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Donald asks…
It is said that different people look at the same issue differently?
take for example, the Iraq war, those pro-war will argue that US should attack Iraq because of the injustice, gross human rights abuse, as well as crimes perpetrated by Saddam Hussein. Therefore, war on Iraq is justified.
Those who are anti-war would argue that the time, money, casualties spent on a losing war is just too much, not to mention losing credibility and reputation from allies alike.
What about the war on Gaza by the Israel recently, Lipvi Tizni argued that there will be no peace so long Hamas continue to control the Gaza. Israelites are at stake with the rockets being fired almost on an everyday basis. People live in fear not just in Israel but in Gaza where the Hamas warlords would use children, defenseless women as shield to achieve its political gain.
On the other hand, those who are with the Palestinians would see this as a war between the Jews and Muslims. Jews did to Plaestinians what Hitler did to them. Jews killed women, children, as if to wipe them off from the face of the earth.
What about those who believe in democracy as the best political system thus far and those who are with the other side, who tell them not to force democracy down on those who do not believe in it?
SO THE QUESTION IS: IF WE ALL LOOK AT THINGS DIFFERENTLY THROUGH OUR OWN ‘BIAS, PREJUDICE, HATRED, BIGOTRY’- NOT JUST IN THE INSTANCES CITED ABOVE, BUT ALSO THROUGH OUR EVERYDAY’S LIVES-BIG AND SMALL DECISION….. IS THERE NO TRUTH ANYMORE?
Is everything so relative, meaning I’m not anymore wrong than you are, neither are you anymore right than I am? So are we all hypocrite in our own way?
When I was small, I was taught to listen to other’s view because you’ll never know you may be wrong. Now I am not so sure about it anymore.
Lately I’m so peeved when somebody said something which I disagree very much and wonder why there’s still people who would listen them. But on the other hand, if everyone insist that they are right, no matter how I say otherwise will not go through either.
Stephen Clinton answers:
There never was any “truth.” The concept is wholly subjective. My truths are not your truths. There remain facts, which are supposed to be objective. People of course interpret facts through the prism of the truths that they believe in. People will dismiss facts if they do not line up with their truths or accept facts that are not actually factual if they do line up with their truths and people will always try to use available facts to support their truths whenever possible. That is how it has always been.

James asks…
besides people search is there an other way to find a relative?
looking in the Bellville, MI. area, for my grandaughters that the family has been deprived of over 8 years. mother has remarried several times and lost contact with the family.
Stephen Clinton answers:
You could go on a show and find them.

Steven asks…
have you ever lost something so mysteriously?
its no big deal..but i lost 20.00$ and i just cant find it..i did not spend it…and after a big hunt…nothing. they say that queen elizabeth the II lost a gold watch while walking on her honeymoon..and people are still kicking the debris and leaves looking for it. my grandfather lost a diamond ring while gardening..he had lost a lot of weight..for 10 years he searched the lawn for that ring..we all have the mysterious lost sock but i have things just vanish..never to be seen again.i did find 500.00 in a iron pot that for whatever reason i hid..it must have been there for years..i was in my twenties so i was not senile.that was a treat..my mother calls it the house of mystery…things are lost never to found again. we thought we could add a nephews bathing suit to the list but when we had a toilet problem…there it was..deep in the pipes….some young relative decided to flush the bathing suit down the toilet….so..i might one day find this twenty. i doubt it.
Stephen Clinton answers:
Lost 40.00 a few months back. Made me sick. Never found it. Thought I had put it in my purse, but I have a sickening feeling it got thrown out in the trash, as I had been working on paying some bills at the time my husband handed it to me. We searched the entire house for it, the furniture, everything we could think of. By the time I realized it was gone a few days later, the trash had already been picked up. I fretted over it for days, but my understanding husband told me not to worry, things like that happen.

Chris asks…
Why do police target people with aspergers?
There is a man with Asperger syndrome in my neighborhood that the police keep targeting. He has slow speech and poor motor skills, they keep arresting him for being on ‘drugs’ and driving. They never perform a drug test but he doesn’t know how to defend himself so he keeps getting convicted of things. When stressed he kind of shuts down and it makes it look worse. He has lost his job and his home over this. The police harass a lot of people around here, (yes it is redneck) but this guy in particular. He does not do drugs. He is a single father and his children have had to go live with relatives as he cannot find employment. Why doesn’t the court recognize this problem and send the guy for help instead of putting him in jail all the time.
Stephen Clinton answers:
The problem may be that he cannot defend himself and nobody else is doing it for him. The cops may be ignorant about why he might appear to be drugged when he isn’t and if neither he nor anyone else challengea them, for example by asking for a drug test, the police and the court may perceive it as him admitting to it. Having one such offense on his record, being “caught” again in the same situation may get the police and the court to assume he’s guilty for the same offense he has on his records. This may keep repeating itself if nobody defends him.
If this man is innocent of the charges, he needs someone to stand up for him and defend him. A local disability organization or a lawyer working pro-bono may be able to help. You and/or someone else who knows this man should offer to help.

Daniel asks…
How do I get away from untreated mentally ill relatives?
I am finally, finally starting to realise that I don’t have any obligation to be around the mentally ill relatives in my family. I was always told that ‘family is family’ and to some extent I took the blame for their bizarre and out of touch with reality behaviour.
I’ve seen a psychiatrist for 15 years and although she never met my mother, she did speak with her on the phone when my mother called her looking for me. My doctor was more upset with herself that she almost fell for my mother’s manipulation.My doctor almost gave out my address, then she snapped out of it when she realised what was happening. She could have lost her license! After that my doctor had new found respect for the manipulation I had experienced at the hands of my so-called mother. She said to me that although she never met her, from talking with her on the phone and from the events I had told her of she thought perhaps that my mother was psychotic. This made me feel a bit better that we were able to put a name to my mother’s illness. It did not make me feel better about the physical and emotional abuse I had sustained.
My sister is the same way. She and mother got together and accused my daughter of stealing my sister’s ipod. They, of course, didn’t mention their ‘problem’ to me because they knew I could prove otherwise, instead they sneakily went behind my back and tormented my daughter about it. Finally my daughter got up the courage to tell me what they had done to her. I confronted them, and It turns out that my sister had the ipod the entire time but it was lost in the mess of a condo she lives in. They make up crazy paranoid stories about people….not just me and my daughters, but everyone. My ex is the same way, he thinks ‘I’m living it up’ and so refused to send child support payments, meanwhile we were counting on the payments.
I have now cut ties with my mother and my sister and I’m considering not responding to my ex and just going through the proper channels to obtain the child support. But I still feel angry that my children and I were wrongly accused of so many horrible things. How can people say things about members of their own family without proof, even with the presence of obvious and evident proof that it is made up and delusionional. How can people go along with mentally ill people?
Stephen Clinton answers:
If you haven’t found that answer in 15 years with a psychiatrist, you sure won’t get it from random strangers who happen to have a computer and a passion for wandering through Yahoo answers.
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