2007-06-30 19:12:44 on My husband has been sitting in jail since MArch 22, 2006 awaiting trial for a crime he did not commit.
That doesn’t sound like mch of a case, to tell you the truth. Get yourself a good lawyer and you should be able to have him acquited no problem.
2007-06-30 18:27:55 on Hey guys, I’m teaching someone how to post for me when I’m in the hospital.
Jonetta and I send our best. Are you getting the hang of it?
2007-06-29 21:54:40 on Faith in America
The trend right now in the political mood of the country is already moving in a direction of greater nationalism and protectionism. Witness the comprehensive immigration reform bill that just went down in total catastrophic defeat. I think something like what you propose will actually become the case within a few years.
2007-06-29 21:07:56 on On the last day of school, my math teacher gave us a packet too do
By the way, that story about him witnessing his friend drowning in an icy lake and the man that could have saved him but didn’t, thus supposedly inspiring the song “In the Air Tonight”; the story refered to by eminem—it’s not true. That’s just an urban legend.
2007-06-28 21:24:45 on You decided to block e-mail from me to my son.
What are you talking about? Help.com is not a mail server, it has no propriatary e-mail service, and it has no ability to block anyone’s e-mail. What service are you using?
2007-06-28 21:18:45 on I need help because my whole life has been going downhill
I would like to help you, but I don’t quite know how to answer your question in the manner after which you’ve asked it. It will be very hard to “take your mind off it,” because almost everything you do and see all day long will remind you of the upset in your life. Focus on things where you can be away from your family. Do you work or go to school? If so, stay committed to that as much as you can. Go out with your friends. Go to church if you attend. Volunteer somewhere if you want to. Take up a hobby. Read a lot. And hang out on Help.com. You can chat here, answer posts, ask questions. It’s a very friendly and helpful place.
2007-06-28 21:11:03 on My husband has been sitting in jail since MArch 22, 2006 awaiting trial for a crime he did not commit.
Yes, definitely get a lawyer. That is what they are here for—to assist you in situations like this. Is there any other exculpatory evidence? Rememeber that in our criminal justice system the accused has the presumption of innocence. The mere lack of defense witnesses is not enough to convict on. What evidence will the prosecution be presenting? You have a right to know these thngs before proceeding to trial, otherwise the conviction will be reversed on appeal for a due process violation. So tell us everything you think you can and perhaps we can help.
2007-06-28 20:58:13 on i cant seem to seperate my dreams from reality.
I’ve had similar sensations before. Often times in my waking reality, I would feel a sense of danger, wariness, or deja vu. The experience would seem familiar, but I would not be able to tell how. Was it the remembrance of a dream or the dream of a memory? Also, I would wake up from a dream and remember the dream as though it was something tha actually happened last night. In terms of both content and feeling, I had no way of telling the difference, and I just had to go on with my life feeling as if I was caught between two worlds. All throughout I had a continuous uneasy sense of just being “not really there,” while at the same time things that weren’t really there felt like they were. I could not seem to form new experiences or discharge old ones. My emotions were stuck in a moment from the past and yet the past was streaming unwelcome into the present.
In my case, I determined the cause of this to be certain traumatic events in my life, namely the catastrophic breakup of my family. I had lost my support system. My usual way of determining value in the world was no longer valid. I had lost my emotional compass. Without a center to use as a point of reference, my mind was just a swirl of strange and chaotic events. It was as if all the paths that I had faithfully tread for years now suddenly went nowhere.
It was out of this experience that I was able to derive a general theory of mentation. I ascertained the real purpose of why we dream: The function of the dreaming mind is to assign meanings to sensations. A sense-perception all by itself means nothing. It is only by interacting with it that it acquires a meaning vis-a-vis ourselves. Since our reality is constantly changing, we must constantly dream in order to maintain a functional relationship with the world. When a traumatic event happens and reality changes catastrophically, it rips a huge chunk of meaning directly out of our minds, brutally and without ceremony. In response to this, the dreaming function goes into overdrive to try and repair the damage. The dreams are like a spiritual bleeding; trying to form a scab to prevent the further hemorrhaging of our souls, trying to form new meanings and new relations.
Has anything happened to you, now or in the recent past, that hurt you? Or has this started without assignable cause? How long has it been going on? Can you think of anything else in your life that might be causing you to feel this way?
2007-06-28 19:28:18 on Is there a God?
Hi Limon,
You are absolutely correct in your logic when you note the parallelism between an infinite regression of material causes and an infinite progression of material effects. Both are equally absurd and both are an inadequate expression, not only of the universe which we know, but of the demand we feel inside ourselves to make sense of it. Just as looking backwards leads us to the conclusion of an uncaused cause, looking forwards leads us to envision a transcendent purpose.
This is in accordance with the dual nature of God as being both immanent and transcendent, as standing outside of existence and himself not subject to causality, yet Him being both the ground and the aim (the “alpha and omega”) of that existence.
But to repeat, we are not to conceive of either the first cause or the final purpose as being events within a temporal framework. God is eternal and his dual nature imparts both fundamental and ultimate characteristics to every moment of physical time.
In my first argument, I addressed the question of a first cause. This led to an understanding of God as being imminent. In theology, it is expressed using the symbols of Creation, Fall, and Omnipotence.
On the other hand, it is possible to make an equally valid argument regarding the nature of a final purpose to existence. It leads to an understanding of God as being transcendent. In theology, it is expressed using the symbols of Consummation, Judgment, Salvation, and Eschatology. With a little imagination, you can see how this argument is relatable to man’s moral existence, where as the first one is more relatable to his divine origins.
Eternity equally inhabits all moments of time, and therefore every moment contains a “final purpose” which concerns God infinitely and participates with him in the Divine Life. I’d like to quote you a passage which may serve to illustrate the mater graphically.
‘This drives us to the question as to whether we can imagine a diagram which in some way unites the qualities of “coming from,” “going ahead,” and “rising to.” I would suggest a curve which comes from above, moves down as well as ahead, reaches the deepest point which is the nunc existentiale, the “existential now,” and returns in an analogous way to that from which it came, going ahead as well as going up. This curve can be drawn in every moment of experienced time, and it can also be seen as the diagram for temporality as a whole. It implies the creation of the temporal, the beginning of time, and the return of the temporal to the eternal, the end of time. But the end of time is not conceived in terms of a definite moment either in the past or in the future. Beginning from and ending in the eternal are not matters of a determinable moment in physical time but rather a process going on in every moment, as does the divine creation. There is always creation and consummation, beginning and end.’
Paul Tillich
Systematic Theology, Vol. III
p. 420
I hope this helps. I would highly recommend reading Tillich’s Systematic Theology to anyone who is earnestly seeking answers to theological questions styled in modern philosophical terminology. It is a great book by one of the brightest religious thinkers of the twentieth century. It covers the arguments I’ve presented here plus a great deal more, and is well worth looking into.
Always,
-Matt
2007-06-28 15:29:03 on so what is everyones favourite song or top ten favourite songs?
Well that I can do. Jonetta and I both love this place. Cheers!
2007-06-28 15:12:40 on so what is everyones favourite song or top ten favourite songs?
Thanks, molotok. That was cool of you. Let me know if Ican help you out at all.
2007-06-28 14:44:08 on so what is everyones favourite song or top ten favourite songs?
MSBRIA, thanks for hearing me.
Fin, I appreciate the advice on iTunes. I’ll definitely check it out.
Oster, I tried that button thing, man. You totally called it.
Now, just think what would happen if Heather and fhr actualy embedded all thos videos. We’d have the longest post in Help.com history! They’ll have to start calling us Youtube Junior. (Just kidding ladies. Don’t do it; this page would take forever to load.)
Okay, I made a slight mistake. The song from Dumb and Dumber that I was refering to is actually called “Boom Shack-A-Lack” and the artists name is Apache Indian. I found the video on Youtube. Check it out, it’s hilarious. I know once you hear it you’ll recognize it immediately. It’s got kind of a raggae sound to it. Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LMN12…
Hey molotok, I thanks for your help, man. There’s a way to send e-mails to others on this site without making your address public. If you go to your account administration and look on your friends list, you’ll see a list of icons next to each friend. The mail icon on the far left allows that user to link to your e-mail from your profile page once you activate it. I’ll add you to my list and unlock my e-mail for you. Go to my profile page ang you’ll see a link their you can e-mail me from. Thanks a lot for the songs!
2007-06-28 13:28:17 on A thank you 1000.
Congratulations and many blessings.
Matt
Jonetta
2007-06-28 00:13:10 on I’m so sick of Avril Lavignes song: Girlfriend.
I’ve never heard it before, but I just went to Youtube and watched the video.
Yeah, I can see how that could get annoying, real quick.
Now for the benefit of the other 8 people on the planet who don’t know what the song is, I’ll embed the video here. I anticipate a heated intellectual debate on its artistic merits……or something.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ25-glGRzI]
2007-06-27 23:06:01 on so what is everyones favourite song or top ten favourite songs?
I’ve never tried itunes before. I’ll have to download the software. I’m not really hip that way. If it weren’t for Help.com, research, and blogs, my computer would be little more to me than a typewriter that glows in the dark. ;-)
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