It truly amazes me how widespread doublethink is in our society, and more troublingly, in my brain. I mean, I know that not everyone can look like a model, yet I measure myself against an impossible standard. I would like to be a more consciencious recycler, a more assiduous birthday card sender, a reliable presence at all family functions, but I can't, dammit! When you...
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inkcasualty:
I doubt this will help but you can blame it on your Mom, not her personally but on her genes as this behavior in the female human appears to be left over from some ancient need to "keep a mate"....at least some article I read in Psychology Today said something of the sort and I think Desmond Morris wrote a whole book on it called "The Not So Naked Goth Ape on the Subway who Wants to Kick the Other Goth Chick with the Supposedly NIcer Legs in the SHin" or something like that...you'd have to Google it but I'm sure Indigo or Amazon carries it. Keep your chin up ... "this appears" to be a universal gender issue along the lines of the infamous male penis envy missile complex thingy. Hope this helps.
saruman:
As a guy, none of the women I've been thoroughly attracted to where supermodel types. Not that they were ugly, merely that the phyisical aspect was not a huge part of my attraction.
I received an email from a friend of mine about a week ago. It goes, in part, like this:
IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN CANADA DID NOT
PURCHASE A DROP OF GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME
TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.
AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET...
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IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN CANADA DID NOT
PURCHASE A DROP OF GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME
TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.
AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET...
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The edginess of life
So Tommy Lee Jones just visited me on a cliff face over a beach to discuss the nature of adventure. All around me people were engaged in sports of various kinds - snorkling, rock climbing, and just generally doing things that struck me as somewhat adventuresome. What I was doing on the rock face I'm not sure, as I was still...
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So Tommy Lee Jones just visited me on a cliff face over a beach to discuss the nature of adventure. All around me people were engaged in sports of various kinds - snorkling, rock climbing, and just generally doing things that struck me as somewhat adventuresome. What I was doing on the rock face I'm not sure, as I was still...
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