It just seems you don't like women. That's the impression I get from your post.
Everyone has a right to change their mind, men and women. If you are dating or involved with women who excuse being unaccountable by saying women have the right to change their minds, then find a different type of woman. Not all women use this ploy.
It's really you, not women in general, why you have this problem.
My belief is that you get out of school what you put into it. I liked to read and read a great deal on my own. I rarely did homework or put much effort into school. Because I was more 'self educated,' I had good SAT scores but not a very high GPA. I want to college and university and earned a master's degree. My teachers didn't teach me a lot; I learned what I learned in school and out of school on my own initiative. Too many people think that you should go to school and it's up to the teacher what you learn; in reality, it is up to you what you learn. My high school taught the typical subjects: English, math, science, etc., as well as many electives, such as languges, art, music, etc.
I don't have any positive memorable teachers, but there are a few I did not like at all, usually the most popular ones: they play to the crowd and are more concerned about being popular teachers than being good teacher.
Mandela was a very great man. The greatest of his generation, I don't know. Others are great in other ways. But a very great man indeed. The world should have more of such men and women.
I wonder what you guys would say about Abraham Lincoln's face if he were a modern day politician. Why does it matter what a politician looks like? Isn't the important thing how they do their job?
I missed it too. What's surprising is that things can get so down and dirty over a subject like smoking. What's next, vegetarianism? Bet that debate could get really ugly....
Some animals and some human beings, yes. It is unhealthy to love someone who is harmful or toxic to you. It is healthy to love an animal who creates warmth and peace and security in your life as opposed to a human who does just the opposite. I think the presumption that people should always come before animals is based on the fact that each and every human has more value to anyone and everyone than an animal does. Humans often to terrible things to other people, whilst an animal may do no harm. It is not healthy to love someone who does harm to you; therefore, if there is an animal in your life doing no harm, it is healty to love the animal more than the human, or instead of the human.
There isn't anything to be afraid of. In fact, based on what I read and hear about the US these days, it's such a scary place, I wouldn't want to be there.
I did it once, ten years ago and have never looked back. I'm still out there, wandering around the world. But it was what I always wanted, it wasn't something I just thought about doing sometimes. It is not a lifestyle for most people. The people I meet who have done something similar do it for a year or two or three and then go back home and resume their normal life.
Let me try to help you with an analogy that is actually appropriate. If you have been reading your witch hunt thread, that would be helpful.
Conspiracy theories are like witch hunts. People were accused of witchcraft because something happened that people didn't understand, didn't understand how or why it happened. The cultures of that time (and some present day ones apparently) believing in the devil, people being naturally prone to paranoia and fear, and believing that witches existed as cohorts of the devil, when something happened people didn't understand, something bad and possibly frightening, witchcraft was seen as the culprit. It would be the explanation for occurences that were otherwise unexplainable. So people were accused of witchcraft and of engineering the bad, frightening event.
People who were accused of witchcraft could not prove they weren't witches. There was no way to prove they weren't witches because you cannot prove a negative. They couldn't prove they weren't practicing witchcraft; they were guilty until proven innocent and could not prove their innocence because there wasn't any way to prove it. Witches don't exist, we know now, but then they were believed to be real; but how can you prove you are not something that doesn't even exist if people want to believe it exists? So thousands of people were executed for being something we now know never existed.
In a conspiracy theory situation, something happens that people don't understand, something bad, harmful, and frightening. For example, people cannot understand how three buildings collapsed as they did during the 9/11 event. If you look at any conspiracy, it is a situation where people cannot understnd how it could have happened unless there was some sort of covert activity causing it to happen. People do not understand how this world wide recession could have happened,so, as people did ascribing bad events to witchcraft, people today ascribe this type of thing to a conspiracy of individuals with evil intentions. There is no way to prove there is no conspiracy because you cannot prove a negative. However, the people who choose to believe it was a conspiracy don't need proof to believe in the conspiracy because, simply, they believe in conspiracies in the same way people believed in witchcraft: if something bad happens that we don't understand,and we feel helpless in the face of these events and like victims, it must be a conspiracy by some bad, evil entity.
Sure, there were probably old women and even men who were unsavory, back in the days of witchcraft, and maybe they did harmful things to others, but they weren't performing witchcraft. And there weren't covens of witches conspiring against all the good and decent people.
Sure there are people today who conspire to do certain things, but small potatoes in reality. The problem is that people who believe in conspiracy theories today believe in large, complex organizations putting together a conspiracy that is wide ranging and includes many people, and yet all of these people never let on about the conspiracy and there is never any tangible, empirical proof found. It's all spectulation and pointing fingers, just as it was during the witch hunts in the old times.
Actually, logically, that's a fallacious argument. I am not being narrow minded; I am being logical. The belief that the world was flat is not a conspiracy and it is not a logical analogy for this situation; i.e., it is not a reasonable comparison.
I don't know the specifics of witch hunts over the world or time, but I am very familiar with the Salem Witch Trials in the US in the late 1600's, and many men were hanged as well as women.
One of the reasons it is mostly women, in general, as I have read is because societies around the world throughout time are male centered societies. Women are far more vulnerable. Also, it tended to be more elderly women who were accused of witchcraft, the most vulernable of all women as to their desirability and value in male dominated societies. I think the fact it is mostly women is that men dominate societies and men don't trust or understand women. Also, women turn on other women with far more alacrity than men turn on men. So, with both men and woman turning on women.....
Actually, your inability to use any logical reasoning skills and your apparently limited intelligence have disabled you and you are unable to see reality and have sunk into paranoid delusions. Your own ignorance is monumental.
My preference is to not smoke. Most people don't nowadays. And most people don't want to be around smokers, especially not date them. You severely limit the potential number of people who will be interested in dating you if you smoke. Smoking is just passe.
"The wide distribution of the practice of witch-hunts in geographically and culturally separated societies (Europe, Africa, India, New Guinea) since the 1960s has triggered interest in the anthropological background of this behaviour. The belief in magic and divination, and attempts to use magic to influence personal well-being (to increase life, win love, etc.) are human cultural universals.
Belief in witchcraft has been shown to have similarities in societies throughout the world. It presents a framework to explain the occurrence of otherwise random misfortunes such as sickness or death, and the witch sorcerer provides an image of evil. Reports on indigenous practices in the Americas, Asia and Africa collected during the early modern age of exploration have indeed been taken to suggest that not just the belief in witchcraft but also the periodic outbreak of witch-hunts are a human cultural universal. "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
If you are watching mostly American television, that's really your problem. There is as much on television from the UK as there is from America. Depends on what choices you make. I watch very little of what comes from America and a great deal that comes from the UK. Even when I lived in America I watched more television from the UK than from America.
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