Social Science - 9 October 2006

im not a pyromatic and im not a sicko, just wanted 2 no.

2006-10-09 19:59:14 · 10 answers · asked by dookieipod 2 in Sociology

Or did you never have it?

Well ...

2006-10-09 19:54:24 · 18 answers · asked by Part Time Cynic 7 in Psychology

2006-10-09 19:48:14 · 1 answers · asked by bobby j 1 in Economics

I almost never remember my dreams and usually my dreams are very abstract. The dream I had last night was super vivid and I'm curious to hear interpretations of it.

I was involved with some mafioso like game designers who were developing a space based video game and working with NASA to develop it. I had a job working on the project, but I had nothing to contribute professionally... I feel self concious, because I am afraid everyone will see me as the fraud that I am... I'm at home and the phone rings and it's some of the mafioso guys who want to expose me as a fraud and the only way to avoid being caught is to pretend to be a woman. I fail miserably, but some of the other mafisos guys want to help so they get the help of a woman to be on the phone and she says what needs said to protect me. The girl in my dream happens to be someone I worked with a year ago and liked professionally, but not romantically. She succeeds and I am saved, then I kiss her sensually and wake up.

2006-10-09 19:47:51 · 6 answers · asked by Zloar 4 in Psychology

2006-10-09 19:39:30 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

I have extreme anxiety disorder and I don't want to go to a doctor. Every day I hope that I'll wake up and be able to live life to the fullest, but then I wake up and I feel scared and depressed and guilty about being alive and it ends up being just like every other day. I keep putting things off and thinking tomorrow will be the day that I finally start living. The Catholic school I went to really messed me up. I'm thinking about starting to take drugs or drinking so I can be less inhibited and enjoy life. I got brainwashed by the Catholics and even though I've renounced my Catholicism, too much damage has been done and I feel this overwhelming sense of guilt for being alive.

2006-10-09 19:37:09 · 12 answers · asked by conundrum 1 in Psychology

In my dream,I had an argument with my mom.She did something to me, but I don't know what. I don't think she did the thing on purpose, but she wouldn't say she was sorry & I thought to myself that if I had done the same to my child I would say I was sorry.Then I began walking through doors that all looked very different from one another.As I went through each one I locked it behind me. Then I woke up.

I went through something similar to this with my mom years ago. I told her how she had hurt me and instead of apologizing she said, "I'm not sorry for the way I've lived my life." That stunned me because if my child told me that I would ask for forgiveness for hurting them. She said she wanted us to be friends and when I informed her my friends don't treat me that way when I tell them they've hurt me, she said, "Okay. I 'm sorry then." in a very flippant way.

I get the first part of the dream because I lived it years ago.

What do the doors mean though? Thanks.

2006-10-09 19:27:56 · 8 answers · asked by SuzieQ92 3 in Psychology

2006-10-09 19:26:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Social Science

Why do you think he gives stupid answers to questions, is it just to gain points because he dosn't have a life ?

2006-10-09 19:22:06 · 5 answers · asked by Phil 1 in Psychology

My wife and I have been together for over 13 years. She has had a mariad of gyno problems equaling around 10 surgeries. She still has complications - procedure #11 coming soon.

This all has led her to gain 60% more than when we first met. Most of the weight has settled in the places I absolutely find unattactive on the female physique.

Gut (she looks 6+ months pregnant), chin, arms, back, back of her neck!

She's been trying to lose with 0 success.

We're mid 30's, she's developed rhumatory arthritis (in part thanks to the weight gain). Its become a little bit like living with grandma. I can't get this analogy out of my head.

I really do love her - she is still my best friend, but I find it difficult to be intimate with her beyond a hug and a kiss. It has burried my libido. It makes me depressed that at the prime of my life I'd rather ma5terbat3 than have sex with her.

I need support or criticism from people having gone through the same. There's more, but no room to write :-)

2006-10-09 19:20:54 · 18 answers · asked by cowulf 2 in Sociology

2006-10-09 19:15:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Social Science

Yes, I am a woman and I am asking this question. Why are MOST women crazy?

2006-10-09 19:09:22 · 10 answers · asked by UNapologetic! 4 in Psychology

its a consumer awareness project

2006-10-09 19:03:43 · 3 answers · asked by de dude 1 in Economics

This seems to be a odd way of helping, we hate the predator, we help the child victim, we are horrified about the morbid things that have happened to innoscent children.Then 10, 12, 20 years later this is the person we want to kill for doing the same thing. This reminds me of a movie based on a true story where a man was abused in every way, from birth. Turns into a monster killer who is being put to death, and the people who were helping and hurting for him or now wanting him dea because he is a immoral. We save them and then we kill them or a percentage of them? True? We hurt for them as children, we punish them as sick adults
Tonite they are discussing an abandoned baby, baby Jordon. How sad for this baby. Who will baby Jordon be in in 12, 15, 20 years?Will he become a man we will want to literally burn at the stake for some hideous act?Many of the perverts, killers, socially sick were baby Jordans, little innoscent mloested children.
This is maddness. This is reality?

2006-10-09 19:02:58 · 8 answers · asked by dancinintherain 6 in Psychology

just wanting to find out what you think on the topic and anything about it related to sociology etc

2006-10-09 18:50:52 · 2 answers · asked by jollybear 3 in Sociology

If you're able to imagine pictures or images inside your head when you close your eyes. What would happen if you only closed one? Could you see images that were inside your head and in real life at the same time?

If you could think in pictures and dream in pictures/ movies. Then why can't we see those things while we're awake. If not dreams they why can't we make our minds see things that aren't there? Are there people who can do this?

It would be like holding up a spoon and seeing it bend, but only in your mind. Like you're able to control the world in anyway you want but its just in your head! Why can't we do that and is it possible with a lot of practice?

2006-10-09 18:48:53 · 10 answers · asked by Derek Bair 2 in Psychology

2006-10-09 18:48:07 · 8 answers · asked by Janizah 1 in Sociology

Does each eye take in something different or exactly the same? Are they linked to the different sides of the brain or does that happen after each image from each eye is combined?

If different things are processed on different parts of the brain is your brain processing the combined image of both eyes or each eye's image seperatly?

If our brain is taking in two images and combining it into one how could we test if it's taking in different information from each eye independently?

2006-10-09 18:45:08 · 3 answers · asked by Derek Bair 2 in Psychology

2006-10-09 18:41:33 · 2 answers · asked by cruisingalong 4 in Psychology

Basically, why are some autistic people non functioning and other's highly functional? nature or nurture?

Is it because of how their individual brain is, or their enviroment - how they were taught, what they were taught, and the things they were exposed to that could lead to their understanding of the world?

If autism is only being able to think in images, then maybe the difference between the advancement of the different autistic people is the enviroment they were raised in as much as the condition of their brain.

If autism is a different setup inside the brain then obviously they would need to be educated in a different way.

Basically is autism a lack of understanding because no one taught them how to understand - OR is it because their brain is too abnormal to ever understand?

Why are some able to understand - eventually - and other's are not. Is it becuse of their brain or what they've experienced? Oppinions are fine because no one really know for sure!

2006-10-09 18:37:58 · 3 answers · asked by Derek Bair 2 in Psychology

How do you think specifically? Do you think in words or pictures?

If you think in pictures are you autistic? Can you think in words as well and if you can have you always been able to or did you have to learn their meaning with pictures first?

Can you control 3d images in your mind?

2006-10-09 18:29:53 · 8 answers · asked by Derek Bair 2 in Psychology

2006-10-09 18:21:39 · 3 answers · asked by musweetness 2 in Psychology

I am in a marching band so I have a lot of time sitting on busses to go to our compitions, I have sat with this girl the last few times because she asked me to. both times she fell asleep on my shoulder and the second time I put my arm around her and she didn't have any objections. Also when ever I see her at school she will kind of hit me on the shoulder and. It seems to me that she likes me but I'm not shure.

2006-10-09 18:19:42 · 10 answers · asked by N955EV 1 in Psychology

someone tell me why i feel more live when i sleep then when i'm awake. why does it feel like my dreams are reality and reality is my nightmare, why do my senses confuse me like this?

2006-10-09 18:17:13 · 5 answers · asked by Memorex 1 in Psychology

Most European and west Asian women look very similar to each other and it is hard to tell their Ethnicity. For some reason many Ukrainian woman look very distinct that it is very easy to tell that that is their ancestory is Ukrainian. Don't get me wrong I think that the look is very beautiful but I was wondering if there was some sort of genetic map or something that could explain their look. A perfect example is the girl from "That 70's Show. I cannot usually tell a Russian woman from a Scandinavian woman or English woman ect. But dispite the reletive closeness of Russia they look totally different. I hope this isn't coming out racist because that isn't my intent. Anyway thank you for your time.

2006-10-09 18:14:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Anthropology

imo

that most wealthy ppl work hard, and that they get their money by working, are 2 very very different things - the difference is all our vast unnecessary suffering - the HARDEST WORKING PERSON can not work more than TWICE as hard as the av person - [i hav seen figures for american homemakers as over 90 hrs/wk - for british, as over 70 hrs/wk - and underpaid ppl HAVE to work harder than avg] - but income-increase of fortune/workhr ranges from 1c to $10,000,000 - so there is clearly no way a person gets wealthy by working - overpaid ppl dont make money, they rake money, by the many wideopen legal thefts - the extractive economy is 20 times the working economy

the fact [assumption] that they work hard is no proof they earn their money

[& all the excuses for higher than av hrly pay [risk, responsibility, skill, brains, talent, experience, gifts] are full of holes, no reasons - see other q & a of mine]

so, is it true that wealthy ppl get their money by working for it?

2006-10-09 18:11:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

2006-10-09 18:06:58 · 12 answers · asked by Charlie Kicksass 7 in Psychology

Does anyone out there find the idea of hypnosis or being hypnotized extremly sexy and erotic? I do, and its a big fantasy of mine to be hypnotized or put to sleep by a sexy mentalist (think the Phantom of the Opera) and carried off to his underground lair only to be romanced and seduced by him upon awakening. Does anyone share this fantasy or am I a freak? :)

2006-10-09 18:01:37 · 20 answers · asked by Betsy J 1 in Gender Studies

2006-10-09 17:56:39 · 3 answers · asked by Sleeck 3 in Gender Studies

if more people would be financially independent, we would be in a better state economically. there would be more money givers and less money suckers.

2006-10-09 17:56:12 · 12 answers · asked by Boba Fett 3 in Economics