MsContessa Forum Posts (1,227)

RE: Anonymous messages

Live outside yourself

RE: Quotes, passages, words or wisdom

You are only confined by the walls
that you build yourself......

RE: Reversing direction : a Tale of Two Situations

If a man/woman just sees candy that is all they are after and that is their choice. There are men/women looking for pearls too. What we have to deduce .... are we a pearl attracted to candy ... that’s when the problems arise.

RE: Reversing direction : a Tale of Two Situations

You are so right. However, sometimes when people have been hurt they put a hard shell around themselves. It takes a very special and patient man to break it down bit by bit. To them, falling in love is very a vulnerable, fearful and exposing process so it’s easier not to deal with it. Everyone should take the chance to love with all their heart!

RE: where ...when... and who to date?

If I was interested in forming a relationship then I would meet offline ASAP.
You never get to know anyone unless you meet them.. body language is about 90% communications so the spoken word means so little in comparison. That’s just me!

RE: Boasting

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson

RE: What place do you want to be in your current or future relationship?

Yes! Yes and yes

RE: A worrier .............

If you worry you die
If you don’t worry you die
So why worry?

RE: Grandson on the way...

Thank you Jac, I am chuffed and so excited to have come joint first as I never win anything. I gracefully accept half of the nappy but in the interest of good spirit, I would like to share my half with all the other contributors to this post.

RE: Grandson on the way...

New life is a precious gift.. well done!

RE: Grandson on the way...

Congrats Glamorous Gran!

8lb 4oz... 6:10am
Jack is good Tharus name, if she changes her mind...
Enjoy!

Self-absorption

Not at all Jac..!

Self-absorption

Self-absorption

Very interesting!

Self-absorption

Discuss!

RE: Why do everyone want a rich partner ?

Those that believe happiness can be found in
material things will seek out a rich partner to take care of them..
However, most rich people know the value of money (that’s why they have it) so they can be quiet reluctant to part with it.. Rich is not defined as generous!
I would be too independent to expect someone else to take care of me. Happiness comes from inside yourself and is non material...

RE: can there be love after 45?

If you are open and ready to love,
it can come into your life at any age..

RE: Is the concept of a one-child and two-child family policy upsetting to anyone else?

Reply to Rizlard....

RE: Is the concept of a one-child and two-child family policy upsetting to anyone else?

What you say is very true. In Ireland, during the famine, families were very large (maybe 12-15 children) due to the low survival rate. Now, Ireland is a prosperous country and the average family has fallen to 2 children!
This phenomenon also occurs in the animal world!!

RE: Indoctrination

Agree! I think parents are not only the guardians of their children they are also the guardians of the countries of their residence. Unlike adults, children have no life experiences. They need to be initiated into some form of primary worldview regarding values such as trust, respect, caring, autonomy, responsibility, discipline
and democratic participation before they can make sense of the world themselves. It prepares then to navigate life's hurdles in a more informed and seamless way!

If this is not happening in the home they will forms their worldviews on the street from their peers or alone in their bedrooms from the Internet. Most religious sects and others are aware that these young adults become quiet spiritual and a vacuum arises... ripe for the picking to become indoctrinated with any worldviews!!!

Political correctness is making puppets and zombies out of all of us!!

RE: Indoctrination

Your post is full of contradictions... you complain of kids having no direction...
For the most part, Indoctrination is introducing a value system, your value system, to your children. How can children have values otherwise? They can change it themselves as they get older. What you are talking about is brainwashing which is a system that is highly objectionable..! I would look at indoctrination as a benefit to the receiver and brainwashing a benefit to the giver....!

RE: Indoctrination

This is brainwashing which is not indoctrination! Similar but the aims are very different!

RE: Indoctrination

I suspect it would be very difficult to indoctrinate any adult and getting more difficult to indoctrinate children!

RE: Income & expenditure!

Nail on head MollyB

RE: Income & expenditure!

In reality, the only people that can claim to be “Rich” are those that never worked.
They have never had the headache of paying for a mortgage. They have reared their own children. They have money left over....
Middle income workers are the least prosperous in society. They graft so hard just to get by.... they get nothing for free... They pay through the nose so that others can live...

RE: I want to start a family

You need a good bank balance!

RE: Can you really say you fully enjoyed life?

Life is like a cup of Tea... it's about how you make it

RE: Are there any hypocrites here who is either pro-death penalty or anti-multiculturalism?

I think that the word multiculturalism, in itself, is a controversial word.
It sets people apart and illuminates difference. Perhaps, we should
look at similarities in people rather than difference.

Does the death penalty really deter crime. 75% of prisoners have a mental health issue so who cares?
Society has lost its capacity to care and concentrates on not knowing when enough is enough!!

RE: Talk therapy

You are so right. Once you can raise above the agendas!

RE: Talk therapy

I do not think it is about qualification only, empathy and connection plays a much bigger!