http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjCwJUAAeUk

hELLO! Please note: Mother's Father invested over $2000 into the straight, white chops that I lick up and down, up and down. I also brush everyday. JK

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Helping others is hard. Not everyone realizes this, because it may seem at first quite effortless to lend a hand to someone who wants or needs it. However, one must be careful when choosing to buy your friend a “free” lunch, getting some clothes for, or even simply bringing a brand new New Yorker magazine from the next table.

Things to consider when deciding to help:

1.       Is it a family member?

2.       Is it a friend?

3.       Does it involve money, goods, or services?

4.       Is it a “tradition?”

5.       Has it “been done before?”

6.       Have you made it a “New Year’s Resolution?”

7.       Are you planning to use it as a means to “repair a broken relationship?”

8.       Would you want to be known as a “helper?”

Now charisma is a natural human trait that emerges when one is attempting to be another's friend. It is related to the social nature of people. As erikson theorized the psychosocial crisis of intimacy vs. isolation being the life cycle stage for 20-34 year olds, I believe charisma is an important character trait to nurture during these years that I struggle with getting close to others.

Notice how honor is not only a virtue but could be considered an element of family value if taken as a corresponding component of the fifth commandment. Human beings are social in part due to the nature of family. Sociality not being a reason to argue for at this point in time. However, let me go into my opinion on it some more.

It is undoubtedly good to have friends of the same gender. As far as acquaintances of the opposite sex, I cannot be the one to judge a person who decides to engage in relationships of that sort. Yes, I hope to get married one day and have children. You know, not everybody fits the profile of an average American. In fact, it may not even be healthy to strive for an "average, normal" life.

Two people get married when they decide that they would like to spend the rest of their lives together. At least this is he conviction that I have about the subject.

I wonder if a male who associates with mainly females and/or plays sex games often with them is in fact homosexual. My reason for this question being that if one is not able to develop a healthy attachment with a monogamous partner in a mutually reciprocate relationship that maintains a balance, yet needs female attention, then maybe that male is more akin to a female. Just a conjecture.

Now racism we have all experienced. It occurs when a difference arises amongst a people with varying ethnic heritage. Some say that it is ignorant, others champion it as almost a virtue. Usually the ones who fight for peace win, in my view because in the end who can argue against a moral good thing that is healthy.

Ageism is sad, disrespectful, and results in shame. My argument against ageism is that the people who are discriminated against not only have life experience on their side, but also are people that we should cherish as our former providers and educators and even law makers. Legislation now is a topic that I want to talk about for a minute befor i head off to sleep.

From Aristotle's book on politics, I understand from the little that I read, the nature of government is enforceable as a form of law. The State, which is the highest form of community and aims at it's highest good, therefore has forceful power. Aristotle takes politics to a new level with his insistence of the utility of government and the State. Let me conclude with this: if language goes to political association, then it is necessarily the understandability of the tongue that relates one with another with regard to the State.

 

all right, so the first two things in my subject line are obviously things that most of us grew up being taught as "bad things." drugs are supposed to be for losers and porn is for perverts. basically only bad people, as i saw it growing up, were involved with drugs and porn. and wasn't it obvious when the neighborhood kids would stash away the porn in the bushes and giggle and whisper about it. or in school D.A.R.E. officers would come and explain in much detail the consequences and effects of drugs. not to mention on T.V. the propaganda about both. psa's telling us to reach out to drug users, news reports about child molesters getting caught with porn.

and so, people that use drugs or watch porn have no choice but to feel a constant source of guilt. they need to hide so that nobody will see or catch them inhaling that weed smoke or staring at that glossy magazine. but something about that stuff keeps drawing one back. it's not only become a habit, it's a vicious cycle of addiction. an unhealthy disease that can be medicated for - as the brain chemistry is altered with the ingestion of drugs and the body aroused at the sight of porn. the molecular basis for the continued indulgement not being necessary at this time to delve into.

i apologize for bringing up this dirty, shameful topic, but let me continue and explain about the education part of the subject line. i'm caught in a cycle of education. it's relentless, won't let me go. i keep getting college degree after college degree, i'm on my 3rd, and am certain of my motivation to complete at least two more after this one. i've already planned it all out. like some secret mission that a lascivious, lewd sex addict or narcotics abuser would do. ok. it's an M.D./Ph.D program that i'm vying for to enter as soon as i graduate with this M.S.W.

AHH DORK, NErD! What will ever become of you unless you start to get it straight??? It's nonsensical, avoidant and outright hypocrisy to put it that way! I'll figure it out someday and be able to explain to you just what I mean. But stay cool, kid. you're gonna go far, trust.

to be delivered to Los Angeles City Council soon... or already done... hehe

groups.myspace.com/mentalhealthadvocacy

my little group is growing slowly but surely~

University of Southern California tuition is over $30,000 a year, putting cost of attendance at over $50,000 a year. Now, WTF is up with these $1500 scholarships the school is advertising???? 20 applications, each with essays to write and letters of recommendation AND a request for official transcripts???? You know how much work this is? stDAYAMN. haha lol.

Luckily, I am used to writing up applications. Yes, I applied to medical school a total of 3 times so far. Dude, this bites. I don't think I'm applying again anymore. You see, I actually had a good reason to try again. Interviews at each cycle were absolute shit. Twice I applied to only one school. I had a guarantee of acceptance at one, but after starting I dropped out due to my attention on the MPH.

So, I believe I made up for all the one school applications with my record 30 school application the first time around for medical school. But these scholarships do have an advantage: it looks good on the record if awarded. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna do the Ph.D. in Health Policy at Harvard.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Master_...

PayScale - Master of Social Work (MSW) Degree Salary, Average Salaries by Years Experience
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so, if you combine with MPH,... it goes up!!

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Master_...

PayScale - Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree Salary, Average Salaries by Years Experience
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.