Social Science - 17 August 2006

My friend Grant is a christian fundamentalist and the other night we were living Friday's and our friend Jonah jokes in the car about the fact that Grant was hanging out with Heather(Jonah suggests they're we're doing it *laughs*). So I say "I don't believe it I bet he doesn't even know how to put a condom on"

And there is silence... And I go! Oh my god you don't know! (mind you this is a 21 year old man) So while I go innocently trying to explain to him he gets really pissed(i know that because he used the "F" word and he never uses it)

So I am like... WTF! MATE! What really pisses me off is that just before that I was telling him about my family history which was to me just as personal as stupid condoms and when im talking about that stupid condoms he gets all pissy and mad at me....

Anyway! any thoughts?

2006-08-17 08:20:53 · 11 answers · asked by wb 2 in Psychology

2006-08-17 08:20:35 · 24 answers · asked by brad4ever 2 in Psychology

This is something I've always wondered. When young children (birth - 3 years say) are used in TV how do they not end up confused and challenged? They have their stage name and stage family and their own 'real life' name and family how are they able to cope? Calling an actor "dad" or "mom" and being called by thier stage name and having their real life names and relatives its something that's always puzzled me.

2006-08-17 08:17:22 · 3 answers · asked by Who 2 in Psychology

2006-08-17 08:16:51 · 9 answers · asked by mommy_2_little_man 2 in Psychology

that you're able to get more open, honest, candid answers to your questions on "Yahoo Answers" than you would if you asked these same questions in real life? Why or why not?

2006-08-17 08:16:46 · 7 answers · asked by melon_rose 2 in Sociology

it was a term found in regard to WWI but cannot find any information about it?

2006-08-17 08:15:35 · 1 answers · asked by Lisa E 2 in Other - Social Science

How come at this very moment there are almost only girls and women on Yahoo Q&A? I have nothing against that, i just wonder.

2006-08-17 08:14:01 · 6 answers · asked by clovisfleischhund 3 in Sociology

I don't like tatoos. They make people look trashy and cheep. Plus, everyone who gets them is just like cattle following the crowd. I'll never get one - even if everyone in the world goes out and gets one...

I know all the tatoo-ed people will revolt

2006-08-17 08:11:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Anthropology

My father died when I was 5 years old from HI.V/A.I.D.S that he'd contracted while in prision from using Drugs. I was born the year he went to jail. And he found out a while later that he had the disease. He got out when I was 3 so I had 2 uniterupted years to get to know him. When he started getting really really sick and had to go into a hospice my mom would go and visit him all the time, (she did not contract the disease) and she would ask me if I wanted to go but I was terrified of the hospital. It was big and scary . So I went rarely because I was afraid. and then he died. I was at school when he died and I remember not being sad that he died but being scared of having to go to the funeral. I've always felt bad about my initial reaction to his death and the fact theat I didn't go to see him more often during his final days. I carry this guilt ot this day and I am 17 years old now. I've also felt that in some macabre way I should have contracted the disease too. I haven't tried

2006-08-17 08:09:47 · 10 answers · asked by Veronique 1 in Psychology

And more importantly, did you feel guilty about it?

2006-08-17 08:08:37 · 13 answers · asked by ritabird1 3 in Other - Social Science

My estranged husband was diagnosed with PTSD and a personalitty disorder but i believe he was mis-diagnosed and actually has bipolar but up till now no one has listened to me. My dilemma is i dont want to use my kids as pawns in the divorce as i do feel they need a realtionship with him. But on the other hand if he is unstable and has been known to blow up for no reason, I'm not sure I'm happy for him to see the kids. We have no famliy who could help as mine live too far away and he des not speak to his and i know contact centres are very few and far between in the area I live. So what do I do?

2006-08-17 08:04:07 · 8 answers · asked by h 2 in Psychology

but up to what extent should we go to learn the things that we should learn?

do we really have to learn them, and is it even our choice?

2006-08-17 08:04:06 · 7 answers · asked by Inquirer 5 in Psychology

What are some behaviors that are influenced only by hormones and not genetics?

2006-08-17 07:57:39 · 6 answers · asked by mommy_2_little_man 2 in Psychology

im talking about psychology like for example i know that denial is one of them

2006-08-17 07:48:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2006-08-17 07:44:39 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sociology

how would you call yourelf or a pal a true friend?

2006-08-17 07:38:22 · 17 answers · asked by Eugwhite 1 in Psychology

"HUMAN TARGETS

Philip spoke up in the group. 'Sometimes I feel like a target
struck by society's arrows. Piercing words and events strike
throughout the day. I suspect self-centeredness here. Your
explanation would be appreciated.'

'There is just one way to get over feeling like a target. You must
stop being an arrow. Target and arrow always go together, and both
exist within you. When you insist upon shooting your arrow you also
insist upon being a target. See this in small ways at first. If you
shoot an arrow of hostility towards another person, you become the
target for his returned hostility. Self-shocking honesty is
required.
A dishonest man always thinks he is the innocent target, never
seeing
how he makes targets of other people.'"

Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge, p. 93

2006-08-17 07:33:09 · 1 answers · asked by Mrs. Butler ♥2 B♥ 5 in Psychology

2006-08-17 07:30:43 · 15 answers · asked by missy 4 in Psychology

what does this mean? Is that a yes or is that a really i don't but i am saying sure to just get you off my back. Please help it has been hurting me. We have been dating for 2 years now and at the beginning it was all i love yous and sweet surpises. what is going on? please help

2006-08-17 07:27:02 · 5 answers · asked by lovebug1234 2 in Psychology

2006-08-17 07:26:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sociology

2006-08-17 07:24:36 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

2006-08-17 07:18:41 · 51 answers · asked by minty 4 in Sociology

Ihave been told by almost everyone ounder the sun that I need to let past bad experiences go. I know I am the type of person that if something hurtful or negative is said to me i'lll laugh it off but inside it's still there and i hurts even months or years after it was said. It has caused me to doubt myself alot I used to want to be an artist but when I took an Art class and I couldn't draw a face as well as some other people and my friend made a mean comment I stopped. I"m tryiong to get back into it but everytime I enter the class that comment comes back to haunt me. I know that life is too short to let this rule me and I'm reaching the point where I want to move on but I don't know how. Please don't answer and just tell me "Just get over it" for someone who has been internalizing for their whole life it's not that easy. Please help.

2006-08-17 07:18:27 · 10 answers · asked by Veronique 1 in Psychology

2006-08-17 07:15:02 · 20 answers · asked by ghoppers64 2 in Sociology

2006-08-17 07:11:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

Just asking...

2006-08-17 06:56:51 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Social Science

Amazing I used up exactly 100 characters in my question:D

I have many interests, but they are not in line with mainstream psychology.

I can't ask how do I influence a person. Nobody will give me a true answer, they will only tell me to look where I have already looked.

I can't ask for a discussion on a subject, because the best discussions will be among a true circle of individuals.

Asking how to be a better person will get me some short one or two line response. Nobody is going to put much effort into such acommon question.

Common sense questions, that have an indiscreet goal are going to be viewed as "confusion" on my part. This will only get me insults.

After one day of insults only, I have come to believe the best way to get an answer to my questions is to ask the same question repeatedly.

I can write an indepth question, and get only one or two incomplete answers. I want to write a 5000 word essay using the advice from Y!A, but I can't.

Help me please.

2006-08-17 06:56:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

i have been diagnosed as severly deppressed and bypolar, i have been going to see different therapists for the past 4 years and it seems that nobody can help me. i have been put in mental institutes for trying to commit suicide, drug abuse,and cutting. what makes it worse is that i am an outcast b/c everyone judges me by my past. does anyone have any advice or know any good doctors in texas?I have been trying to be responsible and get help for myself, but i am way past the breaking point. can anyone give me a reason to live???

2006-08-17 06:53:25 · 9 answers · asked by klassykowgurl 2 in Psychology

Is it normal for girl 2 dream about sex with other girls even thought shes straight?

2006-08-17 06:51:51 · 24 answers · asked by booglover29 1 in Psychology

i have been diagnosed as severly deppressed and bypolar, i have been going to see different therapists for the past 4 years and it seems that nobody can help me. i have been put in mental institutes for trying to commit suicide, drug abuse,and cutting. what makes it worse is that i am an outcast b/c everyone judges me by my past. does anyone have any advice or know any good doctors in texas?I have been trying to be responsible and get help for myself, but i am way past the breaking point. can anyone give me a reason to live???

2006-08-17 06:51:14 · 14 answers · asked by klassykowgurl 2 in Other - Social Science