You know, over the past years, WE as an American people have always seen the negativity in African Americans and trust me, THERE IS. But, I just think that we need to begin to look more at the positive side. Everytime we think of a girl on a video, we think she has to be black because it’s true, it is what is portrayed. But, maybe if we look at the CNN, ESPN, or T LC, we might find African American women as doctors, lawyers, basketball players, coaches.

Okay so, I just want to know what u guys really feel.

I think the solution to the problem is just to SOLVE THE PROBLEM. In other words, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I’ve made up in my mind that I would be a better influence to other black girls so that we can be PROUD of ourselves. Because yes we are to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented.

The other part of the solution is to not look at the problem in race means, but just looking at society in general because minorities are not the only ones we see displaying negative images.
Give each other insight on how to address the issue.

I was going to clap for you until I read your last line. Just couldn’t resist throwing crap out about white people, could you? Throughout your great speech, I was thinking, "Now here is a black girl out there ready to destroy the negative stereotypes!" and was very impressed. But underneath, you’re a subconsciously a seething racist. You blew it with that last line.

You should have quit while you were ahead.

. . . ones to make me seem more intelligent and sound rather fantastic

thanks a bunch aha

Yus! … "Awesomecakes" ^_^

Is it a passionate love, the one that wipes you up your feet and quickly makes you desire the other person more and more, you want them 24/7 and your relationship is based on attraction.
Is it the compromising love, the one where you have known each other for some years and know that you could happily live together for the future although there is no real passion or interest.
Is it the opposite love, where one is the exact opposite of the other, so you are continuously entertained and surprised by each other but you also complete what each other lack.
or is it the “one of a kind” love when it almost feels like you two are one of a kind as you have so much in common and you share most passions and interests.

I guess the truth is that there are a million different kind of loves but only we are in charge when we have to make the decision of what it’s better for us and what truly makes us feel happy.
So do we just keep trying? Give everyone a chance, and what will that make us?
From relationship to relationship? Just risk getting your heart broken over and over…but also when is enough really enough?

Inevitably I still feel like I need some guidance.

I’ve tried to be selective at the beginning of my “dating”, going just for who I knew I really liked but I soon realised that people are not always what they seem so after taking a little break to recover from, yet another bad relationship, I decided to put myself in this so called game.
Be open minded and also open to new encounters, what I was about to find out was not exactly what I thought … I fell in a crazy triangle with my friends.

I started something with one, purely by attraction, just to realise that perhaps now that with my new theory I had got to know them, I was actually interested in the other one, the one that at first I probably would not have considered for a relationship. Realising once again that you cannot judge a book by it’s cover, I started falling for this friend, I started caring, trusting and relying on him, I found myself thinking about him everyday and not only I was really attracted but we had so much in common.
I felt…. it felt great! I was truly happy!
I fell deeper and deeper and before I knew it I had the biggest crush in my life…I was in love!

I didn’t know where I stood and I guess none of us really said what we felt. All of this left me confused, and I ended up making two mistakes along the line. When I finally realised that I was only fooling myself, I decided to stop playing the game, I knew what I wanted and that was him. So I poured my heart out for the first time ever…only to find out I lost him….and also two brilliant friends.
I was alone!
What went wrong? Was I just a piece in their game? or did I simply bite more than what I could eat?

So that is when I started questioning, which one is the True Love, my prospect on love had changed but nothing else had changed, the end of the story was the same…I was heartbroken, again!

I am tired of risking over and over again, I really need some reassurance!
Maybe there should be a manual to follow where you know exactly what you are and what you are not suppose to do, so that we can tick all the right boxes and figure out what love suits us. Because that, …that would save us a lot of hassle and pain.

I do believe in learning from your mistakes, but it’s not the same when you are playing with someone’s heart and feelings!
I am tired of not knowing, tired of making mistakes in love and of playing in what, to me, seems a very cruel game!
I want to find my true love but how? If …I’m too scared to risk it all over and put myself out there again!

True love doesn’t exist! It’s a romantic notion propagated by romance movies, fairy tales and girly magazines.

In reality successful relationships need work: trust, communication, sharing and caring, compassion, understanding and compromise!

If people understood that there wouldn’t be such a high divorce rate in countries that watched Disney movies!

A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"

"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."

The student became quiet and did not answer the professor’s hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question, professor?"

"Of course", replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The other students snickered at the young man’s question.

The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded, "Of course it does."

The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton’s prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color.

You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn’t this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man’s Inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.

To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young man’s name - Albert Einstein
http://www.religioustolerance.org/culeins.htm is my source, and I know it’s an urban legend, but I liked it anyways.

No references? Gosh I am shocked.

I am 15 years old (please, do continue reading, I’m not a blubbering idiot just because of my age. I assure you my brain is fully functional.) and I feel so lost in the world. I’m always thinking of the future- not planning for it- just thinking on it. I’m terrified by the prosepect that someday everyone and everything I know will be gone from me. I do not fear my own death. I fear the death of those around me, which makes me terrified to grow up. I hope I never become old, and the more I think this, the more I believe it will not happen. For some reason, I’ve a tremendous feeling that I am going to die awfully young. In a way, it makes me happy. The real world scares me, though I believe I understand it quite well for my age. When I tell my family this, it startles them. They ask me how I could possibly know this, and all i can offer as a reply is that I do not know. It is not something I know, rather something I feel, like a revelation I suppose. Also I’m continually feeling that I’m meant for more than the life I lead. yes, I know this conflicts greatly with what I said before. But I’m here in this 5,000 population town, a mild, armchair philosopher of 15, contemplating the meaning of life, god, religion, and human worth, and my fellow peers cast me out as a "weirdo". I find myself thinking of how people would think me brilliant if they knew the thoughts that flow in this head. Then I want to slap myself for being so arrogant and vain. Actually I have very low self worth. But to get back on topic, I just feel like I’m sinking into insanity, lost in a swirling madness. Am I overreacting, or could there be something wrong. please, give me your opinions.

I think Rick gave a very great answer.

You remind me of *me* a few years back. (I’m 18 now, and still feel that way every now and then!) I would like to say that, no - there is nothing *wrong* with you. Things will get better in time, and yes there is a purpose for your life greater than what you are now leading! GOD has a purpose for you and only He can help you lead a fullfilling life. He’ll give you all the sanity you (think) you need. If you want to talk, please feel free to message me!

I need to relocate for work, moving into a flat of my own, but i have no idea what utility bills will come to. If anyone has lived alone in a flat and can give me a ball park figure that would be brilliant. Also i worked out council tax is going to cost around £100, sound about right? i dont have a clue!!

Council tax will be at least £80 a month. Electric/gas/water will be a total of about £75-80 a month. Remember contents insurance, too…

She’s 3.5–almost 4–weeks old. I absolutely ADORE her! But–she absolutely always needs attention…yes, and I mean 24/7 kind of thing. I change her, swaddle her, feed and burp her..but she still seems to be "fussy" and "unhappy". Whenever I’m making dinner and getting the table ready, I leave her in her nursery (we–we as in my husband, my daughter, and me–live in a 1-bedroom apt. so I can hear her clearly–and we have a monitor) in her playpen with her favorite toys and on the monitor, she’s just crying and crying. I finally have to drop everything I’m doing and rush over to pick her up and rock her.

Okay–leaving her in her nursery wasn’t such a brilliant idea…well then–it was time for Plan B. I moved her playpen in the living room next to the kitchen (I didn’t want to move her to the kitchen just in case she won’t get next to the stove/oven) and left her there with her toys where I could see her while I was cooking dinner.

Two minutes after successfully moving her playpen into the living room, she starts pouting and being all fussy and crying! It’s sooo hard to make food and clean the house when she’s wanting attention all the time…

Whenever I’m on my laptop doing my paperwork, I set her down RIGHT NEXT to me. She sees I’m looking into the computer’s screen and not paying attention to her so she just starts pouting again with a sour-y, pruned up face–and it looks like she’s about to cry. She bangs her hands on the keyboard and pouts and cries and messes my paperwork up! My husband and I tap her tiny hand to tell her, "no! no!" but she scratches us in our return…

During her bath time when I need to step away to get her Johnson’s baby oil, she–again–pouts and shows us her pruned up face! It’s impossible to leave her side…she always needs attention!

Is it too early to start giving a little "discipline"…not something like slapping or hitting (never in my life would I do that) but tapping her hand a little to say "no" or "this is not allowed"?
I’ve tried a child carrier to have her next to me…but what she would do is play around and grabs and plays with my hair. Again, I tap her a little with my two fingers trying to let her know this isn’t allowed.

This is just sooo stressing!!!!!

Wow, my baby wasn’t NEARLY so interactive at 4 weeks old… She doesn’t BANG her head on the keyboard, you fail to support it properly!!

I think you need to sort out your priorities. (It’s her by the way, she wins, she IS #1).

I also don’t remember 4 week olds being interested in toys…

Perhaps she has more wind, or she may be colicky, or even just be a whingey baby. sometimes they are. If she is fed, comfortable, not too tired, clean nappy, burped, and she is STILL crying, then perhaps you should take her for a check up, just in case? Also, like i said, it could just be her nature?

Yes, too early for discipline, you have to teach her what she IS supposed to be doing, she doesn’t know any better. Wear your hair back.

She can also tell if you’re stressed etc. try to relax. Yes, it’s hard work, yes you have to be selfless, yes, you have to let the housework go and sometimes even just get take out, but that’s what being a new mom is all about!

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I’m in the mood for some inspiring movies about brilliant people. Some examples include:
good will hunting
rain man
a beautiful mind

know of any other good ones?

Temple Grandin (HBO; starring Claire Danes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/

Shine
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117631/

I only have a budget of about 400 bucks.
I need a High Definition camera, because my old Sony Handy-cam is broken.
My Handy-cam was a total nuisance too.
Im looking for something with the quality of a CANON VIXIA, but very cheap.
Not cheap to where it breaks easily though.
Used would be okay, only if its in real good condition.
Online would be a plus too.
Im an amateur filmmaker looking for something that would be brilliant to use on an amateur budget.
THANKS!

Person who helps me, and leads me to something good gets 10+ points.
Fellow filmmakers will get more if your experienced in this stuff.

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