Forwood4Bamon

Hello Shu and welcome. that is great.

The Crow

Been pretty consistent here lately. At least at my branch. Apparently the others and the main office have been down the last couple of years.

everwoodfan52

It kind of implied that Bulgarian women have a better matabolism than American women!

That is definitely true.

Shu, why don't you become a school psychologist and apply for a position in my school. We can definitely use a replacement for the one we have.

jediwands

Wonderful! This is a fascinating area of study. The neuroscience aspect focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of brain development is so vital in order to understand children and how they think and behave. You said it, it's challenging but such an amazing field of study.

I hope your business stays consistent, Alan!

secretk

That sounds good. I do hope that they will find a way to cure HIV and make the life of the people that have it easier.

everwoodfan52

That's a wonderful /hopeful development, Koni! Stem cell research can help so many ailments.

secretk

Yeah. I know that a lot of people are against this and say that we shouldn't mess with the nature. The truth is we already did and yes we did create those nasty viruses (I do think that Anthrax is created, that virus has epidemics only when there is bioterrorism. I've never heard of natural outbreak for this, it's always an act of terrorism), but we also need to fix them and stem cell could help. If it could help I would gladly donate stem cell you know. I mean from future kids if I have ones .

ds44

I don't know how I feel about stem-cell research. I am very wary of giving scientists too much power, but the potential good it can do outweighs the risks. Also, all this talk of terrorism makes me roll my eyes. I hate that label because stuff that Big Western countries do are pure acts of terrorism and they often create the situation that leads to these attacks. Sorry for going off on a tangent.

everwoodfan52

Tangents are good, Shu. Please elaborate on this statement.

ds44

Well let's start with what they have the CIA do. The CIA were the ones who created the taliban during the cold war. They orchestrated the assassination Salvadore Allende in Chile in 1973. They had Patrice Lubambe assasinated in the Congo in the 1960s because he was self-proclaimed socialist. They had no problem training Saddam Hussein and arming him when his fight was against Iran. They went into Iraq for oil. A lot of what they do helps to create this situations and they never thought retaliation would ever happen because unfortunately they don't think big picture.

everwoodfan52

You make some really valid points here, Shu. It's unfortunate that innocent people are the ones who have suffered and continue to suffer because of Government agendas and activities in history(including our governments) that promote long lasting resentment/hatred and continued violence.

ds44

Exactly all govenrments are corrupt it's just the hypocracy maddens me sometime. Just be honest about your agenda for gaining power. I guess that's why I just don't like that term. I try to look at situations from a more logical stand point. People don't just do things cause they're monsters life is rarely that black and white.

jediwands

I totally agree with you. All governments are certainly corrupt. I don't pretend to know a lot about how all of this stuff works though, not in the least bit so your points are very interesting. It is a fascinating topic and one that I think will never get solved for a very, very long time, if ever.

Betty, you said it, innocent people get sucked into this and it's just... not... right.

ds44

exactly that's what is so tragic. Innocent people on both sides get manipulated, hurt and killed and its just so sad.

secretk

When I said terrorism I actually meant the Cold War during 1970 between Russia and USA. Have you heard of the deadly virus Ebola or Marburg? Well the first one is creation of USA, the second one is creation of Russia. I don't call this normal.

So terrorism is this act towards innocent people, however the problem is not in the science, but the people that use it for other goals. Like everything else the problem stems from the people and the ones that pay them to do such things.

As for Saddam I totally agree with you Shu. I also have opinion on the wars now, but that's other thing. Yes most governments are corrupt and they are using the mass power to believe them.

Then again though how far is guilty the one that manipulates and the one that allows to be manipulated?

You know what pisses me more than anything? After 9/11 (where I was totally bummed for all those people) USA government has the excuse to do things that I don't like - surveillance, GPS tracking. They even follow facebook, google and forums like this. And then suddenly you might become a traitor, because you don't believe in the war. That pisses me off and that happens in a lot of countries. After this tragedy a lot of governments have excuse to do things that are not normal. I do get that sometimes is needed, but sometimes you could be blamed for being criminal just because you disagree with them and that's dictatorship.

It pains me how many countries are dictatorships, but no one get it. It's like the thing in China - I don't think that it's normal to restrict their access to normal sites like google, facebook, twitter. When you do this though it's easy to manipulate people. They have no choice, there is no way to see something different for them.

So don't worry Shu, when I said terrorism I didn't mean this popular thing that we know. I call terrorist everyone that somehow hurts innocent people no matte if it's government or not.