foster, mother to an 18 month old daughter] said, with tears in her eyes. “Do you want to wake up one morning and the light is gone from her eyes with autism or something?”

Kelly McMenimen, a Lagunitas parent, said she “meditated on it a lot” before deciding not to vaccinate her son Tobias, 8, against even “deadly or deforming diseases.” She said she did not want “so many toxins” entering the slender body of a bright-eyed boy who loves math and geography.

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kbakes2013's avatarFollowing the Dart

After returning to my apartment yesterday afternoon, I spent the rest of the day cleaning out the old and making room for the new.

This wasn’t simply taking out the trash and recycling. I went through and cleaned out anything and everything that I haven’t used or that won’t help me reach my goals in some way. I also did a bit of rearranging to get the new year started on a good foot (and to switch things up a bit).

If you need some inspiration, here’s a few things I did:
-Eliminated cosmetics and cleaning products I felt were harmful. I had a few almost empty bottles that I’ve been saving “just in case”. Other things, I offered up to others

-Went through my bookshelf, especially the books I haven’t read yet. Any that I don’t think I’ll read or that I read and did not enjoy, I got…

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Sometimes things (thoughts) happen ‘under the radar’.
There is a lot of talk about people not being as rational as they think they are. Soon we’ll learn to accept that we are not even as conscious of our thinking process as we presume to be.
The same kind of mental ‘ingrained’ habits are responsible for many men (and women) not accepting, deep in their hearts/minds, that men and women are ‘equal’ (I’d rather use equivalent instead of equal but this is another matter)

http://www.chookooloonks.com/blog/affected

Tocmai am terminat de gatit si de spalat vasele.
Duc gunoiul in curte. Imi iau o tigara. Chibritul scapara vesel.
E aproape seara, luminile de pe strada se aprind cu toate ca nu s-a lasat de tot intunericul.
Nori josi care aproape ating virful copacilor, o cioara croncane, un caine latra si o masina trece pe strada. Claxoneaza, relativ discret.
La nici 200 de metri in linie dreapta o macara turn, aproape complet ascunsa de ceata, puncteaza trecerea timpului. Cineva construieste un bloc cu 10 etaje intre case cu 1-2 etaje. Sunt curios daca vom mai avea apa la robinet dupa ce se vor muta noii proprietari sau, si mai nasol, daca sistemul de canalizare va face fata. Oricum se cam infunda de fiecare data cand ploua mai tare. Bine ca eu am montat deja un hidrofor si ca blocul nu e chiar pe strada mea…
Termin tigara si intru in casa.
Gabriela Vranceanu Firea ne spune ca e ceva in neregula cu Iohannis pentru ca nu are copii. De parca Iliescu ar avea… Si, pana la urma, ce legatura are sula cu prefectura?

Sting televizorul si incep sa-mi deschid sufletul…

I just found these in my mail and I thought you might enjoy them:

A  blonde man is in the
bathroom and his wife shouts: “Did you find the shampoo?”
He answers, “Yes, but I’m not sure what to do… it’s for dry hair, and I’ve just wet  mine.”
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A blonde man goes to the vet with his goldfish.
“I think it’s got epilepsy,” he tells the vet.
The  vet takes a look and says, “It seems calm enough to me.”
The blonde man says, “Wait, I haven’t taken it out of the bowl yet.”
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A blonde man spies a letter  lying on his doormat.
It says on the envelope “DO NOT BEND “.
He spends the next 2 hours trying to figure out how to pick it  up.
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A blonde man shouts frantically into the phone, “My wife is pregnant
and her  Contractions are only two minutes apart!”
“Is this her first child?” asks the  Doctor.
“No!” he shouts, “this is her husband!”
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A blonde man’s dog goes missing and he is frantic.
His wife says “Why don’t you put an ad in the paper?”
He does, but two weeks later the dog is still missing.
“What did you put in the paper?” his wife asks.
“Here boy!” he replies.
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A blonde man is in jail.
The guard looks in his cell and sees him
Hanging by his feet. “Just WHAT are you doing?” he asks.
“Hanging myself,” the blonde  replies.
“The rope should be around your neck” says the guard.
“I  tried that,” he replies, “but then I couldn’t  breathe.”
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(This one actually makes sense.)
An Italian tourist asks a blonde man: “Why do scuba divers always fall
backwards off their boats?”
To which the blonde man replies: “If they fell forward, they’d still be in the boat.”
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A friend told the blonde man: “Christmas is on a Friday this year.”
The blonde man then said, “Let’s hope it’s not the 13th.”
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Two blonde men find three grenades, they decide to take them to a Police Station.
One asked: “What if one explodes before we get there?”
The other says: “We’ll lie and say we only found two.”
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A woman phoned her blonde neighbour man and said:
“Close your curtains the Next time you & your wife are having sex.
The whole  street was watching and laughing at you yesterday.”
To which the blonde man replied: “Well the joke’s on all of you because I  
wasn’t even at home yesterday.”

NakulArora's avatarJust A Crazy Dreamer

Will there be any Good if there isn’t any Evil?

Will there be any Evil if there isn’t any Good?

For aren’t good or evil simply relative degrees of each other?

Doesn’t each exists only as a relative comparison of other, simply depending on the viewpoint?

So, then Is a stage of all good(fully white) even possible and should it be aspired to?

What difference then does it make to walk down either path, be it good or evil?

Why be Good then?

Why not be Evil then?

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Power Plant Culture has a Wisdom of its own.

An animal.
An animal with a conscience.
God’s most precious creation.
Nothing but another member of the society.

All of the above and then some.

Judging by the wealth of possible answers we might conclude that the question that started all this is an open one, right?
One that prompts ‘the student’ to think before formulating an opinion. One that elicits an elaborate answer. Or one that doesn’t lead to/doesn’t contain in itself a certain answer.

The problem is that there is no such thing as a really open question. OK, some questions allow the respondent to come up with his version of reality while others elicit a very precise answer. Only every answer, no matter how personal, has to have a very strong connection to the question. Otherwise it would not be an answer any more.
If somebody asks me ‘what time is it?’ and my answer would be ‘green’ it would be just as stupid as responding ‘hate’ if asked ‘what would like to have for dinner’.

Lets go back to my initial question, and the plethora of possible answers from which each of us are supposed to choose one as ‘his personal’.
Clue: ‘choose’!

Really now, what are we, human people – God’s creations or not, it doesn’t matter – but warm blooded animals who have developed a conscience and, because of that, are able to choose?

And here comes the unpleasant part. The very fact that our main job is to choose from the many opportunities we are presented with makes us responsible for all the decisions we make. Sooner or later the consequences of our choosing will inevitably catch up with us.