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| Jemmy | | posted 14-Jun-2002 3:50pm |
I'm not doing anything now. I was researching Shakespeare's Julius Caesar for my exam. |
Enheduanna  | | posted 14-Jun-2002 3:51pm |
Currently I'm reading about women in ancient Israel and studying for my Bible exam. I'm not sure if that counts as researching, although I do some research for individual books and chapters I'm preparing. The next real research I'll be doing will be for my dissertation, which will most likely be on women in the Pentateuchal sources. |
| spidertea | | posted 14-Jun-2002 3:54pm |
I'm always researching a multitude of things for my own curiosity.
Right now I am researching:
prostitution
pornography
strip clubs
female immigrants
womens' images in advertising
exercise techniques
herbs
weight loss strategies
bats
dogs
ferrets
serial killers |
| Biggles | | posted 14-Jun-2002 4:03pm |
All sorts, including my family tree. |
| Zang | | posted 14-Jun-2002 4:08pm |
Music. I've been on a non-stop music research kick for years. Sometimes it gets interrupted while I go off into something else for a while, but I keep coming back to music. |
| Zang | | (reply to spidertea) posted 14-Jun-2002 4:12pm |
Have you read Naomi Wolf's "The Beauty Myth"? I picked it up a few months ago. It came out about ten years ago. It sounds like something that would fit into your reading list. |
| grmbrand | | posted 14-Jun-2002 4:39pm |
Nada. I'm coding like crazy, though. |
| spidertea | | (reply to Zang) posted 14-Jun-2002 5:30pm |
Ooh.. I'll have to look into that. Thanks. |
| harekrishnadasa | | (reply to spidertea) posted 14-Jun-2002 6:49pm |
Why? |
| Oscar | | posted 14-Jun-2002 7:30pm |
North Dakota's laws regarding uninsured motorists. |
| LuridHope | | posted 14-Jun-2002 7:35pm |
Ancient history. |
| LuridHope | | (reply to spidertea) posted 14-Jun-2002 7:44pm |
Is that the Discovery Channel Line up for this week.  Seriously though, I think advertising is the primary tool being used to mold modern civilization. This is an important area of study, tell me what you find, please. |
| Amanda | | posted 14-Jun-2002 11:48pm |
I'm currently doing research for my family tree. I'm always doing research type things at work, but those aren't important!!!  |
| spidertea | | (reply to LuridHope) posted 15-Jun-2002 1:45am |
I love the Discovery Channel too! If I only got one channel I would want that one. |
| spidertea |
I'm studying the first five things because "when I grow up" I want to work in a rehabilitation center for women who have been prostituted.
The health studies because I want to be healthy and I have extra pounds hanging on.
The animals, because I love animals!
And serial killers intrigue me because it is what I call beyond beyond. To kill another human being there's gotta be something strange, and I want to know. |
Kristal_Rose    | | posted 15-Jun-2002 3:36am |
Mopeds, steam power, urban renewal, astrology, nanotechnology, teleportation, political process, places to move to, not much lately compared to my mystical and sacred geometry phase. |
| Irene007 | | posted 15-Jun-2002 8:17am |
Straw bale constructions. |
| Irene007 | | (reply to Zang) posted 15-Jun-2002 8:19am |
I don't need a music reference book - I've got Zang!!  |
| Irene007 | | (reply to LuridHope) posted 15-Jun-2002 8:39am |
Your comment about advertising molding modern civilization is unfortunately true! While some advertising is funny and creative, too much is misleading. I have always said that anorexia is a direct result of advertising. Generally, an anorexic child has very demanding parents, typically the mother is an impeccable dresser and high achiever and never overweight. The mother and teenager are both working full-time to look like the images they are constantly bombarded with. Hey! They use 15 year olds to advertise diet products! Sheesh - I didn't have an ounce of fat at that age either! Or 17 yr olds to advertise skin creams - I didn't have wrinkles then either! It's all about "The Look", I don't like the recent trend of girls looking like heroin addicts or the ones with "moody" looks (a pout and a frown) - Attitude... Kids, now, have too much attitude!!
Here's a good example of how this exposure really affects us; go back 500 years, when villages were small and there was no advertising. Some historical figures are referred to as being good looking and if, per chance, there is an existing portrait of this person; we find them to be ordinary looking, even ugly. Was it the "look" of the day? No! People of that time might have seen no more than 500 faces in their lifetime. They didn't travel, they had no magazines, posters, videos, television so they didn't see all that much. In a situation like that - I'd be gorgeous!! I think that what we are doing is harmful. Even Asians and black people dye their hair blond - all for the "look"! Too much is just too much... |
| confetti | | posted 15-Jun-2002 12:48pm |
Euthanasia (school) and waist-sculpting toning exercises (pretty much personal). |
| they | | posted 15-Jun-2002 1:31pm |
I've been outlining a novel... I had some ideas and spoke with my best friend who is an editor.. we've been talking about putting our heads together on this one. |
| juliw | | posted 15-Jun-2002 2:22pm |
nothing |
| Dino | | posted 15-Jun-2002 6:02pm |
Not really researching anything right now. Well except may some good 'Learn-to-swim' holiday hotels. |
| LuridHope | | (reply to Irene007) posted 15-Jun-2002 7:34pm |
It is very possible that though children have always needed a degree of rebelliousness to feel their oats, find themselves, and leave the nest, there have been more external influences directing young people in a direction of self destructive disregard for anyone but themselves.
Selfishness sells.
Our children are exposed to the brain washing administration of self-centered ideology every day through a media industry driven by advertising and the sale of products.
Communal happy people don't need material things to be content because they have each other. The seeds of discontent tear children from their families creating a society of unhappy, dissatisfied consumers. I should know, I'm one of them. (This a response from a survey I answered) |
| Zang | | (reply to Irene007) posted 16-Jun-2002 1:42am |
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| natsim | | posted 16-Jun-2002 5:57am |
Osteoporosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis. It's my job.
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| Irene007 | | (reply to LuridHope) posted 16-Jun-2002 3:50pm |
Great answer! Sometimes I think I'm the only one that sees it that way... We are so wrapped up in it, that we don't see the damage it's really causing but, how can we stop it? All we did was turn off our television... It helped, we talk more, we do more things and we're always on top of the housework! |
| harekrishnadasa | | (reply to spidertea) posted 16-Jun-2002 10:16pm |
OIC. |
| LuridHope | | (reply to Irene007) posted 17-Jun-2002 8:57pm |
Well put the count up to two. It's not a religious matter or a value concept. It seems like common sense to me. This might make a good survey. |
| Irene007 | | (reply to LuridHope) posted 18-Jun-2002 7:34am |
Yeah! Go for it! |
| juliw | | posted 23-Jun-2002 5:00pm |
The reason why Sue is a backstabbing dog! |
| wolfchik9 | | posted 23-Jun-2002 6:31pm |
home improvement ideas, prices, stores, etc. We are currently in the process of fixing up my boyfriend's parents' house. |
| juliw | | posted 24-Jun-2002 6:42pm |
Sue is definitely not a backstabbing dog so ashamed of myself right now |
| NthenSome |
Thanks to Biggles, I'm on the trail to finally help out with the homeless situation in the most useful way possible (getting them to help themselves as much as possible). They wrote back, if you're "listening", Biggles. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 7-Jul-2002 8:29pm |
How so? I've been missing this story. Huh, that didn't post. |
| NthenSome |
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| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 7-Jul-2002 10:09pm |
This link? I see no link. (other than the one to the SC survey.) |
| NthenSome |
Right. You were inquiring about the conversation, so I stopped in mid-stream there and led you to that instead of the site I was led to by the conversation which was with Biggles in the survey you will see pop up if you take that very link above which I must be on one of my sugar rushes because I notice I'm totally disregarding punctuation well not totally there was that apostrophe a minute back wasn't there and if only I could stop typing I might be able to break out of this unexplainable continuance and since I know you probably chopped&glued this just to see it I gave you this much |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 8-Jul-2002 1:50am |
Days or weeks age I did read the nested smalls. I can read this without cut & paste if that's what you mean. I haven't had time to look at that survey though. |
| Biggles | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 21-Jul-2002 3:41pm |
What did they say (when they wrote back)? |
| NthenSome | | (reply to Biggles) posted 21-Jul-2002 9:25pm |
Someone in some other aloof division somewhere in L.A. has become a dollar richer. They passed the buck on to someone else, with little care, it seems.
I'm not giving up. I've got phone numbers now. Thanks for checking in about it! |
| Biggles | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 22-Jul-2002 6:28am |
Do you have a plan of attack? |
| Biggles | | posted 22-Jul-2002 6:32am |
I'm currently researching scoliosis (as in right now - while I'm online). |
| bandit1cat | | posted 11-Aug-2002 7:47am |
Actually, just completed research for last two weeks before buying an automobile. |
| mandy |
Two weeks!!!!?
It took me months of research and pain and suffering before I could even step foot on a car lot. So, What did you get? |
| bandit1cat | | (reply to mandy) posted 12-Aug-2002 11:49am |
I didn't have time to waste. My car died, was borrowing one. I got a Buick Regal GS, has everything. |
