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They have the numbers thing. They tend to group together and with most of Gaia being composed of younger people, they have more numbers on their side. If you listen to enough people say they're right with no one to support that you are right, eventually you start to second-guess yourself. Most people anyway, it's hard to be alone in something like this. Here is a community of people who support those beliefs, though, and understand what you're saying, even if they don't always agree.

Liberal and conservative mean different things in different countries, don't forget. Terje defines himself as liberal but laughs heartily at a lot of the things liberals do here. Norway is the most conservative liberal place I've ever heard of. I guess they can be because they've got a smaller population.

You've just accuratly explained why I used to feel wrong about being a Pro-Life Christian in a Pro-Choice Pagan World, when I didn't even know why. Thanks! Wow, it took all this time. whee

A study along time ago was done on peer pressure. A group of nine boys were taken into the experiment. 8 boys were put into one room, while the ninth was set by himself.

All nine boys were shown a card that had three lines on it. The lines were labled A, B, and C. And form top to bottom they went form longer to shorter. Now, in this experiment, line A was refered to as the "Right line" and the lone boy was told thins, the gorup of eight were not.

They lone boy was told to raise his hand each time the professor pointed to line A, the group of eight was told to do the same when she pointed to B. They did this several times with them seperated, and then did it with them toghether.

In the begingi , about three to four times, boy A raised his hand for A, even though his friends were raising for B. SLowly, he began to raise for B. When asked why, he replied that he didn;t want to look diffrent or foolish infornt og his friends, even though he was mackign the wrong choice.

The experiment was doen on several other groups. Boys, girls, varring in ages form eight to 18, and the result were all the same in every case but one. It was an experiment on peer pressure, and was done to test how easly swayed young people were. It was a tottall sucess as far as the scientific comunity was concerned

Want to hear somthing sad, funny, but true all the same. A survey was conducted and it was founf that 98% of the teen sin the US woudl stop breathign if AMbercrombi and Finch said oxygen wasn't cool

Some times I wish they would say it. All the time I'm thinkign up ways to eliminate stupid people with out it being considered genocide...it appears only A&F can do that...

Gah...i forgot about that. I rmember how much fun i had that night of my first baby sitting. The little boy tried ot pull that ploy on me. He held his bredth and I just sat there smilign and watching, nearly burstign out laughing as he started to look worried. Thankfuly he didn't knock himself out, he just stoped, breathed, and grumbled as he foudn him now too light headed to want to stay up.

You and me both buddy. I need about 200 bucks to mod my computer just to make it decent enough for gaming.