Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 11:45 PM Edited Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 11:53 PM
In a report tabled in the House of Commons, the Canadian Mental Health Association stated that one out of three Canadians suffers from partially crippling mental disease. Probably very few of these people would actually define their troubles in terms of mental disease. Many of them might not even admit to being disturbed or troubled, though the symptoms of their confusion and disorientation might be quite obvious to their associates.
Our generation is as prudish and uncomfortable about the realities of its emotional life as the Victorians were about their sex life. We talk a great deal about psychology (it has almost achieved the status of a parlor games); we make nervous jokes about it. But the ability to talk convincingly or amusingly about psychology is no more proof of a readiness to look at our actual feelings than a zeal to tell off-colour stories is proof of an achieved freedom in the area of sexuality. In fact one suspects that the opposite is true: talk about emotions has come to be one of the main escapes from emotional candour, that the language of psychology and psychiatry has come to be used more to conceal than to reveal emotional truth.
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From An Introduction to Communications Therapy, Orangeville, Ontario, (n.d.), pp 1-2. Emphasis added.
one out of three Canadians suffers from partially crippling mental disease
I'm more than a little skeptical about the definition of crippling mental disease being used here - especially considering your next sentence - "Probably very few of these people would actually define their troubles in terms of mental disease.".
If you're going to define "partially crippling mental disease" as having a bit of confusion or being otherwise disturbed from time to time, you might as well just claim that everyone suffers from partially crippling mental disease.
and Saleisha the winner of ANTM, had already been in a national commercial and done previous professional modeling. That's against the rules for ANTM..
she looks like Dora the exploere with that haircut.
What statements (made by a member of the Iranian parliament) preceeded Mohammed Mosaddeq's acceptance of his nomination for Iranian prime minster, and who made those statements?
What statements (made by a member of the Iranian parliament) preceded Mohammed Mosaddeq's acceptance of his nomination for Iranian prime minster, and who made those statements? —ZT Spice
ABM, I know by now you're Googling it. But that's okay, it's an interesting story.
who is the hottest palestinian terrorist of them all? *hint. i posted it on myspace about two hours ago. —lexieho
I think this question is more in the ballpark of ABM's celebrity gossip world view.
What statements (made by a member of the Iranian parliament) preceeded Mohammed Mosaddeq's acceptance of his nomination for Iranian prime minster, and who made those statements?
idk..
i was hoping you would ask something about Iraq instead of Iran.
ask me any foreign policy question that pertains to the Middle East and I shall give you an answer, and if I don't know the answer I will post full frontal nudity of myself on The Loveline Companion forum. —adams_babymomma
But, okay.
Which article from the league of nations covenant gave Britain a mandate to seize the provinces of Basra, Baghdad, and Mosul from the Ottoman Empire?
Which article from the league of nations covenant gave Britain a mandate to seize the provinces of Basra, Baghdad, and Mosul from the Ottoman Empire?
—ZT Spice
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ok that was unfair, how am I suppsoed to know article numbers?
ok here's all i know
Does Kurdistan exist?
from the Kurds viewpoint they think it does, but when the Iraqi parliment was establised afer the fall of saddam, the president did not kake it official. Besides the kurds are not even Iraqi's. They cannot speak the offcial language, and they sneaked into the country from the borders or Turkey. So no it doesn't.
who is sargis aghajan?
a kurdish puppet who forces assyrians in northern iraq to register themselves as Kurds, if not they have all thier rights taken away.
Why did maliki apologize to the iraqi chirstians?
because he said that they are not natives of the country and they should move somewhere else. This is not true the christians where the first ones in iraq during the mesopotamian era.
I really think the Iraqi government should recognizer Kurdistan, what's the big deal? Then they could focus on getting everyone else to get their shit together.
Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 8:15 PM Edited Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM
I really think the Iraqi government should recognizer Kurdistan, what's the big deal? Then they could focus on getting everyone else to get their shit together.
—John Lennon
How would you like it if Mexicans or Canadians came over and took a part of the U.S., kicked everyone out and named it Mexico/Canada? Are you willing to give up your land or call yourself a Canadian or Mexican? That's exactly what they're trying to accomplish. They want everyone who is not a Kurd to either leave northern Iraq or "become" a kurd. The whole point is to make Iraq a unified country, and right now it's not. Kurds are extremely unfair to all other ethnic groups in iraq and they refuse to be a part of the country.
I really think the Iraqi government should recognizerKurdistan, what's the big deal? Then they could focus on getting everyone else to get their shit together.
—John Lennon
i posted a picture of recognizer from tron....i know, right?
because it's not thier country, like I said Kurds are mountain people from the the mountains of Turkey.
They snuck their way in and act like the govt. owes them something.
Kind of, but historically iraq was a part of turkey for hundreds of years and after world war one the lines were kind of arbitrarily drawn by the western powers in the aftermath of the fall of the ottoman empire.
It is kind of like the Israelis saying that the palestinians suck and should get out of all the places Israel has/wants. They both technically have a historical claim to the area, it just comes down to a "we got here first" argument at which point nobody will admit they are wrong and people start bombing each other.
The iraqis and the kurds should just figure out how to get along, but that probably wont happen, so in order to keep conflict from dragging on forever, maybe it's best to just redraw our arbitrary lines so that people who hate each other aren't forced to overlap.
The islamic peoples were by no means geographically rooted for a majority of the history of islam, likewise, the people of the ottoman empire were remarkably metropolitan to an extent that is very much unlike europe of the same period. Granted the ottoman empire was rather backward technologically compared to europe after the mongolian incursion in the 13th C. but it was by no means culturally so.
but what about the non-kurds who live in "Kurdistan" are they supposed to leave the land that belongs to thier ancestors, or get stripped away of thier culture and language?
Make a conditional agreement in which the kurds are given their own territorial homeland but are required to also respect the rights of the non-kurds to live there without interference, as long as they don't cause trouble. Allow the non-kurds to leave whenever they wish, if they want to, but don't allow any new non-kurds to settle. If the non-kurds cause disruption then the kurds would be justified in responding, as the non-kurds would have been given the opportunity to leave and decided not to.
Then it just comes down to what they care about more, being in the majority group of a country and as such having the government working for their interests, or maintaining their traditional holdings while giving in to the fact that a kurdish government would not do their bidding, even though they would have to respect their holdings.
I'll bet that if the kurds were given their own homeland they would be at least grateful enough to be nice to the non-kurds for a while, after which time the non-kurds who stayed would be a small enough minority to be non-important politically.
I'm sorry I didn't respond to your post. You know that my computer doesn't show which threads have updated recently. I kind of just have to start from the top and check them all.
I emailed her once before about how awesome the Bjork picture on her myspace was, but didn't make the connection until later that she was the same girl.
We went to gay day and then there was a pool party the next day and thats when we actually got to know each other.
