Originally posted by Slyððering
I know, it's absolutely horrific.
The video we watched was graphic, and, although it didn't show any actual infanticide, it spoke to people who had committed said acts. It really opened my eyes to the differences in the many cultures of the world, and the horrors therein.
Your from Scottland?? Yeah, we are both (pretty much) in a free society.
Free Society (wikipedia):
"... U.S. Constitution by enough State, the Means of the People within the Free Society were formed as "Citizens of __ Counties, as the entities to handle moral issues, to set standards for communities and to use "real democracy" to perform these and other activities---with the government not given any power or authority dealing with these neutral (no politics) areas of activities within the Free Society ..."
No, I'm Canadian, eh. canadian
Practically all my close relatives (on my ma's side) are first-generation immigrants, though, so I have a much more defined connection with my British heritage. 🙂
And yes, compared with other societies, I'd say our governments are obviously the most liberal - and so we should probably learn to not complain about the problems that afflict us: We could be much worse off.
Originally posted by Slyððering
No, I'm Canadian, eh. canadianPractically all my close relatives (on my ma's side) are first-generation immigrants, though, so I have a much more defined connection with my British heritage. 🙂
And yes, compared with other societies, I'd say our governments are obviously the most liberal - and so we should probably learn to not complain about the problems that afflict us: We could be much worse off.
This is true.
Originally posted by Slyððering
....That just seems a long time (at least to me) to remain entirely abstinent.
Well, I didn't plan it that way, in another life, if I were really good, I would have been a nun or eunuch. I started off abstaining and joining a church, then, had issues with the philosophy within the church and left to different ones, had issues with abortion (never had one, but was raped, was my virginity, and tend to think that if I was pregno from that event, I would have a hard time keeping the kid, which is so wrong compared to church teaching and I had to sit there and listen and teach others that this is the right thing, when in my heart, i may have done it differently if it happened to me), so with all that ugly detail, and after a bad relationship with a guy, I thought God was the next best thing to recreational drugs, and God isn't against the law, so I took up with him for a while, but could never stay within the philosophy of some of the church dogma. I still have reverence for God, but not so much into the church, plus, I'm no longer a good Christian, so why should I pretend??
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Originally posted by Slyððering
Wow....
Um, I don't think I have an adequate response to that.
Well, there isn't one, it's free information to any female who needs it, it happens to people, and it's not my shame, but to the shame of the person who did that, and in another life, he'd be dead, but that's another thread. Either way, it's not an emotional issue for me anymore, but it changed my views about certain type of men, I never see them the same, I will never see them as my protectors, I see them as opportunistic, either doing it by their own motivation, or to please another female who wants it done, either way, they aren't my kind of people, but will be the same ones calling me a racist.
I should add that the ones who did bad things to me, without sounding like I am gloating over it, not too many good things happened to the ones who CONTINUED along the same MENTALTIY, it's not about race but the MENTALITY, HOWEVER, if a lot of people share that same mentaltiy, then it becomes a pattern. I can confidently say a lot of good things about whites b/c of the established patterns, however, there are those that are the same mentality of blacks, and you'll know it just by talking to them, they are usually very negative and very jealous hearted, but I have found this moreso in blacks, even though, I haven't been around many of them.
Originally posted by Oncewhite
Do you plan to have lots of children? If so, why?Today, I was out and about, and decided to people watch while waiting on something. I observed 3 children, one toddler, one oldest child, and the middle one. The older kid was about 5 years old and seemed to push the middle one around. Well, the middle kid wanted attention from the older child, and the older one would shrugge her off, then the older one did something that really caught my attention even more, she stated (to her middle sister) in front of both parents "mommy is MY FRIEND and the baby is my friend, they are not your friends, and we don't belong to you". I was outraged, and looked for the parents response, they did nothing, the mother gave an embarrassing glance, the father just kept feeding the middle one sugar-drinks every time the older one pushed her away, and when the younger one would touch the baby, the older one would shun her away. I was like WOW, they are really setting up a strong middle child syndrome in this toddler.
Then, I wondered why people have kids knowing they will emotionally abuse at least one of them.
Will you all have kids, and if so, will it be 3 or more? 3 kids are tough, as one will always feel left out, usually the middle one. But sometimes, the middle one will learn the game and then align with another sibling and out caste the other, either way, one person is usually in the outs.
Originally posted by Leo.M
I want to have 3 kids and adopt one.... not sure if I want to adopt 1st or last. I'm worried that my kids by blood would shun the adopted one if I do it last. If I adopt 1st they won't know... for awhile at least and even then I don't know if I would ever tell the kid they were adopted. srug
if you adopt, are you sure you won't play favorites? it's going to be pretty hard, as the adopted child may either be like the pet dog or treated the other way too...nothing wrong with treating a child like a pet if you want, but it would be a dead give away if everyone in the family is treating the kid that way...plus, children are possessive of their parents, who's to say your own natural kids will resent the fact that you have adopted, that's one less toy they will get, less love they will rec'v...
and as far as telling the child, it depends on the child, some people are very concerned about their hereitage, not sure if this is based on a zodiac sign characteristic or what, but some people would grow up resenting "not knowing", and others, it would be a big "don't care". if you adopt an infant, you want to know the exact time of birth as well as the location of birth, just to get more info if you don't mind reading astrological charts and seeing what a different perspective, a general one, about who this "being" is and what's it about in this world...it's not fool proof, but it's a start to knowing something b/4 you develop a relationship with a child..