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How much maintenance work does it take on a daily basis for atheists to maintain their self-delusion? Tiresome?

It must take a lot of effort for them to believe in evolution and ignore the truth. They must be zonked by the end of the day. That much self-deception can take a lot out of you. It must wreak havoc on their immune system. Very stressful.
It must be hard to ignore the overwhelming evidence for the existence of God all around them. It’s gotta be hard to get to sleep at night. Must have to take lots of sleeping pills. Lots and lots.
You know, I admire them, in a way, for their discipline. It’s gotta take a lot of discipline to convince yourself that something is true when you know it just ain’t so. And to do it for so long. That’s commendable, it really is. Too bad that same discipline can’t be applied to other areas of their life, something useful. I guess they’re just misguided.
They must have quite a bit of cognitive dissonance. You know, that’s a really uncomfortable state of mind, unbearable. I can’t stand it for long. Yet they are able to maintain dissonant cognitions in the mind. Amazing, really, truly amazing. How DO they do it? Talented creatures.
They are immoral, yet they’ve deceived themselves into thinking they are “ethical”. Right. Real sure. Whatever helps them sleep at night.
They get massacred when they try to debate a Christian. Their illogic is exposed for what it is, so they are then forced to resort to vitriol.
Every time they hear a bit of scripture, it has the same effect on them as that of light to a vampire (not that I actually believe in vampires, but I’m referring to the popular depiction of creatures known as vampires in movies and books).
You know, I could go on, but atheists probably are incapable of reading a passage any longer than this, so I’ll cut it short. I’m sure your own imagination can fill in the details for the rest of the implications of their ludicrous self deception and come up with other examples illustrating how their life is haunted by the looming truth of God.

Is it hard maintaining that fragile, delicate balance?

Is Kajal Stick actually good for your eyes?

My grade 8 friend keeps using kajal stick on her eyes pretty much every single day and when I ask her “Why do you always use that?” (Because I think that putting make up on at school is pointless, not like you’re trying to attract boys you can’t even date…Just my thought) and she keeps claiming it’s good for your eyes. I come from a family (well actually just my mom) who is a health freak, she reads a countless number of health books, and has convinced me that putting foreign (Not actually overseas, just like something not made naturally in your body) substances in or on your body is bad for you, or at least unnecessary. I believe if you need it, it will already have been made in your body naturally if you’re healthy and eat right, for example medicines (except for extreme cases) if you are healthy your immune system will automatically fight it ad most probably win.

I know it’s none of my business, but I’m just concerned for her, she uses it every day at school and…Well i don’t know, I’m just wondering if it actually IS good for your eyes.

Thank you in advance!

I’m getting sick :/ What do you think it is and do you have any tips to make it go away?

It’s strange for me to get sick. I’ve got a kickass immune system and usually if my health starts to decline even the slightest bit, I can take some extra vitamin C and meditate for a while and get rid of it in a couple hours, but vitamins aren’t helping and I can’t meditate very well because I keep falling asleep. My throat hurts near my left ear and inside my left ear. I’m not sure if that means there’s something wrong with my ear or my throat. I’m also VERY tired. I had a class today and although I was really trying my best to pay attention and wanted to keep taking notes, my eyes felt really heavy the whole time. Then I went home and slept through the entire rest of the afternoon and didn’t wake up until about 8pm. When I woke up, that feeling still wasn’t gone. The strange thing about this is that my body feels energetic. I felt pumped to go to class today and wanted to go and walk my dog a while ago. It’s only my head and my eyes that are tired….I hope that makes some sort of sense. My eyes are heavy and my head kinda feels like someone has placed a stack of books on them. I had a bit of a fever earlier, but I took something for it before I went to sleep and it’s gone for now.
As I said, it’s strange for me to be less than perfectly healthy. I’m not used to being sick at all, so I’m not quite sure what to do now that I’ve figured out I can’t make it go away on my own. As I also said, I can’t meditate. I tried and fell asleep without even meaning to. I also took a vitamin, ate a vitamin C drop, a calcium chew, a chloroseptic drop, two shots of chloroseptic spray, two ibuprofen, eight ounces of orange juice (from a concentrate mini carton), 40 ounces of water, chamomile tea, jasmin tea, wellness tea (from a brand called celestial seasons I think- same as tension tamer), and 3 oz of chocolate (hey it helps with everything else). I also put cotton in my ear. Anything else I should do? Perhaps there is someone out there who gets sick more often than I do and knows what’s wrong with me. I’m big on home remedies and “fix it yourself” solutions. I’m not a big fan of doctors. Poking, needles, cold tools, cold rooms, no clothes allowed, no eye contact, and the constant “hmmmmm”. It all drives me nuts. So 10 points to whoever can best help me stay outta there :D I know it’s probably nothing, but illness is a huge inconvenience. I have two midterms on Wednesday and I HAVE to be in prime health to be able to do my best on them! Please help if you can. Thanks so much!
..Thank you, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with my eye sight. I can see just fine and I already have contacts and glasses.

Can anyone classify a mental problem here? PLEASE?

I’ve posted a fair number of times trying to get an answer, and got none. Maybe because it was in a bit of a big amount of text, so I’m just going to bullet-point it.

Have ADD, diagnosed end of last year.

Doctor is worried that I may have something worse, due to ineffectiveness of ADD meds.

Used Adderall, strattera, and Vivanse.

Doctor consulted specialist describing effects, advised to use certain medicine, was gone for week I could come so I got Vivanse as a temporary use.

None of current medicines working well.

Here’s the effects I get from these current meds:
Increased focus, speed and accuracy in almost everything.

More awake, except for from the Vyvanse, I think it makes me more tired actually.

Better memory of assignments- resultant higher GPA from 1.6 to 3.5 within half a year.

This is what I particularly have (symptoms):
Little attention to ‘in the moment’ events.

Forget assignments or chores over time (bad memory for school and home).

Incredible memory functions (memorized entire movies and books completely). Just not for anything useful.

Feel like a cloud is over my head- I can’t think at full power.

Over-think myself- doze off trying to focus in the moment, leading to a blank moment of just staring.

Can sit down and do a small task massively (sorted 5000 Yu-Gi-Oh cards by type and attribute because I was bored- watched dozens of old TV shows, all seasons, all episodes, for no reason).

Usually have a short temper with idiots, but that may just be me lol.

Constant headache, all over my skull.

Always tired, even when I shouldn’t.

Sensitive to light.

Back muscle and spine pain.

Chronic urticaria- immune system deficiency, resulting in itchy-to-the-point-of-painful full body hives; been reacting for 6 years now, constantly medicated to appear and be normal.

Extremely philosophical and political- I think a LOT.

Often self-examine, as you may guess.

Kind of live in my own separate reality, or view of reality, that can switch automatically.

When I get interested in something, I smother my attention on it. IE those TV shows- when watching, the only thing I could think of was the one I was on.

ANY help? Anything you think I may have from that?

What are these recurring tiny blisters that itch like crazy around the tips of and in between my fingers?

I’ve dealt with these little blisters for about 10 years now, and never knew what they were. I’ve searched WebMD, looked in medical books, and my only guess is its related to the herpes simplex virus that causes cold sores/fever blisters. I’ve asked my sister and mom about them, and they get them too. It seems to lie dormant in my body until my immune system is low (due to menstration or stress). Out of nowhere, I notice these very itchy little buggers pop up out of nowhere. Normally they are places where the skin is thin, like just below my fingernails, or more commonly along the sides of and in between my fingers. I’ve also had them pop up a few times just below my nails on my toes, and once inawhile i’ll get one pop up on my ear lobe (strange places I know…). One thing about these blisters, they tend to show up as one or two at first, then the more you itch them, the more blisters pop up mainly in a cluster. They are filled with fluid too, which is why I call them blisters
Thanks guys for your help!! MY QUESTIONS IS FINALLY ANSWERED! I searched for eczema, and found Dyshidrosis also termed dyshidrotic eczema: a condition in which small, itchy blisters develop on the hands and feet.
Wikipedia was very helpful on this topic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyshidrosis

Do I have a subconscious phobia of blood?

Lately I’ve had to get my blood drawn a few times to test if I have an immune system disease (I found out that I don’t :) and I noticed that I have kind of a weird reaction to blood. Whenever I see it, I can’t look any person in the eye. My heart beats really fast. I don’t feel scared or like I’m going to faint, but embarrassed for some reason. I keep randomly swallowing and wondering if I have a weird look on my face. Do I have a subconscious fear of blood, or is there something else going on here?

This is the second time I’m asking this question. I know I sound paranoid or something. The first time I asked , people said that yes, I have a severe phobia of blood .

But I’m not quite sure that’s it. The thing is, I’m not actually scared. I can read vampire books and look at gory pictures without being afraid. Last night I actually had a dream that I was drinking my own blood out of a shot glass. (Yes, I know that’s weird.)

So is it a phobia or is there something mentally wrong with me?

(I’m a 14 year old girl, if that makes a difference.)

Is this overtraining?

I spent round about 1 and a half hours in the gym yesterday, longer than i usually spend, doing a full body workout. Here are the exercises I did:

Squats – 2×8/10
Incline Bench Press -2×10
Dips – 2×8/10
Incline Flyes – 2×10
BB Military press – 1×10 drop set
DB Shoulder press/superset with lateral raises – 1×10/4
Straight Leg Deadlift – 2×10
Standing Calf Raise – 2×10
Lateral Raises 1×10
Reverse Flyes – 2×10
Close grip seated rows – 2×10
Pull ups – 1×8
Lat pulldowns 2×6/8
Leg press machine calf raise – 2×10
Weighted Crunches – 1×20

Now I know this isn’t completely physically taxing as i did only 2 excercises of 2 sets per muscle. However most of these were compound lifts which are very taxing on the CNS, and were mostly done to failure. Towards the end I could only manage one set of pull ups and only 8 when usually i can do 3 sets of 12 with ease. I was feeling a bit nauseous and very hot, but then i only had a jumper on before going out into the cold (about 2 degrees at the time) and cycling home downhill. So i was basically sitting in the cold.

The last time before this I did weight training was last tuesday and i did a full body workout with only 2 sets per muscle group as well, so i havent overdone it in most people’s books.

Now I have symptoms of a cold, and even though I was really tired I only managed to sleep from 10:30 till 5 when usually I can’t naturally wakeup with less than 9 hours sleep.

I’m wondering if I overworked my CNS a bit and now my immune system is down, or weather i just got a cold from riding on the way home??

Why is marijuana still illegal?

FACT

· Deaths per year resulting from alcohol: 100,000
· Deaths per year resulting from tobacco: 430,000
· Deaths per year resulting from aspirin: 180- 1000
· Deaths per year resulting from legal drugs: 106,000
· Deaths that have ever occurred in direct result of Cannabis: 0 (that’s right zero)

FACT

· Farming 6\% of the continental U.S. acreage with biomass crops (Hemp) would provide all of America’s Energy needs.
· Biomass can be converted into methane, methanol, or gasoline (which could eliminate our ties with the Middle East) at a cost comparable to petroleum and hemp is much better for the environment.
· Hemp fuel burns clean. Petroleum causes acid rain due to sulfur pollution.
· The use of Hemp Fuel does not contribute to global warming

FACT

· Hemp seed can be pressed into nutritious oil, which contains the highest amount of fatty acids in the plant kingdom. Essential oils are responsible for our immune system responses, and can clear the arteries of cholesterol and plaque.
· The byproduct of pressing the oil from hemp seed is a high quality protein seed cake. It can be used to bake into cakes, breads and casseroles. Hemp seed protein is one of mankind’s finest, most complete, and available-to-the body vegetable proteins.
· A Vegan or vegetarian can get all of the days required protein from a handful of hemp seed.

FACT

· Hemp is the oldest cultivated fiber plant in the world.
· Low-THC fiber hemp varieties developed by the French and others have been available for over 20 years. It is impossible to get high from fiber hemp. Over 600,000 acres of hemp is grown worldwide with no misuse problem.
· One acre of hemp can produce as much usable fiber as 4 acres of trees or two acres of cotton.
· Trees cut down take 50-500 years to grow, while hemp can be cultivated in as little as 100 days and can yield 4 times more paper over a 20 year period.
· Until 1883, from 75-90\% of all paper in the world was made with cannabis hemp fiber including that for books, Bibles, maps, paper money, stocks and bonds, newspapers, etc.
· Hemp paper is longer lasting than wood pulp, stronger, acid-free, and chlorine free (Chlorine is estimated to cause up to 10\% of all Cancers).
· Hemp paper can be recycled 7 times, wood pulp 4 times.
· Hemp particleboard may be up to 2 times stronger than wood particleboard and holds nails better.
· Hemp is a softer, warmer, and more water absorbent, than cotton and doesn’t stretch out.
· Half of the U.S. pesticides are used to treat cotton, while hemp has a natural pesticide.

FACT

· Almost any product that can be made from wood, cotton, or petroleum (including plastics) can be made from hemp. There are 25,000 known uses for hemp.
· For thousands of years virtually all good paints and varnishes were made with hemp seed oil and/or linseed oil.
· One acre of hemp produces as much cellulose fiber pulp as 4.1 acres of trees, making hemp a perfect material to replace trees for pressed board, particle board, and concrete construction molds.
· Heating and compressing plant fibers can create a practical, inexpensive, fire-resistant constructions material with excellent thermal and sound-insulating qualities.
· In 1941 Henry Ford built a plastic car made of fiber from hemp and wheat straw. Hemp is biodegradable, as synthetic plastic is not.

FACT

· Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic.

Is industrial hemp the solution to our energy needs and more?

You would think that if the Govt. TRULY cared about the environment, and reducing dependency on foreign oil, that it would be supporting this.

Fuel:

* Farming 6% of the continental U.S. acreage with biomass crops would provide all of America’s energy needs. 1
* Hemp is Earth’s number-one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months. 1
* Biomass can be converted to methane, methanol, or gasoline at a cost comparable to petroleum, and hemp is much better for the environment. Pyrolysis (charcoalizing), or biochemical composting are two methods of turning hemp into fuel.2
* Hemp can produce 10 times more methanol than corn.
* Hemp fuel burns clean. Petroleum causes acid rain due to sulfur pollution.
* The use of hemp fuel does not contribute to global warming.

Food:

* Hemp seed can be pressed into a nutritious oil, which contains the highest amount of fatty acids in the plant kingdom. Essential oils are responsible for our immune system responses, and clear the arteries of cholesterol and plaque.2
* The byproduct of pressing the oil from hemp seed is high quality protein seed cake. It can be sprouted (malted) or ground and baked into cakes, breads, and casseroles. Hemp seed protein is one of mankind’s finest, most complete and available-to-the-body vegetable proteins. 2
* Hemp seed was the world’s number one wild and domestic bird seed until the 1937 Marijuana prohibition law. Four million pounds of hemp seed for songbirds were sold at retail in the U.S. in 1937. Birds will pick hemp seeds out and eat them first from a pile of mixed seed. Birds in the wild live longer and breed more with hemp seed in their diet, using the oil for the feathers and their overall health. 2

Fiber:

* Hemp is the oldest cultivated fiber plant in the world.
* Low-THC fiber hemp varieties developed by the French and others have been available for over 20 years. It is impossible to get high from fiber hemp. Over 600,000 acres of hemp is grown worldwide with no drug misuse problem.
* One acre of hemp can produce as much usable fiber as 4 acres of trees or two acres of cotton.
* Trees cut down to make paper take 50 to 500 years to grow, while hemp can be cultivated in as little as 100 days and can yield 4 times more paper over a 20 year period.
* Until 1883, from 75-90% of all paper in the world was made with cannabis hemp fiber including that for books, Bibles, maps, paper money, stocks and bonds, newspapers, etc. 2
* Hemp paper is longer lasting than wood pulp, stronger, acid-free, and chlorine free. (Chlorine is estimated to cause up to 10% of all Cancers.) 2
* Hemp paper can be recycled 7 times, wood pulp 4 times.
* If the hemp pulp paper process reported by the USDA in 1916, were legal today it would soon replace 70% of all wood paper products. 2
* Rag paper containing hemp fiber is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry. Barring extreme conditions, rag paper remains stable for centuries. 2
* Hemp particle board may be up to 2 times stronger than wood particleboard and holds nails better.
* Hemp is softer, warmer, more water absorbent, has three times the tensile strength, and is many times more durable than cotton. Hemp production uses less chemicals than cotton. 2
* From 70-90% of all rope, twine, and cordage was made from hemp until 1937. 2
* A strong lustrous fiber; hemp withstands heat, mildew, insects, and is not damaged by light. Oil paintings on hemp and/or flax canvas have stayed in fine condition for centuries. 2

Medicine:

* Deaths from marijuana use: 0
* From 1842 through the 1880s, extremely strong marijuana (then known as cannabis extractums), hashish extracts, tinctures, and elixirs were routinely the second and third most-used medicines in America for humans (from birth through old age). These extracts were also used in veterinary medicine until the 1920s and longer. 2
* For at least 3,000 years prior to 1842 widely varying marijuana extracts (bud, leaves, roots, etc.) were the most commonly used real medicines in the world for the majority of mankind’s illnesses. 2
* The U.S. Pharmacopoeia indicated cannabis should be used for treating such ailments as fatigue, fits of coughing, rheumatism, asthma, delirium tremens, migraine headaches, and the cramps and depressions associated with menstruation. 3
* In this century, cannabis research has demonstrated therapeutic value and complete safety in the treatment of many health problems including asthma, glaucoma, nausea, tumors, epilepsy, infection, stress, migraines, anorexia, depression, rheumatism, arthritis, and possibly herpes. 3
* Deaths from aspirin (U.S. per year): 180 – 1,000 +
* Deaths from legal drugs (U.S. per year) at doses used for prevention, diagnosis, or therapy:

http://www.hempcar.org/hempfacts.shtml

Can someone hear me out… for once?

I feel so depressed. I’m not actually diagnosed, I haven’t checked or anything, because depression can’t really be detected through science. No one can really know whats going on in your brain, right?

Anyway, I feel like dying.

Well, my childhood was really jacked up. Before I could remember, my dad abused my step-brother, Tanner, and my brother, Denis. Tanner was always scared of water because my father rushed him in a pool too early and he was always so worked. I always thought it was because my dad was treated like crap when he was younger by his parents with his three siblings. When I could remember, I was never hurt a single moment. I remember very faintly my dad knocking the phone to the ground then yelling for someone to pick it up. My sister woke up crying to the sight of him dragging my mom by her hair. So, from 4 to 6 I endured fighting, arguing and absolutely terrifying conditions. I was always scarred. Because my parents were so fonded with fighting with each other then, I watched TV. Because it wasn’t supervised, I learned things I shouldn’t have at that age. I knew what sexual intercourse was by age 6. I also remember being seen by a social worker during school, asking what went on in my home. I was so terrified, I spoke everything. Then I felt so bad for doing so, because my dad was questioned often and such. So, my parents got divorced early in my life…

Since then my dad has moved on and found a new wife. I visit him often, hug him and still call him Daddy. He sometimes lies, and he is almost always so pain stricken. I can never act right around him like I do with my mom. He is just so strict…

And my brother takes on after my dad. My mom calls my a ‘prodigy to books’ because I know a lot. Big deal. Well, apparently it is. My brother almost fails all his subjects and such, making me look angelic. He is always upset, and he is always mean with me. He takes my things like it’s no big deal, treats others like family and me like dirt. He pushes me around, when I try to set things right or ignore him he keeps on provoking me or messing it up again. And sometimes he provokes my mom to such a level that she has to shake him straight or scream. One time she called the police on her own son because she couldn’t handle his insanity. And Denis has no illness… just disloyal!

Trista, my sister, always randomly insults me (Like Denis) or scowls at me randomly. She always makes me feel hated, and I never can handle it. When I try to explain my feelings to the both of them, they laugh it off. They usually gang up on me because I am the youngest one in the damned house and they have that power over me. And when it gets physical, such as punching or kneeing me playfully, it goes to a really powerful force for me and I always end up grunting in pain.

Also, I have a weak immune system. So I get sick more then your average person, and when I try to explain that I cannot walk around and function properly without the feeling of someone repeatedly hitting me with a baseball hat in the temple, they call me a liar. I never faked, but because I am ill a lot it gets harder for me to breathe. So when they build up that pressure on me, I sometimes have asthmatic scares, because I have “Allergy Asthma”. Sometimes I burst and shout and yell and curse loudly, crying, screaming, then I am punished when they are not, because my mom saw me do that thing but not them do what they did.

Oh, and while this has been happening, my friends have been backstabbing me, my past relationships have either cheated on me or left me (as in losing contact over long distance) and me, currently in a relationship, am unsure if I should keep it going on. Why? He has no flaws whatsoever, but I have my eye on someone else. This other guy has a girlfriend, he is one of my best friends, but I heard him call me ugly one time. It always broke my heart to know this, but my heart is always open.

And so, when my true friends ask me what happened, what is wrong, and you know, and I tell them… well, it’s hectic. Before I can finish what I am saying, they tell me off. They say I should man up, grow a pair, and prepare for life. But I can only wish. They say to go read a book or something.

But I am a “Book Prodigy”, so doing so is just what I do anywhere.

I live in a nice house, my mom compliments me often, and I am redoing my room to perfect it the way I like it. But I really can’t be taken seriously. I have Eczema, which is a skin condition I was born with. And I’m made fun of for it.

I always feel so insecure, and so unloved, except by my mom. And she is barely home at all.

So I am desperate enough to turn to total strangers. Any suggestions, anyone? I feel in peril :(
I understand depression can be diagnosed, but I feel like no one can see it in me. I never considered committing suicide, because my family holds me here on Earth. I am just asking for any help in the situation.

I see movies about little girls and their dads holding each other dearly. I see my friends do so the same. I see movies about siblings laughing and getting along, as I do with my friends, but these relationships happen nothing with me. I always bottle these feelings up and I feel so confused.
O.K. FORGET the fact I said depression can’t be diagnosed. I’d just like an answer.

Any suggestions? Except for a few people, you’re just telling me depression can be diagnosed. Okay, it can, but what’s a suggestion of what I can do to pass the time…? I said depression couldn’t be diagnosed because I was referring to me, and that no one sees that I feel absolutely depressed. I’m not asking how they would notice, but what could I do, some strategies at the least, to get my mind off my insecurity and something to just give me some self esteem….?

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