• Is anyone on here a journalist writing for a major publication? Any incognito luminaries?
    I have a couple suspicions but they must remain confidential. :smirk:
  • The Last Word
    Grad school is a few years away for me but most importantly I am taking that first step as I realize I have been standing at this cross roads for much too long. It's time to invest in me.
  • Currently Reading
    Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  • Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
    How so? Just curious...Aleksander Kvam

    Meaning the missile wouldn't directly kill anyone but the effects of the missile taking out our satellite would have an effect on those here on Earth.

    The death toll would come from every possible direction. Landing planes full of people without any GPS? The power going out in Arizona today when it will be 105* and surging in California where the fires would not be able to be fought from the sky and the communication on the ground between the trucks and command would be gone. Everything that relies on GPS would be fucked.

    Which includes any pizza that @Maw might get us all wanting.
  • Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
    The Space Force is going to be protecting our satellites in a new domain that used to be dominated by the USA but that has changed. If a country tried to and successfully knocks one of our satellites off grid, every time based transaction world wide would come to halt. That includes but is hardly limited to:

    Every banking transaction.
    The control over our power grid.
    The logistical control over our delivering of food and fuel.
    Our ability to control commercial air travel.
    Battlefield operations.

    We are not talking about a Space Man like Buzz Lightyear being out in Space to protect our satellites. But the Space Force being developed is something that was needed yesterday so we really need to get ON it. To use citizen dollars to start up such a HUGE branch of military is a heavy lift but a necessary one.

    The question of necessity is valid as we do have an Air Force but there was a time when the air force was part of the Army and eventually grew to be it's own branch. We are watching the birth of another branch of our military.
  • Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
    No. The Air Force operates and protects our Air through force and I am not being factious. The Space Force is above the Air Force in the sense of where we can defend and travel.
  • Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
    What's this Space Force nonsense all about?Michael

    Our satellites in space are at risk of being knocked off balance or taken out completely via a missile. We have known this risk since the first satellite was sent to space but the advancement of other countries abilities to possess such a missile has increased the risk. Considering how much of our technological lives depend on those satellites in space and their ability to communicate with each other and our devices on Earth, it seems like a ripe target. A target that would not kill a human with the missile but the cascading effect of that loss of communication would have a death toll.
  • Sex
    for what?Aleksander Kvam

    I believe BitterCrank was suggesting that I needed permission to experience self pleasure to which I said "Thank you" as it hit a sticking point for me.
  • Sex
    It isn't that anybody here needs a manual; some people need permission and encouragement. I never needed permission; you never needed encouragement; some people doBitter Crank

    Thank you.
  • Sex
    Hum, plenty of people on all sides of the gender wheel enjoys giving oral. And also enjoys having their partner voice their desires.

    If you cant ask your partner for a specific thing, out of shame, then you arent really partners
    Akanthinos

    I am in no way saying that "giving oral" pleasure while high and buzzed is a bad thing and asking is always a respectful thing to do.

    Yo, two glasses of red, a joint, and then ask your partner to give you oral for 30 minutes straigth.Akanthinos

    However the entitlement to a minute on the clock to have to meet is absurdly assumptive and from my perspective a total turn off.

    But please, by all means, keep that stop watch in your bedside pleasure chest. :up:
  • Sex
    The female's natural role in sexuality is much more involved than that of the male. She will get pregnant, grow an offspring, give birth and raise the child. Because of that, it is harder for the female to override the primary in favor of the secondary, using will power and choice. This is reflected in female inhibitions. She may go through the motions, via willpower and choice, but fall short in orgasm.wellwisher

    Do you really think that there is a chance "will power" can be increased or is it static?
  • The Harm of an Imperfect and Broken World
    Everything needs to be fixed, maintained, created, synthesized..schopenhauer1

    In the process of fixing, cleaning, maintaining we are in effect applying what we have learned along the way, to do it different, to do it better than we did last time.
    There is a street in Illinois called the Eisenhower Expressway and as I live and breath, the road improvements are timed to start again where it just ended. A cycle that carries us further into the future.
  • Wiser Words Have Never Been Spoken
    The sentence as written is meaningless but cross-pollinates meaningful sentences in a misleading way.Baden

    Hey! No cross-pollinating in here! :smirk:
  • Wiser Words Have Never Been Spoken
    Give me a link to Jesus' writing, as opposed to the more popular commentaries.Banno
    :grin:
  • Sex
    You are not the only one.

    Contrary to the cliché, lots of people are not sexually liberated. Millions of people have soaked up very negative scripts about sex, and many of the scripts end up condemning us for being sexual at all, let alone being even slightly eager for sex. It takes time and effort to overcome the negative attitudes about sex, sexuality, pleasure, desire, all that.
    Bitter Crank

    I am relieved to hear I am not the only one and Thank you for the lovely guide on ways to get closer to where I do want to get, because I do want to get there or at least not have it be an issue that keeps coming up.
    You really are a therapist in many ways and I do appreciate you taking the time to get inside my head and mirror back to me what I am saying and what it looks like. I don't really care for the way I look in the sexual/sensual sense but my damn thinking comes back in with serious force.

    I have never tried Yoga and that is something that appeals to me but again that intimacy factor comes rushing back in and my need to protect myself raises my shield. Weird huh?
  • Sex
    Yo, two glasses of red, a joint, and then ask your partner to give you oral for 30 minutes straigth.Akanthinos

    THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ will NEVER work on a lady.
    Where did this whole "do me" attitude come from?
  • Sex
    BTW, the champaign and truffle feature is not offered at the price point that gets one salad bars. You'll have to upgrade a couple of notches for that.Bitter Crank

    Hmmmm…….
  • Sex
    We're limited by our personal experiences though, so you may be speaking of what you experience instead of what is typically experienced.Hanover

    True but I am not someone who is lacking personal experience. Now I have been with the same person for the last two decades but I would be hard pressed to be able to name all the men I was with before getting married.

    The last time I tried to recall them, the moon was bright, the girls and I around the fire pit and we counted 18. So I have tasted what is on the salad bar but I really want to get to where the Champagne and Truffles that I have heard so much about are.
  • Sex
    You didn't say how low your orgasm count was. You don't have anything against you masturbating, do you? There's that relevant old joke, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice." Women have a right to orgasm (it was a subsection of the failed Equal Rights Amendment, a few decades back. "Women can have as many orgasms as they like.") The subsection was added to quell the likelihood of female rioting: sexually satisfied women are much less likely to riot in the streets.Bitter Crank

    I didn't give a number because it is so low and it is not from a lack of experience or different people.
    You ask an interesting question about having something against mastrubating and the imprint of my upbringing plays a big role on what is described as something dirty girls do. Even now I am an empty house ( closet ) pleasurer.
    (It goes without saying that I am sharing here in a respectful way and would appreciate that being reciprocated.)

    However, life does keep bringing me back to this basic need of allowing self pleasure to be content.
    It is a struggle between what I want to want and what I allow myself to satisfy. It's not easy to understand what I am trying to explain but I am open to suggestions if you understand the battle within me.

    You certainly don't have to depend on someone else providing you with orgasms.Bitter Crank

    I read your words and I understand your suggestion but I have a really hard time clearing my head of all thought while trying to physically remain in charge and drift off to enjoy the moment. Maybe I am the only one who feels this way.

    Even with just myself, I start thinking right when I should be in ultimate pleasure and bam, it's like my Mother in law walked in the house. And then it's over, that moment is gone.
  • Sex
    The woman is the object, the man is the subject. The man "scores" a home run. The woman gives, the man takes. The man orgasms in ~5 minutes, the woman never does.darthbarracuda

    Personally, I think that society promotes the idea that "The man orgasms in ~5 minutes, the woman never does" and it is a bummer for the woman. There are very, VERY, few males that in a relationship are willing to take the time to allow a woman to orgasm. Maybe it is a force of nature with the male stimulation, as I think I remember Eddie Murphy saying "In jail man, we get hard when the wind blows" which may in fact be a physical response for a male and part of the misunderstanding.

    As a woman, for me? The mental stimulation leads to a clearing of my mind which is the time when my body engages and there is a degree of allowance in MY own mind. I am allowed to not need to think, removing the need to protect my most intimate part of my mind, which allows my body to follow. In giving up the need to lead, it is giving up control, making myself vulnerable, naked to the person I am trusting my inner self with and then a true orgasm can occur but there is no guarantee.

    So to say "that a woman never does" is almost correct for me as I can count how many times in my life that I have truly achieved orgasm. As a man, can you count how many times you have achieved orgasm?

    And since we are on the subject: Is it necessary for a man to ejaculate to have an orgasm? Or do men have other forms of orgasm?
  • The Gun In My Mouth
    Jake, with all due respect, I am surprised this thread has lasted the day that it has let alone an expectation for it to a topic to discuss for a week or two. When you start a thread you might expect a response but no thread will continue without attention and nurturing from the creator of the OP/Thread. You have had 6 responses and have not addressed one of the replies. You have the ability to direct the way in which this thread proceeds but it is up to you to put your energy into the responses.
  • The Gun In My Mouth
    For the purposes of this thread, let's imagine that I walk around all day everyday with a hair trigger loaded gun in my mouth. You try to talk to me about the gun, but I roll my eyes at your hysteria, and keep changing the subject to a thousand other topics.

    Am I rational?

    Would you take any philosophy I write about seriously?
    Jake

    I'd "Red Flag" you as soon as I saw you and the law would deal with you after a 3 day mandatory firearm turn over.

    As a logical observation: how are you going to change the subject with the shaft of a pistol in your mouth? :shade:
  • Positive Thoughts
    The optimist sees the glass half full, the pessimist sees it half empty, and a mom sees it as a glass that's going to get spilled one way or the other. :razz:Waya

    :rofl: Too true!!
  • The News Discussion
    Not if the technology is kept secret for use in nefarious operations.raza

    raza, those who know about that level of technology don't talk about it and those who talk about it likely don't understand the 'reason' behind such an advancement in technology being installed on planes.

    Here are a few technological advances that I can back up with kids I know, who earned a full ride to an elite college at $52k a year, to learn drone technology.

    Against us

    Coyotes

    Next generation

    Global Security

    Advancing the tech at the University level

    Suffice it to say that tech advances are rarely believed without evidence of it's use.
  • Wiser Words Have Never Been Spoken
    What is the origin of reasonableness?
    — Isaac Shmukler

    A reasonable bedtime.
    - Noble Dust
    :up:
  • Positive Thoughts
    I think that it would be half full after being filled to that level, and half empty after being emptied to that level. So the direction of flow might have something to do with the problem.Sir2u

    I asked a Psychiatrist this question and his answer was fantastic! He said "If the glass is half empty or half way full doesn't matter much, I just drink it." :razz:
  • Positive Thoughts
    @Benkei
    Have I told you lately what a beautiful person you are?
    If I haven't, Benkei, you are a beautiful person~ :flower: :flower: :flower:
  • The News Discussion
    Realize, not realise. Who's been teaching you antiquated (look it up) English? — Hanover
    In fact, -ize is older than -ise.

    I'm almost at a native level of speaking English [...] Ugh... I meant "less words" — Benkei
    Fewer words.
    jamalrob

    :lol: :rofl: :razz: :rofl: @Benkei :rofl: :razz:

    Emotions translate with such ease~ For once my emotionally lead life is paying off :heart:
  • The Last Word
    Go for it girl, the world awaits you.Sir2u

    My Mom has walked a similar path as your better half.
    I am not going to let fear of failure discourage me this time but I am scared. :meh:
  • Positive Thoughts
    When it's harder to suffer than change, we change. :heart:
  • The News Discussion
    Nah the kids said the "sunny" part and coming from a pair of native desert rats, to like heat outside of AZ is a rarity.
    Deep sighs~ It's wealth on paper and it translates to time off and isn't that what we are ultimately working towards? Unlimited time with our families and friends while getting paid?
    Speaking of fantasies, can I reserve one of those Unicorns that @Baden remembered riding from his childhood?
    Let me know what kind of deposit you will need as I am sure @Hanover is getting used to putting down deposits as his children enroll in higher education.
  • The News Discussion
    Move to the Netherlands and get affordable healthcare.Benkei

    Benkei, I have known you for over a decade now and you are still baiting Americans into this "Mom, it's Disneyland clean in the Netherlands! 72*f, sunny and 31 days of 'Holiday' off a year." :flower:
    Imagine if we all actually listened to you and came over. :love:
    What's your real name and contact info? :up:
  • The News Discussion
    A possible treatment for Autism....

    https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/like-a-little-tornado-this-arizona-mamma-fights-for-medical-cannabis-for-her-autistic-child-10657212

    My battles are not over but we are so much closer to ending this ridiculous war.
  • Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
    Do you remember when you used to call yourself a socialist?Sapientia

    May I ask what your working definition of a "socialist" is?
  • Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
    We need banksBaden

    I need a bank that hands out samples. :pray:
  • Donald Trump (All General Trump Conversations Here)
    The point is to have an economy that offers the possibility for economic opportunities, not to have as wide as possible a distribution of capital. A world with a thriving economy is a world of opportunity - a world where people dare to start business, take risks, etc. because they know there are opportunities out there which are worth the risks.Agustino

    Thank you for being a voice of reason Agustino. If we can get employers to believe in hiring people for more than 30 hours a week, without government penalty, those going from part time to full time would sky rocket. The results are amazing when something is suggested as norm and followed for decades, as opposed to an arbitrary number being assigned to companies whose structure might not be the traditional model, so therefore a blanket force to buy a government product fails, miserably.

    But not without first doing irreversible damage to the American medical community before ceasing to exist. :shade:

    What a cluster fuck of "no one knows what anyone else is doing anymore". They just know it is not their responsibility.
    (medical rant over for now)
  • The Last Word
    No. You only have to go backwards until the place you departed from your plan and then continue forward along the original route.Sir2u

    Yes, I think you are right. So I am returning to school since my youngest is starting his second year of college and my eldest is moving out of the ranch.

    NicK says he would like to see nothing more than my wanting to do that, for me and my desire to help people. A bit nervous, a bit excited, a bit intimidated but plenty of energy and desire.
  • The Last Word
    Whew! Finished my paper for school!Waya
    Yayyyy Waya!!!! Well done! :party:
  • The Last Word
    So if I go back and pick up the last two pieces of fruit to finish my Associates basket and continue on to my Bachelor's basket, is the second phase in reverse if I have never been there?
  • The Last Word
    :chin: That is an excellent question...I think it is almost a 180?

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