^THIS. Mind you, it may be in your nature to feel happier conforming to those around you. Don't be afraid of that either. Whether you feel...
And yet the only stable long term communes I have come across and heard of are Christian (and other religious) communes. And that's the thing....
I wouldn't make too much of it and certainly don't take it literally. Bear in mind for a start that the perception or the "experience" of...
Telepath is right. Even if it is within a friendship, if the strenght of feeling is not mutual there is a "power imbalance". It is not realistic...
Liquidacrobat, you're right of course that this thread is changing from a lament into a discussion about behavior and politics. If you do not...
If this is all you are posting it leaves a very incomplete and misrepresenting picture. Please do not equate Hamas with the Palestinian people...
They are different kinds of pain. Being cheated on gives the pain of betrayal, envy, humiliation and, definitely, also sense of loss and grief;...
When we were kids we used pose questions like: "would you rather have you right testicle slowly crushed in a vice or have a hot nail shoved into...
I blame right wing morality: -the instinct that the lives and wellfare of one's own people matter more than the lives of others -the instinct...
Risky business. You're falling in love with him, which will only get worse. If he doesn't feel the same way and he starts having sex with you,...
I love a full triangle of pubic hair on women. Its erotic. I've been married for 25 yrs and looking at my wife's body with her curves (and 36DDs)...
I guess you can't, if "being a Christian" means a wholesale acceptance of the doctrine as formulated at Nicaea. Certainly being a "Christian" in...
O yes they are. This is part of personality. Some people are genetically predisposed to react negatively to adversity and readily become depressed...
You're probably not really serious. In case you are: don't do it if you don't know what you're doing. It's a recipe for potential stress and...
Stress reduction, meditation, CBT, it's all true this can help a lot of conditions that are worsened by stress and perceptions. I am just not...
Who-ism? After finding it on Wiki, no. Many religions and cults differ from each other only in the myths, narratives and doctrines, and at...
Yes it is possible for a novice to improve their health by practicing "mind over matter", but as a predictable and a consistent effect the outcome...
Throw out the myths and doctrines and you find a teaching, a way of thinking and living that is common to them all. E.g. Jesus' "Kingdom of...
Don't make too much of that. The placebo effect is simply a brain response created by expectation or conditioning, which releases brain hormones...
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