Social Science

I always overreact, how do I stop?

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For as long as I can remember, I

Moving on from broken friendships (beyond depressed)?

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So I had this childhood best friend, we were good friends back in elementary, I found him on Facebook about 4 1/2 months ago. I told him that he

If you feel sexual tension with someone?

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does it mean they are feeling it too? Like the room gets heavy and and you want to pounce on each other? I try to start a coversation and its SO awkward!
i dont know...but i feel it too (;
You cant really prove it unless you say something or go for it, but i think theres definately something to it
I guess there is no way to know for sure if someone else is feeling what you

Should I change my personality this year for school?

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hi.. well I am really shy around other people.. and I really want to be more talkative.. but i never no what to say.. like in the middle of the school yr. and I really dont know if people really like me at all!!

i hear people talk aobut me behind my backs, make funn of me, and talk about me in front of the whole class, and in my face too!! :(

what can i do to be more talkitive around my friends and stuff?? and how can i get my freidns to actually like me?? and how do i keep people from talking about me and stuff??

plz be postive about this.. this mean alot to me and I am scared of what people think of me too!!

thx
Start by making a list of all of the things you like about yourself, and taping it up somewhere that you will see it everyday. Then, anytime you think something negative about yourself, replace it with one of the things you have written down. Over time, it will become like a second nature to compliment yourself when feeling down.

Find something that you are really good at, and that you feel good about yourself while doing it, then plan events or hanging out around that one thing. For example, say you are really good about bowling and when you bowl you feel awesome about yourself. Invite some people that make you feel GOOD about yourself, to go bowling with you. It is much easier to be confident and more social when you are doing something that makes you feel good about yourself.

Also, do something like get a haircut, get a manicure or pedicure, or get a new outfit! It

How do I get over being ugly?

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If one is diagnosed with Adjustment Disorder with depressed mood, can it change?

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Suppose a patient comes in, takes the MPPI-II, and based on all the criteria set in place for a diagnoses he/she meets the criteria for Adjustment Disorder with Depressed Mood as well as Anxiety Disorder NOS (not otherwise specified).

He/she has Passive Aggressive Features as well as Dependent Personality features.

Could this individual be on the brink of prodromal schizophrenia (if a biological parent is schizophrenic) and/or Borderline Personality Disorder?
Adjustment disorder and anxiety disorder NOS are fairly nonspecific diagnoses that are used either when the clinicians are unsure of what is going on, or it may just be a transient type of thing. Adjustment disorders are time limited in nature by definition. In other words, these findings could be something, but I would be more worried about thought disordered symptoms for schizophrenia. Personality disorders are a tough call, but there isn

How does suicide affect loved ones?

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Say someone commits suicide, how does that affect the suicide person

Why am i always so horny, is this normal? Am i a sex addict?

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What are you obsessed with?

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Music.
My GF
Cats.
girls.

haha

and soccer
nice clothes lol and making good impressions
my car
muse!
Oh uh wow. Um I

Can someone help me change these aspects of my body.I am close to suicide.?

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For all you beautiful people out there.You might think i am being over dramatic but dont think like that.If you have been as ugly as i am you would understand so i dont expect you to understand it now and if you insult me i will forgive you,no matter how much it hurts as long as you help me.If you want to know more about me.Read my previous questions.

Bottom line i am very ugly.SO what can i do to change these conditions of mine.Please help me with as much as you can!I am begging you crying,i am on my knees.

If you can please tell me specific brands that you use so i can go tomorrow and buy them.

Dark knees/elbows

Hairy leg,thighs,arms,forearms,hands,stomach,l back,toes and fingers.

Unshaped bushy eyebrows

I dont have noticeable hair on it but when i checked it with a special 5 times magnifying mirror i realized that above and below my lips there is some hair and it is darker compared to my whole face,plus on my chin too.But it is like it is not there unless someone sees it with a special mirror.

Freckled nose

Very,extremely dry hair.I have no hair style that goes with my face.When i soften it it gets so thin.

I am very skinny in general.Undefined skinny arms and legs,a bit bloated stomach,intoned,unhealthy looking body and skin. I want it to be like Britney spears.

Ugly ,disgusting finger and toe nails.

Very rough and dry feet.

Extremely chapped lips.Sometimes gets so cracked that it bleeds.People recommended me Carmex.Do u think it is good or have any suggestions?

Yellow,rabbit and vampire looking shapeless teeth.

My upper lip is a bit dark as if i had put some black lipstick.I dont have a very peachy lip.

So please help me.I am sick and tired of my mom telling me to act like a women.I am 17 and a bit of a tomboy.I need this to change my life.
I

Giving false hope or being brutally honest, but rude?

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When people ask for advice, do you give them false hope when you know whatever it is could never happen, or are you brutally honest?

I feel like there should be some sort of balance in a way, you know? Because being rude-honest doesn

Is the USA on the verge of financial and social collapse?

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The media seems to be hiding we are in a Global Depression which has been orchestrated by The New World Order Mafia to cause a major crisis which has already happened in Europe (food shortage, riots, melt-down of markets).
The U.S., ever since we were taken off the Gold Standard in the early 70

Whats the difference between looking your best and looking cool?

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I guess looking

To prevent inequality between men in women in walking speed, do feminists propose men have their legs shackled?

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Or at least a law is passed to define the maximum walking speed for men, backed up with fines and a possibly jail?

Men are on average are taller than women and thus have longer legs. Also many women wear high heels. These two factors result in men being able on average, to walk faster than women. This inequality needs to be addressed.
Absolutely. There

Why do women wory so much about their virginity?

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Who they lost it to and long associated stories, if they are going to keep in until they marry, etc etc.

I lost my virginity to some woman, I forget who and when exactly. I think that I was 17.
There should be equal amounts of whores and the others. More variety if you know what I mean :) Bang the whore and leave with the virgin.
they don

How can i motivate myself when it comes to doing an activity?

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when i want to do anything, the thing i like most is motivation... whether it comes to studies, sports, or just any activity... i lack the motivation.. im good in most things but i can be so much better, the only reason im not is because i dont have any motivation .... how can i change that and be motivated?
self motivation stems from the need of accomplishment. It is a tool we use in order to get certain painful tasks done, even sometimes activities that we want to do. But sometimes the award of accomplishment is not enough for us to enjoy. Next time maybe think of finding ways to reward yourself once you have to do something you would rather not. ex. finish cleaning your room, reward yourself with maybe an ice-cream or something you enjoy doing.

Psychological help?!!!!!!!!?

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ever since i was little i

Divorce rates are 40-50% in most OECD countries, mainly as men could not be bothered any more?

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With working hard, looking after their children and generally being a good husband and father. Over 85% of divorces are initiated by women, mainly because of the former reasons. Read the

Is being a happy person a bad thing?

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I talk to myself, I

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I kinda grew up like that? I mean I do have four brother, I

Are there any racial tension in school?

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No
It depends where you are, but usually there are. I know that at my school there

What happens if everyone cared what people think about them?

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We would be emo.
There

Why do feminists believe that men aka

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More power than the wealthy ruling class in much of Western history? Those blessed with wealth have thrived while those of us who weren

I just don

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I am one of those people that are really shy when they don

Is it normal for someone with asperger

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okay is it normal if your dating someone that has asperger

Why do I always feel so alone?

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I can be in a room full of people, and i just always feel alone and like an outsider. When i

Have there been other recent fads like the Silly Bands?

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I live in Queens, New York, and I thought it originated from a high school my friend goes too. xDD Boy, was I wrong. I mean, there

If you can choose what power to have, what will it be and why?

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Invulnerability would be great. And why? Because You could just do anything without any fear. You could be like superman and do good work for the government, in war zones or on the streets and save lives.

Well bumblebee you have found the right place. Type a question and read the thoughts. If they choose to answer that is.
to read someones thoughts whenever i want, because i want to know what they are thinking.

Are local officials (specifically in China) paid according to GDP growth in his jurisdiction?

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I don

LOOKING FOR

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Successful meaning, doctors, lawyers or anIyone caught up with their jobs or busy life. IF you had to do it all over again what would you do differently????
I think that it would help if you understood/considered this first: what you didn

Is the word

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My argument is that men and women are different and need different forms of help because they are degraded in different aspects.

It would be an MRA

If you were able to turn back the clock, what age would you like to be and why?

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I think I

How can such a strong self-esteem shatter as it has?

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I used to radiate positive energy and confidence, which drew people towards me and they began following my actions. I was even able to make someone I liked - but never who once never looked twice at me - fall in love with me quite easily. But because of one small rejection, I feel like I don

Is it politically incorrect to be male?

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Why are girls more mature than guys?

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Why is that girls act more mature but guys like to act soo immature..!
Just because! So there! lol

Socially girls are expected to act more mature than boys. So half of the maturity difference is caused by social pressures. Not as much today as 100 years or 200 years ago but still,

Why do I always feel so alone?

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I can be in a room full of people, and i just always feel alone and like an outsider. When i

GWS Poll: Do feminists have a positive opinion of males...?

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Simple as that.
Nope.. After all they clearly subscribed to a movement that promote/encourage man-hating. It

I dont know what to do with my self :

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I slept from 11am to 8pm today and something weird happened?

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at like 4 (just a guess) i tried to wake up. I opened my eyes and i couldnt keep them open. i started to squeeze my bed because i thought i was gonna die. Then I felt like i was just dreaming. then i closed my eyes and fell back asleep scared. :( what was that?
Sleep paralysis.
you where half awake it happens to me every now and then too i hate it.
Yeah you were just half asleep.

I can

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I was invited to a grad party today but I have a feeling it might just be because we have mutual friends. I am not close to her. For a while there was an awkwardness between us because I told my friend that she made me uncomfortable. She seemed to stare at me a lot, not smiling or anything, but just staring.. and I thought she didn

Are you scared of death? Why or why not?

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Does it sound like i have a phobia?

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a couple months ago ive been terrified when im in the car with my mom that someones gonna drive by and shoot

Help on dream interpretation?

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jogging / running with a cumbersome briefcase. running quite slow, told a lady that it looked like she needed water, then she said,

What is wrong with my psychology I cannot seem to find the reason?

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I am 15 and male. I enjoy very much about life study and psychology and the human mind. Also I try to understand life and all the reasons and hidden things. I have been franticly searching all over and I found something about myself. The 3 main questions I want to ask are

1) What is life, why is it, and how is it?

2) Recently I find comfort or ease in sad music or somebody else

Do you consider yourself to be liked on this section?

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i know i am
yeah
whhhhaaaatttt?????
of course , a big ,strong, rugged man like myself will always be liked
I guess if you get thumbs up here then your liked lol
I

Just curious; do many women think that

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Inspired by

Is it wise to have children in today

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Well if everyone decided that it wasn

A random dream that I sort of figured out, but would like a second opinion...?

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The story: When I was in high school, there was this girl that I dated for three years. I was madly in love with her and everyone said that we would get married, blah, blah, blah. Well, she moved to California, and I live in Florida. She said that she would e-mail me and call me every day. She kept that promise for a while, then the e-mails and calls were less frequent. I haven

Is this weird or normally..or what..?

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So like...I totally get freaked out when doors are half opened, if you know what I mean. I kinda like have it in my head that someones hiding be hide them, especially when i

Do I have a personality disorder? I WILL GIVE BEST ANSWER!?

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Ok so these last couple years, I always try to act in a manner so that people accept me. I want people to like me and invite me to stuff/ I

WHY IS THIS GUY ACTING LIKE THIS AFTER FINDING OUT I

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Hi Im just looking for some advice ~~~.

So there is this guy in my woodworking class since The begging of the year that I have known only by his name but haven

WHY IS HE MORE INTERESTED IN ME NOW?? ?

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Hi Im just looking for some advice ~~~.

So there is this guy in my woodworking class since The begging of the year that I have known only by his name but haven

What

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Anything in general that

Is every interaction a man has with an attractive female

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Is every interaction a man has with an attractive female

How should I cope with this situation?

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Me: youngest daughter, turn 16 in July.

Kat: middle sister, turns 21 in Sept.

Nat: oldest sister, turns 23 in Nov.

My parents favorite Nat. a lot. They always make Kat. and me feel insecure and at times unloved. I know my parents love me to a degree but when I see them with my eldest sister I feel a bit envious. I know that this situation bothers my middle sister more than me even if she won

IS THIS GUY INTERESTED IN ME ALL A SUDDEN?

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Hi Im just looking for some advice ~~~.

So there is this guy in my woodworking class since The begging of the year that I have known only by his name but haven

Stages of sleep (easy 10 points)?

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I would like to know all of the stages of sleep and what occurs during each stage. I

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Have you ever seen a job advertised like this?

Why do feminists claim that women get paid less because of sexism?
oh its a secret conspiracy, so secret it doesnt even show up on government and scientific studies...

January 12, 2009

PREPARED FOR:

U.S. Department of Labor

Employment Standards Administration

200 Constitution Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20210

PREPARED BY:

CONSAD Research Corporation

211 North Whitfield Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Under Contract Number GS-23F-02598

Task Order 2, Subtask 2B

CONCLUSION

This study leads to the unambiguous conclusion that the differences in the

compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factors and

that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action.

Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost

entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers

Harriet Harman told to stop LYING about the wage gap

Whats wrong with my family?

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im 17 and my family has been a mess for like three years now im not even happy here anymore im suffering from depressing and they don

Do you trust your gut feeling?

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feel free to say your opinion, i won

Is it possible to lucid dream without waking up 4-6 hours after sleeping?

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Or not?
It

An ECONOMICS sum.. Help needed immediately!!!!!!!!?

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The DEMAND FUNCTION is (x=48-3p

I want to rip my heart out and eat it?

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Basically emotional rages, oversensitivity, post traumatic type symptoms, what to do then?

Doctors are rubbish, waiting list is rubbish, therapy is rubbish, don

Does anybody want to try interpreting this dream?

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Ok, so this dream seems stupid to me but hey if it means something i might aswell try to find out :D

So i

What have you learned as you have grown older?

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I keep having a dream where i am having an affair with a former teacher but why?

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i did fancy this teacher once but not anymore i have had a different dream each time but it has Always been about me having an affair with the same teacher, i have had a dream about this for like 3 or 4 times not and i don

Why have we been conditioned to see love as being something completely different from what it actually is?

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Love is nothing more than an important instinct found in most creatures, and that is to protect ones offspring or colonies. Nothing more, nothing less.

It is also the emotion that makes us want to create life and that

Can women smell a loser from a mile away?

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No, they are just generally judgmental. Believe me, if loser had a smell, then every girl you know must have held her nose when she was picked up by a number of her ex-boyfriends. If you don

Can some one have no feelings and not be?

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can some one have no feelings and not be dangerous i feel as if i lost the feelings i did have years ago threw life

What is your favourite type of dream?

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My favorite dreams are zombie ones, usually people would find these types scary but I love them.

My favorite ones are when we have to hide from them but they keep finding me.

What about you?
I love the dreams where i can swim with dolphins and amazing stuff that i would never get to do in real life.
epic dreams where there

Intervention of suicide. A good thing, or a forced prison?

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I have been researching suicide rates in various countries, various ages and various classes. Whilst doing this I found myself spilt between 2 opinions of the intervention of suicide; One being that a person could be blinded by depression or just going through a bad time in their life and preventing them from suicide, I

Why do i keep having these dreams?

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Ok so every night i have these dreams and one way or another i end up dying in the dream.

The scary part is, i think these dreams are coming true.

2 days ago i was dreaming that i was drowning in a lake. And when i woke up i was coughing and couldn

Not seeing things for what they are?

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What does this dream mean?

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i had a dream last night i was running from tidal waves with this boy, and everywhere wed go somewher there was something getting in our way of running like people trying to stop up, and every time wed get to somewhere safe wed see more and more tidal waves forming so wed run and run, till finally we got into this house, and these people looked completely normal and they fed us and stuff cause we hadn

What foods are indigenous to Maine?

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lobster
Fish
I was going to say Maine Lobster.
seafood

What does this similar reocurring dream mean? PLEASE READ :( 10 points!?

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my grandpa died 7 years ago, and lately i cant stop dreaming about him. this first one was about him being alive again and standing in the middle of our house, and i hugged him and looked up at him, but something didnt feel right, i looked up at him and his eyes were blood shot, and the iris of his eyes were red, then the house caught on fire and i let go and ran out of the house with my mom and the ceiling caved in on fire..

then the second one, he came down from heaven, and he was sitting at my kitchen table across from my mom, and she told me grandpa was here and i couldnt tell anyone, and i looked at him, and immediatly i covered my mouth screaming and crying and i fell against my kitchen counter and my house caught on fire again.
It

What has been or is your greatest mental or emotional struggle?

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Why do you struggle?
Depression? Low self esteem?

I let others get to me. I was around the wrong people. I wanted to

Poll: Is October the worst month to be born in because of all the spookiness and other reasons.?

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Question is straightforward, please also include the best months of the years in your opinion
well your birthday is the coolest because on halloween you get candy in that month plus you get presents my birthday is august 16 which is cool but not as cool as yours
i was born on oct. 29th. there

How do you let people hire you on We Rule?

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I am stuck! I just hired someone on We Rule for the iPod Touch. Now they have to hire me! How? HELP!!!
Lol wrong topic but, go to this website http://getsatisfaction.com/ngmoco/topics and look for the we rule friending thread. Post your kingdoms name (username) and ask for someone to hire from you.

People have to add you to their friendlist and visit your kingdom before they can hire you. Or post your username here and I

What is the name of intense fear of octopus? And am I the only one who has it?

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Ever since I was a kid I

What are some connections between Topology and Cultural anthropology?

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It's probably an issue of topography more so than topology. The idea is that the shape of the land can relate to the culture that uses it, in terms of ceremonial sites, domestic sites, agricultural activities, water availability, trade routes, etc. There is a sense of "place" in any interpretation of cultural phenomena.

What does the month of June mean?

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Not the origins ike it got it's name from Juno or something like that. I want . . . like how January is the month of New Beginnings.. and another one is the month or remembrance or something.

June is the sun at high noon. It is the height of joy. You might say it is the age of 30 for most people when they have gotten past the mistakes of youth but still have good physical strength. Their children have gotten past the age of being worried about and one can work on hobbies. It is a day at the beach walking in the sand listening to the sea. It is satisfaction.

Juno was the goddess of marriage and a married couple's household, so some consider it good luck to be married in this month

Caveman? is this year the year of the caveman - like b.c. real post-nuclear war cavemen?

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Are we almost there? An apocolyptic answer is what I'm looking for.

There will be no nuclear war or apocalypse.

You will live for 60 more years at least.

So you better learn to write in proper English so you do not have to spend those 60 years as a caveman.

We haven't reached "the day after" yet. It will be a while. Sorry. You can come out of the fallout shelter for a while longer.

It doesn't hurt to know the shortest route to the nearest cave. cave/save

Uh, no.

You want people to tell you we're heading there WHY?

Is Mercyhurst college a good college for archaeology?

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And about how long would it take for me to get my degree in archaeo and anthro?

Mercyhurst is a good college for it. I have a few colleagues that graduated from there. I know a few of the professors as well. You must like winter though being so close to Lake Erie they get a lot of snow. Erie is a pretty cool city too.

Are africans not as smart as the other ethnicity

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call me racist but its not what im going for

what im saying is some of the first civilizations on earth were mesopotamia egypt Chinese and greek. but they are still undeveloped.

is it just location location location and lack of resources. are is their another genetic factor in it?

Whereas, of course, Matt - you're a prime example of white superiority!

Well Egyptians are Africans, not Sub Saharan Africans like the dark skinned ones, they are Mediterranian Africans, and there is a place called Great Zimbabwe that is a ruin of a once advanced people is Sub Sahara Africa that is just plain Neat, that up until a few years ago was said to be foreign construction, because of the same belief that Black Africans couldn't do it but the fact it exists proves they did have advanced skills why they lost them are unknown, and Ethiopia has many places that show advanced ability, mainly the Churches that are meant to replicate the Holy Land.

as for the current state of Africa, I dont know why they may have lost ancient skills but they have Lions and other major feline predators and a harsh enviroment so thot could be a contributing factor to the difference in developement,

They had some pretty advanced civilizations there before falling prey to the advanced weaponry of the Europeans. Unfortunately, the Europeans than got to write the histories.

Progress does not equal intelligence. Many 'profressive' movements have reaped extremely hazardous conseuqnces, and what we see as 'primitive' practices are often highly sustainable

wow, brian, your naivety and ignorance is baffling

There is no genetic factor involved in this. Its actually the need for resources, would you rather hunt for food and live or die soon but with knowledge?

No.

All people are open to equal education.

It depends on how hard they study and their efforts.

HELP ME ON THE ANCIENT MAYANS!?

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plz plz help me!!!!i have a big report due

tell me anything you can on the ancient mayans oral tradition, writing system and literature!!thank you!!

The Proto-Mayan language began in the vicinity of Guatemala appx. 5,000 years ago. Their calendar, which has a 5,126 year cycle, would be an example of their "written" word, along with their Creation Legend, known as the Popol Vuh...

Many of their religious codices have been destroyed, or are yet to be found. The Mayan language is NOT dead, as appx. 1.5 million people today still speak it, in the vicinity of the Yucatan, Belize and Guatemala...

Everything was based primarily on the earth and nature. Mythology, religion, pottery and art reflected belief in earth and primarily sun cycles. Expert mathematicians and astrologists. Don't think there was any literature. I think that despite a highly evolved society, they never bothered with written word, prob because they didn;t feel the need to.

How are the Mayans and Aztecs different?

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Is there a difference between them?

For one thing, The Mayans lived in Guatemala & Yucatan, while the Aztecs live in what is now Mexico City!

Secondly, While the Mayan Civilization extended from early pre-history, until modern day (Many people in the Yucatan speak the Mayan language today)...

The Aztecs, who referred to themselves as "Mexica", flourished from about the 13th Century, until they were conquered by Cortes in 1521!

their languages were completely different and coming from completely different language families.

What are the effects of Donatello

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...and what are the effects of donatello's accomplishments have on the world today?

Round in shape.

Spanking Debate: Pros?

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Ok, so for my civics class I have to debate about if spanking should be used or not and I have to do both sides of the case. I got all my points for why people shouldn't use spanking as a way of discipline but I'm having a hard time finding points for why spanking is good since I really don't agree with spanking. Can I get some help?

The benefits of spanking, and in fact, any form of corporal punishment, are limited and outweighed by the negative consequences. It is effective for establishing the parent as the authority figure, and it can stop behaviors from the child. The child may attribute the unpleasant consequence of spanking to the negative behavior, and thus spanking can result in conditioning.

um, you can get your kids to obey you for once

What is the relative importance of competition vs cooperation?

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Does society place more value on competition or cooperation.

I don't think there's a more important question than this, but it needs to be rephrased, because there's no such thing as a single, all-encompassing human "society" and never has been. The biggest form of human association we have today that could conceivably be called a "society" is the nation-state (a "country"), which first appeared only about 400 years ago (the passport, for example, was first invented in the 17th century).

With that said, the answer to the question is this: Over the roughly 200,000 years that fully modern people (homo sapiens sapiens) have been around, the relative importance of competition vs. competition has varied very widely, through time and from society to society. Physical fossil, archaeological, and written evidence, along with carefully-developed and -refined hypotheses to explain this evidence, suggest that the balance between competition and cooperation that had been developed over most of those 200,000 years within the typical societies of most of those years ?that being a group of 20 to 40 individuals ?began to be disrupted at, or shortly before, the end of the last glacial period (about 11,000 years ago) when climate change (and changes in plants and animals accompanying it) led to the discovery and development of agriculture, which led, over the next 5,000 years, to the human invention of "improvements" in farm land ?the key example is often thought to be irrigation systems ?with such improvements either leading to or supporting the entirely new concept of the ownership of land. The concept of land ownership seems to have been well-established at, or soon after, the beginning of "civilization" (literally" "cityization"), defined by very small cities (sites of the food-storage that agriculture enabled, and eventually of palaces, temples, the offices of managing bureaucrats) that were surrounded by and supported by the agricultural fields. In such places ?which by 5500 years ago had become the first true states ?the balance had unquestionably shifted in favor of competition: a managing elite minority competed with a physically-working majority, and won the competition (part of the time at least) by either compelling or persuading (or both) the majority to give part of the (literal) fruits of its labor to the ruling/managing minority. A thousand years later, at the beginning of the Bronze Age (bronze being the first metal used to develop superior edged weapons, by those who had access to the materials for making it and knowledge of the technology) aggressive warfare for profit (as opposed to border conflicts) began, and one result of this was a further tilt in favor of competition, in the form of the routine enslavement of prisoners and their use as "instrumenti voci" (a Classical Roman term for slaves, which means literally "talking tools"). Within this framework of "civilizations" ?which co-existed with (an increasingly-small world-wide number of) band societies (most of them hunter-gatherer: food-collecting) ?until less than one hundred years ago (! : a very few remain, but are, as far as we know, at the point of disappearance)! Within both the group of societies at all the various stages of "civilized" development (from primitive agricultural to advanced industrial), there's variation from society to society (and also within sub-societies within the society: religious or utopian or specialized-industrial or academic communities, for example) of the degree of competitiveness versus cooperation. Just the widely differing North American Indian societies that existed at the time of Columbus's arrival ?the "500 Nations" ?displayed a range of competitive versus cooperative behaviors, including one that gives an example of the difficulty of precisely defining competition versus cooperation: the fierce competition to be the most generous giver to the society known as "potlatch". I think the real answer to your question lies in understanding why small societies were successful for a total of more than 3 million years of human-ancestral (hominid) life, and 195,000-plus years of completely modern human life; and why the much larger societies that began to appear six thousand or so years ago have begun to seem to be wildly unsuccessful, both in terms of the human happiness they provide, and in their adaptiveness to the continuing existence of the human species. Thinking about this shouldn't produce despair, because movement through time ?deep history ?always proceeds in a wave-like way, with experimental excursions from side to side, some in maladaptive directions that are then followed by corrections, always accompanying forward progress.

Interview with an anthropologist?

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can anyone suggest an interview with an anthropologist, this is kind of urgent

I'd absolutely suggest an interview with an anthropologist! (I think it's urgent for _everyone_!)

Your query is fascinating, and I'd be happy to do what I can, on this forum.

If you want a more private interview than that, though, you might first want to check Wikipedia or similar to get an idea of what area of anthropology you're interested in: paleoanthropology, cultural anthropology, etc.. Then: the various department curators at the American Museum of Natural History used to take phone questions, and maybe still do. They are some of the top scholars in the world, though, and you should take the opportunity to talk to them very seriously, and prepare for it. If you want to see some interviews online, google "Marvin Harris" (Harris, chair of the Columbia University anthropology department, was a deeply humanistic, but objective, guy who founded the anthropological school called cultural materialism, wrote the standard but unique anthropological advanced college text (_The Rise of Anthropological Theory_), and also wrote three books for general audiences (_Cannibals and Kings_, very serious and concerned , and _Our Kind_, fatter and lighter (all two- and three-page chapters, because his publishers asked him to write about everything he knew). Harris's last book, published the year he died (2000 or 2002, close as I can recall) is called _Theories of Culture in a Post-Modern Age_. If your urgent issue has anything to do with confusion arising from what you've heard or been taught in the past 30 years of academic .... (can't remember the polite term for b-s) ... Harris takes on, one by one, each of the varieties of cultural interpretation of that bountiful substance. Besides Harris, Cambridge D-Space has about 50 years worth of filmed and taped interviews with leading anthropologists online, set up so you can watch either an excerpt or the whole interview. This would be truly great, except that the anthropology department at Cambridge leans heavily towards the "functionalist" school, which avoids the big picture (which cultural materialism emphatically doesn't ... I'm neither primarily a cultural materialist nor a functionalist, by the way).

Of course, as you probably know, you can go to most good college or university website, look up the faculty list, and get the e-mail address of an anthropologist. Or call the American Anthropology Association.

Go to a University near you and check in the Anthropology department. According to what type of Anthropologist that you'd like to interview, inform the department head or the secretary what your intentions are and ask if you might be able to talk to someone.

Why Filipinos are always insulting Koreans?

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My theory is that they are just envious. Korean are richer than them, they are whiter, etc...

Any group, that insults another group or individual, is attempting to place themselves on a higher level than their target.

By placing themselves in an exalted position where they feel that they can pronounce Judgements on others, they feel that they have elevated themselves to a social position, way above their targets.

Which, of course is not true.

It's only in their mind.

And the real basis of their actions, is for reasons, that they feel so inferior.

I am part filipina and I have never heard of any filipino insult koreans?

What kind of question is this?

How do you become an artifact AUTHENTICator?

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I am very much into Native American Artifacts and would like to know what steps must be taken to be a legit artifact authenticator.

the only way to determine if an artifact is genuine or fake is become a curator of a museum which involves obtaining a phd in either anthropology or art history. it should be understood that many of the great museums in the world still hold fakes within their collection and often it is quite difficult to spot the not.

There is no such thing as a "legit artifact authenticator," by authenticating artifacts you are perpetuating the idea that it is okay to loot and thereby destroy archaeological sites to find artifacts given superficial value by a grey market. Once an artifact is removed from it's primary context it will lose most of it's value to science. Plus you are being quite insensitive to the Native Americans whose ancestors made those artifacts. While archaeologists do dig and find things these artifacts would otherwise be destroyed by the roadway or pipeline that the archaeologist is digging in front of. Finally your authentication could support the illegal sale of artifacts and that could wind you up in hot water from the law.

If you really want to pay homage and do something creative I'd recommend you make your own projectile points, or other objects by imitating the style of the Native Americans you like. There are many books written on the subject of projectile point creation and the craftsmanship behind the bow and arrow shafts, and fewer, but still enough to let a lay person begin to learn how, to make other objects used by Native Americans.

Finally, unless you can be sure of the context (you dug it up) there is no way to say if an artifact is actually authentic. Therefore any arrowhead presented to you as real could have been made by a skilled replicator.

good luck gingerita

Victimization is most likely to occur when?

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is the answer a when a person is alone or in unfamiliar sorroundings b when a situation is resolved quickly c when thier is history of violence or d when a dispute is left unresolved

When you wear a t-shirt with a bright, red bull's-eye target, on your back...

Victimization occurs when:

1. One or more persons feel they are more entitled to something than any one else.

If you put one person in a room alone that one person can not victimize any body.

Now put two people in a room with nothing but a plate of food enough for one. All sorts of social phenomena starts to happen.

1. They fight over the food.

2. They share the food.

3. They divide the food according to size, wieght, age, sex, and social standing etc. etc.

4. The more aggressive of the two will try to dominate the other and try to establish "The Alpha" rule.

5. Both will begin to hoard. They begin to steal, trick, lie, or cheat to get more food.

All this could have been solved if there were enough food for both to begin with.

That is the case for everything in society today. Violence and victimization occurs when one person or a group feels they are deserving of something better than others. Exploitation to get at resources is nothing new. Cavemen did it. The animals do it all the time for their survival.

The trouble is we as human and as creatures of reasons tend to over aggressively exploit to get what we deem are necessary.

People had killed each other over food, money, job, love, and land. It it will keep on going until the human as a race is pure energy. Then we won't need those things any more.

Victimization is most likely to occur when an event tales place and you are left feeling the negative repercussions.

Characteristics of nomadic pastorial societies?

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CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY:

1.well organized goveernments

2.sedentary lifestyle

3.social organazation of clans and tribes

4.moved around alot

5.livestock was the only surplus

3 4 5

Are you reading Veiled Sentiments? That book is twisted. I know 3 and 4 are true. Maybe 5.

How come the Aztecs or Incas didn

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If these civilizations were so strong, how come they didn't event firearms? I think I know the answer, but I want to hear what other people think.

The only iron in the cultures was from meteorites. The copper, silver, and gold they used weren't strong enough for guns.

Sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal were known but it's a fussy formula to make black powder.

When the Native Americans finally got guns from the newcomers they became totally dependent on the Europeans. The Native Americans didn't have the industrial base to repairs and replace the guns or to mine the lead and make gunpowder. Even by 19876 at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, muskets were often preferred as mismatched cartridges could be broken down to powder and lead that a musket could use.

Perhaps the biggest reason was culture. Both groups didn't encourage initiative or individuality. Leonardo Da Vinci would wouldn't have done well. Alchemy the basis for chemistry and gunpowder never developed.. While there was lots of warfare it wasn't the European type. In the Americas it was among warriors where one gained fame and prestige and was a rite of passage. Simply look at the elaborate dress of the warriors. There's more culture then practically. Counting coup was purely American (getting close to slap of tough an opponet. Killing or shooting them counted much less) In Europe fighting was intended to kill. With the Aztecs it was to obtain prisoners for sacrifice.

Finally, both empires were relatively recent and had rolled over their opponents. In Europe there were many small states that were constantly fighting with each other and seeking to obtain an advantage. That encouraged innovation and technology.

Just the way it was! They didn't have the wheel either. Anyway, the use of firearms was only just getting into it's stride in China and the West at the time the Aztecs were being conquered. You may as well ask why the Arabs didn't invent gunpowder, or why the Chinese, or the Romans didn't invent a numerical system as simple and the one invented in India.

Clearly the Europeans who had the benefit of gaining technology from all of Asia and Africa as well, were more advanced. Perhaps the Aztecs would have eventually invented them but the Europeans conquered them first. Europeans developed shipping before Aztecs had any hope of inventing those things.

Uh,only ONE civilizations invented explosives: Chinese.

So you should also ask "Why didn't Europeans or Africans also discover explosives" rather than targetting those two civilizations.

They WERE strong. There's no reason to assume every strong civilization would invent firearms.

The concept wasn't in their minds yet. It was probably too early for them to discover this.

Racial origins of North Caucasians?

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Im very curious about the racial and genetic characteristics of the Chechens and other peoples of the Caucasus whos speak North Caucasian languages. If they do have common lineage with other "white" indo-european peoples then why do they speak unrelated languages(N Caucasian languages are agglutinative, unlike Indo-European toungues which are fusional)?

like Q said, language and skin color do not correlate. the true caucasians, that is speakers of the caucasus languages, have their origins extending back to the some of the ancient anatolian languages such as hattic and kaskian and perhaps hurrian.

Language groupings don't follow genetic groupings. It's as simple as that. Plus, we know that there was a European language group that preceded and was replaced by Indo-European (and Indo-European likely originated in the Caucasus region, for that matter--possibly from the Kurgan area. The pre-European language remains only in groups like the Basques.

UP survivors

..........Are Persians Asian?

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Geographically? Yes, they are. But how about racially?

Middle Eastern?

Asian?

Caucasian?

Iranian are persians and they are in fact considered Causcasians.. Afghani's are also considered Caucasians. Go to the east one country and the Arabs and considered Asian

caucasian. Most of the forefathers of Europe exited the near east from around this area over 10,000 years ago....Green and blue eyes and fair hair is not uncommon and many have what is now considered standard 'European' mtdna (H,T, J etc)or else the older haplogroups (pre-HV,JT) from which Euro dna branched off from.

Depends on what you consider 'Asian'

If you mean "people living the non-European areas of Eurasia" yes.

If you mean "far eastern Asian" no.

'Race' is a comp0letely arbitrary concept, with no reality.

Arabs are also caucasion. Asian isn't a race. Obviously it is a continent. That is one problem in using things like African American and Asian American.

Racially they are considered Caucasian.

Nope, we are Caucasian.

Yes really.

What racial phenotype woud be rarer? in your opinion?

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a north or central european who looks like a north african or arabic/mid eastern? or a arabic mid eastern or north african who looks northern european? what woud be rarer?

I think an Arabic mid eastern or north African who looks northern European, usually dark genes are more prominent.

I think a mid eastern person who looks Northern european would be more rare, there are some middle eastern people who have green or blue eyes but they still don't exactly look like a Norwegian, on the other hand in Europe they have found small amounts of DNA from the middle east, in European populations Tomas Jefferson had DNA similar to that of an Egyptian even though he was of Welsh origins, in an ancient grave in Denmark they found the remains of an arab man, and of course the Jews have been in Europe for a very long time and some intermarrying both ways took place

Do you think that the lack of

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I've wondered this. it's important to realize that Survival of the fittest does not mean the same thing for a civilized people as it does for other animals. We don't yet understand all the traits that contribute to our own survival and it's possible that some of those that might be weeded out by natural selection could prove useful in the future.

Will our medicine adn other practices mean that individuals who would not normally survive, grow and procreate? yes. Is that bad for the species? I'm not sure. In my experience those with the best genes tend toward others with the best genes and those with the worst tend to the worst so I think there will be a core of people that have the qualities needed for survival in tough times should civilization collapse.

My real concern is the weight of carrying all those people with bad genes causing the collapse. OTOH with medicine able to identify and fix the most obvious problems in the near future it may never be an issue at all and natural selction will progress beneath the surface, operating on the parts of the genome we leave alone or don't understand.

BTW there is recent evidence that the rate of mutation in humans has increased mostly due to the surge in population in the last 5000 years

The survival of the fittest is still in effect. However the definition of "fittest" has changed & no longer applies to strictly physical fitness. The fittest now adapt to cultural changes rather than survival of harsh environments.

No doubt advances in culture & medicine have allowed many that in the past would not have survived long enough to reproduce to do so. However, physical robustness is no longer a major survival factor. Perhaps the existence of those in need of help tends to increase empathy among our evolving culture(s). Certainly diseases like diabetes would have doomed many major contributers to our culture to a short & unproductive life in the past.

Not having survival of the fittest causes would mean no natural selection though mate choice and environment.

Though there always will be mate choice, so some natural selection is occurring. Also there is some natural selection occurring in people who have such genes making them unable to survive certain circumstances, such as genes causing mutations at birth making them unable to live.

But that obviously is significantly less natural selection then we've had before, and is affecting us. Two negative things are happening due to the lessening of natural selection: Increased mutations left to exist in world, and our species not evolving as much in a specific direction.

The increase in mutations can be helpful because it increase diversity, which will help combat diseases, it will often be curbed if it gets to far out of hand by the mate selection we still have. Our species not evolving isn't very harmful because we are surviving in our environment and have very little competition to face.

Overall the decrease in natural selection will not affect us significantly because the more harmful genes will still be eliminated through natural selection. And it will increase diversity to help us have better chances to evolve in the future during a time of pressure.

It depends on how you explain harmful. On one hand, it is, as by keeping people alive who by natural selection would have not survived we are in a sense preventing our own evolution and any further development of our species. However, the lack of survival of the fittest could be said to be beneficial to society as it gives us something that other creatures do not have, more of a conscious perhaps? I'm not sure if that helps but that would be my opinion on the matter.