JeanKimberley Forum Posts (7,499)

RE: Do animals have soul?

perhaps we humans don't have souls?

RE: Does welfare promote laziness?

social security a ponzi scheme... People are lazy or people are not lazy in every endeavor in life.

It is a myth to think that people that are lazy go on welfare or that people on welfare become lazy.

When it comes to tax dollars used to help individuals then there is a mass amount of stupid opinions by the uninformed with a "blame the victim" mentality.

some welfare programs work, some don't. when you have a mother of 6 children all under the age of 10 years as an example - we all want to say, why did she have some many children, where is the father in this situation to help out or the fathers, and we want to punish her and the children by saying she needs to get a job and support them, not the tax payer.

The reality is - she is working full time at a menial job and it is not enough, or because the children need her so much that she can't get full time hours, or an employer that is willing to pay a good wage. The fathers are dead beat dads cause they say that the new boyfriend should pay for their children. The children through no fault of their own need to be sheltered, and educated - so the welfare programs that help out.

does that make this mother and the majority of those that are on welfare lazy?

again, some are and some are not...... it has no relationship. Welfare programs work or they don't work. Attributing characteristics of humans and blaming the victim is just uninformed.

RE: hidden talent, or seemingly useless skill.

I understand that there are a few people that can "see in color" that is, when they read words in print they see them in as colors

RE: Would you date someone with a mental illness? (Please answer)

you would really like the book by Dr. Martha Stout - the Psychopath Next Door.

She outlines in her book that about 1 in 25 are psychopaths - that is incapable of having empathy for another human - incapable of feeling love therefore having any guilty feelings over their behavior to others - not all of them commit murder, and some are very successful in jobs and social standing in the communities which makes them more dangerous than the ones that act out violently and criminally.

RE: Does welfare promote laziness?

NO RELATIONSHIP at all. people are lazy or they are not.

Social security is a form of social welfare. Public schools education is a form of social welfare.....

I rest my case.

RE: Would you date someone with a mental illness? (Please answer)

Anything extreme and untreated or untreatable - paranoid schizophrenia, sociopaths, someone experiencing destructive delusions, compulsive liars.....

there are enough crazy people in the world that are my friends and we share the same illusions about life, however, I don't like to hang around with peeps who might want to set me on fire because voices in their head told them to.

RE: Does welfare promote laziness?

there is no co-relationship between social welfare and laziness.

Some people are lazy and some people are not. There economic class is not a factor.

Now if the question do some social welfare programs work and some don't.... that is a better questions.

People though, in my opinion are their own worst enemy. And no good deed goes unpunished.

RE: hidden talent, or seemingly useless skill.

just like musical talents, or a mind for math or the flexibility of limbs.

I am like 75% of the population that can curl my tongue

I am like 10% of the population with above average IQ

I am tone deaf, however I am told that I should sing SOLO (So low no one can hear me). or TENOR - 10 or so miles from anyone listening.

RE: Would you date someone with a mental illness? (Please answer)

I don't buy the premise that "I can't afford to emotionally give more than I emotionally receive" - we all have emotional capacities as we have mental capacities.

I am suggesting that the rules I make about dating are like some of the rules I use in life - I don't use a knife in an electric toaster when it is plugged in, a pay my bills and my taxes, a follow the rules of the road while driving, I don't drive distracted.... each of these "rules" are about living a long, happy, healthy life....

Does this mean that I am ensured a long, safe, happy life? NO. Things happen that are out of our control - however, I am comfortable following some basic rules and my dating rule is to avoid dating someone who is seriously mentally ill.

RE: hidden talent, or seemingly useless skill.

who would have thought???

I have a great sense of direction.... although most people tell me where to go.

RE: Would you date someone with a mental illness? (Please answer)

You ask good questions - it is a complex situation and I was really responding to a portion of your comments regarding the mental health treatment profession.

I do not think that mental health is static and it is fascinating now that the USA is working on gene mapping the brain - we are coming more to an understanding about ourselves and others.

As to the original poll question - emotionally I would respond - no I would not date someone that suffers from an serious mental illness - if I can make a choice before the emotions become involved - just as I would prefer to date someone who is financially independent -

since I do not know the man or have not yet fallen in love with this man, why not create some rules now to ensure that I don't meet heartache later when my emotions are involved.

Although the heart wants what the heart wants.

RE: Hey America about that IOU............

Congestion Charge Fines..... I think the US might want to take that to court or to the appeals court before they (we) pay it.... the US might have been overcharged....

RE: Interview the person below

not a big fan - although I do like Robert Frost and Bobby Burns

Are you living up to your potential?

RE: Do you think the world would be better?

no just think of all the gifts that language brings to each of us that step outside our own language and learn from another.....

I understand the Inuits (Northern Canada) have 10 or 12 words for the word snow. Some languages are called romance languages because the words and flow incorporate feelings and spiritual understanding into their language.

I read that english is the language most often used when talking about money and commerce.....

Each language is rich in history, tradition, understanding about the world around us and who we are a humans....

not one language one world.

RE: Would you date someone with a mental illness? (Please answer)

I wondered by you were considered such an attract to women type man.....

RE: Would you date someone with a mental illness? (Please answer)

like any profession there are a wide range of competent to incompetent. I often believe that they go into this psychiatry or psychology to figure out what wrong with themselves, and by the time they finish that have either totally accepted their behavior as normal, or they are around so many mentally ill persons that the bizarre behavior looks normal after a while.

I think that most people forget that social deviants are now in the DSM whatever and about 1 in 25 people in the USA are under that category.... according to a few "experts" in the field.

luckily I am protected by my tinfoilhat......

RE: Interview the person below

I drink so much strong coffee that my chest hair goes on the inside.....

would you care if your love partner smoked?

RE: Tired of online dating.........

hang in there - just when you think you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. It is difficult to filter out all those that are just using the internet as a play toy.

RE: Who sent you mail last ?

sure anyone from Scotland is close enough!

RE: Do animals have soul?

there are a group of apes that whose leaders are the female, all the males are subservient to her...... I thought that would amuse you Obstinance -

and a group of lions that enjoy swimming all the time.

RE: Does it matter to you where the partners money come from?

Yes it does matter, at least to me.

RE: Who sent you mail last ?

I am still waiting for some, any.... just one.... anyone out there????

Prefer Scottish gentleman.

RE: Made in Britain

made in England - my father.....

RE: Bad manners

and it's outright unacceptable behavior.

RE: Interview the person below

I haven't been to a lot of the eastern coast yet.... so this Cemetery would be on my list.

the square root of 10 is.....somewhere between 3 and 4 according to google search. I just concentrate more on grey roots not square roots....



Does your city, town, locale have a zoo?

RE: He wants more from me.

thanks for the laugh Boban!

RE: Interview the person below

yes if I give you back some change......

Would you like to visit Graceland?

RE: Is wealth become a criteria to be respected in society ?

It could just be my opinion but I think that there is a class society in England and a little more subtle in Canada and depending on where you are in America.

We humans are flawed. Nice shiny things impress us even when it is not gold just an illusion. and to academics they value the education of others, those in the law profession, or those that value their own character place a hight value on others of the same. But wealth something that we want enough of it ourselves to be comfortable and happy.

RE: Interview the person below

I am afraid of so many things, not to the point that they interfere with my ability to do things but I sure feel the fear. I think I have a lot of courage too, so I might feel the fear and do it anyway - like drive in rush hour traffic.

do you have a pet?

RE: Which Bible character describes you best?

sing along everyone.... so who wrote the book of love....