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Sabishii Red Paragoomba                   Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| For a lefty and being unable to draw with a mouse, I am proud of my piggie!
http://drawapig.desktopcreatures.com/reviewDONE.asp?id=1155676 By the way: Your pig is cute Tarale!  |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| Everything's looking wonderful right now. My ACT score of 30 and my SAT score of 1810(roughly a 1200) put me really close into entrance to my dream college(I really want to go to Carnegie Mellon in Pennsylvania). I just hope my AP scores came out okay! *prays to whatever god(s) might be listening/exist*
I'm going to be taking a hell of a lot of hard classes next year, but the challenge should be worth it.I love learning. As for bad habits. My worst is probably downing a caffiene pill or two after an all nighter. i'm never smoked, never done any sort of drugs, and the closest I've come to alcohol is a teaspoon of amaretto I swallowed while cooking ( NEVER AGAIN! Ew  ) or NyQuil.
As far as I can tell, I'm doing the best I can to set up for a good future. I've used my father as a model of what not to be. No smoking, drinking or what have you and I've promised I'll never let myself become that apathetic or callus. I pity him, because he was raised by a father who fought in both Vietnam and Korea and due to the military tended to take physical punishment to the level of abuse. I've been trying to learn to have peace with myself as well. It's difficult to do and even more difficult to maintain. As selfish as it sounds, it's doubly so when, for some reason, you have mental wounds that never do anything more than scab over. I wind up looking back on everything I've been through at least once a year. I always wind up crying because I can't believe that I'm still alive and sane. I've had so many chances to ruin it and I haven't Thanks for all the kind words. It's nice to know that there are other people out there who have crap of their own to deal with. Logically you know they're there, but emotionally it feels like they're so distant or very hard to reach. As a side note for anyone who's interested, I decided to save up all the money I can in August and send it to an orphanage in Africa. I have a friend who's spending the summer there in an attempt to open her eyes to world issues and to help out some. Once I get a job, I'm completely considering sponsoring one of these kids. (shameless plug: http://www.twanatwitu.org/) Sue me, I have a softspot for kids who never really got to have a childhood(been there, this is why my room is decked out in an odd mix of Care Bears and robotics or computer stuff) EDIT: Added the URL for the orphanage (edited by Sabishii on 07-07-06 04:07 AM) |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| Yeesh!
She might like you, but I don't think I've seen anything that weird. Worst I've ever seen is mild stalker tendencies. Maybe you ought to try telling her that you earned your money and she should do the same, that or tell her to ask her family for it. If those fail and ignoring her doesn't work, I'd talk to your family about it and hers. I'd mention to her family the throwing things bit. If her family's really that big, such agression might wind up with her hurting someone and casting a negative light on them. Children are viewed as slightly less inhibited versions of their parents in many places. |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| No job. I work my tail off during the school year and spend summer recouperating as it is.
I plan on applying to a few book stores, music stores, and electronics stores soon though. Getting a job in a book store would be awesome. I'm undiagnosed, but known as being obsessive compulsive, so organizing books alphabetically and by type and keeping records sounds like a load of fun to me. I wouldn't even mind secretarial work, so long as I got to organize something  |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| I think the marketing team had a hangover when they came up with the idea.
(oh, the irony...) Curious as to how it's supposed to work though. Maybe caffiene? It's said to cure headaches and can be absorbed through the skin. |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| Yeah, right
So, did you ever pick one and have you made plans to get it yet? |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba  Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| What's so wrong with masturbation?
It's an altogether safe way to avoid problems related to sex. You can become aroused at age 14, but that certainly doesn't mean you have the mental maturity to handle the psychological impacts of sex. Plus, it cures the feelings of arousal without risk of pregnancy, STDs, and any number of problems sex could arise. As for being bad, scientific results state quite the opposite. It's a stress reliever, burns calories, can cure headaches and it keeps your mind out of the gutter so you can focus. It's a healthy part of human behavior and, dare I say it necessary. (Example, wet dreams. It's been shown that guys who masturbate have fewer nightly emissions than those who don't, which is plus because you can avoid washing the sheets) |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| I was digging around in Femine's Corner and I got to thinking about it.
Who should teach kids about sex? How should they teach it? What age should it be taught at? Was it taught to you? If so, how? I know a bunch of people that are of the opinion it should be the parent's job to teach it to the child, others that think the school and still others that feel both should have a part. The varys more so when age and method of teaching are brought into account. My school taught it in 8th grade(ages 13-14) as part of a health class. They didn't even really teach us about sex so much as they explained anatomy, went over diseases and manipulated the lessons into making many of us feel that the only way we could avoid getting pregnant or getting an STD was by being completely abstinant. I don't think that was the right way to go about it. I think they ought to teach it in 6th or 7th grade, when many kids start hitting puberty so that they understand that what they feel isn't abnormal or dirty. I also think it needs to be a joint effort between the school and the parents. The parents can make the discussion more personal and real and the school can serve as a backbone to guide the parents if they need it. Also, I think it needs to be taught in a completely different style. There needs to be a scientific portion that details STD's, anatomy and function of the body, birth control, etc. for sure, but there also needs to be a portion discussing methods. Abstinance needs to be mentioned, because it's definitely not a bad thing, but they also need to talk about more than just the diseases you can get from avoiding safe sex. They need to be taught about how they can have safe sex as well. Also, masturbation needs to be covered. There's too much of a social taboo around something that everyone does or has done at least once. They could even get parental permission to have guest speakers and go into the psychological problems that arise if you jump the gun or have sex with the wrong person. They could also make mention that although casual sex exists, it forms a bond that makes it difficult to have and that it should be a mutual act of care rather than a case of wham,bam,thank you m'am. This might be better suited for Femine's, but I though it would get a decent debate going here. Opinions, ideas? |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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Originally posted by Nietzluber You're implying that if I got pregnant and I don't want it, be it because of a problem of incest(ew ), rape, risk to my health or a health risk for the baby that I shouldn't be allowed to have it?
That puts women in danger, before abortion was legalized women would go to insane,dangerous, and even fatal lengths to have a child aborted. What if I couldn't get access to a morning after pill? What if I couldn't afford to take care of a child with medical problems? Or, for that matter, to pay for the appropriate medical care I'd need as a pregnant woman? That would not only endanger my life, but the life of the child inside of me. Also, I love the fact that you feel that a fetus/child/lump of cells has more right to live than I do, despite the fact that it can't survive outside of the womb. It's the biological equivalent of a parasite, drawing on it's mother for nutrients to grow and shelter and protection. Originally posted by Randy53215 That's not humane. You leave the mother having to deal with the psychological impact of knowing that something is growing inside her that's not supposed to be there only to be followed by the pain of labor and giving birth and all the medical bills that come with a pregnancy. It's even less humane to let a child sit in an adoption center feeling unloved and unwanted and then going to it;s mother to hear something along the lines of "I gave you up because I was raped and I didn't want you." That's a real mood lifter. The world is already heavily overpopulated as it is. I never intend to have an abortion, ever. I feel that life is something special that shouldn't be wasted, but I refuse to think that I should be forced to give my life up for someone else or to put a burden on mine by supporting someone else. It's wonderful if it's what you're ready for, but no child should have to be born into a situation where they're not wanted or loved. If you like the idea of something growing inside you and depending on you and you want to deal with a child, that's wonderful. Keep it up, raise a good kid and make the world a better place, but you can't force someone to do that. It should be the woman's choice because it's her body. It should be the same in the end as homosexual marriages and contraception and tattoos and piercings, if you don't like it, don't do it. |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| I don't feel that it is a simple choice. It's complex enough to write encyclopedias on, whether you're pro-choice, anti-choice, or something inbetween.
What I think, however, is that it should remain the woman's choice until the fetus could survive outside the womb. Until then, it's drawing entirely from the mother, be it for production of blood, for oxygen or for nutrients. Even with nutrients, if the infant isn't recieving the proper amount of anything, it takes from the mother. A common example of this is calcium and many women have weak teeth and bones forever after giving birth because of all the child drew from them. That's not even the limit of the damage it does, be it something appearance based like stretching of the skin or actually changing the mother's body frame, such as the permanent widening of the hips to allow the baby's head to pass or the flattening of the feet to help with weight distribution. To let a fetus grow inside and to let it be born as a baby and raised into a child is wonderful. It's got so many sacrifices and I admire the women who suffer what they must for their children. It takes a lot to deal with the physical changes like those mentioned about and the emotional changes caused by countless hormones that can cause everything from depression to morning sickness. That's awesome, but until a hospital can create an artifical womb or some sort of system in which it could safely and healthily develop a fetus without need of the mother's body, it should completely be the mother's choice as to whether or not she should suffer the pains of pregnancy, labor and then either raising or letting go of the child. I never intend to use it, but I want that option left open to me regardless of how others do or do not use it. |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| Not to mention the judges have already ruled that they can't leave Virginia. Rather difficult to leave the country when you can't leave the state.
While I can definitely see the social service's side on the issue, I think it's a safe bet that everyone sides with the family. Last time I checked, alternative medicines were no big deal. As for herbs not curing cancer, technically radiation and chemotherapy don't either. It's like bleach, it can kill the cancer cells, but it'll also kill everything else around it. It sucks being a minor sometimes, doubly so if you're like this kid and you're perfectly able to make your own decisions about your own life and no one will let you.  |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| I like cereal in general, to be honest. Marshmellows are okay, but I find that most cereals stick them in to compensate for a late of good taste anyway. I always found Lucky Charms and Alpha-Bits to taste a bit like bits of wet cardboard sans mashmellows, personally.
I'd have to say I'm a big fan of Captain Crunch(of all varieties) and Corn Pops. The Honey Oat Crunch cereal that Post makes it good too, just ungodly expensive  |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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I like ramen, particularly the chicken flavor. I usually eat it only when I'm in a hurry, so maybe 3-6 times a week? My usual diet is along the lines of toast or fruit for breakfast, ramen or a vegetarian chicken sandwich(with lettuice, cheese, tomatoe for general ymuuiness) for lunch and then a repeat of the lunch menu for dinner if I'm cooking for myself. I'm the queen of microwave cooking. |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| I realize that "vegetarian chicken" sounds contradictory, but it sounds more appetizing than, say, pretend meat or something of the variety. You can buy vegetarian substitutes for meat, which is what I'm referring to.
The onion powder doesn't sound so very appetizing though. I tend to drain all the water and only use the flavor packets on mine. |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| MINI RANT- Scroll down if you don't want to read it.
If they had done any research into immigration or economics, they'd have presented the fact that immigration is mostly good. It keeps the minimum wage low, it helps slow the outsourcing of companies, most of them don't use the social benefits they could recieve(the average American family recieves more government help than they have technically provided) and, here's the funny part, most of them don't stay. They come for health care, education and to make easy money and then when they have earned enough to make a decent life in their home country, most of them return. There's actually small pockets of people in the US advocating immigration. As far as stealing jobs, that's solely the fault of the affirmative action mess if at all and if I hear one more person complain about having to learn another language in relation to immigration, I'll scream. Not only does learning a language help with a low IQ, it helps with vocabulary, grammar and syntax. Doesn't help that it's difficult to become fluent in another language as an adult, particularly if it's English that you're trying to learn (I'm sure lots of you here know that. A mini story: I once hade a substitute in my German class who natively spoke Russian, but was trying to teach German to kids who spoke English. Juggling three languages at once and trying to understand slang in addition, try that on for size.) END MINI RANT Mini rant aside, I'm with Ziff. I live in Georgia, the deep south, in one of the most racist areas of the state. There are kids I know who flaunt their membership in the KKK, and it's bull. Not to mention in my school of nearly three thousand kids, I think only 4 or 5 are asian and no more than 10 are african american. It was a nice idea to honor the deaths of confederate soldiers from the civil war, but it was taken in the wrong direction and it remains that way. The ideas they present are almost as deplorable as the ones presented by some of the skinhead culture. I can't blame them for feeling as they do or for wanting to be around people similar to themselves, but I find their aggressive method of presenting ideas rediculous and their history doesn't make them anymore credible. EDIT: Was fixing typos... (edited by Sabishii on 08-05-06 08:52 PM) (edited by Sabishii on 08-05-06 08:53 PM) |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| Can't say I support illegal immigration, but there are certain circumstancres in which I can view it as an acceptable act. Does the US still have quotas on immigration or were those laws completely destroyed? I know they changed after the 1800's, but my life went haywire towards the end of my US history class, so I'm not sure. If we do, that's one decent reason to come in illegally. Also, there's healthcare. I disapprove of the people who use emergency rooms and then leave without paying (emergency rooms are required to help anyone who comes in an a lot of hospitals near the border are having to close the ER because of all the money they lose), but if you're coming over illegally because it's a life or death situation and you can't get it in your own country, why not?
As for keeping the minimum wage low, it helps balance the economy out some. It sucks if you're on the bottom of the chain (I just moved out of a trailer to an apartment and it was a HUGE step up). Still, how many jobs actually pay minimum wage? I only know of one company that does it and it's only for the kids who work bagging groceries at the store, in which case the minimum wage is sufficient pay. Most jobs around here pay at least $7 and hour, even for menial crap like cashiering. I don't like the KKK policies at all, not the ones of local chapters at least. Trying to stop illegal immigration is like trying to stop drugs or terrorism, it's a futile act. Kario, what excatly did the local chapter have to say on immigration anyway? You haven't mentioned that, if they proposed solutions for the problem of illegal immigration rather than ranting on why it's so bad, I can see why you might have agreed with their policies. |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| Arwon's right, though their costumes are meant to honor confederate soldiers. The whole cloaked in white thing is the equivalent of the kid in a sheet pretending to be a ghost in Halloween. Just a random fun fact I picked up in US hist. | |||
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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Having it come through the house sucks, but that's twice as scary in a trailer and a million times scarier when you're in the room it falls onto before smashing off the back end of the house. It then proceeded to go through a fence and to knock down another tree, which dented a neighboring trailer on the other side of the fence. 
Sorry about having to see a tree go though. I cried when they had to cut down the tree I planted right outside my window to move the wreckage of the trailer. I saved a piece of the stump though, it's on my bookshelf. |
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Sabishii Red Paragoomba Since: 02-26-06 From: Georgia Last post: 6465 days Last view: 6465 days |
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| I have to say I agree with you Guru. This seems a little off base to me.It takes away from the legal stance of innocent until proven guilty that we're supposed to have.
"A recently enacted law allows county prosecutors, the state attorney general, or, as a last resort, alleged victims to ask judges to civilly declare someone to be a sex offender even when there has been no criminal verdict or successful lawsuit." That makes me see a whole new Salem witch trials affair. You'd have everyone accusing everyone else with little or no reasoning and in the long run the accusations would ruin reputations, kind of like the friend Guru mentioned. It seems to be falling into a trend of things though, it's like people have no objections to making their lives open book if it could increase security even fractionally. "A civilly declared offender, however, could petition the court to have the person's name removed from the new list after six years if there have been no new problems and the judge believes the person is unlikely to abuse again." That's the part that really irks me though. That's an obscene request. Not only would you have to have your reputation ruined for a minimum of six years, but you'd also have to get a pertition to have your name removed and that's if you have zero screw ups and no one suspects anything. After six years and repetively having to tell people "I'm an accused sex offender, but not convicted" and then to go around asking people to sign a petition to have your name removed from that list? It's so unlikely that you'd actually get enough support for that that the whole request is obscene. Then, supposing you do, it can be overturned if the judge "believes" the person is unlikely to abuse again? EVEN when they might never have abused it in the first place? Guru hit it on the head, this whole mess is absolutely preposterous. It's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty and I, for one, don't feel that it's worth it to sacrifice many for the sake of keeping track of a few. The marginal cost to the people, the legal system and the accused doesn't match up with the marginal benefit the people receive from the whole affair. |
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