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 Topic: Medication or not??? |
pezar
Replies: 9
Views: 99
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 Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:16 pm Subject: Medication or not??? |
| I take pills for ADHD (Strattera), OCD(Luvox), Tourettes(Haldol), as well as Risperdal (commonly given to auties) and Neurontin to help me with a little problem that impedes my driving-I tend to "free ... |
| Topic: Aspies For Freedom - The End? |
pezar
Replies: 246
Views: 4638
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:38 pm Subject: Aspies For Freedom - The End? |
| I never liked AFF. To me, it was too militant, and while I can accept some militancy, I could see how AFF was degenerating. I left a month or two ago and came over here and on Autism Speaks exclusivel ... |
| Topic: He rigged his rig to beat toll |
pezar
Replies: 5
Views: 147
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:47 pm Subject: He rigged his rig to beat toll |
| I just read the actual story. $5 one way? That sounds like San Francisco, where the toll on the state owned bridges is now $5, to pay for the new Bay Bridge (the old one wasn't earthquake safe) and no ... |
| Topic: He rigged his rig to beat toll |
pezar
Replies: 5
Views: 147
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:41 pm Subject: He rigged his rig to beat toll |
| The hiding license plate was a favorite trick in the Fast and Furious movies, in the theme for the second movie Ludacris mentions "hideaway license plates". Tolls must be different on the east coast t ... |
| Topic: Are white people getting their just desserts? |
pezar
Replies: 149
Views: 1929
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:46 pm Subject: Are white people getting their just desserts? |
I have done none of these things. Certainly sounds racist.
You misunderstand karma. You personally don't matter, your ancestors did it so you get to pay. Hey, I didn't design the universe, sorry. T ... |
| Topic: Are white people getting their just desserts? |
pezar
Replies: 149
Views: 1929
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:38 pm Subject: Are white people getting their just desserts? |
Another post reminded me of this.
"We messed with the sharks, and now the sharks are messing with us." -Deep Blue Sea (a movie where researchers are eaten by genetically engineered sharks)
I ca ... |
| Topic: Why the US government changed Labor Day to September 1st |
pezar
Replies: 8
Views: 153
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:16 pm Subject: Why the US government changed Labor Day to September 1st |
| May Day is widely celebrated in Mexico of all places. Mexicans know the story of Haymarket Square like they know the siege of Mexico City by the US in 1848 and the Battle of Puebla in 1867 (aka Cinco ... |
| Topic: Cops nab parking meter maniac |
pezar
Replies: 1
Views: 84
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:03 pm Subject: Cops nab parking meter maniac |
| Just another dopehead. He's probably a tweeker. Meth makes people do bizarre stuff, like stealing copper pipes from construction sites, and ripping off parking meters for change. It's all for a few bu ... |
| Topic: Modesto man tries to amputate own arm |
pezar
Replies: 13
Views: 231
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:33 am Subject: Modesto man tries to amputate own arm |
| Clarification: he was not shooting coke in the Dennys, but rushed in AFTER he had done so and started grabbing knives. |
| Topic: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment |
pezar
Replies: 71
Views: 1029
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:49 pm Subject: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment |
Chief Seattle of the "Indian Tribe" had given a prophetic warning to the consumerist western civilization way back in 1854.
Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last riv ... |
| Topic: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment |
pezar
Replies: 71
Views: 1029
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:42 pm Subject: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment |
@Pezar: So you have never sought medical attention when you were sick? Never taken antibiotics? Never been vaccinated against deadly illnesses? Refused to vaccinate your children?
My response to pe ... |
| Topic: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment |
pezar
Replies: 71
Views: 1029
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:10 pm Subject: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment |
| Would those whining about the evils of the modern world prefer to die of bubonic plague (now curable), rabies (preventable), smallpox (eradicated thanks to vaccines), leprosy (curable), etc? Preindust ... |
| Topic: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment |
pezar
Replies: 71
Views: 1029
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:59 pm Subject: Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment |
| This seems like Unabomber Ted Kaczsynski's basic argument, that modern society is making us all crazy. Or at least making SOME people crazy. I personally think that industrialism was due to a mutation ... |
| Topic: I'm writing a story and I need a disease... |
pezar
Replies: 22
Views: 387
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Forum: Random Discussion Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:47 pm Subject: I'm writing a story and I need a disease... |
| When I was a teacher's aide, I ran across a girl who was afflicted with a fatal degenerative disease. I think it was called something like Barrett's Disease. It usually appears around age eight, and t ... |
| Topic: 'Lost towns' discovered in the Amazon rainforest |
pezar
Replies: 5
Views: 219
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Forum: News and Current Events Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:13 pm Subject: 'Lost towns' discovered in the Amazon rainforest |
A good deal of the world's food supply is from plants domesticated here over thousands of years, Beans, Corn, Squash, Potatoes, and hundreds more, and equal effort went into medicals, and flowers.
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