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Windyloveskids
Sorry. I can't shut up. I cannot believe how many people these days recommend a good beating to straighten kids out. http://www.naturalchild.org/alice_miller/ Two of the most respectful & well behaved kids I ever met also had welt marks from a belt buckle across their back. This is too much. A little attention getting spanking on the behind is fine but I'm against hurting and humiliating kids. I get lots of abuse and trouble from folks named road kill, beer drinker and even mom of 2....all fighting for the right to hit their kids without seeing the big picture. Arguing these rights allows out of control parents to get away with much worse...children suffer in private...society suffers in the end. Few psychopathic, sociopathic dangers to society are the result of getting treated too kindly as children. The reverse is almost always true. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to solve society's problems or make the world safer. Just do the math!
Anyone remember SUPERLEARNING? The technique pops up in top secret stuff but never called Superlearning?
It was a method of learning popular in the late 70's sort of hand in hand with Speed Reading.
I bought the tapes (not cheap!) and ran through it once or twice to see what it was about.
I never really put it into practice except to play music while I study and take breaks every 20 minutes...but I have read accounts of where accelerated learning takes place and is very possible.
The key to rapid and almost unconscious learning seemed to be listening to music of a certain rythymic beats per minute (Bach was recommended) AT THE SAME TIME as reviewing the material to be learned.
Somehow this beat per minute (which was maybe not coincidentally in time with the beating of a human heart) rythym played almost imperceptively in the background...increased knowledge gathering, assimilation and retention dramatically.
It wasn't de-bunked.
It just faded from view.
I wonder if there really was anything to it?
1 AnswerOther - Education1 decade agoAnd what about... FLUSTRATED? Has this morphed into a word?
10 AnswersLanguages1 decade agoAm I the only one bothered people say "IM-POR-DANT" instead of IM-POR-TANT?
Listen to the first Lady Laura Bush as an example.
4 AnswersLanguages1 decade agoWhen did "thunder-boomers" become a word ?
...I am guessing this was recently coined by some meteorologist on Bring your Kid to Work Day....
6 AnswersLanguages1 decade agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation_train Why dont we already have this electromagnetic train?
Coast to coast. North and south to the west Canada and Mexico. Think what that would do for the economy if people could travel the continent quickly and cheaply?
10 AnswersCommuting1 decade agoRE Drilling: Wont we need those oil reserves in 2050 when Mideast runs out & the price hits $500 a barrel?
Or for what ever reason the mideast stops providin us with oil.
Wouldn't it be good to have a contingency plan?
What is this President, Charlie Crist, Senator Martinez and whats his name....Mc Cann't .... thinking?
7 AnswersCurrent Events1 decade agoWouldn't it be wise to spend taxpayer dollars to upgrade presently existing public transprtation in all forms?
Give subsidies to Taxi's so they can lower fares. Subways. els, trollys, shuttles, jitney, horse and buggy...what ever you have that doesn't use mega amounts of gas. Make Bike and scooter rentals widely available.
Using up oil now we will be happy to have in 2050 is not the answer Anything but drill.
2 AnswersOther - Society & Culture1 decade agoWhy are American families fractured? Why parents, grandparents & kids don't stick together care for each other
Do we raise peole we really on some level dislike? And so they move away?
In other countries the grandparents help raise the children so the parents can work. The parents respect and revere their elders. Is it alzheimers or something taking the old folks from the picture?
6 AnswersOther - Cultures & Groups1 decade agoWhy don't I ever hear "Golddigger" on the radio anymore?
8 AnswersRadio1 decade agoDo you watch c span? Care what your elected official are up to? Have you become a news addict overall?
I never used to watch the news...now it is like a fix. I am even watching c span. Can't believe it isn't more popular.
2 AnswersCurrent Events1 decade agoHow is it that Egyptian carvings depict a sun central universe yet Copernicus and Galileo were not believed?
Did we get stupider?
If so.... how the heck does that happen?
3 AnswersOther - Society & Culture1 decade agoWhat was the first civilized society and how do you know?
If it is the Summerians where do the cave dwellers fit in and did they just keep getting brighter and brighter and just "evolve" into the Egyptians?
How is it that ancient Egyptian carvings depict a sun central universe and yet Copernicus and Galileo were not believed?
Did we get stupider?
And if so... how the heck does that happen?
3 AnswersOther - Cultures & Groups1 decade agoWhy was God inspired to omit the Book of Enoch- Noah's granddad/ 5 generations from Adam from our Bible?
Just curious as to what others think about this...
If they even acknowledge it.
Especially when other passages of the Bible tell us Enoch was so special God took him to Heaven before he was dead and when Jesus himself quotes from the Book of Enoch...odd that the whole Book is gone.
This to me...proves that although it may have been originally intended as THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD
These words - in the form of Books- were severely and critically edited by MAN.
11 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoFOUND "The Epic of Creation" carved on 7 stone tablets predates all religious books inc.Bible /TRUE or FALSE?
The discovery of these tablets as well as many other history and Bible history verifying artifacts( proving many events in the Bible were true) were found back in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
The impact of these discoveries inspired the Indiana Jones Movies.
Some of the artifacts took 40 years of scholarly study referencing and cross referencing to translate. The discovery has such an other worldly and incredible impact on so many different religions (until maybe 2012 concsiousness shift)
No one wants to be the first to burst anyones bubble and tell them they may have to re-think their religion.
Enuma Elish translated means the Epic of Creation and found carved into seven stone tables. There are parts of the Bible, Koran, Torrah, and other religious books that seem to "borrow" huge sections and passages from these 7 tablets.
If this IS true -It changes almost everything
If you want to read the Enuma Elish....
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade agoRe: CNN's Special /Who knew Brazil (after working only 30yrs on changes) was already energy independant?
1. We should use sugar ethanol which is 7 times as efficient as corn ethanol. Why didn't GWB back sugar ethanol ahead of corn ethanol? I am sure he was paid off by a powerful corn lobby or something because to not be aware of the discrepancy is pure idiocy-but that is just my opinion. Sugar ethanol provides 40% of Brazils total fuel.
2. Flex Fuel Cars - Though automakers have done everything possible to prevent these from coming to market. It's time.
3. Raise MPG Standard for automakers - For every one mile gained in fuel efficiency, 50 thousand barrels of oil are saved everyday.
1 AnswerOther - Society & Culture1 decade agoRe: CNN's Special /Who knew Brazil (after working only 30yrs on changes) was already energy independant?
1. We should use sugar ethanol which is 7 times as efficient as corn ethanol. Why didn't GWB back sugar ethanol ahead of corn ethanol? I am sure he was paid off by a powerful corn lobby or something because to not be aware of the discrepancy is pure idiocy-but that is just my opinion. Sugar ethanol provides 40% of Brazils total fuel.
2. Flex Fuel Cars - Though automakers have done everything possible to prevent these from coming to market. It's time.
3. Raise MPG Standard for automakers - For every one mile gained in fuel efficiency, 50 thousand barrels of oil are saved everyday.
3 AnswersGreen Living1 decade agoRe: CNN's Special /Who knew Brazil (after working only 30yrs on changes) was already energy independant?
We should immediately switch to sugar ethanol which is 7 times as efficient as corn ethanol.
Raise MPG Standard for automakers - For every one mile gained in fuel efficiency, 50 thousand barrels of oil are saved everyday.
We should already be retrofitting gas pumps & using Flex-Fuel Cars
6 AnswersAlternative Fuel Vehicles1 decade agoRe: CNN's special - Who knew Brazil (after only 30 yrs of changes) is already energy independant?
We should immediately switch to sugar ethanol which is 7 times as efficient as corn ethanol.
Raise MPG Standard for automakers - For every one mile gained in fuel efficiency, 50 thousand barrels of oil are saved everyday.
We should already be retrofitting gas pumps & using Flex-Fuel Cars
1 AnswerOther - Environment1 decade ago