Carlie's comments (member since Dec 11, 2008)

Carlie's comments from the True North group.

Levi is a boy whose words I would take with a grain of salt.

I don't know about that perspective. Just look at our closest relatives, chimps......they mother very well and it appears to be instinctive.

In honesty though, I think it has a lot to do with the ramifications of slavery. If you cared too much for your children, you were just opening yourself up to heartbreak when slavemaster decided to sell off your wee ones. Must be some kind of adaptive mechanism.

lol....what doesn't kill you makes you stronger right?
How about both?

lack of mothering instinct runs in my family

That's troubling Sher. DId he give a reason for not prescribing insulin? Any case, I'm glad you found someone who actually wants to help you.

In Jenny's case, I think she's genuine. I also think people are more likely to go with a celebrity if the medical esablishment doesn't really have an answer for them. As in the case of autism. We don't really offer autism cures, just management help, so when she comes along and says this helped my autistic son, parents are apt to listen.

yes there is a sign
it reads:

do you see a book you want to read?
take it!!!
read it!!!
then bring it back!!!

tell others about it!

please bring in some of your own favorites to share with your co-workers!


In the book "the empire of the sun" there is a sticker inside stating
"this book is the treasured possession of so-and-so"

wish I'd thought of that.
except that it wasn't a treasured posession but whatever.

I wasn't planning on bringing in my hard cover Dickens and Austen collection anyway.

And larry, this bad apple isn't gonna make me rot too. I'm still gonna share my books, I'll just make sure to only share those I'm okay with someone stealing. Oh I don't know, like, A Room with a View or something, Hedda Gabler (sp?) comes to mind too.

lol Jackie at "everyone".
I know it hasn't because I pass by the bookshelf everyday and look for it.

At my "work", someone came up with the lovely idea of having a bookshelf by the coffee machine. You're supposed to bring in your favorites for others and to take out any you would like to read and return. I borrowed someone's copy of "The Good Earth" and returned it in less than a week. I also tried out DH Lawrence and returned them same day because it wasn't my thing.

I brought in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I put it out the same week it debuted after reading it in 2 days. The next day it was gone and I was glad someone liked my choice. It's been over 6 months now and whoever "borrowed" it never returned it.

So I consider it stolen and am rather miffed. When I purchased it from the bookstore, there was only one copy left so it was in high demand. I expected to get my book back and didn't even consider writing my name on it or anything like that. And now, I'm not sure what to do. I didn't really like the book but I have run into instances where I wanted to read a quote from the backcover to someone and of course am unable to. And I don't wanna seem like a whiner or unfriendly by posting a sign asking for the book to be returned.
I have a feeling though that whoever took it knew it was new and and knew exactly what they were doing, though I hope they simply forgot. It just really disturbs me that I purchased this, it's my property, brand new, and I put it out to be shared only to be made to regret it.

Read pride and Prejudice and Zombies, was dissappointed.

Then read the back cover and was LIVID!
Someone stole my book but I swear it read something like "this version makes one actually want to read this book unlike the original which is so boring noone would want to suffer throught that"

ARE you F'in kidding me?

I wish I had the luxury of looking at degrees or personability. Unfortunately, the most important factor for me, and I suspect many others, is cost.

I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing for people to believe celebrities advice on things they've gone through. Sure, doctors are experts on information about disease, but unless they've had the disease themselves, it's all 2nd hand.
I don't think it's necessarily the celebrity that makes people believe them. We are just more aware of their position and people taking them at their word because of their celebrity status. It's not any different from me asking my friend who has breast cancer for advice when I find a lump. I'm more inclined to believe someone who has gone through the same experience than someone who read books about the disease.
As a doctor, I can tell you what likely caused your disease, what symptoms you can expect, how the disease works, what treatments are available, etc. but I can't tell you what it feels like to be sick, what's gonna be important for you to consider and plan for outside of the medical aspect, which doctor has the best bedside manner, if the treatment is actually worth going through, etc.

There's room for both sides of advice.

Plant marjoram....even I (who killed a cactus once) couldn't kill it.

Ugh!
Don't get mestarted on these bastards who make sure they have great health plans and say screw everyone else. If government run health care is so bad...why are they on it?

Yay! I was hoping for Rio.....just sounds perfect with their experience with Carnaval and all.

interesting point, I am also empathic. But I think more so with animals and plants than human beings.

This supports my belief that we should be very careful when making scientific conclusions about ancestry or anything at all in fact that is based only on the data we have right now. Like I said before, just because the oldest say, plate, we have is such and such years old that this is when plates came into use. It could be that all plates before the oldest one we found were ritually smashed into smithereens. Or we haven't looked in the right place. Or any number of possibilities.

I am so disillusioned and disappointed in science right now since I'm in the thick of it. I wish it had been taught to me as what it really is instead of as fact or as if our understanding is complete.

whoa!...that could've been written for MJ too.