Wow, no offense guys, but a lot of people in this thread sound kinda like asses.
Yes, perhaps people in New Orleans need to work a little harder on their own problems, but considering their soaring unemployment rate and the overall lack of help they've received in general, I'm sure most of them are doing the best they can. You can say 'help your goddamn self, beggars', but really - roughly half of the children in the city still don't have a school to go to (if I'm recalling that statistic correctly). So how is it their parents' fault if the school is closed?
Also, in many cases, the pitiful pitances the insurance companies handed out to many of the local homeowners weren't even enough to buy the appliances to go into the kitchen, let alone rebuild the house itself (seriously, people. Try to rebuild an entire house with $4,000 and see how far you get). Many poor homeowners are opting to let the developers buy them out rather than destroy their finances with attempting to rebuild (if they even get anything for their land, I dunno).
I don't know - it just seems kind of cold-hearted to know that a part of America is basically a third world ghetto and to just go "Your problem, not mine, stupid beggars lolz" at it.
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| Who is to Blame? Go to post | 167 | General Discussion |
Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:42 am |
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| Event links Go to post | 4 | Questions & Assistance |
Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:04 am |
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Actually, if you go through them again after you've received your giftboxes/trunks, nothing happens. So they don't double. The links are only for retrieval of giftboxes you've missed because of the malfunctioning alert system (that '!' on your icon row that never lights up).
But if you wait a couple weeks and go through them again, you may get more stuff simply by virtue of having missed it. Also, the more you surf Gaia, the better the chances of you getting a gift are! |
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| Isis' Royal Wings Go to post | 4 | Questions & Assistance |
Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:46 pm |
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Yes. I've seen several people doing it.
Unfortunately, you need to have two Gift of the Goddess's for it to work. |
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| Martin Luther King doesn't deserve holiday - Read first post Go to post | 257 | Extended Discussion |
Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:10 pm |
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Wow, I never heard about how the government and media created Dr. King before! Everything I'd ever read about it said that he was pretty much hated and feared by the government to the extent of FBI monitoring and wire-tapping and that the media didn't really approve of him.
Also saying that the media and government supported him makes it sound like the Civil Rights movement was just about a bunch of right-standing citizens being pissed off at black people for not wanting to ride in the back of the bus like they should. Darn that liberal media and those liberal New England congressmen who voted Civil Rights laws into effect! That's not what they were elected for! It's nice to know that the government and media forced the Civil Rights reform on us! I'm glad they know how to move society in the right direction! rofl |
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| The Vegetarian's Paradox Go to post | 6976 | Extended Discussion |
Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:42 pm |
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Your argument would only be valid if real vegetarians sounded like that. Unfortunately, I think the only vegetarians you've outsmarted are 14 years old and cutters.
While I personally feel bad for the farm-raised, mass-produced beef that's shot full of hormones and then packed off to Burger King, it's only a small part of the reason I became vegetarian. The big reason is that I wanted to save on my food budget (a .49 bell pepper to put in my rice or chili costs less than a $4 pound of beef that doesn't taste as good and takes more effort to prepare) and that I am lazy. If you can prove to me that frying hamburger meat to put in my chili takes less time than frying a pepper, and also show me where to buy it that it costs less, I'll gladly switch back. Another reason I switched was because I found I was already eating meat substitutes anyway (veggie burgers, they come in interesting flavors! 3nodding and I like vanilla soy milk. It's teh yum) and that my diet didn't really consist of a whole lot of meat anyway. But what do I know? Somewhere there's probably a soy sprout that's crying because I ate its mommy and daddy. emo |
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| Sex, Ignorance, and Abuse Go to post | 26 | Extended Discussion |
Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:36 am |
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Also, I've found a wealth of knowledge about the mechanics of sex through reading books about it. "Our Bodies, Ourselves" is excellent as far as sex chapters goes (it's rather volumnous), and any text on Tantric Sex is fantastic (although you'll probably die laughing at the terminology the writer might use - I mean, 'jade dragon'? Come on).
Seriously, if I hadn't found "Our Bodies, Ourselves", I'd still think all birth control pills make you blow up like a balloon and keep you from getting pregnant by making bubbles in your uterus (seriously what my mother told me. No lie). |
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| Sex, Ignorance, and Abuse Go to post | 26 | Extended Discussion |
Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:31 am |
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Having been married to a horrible lover, I agree entirely. Not only should we have classes of some sort, but parents should discuss it with their children and make reading material available (even if it's morbidly embarrassing, it beats listening to one's dumbass friends talk about it in the locker room).
Seriously - some guys seem to think sex needs to happen every night (refer back to comment about shitty husband); that a woman will be really tight if she's not had a lot of sex (on the contrary, tightness is about muscular control, not frequency of intercourse); that all women's labia will look the same or be the same color; that all women make noise during sex, or they aren't enjoying it. And those were just the annoying little superstitions my husband had - us splitting up was mainly due to those things listed above (also him being a total bum). I would have much rather had him go into the marriage knowing that real women don't behave like porn stars rather than badger me into misery over it. |
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| Healthy looking models? WHAT THE HELL!?!?!? Go to post | 824 | Extended Discussion |
Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:15 am |
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L33tNinjaGrrl i thought the same thing... seemed to me those girls they said were fat were actually pretty thin, and the skinny girls were just scary. and yes, there's nothing particularly "classic" about the current look, at least not in america. (for the most part) Yeah, that's why I said something about anorexia - I believe the person going 'eww no' has the distorted body image of an anorexic. And it's not just America - going back farther than the Twiggy phenomenon will yield countless curvy women. Even ancient Greek and Roman statues depict women as curvy and matronly, not stick-thin and boyish. 3nodding |
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| How skinny is too skinny?(contains, slightly graphic photos) Go to post | 100 | Life Issues |
Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:03 am |
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Peanut Water Squirrel Can family be too harsh a judge? I first went anorexic because I was staying with my aunt for a month, and she told both my sister and myself that we were too fat, and that we ate too much, and she actually limited what we could eat. Also my father still to this day tells me that I am fat. So, does family also play a large part in eating disorders? Your family is being unfair, according to your pictures. Furthermore, your weight shouldn't be a deciding factor on how much they love you or how well they treat you. They should treat you the same whether you weigh 161 or 361 - with love and respect. You aren't the amount of fat in your body, after all - you're yourself. And yes - my mother weighs about 110 and is 5'1" like me. She doesn't drink water ("I get my water from Kool-Aid!" wink , drinks coffee at all hours of the day and night, and thinks eating one meal a day is healthy. Even at 110 she complains she is too fat and needs to lose another five pounds. And when I lived with her, I weighed about 125 and thought *that* was fat. After moving away from her, I now weigh about 150 and am much happier with it - I have much more peace of mind and self-confidence, which is worth more than being super skinny any day of the week. |
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