Description : What do you think about the way society seems to categorise and judge peoples' 'success'?
Last Answer : Who cares what others think, Its what you think thats important. If you feel sucessfull, thats good enough.
Description : Why does love lose its wonder as we get older (or does it)?
Last Answer : We get older. We have seen more and experienced more. Everything – not just love – is something we have done before. Call it worn down, call it jaded, we’ve seen it all before and it isn’t as exciting.
Description : She says she needs me, but it seems to be as in "I need thee every hour". How do I help with her separation anxiety/codependency?
Last Answer : So, before your involvement, I gather she was your time spent with her has been simply thew mainly a recluse. Suppose you find a kid in the woods, and you give them shelter, food, and youtube ... to save what you have. I love that you are willing to work through this discomfort in your relationship.
Description : Do you know any older men who add any pretty face on Facebook, then flirt with all of these women?
Last Answer : Apparently a great many of we men are wired to remain fools about women right to the end.
Description : Have you known a bully to change as he or she grew older?
Last Answer : No I haven’t. I actually know more adult bullies than I did childhood bullies.
Description : Exercise to get younger and older worker working well together?
Last Answer : I think doing something that involves learning to respect others would be beneficial.
Description : Someone's 15 year old brother is selling pot. What shall the older brother do?
Last Answer : If the older brother didn't want to break the younger brother's trust, he could try reasoning with the younger one and explaining to him that he could go to jail for most of his young life if ... and I ended up unintentionally accompanying her to his house with a gun while I was 7 months pregnant.
Description : What tells you that you are absolutely, undeniably, getting older way too fast?
Last Answer : The first time I had a doctor who was younger than me.
Description : Are there any older members of Ask-public who prefer today's music to the music they grew up with?
Last Answer : I listen to a lot of eighties music, which I grew up with. A lot of current stuff I listen to sounds a lot like, and is influenced by the same artists. I think it's a good question though. I wonder ... music growing up but I don't think he listens to much of what he used to, as opposed to myself.
Description : What can I do to make an older Lowes brand garden tractor go faster?
Last Answer : answer:People race lawn tractors, so I would imagine there are a lot of discussions on how to do it best and probably parts for the job. I don't know if $15-$20 will be enough, but a few internet ... know. Here's one person's build, here's a forum on the subject with thousands of posts. Have fun.
Description : What part of you seems older than the rest?
Last Answer : My consciousness.
Description : Congress seems incapable of doing anything meaningful to get Americans back to work. How can we get Congress to go to work putting more Americans back to work?
Last Answer : Yeah, I got a kick out of that the other day when I saw it. But then lest we forget that the GOP is the same group that brought us the Is Ketchup a vegetable? controversy!
Description : Do you think we truly have choice?
Last Answer : They like to let us believe we have a choice,but I think that is an illusion.
Description : Do you think there is a typical amount of identities we take on?
Last Answer : I think those of use who have integrated identity politics into our lives consider many different aspects of our lives. Others usually have 3-5 that they can list and it usually goes like this wife, ... something. It's not often that people consider race or ableism or how old they are or anything.
Description : Do you think we grow in wisdom or just decrepitude as we age?
Last Answer : Predictably, I like being my age and find the balance between wisdom, humor,and humility and aches, creaks and fatigue is a felicitous one.
Description : Why do you think my friend won’t stop apologizing to me? We became friends after I saved her life about three weeks ago and she was mean to me before, but it seems weird that she is still apologizing.
Last Answer : She feels guilty for how she treated you before. And now she is in your emotional debt, and feels bad about that.
Description : We have a pine tree that is leaning. It seems to be dying. What can we do? I think it was damaged by ice this winter.
Last Answer : It sounds like it was hit by lightning............it might be covered by your homeowners. You might need to take it down for safety. You don't want that falling down to hit someone.
Description : Collective memory question: how soon do we forgive... (insert your celebrity here, and then add the time it takes, in your opinion, to forgive them).
Last Answer : answer:Not sure I’m doing this right, but here goes…. Lionel Richie. His discography. I say, we should forgive him in 2048.
Description : Why do we as humans partake in activities we know are potentially fatal or will kill us over time?
Last Answer : We have an instinct to destroy ourselves. My guess is it is the same mentality that reduces America to the highest percentage of obese citizens. Another snickers bar anyone?
Description : Does anyone know what happened to psychoneuroimmunology, and why we don't hear so much about it these days?
Last Answer : There is an active research center for psychoneuroimmunology where I work. I don't think it has gone anywhere. If you look at the pubmed timeline, it seems to have been well-studied in ... with a larger resurgence in recent years: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=psychoneuroimmunology&sort=date
Description : Should we try and understand a mass killer's mindset?
Last Answer : Yes we should. My idea is revenge for being given a raw deal in school, dating , work ?
Description : If it was 1950 right now, what sort of questions would we see on ask-public?
Last Answer : ”Now they are trying to give N***** the same rights as whites! Are we living in the end times?”
Description : Why do we mirror others' feelings?
Last Answer : You don’t think empathy a positive trait? My friend’s kid dies and I shouldn’t be sad about it? Are you asking why we pretend to be sad when we don’t care? The answer to that one is that it is expected, as you said, “social glue.”
Description : Do we have a winner?
Last Answer : Are you referring to the self pleasuring driver? I don’t think you had to worry about him spreading his seed.
Description : What are we to make of people like Joseph Smith and L Ron Hubbard?
Last Answer : answer:Smith had a history of arrests for fraud. His wife left him over the golden tablet nonsense, if I remember correctly. I believe she also threw the first copy of his book in the ... Smith was illiterate). Hubbard was openly quoted as stating he was starting a religion for the money racket.
Description : We all still have a lot to learn about things in this life, so why can't the average person admit that about their driving skills?
Last Answer : I drive a golfball better than some people drive their vee-hick-erls. That’s okay though, so long as they stay the fuck away from me.
Description : Is there an evolutionary explanation for why we feel anger?
Last Answer : Increases testosterone, heightens senses and improves reaction time, and dulls physical pain. Few other things I can’t recall, but it’s a useful emotion that helped when we needed to fend for our lives.
Description : How can we change which trades can apprentice?
Last Answer : An apprenticeship implies that you won’t be paid. Your payment, as it were, is learning the trade.
Description : Why do we like the things we like?
Last Answer : Look at the excerpt of this book: This Is Your Brain on Music. I want to read it but it looks like it can explain some things about why people like music.
Description : When we are very reactive to certain people, does it say more about us or them?
Last Answer : I agree, the deeper the wound the harder to recover, if at all. When we have these issues, obviously you have to look at yourself. We must have self esteem and insecurity issues to let these people hurt ... seem to be insensitive souls with no love in their hearts. I don't want to be like that.
Description : Isn't it true that we come up with our most meaningful words when we find our face in the dust?
Last Answer : Not necessarily although painful times can lead to growth.
Description : Can we stop?
Last Answer : I need to rewatch the clip over a hundred times to find anything that I can interpret into a conspiracy theory.
Description : What have we learned from science about the nature of learning?
Last Answer : There have been many studies of learning styles done There is a summary of the research in this blog article critical of one study pooh-poohing learning styles.
Description : How do we help society reintegrate its prisoners?
Last Answer : Ideally, I'd like to see more focus on rehabilitation. I'd like to see people who are jailed on drug offenses put through treatment programs, and just let the potheads go. That may be ... used with juveniles or prisoners who are diagnosed with mental illness. Is this vision realistic? Probably not.
Description : Why do you suppose that we find the transit of Venus exciting?
Last Answer : Personally, I have always been amazed at the accuracy of the predictions. (Plus I can finally use the word “ephemerides”.)
Description : Is there a scientific explanation for how we can feel someone staring at us?
Last Answer : Well, I'd argue the whole brain is designed to keep us a live. We're built to determine within a quick second whether we are attracted to someone, or fear them. Should we fear ... and might like it, and therefore stay in the vicinity. The hypothalamus controls our initial emotional disbursements.
Description : Where could I find a good book on how we remember thing and retrieve information on a psychological level?
Last Answer : Boost Your Memory
Description : Psychology question: How is temporal contiguity related to the mistakes we often make?
Last Answer : I have never heard the term but I imagine the mistakes could be made if you felt that one of the stimuli was the cause of the other. Let's say a child reaches out and touches a ... right before a parent was injured would mistakenly believe that their actions caused the injury. Does that make sense?
Description : How is it that as children we wail at any slight, and as adults we quietly suffer atrocities?
Last Answer : answer:Good question. As far as where exactly that line should be drawn I don't know, but it would differ greatly based on personal taste. I'm sure certain people would like having the patience to deal with ... of a pin to an elephant. Still damn annoying to be sure, but nothing to make a fuss over.
Description : How do we know that homophobia doesn't exist in other species?
Last Answer : I’m wondering how we would quantify homophobia in another species?
Description : When we protect our children from certain kinds of knowledge, are we protecting their psychological health, or are we protecting ourselves from dealing with uncomfortable subects?
Last Answer : answer:One must go with the gut feel on this one. The TV has its ratings scheme but most parents by default know their kids best. Err on the safe side I guess. If a parent is uncertain about ... follow I guess. Just the ability to adapt to present situations in your kid's life and growth process.
Description : Why did we evolve feelings when other organisms supposedly didn't, according to currently accepted explanations?
Last Answer : Im not sure how you can say other organisms dont have feelings? You dont think a dog, cat or any other animal for that matter can feel happy or sad? Loved or abandoned?
Description : Why do we talk out loud to ourselves?
Last Answer : I usually don’t, but I have a hearing impairment so, no need!
Description : Are we all unique, or are we, as human beings, all the same?
Last Answer : We are all genetically unique but part of the same human species – still, I tend to think people are mostly different than the same underneath it all..though societal forces are such that many sublimate their quirks in favor of acceptance.
Description : Do we live in the physical world or the one we create in our minds?
Last Answer : Since I did not imagine that tree limb that bashed me in the forehead when I wasn’t looking where I was going…I’m going to say we live in the physical world.
Description : Why are we so quick to judge?
Last Answer : Well, sometimes a snap judgment is just a mental placeholder, a stake in the ground, something to say. People do find out more about a topic, and then they change their minds.
Description : What do we mean when we say "me"? A thought experiment.
Last Answer : What does this have to do with the word ‘me’?
Description : If we abolish airport security, will the airlines become safe at last?
Last Answer : I don't think so. Although I'm not thrilled with the new scanning technology out there, I think there should always be airport security. It's not so much if there was a device on a plane which ... got off my plane to retrieve it. At my city's airport there have been lots of thefts with luggage.
Description : Do people make us feel things or are we always responsible for how we feel?
Last Answer : I think it's a combination of the two. If I'm feeling low I can talk to a friend and they'll cheer me up. Did I become happier all on my own? On the flipside, you can always gain control of ... to make me mad at all. Our surroundings always make us feel, but we can control how strong the feeling is.
Description : Are we the creators of our own problems?
Last Answer : I do not think that is wholly true. I think many of our personal problems stem from unresolved childhood wounds. In the sense that we don’t address those issues, we then perpetuate our problems and keep them from being resolved. I don’t think it is usually a conscious choice though.