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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Khalil released |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2025, 8:02 pm
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Replies: 1
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| Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil released after months in detention Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin lashed out at "rogue" U.S. District Court Judge Michael Farbiarz, saying he had no authority to order Khalil’s release. "This is yet another example of h... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Israel Bombs Tehran |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2025, 6:15 pm
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Replies: 246
Views: 10,259
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| One thing that I find appalling is the ultra orthodox Jews treatment of Christians in Jerusalem and other areas. They seem to make MAGA look mild in comparison. Or at least some ultra-orthodox Jews. Let's try not to overgeneralize about any religion or religious movement. But I agree that some ultr... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: I don't fit in with social groups for others with autism |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2025, 6:02 pm
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Replies: 18
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| 2. I had attended a second adult support group where all of us were lower support needs. While it was fun in the beginning, most of those people had low tolerance for my loud talking and hyperactivity. They also were not interested in doing anything outside of the meetings. Whenever I would make su... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Well I guess Israel and Iran are at war now. |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2025, 3:03 pm
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Replies: 138
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| The spreading of ISIS/Qaeda is inevitable in the entire Muslim world because radicalization itself is spreading like cancer; not even Saddam or any other dictator would be able to stop it. - a FACT - ISIS/Qaeda and its ilk exist in the entire Muslim world, including in the far south east like Indon... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Well I guess Israel and Iran are at war now. |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2025, 1:47 pm
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| Not only that, he permitted his son to take the virginity of all the newly wed woman he wanted by raping them on their wedding night. What is your source for this story? I tried to find this via Google just now but couldn't, although I did find plenty of other stories about the brutality of Saddam'... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: James Carville and the Jews |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 20 Jun 2025, 2:24 am
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Replies: 2
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| James Carville tells Democrats to ‘start speaking Yiddish’ “Accusing ‘wealthy Jewish donors’ of voting for ‘Deutschland’ to get a tax cut is a typical antisemitic trope accusing Jews of greed because they are Jews, as though wealthy donors of other religions would be different,” he stated. “This is... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2025, 12:35 pm
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| I myself find that as I get older it is harder to make new friends, when we are younger there is a common goal of exploration/discovery of life and its facets, which groups and binds us. While the more you know of 'the magician's tricks' the less we are motivated to discover more. And discovery, le... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2025, 10:28 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,944
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| Most schools have a "department of psychology" but not a "department of behaviorism", because they incorrectly lump behaviorism in with psychology out of convenience, even though they're different - a fact which annoys more than a few behaviorists. Creating a whole new departmen... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is Wicca/Neopaganism ruined? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2025, 2:05 am
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Replies: 66
Views: 1,715
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| Plus for people who claim to reject Christianity, they think and behave exactly like Christians do. They see everything through black and white absolutes and are quick to judge and scold others for practicing their craft in a different way. Unfortunately, these past couple of decades, American soci... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Rushing things seems to make me anxious |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2025, 1:12 am
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Replies: 35
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| It can be tricky. I always preferred to take my time and get to know whatever woman it was quite thoroughly, but sometimes they had other ideas. I guess the dilemma is, do you commit to them and risk living to regret it, or do you leave things open and risk losing them before you've made your mind ... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Meeting girls at the beach. |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2025, 12:40 am
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Replies: 21
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cyberdora wrote: Canadian Freedom Lover wrote: I will never go unto debt for any woman. If I have to dazzle her with gifts to get her, she is not the one for me. I hope you will enjoy single life CFL
Not all women expect to be dazzled with gifts. I certainly never expected this, and I am certainly not alone. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2025, 9:50 pm
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Replies: 10
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| The problem with most ABA and most "behaviorists", is that they're actually just psychologists who read a book on classical conditioning, and called themselves a "behaviorist", on the grounds that they work with and "modify" behavior. In that regard, I very much dislik... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2025, 8:58 pm
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Replies: 10
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| The two have several mutually exclusive ideologies, and trying to reconcile the two into one is rather problematic. Psychology often simply takes what it can use, and ignores the rest. Classical conditioning is a good example. In the study of behaviorism, recognizing the operation of classical cond... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2025, 8:20 pm
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Replies: 135
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| My brain is just wired backwards for social situations. Basically, I need to be able to get to know someone before talking to them. If you don't know someone, what do you talk to them about? Sounds like a catch-22. However ... Also for me, when talking, the subject of the conversation is the import... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: "social skills" as taught in special ed and via ABA |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2025, 4:50 pm
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Replies: 10
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| Behaviorism often gets treated like a sub-category of psychology. Like, there's the umbrella of all "psychology", and then there's the forms of psychology that fall under that umbrella - psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, etc - and behaviorism get's mis-labeld... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is Wicca/Neopaganism ruined? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 18 Jun 2025, 3:32 pm
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Replies: 66
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| I can understand that but at the same time it really discourages men from taking part in witchcraft. Wicca/Witchcraft and feminist Goddess religion are just the most visible parts of a larger Pagan/occult scene, whose other sectors are not as female-dominated. For example, there are the various Pag... |
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