What are some good quotes about being sad or being in pain?

Im not emo or suicidal ; I just love quotes and I never hear any good ones on sadness. Lol. Thanks guys. You a greeeat help . ( :

How could a predator (dinosaurs) world exist before the garden of Eden and before the fall of man?

Before man, there was T-Rex and Raptors and such. If God created dinosaurs, why did he make them vicious? How could there be a world of violence (dinosaurs hunting dinosaurs) before the harmony of the Garden of Eden? Surely, this isn’t the nature of God. Any thoughts?

MOSS topiary frame~have YOU actually made one & how is the maintaining?

of these plant sculptures?
did you make the frame urself as well?
Or purchase it?
they look great and exciting for the garden

What is a good place in San Francisco to go to dine and dance after a private wedding?

My mom is 44 yrs old and is having a small private wedding in San Francisco. She wants to go eat and dance afterwards. Any suggestions as to where to go?

Best lining to use to transport plants from pot to pot?

I’m growing some plants, and I realize that one day they must leave their plastic Tupperware cribs and move onto larger pots. But that process sounds scary, and with my luck I would just screw the whole thing up. So, I’m asking what is the best lining to use to transport my plants from pot to pot? And if there is a choice I would like it to be biodegradable, you know? Easier to transplant, eh?

I have a horrible drain in my front garden – what should i use to cover it up?

I appreciate it still needs to be accessable and a plant pot is the obvious choice but has anyone got any alternative ideas?

Spiritually speaking: Who knew that potash was a fertilizer?

http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2010/08/18/bhp-loses-potash-patience/

I mean, it seems like such a waste. We used to just empty our bowls in the trash. Who knew we could have emptied them in the garden to help the plants grow?

Why do some Christians consider curiosity a vice?

I just read a blog over at the New York Times’ website by a Christian apologist who insists that curiosity is a bad thing. He mentions the story of the Garden of Eden and quotes several Christian leaders over the last few centuries who believed that the pursuit of knowledge was a bad thing. Do many Christians feel this way? If so, why?

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/does-curiosity-kill-more-than-the-cat/?ref=global-home

Are there employment mafias in New York?

I maybe exaggerating but i believe there are employment mafias in America. Employment in america is something everybody had a right to. specifically because its the way you earn a living. I believe that to be employed is an Universal right. Every person has the right to work and be employed decently. But finding a job is becoming harder and harder. Find a job job in America is like trying to find gold.
When in the past it wasn’t like that. In the past when you were sent to a place to be hired you were hired right away if they needed someone now they look at you if you are black, the cloth you were, the way you speak they don’t even bother to have you fill an application and then they say I already hired someone or the classic leave your phone number I will call you and they never call.
And those that actually hire workers treat them bad, because they know that out there Competition is fierce. So employers become despots, ogres and tyrants. It’s surprising to see the great amount of discrimination that is going on in New York right now there is no regard for the antharrasing and anti-discrimination laws no enforcement no respect. discrimination comes from the whites, chinese,
europeans, spanish etc.
In the past If you were send to place for a job you were hired. But now you risk losing five bucks in train or bus fare what ever you use.
When Adan was in the Garden of Eden The one thing God guaranteed him and had for him was job, his job was to take care of the garden Genesis 2:15 The Lord took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. So God meant man to work. Adan had a cool job he had no one pushing him around or discriminating him or yelling at him. His job was easy. So what I want to say is that God gives us an example of how he wants things to be done. To work is an universal right.
I dont see ants denying other ants the right to work. I don’t see the bees doing it either.
Everything works in the Universe the Sun, the Moon the stars even our bodies are continually working. So work is part of human nature.
And work is an intrinsically and necessary thing in society.
The Other day I spoke to a fellow we made agreement through an employment agency that I was gonna go see the job in two weeks.
He said he wanted to see me in two weeks an that he was gonna hire me. I waited two long weeks. when the time came I paid 30 bucks on train fare to go see the the job. When I got at the train station I called the fellow he told me that that he had already hired someone and I had called WHO before saying I was not interested in the position, I never called him. He wanted me to go back from the train station something I refused i walked for about 30 minutes two where he was in Cold Springs and spoke to him face to face. Finally I asked him to give me back my train fare something to which he agree although he only gave me back 20 bucks I lost 10 bucks that they then I came back to New York.
Bu thimpressionon I get is that there is a job mafia going on and somehow they controsystematicallyly who gets hired and whdintnt
In the past jobs in the New York were a free market issue… but not anymore.

Big friends Problem?? Pls HELP?

okay here is my question .. I’m 19 in sophomore yr at college, the thing is people like me so much BUT i never feel included. last year i made a group of friends (like 3 girls n 4 dudes) i was so happy .. we went everywhere together, studied together .. u no like best friends.. but friends just LOSE INTEREST in me somehow. after six month we weren’t friends anymore.. everyone found other friends and they r like super happy. so i moved on, n found another group of friends, but they were friends since kinder garden or something, so i wasn’t feeling very included as well.. but i made a good progress, they liked me so much..every time they went out they called me to hang with them, i started to feel included, they liked my jokes, my stories. but a week ago the same freaken thing happened again.. they went all on a trip n didn’t tell me.. i found out later that they were gone.. n when they got back they acted like they were here the whole time.. Now, they don’t even call me to hang.
last month there was like 4 birthdays, n i wasn’t invited to any of them!! i didn’t even know there was a party till it was over. all my friends were there n no one even mentioned it!!
this thing started happening to me since i was 16. I can’t have a constant friend or a group of friends. n i’m not the kinda guy who is like a geek or something, everyone say dat i’m stylish, girls say i’m super cute, i’m not dumb. n ppl tell me u r easy to be loved. i help my friends with homework n projects… i do everything they ask. n i don’t have like self-pride..and yet i always end up with no friends
so what did i do wrong???

Myklia’s Diary (newly wed) Long But Funny?

Dear Diary,

Monday: Now home from honeymoon and settled in our new home, it’s fun to cook for Bob. Today I made an angel food cake and the recipe said, “Beat 12 eggs separately.” Well, I didn’t have enough bowls to do that, so I had to borrow enough bowls to beat the eggs in. The cake turned out fine.

Tuesday: We wanted a fruit salad for supper. The recipe said, serve without dressing.” So I didn’t dress. But, Bob happened to bring a friend home for supper that night. Did they ever look startled when I served the salad.

Wednesday: I decided to serve rice and found a recipe which said, “Wash thoroughly before steaming the rice.” So I heated some water and took a bath before steaming the rice. Sounded kinda silly in the middle of the week. I can’t say it improved the rice any.

Thursday: Today Bob asked for salad again. I tried a new recipe. It said, “Prepare ingredients, then toss on a bed of lettuce one hour before serving.” I hunted all over the garden by my mom’s. So I tossed my salad into the bed of lettuce and stood over there one hour so the dog would not take it. Bob came over and asked if I felt all right. I wonder why?

Friday: Today I found an easy recipe for cookies. It said, “Put all ingredients in a bowl and beat it.” Beat it I did, right over to my mom’s house. There must have been something wrong with the recipe, because when I came back home again it looked the same as when I left it.

Saturday: Bob went shopping today and brought home a chicken. He asked me to dress it for Sunday. I’m sure I don’t know how hens dress for Sunday. I never noticed back on the farm, but I found a doll dress and some little shoes. I thought the hen looked real cute. When Bob saw it, I wondered why he counted to 10.

Sunday: Today Bob’s folks came to dinner. I wanted to serve roast, but all we had in the icebox, was hamburger. So I put it in the oven and set the controls for roast. Must be the oven, because it still came out hamburger.

Good night, Dear Diary. This has been an exciting week. I am eager for tomorrow to come, so I can try a new recipe on Bob.

Some questions on the this article about Benjamin Franklin…?

From Time Magazine:

” The Spies Around Franklin

The system was remarkably simple. Every Tuesday evening, detailed reports of what had transpired in Ben Franklin’s French household made their way, in invisible ink, to the southern perimeter of the Tuileries Gardens. There the missives were stuffed into a bottle and lowered by string into a deep hollow at the foot of a tree. After dark the British ambassador’s secretary fished them out to be dispatched to London and deposited his side of the correspondence under a neighboring boxwood.

Franklin was encircled by spies from the minute he set foot in Paris to solicit support for the Revolutionary War. On all minds the burning question was whether France intended to assist the rebel colonies, and if so, when and how it would do so. The French monarchy had its own efficient news service in thousands of paid informants who reported from their favorite cafés, their mistresses’ boudoirs, their medical rounds, their hotel desks, to police chief Jean-Charles Lenoir. Among Lenoir’s roundups was a weekly catalog of the city’s sexual escapades. This was a city of which it was said that when two Parisians talked, a third inevitably listened. Lenoir was among the first to trail the celebrated American on his arrival, sounding a note of uneasiness about his potent celebrity. The chief had serious competition: Lord Stormont, the British ambassador in Paris, pledged to observe the “veteran of mischief” as closely and as inconspicuously as he could. As that was not easy for an accredited ambassador, British intelligence stepped in.

The British agents reported to an immensely gifted master spy who spoke better French than most Parisians and whom even Lenoir’s men found difficult to shadow. America might claim some credit for Paul Wentworth’s spectacular performance: he was a New Hampshire native. His agents were a varied but inventive bunch, filching diaries and diving into closets. They proved recklessly unable to resist Paris’ charms. One agent, as fond of back stairways as of disreputable addresses, never left Paris without attending a drunken orgy. In the course of one such evening, he entrusted his confidential documents to a more sober reveler, who saw that they made their way to Versailles.

Franklin knew himself to be the object of what he aptly termed “violent curiosities” but at home insisted that he had no intention of speaking other than the truth or of implementing any particular security precautions — or even of dismissing his valet if he were “a spy, as probably he is.” Against all counsel, he stayed his course; he reasoned in part that the quantity of information in itself provided a kind of smoke screen. His apathy about security came at a price. Armed with detailed inventories of French munitions bound for America, the British were repeatedly able to confront the French with evidence of this collusion.

Meanwhile, the weekly white-ink dispatches arrived like clockwork in London, where, moistened with a chemical solution, their hidden messages appeared in red. And the source? Decades after his death, he was revealed to have been a perfectly loyal servant — of both sides. The consummate double agent was the brilliant Edward Bancroft, Franklin’s secretary and one man who had had his confidence all along.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2012113_2012104_2012012,00.html ”

1. About the second paragraph: Did the French spied on Franklin too? If they did, What were the French looking from Franklin?

2. About the third paragraph: Who is the gifted master spy mentioned in the first line? ” Paul Wentworth ” ? Why should the Americans claim credit for his skill? And the reveler mentioned in the last sentence who ” who saw that they made their way to Versailles. ” — what’s his role in this subject?

3. From the fourth paragraph : What does the last sentence mean?

I’d like intelligent, respectful comments on my stated frustration.?

Maybe, I’m just expressing my frustrations rather than seeking an answer, as I’m not sure that an answer will exist in my lifetime. As a result of my past experiences, what I’ve learned works for me has more to do with a total package than one specific aspect of a person, yet each aspect is equally as important to make the package work for me. I understand that I’ve made choices that limit my options (many women aren’t interested in my choice of simple country living), and I accept responsibility for those choices and the resulting limitations. I have no desire to have anyone change for me. I am more interested in finding the rare woman who already fits what I am seeking.

I appreciate a woman who can carry on an intelligent conversation (not limited to text speak), someone who shows she cares about more than herself without ignoring taking care of herself (volunteering in her community), someone who has a good balance of respect, responsibility and playfulness, someone who respects differences in others without expecting them to conform to her values and beliefs (including my preference of philosophy over religion), someone who loves nature and isn’t averse to getting her hands dirty while working with me in the garden or on home projects, an easy-going woman who appreciates tranquility, subtleties and sensuality and hasn’t been numbed to anything but extremes, someone who is more introverted (like me) than extroverted, someone who values open/honest communication (not just filling all voids with non-stop chatter), someone who appreciates equality in a relationship rather than expecting to be provided her entitlement package (seeking no more than she brings to the relationship), and someone who prioritizes keeping herself healthy and fit (mentally and physically) (I’m drawn more to small packages than large packages – proportionally smaller than me).

The last item seems to be the issue for most women, as they seem to prioritize fine dining over presenting the best package they can. They say that it is normal to get fat as you age, yet I don’t see the reason that I can put forth the effort to exercise and watch what I eat, but they can’t. The ones who have maintained a slender body seem to feel that they should be rewarded monetarily for doing that. I expect no more from a partner than I am willing to do myself. Also, I am drawn to small-built women (not short), and it is challenging to find small-built women who don’t feel that they are flawed and not feminine. What’s the logic in the belief that women are more feminine as their breasts grow larger? It’s not much fun to be in a relationship with someone who feels insecure or defective. Can’t they see that for every type of person, there are people who truly appreciate what they have to offer?

Women get up in arms when I include a physical requirement, claiming that I am superficial and unrealistic, yet they don’t seem to have problems expressing their preferences in a partner who has a particular build or eye/hair color or tattoos or money. I’m not saying that women who don’t fit my ideal are bad or wrong or defective or even being rejected. I’m just identifying what works for me, so that my partner will know that she truly is an amazing woman to me and not that I am just settling for her. I want for the women I don’t choose to find happiness with partners who truly appreciate them as they are. We all deserve to be appreciated for the total package we choose to share with a partner. I wish our society promoted valuing uniqueness rather than conformity, so people could truly thrive with self-confidence and self-esteem.

I’m not interested in hearing you blast me for my choices, but I would like to hear well thought out comments to my desire for people to accept responsibility for the results of the choices they make and my desire for people to believe in what they have to offer and not settle for anyone who doesn’t appreciate their total package.

Why is there an account of God creating two adams in the Old Tetsament?

Im not saying this for argument sake i just need clarification as im studying my bible i find this part at the beggining of Genesis rather confusing? First it says God made Humans on the 6th day a man and a woman easy enough to understand. Yet as I read further it says on the 3rd day when God made the earth ( correct me please if im wrong) nothing was growing in the fields because God had not made it rain yet, there was no one to care for the plants. So water came up from the ground then God took dust from the earth or ground and made a man, He breathed life into him he was to take care of the garden of Eden. Saw that he was alone made him sleep deeply and took a rib and formed the first woman or Eve as we know. This is where im confused first it says humans were first made on day 6 now from further reading it states they were made on day 3 (never specificaly says day 3 yet we can assume because God just finished creating the earth on day 3) when earth and after sky was formed. Is this not a contradiction? First God made woman and man at the same time,now its saying he took Adams rib and made a women? Please some clarification maybe i missed something? I dont pretend to know alot about the Bible I just want some help understanding ? Thank you

everyday garden problems?

my project is really about personal difficulties or hassles that affect a garden user directly… things that you physically dislike doing or find inconvenient to carry out.

For example: keeping beers cold when mates are round, picking up what your dog curls out, or getting the football out of the hedge.

Imagine a typical day in the garden… perhaps you’re hosting a bbq, having a water fight, or simply sitting with your feet up enjoying a brew.

What problem are you likely to face… and what could be done about it? I want to know how peoples lives can be made easier or more enjoyable- that’s my angle.

A couple of other examples are things like flies on your food, sun glare in your eyes, spilling your drink etc.

Please list anything garden related that’s a reluctant obligation or that you feel could be made easier some how- don’t be shy, anything is absolutely fine. If it gets on YOUR nerves, it gets on others’. Just brainstorming absolutely everything you can think of will be enormously helpful.

Cheers for helping!!

common, everyday garden problems?

my project is really about personal difficulties or hassles that affect a garden user directly… things that you physically dislike doing or find inconvenient to carry out.

For example: keeping beers cold when mates are round, picking up what your dog curls out, or getting the football out of the hedge.

Imagine a typical day in the garden… perhaps you’re hosting a bbq, having a water fight, or simply sitting with your feet up enjoying a brew.

What problem are you likely to face… and what could be done about it? I want to know how peoples lives can be made easier or more enjoyable- that’s my angle.

A couple of other examples are things like flies on your food, sun glare in your eyes, spilling your drink etc.

Please list anything garden related that’s a reluctant obligation or that you feel could be made easier some how- don’t be shy, anything is absolutely fine. If it gets on YOUR nerves, it gets on others’. Just brainstorming absolutely everything you can think of will be enormously helpful.

Cheers for helping!!