Sometimes I get so tired of people. I keep looking for new friends online or offline and many times (fortunately not always - you guys know who you are) the ones who share my interests are the worst. When I go to forums, communities, groups, message boards etc, I seem to run into threads that give me a headache. Self-appointed experts are telling others off for allegedly doing something wrong or not doing something they're supposed to do and so on. Why can't we just stick together? Why do we have to stab each other in the back? By 'we', naturally I mean 'they'. ;) Sigh. I seem to have hit a really bad patch right now.
I just signed this. Would you like to do it too?
about something that wasn’t supposed to happen. What do you do when you find out things that are too hard to cope with? When your life get shattered? At the moment I don’t know what to do.
I'm devastated. Yesterday I had really bad news, twice over and I'm still in shock. Can't tell you too much about it, and I still don't know the full circumstances in one case and won't know for a while yet, the full consequences of the second. Lately I'd been managing to stay cheerful, but now I've just fallen apart. I don't know why we always have such bad luck.
What was your favorite class in high school? (And no, lunch doesn't count.)
I loved all the languages (including Swedish, especially essay writing, rather than literature, which were two separate classes here), and history (despite having a teacher who wasn't the greatest).
On the other hand, my least favorite classes were gym classes (ironically, the teacher was one of the best we had) and social studies (again, ironic, because we were divided into the latin group - my group - and the others - and I ended up looking like a total idiot, with my average grades - everyone else had higher grades).
I found this article very interesting, and regardless of what it concluded, I would have answered the question with a yes. Clearly other animals can feel compassion, so why not primates, our closest relatives?
When I first read about this idea (in a science fiction book) I loved it. Not that I'd ever want to go to the moon, but the idea in itself is so intriguing. Fancy being able to send material up into space, without needing to use a rocket or similar space craft. Just send it up. And now apparently, people are working on making the dream come true. The other day I read about it in this article. Then the day after, I found that someone actually had succeeded in the competition, not in sending anything to the moon. More about it here.
We live in scary times, but this sort of thing helps make up for it to some extent.
