You are very sweet Merriweather, but I take my time to warm to people in real life. Ask Oslo. She knows. Your comments on here bring me a lot of joy and hope for the world too you know.
Depends on which country you are in if you want to talk about education. Standards and subjects taught are different from one part of the world to another.
I actually met the man who set the standards for education in britain for over the last 15 years, primary and secondary education that is, and he was off his face on alcohol all of the time. So much for their standards when he was finsihed with it.
Found this in relation to something Boban was saying earlier.
Not that anyone would think of copper and Zinc as mind altering chemicals, but.........
"Copper and zinc are regarded as neurotransmitters and are in high concentrations in brain hippocampus. As a result elevated copper and depressed zinc have been associated with hyperactivity, attention deficit disorders, behavior disorders, and depression. Also, many of those labeled with autism and paranoid schizophrenia have elevated blood copper levels in addition to other biochemical imbalances." Wiki.
So not just preseciption drugs or illegal hard or soft drugs doing damage.........
If the whole thinking process is altered by something as simple as there being enough Copper, or not, in the bloodstream, then the balance is very delicate indeed as to whether we make good or bad decisions, or whether we can even think rationally or not.
It is why people joined contemplative orders years ago and lived in really isolated places.....It was to keep the mind pure, (free from outside influences), for higher forms of processing.
Also depends on your definition of reality........
If you are always looking for doom and gloom, then you are always going to find it..........You never seem to post anything else in these threads.........
People don't judge people on their disability. They judge people on how they handle their disability and their life.
Some disabled people wear their disability like a badge of a special club to be proud of, and some use it like a shield, thrusting it in the face of anyone who would get close. Yet others use it to have allowances made for bad behaviour or social failings. They allow it to define them, which is not healthy.
Everyone in this world has something wrong with them, whether they know it or not. Might be physical, might be mental. Important thing is to live your life anyway, by your own standards, and if others fit into that lifestyle then ok, and if not, then stop griping about it.
I think that depending on what state of mind we are in, we either make good decisions regarding the people we end up with, or we make bad decisions and have to repeat the experience with the next person.
I don't have a negative view of love. I have a sensible, practical view of it, (if I view it at all). I believe in human nature. It has been tried and tested in many circumstances and I have studied it in many ways, ( many subjects). Nothing negative about what is.
Life just is. People are just what they are. No accounting for what some of them believe, but I am interested in finding out, (purely for scientific reasons, and I am curious), with no judgements made. Simple interest in what makes human beings tick.
Hard to make sense of some of the stuff though, like why people believe it is love that drives them, or what convinces them that they are in love or not.......
You still haven't explained how you knew......... If you figure I am not worthy of your explaination, then that is ok too. There are very many people on here who don't answer me in threads.
I don't think I will be any more unpopular for my views here than I usually am, so will venture to say that it is never worth the pain or anguish to have mistaken someone else's lack of feelings for love........
Human beings are not capable of living their lives without hurting someone. It would be an imposibility to expect that.
Coupled with the fact that there is absolutely no true honesty in relationships, they are all doomed to failure in the "pleasing the other person forever" department. People act and react and cause pain. It is their nature.
Call it love or whatever you like, but it is just an aberration.
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RE: What would you do?
You are very sweet Merriweather, but I take my time to warm to people in real life. Ask Oslo. She knows. Your comments on here bring me a lot of joy and hope for the world too you know.