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[TeaDidikai]

Calixti

Makes sense. You've got purity laws, yeah? I'm guessing your culture's concept of health would be tied up with them. Or am I way off base?

That's part of it, yes.  

[Calixti]

TeaDidikai

Calixti

Makes sense. You've got purity laws, yeah? I'm guessing your culture's concept of health would be tied up with them. Or am I way off base?

That's part of it, yes.

Can you elaborate?  

[TeaDidikai]

Calixti

TeaDidikai

Calixti

Makes sense. You've got purity laws, yeah? I'm guessing your culture's concept of health would be tied up with them. Or am I way off base?

That's part of it, yes.

Can you elaborate?

To an extent.

From a pragmatic standpoint, the purity laws reinforce behaviors that keep a person comfortable. Lack of comfort induces stress. Stress ******** with people.

That's really the only angle of it I wish to talk about in an open forum.  

[Calixti]

TeaDidikai

Calixti

TeaDidikai

Calixti

Makes sense. You've got purity laws, yeah? I'm guessing your culture's concept of health would be tied up with them. Or am I way off base?

That's part of it, yes.

Can you elaborate?

To an extent.

From a pragmatic standpoint, the purity laws reinforce behaviors that keep a person comfortable. Lack of comfort induces stress. Stress ******** with people.

That's really the only angle of it I wish to talk about in an open forum.

That makes sense. Thank you. heart  

[TeaDidikai]

Calixti

TeaDidikai

Calixti

TeaDidikai

Calixti

Makes sense. You've got purity laws, yeah? I'm guessing your culture's concept of health would be tied up with them. Or am I way off base?

That's part of it, yes.

Can you elaborate?

To an extent.

From a pragmatic standpoint, the purity laws reinforce behaviors that keep a person comfortable. Lack of comfort induces stress. Stress ******** with people.

That's really the only angle of it I wish to talk about in an open forum.

That makes sense. Thank you. heart

Welcome.  

[IH_Zero]

Ergh. I get dirty looks in elevators all the time too. Asthma and bad knees do not make for happy stair climbing. I just stare right back, all wide eyed and obvious. Tends to put them right off.  

[AniMajor]

AngryRobotsInc.

Ergh. I get dirty looks in elevators all the time too. Asthma and bad knees do not make for happy stair climbing. I just stare right back, all wide eyed and obvious. Tends to put them right off.

I don't mean to stare, it's just the giant Anubis head isn't something you see every day.  

[TeaDidikai]

Why are people staring at people in elevators? confused  

[IH_Zero]

TeaDidikai

Why are people staring at people in elevators? confused

I have absolutely no idea, really. Near as I can figure I should either be using the stairs with my 'perfectly capable' young body (I apparently look around 16 or 17), or it's because I'm wearing 'poor people' clothes and my lack of finances is apparently catching.  

[rmcdra]

Apparently according to one of my friends, everyone in M&R are psuedo-intellectuals who knows nothing about religion, just religious knowledge and philosophy. Also that requesting facts to support an opinion/belief is not necessary because they are opinions/beliefs not facts.

It saddens me that my friend thinks this but what saddens me more is that this person is afraid I'll lose my path if I keep hanging out in M&R. I cannot convince my friend otherwise. It's going to be a hard pill to swallow but I'll just have to accept that my friend believes this since I wish to keep the friendship.  

[Fiddlers Green]

Calixti

The next person who tells me "Oh, chronic pain isn't THAT BAD," "It's all in your head," or any variation thereof? Is getting STABBED.

Same for the next person who tells me "Oh, my relative/friend/so-and-so has (insert respiratory problem here) and they manage JUST FINE" with an unspoken "so why can't you?"

I've got chronic pain and I manage just fine.
You know, other than the constant discomfort, lack of sleep it sometimes causes, and the very awkward effort to stand and do any number of other activities without looking like a flailing moron or a weakling. Oh, and the listening to people who've never suffered more than a skinned knee talking about how bad they have it.
That I manage is due to raw stubborn pride and idiotic refusal to admit that something is wrong. This is not something to be lauded. It is especially not something to be emulated or encouraged. Pain hurts for a reason.
Oh, and fie fie on those who ridicule perceived weakness in others. If the only use they have for their strength is lording it over others... mayhaps I should take it from them.
Strength is not a license to be a jerk-@$$. Altho it does help in reminding others of that very fact. twisted  

[maenad nuri]

TeaDidikai

Why are people staring at people in elevators? confused

Because I'm young, able-looking (physical therapy knocked the limp out of me most days) and I usually park on the second floor of the parking garage.  

[Shearaha]

Fiddlers Green

I've got chronic pain and I manage just fine.
You know, other than the constant discomfort, lack of sleep it sometimes causes, and the very awkward effort to stand and do any number of other activities without looking like a flailing moron or a weakling. Oh, and the listening to people who've never suffered more than a skinned knee talking about how bad they have it.
That I manage is due to raw stubborn pride and idiotic refusal to admit that something is wrong. This is not something to be lauded. It is especially not something to be emulated or encouraged. Pain hurts for a reason.
Oh, and fie fie on those who ridicule perceived weakness in others. If the only use they have for their strength is lording it over others... mayhaps I should take it from them.
Strength is not a license to be a jerk-@$$. Altho it does help in reminding others of that very fact. twisted

This is the same way I deal with my chronic pain. "Pain is not an excuse not to get the job done" One of the sayings I learned from my dad. Along with "You never know when you'll need a knife so keep one with you all the time" and "Never let go of the rope"  

[Recursive Paradox]

When people stare, I stare right back with as dirty of a look as I can muster. Elevator or otherwise.  

[CuAnnan]

Headaches suck. Thank ******** I know the acupressure points, that's all I'm saying.