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In the book, born to run, the author talks about how Geronimo would lead his guerilla fighters against the US soldiers and let them chase him back into the canyons in Mexico, where he would vanish, and so would his pursuers, because the army would get lost, caught in flash floods, attacked by animals, snakes or die of starvation or thirst. He was great at letting nature dispose of people who were after him...the Barrancas are where a number of famous people have vanished, never to be heard from again, like Ambrose Bierce....
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Thank you so much!! My husband rescued a pitbull off the street and the first days we had her three guys kicked in our back door at midnight when my husband was at work, and she completely changed into a warrior! She burst out of her bed and took off after them as they ran back out and down the alley behind our house. I was terrified they would shoot her, and afraid she would get lost! I screamed her name, heard one of the guys screaming in pain then she raced back to me and got in front of me to protect me! I cried and cried, then called my husband and police. They all arrived so fast. Lucy stuck to me the whole time. This poor abandoned dog was willing to give everything to protect me. After that, for the next 15 years, she was my beloved companion. I miss her so much, she loved me unconditionally and with everything she was. I cant believe how loyal and gentle she always was with everyone, though she had no reason to trust humans. I still love her with all my heart and will always rescue pitties in her honor. Lucy, I hope I see you again some day, I still love you so much...
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I hated history in school, because it was just some exhausted teacher droning dates in a monotone...until an incredible substitute teacher from Stanford University showed up and, because it was the 60s, she was on fire about black history. She made the entire class get up during a lecture on slave shipping and made us squeeze into the same space slaves would occupy for 20 minutes to get an idea of how cramped and terrifying it would have been. We were laughing and jostling for a few minutes and then it became really uncomfortable, then unbearable. Two guys started shoving, one girl started crying. She told us to go back to our seats, didn't say anything, just let us sit and think about it. That was a minute that changed my entire life. I could not get enough history after that, spent hours reading, looking into the past, searching out 1st person memoirs...
One person who brought to life for just a moment what it meant to be a person of that color, in that time and place. I wish I knew who she was so I could tell her that she influenced me more than any other person in my life...
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I was a kid in the 60s, and there was a chicken pox epidemic that swept through our neighborhood in practically 24 hours, we ALL got it, about 27 kids. I luckily only had a couple of pox scabs, but my best friend was quite literally covered from head to toe, she even had 2 on her tongue!! Her mother was terrified she would be completely scarred for life because they itched her to death. It was the big days of doctors tranquilizing housewives to complete imbecility, so her mom gave her some dope to keep her from scratching...the only great thing was that, since we ALL had it, we got to play together, and no one was confined to the house, except for 2 kids who were very ill. You can die even from chicken pox. Every single one of them got shingles later too. I didn't, but I developed an auto immune disorder by 35, which was like waking up sick one morning, and never getting better. Vaccines are worth the risk!!
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I have unfortunately come across several survival stories of both men and women begging for help from strangers and being refused...
There was always an impossibly large amount of money demanded, even when it was obvious the person in need was injured, or robbed, etc. In some parts of the world, cultural superstition keeps people from helping, or poverty of both spirit and body. Some people are just vicious. A very famous case was a young woman alone on a cruise who vanished off the boat, was heard begging and screaming for help, seen being dragged away by strange men who were not passengers off the boat and out of a store nearby on land..
A military man in a brothel even had her tell him her name and beg him to help contact her parents, and he didn't report it for over a year, because he didn't want to get in trouble!! Nice guy, right?
Her family found a picture years later on an Internet sex room that they are sure is her, but could never trace it.
Human trafficking is still practiced all over the world, and cruise ships are very easy pickings for drugging girls alone...
If anyone ever asks you for help, you will save a life, even if you make a phone call! Someone may be drugged against their will, or have a head injury...don't assume they are crazy or "just a junkie". I have dragged parks workers over to an unconscious woman under a bush, who was there ignored by a ton of people in the middle the morning, why? Doesn't matter, she had been assaulted and needed help! the police came, thankfully. I have been driving down a local road and saw a woman pushed out of the moving truck onto the street in front me. I was the only person who pulled over..I found a man mowing his lawn to guard her with me until the police came, because the truck came back for more violence. Yes, I was afraid, and I was not armed, but I hope that someone would do it for my loved ones. I have had to practically force others to help out, but many people are afraid. I am not now...I learned to grit my teeth and stand up, it made me a better person. just a story that is true, because if I can do it, anybody can!!!
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Didn't you read it? They climbed down the bank to help pull them. They were behind them, not with them. They were not "useless". All people seem to do is try and troll through the comments looking for someone to bully. What's the point of it for you? What happened today that has upset you? You lash out like someone in pain. If you are, I am sorry, and I hope whatever it is will be resolved for you. I know life is unfair, sometimes we are battered to the edge. Please read the book, "Deep Survival" by Laurence Gonzales, an extremely readable book about incidents where people had a accident or injury (boating, hiking, flying, etc.), and how they survived, and more importantly, that a combination of mental, physical and emotional decisions that were consciously, or even unconsciously made by the survivor. He is very good at making the stories gripping and also breaks down what made people live when others all around them perished. I was fascinated and learned a huge amount of having a survivors mindset. Check it out...
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I agree. I love getting interested in a subject, then finding tons of interesting videos on it! In my ancient days (when dinosaurs walked the earth!), you had to go to a local library, which never had what you were looking for, or write to a New York Bookstore to get books on the subject. As a kid, I always wanted to know everything, and it was extremely frustrating to never be able to get any information!!! Now, I google continuously, it drives everyone nuts, but to me, it's a gold mine!!!
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"Geronimo used to skedaddle into the copper canyons when on the run from the US Calvery, so did his protege, the Apache Kid. "By the time you saw the Apache Kid, it was entirely too late." Pursuing them into the maze of canyons meant the risk of never coming out again. John Burke, a US Calvery Captain barely survived an unsuccessful pursuit of Geronimo into the canyons. After days of baking in the sun, soldiers would welcome the relief of a few dark clouds. Within minutes, they would be trapped in a surge of water as powerful as a fire hose, scrambling desperately to escape the slippery rock walls. That's exactly how another Apache rebel named Massai wiped out an entire calvery squad. By bringing them into a shallow gorge just in time to be swept away by a mountain cloudburst. The Apache chief Vitorio used to lead calvery troops on a cat and mouse chase deep in the canyons, then lie in wait by the only waterhole. Lost, and crazed by heat, they would rather risk a quick bullet to the head than a slow choking from a thirst thickened tongue "...Christopher Mcdougall, Born To Run.
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I started this thing with some friends ten years ago of consciously doing one good deed a day...I forget why, but it became a habit to the point that I HAVE to do at least one a day. .it calms me down, for some reason, so I don't care what someone thinks about it...I feel calm, they, hopefully, feel ok, and it isn't hurting anyone. I'm not talking about throwing 100 dollar bills at people, just things like helping someone carry something, go in front of me in line, reaching something they can't reach, or buying coffee for the person behind me....
Sometimes I get carried away and do stuff I can't afford, really, but it all works out, and I can honestly say that I have been extraordinarily lucky most of my life. I mean REALLY lucky, way beyond what I deserve...
I think the attitude is what matters, I have no investment in being "paid back" and don't care if people are mean or nice in return. Besides, extreme generosity causes people to feel embarrassed and resentful...that why I never, ever lend money. If I can help, I GIVE it, otherwise I don't. That way no one feels beholden or upset. It's a lot better for friendships...
I don't do anything I don't want to. I just say no and people learn not to harass me, because I'm completely beyond being embarrassed into doing something. If they bug me, I just tell them politely to get fucked, and they stop....
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My grandmother was bitten by a mad dog and had to have rabies shots in the stomach, as I remember. She said it was terribly painful! When we had an invasion of skunks under our house, we had a company come in to humanely remove them, and I had a lot of fun talking to the hard bitten wranglers who got wild animals moved. They all had great stories, and showed me a lot of scars! They all had to have rabies vaccines before they could work there. One guy handed me a big bucket one day and said, "don't take the lid off". It was very heavy. I held it up to my face trying to see what was inside. "What is it?" I asked, thinking squirrel, or armadillo. "Big rattlesnake" he said, laughing hysterically at the look on my face, an inch away from a huge, heavy rattler! Those guys had a great sense of humor. Since I didn't scream or drop the bucket, I passed some test and they were always incredibly nice to me after that. .I loved their adventures...
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I think some people are just making the point that the world does not exist to pamper do gooders and actively punish aholes. Sweet, kind and gentle people get run over and killed every day, that certainly do not deserve it, and selfish people get away with murder and mayhem most of their lives by finding new victims (every politician and movie producer pretty much). So, if you're altruistic, you will enjoy the act of helping someone and feeling happy about the fact that you made someone else happy, which is a reward in itself, and if you are selfish and narcissistic, only more and more one upmanship will bring your ego satisfaction, "winning" will be all that matters to you. This is often determined by how big of an amygdala you were born with. MRI studies on serial killers showed that they all had a damaged or shrunken amygdala, taking away empathy. Most of humanity is pretty much on the fence, ethically speaking, so doing good will have a ripple effect that spreads, as does nastiness. That's why crowds are so dangerous, happy one moment, then panicking or rioting the next. The people that stormed the capitol were mostly unbelieving of their own actions when away from the others, because they thought they were doing their own thing, when they were just part of a colony like ants.. People that "follow the crowd" usually have low self esteem and want to be part of whatever others are doing in hope of acceptance and care...so, basically, even with no heaven, hell or monetary rewards, caring and compassion generally have a more lasting and positive effects on your own mental health and those around you. If you affect others, it will be, at the very least, non negative and at best, uplifting and inspirational. I stand with those who have a personal code of ethics of my own, and never blindly follow anyone without serious reflection, which means I never follow at all. I personally like it that way and enjoy helping people and animals, everyone has a choice (except for those whose amygdala came out of the factory defective....).
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When my husband was in the hospital once and on a morphine drip pump, a night nurse told me in great detail how you could bypass the safety locks on the pump and kill someone with an overdose. He was extremely enthusiastic about it, and I guess my stunned expression as I listened to him (realizing I was leaving my unconscious husband alone with this nut for the nightshift) made him realize it wasn't something he should be bragging about. He hastily tried to make the story something he had "heard about, once, a LONG time ago!", but it was obvious he had personal knowledge...I wondered if he was also giving himself some of his patients "juice", since he had all the hallmarks of a longterm addict...
Because of this, I decided to stay with my husband when the guy was working, and showed up unexpectedly at other times.
I grew up around hospitals, and even if you don't have a practicing serial killer nurse, if you're in a hospital, you need a strong and healthy advocate you trust, to keep an eye on things for you. Mistakes happen all the time, just like in any business, and drugs supposed to be going to patients are often stolen, forgotten, or wrong. You never want to be helpless and unable to do anything when your life is on the line. ALWAYS make sure someone's got your back!
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Almost ALL these explosions were completely preventable! Lives were lost because management would not spend to make storage safe, cutting corners, and refusing to take their jobs seriously. If you ever watch "Air Disasters", in every case there are ridiculous mistakes made that causes a crash, killing thousands of people needlessly. The worst crashes, in my opinion, are when the crew ignores possible problems because the company insists on schedules being kept, no matter how unsafe it is. Always, human error will happen, so there must be someone who has the courage to speak up or take responsibility. You'd think that would be the company owners, but its usually the people who make the huge salaries working for them that neglect their work in order to have more and more productive spreadsheets of profit. I hope that in some future, humans will put other humans before profit, but I'm not holding my breath (or flying!)....
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He also had a habit of surrounding himself with very tall aides de camp, which pointed up the "little general" nickname, which was really more about his youth, not his height.
A great novel written from the point of view of Napoleon's first fiance is called Desiree. She was very young (14) and her older sister had already married the oldest brother, Joseph Bonaparte, who needed her dowry. Napoleon threw over Desiree for Josephine, needing political clout in Paris more than a large dowry.
Getting the last laugh, Desiree married a Marachel of France, who was adopted by the old house of Vasa in Sweden, ultimately becoming king, and Desiree, Queen. Her descendants are still the royal family of Sweden today.
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You have absolutely no evidence to back up your statements. insistence that bullying is only about disabilities etc. or that shaming is only applicable to certain situations is just labeling, which is simplistic. Psychologists, doctors and counselors could easily show examples of children who have no apparent "defects", who were bullied out of school. Many children are given invented faults by others (nicknames, about a perceived weakness is an example). To tell a child who is viciously bullied to just get over it is doing further damage. Some children with psychological damage that is severe at home or at school, cannot heal themselves. To blame them for not overcoming it is scapegoating. It also gives the bullies permission to continue to take their bullying to further levels. One reason there is so much attention paid to this issue today is because bullied children who cannot recover (the way you think they should) are proven to carry the damage into adulthood, self medicating with drugs, smoking or alcohol, having difficulty with relationships, or inflicting abuse on their own children to continue the cycle. Child and spousal abuse is shown to have its roots in bullying the abuser experienced as a child that was never addressed, stopped or healed. It is not weakness if someone cannot get over systematic efforts to destroy them. Please look up the effects of gaslighting, minimizing, narccisst parental abuse and scapegoating. I think you will horrified to learn that your attitude is common and leads to part of the reason there are so many people in the world that have severe anxiety issues. The issue of overcoming bullying is not simple, and to insist that there is a uniform solution that applies to everyone is naive.
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As a kid in the 60s, I woke up one night to explosions shaking our house. In the next street 6 or 7 cars had been set on fire and exploded, there was a huge fire at the apt. complex on the next street and complete panic. It was never revealed why or how it took place, although there were some groups in the area that were supposed to be members of a certain group, and in one ever came forward or talked about it. It wasn't even in the news, which was really weird. We lived in a quiet University town, right near the campus. It was a huge fire and destroyed a ton of vehicles and buildings, a bug deal, that no one ever solved....
It scared me for years to not know anything about what happened, just that a bomb went off right behind us and caused mass destruction of property. Luckily we didnt lose our house. Really scary and kept me a lifetime insomniac afterward. I still wake up constantly at night, just jumping out of my skin at loud sounds. I've tried everything but I think I'm permanently alarmed for life....
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It really under the wire, private citizens that have a lot of this stuff. Seriously. It's not the politicians or Rothschild family. It the guy that inherited a ton of money from his family's dollar General that started buying black market junk. You wouldn't believe some of the things I've seen in private hands. I went to this old lady's house once, she was in her nineties. She had traveled the world, collected stuff prewar. She had Buddha's that had probably come from the forbidden city. Huge things, stuff that should be in a museum, or back in China. She died, and guess what? Vanished...no one "knows" where this priceless giant Bhudda and screens, and ancient scrolls from the 1600s went to....
I saw two Van Gogh paintings in a museum in San Antonio. I used to go there on my lunch hour and stare at them because he was my favorite artist. They were small, only about 8 x 11 or so. One day, one of them was gone. I asked the director where they moved it. He told me they only had one, that there were never two! He didn't know I was there all the time. So either they sold it, or it's hanging in the janitors garage or something....
It's probably in the hands of a private collector who paid 40 mil.
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There is a book called captive, about two german settler brothers who were taken captive for several years, and when one was returned, he completely identified with the indians because he had been taken around 8 or 9 and went through his teen and young adult years with them, an extremely formative time. He was always very unhappy to go back to the thankless and constrained life of a farmer, and was considered an outsider by everyone around him, finally living most of the time in a cave outside of town until old age. I found this fascinating because I have family through marriage that lives in the exact area, and there are many stories passed down of indians trying to, or taking young children of all kinds. The tribe were not racially motivated, and healthy children were important to keep the tribes alive, so there were many Mexicans, black and european indians who intermarried with each other and considered themselves as indians. My mother is supposedly (we haven't gotten dna proof yet) half indian as a result of grandma falling for an indian at a reservation while her husband was working as a cowboy for a big ranch outside Dallas, Texas in the early 1920s. He was gone all the time, and I heard parts of this from grandma herself, who talked to me at length when I was a child about her best "friend" who was an indian. She obviously loved him and never got over it, as I heard about it many times, although she tried to disguise the identity of her friend. My mother DID always look like a central casting movie Indian all her life, she had black hair and eyes, was very tall and had high cheekbones and a hawk like nose. Everyone else was blond.....
Back then, it would have been disastrous to have had a child in a relationship
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Picasso was definitely complex, like most of us, but seemed more dedicated than anyone else to following his own path no matter what. I used to wonder endlessly how such beautiful and popular women could fall for him, but several of them said that when he decided to focus his attention, he was intensely giving and living and interested in everything about them. It fits a theory I've had for a long time, that the most sexy, alluring thing anyone can do to attract someone is to be completely fascinated by them, not be fascinating, but be fascinated! Nothing is more attractive than to anyone. When is the last time anyone you knew was completely enthralled by you? For most people, it never happens. Especially today, when our attentions are constantly interrupted and divided. It's something that cannot be faked well, either. What do you think? Of course, I'm not talking about crazy obsessed people, like stalkers, etc., but regular folks...
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To me, "On The Beach" is the most heartrending of all apocalyptic movies. Based on a novel by Nevil Shute, the only place left with survivors is Australia, and they know the radiation cloud is coming. People react in different ways, feeling intensely alone in their pain. The most shocking scene was when a submarine surfaces in San Fransico Bay, hoping that they have survivors, only to look through the telescopes at the empty streets and buildings...it made a huge impression on me at the time, since I lived next to San Francisco and the idea of it completely empty and deserted was truly shocking...during the film the sorrowful Australian tune "Waltzing Matilda", written after WWI and Gallipoli, weaves through the background, reminding us that an apocalypse had already happened for so many, long ago.
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If you lived in a world without humans, you would still find life extremely painful. Storms, droughts and blizzards kills millions of birds, fish and animals...diseases and painful accidents cause many animals to die slow, excruciating deaths. Some plants and trees are wiped out for various reasons, and primates have shown that they can be bullies, torturing other members of their troop to death, starting wars, being unbelievably cruel. Some other species do the same.
While we have visited terrible devastation on this planet, try not to globalize, assigning "all good", or, "all bad" monikers....life itself is beautiful and terrible. Accepting this is the basis of the oldest religion and the oldest inhabitants. . .
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I worked a couple of seasons on a terrible, terrible tv series called "Equal Justice", which was unbelievably bad. I died of boredom just being part of it. The weirdness was heightened by the fact that several of the regulars on the show were actually on the edge of becoming successful and famous, but I've never heard any of them ever admit to being any part of it. Sarah Jessica Parker was about to jump into the stratosphere with Sex and the City, and Joe Morton was going to be in some smash hit movies...
I think I saw a rerun once, and I couldn't even watch it, it was so awful. They had a bunch of "guest" directors who did not help the show, and spent all their time telling everyone about the last big thing they had done. Everyone was embarrassed by that turkey...
It's always been amazing to me that no matter what, there has to be some magical alchemy to film making, since no matter how many success "boxes" you check off, there has to be that perfect mix of people and timing that just comes together.
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Yellowstone erupting is the very least of your worries. 6,000 people a week in the US are killed by drunk drivers, every single week, and about five times that number are injured in accidents, usually caused by drugs or alcohol, but also by inattention or rage. Everytime you drive to the store you're in a critical situation a lot more likely to happen than a giant volcano, but people never want to believe that they'll get wiped out by some idiot on the road, or taken out by heart disease or cancer, which kills over 600,000 peoplein the USA alone, every. single. year.
People love worrying about the big, scary, unlikely scenarios and feel in control by "prepping" or living away from the supposed danger, but, honestly, if you're choking down a high fat diet with little to no excercise, you'd better pray for a super volcano, since you're already on very thin ice. At least with the super explosion you'll never know what hit you...
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I think you're born with addictive tendencies or you're not. I've known hundreds of people who were intensely addicted to many different things at the same time. Whether it was coffee, smoking, sex, dancing, whatever. If they did it, they couldn't stop and the activity would take over their life, Then something else would take its place. A drug addiction is a physical addiction, but if you don't have addictive tendencies, it's not as difficult to stop. For medical reasons, I've been on almost every opioid there is and was able to stop without problems, just because I was born without an addictive personality. It wasn't due to any great character or will power. I think its incredibly naive to assume all addictions and people are the same. Everyone is very different and rehabs only do things in one cookie cutter way, which works for almost no one, making people who are addictive by nature and physiology feel like utter failures. Too many of them go right back into their addiction, feeling hopeless. Assigning character values to the way we are made is futile and ridiculous. Some people will have a harder time, and for some it will be impossible, but it's not because they aren't trying. It's because they happened to be biomedically engineered that way by nature.
Many more people would be able to get off dangerous drugs if it were treated simply as a medical issue, and not one of character or will power. Taking someone who is extremely addictive off anything cold turkey will always fail, because they HAVE to replace it with something else. I've heard more sad stories than I can count from people who prayed, fasted, meditated, exercised and used therapy, who immediately went back on whatever they were taking because the pain of nothing was too hard. A lot of them died. A lot by suicide. Until the medical treatments stop making addiction a moral failing, there will always be an opioid crisis.
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Darkness Prevails
You know what? We are in some of the best times in history! I know it doesn't feel that way, and there are many places where it is certainly not true, but we have not gone through World War one, only to go through World War Two. We haven't had to watch our kids go into iron lungs from polio, or see the Spanish influenza wipe out half of every town in America. There are resources to help gay men and women not be beaten to death in small towns, legally, because they were "dangerous". We have more opportunities to make money and be independent because of the internet and, and, and...medicine!!! People are surviving longer, even with diabetes, hep C and cancer.
I hear what you're saying, but still want to help. If you want to feel bad, that's cool, I get that too.
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My mother (in 1961), was a fan of some old coot doctor, who was ANCIENT, and later, I learned, incompetent. He advised my mother to let me catch all childhood diseases because I would, "get them over with". Because of his outdated bull, i was left with heart damage, nerve damage and other health conditions that plague me even now (60 years old). He also smoked like a chimney, thinking it was healthful (shows you just what an idiot he was). My mother smoked along, thinking he MUST be right. It is almost hard to believe how he lasted...
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I hear you, but I disagree partly, because I've known a lot of people who gravitated to a niche they felt compelled to be part of. I knew a guy who was raised in 1960s El Paso, serious conservative community, never knew anything but barbers, but was "called" to be a hairdresser, and explore creative and artistic aspects of hair design. There are thousands of examples of people who did not fit in until they searched for their "real life" where they felt like themselves. Sure environment and training shape people, but many others become the opposite of everything expected...
I think every person has at least a thousand people, statistically, that they can live happily ever after with. Just like there are at least 9 people out there that look just like us, there are lots of folks out there who would make us happy...
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I visited Ferndale, California where Salems Lot was filmed, up near Humboldt, practically in Oregon. In the 70s, the town was practically unchanged from the 1800s, and the cemetary was a terrifying place up on a hill, even in broad daylight, it was incredibly creepy. The weather there is almost always cold, foggy and eerie. Even though Salems Lot was set back East, it was a perfect location for filming, and the whole town looked liked a haven for anything terrifying. It was impossible not to keep looking over your shoulder, especially as the town was supposed to be haunted by several ghosts in RL.
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I take lions mane everyday, and it's seriously like adderall. It really wakes your brain up! I read a ton of reviews on Amazon and everyone was raving about how amazing it is, and I am older, and getting slower, so I decided to try it, and it works! This got me interested in a bunch of other remedies, and found lettuce extract and kratom for arthritis pain, cinnamon and turmeric for cholesterol and blood pressure...in the last year I have been able to go off all my prescription meds (with the doctors approval)! All those prescriptions had side effects which were not good, so getting off them made me feel a LOT better. I started losing weight, and lost so much I went from a size 16 to a size 4! So I started running to get some muscle tone. I now run 8 miles a day! I am 60 years old and was told a year ago that my health was bad, I had a bad heart, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, rheumatoid arthritis and not to do too much....if I hadn't tried mushrooms, I'd be dead now. I've learned to ALWAYS look for other answers, even in the most unlikely places!. I hope someone reads this and gets inspired to look at alternatives. Doctors can be great, but don't always know what will work for us....
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@whiterabbit-wo7hw
😂😂 In the 70s, my mom worked full time, but made far less than a man in the same job. It really made her angry! She also was expected by my dad to get a good dinner for us every night, even though she didn't get home till five pm. One night when I was around 10, my dad made a (to him) hilarious comment about her cooking, and just looking at her, you could tell some no mans land had been crossed, she just said, "I'm never cooking for you again, I don't care what you do.", got up and left the room. What was fairly impressive is that she didn't! I mean not EVER. Not at thanksgiving or christmas or anything, ever till the day she died. She would buy us take out or fast food, let us do whatever in the kitchen as long as we cleaned up, but that was it. She and my dad came to some kind of agreement that she would mix up tuna and mayonnaise for tuna sandwiches, I guess it was too hard for him to open the cans, and until the day I moved out at 18, my dad came home from work every night, drank 4 scotches, and ate tuna sandwiches for dinner, and that's it. He would take her out to dinner quite a bit, and they stayed married for over 50 years, but my dad was always pretty careful after that. I had to learn to cook at age 10, and I still love cooking to this day.
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He was at Larabee studios in LA, recording his dangerous album. I was there all the time because my husband was a sound tech. He was very shy, but I had made friend with his chefs, two girls who cooked for him there. I would sit and eat and talk to them and he would come and go and say hi. It was just regular stuff, nothing exciting, just how are you, etc. He liked my husband, because he is a quiet guy, so I think he felt comfortable with him. They would just mumble to each other. You have to understand that he had NO life. His world was people treating him like a zoo animal. He was constantly stared at and asked for things. He seemed to want a normal life, but at the same time he had been a star for so long he had no clue how to be normal. It was very sad. This was in 91 or 93, I think. I always felt sorry for him. We could be laughing and gossiping and he would come in and everyone would stop. I think it must have been so horrible. I'm not in any way defending his choices, or anything. It was my impression of that time he was there.
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@jakejakec5977
I don't think, personally, that Prince was rude. I saw him a lot, and he was always quiet and soft spoken, even when asking for a favor. He never had huge bodyguards unless he was going out, because so many people stalked him, threatened him and wanted to meet him. I know that there are a lot of people who probably felt insulted because he didn't want to talk to them, but he was very used to being stared at, and just ignored it. He and his entourage always dressed up when going out, because they were always on show out in public. If they didn't, they would never hear the end of how they "didn't make an effort", or "looked terrible in real life". I was around a ton of big stars in the 90s, and you cannot imagine the horrendous things the average person would walk up and say to them. Most people just blurt out unbelievably rude opinions on the famous persons looks, clothes, life, partners and choices. It gets old, so stars are forced to keep a distance. They are also always being stalked by unbalanced persons, which they try to keep quiet about, because stalkers LOVE to think that they are noticed and talked about. If some guy was too close and staring obsessively at Prince, want them to leave before they did anything scary.
It's so easy to judge if you weren't there, but you can't imagine the awful crap they have to endure all the time. I was interested in show business when I started there, but I very quickly decided that the life, if you are successful at all, is awful, constricting and dangerous. You are never really alone, or safe. I just don't see how anyone could stand it...
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I'm not wrong, cowboys did love opium. There were a LOT of opium "palaces" in wild west cities like San Francisco, Oakland, up in the Sierra mountains and in many, many western towns, as the railroad, with its large working population of Chinese immigrants, brought a lot of eastern traditions to the old west. I have a library of hundreds of biographies and histories and opium and where, how and why it was taken, is in almost all of them, including Mrs. Wyatt Earp's memoir, when she talked about vices in the towns they lived...
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I didn't appreciate the power of water until I took a 2 hour nap during a rainstorm one day in San Antonio, Texas, and woke up to several phone calls from friends about the "disaster". Two blocks away, people were waiting for rescue from the roofs of their houses, and someone had died trying to save their dog suddenly swept away...two kids thought it was a good idea to put a raft in a nearby drainage ditch and "ride the rapids", but did not survive, due to the dangerous amounts of debris in the water and its speed. For some reason, our street was just a little higher than surrounding streets, even though water was coming through our bedroom ceiling. The most vivid memory I have is of giant, really giant, water roaches crawling up the walls outside after being driven out of their usual areas. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. I didn't know insects could get that big! I didn't think even a .357 would take them out!
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Jeanne Calment, who died at the age of 122 (up for dispute), claimed to have known Van Gogh, having sold him art supplies in their village. I think she actually appears in a film or movie at some point, talking about him. Can you imagine talking to someone who actually knew Van Gogh? He seems like an unreal icon today... he is my favorite artist, and and influenced my own life as an artist tremendously. I suffered from depression when young, and feel so much for anyone who walks that path. Learning to have compassion for ourselves, as well as others, and finding expression that relieves the pain of life, helps more than anything to navigate the lonely roads everyone must travel...that's why I love history so much, I realize I am not alone, that all human beings are in some way, scarred, and those scars are reminders of toughness that remains after the wound heals, we are stronger because of them, not just in spite of them. Just my opinion only, everyone has different ideas...
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Please accept my deepest sympathy for your losses, I cannot imagine a tragedy of such heart break! I remember reading about these events a long time ago and could hardly believe the carnage. Many children died from sleeping on the floor on mats, while some others were on higher bed frames which kept them from inhaling gas. When I was a kid, a natural gas explosion blew our school, on the very next street, to smithereens. It literally created a sound wave that actually knocked us out of bed. We had zero ability to know what to do! Our adults were afraid it was a nuclear bomb since we were in the middle of the 1960s cold war....everything so dramatic just wipes your brain, you keep trying to understand what's going on, while being terrified and having so idea what to do. The nuclear age films that told us to cover our heads and get under a table, etc., etc., was completely ludicrous since by the time you try that, its over....one minute you can be great, the next second, everything is just...gone.
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I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and heard since birth (1961) that any SECOND, San Francisco was going to have a repeat of 1906 and would fall into the Pacific...
There have been some nasty quakes over the years, but not the end of the world kind. A lot of people moved away, thinking it would save their lives, others just got into "prepping", and most just enjoyed living in a beautiful city. I was afraid of quakes, but learned over the years that it's more likely to get nailed by a LOT of other things. I've been in car accidents,had cancer, went through the LA riots, big fires, a tornado (in Texas), the 70s gas shortage, Y2K and was once faced by a crazy guy waving a gun around in a drunken rage. I hadn't worried about ANY of those things. My feeling since (especially since I lived through cancer, by far the worst and most likely to happen to the average person besides a heart attack) has been to just develop a resilience of character to deal with whatever comes your way and keep a sense of humor, it's more protective than thousands of packages of top ramen and stored weapons! Don't ruin your life adventure by dying a thousand imaginary deaths, it's a waste of time. Enjoy whatever you have as much as you can, and try to help others along the way...
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@ADCFproductions
Well, Mr. District Attorney, since I am apparently on the stand, I will testify that I opened my statement to immediately identify that the people who were going to watch the movie with me were "boys", who lived next door. That short description tells you who they were, what sex, and that they were young, without a lot of tiresome explanation, which I have to give now. Anyone reading it would assume that because I referred to them familiarly, I obviously knew them well enough to be on friendly terms to have invited them over to eat pizza with me and watch a movie. If I had not identified them as I did in my original post, someone might have been unclear as to who it was that was coming over and why it might be humorous that I walked them back to their house, even though it was just next door, then felt uneasy myself, as the adult, going back alone. It was meant as a mild anecdote about an experience I had. Does that satisfy the jury?
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Hoàng Nguyên
I hear what you're saying. My uncle was over there fighting at 19, and what he saw he would never speak of. When he came back he was 23 with a massive drinking addiction, joined a motorcycle club and hated most authority ever after. He was shy and kind. He passed away three days ago.
I'm so sorry that he was there, and so many lives were destroyed by whatever he was commanded to do. I know he hated himself and could not live with the pain. He never wanted to be there. I know he would tell you he wished we were never there, that he never would hurt any living creature, and that he would ask you to forgive him. I'm not asking you to forgive, because that's too much to ask. Just know that he was sorry, and I will be too, and I have tried to make my life about protecting and speaking for those with no voice, and stopping abuse. I love my country, but there are hateful elements that only thrive on hatred and war on the powerless, the disenfranchised, the easy targets.
I stand with humanity. Stop the violence.
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I think we idealize actors and sports figures because so many of them come from backgrounds like our own, and seem to be "one of us grunts"...it gives people the idea that they, too, may suddenly become rich, famous and beloved by millions, a superstar. The brilliant saviors of humanity and discoverers of scientific breakthrough are so much rarer, exalted and more like the Gods, not like us. One seems possible, the other is like a lightning bolt of chance. I'm not saying that it should be like that, just that most people tend to dream about not actually working for fame and fortune, just attaining it like a lottery win. A regular joe is someone more people relate to, they feel part of the person's life. People who are brilliant, driven and rare aren't as easy to copy. People are usually lazy, even with their choice of heros. They idealize the ones who are less perfect, because it seems closer to them. Sports figures and rock stars are perfect examples. They are usually insecure, flawed, not reliable, but still, up there getting all the good stuff. The doctors and scientists toiling in obscurity day in and day out, not the ones getting laid by supermodels and guzzling gallons of alcohol and drugs. It just seems more fun. To most people. Obviously, there are many who don't admire that, but the reality is that we reward those more who get away with things we wish we could, over being dedicated to humanity in general. Sad but true.
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@ohmbug10
I'm so glad you that you mentioned MASH, you have the perfect example, because it accurately portrayed the coping mechanism of humor, and I saw a really good documentary on the evolution of burlesque and vaudeville a few years ago, and Alan Alda's mom and dad (his dad was a fine actor too) were both traveling performers! Alda was interviewed and said he was raised on trains and in backstage rooms, hanging out with the strippers and comedians from babyhood. His incredible timing and dry asides came right from the source, it was second nature for him. I can't remember the name of the documentary, but it was fascinating and they interviewed a ton of people that had been showgirls and performers. Buster Keaton was another veteran of burlesque houses. His dad featured him when he was 3 or 4 in an insane act, where he threw Buster around the stage and he bounced back, unhurt, for more abuse. I've seen a clip or photos of it somewhere and it's kind of hard to imagine anyone thinking that up, carrying it out on their kid 4 times a day, or anyone, much less an audience, thinking it was hilarious, but it was pretty popular at the turn of the century. When Buster got to Hollywood, he pioneered a lot of the most extreme stunts, feeling that nothing was as bad as his childhood, I guess...
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I drove to Lubbock one weekend for a wedding, and as we drove through the night, the radio gave a warning (before the internet, early 1990s) and said a tornado had just touched down in Sterling Texas and to take cover, NOW. right about that time, we passed a sign that said, "Sterling, Texas, Welcome!" The town was locked down tight, the electricity was obviously down and after we drove through town, we discovered the tornado...it had passed the road in front of us without our seeing it (until we saw the tons of mud and debris all over the freeway) and when I rolled down the window and was peering out, lightning lit up the sky and I saw the tornado in a field waay too close to where we were. Constant lightning kept up with it and really weird tendrils were reaching out from the funnel and the noise was incredible. We just floored it to get out of there. We must have hit a hundred and I was totally panicking, because the entire sky was practically down on top of us, swirling and reaching down. My husband had stuff to do driving, avoiding all the crap in the road at high speed. We made it to this big very old hotel in downtown Lubbock (I can't remember the name, but it was historic) just as another tornado warning went off announcing a tornado touching down outside of town. I didn't even care anymore. I had been so scared I had nothing left. I went to the bar, somehow sneaked a gigantic drink up to my room and brooded in the bathtub with it until I was cross eyed. It was great! The rest of the wedding party was celebrating down there, but I went to bed and happily passed out...I've seen tornados since, but Lubbock has the biggest ones I've ever experienced....
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@jeffwang6460
It's weird, but you definitely make a good point. Most, not all, but most, people consider survival secondary to "winning", being first, etc. I wonder if that is a universal concept, or just among certain societies. From the videos I've seen on the space race, the Russian space program felt their astronauts were expendable, a little too expendable, in my opinion...those photos where they just airbrushed out all the ones that didn't achieve their objectives is pretty chilling...
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@Its me or whatever
Being sensitive is a gift! Only sensitive people are aware of what's going on around them all the time. Only sensitive people know instinctively if someone needs help or comfort. Only sensitive people have a higher grasp of intangible concepts, like music, art, literature and poetry. If someone gets on you for being, "too sensitive", they're just announcing that they are too stupid to know what's going on around them unless they're physically hit over the head with it. That they have a shrunken amygdala and a brain the size of a grain of bird seed. They can only be entertained with an inner tube and a banana peel....I'm thrilled when someone thinks I'm sensitive! That way I can avoid the abusers, cave men, dorks, jerks and assholes, because I can see them coming a mile away, and don't have to waste my time telling them to fuck off....
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@rudigerlust680
There have been tons of secret societies in every large college in the world forever, i don't know why the Bohemian Club is always singled out, it's not near as weird as a lot of other clubs of rich, powerful people. The higher up these guys go, the dumber their parties get...one minute they're setting oil prices around the world, the next, they are running around in togas, slapping each others butts and cheering wildly for no reason....I can't take any of those clubs seriously, besides, those guys don't rule the world, they just get paid to pretend they do, while the real sect is in Switzerland when it meets, and they are not the yelping frat boys running around and worshipping bad wood carvings of owls, it's a great sleight of hand, and the more everyone remains convinced that child sacrifice and torture is going on, the more you're helping distract everyone's attention off the actual moves and shakers. Did you think George Bush ever had an original thought in his whole life? Or Clinton? Get real...they just want cocaine and tons of women, they aren't running anything.
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@Thoomas2001
I'm glad you commented! I always want to hear how the people in the country of origin pronounce names we are familiar with, but may not have learned correctly.
I can't remember the name of the museum where most of his work is (do you know the name?), it was not large, but my niece was just overwhelmed, she is an artist and loved everything there. She also said the people were very nice and friendly (As a 6 year old, her mom married a man who loved to travel a great deal, and she went around the world with them until she was in her late teens. I loved hearing her views on where they went, she had an incredible gift for talking to anyone, and as a beautiful little girl from California, always attracted a lot of attention).
I am convinced if children could travel for a couple of years around the planet, they would become much better citizens of the world. The benefits would create interactive nations and understanding, instead of the ignorant xenophobia so prevalent today. I realize how expensive it would be, but I still think it would be great.
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My parents were given an old rolled up painting in the 60s that a friend who was a gallery owner found in a estate sale. He wasnt sure if it was worth anything, so they sent a photo of it to a New York museum, who then paid to have the painting crated and sent to them to be examined. It turned out that it was unsigned but painted in the 1700s and in a particularly style that made it valuable. I can't remember who the artist was but it turned out to be worth up to a million dollars. My sister spent the rest of her life trying to get that painting. She really wanted it, more than anything. Like it cast a spell over her. She eventually moved in with them after dumping a poor husband and finally getting named executor after my mom died of cancer and my dad got Alzheimer's...she literally spent her life going after this thing. It was really awful, since she was never happy, and bad luck seemed to ghost anyone who had it hanging in their house, plus all the haunting phenomena that seemed to follow it.
I don't think anything like that would bring anyone joy, no matter how much money it was worth. Ironically, even though she managed this giant con, she seemed to really hate everyone and became a hoarder, living on pills and alcohol in a ugly condo surrounded by junk. I lost touch with her after moving far away. I don't know where that painting is now, but I ended up being really lucky my entire life, doing more than I ever dreamed or deserved. It really isn't "good luck" to find some things or get too attached to some object. You might think being rich will solve your problems, but to be obsessed by anything is a big red flag that you're on the wrong path. There's nothing wrong with being rich, just never put it above others.
NOT trying to fight for that painting was the best decision I ever made...I've always felt that I missed a bullet...
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I had a weird skin disorder due to my immune system overacting, that caused a hideous raised rash all over my legs...in Summer in Texas, even if your legs are rotting off, you have to wear shorts or die from the heat and humidity, so wherever I went, for five years, I had to endure people coming up to me and screaming, "OMG!! Do you have leprosy????!!!". Especially when I was in the grocery store...I always wanted to scream, YES!! and rub my leg on them just to get them to leave me alone, but I never did...it never ceased to infuriate me that no one had ever taught any of those morons about common courtesy. When the rash finally faded away for some reason, I was still so traumatized by the rudeness that the pandemic was a great excuse to avoid people...I almost enjoyed it....
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I am so glad you have a strong survival instinct that was able to unconsciously activate personalities to befriend you and keep you together. It doesn't sound odd at all, I envy that, partly because my parents both came from non parent homes, one abandoned at an early age. Because of this, they had no idea at all how to raise kids, they were forced into adulthood at 8 or 9 years old. They wanted kids, to live a childhood thru, but could not handle any frustration about regular parent care of children. They weren't consciously cruel, just ignorant. Still, it was very weird and my sister and I competed so much for any notice that we haven't even spoken to each other in 20 years, it was too late to change our relationship in a way that worked for us. I used to wish I had a best invisible friend but never did. Of course, I did not suffer extreme abuse, just neglect, I'm so glad you had others (real, because they were a part of you) to endure with.
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@LadyCoyKoi
I knew a cool girl that used to work at our starbucks, and she got most of her groceries from the trash dumpsters of the ritzy grocery store in our city. She said they had a bakery, a salad bar, and made gourmet sandwiches fresh every single day, and only sold 1/8 of them, so threw out the rest, EVERY DAY! I was amazed and checked it out, she was right. They could not legally give the food to the homeless, but the employees put tons of it on trays and carefully set it down next to the dumpster and a crowd of people picked out what they wanted. They even had their favorite foods and it was incredible. The starving homeless people were more polite and considerate than the shoppers inside. My friend told me where to go and when to find the best stuff that people need when on the street. I thought about doing an article recently on this, because our homeless have increased this year 60%, and our city is representative of the entire country.
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My husbands friend Kurt was a wonderful young gay man from El Paso, Texas!!! Can you imagine??
He grew up having to hide or be killed, probably. He moved to San Antonio, Texas, which had a growing, wonderful community in the early 80s, of everyone! There is STILL a fantastic dance club there, called the Bonham Exchange, which welcomes everyone, and where my husband met Kurt. They worked together at a bookstore, became great friends, and when I met him, I loved him too, he was the sweetest guy and made people happy, just by being around.
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Try not to worry, the odds are much higher that you'll win the lottery. It is only recently that science has learned about the super volcano, and there is much information still unknown. It may not explode for a million years. There have been thousands of big quakes and changing geysers in the last 300 years and only now are people afraid that each one is the end. Read the book, "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers". It explains a lot, psychologically, about how too much information can make you a wreck. I grew up in the San Francisco bay area and all I heard was "the BIG ONE"!! I was nervous my entire childhood, thinking we were going to die. Every single week there would be an article about how the quake was overdue, any second, blah blah blah. That was over 30 years ago. All that worry was a complete waste! I did get cancer, and could have died, but I didn't die from that either. Trust me, live and enjoy every moment, every single day, it's a gift to be in love, have friends, children, animals. Be happy.
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WOW, you are seriously making my day! I am going to break the Amazon guys back with all the cartons of books he's going to be bringing to my door! I've always felt that I wouldn't have survived these last lockdown years without being able to lose myself in so many incredible memoirs and biographies, they really put things in perspective. I'm very excited that you are related to Daniel Boone, as well, because he was a big hero to my husband and I as kids, back in the 60s when the show introduced everyone to the coonskin cap and fantasy life of Disney's Fess Parker! I'm aware that it had nothing to do with real life, but really sparked an early interest in history. We are in San Antonio, and my husbands mom had a relative who died at the battle of the Alamo, like so many descendants here, and they were very big on history too. Have you considered writing about him? It would be so cool to have someone bring him into this era by comparingwhy it's still so important that we have keep heroes and ideals. You write so well, and you probably have some wonderful bits passed down through the family. I recently read a book called "Captive", about two young boys who were abducted by indians in the late 1800s in Fredricksburg, Texas, living as Indians for over 10 years, then were found and, unfortunately, sent back to their German relatives. Unfortunate, because, by then they identified completely as indian, and had nothing in common anymore with the values and beliefs of their original family. I was talking to my brother in law about it because all his relatives settled in the same area, and we found out they were related!! He had never heard of it! His mother is in her 90s, still sharp, and suddenly started telling us all these old events, it was thrilling! They were embarrassed by the boys after they returned, because of the "savage" reputation of the tribes, etc., so no one ever talked about it, trying to hide it away. I was so amazed. So much changed so fast in the 1900s, the war had thrown us into the industrial age so fast, and people who had never been to a town 20 miles away were suddenly in cars, going across country. Anyway, I love all that, I could never be bored by history! Thanks again, you changed a monotonous day for me, and this is so much to look forward to. Think about the writing, I'm sure I'm not the only person who has told you that, and perhaps you already are...let me know!
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@GarrishChristopherRobin777
My dad was a classic "mad man" in the 60s in San Francisco when I was growing up. He really adored my mom, and was completely terrified of her temper (she was half native American and half french creole, very, very scary when really pissed), but that didn't stop him from being susceptible to beautiful women. He was very romantic looking and Irish, so there were tons of "accidental" affairs. I grew up thinking it was normal, weird parent behavior. I think my mom was almost proud of his glamour for other people, so I get how guys like that can juggle families, they just love harems, and all the excitement of them. I'm not saying I approve or anything, just that it was normal life for me, so I didn't condemn it, not knowing anything different.
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I know! Reading that struck me for days! My mom was half native American Indian and French Creole, and my dad was French Irish, so I've always been fascinated by the history of America and Mexico. The early French trappers and mountain men would routinely live and marry into the tribes for the first hundred years or so of outside exploration of the country. It became discouraged when the "aquisition" of land to enrich Europeans meant trying to exterminate any people who wouldn't move off their tribal lands.
Obviously, there were still people (like my grandma!), who found Indians had a lot going for them, and got around the prejudice by passing off my mother as her husbands child, not her indian lover, which, in my opinion, was pretty pointless, since my mother from a baby looked so much like a movie cast Indian that without knowing her background, my sister and I nicknamed her "squaw"..(I know it's horrible, but our only info on Indians in the 1960s was tv western depictions...)
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I had a cousin like that. She was unbelievably charismatic, people always wanted to do things for her. Even as a little kid she was impossible to resist. Of course she started getting into trouble as a preteen, smoking, sleeping around, running away. She would show up at our house, and my mom, instead of turning her away as she insisted she would, would, in five minutes, be on her side, giving her money, etc.
She was so magnetic, it was impossible to resist. She continued to raise hell wherever she was, including during her 8 marriages (I'm not kidding!). She had two kids, started and ended several businesses and somehow stayed friends with her busloads of ex husbands...I haven't seen her in 30 years, but she has been happily married for years now to a multimillionaire and doing well. I always felt that she was very like Elizabeth Taylor, just too much of everything in one person...
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@christystewart4567
I think it was the Northridge, but always get them mixed up! I grew up in Palo Alto in the 60s and 70s, moved to Texas in 81, got married, got divorced, got married again (Texans are irresistible to me), and we moved to LA in 89 until 93, I think. My psychic aunt in Sacramento called me one day and said she had a vision of a bad quake that would injure or kill us unless we moved right NOW!. We wanted to go back to Texas anyway so we moved up the date and took off leaving almost half our stuff behind with friends or giving it away, because she had been right a number of times about weird events (I'm aware of how crazy this all sounds!)
A couple of weeks back in Texas and a big quake hit again and we glued ourselves to the tv coverage and saw a shot of our apt bldg on our old street on fire with a broken water main shooting up into the street! It was the quake where early commuters drove off a broken freeway in the dark and several people were crushed in apt collapses, I think maybe that was Northridge? I can't keep them straight. I just know in the late 80s, early 90s there were quakes practically every week, a 3.4, a 4, it just got scary. My girlfriend and I were shopping at that huge mall on La Cienega once, the one with the parking garage levels UNDER the mall, and while we were trying to find the car after too many margaritas, a moderate quake struck and every car alarm in the place went off! We completely panicked and were running around hysterically with that huge fricking mall teetering over our heads. I remembered a friend telling me how badly built parking garages are and we were hyperventilating with fear. We finally got the car and drove it like a race car to get out of there, swerving, cutting people off, honking, it was insane! Those days were kind of my Hunter S. Thompson years where we ran wild before getting back to "real life" in Texas. We are still married after almost 35 years (!), still in Texas but have the ranch, truck, dog lifestyle. We have a lot of laughs over those days but I'm still afraid of quakes!
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@Aaaaaaaalonika
I believe its, "paleoanthropology". Louis Leakey, who was born and raised in Kenya (died in 1972), and initiated as a young man into the Kikuyu tribes, was the first to believe that primates and early man influenced each other in some ways, and found the earliest bones ever found of humans in the Uldavue Gorge in East Africa. He was a real renaissance man, also a ornithologist (study of birds) and found enthusiastic joy in many different areas, leading to many criticizing him for not sticking to one discipline. I think it made him more open to new ideas, to seeing connections and not becoming pedantic. He was very famous when I was a kid, a legend who mentored Jane Goodall, from my hometown of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and Dian Fossey, whose work and discoveries helped save and protect the great gorillas. He was always in the news, now almost forgotten....
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@constipatedinsincity4424
Please don't think I was trying to minimize anything in any way, your comment made me cry. The terrible, senseless tragedy inflicted on so many is beyond imagination. I will never understand how anyone could have any excuse for such evil. I'm so sorry if I came off as unfeeling, I don't express myself well sometimes. Your post made me think about a story I heard from my mother about my great uncles in Texas in the late 1800s. They used to ride into Mexico and pick fights, drink, cause problems, "for fun". They supposedly burned down a jail with someone inside. I'm very ashamed of that history. I want to face it, make sure it's something that will never be repeated by my descendants, because forgetting history can mean repetition.
Maybe I'm not "responsible " for their actions, but I firmly believe I am responsible for mine, and acknowledging the importance of what they did that shattered generations afterward is extremely important! I feel responsible for doing what it takes to help NOW. It may be too late for those gone, but being sorry IS important NOW. I think It's everything for those who have a legacy of suffering and fear and abuse. It can be one first step in a healing direction. I say, now, with true remorse, that I am bitterly sorry that they were so cruel and vicious. Because I can imagine how a history of loss in my family line would feel, how it would affect so many down the years, how angry I would be, just knowing it. I AM sorry. It IS my responsibility to promise that it will never happen again, that others see me as a person who does not label others, or see the color of their skin. My race is the HUMAN race. That's where I journey, now, forever.
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I meant not getting rid of mental health PROGRAMS. Access to doctors, facilities and medicine information that someone might not know about. Often mentally ill homeless people have no idea that anything might be available to them. A place to get a free meal, a bed, a medical treatment, etc. Programs used to exists staffed by most volunteers who tried to help people, not incarcerate them! I'm talking about actual beneficial agencies that saved lives by offering choices. Here, where I live, all the funding was cut off in the late 80s for aids patients. There were boarding houses where people took care of late stage aids patients whose families had abandoned them. These people got a tiny stipend from the Government, but mostly did it to help. The government announced one day it was over and kick everyone out! Dying aids patients were supposed to be turned out on the street in winter. Too bad for them, right? Most of the folks running the homes didn't have enough nazi in them to do that and just struggled along as they could. It was beyond inhuman. That's the kind of thing Reagan did to give all his millionaires tax breaks that he promised if he got elected. The best thing for him to do throw out those with no voice, no recourse, that people didn't want to face anyway. He is basically a concentration camp manager who liquidated millions so he could wave at a camera for four years and feel important. Was it worth it to you???
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@hankthepatriot3733
One of my dream ideas is to travel America for a few years and look at our history, not just the big stuff, but the minor characters and events as well. I could go to museums for the rest of my life, I never get tired of history, and have collected thousands of memoirs from the 1800s on. I was completely fascinated as a kid, and now, as an adult, that what I spent every extra dollar on, old books, I hope to be able to finish a book I'm writing based on my grandmother, who grew up in West Texas and ended up in Hollywood! Hard to believe, I know! There are so many places to go to, I know I'll be in my 80s going, "I'm just getting started!"....😀
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@sogggy
Our neighbors loved violent horror films, and watched them with their 3 kids, even with the four year old ...that kid was so messed up! Started having violent tantrums, was nervous, etc. Kids have to learn about the difference between fantasy, real and fake horror, and if it's normalized, than they have no context for dealing with the sounds of people dying, getting cut up, the parents said they just "had to" watch what they wanted "sometimes". they were always explaining how it didn't bother the kids, all just awful excuses for screwing with a mind.
Exposing children to traumatic stress is the best way to get them to have serious problems with empathy as teenagers and adults...
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@jimb.7523
Her name was Christine Chubbock, and she died in 1974, the first person to ever kill themselves on live tv. She had done a segment recently where a police officer had told her that people who were serious about suicide put the gun behind their ear or something, and she brought one to work and during the broadcast said something like, "bringing you more blood and guts in living color, you're about to see another first, attempted suicide ".. I don't remember the exact words, but she shot herself and everyone froze in disbelief. It is interesting that in that era before highly televised violence, people just couldn't react, they just were stunned. Nowadays, it probably wouldn't even be considered that horrific...
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Shoot me now
No one made you racist, you ARE RACIST. You are also unable to face any reality about your own responsibility to work to change the world for the better. Everything to you is either, "Everyone wants to fuck me in the ass!" Or, "to be a nice person, I have to WANT everyone to fuck me in the ass!".
You can't imagine that there are any other options for you, so you base every single piece of information coming into your tiny pea brain as either for you, or against you.
Did it ever occur to you that no one is the least bit interested in your ass??? Now, if you ever let go of your desperate ass obsession, you would find an incredible universe of different people out there, different, not the same. If you are such an angry, hating racist that nothing will make you happy but the complete eradication of everyone who is not your color, than you will just have to fuck your OWN ass to get the satisfaction you want so much.
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Something scary and/or negative imprints more strongly on your memory, even your physical muscle memory, in order to protect you in the future, it's why if you read a scary story to kids, they will easily remember it later, while happy stories are more bland and slide in, and out...
The reason why you have physical distress when in an abusive situation is your body trying to wind you up to protect yourself, fight, or flight. You stay where you are, and adrenaline, oxygen, blood flow, are pumping extra hard to give you a chance to survive and you don't use it, you get ulcers, high blood pressure, nervous ticks. You have to listen to your body's reaction to situations, you'll save a lot of time if you get out of a relationship the first time you get that negative warning, it's telling you that you're in trouble before your brain does. It's simple survival....
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@allencummings7564
I think your right! I'm really referring to people who don't have really disturbing personality traits! I just think there is nothing so great as to be with anyone, friend, family member, spouse, etc., whom you are totally at ease with, because you KNOW, without a doubt, that they think you're great, just as you are. You don't have try hard, put on an act, be "your best self". You can just enjoy each others company in total peace. I picked my husband based on that, and it turned out great for us so far (35 years), and my best friends have been the same for decades, we don't see each other all the time, but when we do, we're totally happy and comfortable. I definitely didn't want a boyfriend or spouse that had some agenda or was trying to be successful. I didn't care about money or owning things, I just wanted someone I really never got bored with. The crazy thing is that in spite of not looking for success, my life turned out better than I could ever have imagined! I still can't believe it...
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@hetalianotaku7103
I am so happy to hear you say that!
I'm very against any abuse, and I couldn't excuse it, but in Picasso's case, I've always been very interested in his history, especially right after WWI and have read almost every biography I can find of people in that time and place, Paris after the war, with all the hundreds of Americans and artists and Russian aristocrats who fled the revolution, etc. They all overlap, because all the artists and dressmakers and models and writers all knew, or knew of, each other, and wrote about each other constantly! There was a lot of jealousy and back stabbing and drunken binges, it was crazy, and exciting, because EVERYTHING was new, new morals, new cultures, new art, and since Picasso had painted since he was a toddler, everyone knew him, and every time he picked up a new girlfriend or wife, EVERYONE warned her about him, even the ex wives and ex girlfriends would tell the new one, " This is what he does, he will force you to be his slave, he will make you take care of his children and cook and clean up after him, and while you're doing that, he will be having sex with the model and take HER out to dinner and leave you home..". Seriously, these women were constantly trying to keep others from being so hurt, but he had so much charisma, was so famous, was so great, that each new person thought they would be different. So, honestly, they all knew exactly what they were taking on...it doesn't excuse his behavior in any way, but it was no secret! He was the Mick Jagger of the 1920s! Still making babies in his 70s and 80s...we all know how unfaithful and horrible Mick is to every girlfriend and wife he ever had. When Jagger had been married to Jerry Hall for 14 years, and had 4 kids with her, she finally left and filed for divorce because he had a baby with a 22 year old model, and he had his lawyer tell her they never really got married in Bali, because they weren't citizens there, so the marriage (and the kids) were not valid and didn't really share his name, not only screwing Jerry over, but publicly disowning his own teenage kids without warning. Talk about abuse!!
He had already done the same kind of thing to Bianca Jagger, shutting down all the bank accounts they had so she had to leave her house and was stuck with the bills... I love the Rolling Stones, but geez, these guys can be real jerks! And that's if they "love" you!! Sorry about the crazy long post, I just don't want anyone to think I'm condoning any man (or woman) hurting someone. It's hard to look at that era sometimes. You might be interested in looking up Natalie Barney, she was a very rich American who loved Paris, moved there in the late 1890s, and was a very open lesbian. She slept with half of France, from the stories, and was completely, serially, unfaithful! She had one partner for 30 years, the artist Romaine Brooks, who was forever leaving her and coming back. She also had affairs with Dolly Wilde, Oscar Wilde's niece, and the famous courtesan, Lilian de Pougy..among every other woman in Paris. She was WAY ahead of her time!! She led the gay pride movement before anyone even thought of it, but she was a terrible girlfriend! Check her out on Google, unbelievable photos!
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@aliceshaw8265
I disagree, there are amazing stories. There were huge numbers of black people who, I have to tell you, were ALL DIFFERENT.
Just the music alone, that began as a way for slaves to communicate to each other without punishment, is a huge subject that resonates today. Thousands of former slaves became writers, poets, inventors, doctors, speakers, you name it
It takes a lot to shock me, but the fact that you actually believe that there were just a few, boring people who were not white is probably the saddest and most unenlightened comment I have ever come across.
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@IceFox606
Please do not distress yourself too much, like people, dogs can have congenital heart disease. It is not common, as far as I know. One reminder that is very important to remember is that dogs are sensitive to heat, because they do not have sweat glands all over their bodies, as humans do. To force any dog to keep up on a run or hike can swiftly cause a dog to overheat, and if not allowed to cool down, they will suffer a stroke and die. Most people are not aware of this, and many have inadvertently injured their dogs thinking that they can easily keep up, when their system will be overcome very fast. Even African Cheetahs will die if forced to keep up running...no animal but man is born to stay on the move, believe it or not. I read all about this in Christopher Mcdougall's book, "Born To Run", lays out all the science and proof provided by scientists and researchers. It was very eye opening! I have talked to many people who had accidentally run their dogs to death at the lake by our house. It gets very hot and humid here in the Summer, and pets cannot tolerate it for long periods.
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Our local store went from people being terrified to get near each other one day, swathed in masks, gloves and sanitizer, and the next day, when they relaxed the lockdown, everyone was suddenly crowding, no masks, pushing, like it was all just over. I couldn't believe it, they thought that reopening meant it's all safe now. That scared me, since I don't think most of them get that it hasn't just gone away...
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@bluegrassengineer
I had to look that up, and it was incredible! She had a fantastic career from the 1920s (in vaudeville) to movies in the 30s, 40s and 50s, then tv, when, as you said. She played the grandma on the Addams Family. What's even more unusual is that her sister was Jeannette Macdonald, was a big box office star in the 40s. She was the operatic singer who always played with another singer, Nelson Eddy, and Maurice Chevalier. She had gold records, hit after hit films and lives on today in cartoons where she and Eddy were often imitated as the Canadian mountie who sang while riding his horse through the snow and the damsel in distress. I think Dudley Do Right was copied from them. Older people will recognize these names immediately, but they are still worth looking up on utube. Hilariously camp today, but loved back in the old days!
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I remember seeing Tom Hanks in the tv show, "Busom buddies", and he was so awkward and goofy! Then he did a weird hybrid comedy movie, "Joe VS the Volcano" and had an amazing scene in the middle of the movie, where he came to terms with his life and death, and you saw him suddenly metamorphose into a serious, sensitive and believable character. After I saw that movie, I watched everything he was in, because seeing him become an amazing actor was completely fascinating to me, especially from the nutty beginning (Bosom Buddies was a real low for tv land, it had something to offend everyone..)!
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@louiseskip3488
That poor boy is my brother in laws great great uncle or something...they are related and the family are still in Fredricksburg, Texas. I talked to his mom several times about it, she is in her 90s, and remembers her mom telling her that her grandfather was killed by indians when out plowing their fields. The kids ran and hid and got away, but some children were usually found and taken. People back then believed a great deal in eugenics, not understanding that the way a child is raised has the most bearing on their future behavior. Most people thought if you were raised a white, German Lutheran, that even if you were raised from babyhood to be an indian, you would immediately snap back to being a Lutheran the second you got back, and forget all about the 10 or 15 years of being completely immersed in the indian culture. It happened so often. Olive Oatman was another famous example of a young white girl taken by Indians who grew up, married a brave, had children and her lower face famously tattooed to show her as a wife, then was forcibly returned to the settlers and died a couple of years later, unable to adjust to losing her family and identity. It's very sad...
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I am single handedly keeping Amazon rich...I became a prime member after a serious illness and the resulting immune system problems that kept me mostly in bed for over 5 years!! My husband to work insane hours to make up for my new, zombie like lifestyle, and was dying of exhaustion doing all the errands after work at night. I was afraid it would kill him...with Amazon, I could get EVERYTHING and he could sleep occasionally...
I know it has a lot of problems, but if you're someone with severe disabilities or stuck at home after illness or accident, it is a godsend.
I am actually doing better now than in the last ten years, and still go on Amazon for everything, it IS addicting, but I don't care, it's the least of my worries, although I have no doubt there will soon be an Amazon competitor or two in the wings to level the playing field...
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I miss mine too! She worked in a hospital, and in the 60s, we went through tons of phisohex, a strong, possibly carcinogenic cleanser.
She used it all day, every day, and bleach. Our towels lasted about two months. We always teased her, but of course, I grew up as a bleach queen too...it finally paid off when this pandemic hit and I was already stocked up with a years worth of bleach, alcohol, kennel sol (for the dogs!), triple antibiotic soaps and spray bottles filled with 91% alcohol to spray randomly whenever I felt the need...it's something I've tried to control, because i know it's mostly anxiety based, but oddly, now that there is actually danger, I'm completely unafraid...I'm the one that has to go to the store, etc. because my husband is very high risk with asthma and chronic bronchitis (don't smoke, kids!)...
I figure after a lifetime of inhaling bleach fumes, my lung membranes are like rawhide...
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@umbra9628
It's a good thing that YOU don't try and press your beliefs on others like those atheists...
I mean, they are so insulting, not like YOU, who are full of generosity, goodness, and kindness....
I can't believe he said nothing about his beliefs, but YOU knew everything he was secretly thinking, and really, self righteously, ripped into him because YOU alone deserve to judge people, I bet JESUS can't wait to listen to YOU tell him what a total shit everyone else is.
Of course, there is always a possibility that jesus will notice that you are judgemental preening schmuck and send you straight to hell for pretending to be God. But don't let that stop you...
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@lakrids-pibe
I first heard this from Peter, Paul and Mary in the 60s! Then as the best man at Peter's wedding in 1969, Paul composed and sang, "The Wedding Song (there is love)" for the first time. Can you imagine hearing that song for the first time, at your wedding? I'm not even religious, but to this day, I get chills when I hear his opening notes...
Everytime I heard, "Leaving on a jet plane", I'd cry, imagining my boyfriend and I parted...which irritated my mom to death, because I was only 10, and she would tell me in her hoarse voice (Kent cigarettes) to stop being dramatic, SHE would love to be on a plane going ANYWHERE, away from all our howling...hippies had just swarmed into Palo Alto and the Bay Area around San Francisco, and were driving out the elegance of Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart swanning around the city in Vertigo, and replacing it with leather, indian fabrics and the smell of patchouli...instead of snappy dialogue, everyone was smoking pot, dropping acid and "tuning out".
It was extremely frustrating for older people like my parents, who had all been fighting the world war and repopulating the earth afterwards, to have kids who only wanted to strum guitars and meditate...we weren't exactly what they were expecting!
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I had surgery for cancer. In recovery my blood pressure plummeted and I came to consciousness hearing everything they were saying. I could see them injecting me, pushing me, connecting things to me...I just looked around and away from myself and saw my husband in the waiting room. He didn't know that I was dying right then. I wasn't worried, I wanted to see the stars. even though I could hear the nurses and doctors and equipment, I was up in the stars in the dark. I know it sounds crazy, but I suddenly "got it". It was suddenly so obvious, so simple. I understood perfectly how everything was connected and why. I was so amazed that I hadn't known, it was so perfect. I was calm and happy. it was a huge relief to find out there was no chaos and fear. Then i suddenly crushed hard back into my body. hurt!!! I was in agony worse than I could imagine and cold!! I was shaking hard and packed in hot blankets with people working all over me. I passed out and woke up ten hours later. I could not tell anyone what happened. They wouldn't listen. I couldn't describe it. I can't now. not really. it was beyond language.
I want to tell whoever reads this, there really is nothing to fear. If you fear death, don't, because it isn't death. It is a different reality, but so vast it is beyond words. I now understand why math is the language of space. The best thing is that there is infinite possibilities, there are no limitations. It changed my life for the better by far, and I ended up with a few gifts I never thought I'd have, so, good luck everyone out there, and don't worry!
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I have had hopes that more species may be discovered.
If so many people are seeing things, some of them are telling the truth, at least that they have seen something they did not recognize. A lot of people who have sightings of strange beings are usually sorry they encountered anything. In almost every case, the person was ridiculed and called a liar, and also has to deal with being afraid to ever go back to their favorite hunting, fishing, or camping spot ever again.
Linda Godfrey, who has written several books about werewolf sightings, said that everyone she interviewed said they wished fervently that they had NEVER seen what they had. It had caused some to question their entire belief system.
Whatever you think, I hate the name calling. Be a sceptic, but don't blot out every single thing you don't understand. At least question, the reality is probably going to surprise us all .
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@Mimi-by3gz
I agree that almost all women in the movies at that time had an incredible aura, and a lot of women copied it. I have a great photo of my grandmother, mother and 3 aunts taken during WW2. They obviously did their hair and lipstick for the photo, and looked fantastic. I asked mom about the photo and she said they tried to look like Rita Hayworth, smoke like Bette Davis and dance like Ginger Roger's. Movies were the only entertainment they could afford.
When I was growing up in the 60's, teen fashions were barely on the market, so we copied the hippies for originality. We wore 2 dollar Keds sneakers and shrink to fit jeans to play in. My sister found that by wearing the jeans and sitting in a very hot bath, then letting them dry on, she got a perfect, perfect fit. It took forever for them to dry, and dyed your legs blue, but once Cher wore tight jeans on the Sonny and Cher Show, the look was high fashion. I loved the wild hippie style because you could experiment with anything and get away with it. You could buy a tablecloth for 25 cents at a garage sale and wear it as a shawl and you felt like a star!
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The only time I ever felt something like that is when I tried to break up a fight between a pitbull great dane mix and a pitbull. They suddenly got into it and I was so exhausted from trying to separate them, and getting a couple of accidental bites, I was never so fatigued in my life! I had never felt that before, ever, just being so unbelievably tired, but not giving up! It was such an unreal, dreamlike feeling. I didn't even feel pain, just terrible, dragging exhaustion...luckily, everything turned out ok, but I learned a lot about stress and resilience! We can seriously do more than we believe! There is something in us that just will not stop...
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@richardc7721
I really loved your anecdote!!
Taking the Bondurant Driving course was my dads dream, he loved racing and cars all his life.
He worked very hard and couldn't afford much, but he did buy a used Datsun 1200 convertible in the early 60s. He took my older sister all over California to races. I learned to drive by sneaking out in the convertible at night with my friend.
To this day I love driving a stick and am an extremely confident driver. I kind of wish I had taken up racing, but in the 60s girls weren't doing that. When I moved to Texas in the early 80s I had a boyfriend who worked on old muscle cars, so i started driving those and of course got into illegal street racing, just for fun sometimes. There weren't many girl drivers doing that then either. There was a long stretch of Zarzamora St. where people congregated and showed off on weekends, and the police were there, but rarely intervened then. I never saw any violence beyond arguments over girlfriends, etc.
There was a huge mall being built near us and the parking lot for it was gigantic, my boyfriend and I used to go out there and practice in the rain, spinning and braking at high speeds so we wouldnt panic in accidents. It was so much fun. I guess I was too young to be afraid, but I have to say that the confidence I gained has come in handy in everything I've done since. I learned to be fairly fearless, and i wish my dad had been around to see that his enthusiasm was carried on!
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blackzed
Believe me, there were the same amount of cowards back then, if that's what you mean by "snowflakes". I know everything always thinks that everyone in their generation is weak and miserable, etc., but it's just your perception. The French have a great saying, "plus ca change, plus ces't la meme chose". which means," the more things change, the more they stay the same".
4000 years ago archeologists found graffiti on an excavated villa that complained how young people were horrible in this "modern" time. Nothing in human history is new. The whole snowflake thing is just a recent description to describe people you don't like because you don't agree with them, that's all. Btw, I'm not supporting or decrying either, I don't care what people are...
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I've seen all the movies, and Freaks was the most poignant to me, showing the circus people as individuals. It's also a great example of thirties horror films. For such a small budget film, it is astonishing.
Caligula was just like being at a Roman orgy, which I've never wanted to do, and the whole walking between the twin towers gave me vertigo to the point of nausea. Fight club is my favorite film though, I can watch it over and over and it still feels fresh. Also, Marla's makeup was just the epitome of gothic trash, and I loved it! If anyone is interested, the makeup channel PIXIEWOO, does a perfect, and hilarious Marla makeup that looks fantastic.
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@HobbiesofaVampire
Growing up in California in the 60s, Disneyland was a second home to me. I actually had my very first death experience while staying at the Disneyland hotel as a four or five year old. I was chasing my sister around the pool while my dad read the paper. He didn't notice that I had slipped off into the deep end and was drowning. My older sister jumped in to save me, but she couldn't swim either. Someone finally noticed and I came to barfing water poolside while ten people slapped my back, head, shoulders whatever they could reach. My mom, even though she heard the heavily revised version of why dad was not actually watching us, as he had been deputized to do, pretty shrewdly guessed the scenario and made my dads life a living hell for awhile. He meant well, but never learned because only two years later, while hiking a dormant, but still alive volcanoes at Lassen National park, he accidentally let me slip at the edge of the cone and only barely caught me by the back of my jacket while my feet hung over the edge of boiling mud....it was great....
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We must be the same age! I grew up in Palo Alto, California and a lot of my friends went in on the ground floor of companies like Apple, Microsoft, google, etc...
I didn't, I wanted to be an artist and ended up in Texas. It turned out great!! I was so happy to have my own place, friends, dates, etc. MTV was new and influenced fashion, I went to Los Angeles with my sound engineer husband and got into the whole scene, met a bunch of exciting people...I never thought about the future, just had so much fun!!! Still do, actually.
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I collect vintage books on Hollywood, dating and beauty, and am tracking this down, thanks!! I have been planning to write a book for years on Hollywood's early assault on reforming unattractive women and turning them into stars (or just looking like one!). By the thirties, there were many beauty vultures with questionable skills charging studios and stars huge amounts to "transform" them. Gloria Swansen was a pioneer of "clean" eating after being influenced by a internist in New York and felt so much better she famously showed up at huge formal dinner parties with her own paper bag of food, which she spent inordinate amounts of time harassing her dinner partners, informing them all about what pigs they were and how much damage they were doing to their looks and health. She was often right, but boring as hell to eat with, and was often avoided! She was an amazing, very modern woman in many ways, light years ahead of her time, but didn't understand packaging her ideas. Still, she outlasted most and would have been a massive influencer today....
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@terryhamilton1196
Texas is a rare place...I was born and raised in the San Francisco Area, but I really love Texas...the people, the history, the incredible stories of the different events that happened here, I can never get tired of exploring the state. There is supposed to be a secret, but fabulous silver mine out in the Hill Country near us, and Jim Bowie led a party out to find it about a year before the fall of the Alamo...they were attacked by Indians and spent a couple of days pinned down right near our place...I've never been able to find exactly where they were, but I know that people were still skirmishing with indians in the early 1900s around Fredricksburg on occasion. There is a huge granite batholith called Enchanted Rock out there, and the indians believed that spirits of warriors would gather there. It was sacred to them, and when settlers started going out there and messing around, they usually drove them away. I've climbed it at night and there are some really weird noises and apparitions at the top. I think it's a natural phenomena, but it's spooky!!
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@seoladhmc
You have courage and I admire you. I got 2,000 miles away from my family, because they felt that kindness and empathy were pathetic weaknesses to be despised. I considered them hateful and purposely mean. I think they were just damaged by life, but my sister was e extremely vicious. She liked hurting people. I have never regretted my decision to cut off all contact, they tried to destroy me, and I survived. I decided that instead of feeling bitter, I would use their actions as a yardstick of how NOT to treat people. My parents are dead, and I have no idea where anyone else is, and I've been much happier. I was lucky enough to fall in love with a kind person who is loyal and cares about others. We have been married for 35 years, and I still don't fully trust anyone, but I trust as much as I can....i learned how not to treat people because of them, and I'm so lucky to have survived! I hope you are happy and find some peace and happiness....
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@LuvBorderCollies
I agreed with the locals feeling, because it was so apparent that they were being overrun. I also had the experience of growing up in Palo Alto in the 1960s, when it was a beautiful, quiet, university town. It was incredible there. So peaceful! Then, of course, it became a tech giant, completely destroyed by millionaires and crowding. I never go back to visit, because it was ruined so badly. Those golden, rolling hills around Stanford University are now solid buildings. It just broke me. I hope that the people on the islands can save their homes. Too much of anything is terrible. I live now in Texas, and we have a ranch which is still pristine and where you can walk and ride all day in solitude. It is in the Hill Country and Texas vineyards are suddenly taking off on the ranches around us. I'm thinking, "Here we go again!" I hope it doesn't turn into Napa Valley, Ca.
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@MaddogJones
I see your point, and admit you are right. Still, I just love dark five because of, or in spite of, the way they do their videos. I know it's not very logical, but they are completely different than everyone else, which to me has an incredible charm. I always rush to defend them them, red circles, arrows, fuzzy print, they are more lovable for their imperfections to me. Just imo🙂
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@painmagnet1
We have a place outside of Fredricksburg, TX and a book came out about a family whose German ancestors settled there in the 1880s. Two of their young sons were taken captive by Indians and were not found again for 15 years! One of the boys sickened and died and the other one felt himself fully Indian by that time and could not adjust to returning to people he had no longer memories of or a relationship with. He was a silent and angry man on the outside of his family ever after. It was so tragic. He lived until the 30s or 40s. What fascinated me even more is that there were many children of all different ethnicities "adopted" by indian tribes, black, mexican, european, etc. They grew up and married indians, had kids and so on, and were considered completely indian by both white and the tribes. I was talking to my brother in laws mother a few weeks ago (she's about 86) and she told me how her uncles were almost captured when they ranched out there. Going out to work was always hazardous as they were away from the house on acres of rough land. Although they were always armed, it was not uncommon to be surrounded or snuck up on. In this case her uncle ran and hid in a big field of corn and they didn't find him. They left when the father saw the horses and went riding out to get his son. The founders of Fredricksburg eventually signed a treaty with some of the tribes to remain peaceful and trade with each other, and it was one of the rare instances where it honored by both sides, and the town flourished. Outside the town, though, it was kind of considered open so there were still many skirmishes and problems, mainly because the indiand did not understand the concept of "owning" land, and horse stealing was a very traditional way for young men to prove themselves and have the horses to trade for brides...
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In spite of all the errors by doctors, etc., I think if any person has been hit by a car and has broken bones or damaged internal organs, they are going to be happy to have paramedics airlift them to a hospital for treatment....lots of people believe that ALL doctors want to keep people ill, but medical researchers are doctors who have found things like insulin for diabetes, or blood transfusions, oxygen and heart transplants. In the past, not even very long ago, life expectancy wasn't near as long as it is now. People just died all the time, whether they went to the doctor or not. If you need insulin to keep from having extremities amputated, wouldn't you rather take it? Or would you insist that it's all a hoax?
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Henryk Gödel
I am also free to simply ask you a question. You don't have to answer it like you're my mother, in a reproving, prissy, hurt manner that includes an insult, because you're inexplicably offended by my asking if there are any women you'd like to see. I liked your list of subjects, and I was interested in what women you'd like to hear about, but you had to get offended/defensive, or whatever you are. I guess you're extremely sensitive, so, as I tell mom, I didn't mean anything by it, I was just asking a question. Now you can go off again on how entitled as a woman you think I'm being.
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@carlyslecomfort7317
I was born in 1961. It was the height of the cold war, so people were more worried about nuclear war and pollution than whether or not their latte was made right...my husband was born in 1965, and people were really scared of hippies and pot in his very christian, Texas town more than anything. Oh, and rock and roll was considered a HUGE threat. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so I was in the middle of all the fantastic burgeoning of great music, peace and Summers of Love, while my future mother in law was praying for her kids to always wear ties and short hair and marry (white) Southern Baptists...needless to say, my husband picked me, a mixed race outsider with artistic aspirations, and grew his hair into a ponytail as soon as he was on his own. All that seems so innocent now!
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I was in LA when the Matrix was being filmed, and supposedly the actors kept taking the ultra cool costumes home, everyone on the shoot was going wild about the sexy, black rubber shirts, boots, coats, etc. I went with a friend to one of the stores that sold cyber wear, and found it takes 2 or 3 people to ease you into a dress or pants. You get sprayed with baby powder, ease into the dress, put everything where you want it, and you're good to go all night. Its unbearably hot, and you have to get someone to take it off, but you get a tremendous attitude wearing stuff like that!
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The Norway system was used as an example to highlight the fact that crime in America is not diminishing, even with ever harsher punishment and the death penalty as a deterent, but increasing expedentially. So, logically, the system is not working. You believe that criminals live in luxury but since you are not, or have ever been, a criminal, you have no idea how bad it really is. Many prisons are completely understaffed and old.
"Everybody" does not have amenities and an easy life, as you seem to think. There are hundreds of thousands in jail for crimes they did not commit, as advanced DNA testing has proved. It is not rare.
Please look at actual statistics on Jails and not just get worked up over what you think "liberals" are doing. The truth is there, if you want to actually look at it.
I personally have no answer, but killing everyone you don't like seems to make you into what you hate.
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@victoriawilliams2786
I loved your experiences! We live in a old family home, so all our ghosts are beloved family members. We are not afraid of them, but our neighbors, who have occasionally seen apparitions here, are. To me, they are loving protectors. We have always had rescue dogs, and none of them have ever been frightened or upset by various events. I always feel like dogs know if something is bad or threatening. They were interested but never scared. I think they love us and want to be part of things. One of my most visceral experiences was when my husband was frying steaks in an old cast iron frying pan. I could barely see a woman standing behind him in a long dress, a big lady, laughing! I couldn't believe it, but she seemed so friendly, I couldn't be frightened. I told him, and he said his great aunt Ella loved cooking with grandma, and she was always laughing and joking. I had never heard of her before, but it fit perfectly! I was thrilled that she was enjoying things to this day! What a wonderful person! Happy that we were frying steaks! I felt a sense of love and protection...
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@davea6314
WOW!! Great information! I love this because I love all history, it's the details of everyday life that governed the activities of regular people (like foot soldiers!) that fascinate me. I like finding out about the regular lives (without servants, etc...) of how people coped with survival in a usually harsh environment. I read once that Davy Crockett was "hired out" at the age of ten by his father, to go on a long journey with a man driving stock over a trail to another town, a journey that would take many months, and fraught with all the usual hazards: weather, indians, thieves, stock illness, everything. Davy had no say, and was sent off to earn his keep with a total stranger! He was lucky in that the man was tough, but fair, and treated him well for the times. He didn't get home for 2 to 3 years (he probably was not anxious to go back to his uncaring, always in debt father who would certainly sell him again to anyone he owed money to). This early experience laid the foundation for his legend as a fearless hunter and fighter. I still find it just incredible, trying to imagine day to day survival for a small child in that world! Thank you for the info, I really appreciate it!!
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@davea6314
I started college a long time ago, planning to study cultural anthropology, but never finished anything! I was relieved when I finally found out I had dyslexia, it wasn't diagnosed when I was a kid (I was born in 1961, when dinosaurs walked the earth!😁). I could, however, read incredibly fast, since my dad had taught me to speed read as a kid...my parents read all the time, we had a big library and I was allowed to dig out anything and read it. History always mesmerized me, especially since in school, teachers were obviously passing on badly out of date information and I could never get over how boring they made everything compared to the exciting, first person accounts I came across here and there. Schools had very old libraries back then as well, there were some incredible finds! No one seemed to have read thousands of rare, old historical accounts! To be fair, by the late 60s, all my teachers had been slogging away since WW2, and they were all just waiting to retire...
I still kick myself for not going with education, it's my only regret, but I've had a fantastic life beyond my wildest dreams, no complaints, I like where I ended up, and my husband has always supported my endless old bookstore searching, I love finding old first editions and memoirs of regular people...
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@One-Ring-To-Rule-Them-All
Thank you so much!! I do believe in magic, because I believe it is an actual form of energy and gathers in places sometimes, where energy collects, good or bad. The mystery of the soul, and what's happens when we change, fascinates me no end! Also just regular, wishing well magic is fun too! I think the author, Tom Robbins (who wrote Jitterbug Perfume) wrote that, "If you refuse to take charge of your life, you have to expect that the God's will have a grin or two, at your expense". A wonderful reminder that we should be active with our lives.
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@kristiwallace2089
We rescued a dog who obviously missed someone terribly. We could never find his owner, and it helped to give him plenty of attention and keep him with my other dog. It took a very long time, and was heartbreaking beyond belief to witness, but with lots of love and attention, he became a more happy dog...our vet is an older man with a great deal of experience and he was willed his best friends dog, when his friend suddenly passed away. It was extremely painful for the poor man, to miss his best friend, and take on his equally heartbroken old dog, but he feels strongly that there could be no stronger expression of trust than being given a beloved companion to shepherd through the last years of life, and he is grateful to be able to do it. You are loving and kind, and courageous, because true love is caring through tears and fear. Your care will be the easing of this doggys soul, and it is a rare thing that scars you, and you will be a different, better person. I was changed myself, in ways I've never completely understood, but now I see so much that I didn't before. I am lighting a candle for you. Don't worry, take care of yourself.
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Australia had a great program (I don't know if it's still going on) called MAFMAD, make a film, make a difference. Students would write shorts for films about drunk driving, and 2 a year would be chosen and made into PSA's to be shown on tv the next year. They are the most moving, and powerful shorts I've ever seen, and done by kids! Look up on utube the short called, "Yes, Mum". It will absolutely stun you. There are tons of others. I live in Texas now, where drunk driving is a huge problem, and I want to start a program just like that, it really helped in Australia.
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In Texas, on our ranch, my husband and I were trying to get the Thanksgiving dinner at 4 am, waiting for the turkeys to come to the corn we put down
My husband got bored and started smoking to pass the time, and realizing that turkeys are suspicious of smokers, jibes him to stop smoking.
..while we argued over who was making the most noise (and smoke!), a huge flock of turkeys came by, but decided to keep moving after hearing crab at each other...luckily, my sister in law was a true professional and got a turkey in ten minutes...it was very good, but I don't enjoy hunting. I love to go exploring and find indian artifacts and fossils...more fun, less blood and gore....
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@carasomebody6477
I'm certain she was right, he stalked a lot of people! Thank goodness she survived! I don't think anyone near that situation ever felt completely safe ever again, it just absolutely changed my perception of the world.
In another, unrelated but weird crime, my husbands cousins were standing in a parade crowd in San Antonio during Fiesta week, in 1979, waiting for the parade to pass by. A strange, anxious man was fidgeting and mumbling next to them for a few minutes, then suddenly walked away. He was Ira Attebury, 64, who drove a van full of guns and ammo and rained gunfire down on the parade spectators...I will never forget cousin Erin telling us about this mass murderer walking half a block away and shooting children.
He shot 57 people at least, and several died. She said his face was seared into her memory. I think all who are witness to true evil recognize and carry the stigmata of it all their lives. I think deep love marks with the same power as well, whether it's a balance of nature or not, I do not know, but I'm convinced it's a real thing.
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@mrthinker321
Your support will have zero effect on his career because his agent representation hashes all that out and has been doing it ever since it started. Any public opinion will not have the weight you believe it does. Everything was decided months ago. I know you believe its important to the person, but they really don't even have the public on their radar 97% of the time, and being worked up over something, that honestly, is just a lot sound bytes for publicity, is a waste of energy. I worked in the business, and big stars are so far removed from anything approaching real life, that the public is like an ant farm to anyone in that extreme end of the business. I'm not trying to hurt anyone, just telling you that anything you're reacting to is very old news to the giant corporation that is his, and her, public persona...they may act like the public means everything to them, but that's because they are ACTORS.
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@FuzzyMarineVet
I'm 60, and my parents had me late in their lives, so my dad grew up in the 20s and 30s. He told me of going to work in Boston at ten years old, running messages and errands for a record company, run by these old Jewish gentlemen (I don't remember which record company it was) who spoke Yiddish in the offices. Dad could speak Yiddish in no time. He was dropped off later at a boarding school because his French mother deserted the family for a boxer. He was left there alone pretty much. He didn't graduate from anything but joined the Navy after lying about his age. Went through the war and ended up in San Francisco, then doggedly worked, step by step, up the ladder in banking, finally becoming Vice President at Wells Fargo. As an adult, I am fascinated at the times he lived through, and his determination to make something of himself no matter what obstacles were thrown at him. He was quite the renaissance man, taking up photography, flying, running a book company and teaching banking courses at the college in Palo Alto. As I grew up, he just never seemed to sleep, and was always busy with some big project. I discovered years later that a lot of his "mad men" era energy was fueled by unbelievable amounts of alcohol, coffee and drugs. He was enthusiastic about trying EVERYTHING. He lived to his 90s, even though he was a tremendous alcoholic. Irish stamina, I guess...
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But...just by showing up there, they have forever changed the area in an existential way. No life form can fail to alter an existing environment completely by simply showing up, even if they believe they are taking all precautions not to, in a terrible, final, destructive moment, their appearance has destroyed the balance for the residents...
A perfect example is god. He showed up, not intending anything but "good", wham! We get the atom bomb in a very short time (by gods time, anyway). Destruction was the inevitable outcome, no matter how many times the promise was given that nothing would change, that he is just observing, that there is free will.
Just one visit caused more eventual destruction than anything before had ever done...even if you do not believe anything is out there, you are not an island floating alone in paradise on calm blue waters. You are in the eye of a hurricane....
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You just remember it in your own way, like everyone does. That's why singers and musicians have to continually practice, or they unconsciously insert or change the words or a note instead of keeping to their original score. It is constant in day to day life as well. Most people see things through a filter of their own experiences and beliefs. This leads to the "mandala effect" people perceive. If you drink out of a yellow coffee cup every day for years, and your favorite color is red you many easily recall many years later that your coffee cup was red, because you like the color red, and the pleasure you had drinking your coffee is associated with other pleasurable memories of things you like, so you remember it as red. When you see it years later, you are shocked, insisting that it was red, not yellow, and claim the mandala effect, when in reality, your brain is just associating emotions with physical pleasure, like caffeine, according to your particular preferences. .
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@Saracinderallasushis
I hear you, and toughness IS survival. Life is a battle, most of the time.
I know it's hard to see yourself honestly, but people usually tell me I'm fearless. I'm not fearless, but I never back down when it comes to standing up to the crap life dishes out. I have seen people killed, had two people point a gun at me at point blank range, volunteered in hospice and survived cancer and some serious accidents, my boyfriend died of cancer, my husband had a horrible accident that left him permanently injured, and hardest of all, imo, I've been married for over 30 years, which involves going through some nuclear winter disagreements and "take no prisoner, give no quarter" battles! Like most people, if you live long enough, a lot happens to you. I tend to stand up for other people and especially animals. I know a lot of people think kindness and compassion are a weakness but I think it's the opposite, that it takes strength and courage to step up when you could easily walk away.
I read this somewhere, but I consider it a pretty accurate description of myself,
"Look, the thing is, I'm a nice person. If I'm acting like a bitch to you, you need to ask yourself why". I AM generally a nice person, but I have no problem going all Samuel L. Jackson if the situation warrants it...and there are ALWAYS situations that warrant it.
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I watch this after I go running and while I'm walking the dog, I love it because it makes me feel smart as well as in shape for the rest of the day! Also, for any of you out there who suffers from stiffness (you know, anyone over 45!), get a percussion gun from Amazon. I had several pulled muscles last year which regular meds, stretches and heat, etc. didn't really work. I read about these percussion guns that hammer your muscles for ten minutes...believe me, it works! It's worth the money and works on my arthritis, pulled hamstrings, old stiff muscles, etc. Look it up! I wish I'd heard about it years ago!!
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Everyone look up the guy who kept a 500 pound tiger in his apt. In New York City. He successfully raised it to it's full growth, but when he, for some stupid reason, brought home a cat, the tiger "nipped" him and he had to go to an ER. It was extremely obvious that it was not a simple animal bite, and he finally broke down and admitted that he was keeping a tiger on the 5th floor of his apt. Bldg. The police and fire dept., along with a vet with a tranquilizer gun were dispatched, not really believing, only to be very surprised. There is a fantastic photo of an officer rapelling off the roof to the outside of the partly open window, where the very angry tiger is only inches from his face. Roaring. I've always been completely amazed by this true story, and the photos...
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@constipatedinsincity4424
You weren't rambling at all! I live in Texas. I've done hospice work, but in this case, my dog is my patient. She has cancer and I stay with her most of the time now. She is really my husbands dog, a 15 year old pitbull he rescued a long time ago. We rescued 4 beautiful, huge, abused mutts after I survived cancer surgery. It was kind of a huge commitment since we had never had a dog, but i loved them SO much!! She is the last of the original 4 musketeers. The rest died of old age related illness.
A year or so ago, a homeless lady begged me to take her dog, who had been injured by a car.
So, if course I took her. She had been hit by a car and had to have surgery (the "free" dog that wiped out our savings in one day!) but having her gave me hope when everyone started to die. I've NEVER felt grief like it. I know it is not the same as losing a child, but I never had kids, the mutts were my substitute children for what the cancer had taken away. Anyway, Ursa, the free dog, turned out to be an incredible empath. She knows instantly when she meets someone if they are injured or sad, and puts her head against them, blinks her giant, Bette Davis eyes and exudes sympathy. She struggles to get to anyone in a wheelchair, crutches, a cane. She senses people who have autism, downs syndrome, etc. There is a rehab facility next to the lake we walk at, and recovering addicts pet her, hold her, cry on her. She is completely sweet and wants to be with them to help. I have volunteered at hospitals since I was a teenager, and here we have 4 military bases, so there is a huge medical complex and veterans come from all over the world to get treatment. There is a group called Wounded Paw, where they save shelter/pound dogs that are going to be destroyed, and train them to aide veterans. It's amazingly successful. I don't work for it, I just think everyone should look them up on Google, they're changing lives every day for the better!
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@williamfeilhauer
Thank you so much for your comment! It was an astonishing lovely small town when I was young, Palo Alto was just a University town, my mom for for Stanford Hospital and my dad walked a few blocks every morning to the train station to go to San Francisco for work. He started working at around 10 or 11 in Boston for a record company (I don't know which one) and ran errands, deliveries and records to radio stations...he learned to speak Yiddish, because his bosses were from the old country. His mom was French and from Canada, but left when he was very young. He rarely saw her, but apparently, she had a thing for boxers (!), and dated a famous one for awhile, who was very kind to the abandoned boy who had no family. He was put in a boarding school and lied about his age somehow to become a sailor in WW2. I was always completely fascinated how a man with so much against him, managed to become a sophisticated "city man" who retired as a Vice President for a big bank! I want to portray that time because it vanished so fast and completely at the advent of the computer age. Now, things are instant, which can be a wonderful thing, especially in medicine, but I also miss the long, quiet mornings and deep summer nights where life wasn't an instant video. Its probably because I'm getting old, and look back with more nostalgia than I should, but somehow, I hope others will get an idea of how life in Palo Alto, before it became a millionaire only place, was just a peaceful university town of families....I don't know if anyone will like it, but I'll write it anyway...thank you so much for being kind and I truly think you need to write a book about your experiences as well. I KNOW they would interest so many, and Pamela Des Barre had a best seller just writing about being a groupie in LA in the 60s! She lived with Frank Zappa for awhile, was in a band, lived with Don Johnson before Miami Vice. A BEST SELLER! I Know you have great stories, I want to read them too, at least think about it. If you don't like to physically write you can record yourself going over memories, even get someone to type it up for you. Merry Christmas and be safe this New Year!!!
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My mother as a child, fled with her family from the depression in Texas during the early 30s, and they drove to California so her father and uncles could work on the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, a very dangerous job in usually terrible weather. They were so poor that they moved for awhile to "Chinese Camp" in the sierra mountains, it had been abandoned by the Chinese and everyone else, so it was affordable. I saw it in the 1960s, and the place was dumpy and looked so rough and unlivable. My mother said it hadn't changed, and left abruptly saddened by memories of hunger and displacement. When my parents retired, they chose, for some reason, to move BACK to the Sierra's and the chinese camp area. I am just guessing but I believe my mother wanted go up there after a very successful life, to kind of "show everyone up there" that she wasnt poor now! No one up there would care or remember them, but mom was determined to live over again and change the past somehow...
Life played another joke on her by turning Chinese Camp into a fabulous vineyard and resort area which was with millions. My mom still couldn't afford to live there!
Everything is relative, I'm not sure what the lesson really was, about this story, except not to care about what you don't have wherever you are, and protect your dreams.
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@Dashiell777
Really gifted people feel that way! You know, Albert Einstein felt worried that he was a fake with his theory of relativity!! Can you imagine? The man that put the entire world (for better or worse) into the nuclear age, and he suffered from imposter syndrome!! His wife had to encourage him to present his papers, because he was so shy and worried about his ideas. There is a book called, "The Abundant Bohemian", that you can get on Amazon, that really gives you encouragement about truly being yourself. It's just a simple read about how important doubt and failing are, because it's only giving up on yourself that is a failure. It has countless examples of people who were rejected many times before they became household names (I think JK Rowling was rejected over 20 times before a tiny, new Scottish publisher took a chance on her book about Harry Potter! Can you imagine if she gave up after the 19th rejection? The world would have missed out on the whole Hogwarts universe (And Disneyland wouldn't have a billion dollar making attraction. You never know...).
I'm telling you this because your feelings about scares could be turned into designs for the massively popular haunted house attractions, or write incredible books about horror, or be a consultant for theme park attractions. All those things would give you the thrill your looking for, AND make people happy!
People are so used to being put down for their particular idiosyncrasies, but oftentimes, they can be turned into incredibly valuable attributes, which they are.
Follow your dreams as long as it does not interfere with others. You sound like a kind hearted person. You deserve to be successful and happy.
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Not true. Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend were attacked and eaten alive when they were soundly sleeping in their tent when a big male had been foraging for scarce food before hibernating. In some cases (like with grizzly bear attacks), the bears will attack anything they come across to eat it. In Yellowstone, where many people have been killed by bears, people are taught in some cases to appear bigger and louder to make them go somewhere else, but it really depends! If you are inadvertently between a bear and her cubs, or out when they are very active (right before hibernating or after they emerge from hibernation) or just somewhere nearby, you better have a can of bear spray and a gun, and neither always works. Hugh Glass, the famous mountain man in the 1800s who tried to shoot a bear and her cubs for food, shot AND knifed the bear several times, which did not slow it down until it had torn him to shreds, then died. The fact that Glass survived is just unimaginable, he spent two years out by himself trying to heal and get back to the fort he had been hired by. He must have had an unbelievably strong physical (and mental!) constitution!!!
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That is incredible! I'm most impressed by the fact that you had giant cojones to go outside at night with just a piece of wood!! That is hard core!! I go running every morning at a lake near my house. I don't like attention, so I go early while it's still dark....I carry a taser that blows out 650,000 volts and my phone, and I can run pretty fast. But, every morning, I sit there in the truck for a few minutes. It's really dark, the lake supposedly has alligators in it, and I don't want to have to try and jump one on the path, there are huge, really huge snapping turtles that have bad tempers, and big ducks, big ducks and swans who are ok once they recognize and get used to you, but they are still cranky if you wake them up. They all sleep right on the path, and so does the occasional drunk, after a Saturday night bender...I'm scared every single day....I never get used to the feeling that someday, a giant werewolf is going to come out of the foliage. A few have been seen outside our town, according to some commenters. I always think of the worst....
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The only time I ever tried lobster was when we invited a girl my husband worked with to spend Easter with us, as she was alone and couldn't go home or see her boyfriend back East. We were in Los Angeles and told her we'd make a brunch and watch movies...so Easter morning, she's there, we're cooking eggs in our apt. and there is a knock on the door. I answer and there is a delivery guy there with a bunch of cartons. I was sure it was a mistake, but he INSISTED that I take the delivery, it was my name, the right address, etc., but we hadn't ordered anything. The phone starts ringing (the early 1990s, no cell phones for us) and my husband answers, while "pam" helps me hustle in the crates, which are really heavy. We open them and there are 6 LIVE GIANT LOBSTER freaking out on ice and the other crate is a case, a big case, of good champagne!! My husband's on the phone thanking profusely whoever he's talking to, and hands the phone to me, and the guy on the line is Pam's boyfriend, wanting to know if I like lobster. He had the thickest New York/Jersey accent I've have ever heard, he was really concerned that we had a good time. I thanked him, telling him I never had lobster, but I couldn't wait, and he said, "there's plenty more where that came from, I'll be in town in a couple a days, we'll go out to dinner some where together." When I hung up, my husband was looking looking kind of pale...
It turns out our friend had neglected to mention that the guy she was dating worked for an important "family" back east, and he just wanted to thank us for keeping her company on Easter, and give us a little thank you gift. We had invited her the night before this Sunday holiday. How he managed to get all that stuff to us in a few hours was a mystery, but he obviously had connections. We had a great brunch, needless to say...and now, every time the "Godfather" is on tv, we look at each other and say, "lobster would be good for brunch."
I'll never forget it...
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@Carlton_Wilson
I think it's an economic situation in some places. Where I live it is a pretty depressed area, and most people are just trying to put food on the table. They are working lower paying jobs, caring for extended family, putting kids through college and saving. Swimming is last on the list.
In my sister in laws extremely affluent area across town, they have several pools nearby and all the kids get lessons, have club memberships, can afford the extras. I notice there that the families in their gated community are black, white ,Mexican, Asian, a big mix. Everybody swims!
This is just what I observe where I live. Where I grew up, a lot of my friends had horses. We all had riding lessons, rode all the time. Ever since I moved, I've never lived anywhere where my friends ride. None of them can. Probably because its incredibly expensive to own horses.
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@TheBrainScratcher
I don't have Instagram, or Facebook or anything, except these comments. I learn a lot from people around the world on these sites, even if they are angry and insulting. I study a lot of history, but the holocaust is not my forte. Honestly, a lot of what I gleaned was from conversations with a PhD professor who taught history on Naval ships. He was brilliant, and I always felt privileged to talk to him. I could have misunderstood many things he said, or somehow twisted them inadvertently, because people do that all the time when remembering conversations, so don't blame him. I think I'm right, but I could always be incorrect. When I find I am, I always admit it and thank the person who is correct. Like I said, learning is my goal, not being right all the time. That said, I still have the right to my opinions.
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I grew up in the early 60s and had the absolute worst possible diet in history for most of my life. My mother worked nights at a very busy hospital so she did NOT cook, she barely slept! I don't blame her, but we ate hideous concoctions we mixed up ourselves, takeout and millions of Swansons TV dinners...
At 60, I was tired of being sick for most of my life, overweight and high blood pressured...Finally, not wanting to croak from heart failure, I radically changed my life and ate only high protein foods and no sugar. I lost tons of weight and started running, because I could.
Three years later, I'm off all meds, lightweight and healthy as I can possibly be, considering all the damage I inflicted on myself over the years. It's been the best thing I ever did, especially since it influenced my overweight, ill husband to stop most of his bad habits. We both started making creative dishes that were really good and good for us. I hope anyone who sees this will never think they are too old to change, we are really enjoying life now, because we aren't downing tons of meds, feel good and get outside every single day. I run 6 to 8 miles a day, and love it. What we eat, really makes or breaks us!!
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@karenmcardle142
It's too easy to give up your life by excusing everything you don't do by claiming it's all simulation. It's the new religion. Before, everyone blamed the devil, or god for all their boring, unhappy or chaotic lives, now, "it's all a simulation". How about just, living your life the way you want and take responsibility for all of your actions? No blame, no excuses, no whining, just do whatever you really want to do and see what happens. I did that at a fairly young age after listening to people give up all semblance of trying to make their lives better...
I don't know at all what or who runs things, but I've been incredibly lucky, if you want to call it that, living almost all of my dreams...just by trying...
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These scenes were mostly filmed by a young man with a film camera that started going out on calls with a highway officer. He often helped with recovery. When the police dept. Saw the films, they asked him to make them for police training purposes. I read about this in a book on mental health films. He must have had nerves of steel. Later, he added sound and the horrible audio of people screaming their last breath in agony was used in several films. Sometimes you see the same footage used in different movies like this but it is all real, unfortunately. People have not changed much. There were good and bad drivers, reckless kids and safe ones.
One thing to remember is that a lot of people passed their ten and twenty year old cars to kids, so in the 50s and 60s, there were cars on the road from the thirties. In some rural areas, people were still driving model Ts! Tests done on old cars with crash test dummies found that fatalities were significantly higher than in the shock absorbing cars of today. Even though there was usually considerably more bulk in the older cars, it was unforgiving steel and your body would take the shock.
Most people did not wear seatbelts and there were no shoulder straps. No 911, no paramedics. All those people pulling victims out of cars were compromising neck and back injuries. They had no choice, but believe me, as far as medicine goes, THESE are the good old days!
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Reminds me of the 19th century explorer, Sir Richard Burton. He was in India, Africa and the far east and picked up many languages with ease, translating the Indian classic, "The Kama Sutra" for English audiences, which was instantly banned for years. He had several unofficial "wives" and then came back to England to marry his English wife, a devout Roman Catholic who never stopped trying to convert him. He went along with it, but everyone knew he didn't take it seriously. After his death, she destroyed his priceless library and burned all his papers and books to "prove" he was really a simple, religious catholic. Unfortunately, for her, she was wrong...
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EVERYONE should read, "Into The Silence", by Wade Davis. The best, most fascinating account of the expeditions with Mallory to get to the top. What just floored me was that almost everyone on the first expedition (other than Mallory) was from the old India school of "conquering": out of shape, alcoholic, suffering from fevers, diabetes etc...used to servants doing everything. They were more concerned with how many delicacies and bottles of champagne and brandy they could drag up to the base camps, the amounts are staggering!! Mallory wasn't allowed to make the first ascent on the mountain because the honor was supposed to go to the older men who had more prestige, not who had the best chance of making it to the top. Everything was run like an East India Company vacation retreat, which had the predictable outcome of being a total failure...
When Mallory finally got his chance, he was completely committed, no matter what.
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When we lived in LA, I worked on this truly terrible law series called, "Equal Justice". It was really bad, but there were some cool people in it, like Sarah Jessica Parker, who was smart, and nice, pretty rare in LA at the time. She was dating Robert, and he used to come eat lunch with her sometimes on set. I had forced my husband to do some extra work on the show and Sarah was nice to him, recognizing that he didn't enjoy the whole thin, so we would eat together sometimes. Robert was very quiet and people continually gossiped about his drug use ruining his career...I am so happy that "they", were wrong, and he became a justly famous star...of course, this was way back in the late 80s and early 90s...a long time ago. It's so great to see him back on top. He deserves it. I learned a lot from that experience. No matter what others think, you can always reinvent yourself and create the world you want to live in, and be happy.
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@the8co291
I understand, pretty horrifying!!
This last weekend I was up at a place in the Texas Hill Country talking to one of the grandmas, and she shared a story her grandfather told of going out with his dad to the field one morning and some indian raiders shot his dad with an arrow and her grandfather ran and hid in some brush, then he ran back to the house to let his mother know. The Indians were stealing the horses. There was a huge amount of conflict in the area around Fredricksburg, Texas because the Germans who immigrated there didn't know they were building farms on native American hunting grounds, and the natives had no idea that it was going to be wave after wave of settlers and tried to scare them, or drive them away. The indians were still fighting in 1903 in some areas. Our family has a receipt from the US Government showing that they reimbursed our family for horses stolen by Geronimo when he was trying to escape. There were a lot of kids taken captive as well. The indians took children who were of every race, so there were tribes that had black, mexican, german, canary islander children who grew up and married indians, or were occasionally ransomed back to family members. There are hundreds of families around that are connected to everyone! My mom was half Indian, but her mom was french english and creole. Grandma was married to a cousin of the writer O.Henry, but she had my mom with someone from a reservation that she was obviously attracted to while her husband was gone working as a cowboy on a big ranch outside Dallas. Once you start getting into family history, you fully realize how connected we all are. If you're human, you're related!
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@hydra4251
I live in the USA, and guess what? In spite of your rash of inaccuracies, there are just as many good cops as bad, justices as injustices and fairness as unfairness. People only hear about and talk about the shocking and unfair, while those that do well go unreported. Yes, there is room for improvement, and yes, there are terrible miscarriages of justice. However, overall, more people than not are striving for the betterment of society. I already know how you're going to reply, because your only response to anyone with a different perspective is to either insult them, or claim that they are, "asleep". But it doesn't change the statistics. You can look up all government statistics on Google nowadays. If you stopped bitchong and moaning all the time about how unfairly things are done, and went to work on changing them for the better, it would help make a difference. If everyone does what they can to correct injustices, instead of blaming, we would be further along. Do something! Volunteer at a children's hospital, take meals to seniors, teach reading to adults, become a big brother to a child of a broken home. There are thousands of ways to improve the world. If you just want to bemoan the unfairness of it all, you are a huge part of the problem.
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@victoriawilliams2786
I love hearing that!! You are so lucky to have a ghost kitty!! From what I've heard, cats are extremely picky ghosts! My mother in law had a cat for years that her husband loved, and she pretended to dislike. It always rubbed her legs when she cooked dinner. When the cat finally passed from old age, she confided to me that she was terribly lonely, cooking without the cat there! She was completely bewildered by being so upset, because she, "wasn't a pet person". One night she was cooking dinner, and felt the familiar rubbing against her legs and heard the purring. Being busy, she didn't realize for several minutes that it was impossible! She told me this in a guilty way, because, as an old fashioned Christian, she didn't think animals could be spirits, but she told me it comforted her so much! I loved that, she was so confused by the whole thing, but admitted that she still felt her kitty in the kitchen for years! It was so sad, and so sweet...
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However, the toga is today the most enduring example of Roman society in ancient times. In any play or movie, someone striding out in a toga is immediately identified as a Roman, even if, in actuality, most Roman's wore tunics. I was always interested in the toga, it seemed to influence the later adaptation of kings wearing long capes over their shoulders that were ornamented with costly furs, etc. Queen Elizabeth, Queen of England was, I believe, the last person to wear a full length, ermine trimmed, royal red cape during her coronation.
Wearing a spotless toga would surely be a sign of wealth, since it would take a houseful of slaves or servants to keep them clean...
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Believe me, the US education system sucks, and I'm a proud American, but I know our faults. I've spent my whole life trying to make up for the ridiculously inept job the schools I went to did. I grew up in the 60s and 70s and almost all our teacher were 900 years old and so deaf dumb and blind that they seemed not to know where, or who they were, half the time, and by that time they really hated kids anyway. We would get a couple of student teachers, but they were usually so progressive that they moved the desks out and had us sitting on bean bags and meditating instead of learning how to spell. No one ever seemed to have any idea what was going on, and I grew up right next to STANFORD UNIVERSITY, so if it was that bad in Palo Alto, California, you know the little crap towns had it bad too. Most schools spent all their money for sports.
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@Ignirium
The internet is kind of like driving, the separation of space seems to bring our loudest selves that we would not show face to face.
Since I am a writer, I tend to work alone, which I love, but it can lead to getting too excited or heated when emotional discussions come up (like money, racism, etc), and it's easy to go overboard (for me).
The internet is a brand new way of communicating, historically, and I've seen a lot of evolution in it recently. I'm excited about the digital currency aspect of it. Even with all the potential problems, it's truly open to the world. I hope that these new vistas bring varied countries together and we become one instead of so divided. I've been saddened and ashamed of our policies in the USA, and sickened by the awful consequences that they have incurred, and the ugliness it's breeding now. I truly hope that we can rectify all this soon, and become a place I'm not ashamed of. This thread and your comments have inspired me to educate myself about the future of digital finance, and help me to hopefully help others. Thanks again!
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Trying to achieve endurance and longer distance, I tried various methods while running, and when i played traditional drumming tracks, from around the world, while I ran. I still had trouble going past five miles, but when I found an hour long track of Haitian Voodun drumming, I could almost easily cover ten miles without being out of breath or exhaustion! It creates a kind of trance like feeling (which is the point of it) but I wasn't sure it would work for running, since it's a spiritual practice and I wasn't trying for that, but figured a certain brain state would allow me to do things that I normally couldn't, and it worked.
I've been running around 8 to 10 miles a day, and I'm 60, with all the old person body problems, crushed disks, rheumatoid arthritis, bad knees, etc. Since I've been doing this, I've lost a ton of weight, have much less pain, and can run barefoot without injury! I'm a complete believer that the brain can do almost anything! If anyone had ever told me this was possible, I never would have believed it, but it works, just passing it along if anyone wants to try it, you won't turn into a zombie, or get possessed by Papa Legba (unless you want to), just feel better...
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Eddie Murphy was a brilliant young comedian on SNL and
I met him in a recording studio in the the early 90s in Los Angeles because he had some odd record deal, even though he couldn't really sing. I think he had one hit novelty song. He went everywhere with a huge entourage and every time he said anything, even if it was just, "what time is it?", his group would laugh hysterically as if he made a hilarious joke. I don't know if he liked it or wanted them to, but everything he said had this laugh track. It was like a parody of a famous comedian! Later that week he gave a pool party at his house in Benedict Canyon, and my friend and I were invited. I wanted to see the house because it had belonged to Cher and been covered by Architectural Digest. It was beautiful. We drove up there and it was a total madhouse! There were a couple hundred people pushing and trying to get in while the security guys checked names to make sure they were invited. We stood in a line for a couple of minutes, and then decided it was ridiculous to wait in line to go to someone's house, so we left, going back to the studio. We walked into the kitchen to to get a drink and Eddie Murphy was sitting at the kitchen table. He wasn't at his own party! We were like, "do you have any idea what is happening at your HOME?"
He didn't care. His brother was there and some other family, but he didn't want to deal with it. That, to me, was the epitome of the Hollywood lifestyle. Spend a zillion dollars on a world famous house, give huge parties, and sit by yourself in a record studio kitchen while strangers ransack your expensive property. The people around him struck me as grasping and fawning and he seemed incredibly lonely. It wasn't long after that his career died and his personal life went out of control, kids all over by different women, being taking him to court over paternity and child support. I think he had 8 or 9 kids by different women, and they ALL sued. His record was never even released, as far as I know, and his acting career dried up a year or so later. He had such a great start, but I think his fame was like a tigers tail, he couldn't hang on, it was too crazy.
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I was at the Stones Steel Wheels show in Los Angeles when Guns and Rose's opened for them.
I'll never forget Axl Rose introducing the song, "Knocking on Heavens Door" by telling the audience that the song was about, "getting what you want in life", and, "having a good attitude"....the really young fans had no idea what was going on and were screaming in appreciation, while we looked at each other in confusion. Then Rose went on a long, incoherent rant about his bands addictions and how he was going to quit...he then fell off the stage...
The Sex Pistols also played Randy's Rodeo, right up the street from our house in San Antonio, Texas, which I could never fathom, since it was an especially local, conservative, tex mex neighborhood of mostly older folks who never heard of them. The place was a bingo hall for years after...it was the most surreal moment...
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AOL warez
True! I never learned to speak French well, I'm ashamed to admit, I grew up in the 60s/70s in the San Francisco Bay area and anything "classical" was, way out, man!
I regret it so much, at the time, I just wanted to be a hippie like my older sister, and all she did was swan around, skinny, in indian saris and flinging her long, straight blonde hair (when she wasn't being a boring waitress in a dept. store lunch room after school). I was dark haired and dark eyed with white, white skin, NOT the fashion until late 80s grunge, which suddenly made me beautiful, for awhile....
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@ren_yt3715
I hear what you're expressing, I do. I've been there, and its incredibly hard to find that someone you thought was a certain way may not be what you thought, or may not be treated well by society. It's very difficult. You wrote well, so I assumed you were older! When i was younger, a tv star i really liked committed suicide, and i inadvertently found out that he had been an addict and alcoholic for a long time. It really hurt, because i was at an age before cynicism, thinking that people actually were what they seemed on film. It was terrible, because it really hurt to admire someone so much, only to discover that nothing was as it seemed. I was teased relentlessly by my family for being naive, which was just cruel, because I was too young to be anything else! I had no idea that almost everyone lies, almost all the time! As I grew older, several painful realities taught me self protection, but I never wanted to lose my general liking for most people. I take it for granted that people are flawed, not because they want to be, they are just a product of how they survived life to the point they are at. We can give everyone the benefit of the doubt at first, and learn discernment to find the truth. It helps a lot to look at peoples behavior like profilers, or, if that's too cold hearted, believe people until they repeat mean or destructive behavior, then believe that behavior! Words say one thing, actions are much more truthful! Always look at patterns, because that's how humans are, they repeat patterns that bring them rewards or limit punishment. If a man or women is abusive, they will use a huge number of excuses to not take responsibility for that behavior, whatever works on the person they are trying to placate, they will use over and over, until it stops working, then will find something else. Movie stars are notoriously good at reacting and manipulating others. It's their job!
They need to get their audience to completely believe that they are who they say they are. The best actors are extremely talented and good at that. Johnny Depp is a person who has gotten away with actions since he was a teen, his illegal behavior was covered up and hushed up by the studio, because they were heavily invested in his career, and that career was generating billions for his employers. There is nothing wrong for believing that someone you like is innocent, it's natural, but it's always a good idea to do some detective work too. It saves a lot of grief. You can Google all kinds of info on almost anyone now, and more truthful info is there than ever before (and untruthful, unfortunately!). I'm throwing all this out there, because I wish so much that someone had shown me how to read people before I had a life scarring experience. Luckily, I was able to use it to help others, turning adversity in opportunity, which is a great thing that really helps. Just be yourself, hear everyone and be a detective, you'll find the truth, whatever it may be, and it's very true that knowledge is power! Most people don't bother, they stay safe or complacent, not wanting to hear what they don't like, but it's always better to know the truth...and you will be learning incredibly valuable skills.
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@Brandon Neifert
It has always been a mystery to me why anyone would want to erase the Jews from historical record, but I've never understood racism at all anyway. It's just beyond me how people can be so insecure that they could actually feel threatened by someone else's traditions, but obviously, every day some fool wants to hate someone else for not being a carbon copy of them...it's ridiculous. Or it would be, if those people weren't so violent and unbalanced....
All I have learned from reading and talking with professors is that everyone has an opinion, and they all think they are right, and everyone else is wrong. So, believe what you like. You'll always run into people with different ideas and beliefs. When people start telling me about conspiracies, I usually know that there is no discussion possible, because the person is convinced that what they believe is a fact, and nothing will ever convince them otherwise, whether or not they are wrong. To be honest, I have no personal feeling about who wrote the bible, It could be written by unicorns and it would affect my life not at all. So don't get upset on my account, since I'm always interested in information, and not in trying to force someone else into sharing my personal beliefs...
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@richardc7721
I will look you up. I haven't been on FB for years but I have an account still, I think! I have been out of the picture the last few days because someone pulled a gun on me at the park where I walk my dog every day, three days ago. He walked up to me and wanted to talk, and I politely told him my dog was old and afraid of strangers, and he pulled a small handgun out of his jacket and pointed it at my dog. He said, "I can take care of your dog ". I got almost instant tunnel vision. It was astonishing. Everything just stopped. My only thought was, "no way is this guy going to shoot my 15 year old pitbull who has cancer!" I got in front of her and held her muzzle between my knees and the gun was now pointed at my chest. I could see my husband in our truck waiting for me to walk across the field to the street he was parked at, and I just kept thinking he was going to watch his wife and dog get shot to death. But I was NOT going to just let him shoot Lucy.
This guy was smiling, he was enjoying it, I could see it in his face. Someone came jogging up and he put the gun back in his pocket and said, "I can shoot her anytime I want" and walked off. I just stood there. I had perspired so much in those two minutes that my shirt and jeans were soaking wet, even my hair. It took everything I had to unclench my legs from my poor dogs head and start across that field. My husband almost had a heart attack, and he insisted on getting the park police, and they caught him, and they. LET. HIM. GO.
Because he didn't actually shoot my dog. So now this insane, violent man is on the loose and the police gave him permission to wave a gun at a woman in a public park at 10 in the morning. We could not believe it. It was worse than the crime, in my opinion. The police have just put a bullseye on my back, as far as I'm concerned.
When we got home I stood under a hot shower for almost an hour, I could not get warm. And I started to get really, really angry. I just cannot let this happen to someone else. I am absolutely convinced that this guy is not going to stop, especially since he got away with it. I got on the phone and started calling, the chief of police, our district representative, the county commissioner, the city Judge, the news outlets. I also made flyers for the park where I have gone for over 20 years, giving a description of this guy and letting them know that no one is going to protect them, that they are on their own. It's a lake in a park surrounded by a huge mexican population of traditional families that celebrate every holiday there, and I'm very sure they won't be happy to know that some guy can hold up their females. Also their dogs are a big part of life here. I am actually not Mexican, I'm french irish and native American, but I've lived here forever, and these folks know me.
This is MY home, and MY neighbors, and I just can't let this travesty go unnoticed. I was asked to go on TV, but my husband was adamant that it would get me killed. Either by the guy or the police who let him go.
Nowadays you can find anyone no matter what, so I don't think it matters much. I'm much more afraid of the police now, not all police because almost all are very good people, like you, but you know there are always the occasional bad apples and I think that's what happened. Or they just didn't believe he really threatened me. I actually did not talk to them except over the phone. My husband drove me home after we told an officer because I was having a reaction and couldn't stop shaking. I'm truly not a fearful person, I'm usually fearless, but looking at the gun pointed at my chest and his smile just gave me a physical reaction I could not control. Especially the thought of losing our beloved, sweet pitbull, lucy. It's ironic, because she is basically on hospice care now, only has months to live. Her cancer is incurable. We are making sure she is not in pain, and spend our time with her. She is my husbands first dog. He really loves her. That's what gets me more than anything, that this innocent creature was almost killed because I didn't want to talk to him. Anyway, sorry for the long explanation, but this is a situation I have never been in before!
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@Reaperguy67
I am too, but it was so awful! At the same time, there were other we iui rd events going on, "stinky the rapist" was attacking Berkeley students, Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the SLA and the Stanford Prison Experiment took place, just a couple of miles from my house! I knew about it, because a hippie teacher I had in 7th grade brought a bootlegged copy of the tapes to class and told us it was really important to see it. Talk about trauma! Every kid at Palo Alto High School was supposed to go to Stanford or Davis, and seeing that film freaked me out forever on Stanford. There was a lot of anger and the parents of the kids who participated all sued, supposedly.
The original raw films are pretty unbearable, you really get how the Nazi regime came about if it only took two or three days for wealthy, comfortable, bright students could turn into monsters...
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@paulmanson253
You described it so well. I grew up in Palo Alto, California, BEFORE it turned into tech city. Our house a very small, on a tiny lot. I looked it up a couple of years ago, on Zillow, and that tiny, crappy house was selling for 5 million!! I almost had a heart attack! I wouldn't want to move back there, but I don't think I could even afford to stay there on vacation now, its unreal. I remember seeing Neil walk on the moon, in real time. I'll never forget the look on my parents faces, it was like they were watching the parting if the red sea or something, just completely awed.
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@chasstiles7611
I don't know for sure, but I do know that Mandela was ill a lot in prison, and many people assume he died, or some stations talked about whether he was still alive or dead and was it covered up and how it would affect things. I remember quite a few news stories like that, and many other people were of course passing away around the same time. There were people who just thought he was dead and remembered a funeral, but we would point out that it wasn't his funeral, it was someone else. The hippocampus doesn't remember things like security camera footage. It reconstructs events from various bits and pieces you have floating around. I am often wary of the Mandela effect because I grew up with a mother who completely created her history, completely. She would insist that she vividly remembered something, and I would see an old movie years later, and that exact event would be featured. She had seen the movie and just copied it unconsciously, I guess. It happened all the time. She was always giving out facts that were originally just speculated about, then she believed her own speculation. A classic example was a (awful!) song popular in the 70s, called, "Send in the Clowns". My mom LOVED it and played it to death. She wondered one day why the singer sang it with such emotion, and thought perhaps she wrote it about a breakup or divorce. A few weeks later I heard her telling my dad that the singer had written the song after she got divorced! My dad accepted that as fact, and when I confronted her with the actual truth, that the singer didn't write the song and wasn't married yet anyway, she was extremely angry and insisted she "remembered" seeing it on tv!
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@bridgetcatron
It's still the safest form of travel, compared to cars, especially (6,000 people a WEEK die in auto accidents, mostly alcohol related), but if you're on a plane, your life is completely in the hands of strangers, people you won't even see (like the captain) who may or may not be overtired, high, drunk angry or just incompetent. There usually isn't a problem, but if there is, you have no control over the outcome, which is what causes the highest anxiety. If you have to fly, get out on an "off" day, no holidays, no busy hours and make sure you get the seat next to the emergency exit, if the plane is landing and it's on fire, you REALLY want to be the first one out the door, and to be a hero if you can, by helping people out and preventing congestion: shoving, hysteria, etc. Take charge, be calm, reassure everyone around you. Panic is an automatic death sentence, so don't, just concentrate on surviving and helping others to survive...I've been on planes with severe turbulence over the ocean, and the instant hysteria, screaming and crying was unreal. If I have to fly, I ask my doctor for lorazepam in a low dose. It relaxes you, but isn't going to confuse or knock you out. That ocean trip make me bless tranquilizers because I would have been completely terrified, if you need it, just tell the doctor you're a panicky, or first time flyer...no worries!
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Jock McSporran
I really helped my mental state too. I'm ashamed to say that I was very upset by covid and its dangers. My best friend, who is only 45, got it and now has heart damage and asthma. We had worked together years ago and had both gained a lot of weight since then. It was very obvious that excess weight and no exercise would make it harder to recover. My husband is a heavy smoker, and when he got covid, he had to go on all kinds of antibiotics and inhalers. This was last January, before we all knew what was going on. He is five years younger than me, and covid turned him into a 75 year old man, short of breath, tired all the time, aching with arthritis...
I was horrified by the pain they were going through. I got the flu but had already started vitamins and excercise, and I think it made a big difference. I was determined to do whatever I could to avoid too much damage. I never smoked, or drank much, so losing weight was the challenge, and it just happened. I have rescue dogs, so I walk with them a lot, and run every morning. I get up at 4:30 every day, and go out and go. I spent enough years on tons of medicines and doctors visits, i just could not keep doing it, pandemic or no pandemic. I wanted to try. I am very, very proud of my city, because everyone has really stepped up, volunteering, exercising, donating time and money to help..
Knowing everyone is encouraging you and looking out for you makes all the difference...
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@LuvBorderCollies
Hey, I have a border collie or Australian shepherd i rescued last year. I think she is a mix of those, or are they the same thing? I bought her from a heroin addict on the street! She was very bad, in the vet hospital for a month, but pulled through and is a joy!! She trains herself, and is extremely sensitive to my tone of voice and body language. I'm thinking of possibly doing volunteer work at hospitals with her because she is very people loving and drawn to injured people. I walk her around a lake near my home and anyone with a wheelchair, cane, mental disability, draws her like a magnet to go up and put her head against them. I've seen grown men cry holding her. She is a mystery. She looked like a dirty baby bear when I got her, so I named her Ursa, which is Greek for little bear.
I always wonder what she went through....
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I'm in my 60s, and disorders like CPTSD can get really old as I age. I always thought as I aged, I would work things out and be free of it, but that's not how it works, most of the time. Learning to accept yourself, good and bad, is key, and not comparing yourself to those who seem "normal"...I have many books about Virginia and her family and friends, and the whole extended family had mental disorders. Virginia's uncle was truly insane, and would come to the house to attack her older stepsister, Stella, thinking that they were in love. The abuse that Stella endured was considered just dealing with things women had to do...Stella believed that sex was a violation and put off marriage as long as possible. In that family, only other women could be trusted, and all the girls experienced positive reinforcement only with each other. Virginia wasn't committed to a gay lifestyle, or identified a sapphic, (except in a wry, self deprecating manner), and her sister, Vanessa, was the only person whom she could love without shame. She was so jealous of Vanessa that she tried to sleep with Vanessa's husband, Clive. She was guilty over this betrayal of the sisters trust, according to Vanessa's daughter, and Vanessa never forgave her. It came between them all the rest of their lives. So terribly sad.
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@jedirevan5892
Why would he care if someone believed in magic and want to "convince" them not to? His beef was only with people who took advantage of others, not that everyone should follow science. You're splitting everything into black, or white. Not letting someone get away with taking advantage of someone else has nothing to do with magic being real or not. It's only about taking advantage. I, personally, was raised in a very earth/nature/spirit environment, and I believe in a lot of things, but I hate fakers, unless they are honest about it, then it's great entertainment. After WWI, thousands of people turned to seances, desperate to contact loved ones killed too soon. Of course Europe was suddenly flooded with "gifted mediums", who never appeared before, and who were given money and gifts and were complete liars...Houdini loved exposing them, because they cruelly used pain to enrich themselves and he thought that was wrong.
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@jesperlindberg7970
Thank you, I am happy to read your comments because I have never really traveled, but love to read and know all I can about these wonderfully different places! I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area which had a huge oriental population, so most of my friends were from that background. It was funny, because their moms were often very wealthy and reserved matriarchs in these absolutely incredible houses that looked like oriental palaces, full of art and jade sculptures, etc., and very, very proper, while their kids, my friends, were these totally American irreverent 60s and 70s hippie clothes wearing rebels, using slang, with very American accents. Talk about a cultural divide! Now that I'm older, I really feel bad for those poor parents, who were just baffled by these offspring that had apparently nothing Chinese or Japanese, in them! That was an era of tremendous upheaval. I had an opportunity to go to a (very rare for outsiders) event once, with my dad, who had a secretary at the bank, who married into a fine family and had her first child (a SON!) 9 months later, which just made her a perfect daughter for both sides of the family! They rented the entire floor of the old, venerable Empress Hotel restaurant and had a gigantic affair to celebrate the good fortune! If I live to be one hundred I will never forget it! The beautiful surroundings! Hundreds of courses of rare dishes! The unbelieveable jewelry! The silk dresses! The new mom stood with her husband and parents on a kind of raised platform, and everyone came up to wish them long life and happiness and good luck. The former secretary was wearing the most beautiful traditional cheongsam I've ever seen, and covered in ancient jade jewelry.
Anyway, it gave me such a feeling of awe and respect and a desire to learn about other countries! I love the details, what makes a country different. I've seen films of the Northern lights in Finnland, and skiing, and a little of the food, but still know nothing, really. I live now in the Texas Hill Country, so it's as far away from snow and northern lights as you can get! Tell me, if you want, what you do for fun and recreation during the long winters?
How do you cope with darkness and snow? Is there any food that is traditional that you love? Do people still ski there a lot?
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@jesperlindberg7970
I was just about to comment on your post when a tornado suddenly came out of nowhere, and headed right for us! Our phones were going off with tornado warnings and our neighbors next door stayed on their front porch, drinking cocktails, they had survived several hurricanes in Louisiana and lost their house in Katrina so they are completely fearless and philosophical about tornados. I grabbed the dog and cat, first aid and meds, etc. (stuff you really don't want to lose in a disaster, like your credit cards and car keys and vital medication), my husband went outside to track the tornado and we hunkered down in a "tornado closet", a big cedar closet in the middle of the house. That way we are away from all windows and flying debris. My poor dog was hyperventilating because it was so noisy. One lightning strike was so close I felt it in my hair, so it had to have hit right outside. The thunder was so loud it cracked a window.
My best friend across town was out of its path and kept sending me updates on where it was, which was right up the street, when it suddenly fell apart, thank goodness. We are waiting for the next line of storms to move through...I think the worst is over for now. Texas has had a ton of tornadoes this Spring already, that usually means a very active season.
I can hear our neighbors still laughing out on their porch next door, so I know they're ok!😀
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@cdd4248
I love finding old memoirs and western biographies in ancient bookstores. It's like a treasure hunt! I have some really old accounts, and its amazing! The "old West" as portrayed in movies, was so sanitized in the 40s and 50s, but they are all still fun! I still can't get over finding out that Wyatt Earp was a consultant in early Hollywood, and apparently took an interest in Marion Morrison (John Wayne), giving him tips on how to play a real cowboy, even though he had only been an early stunt man. He must have seen an opportunity to show the quieter, lonelier man than most movie cowboys, giving the character much more depth. I still love the movie Stagecoach, because you really see John Wayne becoming more confident in his character, more natural.
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Everyone needs to read "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins! A fantastic and surreal adventure of two early humans who discover the secret to eternal youth (which has to do with dancing and beets), frolicking through the centuries and discovering other fantastic secrets.
Some of the qoutes in the novel are so fantastic, they've become a kind of template for my own journey thru life. My favorite is that if you refuse to take charge of your own life, you can't be surprised if the gods have a grin or two at your expense. If you sit back and wait for things to land in your lap, basically, don't bitch about what you get, since you never made an effort to even make a decision about how you wanted things to be...
I'm 60, and I've found that the most youthful, attractive trait to have, and to find in others, is a sense of humor and a fascination with others. Being interested in everything and everyone, makes you incredibly attractive. YOU don't have to try to be fascinating, people think you are when you are interested in THEM. it is so rare in the average person, that even though I'm not young anymore, and never was a real beauty, I still get asked out all the time, usually by young men, even though I've been married for over 34 years. My husband has remained in love with me, just because I really like him, and I'm interested in his life. I'm not kidding, it's the secret between being alone all your life and having more friends and lovers than you can handle. Be unselfconsciously confident, humorously friendly and easy going, and interested in everyone and you will be happy! And make others happy. And live forever.
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@goodun2974 I once made brownies and used baking soda instead of flour (that's what I got for putting everything in glass jars and then labeling them wrong!), which was disgusting! I collect old cookbooks, and most of the really old ones assume that a young married woman already knows her way around a kitchen or has experience cooking, since girls were expected to spend all their time there eventually. My oldest cookbook is from 1900, called, "How To Please A Husband"!
When my mom got married in a civil ceremony at the courthouse right at the end of WW2, immediately after the ceremony, the Justice of the Peace handed mom a cookbook!!
She was furious! An early conflicted feminist, she always bounced back and forth between pretending her job was "just a hobby, really", so as not to make dad feel inadequate, and burning her bra....
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@JimmyMon666
I hated coffee till I was in my early 20s! Now, its ridiculous, I drink several cups a day. I don't sugar it or drink soft drinks anymore either. When the pandemic started, I started losing weight, my best friend had covid and my husband and I got it, right before it really blew up...we both lost a LOT of weight. I lost my appetite (for the first time ever) and lost over a hundred pounds! The weight loss cleared up my medical issues like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, pre diabetes, etc. I stopped taking about 8 meds, since I didn't need to anymore. The side effects of all those drugs vanished too, and I was left with a very weak, non muscular body! Strangers were telling me I could get surgery for my skin, which was pretty embarrassing...one day I started running, and I haven't stopped since. In two years my muscles and skin fit again (without surgery) and I needed to eat good food to run more. So I gave up all the junk. I started to get more and more energy, which obviously changed my life for the better. I spent my whole life being told that losing weight was impossible because of health issues, which turned out to be untrue. Losing weight cured my health. Now, because of very hot Texas weather, I get up at 4 am and run 8 to 10 miles, then get home before its 100 degrees! Like every convert to a new lifestyle, I tried to get my friend to try it it, just because we were both overweight and had the same health problems, but she couldn't, and has not been able to get over the covid. Her heart was damaged and she needs oxygen to sleep at night. She is 45!! That really scared me. I am completely convinced that trying to get healthy saved my life, because I am 60! I didn't want to die, so it wasn't hard to give up desserts and soft drinks!!
I always put this out there to try and give everyone some hope, that no matter what someone tells you, or how bad you feel, or how old you are, you can actually change almost everything for the better! You can live better, feel better. Just getting the weight off my joints changed my life, I gave up opiates because I didn't have as severe pain, just from weight loss. Obvious I know, but it really was like a miracle to me, in a way...
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But...you're not her friend.
So it comes off as rude and offensive. I know you mean well, but when you criticize a stranger, they really, really don't like you afterwards. You may admire her and think she is great, but I guarantee she doesn't like you at all now. Next time you admire someone, don't tell them, how to dress, how to eat, how to wear makeup, how to talk, stand, walk, etc. Anyone in show business will tell you that they absolutely despise "fans" that give them "helpful" advice. Only a close friend or family member has the confidence and trust to be able to offer critique of someone's appearance, and even then, its iffy. I'm telling you because I hope you're just young and no one bothered to teach you manners. If you're older, you're a clueless idiot.
Don't EVER tell people how to look.
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I think you're right! It was beautiful, a lot of old wooden staircases and an old, old elevator. There were really old TVs in the rooms. It was like 1890s meets the early 50s back then, but I really liked it. We went out to some vineyards for wine tasting the next day, and like Texas always is, after the storm, it was beautiful out the rest of the weekend. We have a place outside Fredricksburg, Texas, and there has been some bad storms out there, but it's hill country. There is just nothing like that flat land around Lubbock. So many talented musicians came from there, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, I don't know about Mac Davis, but he did have his own tv show in the 70s...I remember going to see Butch in Gruene, Texas a bunch of times....
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@goldenhd9656
You attempt to storm a government military base, and they are REQUIRED to defend it with the use of deadly force. These aren't kids screwing around. It doesn't matter if it's full of aliens or just a giant dumping ground for old paperwork, you don't get to go in without an invitation. You try to get in, you will die. Seriously, you will die. You won't see aliens because you'll be dead. It's not a joke to people who took an oath to protect the United States of America against all threats. It doesn't matter if you don't mean any harm or it's a joke or all in fun. You will be dead. The whole place is mined to the teeth and wired up like Fort Knox. The least horrible thing that will happen to you is that your car will overheat leaving you stranded 3 hours away from water or food and stuck with a bunch of other panicking, desperate people who suddenly realize that the elements can kill them. The temps drop to freezing at night and you will not have cell phone service out there. There are no bathrooms, gas stations or stores, you will die of thirst, exposure or by being attacked by other panicked, hysterical people who are in the same situation. I've been out there. You get heat stroke and can't get treatment immediately and you will die. No joke. People still die every year in Death Valley because their vehicle overheats and they get stranded. They just don't realize how immediate the risk of dying is. We are used to everything being there for us. When you are in a place where there is nothing, you will die.
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@Brett-yq7pj
I agree with you, but I'm not competing, just locating different sources, which is of historical significance to me personally. I love tracking history and finding different people I've never heard of before! As a writer and voracious reader, it's an absorbing hobby. At least, to me!
I was fascinated when I learned that slaves were often not allowed to talk to each other while they worked on big plantations, because the overseers were afraid of their plotting uprisings, but they were allowed to sing christian music, so they began to incorporate into the music and lyrics news and information for and about each other. The same happened when the men worked laying railroad tracks. The "call and response" style birthed an entire new kind of music, that influences it to this day. I find that amazing. In the Appalachian mountains, there was an effort to record that music, as it was completely different than anything else, and we end up with the great Johnny Cash! Cool..
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There is a great pre code, 1930 movie called "Babyface", in which a very young and sexy barbara stanwyck plays a girl prostituted by her father, who runs a saloon...although she expects nothing better, a German professor who drops by for a beer, whips out his big book of Nietzsche and tells her that she must follow his philosophy. She takes it seriously and runs away to the big city, sleeping her way to the top of the huge company and becoming incredibly wealthy. Most of the movie shows men going insane with desire for her, shooting each other, begging, sobbing and crying while she swans around ever bigger apartments dripping with jewelry and furs. At the very end of the film (in the last few minutes), the action pulls up short, makes her fall in love and lose all her money, as if they suddenly realized they had been carried away, and didn't want to be blamed for millions of small town girls running to the city with a copy of German philosophy and laying waste to the male population.
Even for a pre code film, it's pretty dirty and ahead of its time. One of my favorites.
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You and my husband would get along! He feels the same, and thinks there is plenty to worry about without tossing in creatures no one has proved exist...San Antonio used to be thought to be gator free, even though in the 20s and 30s they had an "alligator garden". You can find old photos of kids perched on gator backs (I don't get it, honestly, but it was a big deal then). Anyway, alligators have shown up in the San Antonio River, which winds through downtown...and people have dumped their pet ones into local streams and creeks when they get bored with them, so there now seems to be a healthy population. What really threw me was seeing a mountain lion in our neighbors yard 2 years ago. We are close to Downtown, and this is a big city! But, like the coyotes in the Los Angeles hills, they have adapted to checking out garbage cans for easy pickings...we have a ranch in the Hill Country, and there are several exotic game ranches around, and life really does find a way, just like in Jurrasic park. Big games always gets out...
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@sicsempertyrannisvi4107
People often overreact when they get worked up, but it's still insulting to everyone, white or whatever else, because labels are for cans, NOT PEOPLE. I happen to be a mixed stew, genealogy speaking, but am very, very pale looking, while my mom had darker skin like her Native American Indian ancestors, with black hair and eyes. My sister was blonde and green eyed. There have been times when people have tried to use me to amplify their racism, and it's always a cringe moment. It's too hard to untangle my family tree at a moments notice, but I want them to be aware that I am not on the same page they are...it's always awful when ANYONE puts everyone in a box based on something so weird as skin tone...if someone doesn't like me, I want it to be for an actual reason, not assumption.
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@Moebz818
Was it in California? The reason I ask is because my niece had a very weird experience seeing something in Sacramento several years ago. She couldn't really describe it. Seeing anything so far from what we consider "normal" is always terrifying. I've read a lot about how traumatic events mark us. There is an incredible amount of personal and clinical information from well known and unknown writers! It is a part of the human condition, but witnessing something that is very far outside of any known being, is trauma combined with deep loneliness, since no one can share your experience. It causes the same psychological damage as abuse.
I'm not a doctor, but it's become a field I've watched grow because we are connected to each other globally now, and people are beginning to have the courage to come forward and perhaps learn that they are not crazy, as they fear, they are validated, they are believed. I saw this happen with the "dogman" phenomena. Although it seems impossible that such a creature could go undiscovered, it turns out that thousands of people have seen them, but were usually too fearful of ridicule to come forward. So they are not undiscovered, they are just not recognized by science to be an actual, biological creature yet. But that does not mean they do not exist.
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@jjs6568
First, you have my deepest regard, and I am so sorry that you have had to suffer from so much. I understand that it can feel very hopeless. In my opinion, I don't think you need to humble yourself, because, although I'm not a Christian, I've never heard that god wants you to be a doormat. If you are created in his image, you have a LOT to be proud of! If you are a representative of a race of fantastic beings, own it and feel regal to be exactly who you are.
There are many confusing changes now and what was accepted as a rise to the top in the 40s, 50s and 60s, is now frowned on in many places, but there are still, many, many people who make millions and give just as much away to help others. A good example is J.K. Rowling, a unemployed, single, divorced mother on state assistance who wrote the Harry Potter books in a cafe near her crappy apt. because she couldn't heat her place. Then she had her book (which became the biggest selling fiction in history) rejected 14 times!! Can you imagine her despair by the 14th rejection letter!? Finally, a very small Scottish publishing firm took a chance and now she makes billions, most of which she gives away....
There ARE still dreams and good people. I don't blame you for feeling crushed. I know the feeling well myself. I did notice that my sorrow and bitterness at my losses kept me from some great opportunities, and when I really started to clear out my inner soul and started just volunteering with kids, things changed a great deal. I highly reccomend volunteering with children. Teaching them to read, being a big brother or sister, hospice, visiting at hospitals, remind us that there are still millions of pure, sweet hearts and minds out there, who need understanding and encouragement to get through life.
You do that for a month, and I can absolutely guarantee it will open doors to a new life, a better, happier life...
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Ok, but give some actual evidence or reasons why you think so. If you believe it, that's cool, but if you are making a categorical statement, it implies you know it to be a fact because......(insert evidence or fact based information).
I'm interested because most people just make weird statements like, "you have to be awake", or, "follow the evidence", which always seems to mean looking at utube videos of overexcited guys insisting that there are alien bases by pointing to blurry photographs. I'm open to a lot of possibilities, I would like to hear an actual reason though. If something is true, it should be able to be shown to be true because it is evident.
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@kostajovanovic3711
1930. Directed by Lewis Milestone, who had been in WWI, starring Lew Ayres. The scene where he almost loses it in the dugout, and the older man almost tenderly calms him down, tore me up. I've read a lot of biographies of people who went through the war, and I'm always stunned by the fact that for so many men, it was the first time they had been bombarded by noise. Most had grown up in a horse society, no radios, no loud machinery, deep quiet except f o.j r shooting game. To suddenly be exposed to bombs and shelling 24/7, no wonder they went mad. I cannot even imagine it. I have always had sensitive hearing, and I have to wear earplugs in theatres and even restaurants or I get pain in my head, like a migraine, so it something that always stood out to me, the idea of just shattering, explosive noise without ceasing.
I read a bio of an English girl whose many men friends joined up, and every day one would be killed, they did nothing but visit the homes of the bereaved for 4 years, and most of England became a country of women....
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@jamesdorpinghaus3294
I meant to congratulate you on the anniversary of your job! Thanks for being on the front lines, helping save people. I don't know very much about roadside assistance, except that they saved my butt a couple of times! I have to admit that I dropped out of high school 2 million years ago, because my parents wanted me to go to Stanford, I had a breakdown and just quit. Never went to college, unfortunately. If I did it again I would have gone to a quiet little 2 year college like SAC and studied art. Since I had no real education, and loved to read, I've been reading ever since. So I know a great deal about the 1920s art scene in France, but nothing about the war of 1812...oh well, I was always really lucky, and ended up happy. I'm convinced now that I'm old(er), happy is the outcome we should strive for anyway...
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I appreciate your comment. There is a book out called. "Bearing the Unbearable, The Heartbreaking path of Grief" by Joanne Cacciatore PhD, who helps parents of kids who were killed in school shootings, and with Permission, she included a letter penned by the mother of a victim of Sandy Hook. This mothers grief was heavily compounded by the heartless, thoughtless "positivity" so many people faced her grief with. She was angry and broken that her beautiful daughter was ripped from life, and murdered! She said her daughter didn't die to teach others to learn a lesson or appreciate life or give some stranger incite, that she would NEVER accept that there was anything positive about it, because she was terrified and then killed in cold blood, dying alone and cold on a hallway floor. That could not be Gods "will" to do someone else "good", in her opinion. I agree with that. People were even telling her to look at the murderer with compassion, etc., etc. How shallow can positivity be? It had a tremendous effect on me to read that book and realize that people have mistakenly become so grief phobic that they actively resent the mourning or grief stricken left behind, urging them to "get over it". No one ever has the right to tell anyone how to grieve. Columbine was a vicious tragedy which changed a population forever. Your souls have been scarred by loss. Nothing can make that go away. What is left behind is learning to live with the change, and go at your own pace and way. Everyone affected has my most heartfelt sympathy, I cannot even imagine the depth of pain that all felt, the fear, the longing for something that is gone forever. In my opinion, there is no forgiveness, it was a crime of such brutality that its impossible for me to comprehend. I cannot even imagine how anyone could do it. I was bullied right out of grade school once, and never thought of getting back at anyone, or blaming anyone. I was just sad, but still became a reasonably adjusted person, who developed compassion for others and tries to help make the world better, not worse. And I'm just a very average person. You are right in your comments that they were just evil...
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I was going to work at an art school and heard the news on the radio. We live in a city with 4 military bases, and I assumed the unthinkable happened and we were at war, and probably going to be bombed...
When I got to the art school, I gave them the news, and said I was going home to get ready to have to evacuate. To my surprise, no one reacted to the information. I thought they had not understood, and told them planes had crashed into the Trade Centers and the Pentagon...they just kept drawing like zombies...someone finally said, "I'm sure it's just an accident or a prank". I was completely struck by the fact that not a single person there was going to stop their routine and were somehow incapable of hearing or believing me. I turned and left immediately. A week later, they attempted, one by one, to tell me that they were just trying to stay calm, or didn't hear me, or didn't understand....it was so, so weird to have an entire group just block out news they did not want to hear. These weren't kids, they had all been through WW2, I still cannot understand how they could literally not believe their ears. It was the first time I had ever run into that very strange experience of group denial....
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Baphomet
Do you listen to and watch the video, absorbing it's content, or do you simply scan for anything you can complain about? I'm sure you feel that this channel should WANT to know everything that might be incorrect, so they can feel ashamed, but like most critics, you don't know when to quit, and, more importantly, when a mistake is immaterial to the overall subject.
This is not a thesis being presented, it is a entertainment channel that obviously tries to get all the facts and images correct in a very limited time frame, and allow that there may be errors.
They do a great job, in my opinion, and when I see an error, I just notice it and move on.
Compulsively correcting people is detestable habit, and is in itself incorrect in societal interactions. So instead of being excitingly "right", you instead appear pathetic and desperate for attention.
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I think you are becoming too caught up in your extreme feelings. Take a breath and try not to work so hard to put everyone into small and narrow labels. Just because people aren't exactly like you doesn't mean they are the most extreme of enemies. That kind of thinking is the definition of communism., which you are against. Try to realize that even with extremists, most people are just living normal lives, raising kids, working, and dealing with bills, life, death and illness, like everyone else. Since I'm fairly certain you will be infuriated by my opinion, I would like to let you know that I have no axe to grind, politically. I'm a very average person who believes that people are too complex to be labeled like cans of food. Just my opinion....
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@john-paulsilke893
I am ashamed to admit that I don't anything at all about these women! I am looking them up! When I was growing up, our neighbor was Dr. Loren Acton, a solar physicist who was picked for a space shuttle mission. It was a complete accident of fate that he was put on the challenger 6 months before the second crew went up and were killed. He trained with all those people for a year or so and it was heartbreaking. He was such a cool neighbor that I was actually invited by NASA to the launch (and didn't go because I couldn't get time off the lame slave job I had...talk about a missed opportunity! I have regretted that my entire life. Now, when something special comes up, I jump! ). He also gave me patches that had gone into space and signed a book on space to me, which I HAVE kept carefully. His son, my friend since the age of 4, lived with us during the time his dad was training back east so he could finish high school (We used to drive to the beach at night, listening to The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, and had the only truly scary paranormal experience of our lives). Because of my desire to explore the world and be an "artist", I dropped out of school and left Palo Alto and all my soon to be billionaire classmates so I could be poor and suffer for art. I certainly did, but my only regret is not finishing my education. I am a voracious reader, and as soon as I could, started amassing a library.
I've never regretted missing out on the internet explosion, because I've been almost unbelievably fortunate all my life, but I will always try to catch up on my education.
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You are wonderful, your grammar better than most of my friends who only speak/write English! I have never been to Argentina, but my favorite teacher of all time came to California from Argentina and she was so homesick, she would tell us stories all the time about it. She was the sweetest person, and we introduced her to my friends single uncle in the hope they would fall in love and get married and she would stay here (we were only 4th graders!!). Believe it or not, it worked, and they DID fall in love, and
married! Her name was Elizabeth Tatum, and she used to come into the hospital where my mom worked, to have a baby, practically every year! This was so long ago, but I've always thought Argentina must be a wonderful place because of her stories, that stayed with me all my long life.
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When my sister was in England she complained that they had the grossest food combinations. I asked her for an example, and she said tuna fish on a baked potato was served as bar food. I asked my English friend about it, to see if it was a real combo, and she was horrified. "That's my favorite food!"
she was unbelieving that anyone would think it was disgusting...
I remember my Boston born and raised father insisting that we have baked beans with ketchup and canned brown bread every single Sunday. Though we lived in Palo Alto, California, he rebuilt our house to look like a Cape Cod Saltbox. Everything we grew up with was as East Coast as possible to ease his homesickness. Why they never moved back east I never knew, but he wouldn't even visit, so something must have happened to keep him away. He told me in such detail about Boston all my life, that when I finally visited there in my thirties, I knew every street, where the subway was, all the landmarks and old restaurants. It was creepy, like walking in a dream. I KNEW the city better than my hometown, even though i had never seen it before....
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I was stalked off and on for 30 years by someone who had held a loaded gun to my head, and said that someday, "I'd pay". I never particularly got over it, but it made me tough, as, nails. I became a serious warrior and got to the point where I was happy to face off with him if he ever showed up. But, he died, thank goodness...I was so happy to see his obituary, and now I am super woman, at least to myself. I'm glad I didn't let him control my life in any way except being strong and ready no matter what, which I'm happy about now. I've faced off with people since and have been told I'm terrifying, so I'm ok with that. I wish I hadn't been scarred at only 20, but, the experience helped me become strong, and help others...
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I wish people would just enjoy this fantastic channel and stop trying to "improve" it with constant complaints about having to read, the sources, why the music isn't what they want to hear, ad nauseum.
If you are over the age of eight, you should be able to read. If you want sources, Google the subject and look up the research, if you want your personal music preference on every video, become a DJ or start your own utube channel and everyone can complain about you.
Putting these videos together is hard work, the people that do it are very dedicated and care a lot about the content. Accusing them of lying, faking, not editing or proofreading, not having a narrator, etc. etc. is just boring and nitpicking by people sitting at home with no life and a twenty pound bag of Fritos scoops.
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I think you should believe what you want. It is only when you say with absolute certainty that we are all sinful and non believing and not right with god and that is why everything is wrong. Then you are not just believing, you are forcing your beliefs on others. What if things were different? What if I got on line and told people that if only they believed in Hathor the goddess and became Wicca, the world would be better? What if there were commercials on tv telling you where you should go to celebrate the sabats? What if people tried every day to get you to donate to a coven? Or knocked on your foot to tell you how your life would be wonderful if only you have yourself over to the Lord and Lady? Would you be angry? Frustrated? Wonder how people could get away with talking to your kids like that? Well, think about it. People get angry because they can't get away from it. No matter where you go and what your doing, someone is constantly invoking god, blessing you whether you want it or not, telling you to pray, asking for money, and running commercials on television. It is an endless bombardment. If you don't believe in God, it feels like a forced, state run religion. Especially since my religion is not allowed even though it is older than Christ. I believe in mine just as strongly as you do in yours, but I would never dream of trying to tell anyone else to, it would be beyond my comprehension to go door to door or tell people on the internet that they need to follow it. Just please think about what others go through.
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You are globalizing. Scientists rarely all agree. That does not mean that they are all wrong. You are cherry picking incidents and using them as example to prove that ALL scientist engaged in coverups, which is not true. If I used your logic, I would never have surgery, because some doctors get away with malpractice, the medical board covers up their mistakes. Does that happen? Yes. This does not mean, however, that I would refuse to trust most doctors. They are not perfect, but a hell of a lot better than no doctor! Scientists are not perfect, but if it's between a bunch of brilliant scholars who have spent their lives studying and learning about their subject, and some hysterical screaming conspiracy theorists...I'll go with the scientists every time.
To try and get you to understand, if it were not for science, you would not be able comment online. All computers are based on a scientific foundation. You may believe that scientists had this knowledge 2000 years ago and covered up the knowledge for some nefarious reasons of their own, but without them, you would still be living in a cave...
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The Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind is a painful realization that those we love also have the ability to completely destroy our hope and trust, and that we must decide if they are worth another chance. Are they just human beings who are navigating life without directions, making mistakes along the way, and do they truly love and want to be the best they can be for us, or are we better off going it alone and trying again with someone else? Often relationships seem set in another world, where no one else appears, like dreams. I thought this film captured that quality of surrealism very well, and I always loved the qoute which is the title of the movie, as it comes from the famous letters of the star crossed, tragic lovers Heloise and Abelard in the 12th century...written by Alexander Pope, it is a heartbreaking drama of love lost but never forgotten, no matter what forces separate real love, it overcomes in some form.
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Johnny Depp is an actor who will always be "Captain Jack Sparrow", and most people probably can't mentally switch to imagining him as anyone else. His biggest role is actually ruining his career in the future. Like Superman, he can't be seen as human and faulty in roles, millions who grew up with him just won't be comfortable if he has any negative characteristics...the luckiest actors in the business are under the radar, character actors, who get to play all different people and do not draw so much attention that they are only seen as one dimensional. Humphrey Bogart was a rare star who transformed himself from a bad guy and gangster in dozens of films to a cool and compelling ethical guy going against the grain of graft and crime in a not always legal effort. Clint Eastwood was able to do the same. If you look at the trajectory of their careers, they really avoided the pitfalls and made it seem effortless. They also were extremely private in their own lives, so most fans could inhabit more of the fantasy of film, instead of knowing every single boring detail of their messy lives, which always affects how they are perceived on screen in a negative way. Less is definitely more in this case. Johnny Depp's career is overshadowed by his endless relationship woes, and no one who sees him in anything will be able to think of anything else when he is onscreen. It's very unfair and unfortunate but happens all the time. Paul Newman was another great who never, ever talked about his homelife or problems, he spoke through his acting, and stayed relevant for 80 years...
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@piotrd.4850
Oh god! "Threads"....
The movie that destroyed my childhood and made me seriously look at Nietzsche as having the appropriate outlook for the future...
You are right, Threads is right there with a perfect slap in the face to get across that there will be NO winners in a nuclear war..."Grave of the Fireflies" and "Requiem for a Dream" are big runners up, but Grave of the Fireflies, after I realized that it was autobiographical, really broke me.
I have to say that I decided a long time ago that I'd rather be hopeful and altruistic than depressed and selfish, I still get depressed, but found that doing at least one unselfish thing every day, which started as a kind of dare during a brunch (of all things!), over 15 years ago, almost erased my depression and gave me ideas for started a charity. No matter how hopeless you feel, you can make someone else's whole day, or life, depending on your action...it has led to some incredible people...
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In San Antonio, Texas, there was a huge scandal several years ago when a prominent citizen, active in the art community, was discovered to be dealing in stolen art. There numerous missing art works hanging boldly in his home, and he was part (if I remember correctly) of a large underground "railroad" of art sales.
I worked once at the McNay Art Institute and used to walk the galleries at lunch, always stopping before 2 small Van Goghs, my favorite artist. One day, only one was still hanging in the accustomed spot. I asked at the desk where the other one was hanging, but received an evasive reply. I didn't think much of it at first, but began to try and find out whether it had been loaned out, or sold, and no one would admit that the painting had even been on display. I visited those two for a year almost every day, and I know that they were both Van Gogh. This was over thirty years ago, and back then the astronomical price for Van Gogh was starting to become news. It has bothered me to this day that the small painting absolutely vanished without a trace, at least that I could find. My husband once said, "it's probably hanging in the janitors garage", because the galley had terrible security back then, really terrible.
It's a mystery that still bothers me. If anyone has an idea of how to track down art, I'm interested in hearing about it...
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@Splatterbrain7
I agree with your assessment that more young people are depressed and that America is focused on succeeding monetarily, but please don't lump all 300 million people into "hating poor people"! I don't hate them, and I didn't hate myself when I was poor. So many people I know work hard on habitat for humanity, shelters, meals on wheels and a lot of other things for others. They work all week and spend their days off giving their time, money and selves to other people less fortunate. It really hurts me to know you think so little of so many good folks.
I want to tell you that I was clinically depressed and suicidal for my entire childhood and young adulthood. Please, please never give up! I am happier now at 58 than ever before in my life, more than I could ever have hoped. Not because of money, because I found combinations of things that helped me. People, medication when i needed it, meditation and exercise, writing and art. For me, times of overwhelming grief will always be there, but i can move with and through them, laugh AND cry. I know what to do when I am overwhelmed, have a few people who are my "team" people I have learned to love and trust. Never give up! I know you have probably dreamed of oblivion, but try everything, try to be healthy as you can, trust your gut, reach out to help others, you will be a deeper, richer, more empathetic person for your struggles, and a light to others. I wish you well.
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@dmitriylevitskiy1674
Actually watching people die is not very funny. If you've ever been in a hospital with people crowded around a bed, trying to understand that someone they love is going away forever, is plugged into machines, can't talk, and barely breathe, and they desperately need to tell them one more thing, hear their voice one more time, change everything, go back, somehow...
You would understand. When death hits, it changes every relationship, every cliche and every assumption. Watching it is not fun, and a lit of people have watched young loved ones die in this last two years. Whatever "side" you're on, remember that these people are living with broken hearts. Try to have some compassion.
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@hitekrednek7664
I appreciate your comment, but I still read and talked to a lot of people while a kid that talked about Franklin, Helen Keller, et al, as being very flawed in many ways, even in 5th grade! It was no secret. Like Kennedy sleeping with everything in a skirt, or Roosevelt having polio, a ton of people know all about it and always did. A lot of people bought the PR version, or didn't believe that someone they liked so much was just a human being, but never in school was anyone trying to lie, they usually gave us the version that was the goody two shoes rhetoric, then always said, "But...they were ALSO.."
Whatever they were. I know there is a book, a bunch of them, on the dumbing down of America, but that is usually someone's opinion, conspiracy theory, or personal agenda against whatever group is promoting it. Church people here always fight to keep sex education out of schools, and others want the bible taught as literal, some want Nietzsche, no one agrees, so the schools usually go with who donates the most. Churches usually have the most money...
I don't think it's a big, scary attempt to do anything but keep the politicians rich or the big corporations happy. Now, you can look up whatever you want online so there is no excuse for staying stupid. Most people only look at what they agree with and won't consider any other view, so no one has to try and keep them stupid, they WANT to be...
That's why I say people have a responsibility to look at multiple sources and all the evidence they can. Just being open to other information, even if you don't buy it, is still a good idea. I will look at different books, articles, etc., then try to think about or discuss it. Sometimes I see things differently and at others I don't. It's just how people grow. Big companies are always going to control the agenda to benefit themselves, people are selfish and greedy, and really rich people are spoiled and always want their own way, it's just human nature.
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@hitekrednek7664
I was in the Bay Area in the 70s and in high school they took out the desks and we sat on bean bag chairs, which are NOT comfortable, while our English teacher got high and read Watership Down out loud to the class for an hour. This was in Palo Alto and there were a lot of radical young Stanford students doing some teaching at Palo Alto High School. One guy, I cannot remember his name, I wish I could, smuggled in a tape from the infamous Stanford "jail experiment" where some students were guards and some were prisoners and the guards became so sadistic in less than 48 hours that they had to shut it down (I'm sure you've heard of it or seen it, there was a documentary and movie about it...).
Watching that, taking place a few blocks away, totally opened up my experience of psychology and human nature and what average people are capable of...it was so disturbing that I've never forgotten it.
It was the same year, I think, as the ritualistic murder in the Stanford chapel on campus, where the murderer was never caught. We had the zodiac killer, the Berkeley rapist, you name it, it seemed to be happening...I think our teachers were either completely burnt out and retiring and being replaced with angry young people who felt all of life was a lie or a construct that had to be broken and remade. A lot of them were way too into drugs, but most were completely brilliant, sincere and intense. They wanted us to ask why, about everything. Of course Ken Kesey was right up the road, working at a mental health facility and stealing their tranquilizers so he could write his classic novel....it was insane. I left home fairly early, but I had an addiction to reading that has stayed with me all these years. I will read about anything, good bad, crazy, classic, I don't care, I'm always interested in where the person who wrote is coming from..
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@nurse2long
Everyone has very different opinions about this issue due to their family history, personal beliefs and ideals, and what they have absorbed in their lifetime. I have seen people fighting over this a thousand times, and it always denigrates into bitter hate filled rhetoric. Please believe what you wish, everyone. Please do not fill this column with anger. You will not convince anyone of any side, and it is pointless. Unless we lived in that time, were raised a certain way, had a certain skin color, religious background, financial status or any other variables, we cannot know exactly how different people came to different conclusions. I know all the arguments on each side, all the discrepancies, all the qoutes and speeches and paper trails. It will ALWAYS be hotly debated. Just accept it, and work towards listening and understanding, not giving in, not changing your mind, just look at every side, even if you don't believe it. You don't have to. Just look at it and try to understand.
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Who was the guy that talked to everyone's dead relatives on tv and gave the families in the audience a message from them? It was several years ago, but he was on tv, and everyone practically swooned when he would pick someone out of the audience with an urgent message from the other side...
A friend of ours heard he was coming to our town, her mom had recently died, and she wanted to hear from her. The guy was coming to a big sports arena and she paid an obscene amount for tickets and told the ticket office about her mom. Well, if you REALLY wanted a message and you REALLY, REALLY wanted him to pick you (completely randomly!) out from the crowds, it was going to cost you extra...a LOT extra, since no one gets connected to the dead for free...she was desperate and paid up, and was given a questionnaire to fill out (mostly about her mom) and other details, and she was going to be assured of a magical moment when he would suddenly hear from mom on the other side...the venue was packed, because he was at the height of his stardom, and too many people had paid for their connection to the spirit world, so he had only about three seconds to give out all the heartfelt speeches from the dead...he rushed, and missed some people, including our friend, who finally realized that this clown was just an old fashioned carny in a silk sweater and nice slacks, who had taken full advantage of her grief to get every penny she had ever saved, I think it was thousands and thousands...
If there is communication between the living and the dead, I doubt that there is a surcharge attached.
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@user_____M
That's exactly right! I'm older than my husband, and mostly ate healthy foods growing up. He was raised in Texas and they cooked EVERYTHING in bacon fat, even put it in pound cakes, and he got high blood pressure and heart disease by 40. I had temporarily lived the texas way for a few years when we got married, gained over 50 pounds, had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and developed fibromyalgia. Bacon and fats ARE delicious, but they will definitely kill you! I never felt so awful in my life, (and I'm sure my husband was taken aback to see his wife morph into the good year blimp). Thank goodness I finally started eating food without tons of fats. I was told I would always be on a lot of meds for my health, but this last year I've lost 80 pounds, normal BP, no high cholesterol, got my energy back, and my pain is obviously much better from not dragging around all the weight. I did this at 59! I was on ten medicines, now, only one. I'm lazy and love to eat, but feeling better became a gigantic, life changing reward. Everyone out there that thinks they can't get healthy, or it "runs in the family", or you are "big boned", you CAN! Just stop eating fats, little by little, you stop craving them. Fats are more addicting than morphine, in my experience (and easier to get!). Watching your health change will make you feel better than you ever have. After a year of watching me slowly lose weight and toss my meds, my husband got inspired and has lost 40 pounds. No special diet or exercise, just not eating fat in everything. I tried every single diet out there, and this is what works. Taper off fats and it will change your life! Just a tip, folks!
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@uzumaki6759
Exactly! You know, when I first saw, "What we do in the Shadows", I totally had a crush on Vladislav! I practically watched the movie every day one Summer, and his musing anxiety about facing "The BEAST" and his confession that he used to torture because he was, "in a bad place" and always looked 16 (?!), was endearing to me! I still love those films. I was very young when I went to Hollywood to live for 4 years, and got to pretend to be part of the scene for awhile. The early 90s were great fun (until the riots), and i remember hanging at Venice Beach and going to Melrose to browse thrift stores and wear old cowboy boots with sundresses and leather jackets and grunge hair! Believe it or not, my husband was about the same age as Keifer Sutherland and looked enough like him that he was stopped and asked for his autograph several times whenever we were in touristy Rodeo Drive or out to dinner. Protesting that he was NOT Sutherland never seemed to work, the family from Florida or the Midwest were going to meet a movie star, even if it meant a pretend one! They didn't really care. What most people didn't realize was that if you ran into an actor at the store or on the street, it meant they were out of a job, if they were working, they'd be on location or a set 24/7. And the big stars couldn't go anywhere without a huge hassle so theyd hunker down at home or at some exclusive vacation rental, you hadn't a chance of meeting them. That said, I had the fun of meeting a lot of stars "sideways", because my husband worked at a sound studio, and actors always seem to want to be singers or musicians and musicians always want to get into acting. Johnny Depp and Keith Richard's are a perfect example of this, Depp played all the time at the Viper room, which was one of our hangouts, being a block from the studio and open till 4 or 5 am, and Keith got a bit part in the Pirates of the Caribbean so he could be on the big screen and playacting at being a movie star. Tons of famous people kids had bands all over town, and they all wanted to hang out at music studios. Those places made more money than anything, until the internet leveled them! We were long gone by then, it was lucky for us, getting out right before it crashed...
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@nateroseman
I think it's why we are so emotionally attached to certain memories...aren't bittersweet moments the ones that have you closing your eyes and remembering every detail? Usually because moments of intense feeling, even joyful, have anxiety attached. I think the first time people really fall in love is the scariest moment they ever experience. It is completely out of their control, they are no longer in charge of their own feelings and actions, realizing that someone else is at the wheel....its terrifying! I read once that people who have secret relationships often have the hardest time recovering from them when they end, because of the intensity of the experience is mostly fear based. This stuff fascinates me, I don't know why, but the older I get, the more i like to learn what drives most of us. The more i understand, the more i feel relaxed and compassionate about humanity, because most people are not trying to be assholes, they are usually just in some weird situation that is making them psycho! You realize that, and you stop taking anything personally. It's very calming, there is less to be angry about!
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@mrthinker321
I understand what you think it means ...and it's obvious that you are unable to understand that big studio movies are not Utube. That there is a gigantic industry of packaging and marketing certain products to sell, that most stars are manufactured and you "view" what is sold to you and think you choose, when its rarely true. Sometimes, but not very often. Very loved stars can be suddenly "box office poison", because the studio wants it that way, not the public. Please go on thinking you are a career changer and a power broker if you like, it is what most people enjoy believing.
It is pointless to convince people who are certain that there is a strength in their numbers, that they are a force and can turn things their way. Mostly, you end up doing exactly what was planned for you a long time ago. This whole thing is a construct to control a certain perception and then, suddenly, change it. It's a whole act, a movie in itself, and you are one of the extras in it.
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@adrianbundy3249
I agree with your last comment. Imo, your attitude in the comment I responded to originally, sounded to like you just wanted to blame someone AND get in on the punishment. That kind of attitude is scary to me, too 30s germany. Just hunting out someone who seems guilty ENOUGH, is never an option to me. Historically, more innocent men have died in prison under life sentences because a judge felt like it was better to get someone who even resembled the bad guy, they this COULD BE a criminal TOO.
that's the kind of logic that always upsets me, so I'm glad you went on to clarify your comment. As far as Jackie goes, she's probably guilty of a lot. So is everyone who works on the hill. Every guy, president, vice president, the DOJ, everyone in politics who pulls off a bait and switch is admired for having "balls".
A woman does it, and its unendurable! How could she? Getting away with it! While Trumps pardoning all his old friends AFTER they confessed, were tried in a court of law, went to prison, well, they're really good guys...why should they go to prison when Jackie( or insert any womans name who ever lived at the white house) got away with it!
There are people who think Nixon was a great president. Sure, he broke the law and lied, but so did Clinton when he said that he did not have sex with an intern, so there!
The truth is, to me, that if you like someone, it doesn't matter what they do..you'll vote for them no matter what. If you don't like them, you'll pick on every single fumble, every single mistake and endlessly repeat it, so that no matter what your guy does, the other guy did it, or his dog did it, or someone else did it, and there's proof! If you are a person who hates the other side, you'll never grow tired of trying to show everyone that they were worse than your buddy. It's just human nature. Someone has to pay, and people want to see blood in the water. Whose it is doesn't matter anymore....
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@ravinathdev
I really do understand that you believe public support is extremely important. The sad truth is, that's its extremely important to you. Whatever happened, by the time you hear about it, they've already moved on, far away from whatever stand you're taking. You are so old news to them that it's just exhausting. Actors will always try to be gracious to their public, and always thank them for support, but they are way gone from the topic you're just hearing about and reacting to.
Depp and Heard started divorce proceedings in 2016! This is five years ago! The tapes and suits and counter suits still going on seem shocking and upsetting to you, because to you, it just happened! In actuality, all this stuff played out forever ago and all the courtroom crap is about money, and that's all. Don't be surprised to see photos of Depp having lunch with Heard at a cozy Hollywood Blvd in spot, in a short time, to show everyone that they finally buried the hatchet. You won't believe it, because it can't be true that he would forgive her for everything! Besides, YOU believed in him and backed him and supported him, and you'll feel betrayed, and Johnny won't care, just like he doesn't care now about all your indignant "public support" that "makes a big difference" you have to understand it's long past history. Two weeks is a lifetime in Hollywood, everything shifts and changes and people are lovers, hate each other, sue each other, go back to each other, every single day. Again, by the time you're in on it, you're way, way out of the loop.
If you ever lived and worked in Hollywood you would get it. Believe what makes you happy, I guess, it's what 99%of the population does, they do not want to be confused by facts. Their minds are made up.
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@ren_yt3715
You are extremely quick to judge someone whom you've never seen because I had an opinion about someone that you didn't agree with. Since you like calling people names that you know nothing about, it's hard to believe that you insist on "fair and objective" commentary on someone else you've also never met, Johnny Depp. I have an opinion from working in Hollywood on movies and tv way back in the 90s, and since then, heard a lot of things from people there, some true, some not, but I also was around when he was pounding on Kate Moss, and he was extremely drunk most of the time they spent together, and stupidly, was quite open about his "meanness" when intoxicated and angry, or bored, or whatever excuse he gave himself for being a guy who hits women. I don't like people like that, whether they are men or women. If you drink and the first thing you want to do is break your girlfriends arm, you're an "A hole" in my book. That's just how I feel. I've been a young girl in an abusive situation and it was extremely traumatizing, but I became a very strong person and no longer tolerate any abuse, towards me or anyone else. I'm sorry you feel so personally attached to a movie star that you have to become enraged when others don't feel about them the way you do, but I still maintain that he is a jerk, and "jerk" is a word he used about himself, many times, so maybe you should call him a hypocrite too...
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I think Keanu Reeves most reflects the old Hollywood stars of the 1930s and 40s...he has such a quiet demeanor and attitude of dignity about his private life, that it is easy to completely enjoy his roles, without thinking about his headlines in real life, or seeing him do something ridiculously stupid (like wearing a paper bag on his head a la Shia Lebeouf) at some Hollywood function. He just gives everyone a chance to immerse themselves in the movies and completely enjoy the experience. That is so rare today that it is almost unheard of. I noticed that Robert Downey Jr., after his many struggles with drug addiction, went quiet publicly, and worked ferociously to get back on top. It added much to his acting roles that there were no news stories about one thing or another in his private life. It helps an actor tremendously to keep their private life, well, private, and not detract from their work...just my opinion, I'm interested in what others think about that...
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@PedroYippeekayaye
Anyone who believes anything about Scientology has to be missing several very important brain cells, especially after it was well documented very early on that L.R. Hubbard was a complete con artist involved in hundreds of illegal money moving scams to get rich, and was caught several times, mostly ripping off friends of friends. After his last brush with the law, his lawyer told him that inventing a religion could conceivably make millions, wasn't taxed by the government and it was very easy to attract total rubes (for a perfect example of religious money making, look up Aimee Semple McPherson in the 1920s) who would do anything for a chance to go to heaven, no matter how much it cost. Hubbard was also a failed writer, but he cobbled together some old sci fi he has done and tweaked it, then rented out a building and based it in the Capitol of hubris, Los Angeles, just like Aimee did, because people there will do anything...
Scientology isn't based on science, it's based on old rejected magazine articles no one would publish. The fact that anyone on earth would join a religion so easily found to be a complete fiction and obvious scam, is so depressing. It's like working all your life in a hideous job, slaving away, then, after years of mind numbing toil, taking every dollar you've saved, and setting it on fire...it's insane.
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@Andreabay90
You are wonderful!! I'm afraid that people are so phone dependent that no one would come, but it's still a great idea! You know, I think a once a month "NO PHONES" get together would be a great idea! Especially in a bar or restaurant, even though I know there are people with kids, etc., that would not like to, they could leave their number with the restaurant, whatever, in case of emergency, just like in ancient times! I was born in 1961(!), and vividly remember my mom getting phone calls while waiting for a doctor to call; she would sit right next to the phone (smoking like a chimney, and probably drinking a gin and tonic!), when it rang, she'd grab it, and if it wasn't the doctor, she would scream at the unfortunate caller, "I'm waiting for the DOCTOR TO CALLLL!!!" and immediately hang up. The ashtray would be full of half smoked cigarettes as she got more and more tense. It was usually because we were sick, and she was always convinced we could die at any minute...fun, huh? I love cell phones, but hate going places only to see everyone engrossed by their phones....
Seriously, I love your idea! I like people who come up with simple, positive solutions, ones I almost never think of, because for some reason, I'm only brilliant in total emergencies! Really, it's the only time I get incredibly chill and think clearly, it's so weird. Maybe I had to because my mom was so hysterical 100% of the time. I never smoked, didn't drink at all until my 30s, and never had kids, I really was too afraid to put any kid through that kind of upbringing, and I was certain I might! Now that I'm old, I still think I made the right decision, but I have tons of nieces who I have fantastic relationships with, so I'm grateful!!
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@richardc7721
Thank you so much!! I will look into self defense classes soon. Don't worry, I don't want a therapist, my sister was one and she was crazy(and successful!).
I am reading this fantastic book called "Deep Survival, Who lives, Who dies, and Why" by Laurence Gonzales. Look it up on Amazon and read the reviews, it's gripping, fascinating, takes you right into the subject by going into the pilots cockpit of a fighter jet coming in for a landing on an aircraft carrier on high seas at night. He talks about the training, how our brains, muscles and emotions affect us in high stress situations, how to train. You will love it!!
Thank you so much for being supportive and giving great advice, I'm usually not at all intimidated by anything, I was very surprised that I had such a visceral reaction, and ashamed. My weak spot is my dogs, I have to say. I never thought I'd ever have to potentially take an actual bullet for them, but I guess I would. I'm also very protective of my husband, he has heart disease, and had a life threatening accident years ago that crippled him somewhat. It's odd, because my boyfriend before him had been run over in the Army and was crippled too, before I met him. My husbands accident happened years after we were married. They were both seriously injured in the same place, the hip.
They both had crushed bones. Weird coincidence.
I will get on FB this week. I've wanted to but never do social media except for this usually, but I think it's a good time and I will contact you when I do. Thanks again for being so kind!
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I worked on a tv show once that was a huge attempt to cash in on LA Law in the 90s, and it was so incredibly stupid that I don't think any of the actors ever admitted they were in it, and since it was canceled after the first season, most people have never heard of it. It died a deserved, obscure death, though some of the regulars went on to huge stardom in other shows. The odd part is even though I had no real experience, it was obvious even to me the show was on life support from the first episode, it was so awful. I couldn't believe that millions of dollars were being spent on such a horrible turkey. There were "guest" directors on each episode since the original director jumped ship immediately to save his career, and they were all good at swanning around, rewriting the script, stopping every 2 minutes to huddle with actors on "motivation" and expound to anyone who was forced to listen how discovering liquid diets (or whatever food fad was popular in Hollywood that week) had made them better than they'd ever been...which was still awful. One hotshot had directed a "cutting edge" episode of Miami Vice and wore brilliant white painters pants with a pastel tee shirt, that he changed for a fresh one every half hour. He could barely take his attention off his look to direct, and we spent hours and hours standing around or attacking the craft service tables full of pastries out of utter boredom. It killed my desire to ever act again, and I happily got out too, thank goodness. For every great show, there are hundreds of awful ones that sink actors for years. The ones that get into mega hits, like FRIENDS, are usually in completely unwatchable movies they try desperately to suppress knowledge of once they hit it big. Interviewers are always instructed never to refer to the embarrassments...
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Statistically, fewer than one percent of women claiming sexual harassment are found to be liars. Just because people don't want to believe it doesn't mean it must be a lie. Just as the common theme of past society was, "men who screw around are just sowing their wild oats", while women who do it are sluts, is now recognized as ridiculous and a pathetic attempt to blame women for all sexual misconduct, the current idea that men aren't " really doing anything bad ", when they grope, kiss or feel up a woman who did not want it is as archaic and offensive. It is offensive to men too, to imply that they are unable to control themselves and have to behave like humping dogs whenever they get alone with anyone.
Men are coming forward with admissions of being raped, and I have yet to hear anyone accuse them of lying. The age old stereotype is obviously alive and well, women lie, men, don't.
Sexual abuse and rape is about having POWER over someone, making them submit. That's why the losers in war were raped, both men and women. Anyone who thinks it's not a big deal needs to be raped, then go ahead, tell us how it downs matter.
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@hybridbutterfly3908
You're right, I forgot that, but it was dead. Still, I think that counts, in a way. I thought the witch was lying to her, to mess with her head originally. Do you think that's possible? I'm wondering because when she was in the warlocks tower of magic shit, she saw her Khal Drogo, and he was holding their baby boy, and he was human. But was that a total hallucination? I have never watched the entire episodes much. I try to go back and catch up, but obviously, I'm not doing too well!😂
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@paulmanson253
Thank you for sharing that! The guide not believing the coin in the lava only 20 years later, shows how quickly historical events are lost! I'm so fascinated by this, because we are in a time where we have every single thing documented, and the overwhelming response to this, psychologically, is that many people will refuse to believe the information, and create their own history, their version of it. And that's not even taking into account the inevitable falsifying of much information! 150 years ago, not many people (compared to today) could read or write. We are living in such accelerated times, its incredible. From my birth in 1961, to now, the whole world is a completely different place. I feel like I'm forever on the edge of my chair, waiting to see what happens next! Good or bad, it's not boring!!
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Actually, I have not watched any show in the last few months, my husband was so excited to be home for the first time in 30 years and not exhausted from working long hours, that he went nuts in the yard, landscaping, digging, hauling, planting, pruning...I didn't know he ever thought about nature at all. I was expecting him to lay on the couch watching Judge Judy reruns or NCIS, like he usually does on his days off...I found it impossible to hang around inside with all the flying dirt and sound of hammering and occasional yells of pain drifting in from outside...so I went Zazaout there too...we have absorbed enough vitamin D to light up the whole neighborhood. Hopefully we will be able to keep it up when he goes back to work, but whatever happens, it's actually been fun. Our nursery lets us bring the dog, so she gets out and about as well...
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@terrywaters6186
How is he "clean"???
He surrounds himself with criminals, is a dishonest businessman, an unfaithful husband, a crooked friend and a traitor to the USA. You sound like those mothers whose sons commit hideous crimes, and even though they are proved guilty beyond doubt, mom screams that the police are trying to set him up, that he is a good boy, etc. etc.
Why would the FBI try to frame him? It's the most ridiculous conspiracy of all, they only have to watch him fumble his way into total chaos; every single friend, business partner and advisor has confessed to federal crimes, the evidence is on tapes, on film, on paper and thousands of documents, and yet you are blindly insisting that this criminal is a "good boy". Dictator Donny is the worst travesty ever wrought on this country in 300 years. You are as guilty as he is for lying to yourself about him. If you love him so much, move to Russia and start a fan club....
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I LOVED Captain! My sister told me that Mr. Green Jeans was a heroin addict (she was a mean five years older than me) and got into trouble with my mom for upsetting me, AND she wanted to know how an 11 year old knew what a heroin addict was! (During the early 60s, school were starting to bombard younger and younger kids with drug danger films, which everyone, even first graders, saw at least once a week). Since we lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, it was considered an immediate danger, you know, with the hippies and everything...but the hippies were too stoned usually to bother about anyone else, still, LSD was getting about then, and we had hysteria at least once a week when some kid claimed to see a drug dealer at recess, trying to "hook" kids with postage stamps, apples and candy, just like in the films...
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Jock McSporran
I'm so proud of you!! As someone who loves to cook and eat, I know that it is so difficult!! One phrase i heard somewhere that seriously helped me, i don't know really why, but it did, was "practicing delayed gratification". I found if I delayed eating, I often didn't feel the same urge to really dig in. I started baking but just putting a cookie (or whatever it was) aside to have with coffee the next morning. It slowly got easier and easier. Another thing that really helped too was chia pudding. That stuff is great! I mix chia seeds (from Amazon) with almond milk ((unsweetened, 30 calories a cup) protien powder and egg white powder. Mix in a blender, stick in glass bowls in the fridge and top with sliced almonds. Even if you eat a whole bowl it's only a couple hundred calories, and it's so full of protien, amino acids, and fiber, that it seriously fills you up! Also I read two books by Christopher McDougal, "Born to Run" and "Natural Born Heros", which got me running and eating a lot better. I started losing weight so fast it was ridiculous. Every week I dropped off clothes at the thrift store that were too big and got a couple sizes smaller. Then the next week I had to go down again. I ended up giving away ALL my clothes, because they were way too big. I couldn't afford to buy a whole new wardrobe, so just kept getting a pair of pants and a shirt each week from the thrift stores. I had spent years and years trying to lose weight and it was just dropping off. Don't ever give up, you are on the right track!
Edit: my husband has started taking vitamins and walking with me! He truly suffers from the effects of the illness, and we even make an effort to get out in the sun an hour a day, just for the natural vitamin D and fresh air. We have decided to move to the beach as soon as we can, because we've always loved it. Life can change so fast, we don't want to put anything off anymore!
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@Andrea Wylie
I just saw your comment, and I agree! Saturday Night Live alumni, Lorraine Newman, also got a nose job, and ruined her wonderful face!
I have a nose that I always considered too big, and once asked my husband about it, saying I really felt it was kind of awful, and I might consider a nose job...he almost had a stroke! He was so adamant against it, saying my nose made me, ME. He loved it and begged me never to change it. I could not believe he loved it, but he influenced me to live with it, and after seeing Jennifer Gray (I'm her age), and others, who destroyed their distinctive features, I'm kind of glad I did not...
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@LuvBorderCollies
Thank you!! I think she might be a mix, she has a delicate head and a big butt, compared to her tiny mouth. She does have to be watched when in the yard, because she can climb anything, and sailed over the puppy gates we had in the house and opened the pocket doors (somehow!). I left the room for a minute and she was on top the refrigerator eating some bread. She hates our other dogs, but immediately made friends with the three cats. When we walk, the cats walk with us! I've never seen that before. She seems to believe she is more cat than dog.
A big loose pitbull came running at us at the park a couple of weeks ago, and I was extremely scared, but I just told her in a quiet voice to get behind me, and gestured and she got right behind me and stayed absolutely still and quiet. If he had wanted to attack, of course he would have, but since she stayed still and made no noise he went bounding off to someone else that had a dog that barked. I almost collapsed, but she took it in stride.
I really appreciate your information! I'm going to learn more about both breeds, we are so happy she joined our family!😊
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In looking for the lost city of Z, Percy Fawcett had to be the worst possible explorer to invade the area where suspicious tribal peoples made their home. He was more of an "East India Company man", accustomed to commanding, bullying and taking out his moods on the poor and down trodden natives of India, who were completely unlike the proud and savagely efficient natives of South America. Not only did he think being rude and stern with the locals was proper policy, he took his young son and his sons best friend, both in college and with zero experience in the kind of expedition Percy enjoyed. The friend was miserable and wanted to leave before they had even gotten started, realizing he was completely unsuited and unprepared for the upcoming dangerous months, and possible years, ahead of them, he had also begun a romantic relationship "back home" and just wanted to go be a small town boy in college after all. Fawcett was relentless in encouraging them to "make their mark" on history and find fabulous riches in a city made of solid gold that he was sure was there waiting for them in the jungle.
Even more tragically, for years after they vanished, expedition after expedition went searching for them, and also disappeared without a trace. I think up to 100 people died trying to find them. There is a book and film that explores the likely possibility that Percy had insulted the natives in the deep interior and they, not having it, had killed them....
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@charlesmichaels6648
No, and it bugs the hell out of me. I think one was called "coming in from the fields" (?), but that could be just what I thought it was called. Van Gogh wasn't the most expensive artwork in the world yet, and I moved to Los Angeles in 89, then came back 4 yrs. later, and didn't get back to the museum for quite awhile. When I did visit, there were huge security changes, the painting was roped off so you couldn't get close, there were security cameras and guards.
The museum had been the home of Marion Koogler McNay, who was one of those very rich, eccentric, philanthropic Texans that was determined to bring fine art to San Antonio and Texas, and she collected during the 20s and 30s, when you could still buy a picasso, FROM Picasso! After she died, the house became a museum with an art school on the property. It was all very unorganized when I worked for the estate at the art school. It was uncredited, really weird people were administering things, and no one was really in charge. The museum had almost no security. I was just an assistant to the new Public Relations team, which consisted of me, and the lady they hired for PR. There were tons of elaborate parties and fund raisers. I remember Sting and the Police showing up at one, for some inexplicable reason....they must have been touring through the South. That's why I think (just wild speculation on my part) someone either made an under the counter sale, stole the painting and sold it on the black market, or just took it home. It wouldn't have been hard to do back then, in my opinion. I'm no expert of course, I just know I spent hundreds of hours looking at TWO Van Goghs, and suddenly there had never been two, only one. There was a big arrest here a few years ago of some prominent figure who had been buying stolen art for years and years. He actually entertained quite a bit and apparently displayed well known (stolen) works of art for his friends to ooh and aah over. I remember reading it in the paper and remarking to my husband that perhaps the Van Gogh was there, but never heard.
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The movie, "Melancholia" scared the absolute crap out of me. It just seemed so real for some reason. Even though, or because, it was seen through the eyes of a deeply depressed young woman, who is also psychic, makes it even more horrific. You experience the events unfolding through her strange depressive timeline, scenes compress, seem to go on forever, suddenly shift, yet through it all she is resigned to the ultimate destruction of all humanity that has ever existed in the universe. It seems like nothing to grieve over, since her view of the world around her has shown her nothing but greed and self deception. Her eyes are so open that she can let go without fear....I think this film has to be a favorite of all chronically depressed introverts....
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@kennethcrane9848
Hopefully, "Hash breaks" will come back into vogue!! I think people in general will be much happier if they aren't so completely stripped of all personal responsibility for their own lives...the very stupid always will do whatever stupid thing enters their minds, whether they are policed or not, and no amount of demonizing liquor, cigarettes, meth or anything else is going to work, if someone really wants them. I've known people who move to places they know they can get whatever, because that's how they want it. I think as long as they aren't doing anything wrong to anyone else, it's their business. I feel this way strongly partly because my husband is a smoker. I am not. I don't like cigarettes or the smoke, so he smokes outside the house out of courtesy. I never heard the end of it for the last 35 years of our marriage, why didn't I MAKE him stop, why didn't I care? I do care, but I also care that he's a grown man, knows all the risks and just said he really ENJOYS smoking and will never quit. So nagging, coercing, threatening, etc., is never going to do anything but breed anger and resentment. I made a choice to marry him "as is", NOT as a hobby project to fix up. I don't want to be his parent, I want to be his companion. Every friend and relative has harassed me for years about making him stop. Their constant, unending nagging practically made me start smoking...
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@Moon-eg3vm
During the building of the railroad, the chinese brought opium dens California, I grew up in Northern California and my mom migrated as a kid during the depression from Texas to California so her dad and uncles could work on the Golden Gate Bridge. Her dad had been a ranch hand in Texas on a big ranch outside Dallas for years before the depression. My grandma was left alone most of the time in a rundown line house. There was an Indian settlement near by and grandma got very friendly with an indian man and had my mom. She was successfully passed off as grandpas, and the secret didn't come out for many, many years. I don't know why, because my mother, all her life, looked like a central casting movie "squaw", and obviously did not look like the rest of the family. She was so tall, with dark skin, black eyes and hair, and a chiseled face, high cheekbones, hawk nose and a terrifying temper! No one ever made her angry more than once, my dad was frankly scared to death of her, but completely in love with her. In the 30s, they lived in Chinese Camp, a slummy area for the poor after the Chinese railroad workers moved on. There were tons of drugs. A saloon in town sold everything (to this day, according to local gossip), and drugs were as common as alcohol.
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@grimd8788
Yes, I do. You can Google it for a more advanced description, but I think you are just anxious to bully someone, anyone, that doesn't instantly agree with you. I find it interesting that you are critical to the point of rudeness, without hesitation, there is no point in explaining anything to you, because that's not what you want. You want to get angry and insulting, probably because you don't know how to interact without anger. I'm happy to let you find someone else to harass. Think whatever you want, and leave me out of it from now on, but please google the site if you can, it will explain everything much better than I can.
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@tantivy221
I think I heard that! I wasn't sure or forgot. He was just interested in so much, I love people like that, even though he definitely had his major faults, like we all do. He was so obviously more helpful to Jane Goodall over Dianne Fossey, he just practically had a huge crush on Jane, and constantly praised her to everyone and helped arrange the documentary she did, while almost ignoring Dianne, who was not as pretty (to him), not as easy to deal with and very passionate about her research. I think he was pretty Victorian in his attitudes toward women sometimes, even though h iij s wife was actually the discoverer of the oldest human skulls, etc. I'm not criticizing him wildly, it was just that he was always fair, but who is...
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@RayGonz787
I am a native English speaker, and I did not understand it AT ALL when I was young! My dad was Irish and French, he had a natural flair for showing off, and was anxious that we love literature. Luckily, he often read aloud to us, then explained the parts we did not understand. My mother, who was Native American Indian and creole, thought he was ridiculous, what you REALLY needed in life, according to her, was the heart of a warrior, a fighter, and an ability to disseminate so that no one ever knows what you are really thinking or plan to do. Very different from Shakespeare's "heart on his sleeve" emotions!! I took both lessons to heart...they have served me well, but made me unpredictable...my advice is, to take advice from every source and do what you want!😀
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@howellgreenland2506
Sorry, I just saw this. I was really just being silly, but the 4/20 reference was, at least in my time, when school got out and everyone rushed to toke up, or when work was almost over if you worked 9-5 and you could get a break. It became a euphemism for smoking pot. It's funny to me especially, because I grew up in the California Bay Area in the 60s and 70s, and lived in Hollywood in the late 80s, and EVERYONE, even my parents and their friends, smoked pot. So I actually did not, because my parents did, so it wasn't cool to me to do. I was a vegetarian health nut! When your parents are hip, you have to do SOMETHING, to rebel, and they were already taking all the available drugs and drinking everything in sight....
I didn't even use CBD oil until this last year! I have a lot of old injuries from being athletic in my young days, and it helps with the pain! I still don't smoke at all, even though I was at the heart of all of the big parties forever! I live in Texas now, and eat steak, because we have a cattle ranch (I know, I'm going back to plant based protien), and my parents have passed on, so I don't have anyone to irritate except my husband, and he is such a laid back cowboy that I can't! If you are in Europe (England? Manchester?), do they allow pot there?
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@BearWolf_1723
Don't worry, that is completely natural. Everyone feels that way, pretty much. Little aches and pains, sudden sneezes, that we never noticed before, suddenly take on an ominous significance! It is the most normal reaction to a frightening situation! Relax as much as you can, and get some things together that you know relaxes you, whether its music, art, movies or friends you can call, just immediately try to replace the fear. Let nothing enter your mind that's negative. You will be happy again. No matter what happens, you can deal with it. Do not think of the worst, or if you do, make a plan B, then make a plan C, D and E! It will give you a feeling of control and determination. While you plan, you are doing something positive. Read the book on Resilience. There are several books on amazon about resilience and they are great, even the Greeks wrote about it. Be kind to yourself, forgiving, and positive.
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So many people today feel disconnected from others that they often react as though they are the "last person" on the planet, killing themselves. Suicide has not just gone up since social media became worldwide, it has skyrocketed. People feel more alone than ever, as being in touch with people all over the world yet not having a close relationship or physical proximity with any one person leads to isolation and despair. Not wanting to expose our flaws, we hide away most of who we really are online, showing only our saleable qualities, further isolating us. The loneliness and self loathing, the sense of failure at seeing so many others in successful lives create hopelessness, especially in young people.
It's important to see people in person, to really get to know others, flaws and all, to have a curiosity about the world. Social media is a synthetic society, ok in small doses, but poison in large. If you feel alone and desperate, do not hesitate to call the national suicide hotline 1 800 273-8255.
People care, they have been there, and know what pain your in.
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@Saffron-sugar
I think it's possible that stealing a cigarette lit her up and started the fire, but she basically melted, and it was discovered fast so they didn't know what happened. I saw a show where it was discovered that some people CAN be candles in a way, their fat burns like oil. There was a picture of the bed, it's got to be out there still, if someone googles it, I think it was either in the Palo Alto Examiner newspaper or the Stanford newspapers, there was a building called the Hoover Pavilion, the original hospital bldg. on Stanford ground, and they might have been there as well, and that bldg. was ancient, probably dangerous! Tell me if you find it.
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@laurieannrogan1317
You have a point, but others have a right to their opinions as well. It's every persons right to have their own opinion, and insisting that they don't does not change the fact that no one knows if they made it to the top or not. They probably did, but even Ed Viesturs, who has climbed every 8 thousander peaks in the world, including Everest without supplemental oxygen, 7 times, has said many times that getting to the top is only half the battle, getting down alive is every bit as important.
Conrad Kain, an alpine guide in 1911, who climbed Whithorn mountain, buried a matchbox in some rocks at the summit, but, when he returned, he was not believed (There was, at the time, some prejudice about guides summiting, with some people trying to keep the mountain for the rich and tilted, which obviously could not be realistic in any way). He was actually publicly doubted by his boss at the time, but, thankfully, years later, mountaineers summiting that peak found his matchbox with a note in it and proved his claim. It still affected his career negatively.
Unfortunately, there are always those who claim summits falsely, even exhibiting doctored photos, so it is more difficult than ever for climbers to prove their ascents. There is also famously, no photo of Sir Edmund Hillary on the summit of Everest, although there is a photo of his Sherpa holding a flag on the top. Hillary was always extremely vocal about his indebtedness to the Sherpas, appreciating their courage and knowledge. He spent a great deal of money visiting the Himalayas with his family for years, establishing schools and hospitals and visiting his great friends there. Because Hillary had a stainless reputation, it was fairly straightforward to believe him. Mallory, however, was not known, rich or titled, and only had a reputation as a genius climber in his home district. Those lacks would not prevent him from reaching top, but would lead to questions and doubts among explorers at that time. Personally, I hope that they achieved their goal, but they did have tremendous problems with their oxygen tanks and timing of getting up in a safe way. We just cannot show, without proof, that they did...
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@jamestheotherone742
I have no idea what you're talking about, and I don't think you do either. All you can do is ladle out your always used, standard insults without even thinking. I don't know what you mean by "Trump Propaganda" since I can't stand Trump and never listen to him, so whatever he says, I haven't heard it and couldn't "parrot it" as you claim. You can't even debate. No adult person with intellectual knowledge just uses worn out tropes over and over, can't you come up with anything that isn't about "herds", "sheep" "socialism" or "parroting"?
Can't you craft a reasonable and logical explanation for why you feel the way you do without all the 6th grader, schoolyard taunting? If you can't, please don't answer, it's too boring to hear you rant the same thing over and over, and I already know that will be the only way you can communicate...
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@jimoberg3326
I didn't even remember this! No, I am not "bluffing". How rude.
I grew up with a kid whose dad is Loren Acton, solar physicist and a bunch of other titles I don't know, who was a payload specialist on the challenger (I believe). I was actually invited to the launch, and like a moron, I didn't go. I think it had something to do with losing my job if I took off, of course, now I wish I had!
He was a fascinating, incredible person who always took time to talk to us about what he and others were doing on the space project. After he went up, my family and I visited and it had changed him significantly. I think it was the overwhelmingly vast universe, the sight of earth below, it was something just astonishing and incredible to be part of. I never forgot his humbleness at being able to take part in it.
I met other people involved, one guy trained astronauts to space walk in suits by getting them in a pool at NASA and worked with them to train for accidents, claustrophobia (a real problem!), and other stuff.
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@johnbondza
Thank you for your kind reply!
I believe most people just want to live in peace, follow their customs, harm no one and think what they want. Most people are just trying to get through the day! I've never lived anywhere but the USA, and I grew up and live now in very culturally diverse neighborhoods. I grew up in mostly Asian areas around San Francisco, and live now in mostly Mexican communities in the Southwest. I love both! I like diversity and sharing ideas and customs. I rarely meet awful people. Almost never. I refuse to let a few angry people ruin life. My neighbors are my family! We are always there for each other, help each other and share. We are not a color or a label. I am human, and that's it. When I meet people, that's what I see, human. If they are crazy or mean, I protect myself or get away, but don't tag others with their problems. We are all responsible for our own actions. That's why I refuse to acknowledge labels like "liberal", "conservative", "left", "right". That ridiculous. We are all too complex to be stamped with some made up designation. These are just my opinions. If someone feels differently, that's ok too. 🙂
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@Amateur0Visionary
She is hanging on. I bought her from a street addict who was unable to care for her after she was struck by a car. We rushed her to the vet, they saved her life and had to treat her for infections from cuts and scrapes and injured legs. She pulled through and I brought her home. She pulled ME through when my 18 year old and 15 year old dogs died of old age two years later. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I could have made it through the grief of losing them, since they were given to me by my husband after I survived cancer (talk about the circle of life!).
I was training her to be a hospital therapy dog, since she has a tremendous affinity for people. I know from experience that you can't save everyone, but I survived a near death experience when I went into shock and tanked after surgery, so I'm a fighter. I know a lot of survival comes from our will and emotional state. There is an incredible book, called "deep survival: who lives and who dies, and why". It is really a guys book, but I found it impossible to put down! From the first chapter where he describes how naval pilots train and learn to land their jets on aircraft carriers at night, "blind", to people who are trapped in glaciers, etc. It gives you the best chance of learning how to react to save your life, from every point of view, scientific, medical, personal. Why did a 15 year old survive 11 days in the Amazon after a plane crash? Why did a navy seal drown on a routine water rafting trip? Everyone should read it. Look it up on Amazon.
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@johnslaughter7110
Hi! Our aussie is doing better, she pulled through, so I'm not going demented (right now!). We feed everyone ID Stew in low fat once a day, and Royal Canin gastrointestinal low fat dry food, both of which we get from the vet. Its hugely expensive, unfortunately, but when we first rescued 3 dogs off the street, they all had horrible problems. One was very underweight and would barely eat, the others had hideous diarrhea and gas. We also put them on one xantek and one benadryl twice a day along with the other meds, and kept them on that forever. I found that a LOT of dogs have allergies, just like people, and benadryl is cheap and effective for helping with itchy skin, etc. I have told hundreds of people about it whose dogs had hotspots, etc., it can sometimes be a miracle. One of our dogs was allergic to grass!!
The vet food we justified because they seemed to all thrive on it, and we had already gone through 20 different kinds of brands and someone always had a problem. They never did on the ID food.
It also produces a lot less waste! They don't have gas or poo so much. Xantek, cheap from any store, helped them so much too, we also kept them from exercising at all for 45 minutes after they ate, since we had a great dane/pitbull mix (who was gigantic) and Danes are very prone to bloat. We just found it easier to keep everyone on the same schedule. When we got another dog, it also has some horrible bloody, gastritis which seemed to take forever to clear up. Because I am a writer I "work" from home, so I could be around to care for a pack of special needs dogs. I have a weakness for dogs that are too big, too crazy, too unwanted.
People think dogs on the street can eat anything and survive, but they don't. They die, usually, only living a very short time. A single raisin can cause irreversible kidney failure in a fifty pound dog! Seriously. Fatty steaks can cause pancreatitis, onions, avocados, nuts, butter, etc. are all deadly, even if they have eaten something of it in tha past and been ok, damage is done. I keep a list a mile long in the kitchen of foods dogs should not eat, because we spent so long treating severe stomach problems in every dog we rescued! Our great dane only lived 8 yrs. He had epilepsy, and they don't live long because of their size. Our pitbull, Lucy, has mass cell carcinoma on her leg and is 15, so she only has a few months, but she gets laser treatments at the vet, and pain meds. You know how it is, you want to do anything! We never let them suffer, when life is no longer a joy to them, we end their suffering, and ours begins...
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@johnslaughter7110
Sorry to write a book, but I really wanted to tell you there is something I also read about called SOMA PET. Have not got it yet, but talked to some people online who swear by it for giving dogs a longer, more active life. We also give our dogs KOI brand CBD oil once a day. It helps amazingly with dogs who are nervous and/or have stomach complaints. You just spray it on their food and they seem to not taste it at all. I have one whole area in the pantry that is like a walk vet center, I keep all the meds bowls food and supplements on big lazy Susan's and use shot glasses to line up the meds, etc. for each dog, and run their bowls through the dishwasher every day to eliminate bacteria. I know it's insane, but we could not have kids and I love dogs so....
We found all the preventive measures kept the giant vet bills down. Your rottweiler dogs are large, so 10 years is long lived for them. I know that the grief for you losing them is terrible. My neighbor, Joe, is 75, and when he lost his beloved Sheba (a dog he rescued that had mange and was going to be euthanized, whom he cured and who lived 13 years), I was seriously afraid he would die of the pain. He has 2 other wonderful dogs, but there is always that dog whose death breaks you completely.
After I lost Maggie and Jinx, I could not eat, my hair grew in completely white, and I lost almost half my body weight. My husband forced me to the doctor and my grief and weight loss had affected my thyroid, I was in trouble! Luckily its treatable, but most of my hair fell out, which was very weird. I always wanted to be skinny, but skinny at 25 and skinny to the point of emaciation at almost 60 are completely different looks!! I started making myself work with weights to tone up and for mental health, and got some great protien powder from Amazon, and have started meditation. I have survived so much in my life, but sometimes things just overwhelm you. I play great old hits from the 80s and dance around, even if I'm crying, its looks crazy, but it does help. My neighbor and I make firm plans to go out once a week because we are both at home, so it gets depressing unless you get out once in awhile. Helping each other helps us. I'm working on a way to start a charity to honor all my dogs, and writing a book. I still feel like I have this giant, bleeding wound no one can see, but I want to help other dogs and people. I have room in my heart to love more dogs. Bless you for your love of your dogs, you are a miracle to them every day. Remember that.
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I've read several books on Mallory, and he was a very fascinating person, so talented, yet completely hopeless at taking care of himself, a man irresistible to women, and married one, but had his most emotional physical experiences in love with men... obviously bisexual, yet so conventional that he took a job as a schoolmaster in a tiny district and took a very conventional woman as his wife....
Mallory was almost hopeless as a climber, honestly, he could not even keep hold of his compass, losing and breaking everything, forgetting everything, never on time, it was a forgone conclusion that, in spite of being the most talented climber of the whole expedition, he was almost criminally stupid about being organized, putting himself and those around him in critical danger...he might make it to the top, but would never make it down...
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They aren't prostitutes, they're rape victims and people always hate what they are the most guilty about. Women who hate and fear these victims do so because they do not want to admit that their man could possibly prefer "whores" to themselves, and instead of blaming their men, they shove their hatred of what their man does onto the victim, excusing their "poor weak tired etc." man for rape.
They know, deep inside, that no woman would sleep with men who pay for it unless they were forced, and in their guilt over this knowledge, the average woman is worse than the man in perpetrating the slurs, viciousness, punishment and indifference to their own sex. Ask any "prostitute" how she ended up as one if you don't believe it.
You will cry for the violently destroyed little girl who lives inside the person telling you their story.
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@SlinkiestTortoise23
I believe it!! This kitty is the only one I've ever known that anticipates things, like when the mailman is coming, even though he shows up at random times...she woke me up two nights ago biting my foot and literally almost screaming. I thought she had lost her mind or was in a mood, but found out the next day that our neighbors truck next door was being broken into at that exact time. Since she woke me, I got up to automatically let the dog out, and turned on lights in the kitchen, etc. and it apparently made the thieves take off, since the dog started barking at them...when I came back to bed, she sighed in the most exaggerated way and flopped over to go to sleep, like, "I have to take care of EVERYTHING...". I've never had a feline with a genius IQ before...
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@koffinkat666
I want to thank YOU, because you are practically the only person to ever actually give reasonable answers that I can look up, so thank you, seriously! I'm interested in the idea of UFOs, since I have seen things I could not identify and we did give a report to MUFON years ago when our truck electrical system cut out after a blue light suffused the desert we were driving through at 2 am. THAT was weird, and scary, but we never saw anything besides a glow. I'm actually a lot more scared about it now, because I heard some eyewitness accounts of people being chased on that highway by dogman, or werewolves, or whatever they are. I've always been on the fence about aliens, because I absolutely believe many people did experience something terrifying that traumatized them, and there are plenty of films and photos. SOMETHING is out there. I just am not sure what. It seems weird that aliens would just keeping abducting and doing the same old thing to humans for hundreds of years without variation or finally coming out into the open, but who knows? I have a real interest in string theory, and the idea of multiple realities/times. It would explain a few things, like people just vanishing! I will look at the videos you suggested, and thanks again!
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@jamesdorpinghaus3294
Thank you for telling me! It confirms yet again the horror of the Amazon warehouse job! They opened up a couple of warehouses here in San Antonio, Texas, and same thing, apparently, draconian management, unreal overtime, the ye older plantation attitude. I wonder where this system came from? They obviously think it is worth having to replace their entire workforce every couple of months...when I worked at SEAWORLD in the 90s, they hired everyone under an old loophole in the Texas employment law that was originally written to get migrant workers. Hire them as "part time, when they are really working full time hours, and every ten months, fire everyone, they can apply for unemployment if they want, so the taxpayers cover it, and SeaWorld didn't have to pay any benefits whatsoever. No sick day with pay, no overtime pay, no holiday pay, no medical insurance, etc., etc. The old 1920s law was enacted originally so that ranchers could hire tons of illegal immigrants to work the fields, and after the harvest, kick them back...and save millions. SeaWorld thought that was a great idea! There became, because human nature is really insecure, a huge disconnect between the full timers and the lowly part timers, and it was strange. Partimers had to wear ugly name tags, the ugly uniforms and could not have facial hair or even "ethnic" hair. The full timers got to go to lunch earlier in the cafeteria so that the daily specials always ran out before the part timers got to eat, and on and on...things really became, "us" and "them". It was like the Stanford prison experiment in the 70s. It bugged me so much all the time, and I almost got fired for putting up a sign in the office over the drinking fountain that said, "full timers ONLY". But they couldn't prove I put it up (I did!)....
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I know tons of feminists and none of them have blue hair or are obese. If they did and were, it doesn't matter, your words are only your hate speak for what you think are unsexy and ugly women. As adults most women are not as worried about a mans negative and controlling words as they used to be. You give away more about yourself with those words, showing you think that anyone who has a weight problem must be stupid or unattractive, and if her hair is blue she must be old, and therefore not worth listening to. You've obviously missed the rage for several shades of blue hair that have been hitting the markets. You've missed the excitement, intelligence, humor and imagination of a LOT of women, since your standards are rigid and old fashioned. All women can be incredible sex machines no matter what they think and believe. I wish you could see past your archaic views and bitter anger at half the human population, unless they agree with everything you think, of course...
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It's time for everyone to have "their turn". No one expects you to stand aside, no one is asking "white men" to step aside. It's interesting that your main concern is with white males, as they are not now, and have never been, marginalized , but it seems you are very concerned about losing what you think are your privileges. As for your view on lesbians, the only way you could possibly know so very much about how women decide to be lesbians is if you have extensive experience, or are one yourself and are just arguing from what you think is a white mans point of view.
However, I believe you have some experience in being rejected by or know someone who is a lesbian that you intensely dislike, which fuels your deep prejudice. Can you tell me your experience? What, exactly, led you to this belief?
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You feel that men have been mistreated and made to shoulder unfair burdens. It's interesting that the situation you complain of, men having to work, fight wars, etc. was conceived of and put into place BY men. Women were prohibited doing any of those things BY men. The very situation you complain of, the very things you now feel are being taken away, and marginalizing you must give you some identification with how pushed aside women have felt for the last several thousand of years. The frustration you feel now is what women have had to put up with for such a long time. You are angry about being on the sidelines, not being listened to, losing your power...and yet you have no problem with someone of another sex being in that very situation.
Your classing lesbians as ugly, etc., is statistically incorrect, and your reasons why they are lesbians are also only a result of your personal observation, not actual fact. If you are going to believe something, why not get the facts, the evidence and all the information you can, and then you will not be in the position of repeating out worn insults and long debunked fallacies as truth. Most people today are more educated and generally knowledgeable about current events. Your statements sound a little like someone who is convinced that animals come from plants, even though there is abundant evidence scientifically that proves it false. Your conviction that only ugly fat women love other ugly fat women is obviously easy to disprove. Even just by looking that the hundreds of public figures who are in lesbian relationships today. There are many beautiful models, actors, doctors, scientists and professionals of every type who are lesbians in relationships with other lesbians. Those public figures are not fat or ugly by any stretch, and those are just ones in the public eye. Your insistence on trying to bend facts to prove your belief weakens your opinions in all areas, not just this one. If you are so obviously wrong about this subject, it's hard to believe you would know much about another.
I hope you look at some of the abundant history of the humans you despise, and discover a better reality. It will benefit you greatly.
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I loved Salem when I was there, but it would have been hell 300 years ago when you couldn't get away from the constant religious spewing, judging, condemnation and angry old people who hated kids...
There are always freaked out extremists in every town, but having no distractions from the snow and boring darkness of winter...let those people go over the top to get attention and spread paranoia...
During the beginning of the pandemic, when toilet paper hoarders were going bat shit insane, the manager at our local Dollar Store yelled at me for laughing about it, and screamed that TP was going to be worth more than gold!!!
I was like, ok, bath salts have finally gotten into the water supply...but it turned out that she infected tons of people with her hysteria, and they were all panicking and hysterical...
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@devinkleinsmith5026
That makes no sense. You're saying that by your logic, if someone cuts me off in traffic, it's not my fault if I speed off and run over a bunch of seniors and kill them, because, you know, I got CUT OFF IN TRAFFIC, so it's their fault, not mine! What??? You really are so easily manipulated by others that you have no control over your own actions? I was bullied in school, but I have no desire too go murder a bunch of other people or even the people or bullied me, I was able to move on, and I'm sure they did too. People like you are really so narcissistic that you think everyone is about you, and others don't have any importance, and I say that because you dehumanized the victims as all being bullies when most of the people who were killed didn't even know them. How can you actually blame them, you obviously are without empathy for anyone else, see a psychiatrist.
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rvidal0001
I feel that the future generations will be much more educated though, because of google and interaction with cultures all over the world through the internet. I hope so, anyway! I had a terrible time in school, and never finished my education (I had dyslexia and ADD, which wasn't diagnosed in my day), but, I could read at a massively high speed, like an idiot savant and comprehend, thanks to my dad taking time to teach me speed reading, and reading with me, out loud over and over. He didn't know what was wrong with me, but was convinced I was smart, so I've tried to self educate constantly since that day. I love helping kids to read, since illiteracy is still way too high in the US. I notice it online all the time, that a lot of people can barely spell in their own language. It always makes me think that they probably have, or had, a horrible time in school for whatever reason...
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rvidal0001
I agree with you 100%! I started to write something about the unfortunate conspiracy black hole in the internet, then felt reticent about it, because I run into people all the time that absolutely lose it if you don't think the Queen of England is a reptilian, and sometimes it just depresses me. I'm always astonished that logic and actual, provable science gets thrown out when it gets in the way!
I don't mind at all if someone tells me, "I can't prove it, but I believe that bigfoot lives in my attic..". I might not agree, I might think it's nuts, but I'm ok with someone who just has their opinion, even if it seems unlikely to me. What I dislike, intensely, is people insisting that I believe what they do, even if their only proof is a hundred videos of other people insisting the same thing, because a lot of yelling isn't proof, it's just noise. I grew up with a kid who was very smart, we were close until our late twenties, when he decided that the reason his life wasn't working out was because aliens were stalking him and interfering in his life. It got incredibly elaborate and took up all his time. The problem was, for me, that he had no actual incidents or any sightings even, to bolster his claims. It was pretty obviously a derailment from reality for him (I don't disbelieve that aliens could be out there, but in his case, I think it was a mental breakdown). He wanted me to PROVE it wasn't true, which I could not do, so to him, it HAD to be true. It was very sad, and pretty much ruined his life. I have run into extreme preppers, fanatic, end of the world religious groups, flat earthers, and they all share the same, take-no-prisoners attitude. If you aren't with them, you're against them. Its exhausting and a waste of time, imo. They usually ONLY want to be around others who believe what they do, to bolster what they already think, which throws learning, intellectual argument, and exchange of ideas, out the window...
I wish public and private schools would teach discernment and evaluation, along with logical, fact based thinking as a serious course, so that at least there would be some kind of foundation to build on. Now, I don't believe kids learn HOW to think for themselves at all. Just my opinion, of course.😁
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In San Antonio today, its 37 degrees, tommorow the temp is going to be 87! Last week a front came through bringing the temp up to a humid, muggy 80, them fell that night to 32! The fronts during spring here brew up savage thunderstorms and tornados. Luckily, San Antonio doesn't get the giant, mile wide funnels that form in the open plains, but we replaced our roof twice due to hailstones. I never carry an umbrella because of lightning danger. My husband left a college building once during a storm and girl coming out behind him put up her umbrella and was immediately struck by lightning. She lived, but our friend was struck in his house when he leaned on a windowsill to look out at a storm and lightning hit a tree several yards away, jumped to the window and blasted him so badly his heart stopped and his left eardrum was blown out. His dad was a doctor and home so kept him alive with CPR and he was transferred to the Brooks AFB burn hospital for weeks with huge whip like burns all down his body. To this day, his hearing is gone on that side.
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@leechgully
I just might...I live in a big very old house my husband inherited and it's in an old neighborhood. A man behind us lived for fifty years in his house alone, as a hoarder and never repaired anything. He passed away, and the house was left abandoned for 6 months until a rehab company bought it. They gutted it down to the frame, and a million rats and mice came out. In 24 hours every house on the street had giant, Norwegian roof rats INSIDE their houses. Those things were completely fearless and over a foot high, NOT counting the length of the tail. They were starving and chewed through, wood, plaster and metal screens to get inside. It was the worst experience I've ever lived through, and I been through tornadoes (here) and earthquakes (in Los Angeles). It was like a hideous nightmare, once one was in, they swarmed in! We had to flee with our dogs to a motel. A pest co had to come out and totally replace the attic insulation, place giant box traps everywhere and seal up the millions of holes in our old house. It cost us about 15 grand, not counting the fact that rats were all over every single thing we owned, ruining food, clothes, cosmetics, toiletries, our furniture, you name it. Then of course, we had to sterilize the entire place because they carry over 30 communicable diseases. Our neighbors put out poison which the rats ate and then died in their walls and attic, driving them out with the stench. We didn't want to go that route. I put out cat food for the stray cats in the neighborhood for a couple of days and we attracted a ton of cats, who stayed on to hunt. They spent all night and day at our house, killing rats and mice. I rewarded them with some food, so they didn't eat poisoned rats, and they stuck around, killing hundreds of vermin. I adopted a couple to live inside, since there were still a couple of rodents we couldn't seem to trap or chase out. If we had kept cats originally, we would have saved a ton of money. I love them and consider myself a devotee of Bastet, the cat goddess, since our house would not have been livable without them. On a very weird note, there is an ancient Japanese fairy tale that terrified me as a child, about a small child who draws cats and ends up alone sheltering in an ancient temple. Being lonely, he draws cats all around the walls and goes to sleep, only to wake up to find a gigantic rat fighting a battle with a huge cat. They battle to the death and the cat keeps the rat from killing the boy. The temple has had a dangerous rat spirit for many years, and only the boys devotion to cats saves him.
Now that I've lived through this rodent infestation, I might start drawing cats too!
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@Jordon Carlson
I refused to wait on my dad at all, to the point where he complained of missing "dinner" if my mom had to work late and forgot to open his tuna cans and slice a gherkin into mayonnaise. It had become a symbol of my mothers attempt at some freedom from thankless household slavery and I heartily supported her stand. Of course, later, I ended up marrying an old fashioned Texan and doing all the cooking and cleaning!! But he didn't expect or demand it, and his pioneer family was from Alsace Lorraine in Europe, which has an incredible history of amazing food. He got very interested in cooking after awhile, and it turned out that he had a real love for it, and a gift. He should have been a chef, his dishes are always amazing! I had been a vegan for years, but his unbelievable steaks, roasts, combined game off the grill knocked me flat, i couldn't resist, nothing tastes so good! (In defense though, we have to do some culling of game on the ranch so they don't starve from poor grass, etc. and just wasting it would be terrible too...the only excuse I have, so if anyone reads this and is mad about my meat eating, I apologize).
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@Jordon Carlson
😀 I loved your comment! It's really a joy when someone loves cooking and good food! I never get over how enjoyable meals can be when it's a creative process and a happy environment! I just got home from the store with a bunch of chicken and beef to grill. I've gotten into running (for the first time ever, and I'm 60!) during this pandemic, and I really like it, I don't know why, because I used to think runners were miserable, but it just makes me feel good all day, BUT... I cannot run 5 miles every day on coffee and a cookie, which was my normal breakfast. A lot of coffee! I started making chicken and steaks to eat for breakfast, because if I don't eat that, I get dizzy. So, I'm beef powered, even though I got some plant protien and chia seeds from Amazon....people keep telling me I'm doing it all wrong (I run in cheap shoes, no socks, every day, etc.) but people ALWAYS tell you that you're doing everything wrong, so I got a book called "Born To Run", and it was great and i can run barefoot! My arches got really strong and I've never had an injury or even a pulled muscle. A lot of people in my city are getting out every day and really exercising, a totally different world here than it used to be. I am seeing all these folks just doing their thing, its great!
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@Jeremiah_Rivers76
Sorry, I shouldn't have rained on your parade like that, it was rude, and I'm sorry to be so nasty. I actually grew up next to a mormon family, and used to look after the constantly appearing children every year. Actually, I just watched them occasionally for the parents so they could get away from them, go have a great dinner together, and make more kids, and when she went into the hospital to deliver. She was the calmest pregnant woman I've ever seen, hands down! I remember her casually asking me to watch the little girls till dad got back from the store, because, "my water just broke, and I'm going to have the baby... now".. I was 15 and couldn't believe how incredibly self possessed and unworried she was! She did it every year, but still, giving birth while you're driving yourself to the hospital is hard core, no matter how many kids you have!! When the dad drove up, we were waiting on the front lawn to tell him not to get out of the car, he had 20 seconds to get to be part of the delivery. He was honestly frantic, practically doing a turn on two wheels and speeding away, while we played Monopoly...
They were a neat family, and tried honestly and seriously to get me to be a mormon too, but it wasn't offensive, they were just sweet. They finally got too numerous for the house and moved away, but I have found memories! I liked them.
I think if you're happy and find a way to get through life without too much pain, I'm generally all for it. I'm just not at all into the patriarchal way of thinking, but that's just me. I do get really bored by repetitious conservative Christians who love to detail all the ways you'll burn in hell while they sit courtside with the big J, eating pork rinds and drinking (holy) beer....that kind of joy is too serial killer mentality based for me...
Otherwise, all good!
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I usually prefer illegal drugs, but happy to go with legal ones. Skittles are legal, but you're really gulping down the secretions of millions of lac beetles, who provide the nice, crispy shell on most candy, especially skittles. Pastries and other treats are legal, but you're really ingesting quite a lot of the juice squeezed out of a beaver's ass. Castorium is the name for beaver ass juice, which people ingest by the pound, legally. Give it up you freak, it's from a beavers butt, and you're afraid of caffeine???
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@suckanegg69
I know, I think about it all the time.
I was so fortunate to grow up in an age of unbelievable discoveries and achievements, the first man on the moon, the first heart transplants, computers, so much, and yet I still enjoyed being outside, unsupervised, all long summer days, no cameras or cell phones. It was heaven. Of course, I was also growing up in the cold war, nuclear strike drills (get under your desk!...) and with people who had served in WWII and who were traumatized by Vietnam.
If it makes any difference to anyone, all through the 1960s, people in the know were predicting completely unbreathable air in 20 years, pollution was horrible! All the cars were belching toxic fumes that turned the sky brown, and dumping into rivers was killing wildlife. A big movement started and there WAS a gigantic difference, so, I believe there is always hope. If I could give anyone advice it would be to trust your own instincts.
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@GAVACHO5150
Yup, they are all pretty much self centered, narcissistic assholes.
By the time they've wheeled and dealed they're way to the White House, they have traded every bit of honesty for power. I have been sickened by all of them, but I still have to hear whiny morons squeal that I'm a liberal, when I'm not, or a Republican, when I'm not. I'm not a label. I'm too intelligent to be a "brand". I have the right to not like the slimy, double dealing, lying creep whose currently in office if I want. All those idiots who are trying to force everyone to MAGA are just denying the right to free speech and stomping on the constitution whenever they attempt to silence anyone who feels differently than they do. In spite of their attempt force people into being goose stepping white supremacists, it's still a slightly free country. And my ancestors have been here for several thousand years. I'm Native American, French Creole, Irish, and English. My people moved across every state and are veterans of every war. I'm a daughter of the confederacy, the American revolution, and have a cousin who died defending the Alamo. My father was in the Navy fighting the Nazis. So someone like Trump and his cowardly bone spurs and fear of doing anything but insulting better people from behind his stolen money gotten from ripping off everyone in America he ever did business with, really irritates me. It's just my opinion.
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@The Catmother
Yes, I realize that there are other online stores, and i also patronize them. However, i was not writing a carefully thought out thesis on the history of my shopping experiences at Amazon, i was making a (obviously unfunny) comment about Amazon in reference to the video.
I also buy all my clothes from thrifts stores, boysville, specifically, to support free schooling for children up to the age of 26. I did not realize that some enraged woman would be castigating me about my evil habits and make judgements about my entire life from one facetious paragraph, but I have learned that there are people who are enraged about everything, and spend all their time looking for someone to lecture and accuse. There is nothing you can do about such people, they are anxious only to feel superior and self righteous, so I will leave you to it...
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Leo Conchola
Anything can happen. It's the end of the world every day for people who die. Anyone who suffers a catastrophic event says it was the end of the world. That concept is completely subjective.
Do you know that the 7th day Adventists or Jevovahs Witnesses ( cant remember which!) were started by a preacher named Miller in the 1800s? He talked a bunch of farmers into selling everything they owned because he convinced them the end of the world was coming in a few days or so. They did, it didn't end and the date wss changed several times while people starved, got sick and died of exposure while sitting outside praying. Finally he said god had changed his mind and they had to go around and tell other people what they learned, etc. Astonishingly, some idiots (who had nothing left anyway) did just that, calling themselves Millerites. To this day, they run around town, annoying people the world over. ..
Miller had said he was immortal, but, like everything else he role people, it turned out not to be true.
THE MORAL OF THIS TALE IS:
Don't worry, be happy, and especially do not listen to religious fanatics.
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@the8co291
I'm not doubting your story, but if his dad said to run, how did he hang around long enough to watch multiple sexual assaults? Its obviously very possible, but I've heard stories like this in my family and with each generation it gets more and more embellished and embroidered until history is rewritten. I have heard both sides, and there was definitely some behaviour typical of violent, drunk soldiers and desperados, there was also families that followed the them, cooking, nursing and being with their men. I'm not saying at all that it did not happen, just that the idea that he was running for his life but also stayed to witness abuse sounds confusing, but maybe he hid in the barn or something, I don't know. I don't want to offend you, I'm just discussing it.
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My mother was born in 1925, at "home", which was a shack for cowboys on a ranch outside of Dallas. She was delivered by an indian midwife, since she was the result of a romance between my grandma and a young man on the reservation. There were no medical checkups, vaccines or other preventive services, and, perhaps because of her native American genes, she never seemed to suffer from a lot of childhood illnesses, but she told me many times that many of her little friends growing up died of mumps, polio, went deaf or blind from measles or scarlet fever, etc. Some kids would get sick and stay in bed for years. They would never really get well. Since they were very poor, they just survived, and that's about it. She married my dad at a very young age but because of her starved constitution, couldn't have a successful pregnancy until her 30s. When I arrived, I went to the doctor every five minutes! Every vaccine, every new treatment, antibiotics for a hangnail, she wanted me to have it. She became a rabid advocate for every medical treatment that came along! She overdid it, and we teased her relentlessly, but I found out later from grandma how many little friends of hers died when she was growing up, and I understood.
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@Cat-tastrophee
So awful! Your poor mom!! Mumps can also make people sterile, especially adults who get it. Our friend got it as an adult and he said he thought he was going to die...he was a tough guy, but it just laid him out for weeks. He said he never really felt healthy again. My mom said there were always kids who got "normal" illnesses and afterwards had deafness or problems with lymph nodes. I think almost everyone just takes it for granted that these diseases are not wiping out half the children people have today, the mortality rate, even in the modern era, was horrendous until things like the polio vaccine. In 1961, when I was born, there was a pneumonia epidemic among babies, and I was one of the first babies born at the new Stanford Hospital building, which had implemented very strict sanitary maintenance among nurses and allowed no regular visitors. I have a newspaper clipping of a photo of me asleep in the hospital, over a story of how Stanford hadn't had any deaths among babies because of their new procedures. My older sister had been born at the old hospital and been ill right from the beginning. She was always underweight and pretty frail. I'm amazed what a difference just simple sanitizing practices made on life and death, we just take it for granted today...
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