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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
gentlepaws: the Nazis look like boy scouts. For every Israeli killed, they in turn kill over a hundred Palestinians, children included. Today they bombed a school.

It seems as though the whole world has given them carte blanche to commit genocide for fear that anyone that speaks against Israel will be called an anti-Semite.

Israel has lost all my respect. Just think for a minute if the situation was reversed. What would happen with world opinion ?


Israel basically gets a moral carte blanche because of Nazi Germany and their association with religious myth (for the ignorant masses, that is; for the educated, the same standards of justice apply to everyone, including descendants of concentration camp victims). Not a matter of anti-semitism; it's about being pro-justice.


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
Mankind_: Hi Ambrose

Happy New Year,
I wish you that you achieve your desires in 2009.
Have you ever tried the Law of Attraction personally?


To a degree. The thing is we've all had many experiences that are relevant to its claims. For instance, I've had days where all that was in my head were miserable thoughts and worries - and GOOD things happened to me, in contradiction to this so-called law. And I've had times where I had mainly positive thoughts and expectations, and they didn't bear fruit. My provisional conclusion is that there exists no ability of our minds to materially affect reality, except through physical actions. If we could actually make reality bend to our wishes in this solipsistic sense, that would allow contradictory outcomes as (for instance) different people envision the same events (an example being the aforementioned "Bachelor" where 25 women who believed in practicing LOA wanted the same thing. Who wins?).

That being said, one might gain a lot by employing some of the (less mystical) aspects of the Law of Attraction - for example, being aware of the negative effects of our negative thoughts (how self-defeating prophecies can often become reality), and the power of positive thinking.



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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
dsmidiman: Your correct, Chemistry is probably the wrong word to use, A better term would be physical attraction or "does she/he make you warm for thier form".... lol
Chemistry is about the warm fuzzy feeling one gets with simply holding hands or looking into the other one's eyes. Chemistry is about the warm comforting and secure feeling that comes with snuggling on the couch together to read a book or watch a movie. Chemistry is what can make sex so darn great but sex most certainly is not the major component of Chemistry.


Or perhaps the most notable manifestation of it?

I can - barely - imagine sexual chemistry sans all the other components of what attracts us to another (which I think is what "chemistry" truly refers to), but I think it would be awfully transitory, and not nearly as intense/satisfying as with someone with whom we experience the more "holistic" chemistry.wave here's to you


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
Sommerauer71: I am struggling with what you are wondering about.

Chemistry is not just about sex.


thumbs up head banger


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
gingerb: Well, I think feeling exactly the same way all the time would be rather absurd, and not an ideal at all. Different emotions seem entirely appropriate - if not inescapably attached - to different circumstances. Would you truly not wish to experience the special joy of (say) a wonderful lovemaking session, a hike to the top of a gorgeous mountain, or an exhilarating ski run - as opposed to the emotions generated by being stuck in traffic, dragging yourself out of bed Monday morning, or enduring the death of a close friend?

Stability cannot sensibly refer to a "monotonal" emotional state - that would be the province of zombies.

I would agree very much with what you are saying here, but would go further, and say that mental and emotional instability is an inability to express appropriate emotions consistant with the occasion.

For instance it would be showing instability in our emotional expression to smile if you were angry or being beaten or tortured, just as it would be wrong to not be able to express a feeling of joy with a whoop or laugh or shout or scream.

Many of the natural responses that small children have are actually appropriate responses emotionally to various situations, and many people spend most of their parental lives, taming down or eradicating these emotional responses in them, to socialise them, something I believe is wrong and screws people up in later life.

Many of the successful methods used to correct mental instability and emotional instability in adults, is to make them scream and cry and shout and do ridiculous things that make them laugh. They are also taught to re-live painful memories and express the appropriate responses in order to get better, even if what they express appears extreme.

I think that if one needs to shout, or dance around the kitchen, or scream, or beat hell out of a set of drums, cry, laugh or whatever the feeling inside you dictates, then it is appropriate to do it at that time, in keeping with what your holistic self needs to stay emotionally healthy.


Yes, Ginger, that's what I was getting at. Different emotional states are appropriate for different circumstances. Thanks for spelling it out so well.head banger hug


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
Sommerauer71: I agree with JB, love is a drama in itself, we do become addicted to these feelings, especially at first, and yes, when a relationship begins to diminish then it is hard, but then it depends on how the people involved deal with it, if I felt my relationship was diminishing and he was losing interest, then I would ask him.

Wild horses will not make a person be with me if he does not want to be and I would be foolish to think otherwise. However much it hurts me.

And GG, is a lucky woman.


She'll be happy to learn that. blushing laugh

Which raises an issue for another thread, methinks - the role of luck in relationships. When I consider the number of factors that had to fall into place in order to have even met her (one improbability: I didn't include faceless people in my searches - except that ONE time...and I found her), it's fairly mind-blowing.

I think the key thing about diminishing excitement (and that generally means "sexual excitement," the diminishment of which is probably nearly inevitable for most) is not to draw the inference that one is valuing the other person less. As I wrote elsewhere, the chemistry between individuals consists of many elements - sexual chemistry being only one of them. I think it's likely in an evolving healthy relationship that while sexual desire may wane a bit, other desires (chemistry elements) will increase/improve.


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
Mankind_: Hi there,

I am a believer that the LAW OF ATTRACTION works. Please share your experiences and knowledge about the LAW OF ATTRACTION as this universe has enough to give us everything that we have desire to have in our possessions and achieve our dreams.


Interesting - in the another thread about the "Bachelor," one of the contestants was a strong believer in said law. She envisioned being married to the bachelor, and (I believe) even cut out photos of him and pinned them up with the headline that they would be married.

She was rejected by him on the first night.


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
frozensolid: it's freezing @$$ !!


At this point, merely freezing temperatures sound like heaven to me....moping blues


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
kurt37: you know what im upset about / i take the time to send you a note or a im request and you never reply, what do you women think that your so much better, that theres a better guy than me / i know this may sound arrogant but , i am an honest to god true gentleman who if given a chance can show you what a real man can be like. i am not like any man you know i promise you that. its hard for me to send a nore and the least any of you can do is reply or am i just not good enough 4 u ? take a chance , what have you to lose / nothing.


I wonder if there's any guy here who doesn't believe he's a "real man," and that he could make the right woman incredibly happy.

I can see one possible problem - your writing is almost unreadable. Make the time and effort to clean it up, and you might get more and better responses.


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
Just got through -37C (-31 F) here in Manitoba, Canada.

Does any other Canadian ever have the impression that weather forecasters in Manitoba are falsely - even insidiously - optimistic in their predictions? It seems like every warming trend they predict never materializes. If I were more cynical, I might suspect that they're trying to prevent a mass southern migration....


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
jenae: I agree to a point, with you - Jason does appear to be a little quiet (or bland, if you prefer), but for me, that is part of the mystique and attractiveness about him. He doesn't come on' as a guy that thinks he's too "sexy" and too "hot" for the average. He comes off as being, warm, kind, considerate, attentive, and just, someone, that I know that I (myself) would appreciate being around.

The ole' saying goes, "it's alway's the quiet one's that make the hottest and best lover's"...


Well, you may be right - he may not be as dull as he seems sometimes (and my standards of dullness are probably rather more severe than those of most people). The jury's out on that one. He certainly appears fairly intelligent and well-spoken, with some sense of humor. He seems like someone I'd like for a friend (assuming he has a bit more edge than I'm currently observing).wave


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
sweetowen: Yes, but the whole point of that show was the older women competing against the younger women. Just can't have one for US!


That's true. I think that show would be fascinating - largely because of the different psychologies involved. Older people are generally more complex psychologically and have more awareness of the pratfalls of romance, so with the right people it could be extremely interesting, I'm thinking.




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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
DazzleYou: put glasses on him and I swear he would look like George Kistanza


laugh Well, he actually has worn glasses at times (he wears contacts usually). I seem to recall him having some advantages over George K...wave


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
Sommerauer71: It is dramatic yes and a feeling that we become addicted to.

I have learnt from the negatives from my marriage and my last long relationship, because it was something that I knew I had played my part in.

Which takes me back to acceptance, accepting that any relationship is not usually the fault of one party, it takes two to make a relationship work and two to make one fail.

My ex husband left me for woman ten years younger than me, I could have sat in that misery for years, emotional stability and intelligence made me face up to the part I played in that break up and it did, it was not all of his fault, he ran to another for comfort and I stayed alone. Because I knew I had to, to recover. I did. But I hold no issue with him and his partner now, we are quite the nuclear family with us all getting along nicely.

That is emotional stability, acceptance. Being tooled enough to know that we can and will recover. The negatives are there when it goes wrong, but we need to feel the negatives to learn and recover.


Right - and I've always been amazed by - and admire you for - that accomplishment. Few people can pull that off (my love, gg, is one of them).

JB made an excellent point on another thread a day or so ago about the addictive side of the "love drama." Drama in general creates entertainment, excitement, and often a feeling of powerful bonding. That's the plus (potentially addictive) side. It can be hard to see the excitement in a relationship diminishing, so there can be a temptation to artificially maintain it through unhealthy or unnatural machinations.

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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
sweetowen: I just wish they'd come out with a show geared more toward our age group. Why do you have to be young, handsome/beautiful, & wealthy to qualify for these shows??


I think a show featuring attractive middle-aged people would be VERY well-received (there was that show with the tennis star which featured older women). In any case, there certainly exist forty year olds who could put many if not all those ladies to shame. A few of those young ladies look awfully old to me (I suspect smoking).wave


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
sweetowen: Nothing wrong with thinning hair. But I honestly didn't notice that he was thinning out. I guess I was just too busy looking at the rest of him...


scold laugh Yeah, Sweet, it hasn't reached the point where it's seriously affecting his looks. In another decade, however...

Still, for many women, apparently, there are more important things than full hair. Thank Zeus!!wow! uh oh! laugh wave


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
SexyAttorney: Would you rather be wealthy and live to be 50 OR be lower middle class and live to be 100?


Middle Class. The only happiness studies I've seen show that the impact of wealth on happiness levels off somewhere in middle class (and may even begin to decrease with increasing wealth, but I'm not sure if I'm remembering that correctly).

You know that saying "If you have your health, you have everything"? Well, another 50 years (assuming quality) is a lot of extra health.laugh wave


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
jenae: Jason has, let me list the ways: 1. Looks, 2. Beautiful hair 3. Beautiful eyes, 4. Beautiful lips and smile 5. Beautiful body
Shall I go on, and on, and on ? ?

But, bald is beautiful too! And, you also look good, sir!..


I'm glad to see some women think thinning hair is beautiful!blushing


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
jenae: Did anyone view The Bachelor (Jason Mesnick) on ABC, last night? OMG, Isn't he just about the most gorgeous man God ever put on this earth, or what?

Does anyone feel the same way that I feel? Did you think there was any bachelorette on there, that was even close to be deserving of this man?

And, then at the end of the show, they brought Deann back? She dumped him once!. I surely hope he doesn't pick her to be his wife...

I know, I watch entirely too much TV.. But, he is so handsome, sexy and lovable.. AND, the way he treats his son, is just amazing.. You can just feel the love and passion in this man's heart, body and soul..


My main problem with the guy - and probably Deanna's as well - would be his apparent blandness. Not a lot of edge to him (which I would require in a mate).

It's funny how people see attractiveness so differently. My SO thinks he's rather homely. I think he has rather nice features (and he's beefed up considerably over last year). He seems like a VERY nice guy - definitely someone "emotionally stable" (per Sommer's thread).


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Ambrose2007 Badger, South Dakota USA
Sommerauer71: Ah, you have been succint there Jeff, and you raise good points.

I am an emotional person, in that I feel, so joy, passion, smiling, being happy is part of my daily life, I am that way, so in that I glean enjoyment from something as simple as walking down the street, sadness and upset are part of that day as well, all of the emotions that I feel, I embrace, none of them are bad emotions to me, they are part of life, my life.

So when I say, I am the same, it is not monotonal, it is the way I am, I feel and hurt like the next person, it is just that I am tooled enough to be able to deal with them.


Right, Sommer, and that's what I assumed was the case - much like what Laura was saying.head banger hug


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