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Sorry to burst your hope on this. But this article was first posted in 2007. I'm in the same boat as everyone else writing here. But this isn't the venue to get your voices heard.
Well, maybe you can stop getting all jealous? After all English isn't the oldest language is it? LOL, Terrorists? Why don't you pussies get a white president first? :)
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Look, we all get that men and women are attracted to different things. We all get that men are attracted to in-your-face sexuality and hip-to-waist ratios and long hair..etc etc etc. We all know this, this is nothing new. And it's not wrong. HOWEVER. What is wrong is the extreme's that magazines like Maxim take to bring very in-your-face sex/shock appeal that make "men" fall prey to the fantasy and buy their magazines. What is wrong is the expectations that develop in people over years of fake photoshopped media exposure that now become the standard that average Joes sitting on their couches, scratching themselves on Sunday afternoon watching football think they deserve because some very highly paid executives tell them they do just to sell their product. People are stupid if they don't believe that the media doesn't influnce their opinions to certain extents. Some of the advice given in this blog give a clear picture of the completely unrealistic standards that we as a culture have developed. And why people are less happy in their relationships then they might have been years ago with less media exposure and a media industry telling us to never "settle" or stay with one thing (or person) for too long because we all deserve better. We all deserve the fantasy right? We all deserve to have the world on a silver platter because you are "you" and I am "me", right? Wrong! But we don't value certain things like we should. We don't value the woman at home raising three kids and might have put on some pounds but lovingly irons her husbands shirts for works, makes lunches and goes to PTA meetings. We don't hear men praise their wives for their hard work. Instead, we hear guys that ask why their very hard working wives can't look like the girls in the magazines that look lke that for one second in time after a million pictures have been taken to get just the right pose, 10 styliest have worked on her and photoshop experts have redined her in pictures. We don't hear about women praising their man for going to work everyday and coming hom to her and bringing enough money to buy the kids andher nice things. We hear about how hot Brad Pitt is. We don't value each other. We value something that has no value at all. Pictures in magazines or on screen that create a fantasy. A fantasy that I think too many people rather live in because it's easier, and rather numb themselves with, then deal with the imperfections of real people, just like them, just like us.
It's not human sexuality that is at fault here. It's not that men like certain size breast or weight. That's normal. It's the extreme ideals we have today about weight and breast size that is wrong. It's the idea that women actually need breast implants to be considered more of a woman or need to crash diet because god forbid we have some tummy on us even though women are made to be more naturally fatty.
It's the fact that we live in a world that's all about the fantasy. And that average men today think they deserve twin 18 year olds because they've filled up their lives with so much porn and fake imagery instead of respecting the people and honoring the women and being *THANKFUL* and *GRATEFUL* to have the people we do in our life.
Magazines and other media like Maxim aren't just about human sexuality. They are about human physcology, the good the bad and the ugly. Technology: the good , bad and the ugly. And sexuality. Media plays are on our highest emotions. And that is why we buy into what it's selling. Even if it's at the cost of the real things that would make us really happy. Not the things that only make us happy for 5 minutes before needing something else to come along and entertain ourselves with.
Heck, I would love to be goregous. Men love goregeous women. Men treat women they think are worthy of them, much nicer. But I am not goregous. I'm just me. And no matter how hard I work out, the nice clothes I wear, or how sweet I am. Women like the girls in Maxim will always turn a man's head before I will. You can call me bitter or you can just admit that I am human. And a woman who desperetly wants a man to find her beautiful enough to love, cherish and think is sexy. Beyond what some fake girl in a magazine is. That doesn't make me bitter to have those kind of feelings. But we live in a world where everywhere I turn, there is another much hotter girl and another man, mine or amother woman's, who is eager to drool after her and lust after her and remind you that you can never be what men really want. Which is some fake fantasy image of interchangable women that never stop. Media doesn't make money because it satisfies. It makes money because it keeps peopel coming back for more. I personally rather be with a many that can be happy with himself and me. And think I am the most beautiful sexy woman. Even if I am not. I think I deserve that from one man in theis world full of billions. That's all I am asking for. Just one. Not millions of men like the girl on Maxim is. Just one.
There has been a lot of damage done to journalism which spills over into science coverage. It is good that you revisit the notion of a free press.
The person that that created the comment titled "Creationism" has committed a fallacy called the " ad hominem" fallacy which involves attacking the person involved in the argument instead of the argument itself. I could find lots of bad things that evolutionists have done, at the same time, I could find lots of things that creationists have done wrong. However, this does not prove either theory correct or incorrect.
Vince, now in your correction all you've done is multiply the speed of light by 186,000 -- which happens to be the number of miles light moves in a second.
Why not multiply by 300,000,000, which is the number of meters light moves in a second?
Or by about 3.2x10^(-8), which is the number of light years light moves in a second.
Or by the number of furlongs light travels in a fortnight.
Do you now see how your whole theory depends on an arbitrary set of units? There's nothing special about miles or seconds, but your calculation presumes that there is.
If you don't see this, then you really don't understand the basics of physics.
Sorry!
Fred Bortz
Author of Physics: Decade by Decade (Twentieth Century Science set, Facts On File, 2007)
P.S.: I suggest you Google "Ultrawave Theory" to find a similarly misguided approach by someone who actually paid me to consult but refused to recognize his errors when I pointed them out.
I think less and less teenagers are starting to smoke because more and more are aware of the risks of smoking. I read on teenage smoking that majority of adults started to smoke in their teens.
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There are worse things in the world to have than cold sores HSV-1. To this point in my life its not killing me but, I often feel like it is. I'm 30 years old now and I have had it as long as I can remember. Growing up, I maybe got an outbreak once a year to everyother year. Since I've graduated college and with life and stress I've been getting an outbreak 3-4 times a year. I feel that the old one gets typically we get more self-esteem however, I feel like I get a nice kick in the pants everytime I get an outbreak. I can live with the day to day stress of life but I'd rather not wake up every morning doing a self check to make sure I don't have bumps forming followed by a week to 2 weeks of semi-depression. I tired of playing the guessing game hmmm is this a tingle or an itch do I have to make a mad dash to the doc for some valtrex ohhh too late see you in a week or two... Well all I can say is best of luck to Dr. Cullen I really hope you find the cure!!!!
Da ne studiras mozda na Filozofskom? Gotovo sam ubedjen da si iz Srbije, isto kao i ja.
A sto se tice tvog komentara na celu stvar, mislim da uopste nisi u pravu. Tacno je da ljubav ne zna za godine, ali posto imas tek 19, shvatices kasnije koliko ce TOLIKA razlika u godinama uzrokovati problema. U principu ne planiram da te ubedim ni u sta, ali popricaj malo sa starijima, vidi sta oni kazu na to, malo razmisli o tome sta ce ti oni reci i shvatices. Ipak ti studiras antropologiju, zar ne ( ;
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Granted there are many words without vowels. I learned there were 5 vowels and oh, yes sometimes "Y", but "y" is definitely not a vowel. My God..hasn't anyone heard?
I believe "Y" can be considered a semi-vowel, as well as "H" and "W" when followed by a vowel. If you look at the words above, the letters that follow the "Y" are not vowels. Therefore, I don't believe that "Y" is even considered a semi-vowel in these words.
You forgot a few; syn, pnyx, glyph, wyrd, pht, hwyl, hyp...not to mention, pry, hm & hmm, wyn, nth and cwm
Zyzzyva -- you can look it up and add it to your list, but take those off that contain vowels, i.e. ay, gyve
Vegatable? What's with your spelling? It's a fruit!
I blog about addiction science, specifically Hypoism [you've never heard of Hypoism because it's been censored by the addiction field while the media follows suit], at:
http://www.nvo.com/hypoism/letterstoeditorsforaweek/
http://www.nvo.com/hypoism/currentletterstoeditors8308/ -this page has documented (the actual papers) much of the proof of Hypoism by Volkow herself and others.
http://www.nvo.com/hypoism/currentletterstoeditors3309/
http://www.nvo.com/hypoism/currentletterstoeditors51609/
http://www.nvo.com/hypoism/currentletterstoeditors72309/
http://www.nvo.com/hypoism/currentletterstoeditors111209/
my blog, from the beginning to today, makes the same scientific arguments repeatedly (because the public needs this repeatedly) in response to newspaper and journal articles that are for the most part all wrong, derived from the addiction establishment which has a monopoly on the media.
http://www.nvo.com/hypoism/thehypoismaddictionhypothesis/ - the evolution of the genetics and evolutionarily why hypoism (genetic low reward activity) exists and what it means.
http://www.nvo.com/hypoism/hypoismhypothesis/ - the scientific argument against the hijacked brain hypothesis (disproof) and for Hypoism (proof). This requires an immediate change in paradigms for the addiction epidemic to end.
If you're interested in why the public is so ignorant about the real science of anything, something like addictions, then you should read my blog and the papers it's based on in addition to my book, Hypoic's Handbook, that is the only book in existence today on the correct science and interpretation of that science - as opposed to the lies and deliberate misinterpretation of the science on addiction by the addiction establishment. This worse and more unethical than whattakes place on global warming. At least people know about both sides. With addictions, the public knows nothing about dissenting science!
Dan F. Umanoff, M.D.
Author of Hypoic's Handbook - The Hypoism Paradigm of Addiction.
http://www.hypoism.com
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I am 24 years old and have been using heroin since i was 16y. I have been to many rehabs, and have been detoxed many times, with methadone and naltraxone and even ibogain, but the problem with ibo is that for 8y i have been using, and when i am able to walk again after th ibogain the only thing i know is just to use again. But yes it is the best way this ibo.
I recently ran away from my 12 rehab, and my conclusions is that in treatment the point is not to quit but maybey to find a way in which you could use without going backward, and to use only the srquired amount a day not to get sick.
Look up "nth"
If you read through the paper the author states the form as a number with units not an equation with an = sign.
Thanks for your input
Thank you all for your comments. I have made some edits to reflect them. Please persue the basic concept and overlook my misrepresentations of the math. Thanks vince
You can't just lose a factor of t. It is inherent in the equation.
Well usualy when a man tones up and his muscle mass begins to increase his natural levels of testosterone also increase. may nto ALWAYS be true but for the most part it will be.