I'm a creationist. Evolution seems to be mostly a series of random mutations, caused by breaks in the genetic code caused by innumerable X-factors. We know more about autism and ADHD now that we did 20 or 30 years ago, hence the prevalence of these conditions, even though they've likely been around for decades.
@
thatsforubama-- Gladly.
Any Democrat-run city has its problems. A Long Island, NY middle school recently banned all balls on its playground. Another school implemented something called "shadow tag", to keep kids from getting hurt running around. These are the same people who say America's kids are getting fat, right? Chicago's crime and corruption are legendary. St. Louis is a toilet. New Orleans still hasn't revovered from Katrina. Biloxi barely has its LRT trains back up and running, and last I heard there are still huge gaps in much of the track.These are the same peolI live next door to Memphis, and it's a circus. I could handle a mid-sized burg like Jonesboro, maybe, even if the rent is a bit on the steep side. But the social opportunities are unparalleled.
@WWWWolf-- You can read more of my stories
here. Maybe you'll find one more to your liking.
I advice you to get professional help and talk to someone who has studied psychology.
I have studied psychology. They tried forcing me into counseling, as I said. I went in for a preliminary appointment and quickly realized it was a ploy to palm me off on someone else, when it would have been far easier and less expensive to handle the dispute in-house. I was then told I needed to pay for the
real session, and it was all I could do not to tell that little pinhead at judicial affairs to go stick it in his bald monkey ass. Even if I'd shelled out the $500, they would have come up with more hoops for me to jump through. I have also studied on the Sixth Amendment and copyright law. The copy editor who levied the charge was not present during my hearing and never questioned once. That sounds suspicious to me. Having my ex's dad the lawyer in my corner would have been a huge help, but I'd ruined that by making a mess of things with her.
Seriously...Tell us these rules.
I tried that before, and I got mocked roundly at ED. "
Duh...hurr, hurr, hurrr--hims is know less about wimmins than ChrisChan!" But if you want to read them, they're at my
blog (2/15/11-- "The Unwritten Rules of a Successful College Relationship"). Dating in college is just peculiar. It's comparable to a sexual Ponzi scheme--the men on campus outnumber the available women into the neighboring town maybe 2 to one, so there's a lot of competition, and you really have to make the cut. I guess I didn't. I really wonder how many couples successfully
make the transition from "college" relationship
to "real word" commitment
. Damn few, I wager.
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You really think everyone is out to get you? ... the fact that all of these people share common cause implies the fault lies with you, not them. One or two are outliers, more than that are statistics.
They why are the punishments so severe? You turn in a bad column, you get fired, kicked out of school, and none of your former coworkers are allowed to talk to you, ever again, in perpetuity. You talk about your feelings with a System girl, she drops out of your life for a month--a week, maybe ten days would be more than sufficient, I think. You make one mistake handling a customer, the boss freaks out and skips town, leaving the business to fall apart. I would consider these behaviors excessive. Yet no one says one bad word about the people who act like this.
If you really think that negative reviews are hurting your business... why don't you either try giving them a non-patronizing response for once and politely ask them what you could improve?
I tried that. I said "specific criticisms...issue, page, panel". They ignored that and kept yammering on about vagaries the colors and the speech bubbles , or spouting insults like "
himses work sucks" and "
him is not can draw" and "hims is bad because hims is not think like we is do".
I bet if I had asked you five years ago what your future will be like in five years, you would have said the same thing.
No, five years ago I
had the shop, nearly ready to open for business, and my idiot brother was locked away in jail. My life was finally going great. And then things changed. One of my partners started talking smack about the other on some stupid Topix forum, dissolving the friendship and the business, then His Stupidness came back and picked up right where he left off. So, once again, I reiterate:
change is bad. It just brings misery and wreck, who needs it?
