Melatonin is not prescription here. 1 grain about half an hour before sleeping is workable if you read a book. It comes in time-released versions of 5 grains--I see no use in time released. The apparent function is to remove the troublesome thoughts of the day keeping you up. If it hasn't worked or you failed to read or find some other way of finding pleasant thoughts, take another and read again. It's natural and there seem to be no side effects, though some say it might reduce the body's natural production of melatonin..
Given your poor results on the poll, you left out the majority opinion: "Neither or most." Not atypical of a professional survey, which is why surveys lie.
Beauty is symmetry. It's not always attractive (I can think of some actresses of the past who just didn't do it for me). Attractive is in the eye of the beholder.
I hear a lot of both sides of the modern group think going on here.Men often cry during sad movies involving children, like new from the Ukraine. They don't cry for mercy because men can't get it that way; women can sometimes. Try thinking, people.
Cremation. I think the loyal human cells in my body deserve to die with me rather than be left to the tender mercies of the 90% of cells in my body that aren't really mine (they are 90% by number not by mass or size). Decomposition favors the riffraff, I prefer to cut their celebration short..
How many atoms are there in a soccer ball? Can't be calculated, the number changes from day to day as well as from ball to ball. That's the reason the concept of soccer ball is in your head and not in the universe otherwise.
What did they drink then? Not beer in the Middle East. And you couldn't drink the water then. All ages drank watered wine. <Sorry for repeating but I lost my quote.>
Mao was a thug who took Allied supplies to fight the Japanese, didn't do much of that, then used what he was given to fight the rightful government. I was stationed on Taiwan during Vietnam, and still have a contact there. Taiwanese no longer want to be called Chinese and our current weak government causes them much concern.
To help her with what she needs to take you'd need to determine what she wants to be. I think that was about the age I told my daughter that if she didn't have a preference she was going to be a programmer because that was the thing I was most up on at the time. She decided she wanted to be a doctor, and did graduate from medical school. Then married one instead of becoming one.
A $2 Powerball ticket once a week is my inoculation against really gambling. I do feel bad about letting the government sell me these tickets, though. They're supposed to outlaw such things.
Actually, it is a life support system now that pay phones aren't available everywhere if your car breaks down. However, before this thing, we staff officers had walkie-talkies. The colonels called them bricks (same size and just a weight you carry around much like an anchor)--so did I. I tend to think of cellphones mostly in the same light. I do not usually take calls on it and don't give the number out.
Apparently this is an American thing. They've computerized the electric meter on the house, in the same sense as "smart phones." I am sure the "benefits" will reach all of you soon. I doubt there is anything good in it for the customer.
I seem to have the same problem in the local County elections. But really, galrads, you need more details. I looked at Wiki, so I know what the 5 ballots are about; however, it appears you are complaining about the Italian phrasing of the ballots. Not that I speak modern Italian.
Do YOU know what "civilized" means? It comes from the root for city. Are you sure that the qualities of a city dweller are positive things for men to be like? Once upon a time they were better than the drifting tribes--but now?
Really, you make a distinction between the "apparent conventional truth" and the "ultimate Truth?" Unless you are distinguishing between the "truth" as published and any reasoned version of truth you are unclear. Meditation is distinct from theorizing? Speculation is only different in that it is lightly done. Since the ultimate truth cannot be realized through the senses, I assume you have a direct line to God.
Asking what the truth is is like asking what the answer to all things is, in a way. Thing is, the oath is the courts sums up the truth as far as we can handle it: "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" as you are able to determine that. There is an underlying reality; we aren't capable of quite taking it all in; but like a certain English teacher I once said, "we all have our interpretations of a text and like arrows on a target some are closer to dead center than others but none are ever perfect." The best proof of being true is coherence--things have to fit together.
Times that should have been scary would include a taxi ride in Saigon where the handles on the doors didn't work. But the antiaircraft fire aversion maneuver by by a certain pilot scared me the most--you don't stand an AC-130 gunship on its nose but he came close--he'd been a member of a C-130 acro team called The Four Horsemen we were told later. It wasn't even a very close shot that night; he was just proving a point to the observer who called the break who'd said if he said "accurate" to do his best. I liked Taiwan the best because, at least then, it was the only place in the world that liked American GIs better than American tourists. I lived off-base in England and Thailand. I wasn't stationed in the Philippines just had long down times there in C-5s, but would have brought a young lady back her but she couldn't come as a tourist and I wasn't sure what she'd do once she got here. She got sent to Japan.
I keep putting this off cause I'll forget something. One of my favorite USAF tours was Taiwan. It was the only place in the world that the GI seemed more important to the people than the American tourist. I lived off-base in Thailand. The Baht was then 20 to the dollar but the problem was that things like air conditioning were many times more expensive in terms of dollars (I think it's now 40 Baht to the dollar and I expect that air conditioning cost even more in dollars). This affects my evaluation of moving to Taiwan. I spent three years in England. Married one. Don't know why because I already knew it wasn't the place was built up to be. Actually it's a lot like the idiocy on our east coast north of Florida.
I finally caught your reference to ABBA, a group I definitely liked. Wish you had said "who is your favorite Swede?" A "be" word doesn't take the objective.
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RE: insomnia and hypersomnia
Melatonin is not prescription here. 1 grain about half an hour before sleeping is workable if you read a book. It comes in time-released versions of 5 grains--I see no use in time released. The apparent function is to remove the troublesome thoughts of the day keeping you up. If it hasn't worked or you failed to read or find some other way of finding pleasant thoughts, take another and read again. It's natural and there seem to be no side effects, though some say it might reduce the body's natural production of melatonin..