I listen to classical music now when I'm at home. I agree pop music has become boring. Most of it is about boy meets girl, surely there's more going on in the world to write about. What happened to the protest songs?
Xanthippe
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AGREE? or DISAGREE? Popular Music
by Terry inhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip0wuwjbdmi.
"from 1955 till present, popular music has declined to the point where it is now consistently "stupid" and homogenous.
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Start A Butterfly Garden!
by Bonsai intime to take a break from debating religion.
take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?
how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?
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Heaven I'm growing some Monarda, bee balm from seed at the moment. I haven't grown it before. Is it invasive, only it's of the mint family isn't it? I'm also growing Borage because the bees love it. You're supposed to plant it outside but I'm not sure tiny seedlings will survive the slugs in my garden so it was on my kitchen windowsill and now I've potted the seedlings on and put them in a cold greenhouse. They did flop a bit for a few hours but then perked up and are growing strongly now. I want to attract lots of bees and butterflies and it has such lovely blue flowers. It's also an edible herb.
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Where and What. . . IS THE EVIDENCE for "Mental ILLNESS"? ? ?
by Terry ini have no interest whatsoever in stirring up controversy.. in fact, i find clashes of opinion to be debilitatingly negative.. so, i'd simply like to request that we narrow this discussion to evidence.. please watch this video which is tantalizingly titled :.
"there's no such thing as mental illness".. consider this data and listen to the presentation of cause vs. effects and give me your analysis and any evidence for conclusions you may draw.
we all have anecdotal tendencies, but i should remind you, anecdotal testimony isn't evidence, only opinion.________________________________________.
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Very interesting Terry. It is worrying, if it's correct, that if you block dopamine receptors with antipsychotics the brain produces 50% more to compensate. Which means if a person tries to come off the medication they now have 50% more receptors than they need, which would explain why the episode can reoccur. Is this a relapse of a mental illness or a brain reacting to being chemically altered?
For my local authority job I was sent on a Mental Health First Aid course. Started by a nurse in Australia the idea is to identify possible problems in colleagues caused by stress or family circumstances and look out for the person until they can get professional help. The social worker who was one of the two people running the course said that groups like The Hearing Voices Network was set up to help people, many of whom are professionals, to cope and live with unusual symptoms rather than being medicated and hospitalised. In fact the subtitle of their website, hearing-voices.org, is 'for people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual perceptions'. She stunned me by saying there is a whole network of professional people who live with things like occasionally hearing voices but who cannot reveal their real names because it would end their careers. It's all very interesting and perhaps we should seriously look at what he described in the vid, showing respect and compassion for mentally suffering people rather than throwing drugs at everything.
This doesn't mean we should never use medication. When my parents both died in the same year over ten years ago I used SSRIs for about five months for acute depression. However now, when I feel depressed, I cut back on everything, work, commitments and avoid stress like the plague. I increase fruit and veg in my diet and after about three weeks I start to feel better. I'd rather let the serotonin build naturally if possible. That's my personal view. In fact you have to wait two to three weeks for SSRIs to start working anyway. Just my halfpenny worth.
I just want to add I don't think we should try to medicate away unhappiness. If life is getting us down we need to change it. Everyone on this forum has had to drastically change their lives so they could be happy. Sometimes we have to go through the pain barrier to create a better future. There seems to be a huge need to stop everyone feeling sad or miserable, ever. Surely pain and misery is your brain's way of getting you to change your life?
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Temple of Baal in new york
by Lost his mind inok, has anyone else heard of this?
the new york times had an article that it is being built but as i do an internet search of it all i get is weirdo sights professing the end of times.
so, anyone in new york, are you seeing this built?
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They're building a triumphal arch instead now.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/arch.of.triumph.of.palmyra.not.temple.of.baal.
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Start A Butterfly Garden!
by Bonsai intime to take a break from debating religion.
take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?
how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?
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GreatTeacher I always feel sad when I mow the lawns and chop off the heads of the daisies. I love lawn daisies, they always remind me of my grandmother's house when I was a little girl. I loved to visit her, she was a lovely lady, always smartly dressed, she loved hats and she loved me unconditionally. She had quite a big garden, vegetables I think and lots of daisies on the lawn.
I planted lupins, two viburnums, a mock orange, photinias, euphorbia, red campion, centaurea and a cape daisy yesterday. I'm creating a new bed where there was just an overgrown mess of ivy and weeds. It's been a lot of work but I'm looking forward to some beautiful flowers. Oh my aching back!
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I say jump. You say how high?
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What Are the Top JW Issues That Just Burn Your Buns the Most?
by Wild_Thing inwhich ones make you the maddest?
covering up of abuse, shunning, failed end of world predictions?.
my list is long and heavy, but the top 3 that set me off the most are:.
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The way they've tied everything up so tight there's its really difficult for people to think their way out of it. We say to our families the 1914 generation are all dead, they play the guilt card and say we're not serving Jehovah to a specific date. That's not the point, we say, making false prophecies means your religion is false! They say are you criticising those appointed by God!
We say where's the love in the JWs, the sign of true Christianity? They say we're just imperfect humans. We say we're just imperfect humans trying to find our way in life, trying to find answers to our questions and doubts. Then they say that shows a lack of faith and humility, you must be apostates.
Rinse, repeat. Circular arguments!
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I was disfellowshipped because of Satan
by elbib induring co visit, i took him for a bible study i was conducting.
during the session, the householder said he believed satan was not a person, but personification of evil within us.
i left co to handle householder’s doubt.
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Good grief Elbib that was crazy. You were not only a regular publisher but you were conducting Bible Studies. The thought police found you anyway! You are well out of it. I hope you didn't lose family. Are those friends who told you that you were disfellowshipped still speaking to you? -
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My mom died at 96 (without a visit from her granddaughter)
by BONEZZ indon't get here much anymore.
my mom, if you remember, really wanted to see her granddaughter before she died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcpuj96a8lg.
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BONEZZ I'm so sorry you lost your mother and she never got to speak to her granddaughter. It breaks me up that you will never see yours either. I'm full of admiration that you're moving on with your life. -
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What do Muslims Really Think - UK Documentary
by cofty inchannel 4 have commissioned a study into attitudes among british muslims.. the documentary starts in an hour from now at 10pm.
if you watch it live or on 4od please share your thoughts.. unlike many other surveys of muslim opinion, which have predominantly been done by phone or online, icm used face-to-face, in-home research to question a representative sample of 1,000 muslims across great britain.
icm also used a “control sample” to compare what british muslims thought with the rest of the british population.. at the top-line level, the survey suggests that a mainstream british muslim majority have similar values and attitudes to the wider british public on issues such as support for british institutions and a feeling of belonging to britain.. but looking deeper into the results, a chasm develops between those muslims surveyed and the wider population on attitudes to liberal values on issues such as gender equality, homosexuality and issues relating to freedom of expression.
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Interesting ..there is not a single comment about the actual documentary.
Talesin did you read my post, it is only about the documentary and nothing else.
