Social Science - 26 April 2007

What does this mean, and can you put it in lamens terms for me.

2007-04-26 11:52:30 · 2 answers · asked by PlasticTrees 2 in Economics

For example, in medicine all the advances, do not really increase the length of life (ancient bible passages give 70 yrs, as the length of life), or the enjoyment of life (we are overloaded with worries, even about the air we breathe and the food we eat----poisoned with industrial minerals), or in cosmology the advances in knowledge simply dumbound anyone who tries to keep up, with absolutely "neutral" facts that do not make you happy the least bit. The "billions of years" simply stun a human being, rather than enlighten.

2007-04-26 11:45:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I just read Franz Kafka's short story, and I have to write...

what the heck is The Metamporphosis about?

I'm just looking for thoughts, opinions, and especially sites on what the big picture in the story is, or what people believe it's about. Any help would be great, thanks!

2007-04-26 11:29:48 · 2 answers · asked by Wael K 2 in Psychology

My dad is determined to stay home. This past Friday morning he was having yet another hallucination thinking he saw people trying to steal his car. He shot through the window of his home towards the car. Then when the imaginary people wouldn't get out of the car, he poured gas around the car to smoke them out. The sheriff came out to the house twice in one night and he ended up in the nut house.
He poured the gas very close to the house and was sitting outside with a shotgun when the cops came out.
He doesn't bathe (maybe 2 baths in 7 years) and he doesn't want any help from me. They are mad with me, because the people at the hospital want me to help or put him in a nursing home. I don't want to do the nursing home thing and was trying to get them closer to me so that I could help them. My feeling is that if I don't get involved the state is now involved and will put them both away if I don't get them closer to me so that I can see them taken care of. I live 2 hrs away! Help?

2007-04-26 11:19:14 · 1 answers · asked by KTR 3 in Psychology

Despite all the things that went wrong, are you satisfied with the way everything turned out thus far? Think about it, had things not worked out the way they did then we wouldn't be the people that we are. I'm pretty grateful to be me...how about you?

2007-04-26 11:16:25 · 11 answers · asked by jeffwilliams1979 2 in Psychology

I love graveyards... I find them peaceful and interesting... and it's fun to know that i am alive and one day I will die.

What are your thoughts?

2007-04-26 11:12:10 · 10 answers · asked by Plazzmoidi F. McStinkleshlonger 3 in Psychology

Do you believe that you have a lot of enemies?

2007-04-26 11:08:35 · 7 answers · asked by think_of_the_bubble 3 in Psychology

2007-04-26 10:43:14 · 21 answers · asked by LibraT 4 in Gender Studies

2007-04-26 10:42:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2007-04-26 10:38:47 · 22 answers · asked by crackerstud69 1 in Sociology

2007-04-26 10:13:27 · 5 answers · asked by Kimber 2 in Psychology

Or would you leave them? and WHY?

2007-04-26 10:04:53 · 9 answers · asked by Ms Beans15 2 in Psychology

Why would this reduction in benefits and increase in taxes have different efects on work effort?

2007-04-26 09:55:50 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

you no make contacts, what should i do? i suffe very low self worth and get clingy, needy and latch onto them, i try not to, but my desperation always shows through..because im lonely and isolated, and i live alone, im 29.. and am waiting for therapy
because i have bpd
what can i do to get girls and befriend them in the meantime..
i feel hopeless, angry and frustrated.. i get terrible low moods about this, and feel lonely, and isolated, and angry at girls for not wantin me and rejectin me..

2007-04-26 09:42:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2007-04-26 09:37:34 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2007-04-26 09:33:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

If freedom of a slave cost you the life of yourself, would you free him?


PS: The slave is only 4 years old and if he is whipped by his master once more, he will die...

i would free the child...even though i am only 14, i would rather the child live, since it is so young, you know?

2007-04-26 09:31:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2007-04-26 09:27:58 · 4 answers · asked by turtle girl 7 in Psychology

If is true,is not fair,dont u think?,as u can make alot mistake when u are young,but later u say u feel sorry and all will be forvigen.

2007-04-26 09:25:38 · 4 answers · asked by Didie C 1 in Psychology

( the rat is actually stands for Racist Art Techer) our teacher always skips our table even if we have a question and only comes back when the bell rings to say " o sorry i didn't get to you", this happens every single day! what a RAT!!

2007-04-26 09:19:39 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

The second "l" in Totally isn't capital 'cuz it wouldn't let me....

a lot of times i have dreams that i write down so i don't forget them and they come true l8r that week

My stomach "falls" and i get a headache 5 minutes before something bad happens

when people tell me a memory they have i can finish it for them w/ out ever hearing it b4.

me and my cuzin live in different states and if we imagine we're on a beach w/ each other we can communicate. We both don't need to start at the same time

when i read a book for the first time w/ out anybody telling me how it ends i know how it ends and the last sentence....Harry Potter being one

2007-04-26 09:15:36 · 5 answers · asked by hyperchick223 1 in Psychology

Well I am lost of the fact that people that are not ,well lets say mentally stable(they talk in circles and make no sense)are overly obbsessed or concerned of what I do on a daily basis and it may have something to do with race and the fact I am married verse they are not(at least thats what i hear)...

Why this ???

2007-04-26 09:07:17 · 10 answers · asked by lala 2 in Psychology

i have a few: being in high open spaces at night especially when its raining, death, heights, roller coasters.

2007-04-26 09:06:19 · 13 answers · asked by rt1290 6 in Psychology

2007-04-26 09:02:00 · 20 answers · asked by Destiny 4 in Sociology

Even at that it is still poverty, but at least it would help alot of people. I see so many people struggling week to week and still not have enough. Can you imagine having rent, children and everything that comes along with it and only making around $6.00 an hour BEFORE taxes? This is scary?

2007-04-26 09:00:58 · 9 answers · asked by golfnuttoday 1 in Economics

2007-04-26 08:59:36 · 11 answers · asked by natbug_93 1 in Psychology

had an experience like this?
MY friend's aunt died when my friend was 7 of breast cancer. She had all these pins and gave them to my friend before she died. My friend (Grania) kept them on a hat. One day she was wearing the hat when walking in the woods with our other friend (Katy) who has diabetes. Suddenly Grania didn't know where Katy went. She listened for a whistle that Katy used a lot. That morning Katy didn't feel well so Grania was scared. She started running. Then she saw her aunt standing there pointing in the other direction. Grania went that way and found Katy fainted in a pile of puke, face down. Katy was minutes from dieing so Graniaused Katy's cellfone to call her mom.

My english teacher wasin college and a fewmonths before her grandfather had died. He had a distinct smell and was alwayssinging a certain song. One daymy teach (had a BAD week. Driving one day that week all of a sudden the car was filled w/ the smell and the song started playing on the radio

2007-04-26 08:56:05 · 2 answers · asked by hyperchick223 1 in Psychology

A friend of mine, she's around 15, is having horrific nightmares. She won't tell me or anyone else what they are, and has only told me that she's having them, but they're causing her to stay up till sunrise, and wake up at 11 AM, because when she sleeps in this pattern, the nightmares don't afflict her. I'm really worried about her because she won't tell anyone else, because she doesn't want to worry anyone, so she hasn't asked about mental treatment. Is there anything that she could do to rid herself of this without alerting the attention of anyone else?

I know you'll tell me to tell her to tell her parents, we've already talked about that, it would be a good idea, but she won't do it.

2007-04-26 08:41:55 · 10 answers · asked by Cenilad Javikyekr 1 in Psychology

When I was about 18 i pretty much dropped out of life. I stopped hanging out with people and I kept to myself. I didnt socialise really. I went to college(studying a subject I hated)I did some exercise, I went to bed. that was it. Id just stay in watching tv at wkends, so my life was a lonely one. Im only now starting to understand why I retreated from the world(im seeing a therapist)and ive been trying to get back into life. I went back to college to study a subject I like, ive taken up playing team sports again, I hang out with some people in college(instead of going off by myself). So im proud of the way ive turned things around. My only problem is dealing with people. Im having a hard time getting along with some folks. Group projects have been difficult. I seem to rub people up the wrong way and im just getting tired of feeling bad about myself for it. Im at the stage were i just wanna avoid people again to save myself the hassle. What do you guys think????

2007-04-26 08:40:19 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I am considered to be a very loving person and I have a big heart. I make freinds very easily and am liked by most people. My problem is that I cannot be friends with myself. What I mean by this is that I hate myself. I am depressed and rarly ever feel good about who I am. It is more than just depression and low self esteem. My ex girlfriend broke up with me 3 months ago and we no longer speak. My girlfriend made me feel good about myself (somewhat). I know that it shouldnt be that way but it was. After breaking up I started working out at the gym pretty much everyday (running and weightlifting.) At first I starting feeling good but now I am more down than ever. I know I am a great person and people are lucky to have me in their lives. I feel like my purpose in life is to be miserable while helping others feel good. Its like I am cursed. Sometimes i wish that i was never born. There must be a way to not feel so crappy ALL the time. what can I do?

2007-04-26 08:23:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology