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How Not to Lose Yourself

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The Computer Evolution

Have you ever noticed how you walk into a store, buy a computer, and by the time you get it home not only has it depreciated by half, but none of the parts are in production anymore? I was somewhere around...

2 comments    technology internet history
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Letting Go of Your Past - Comparing Approaches

I am putting a spoiler at the top of this hub for talk of child/spousal abuse and s/a. So far, the responses have been, in short, on opposite ends of the psychological spectrum. In short, the two approaches...

3 comments    depression psychology future
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The tragic tale of the onion. How to reduce tears.

Okay, for those of you with no sense of humour: This is meant to be FUNNY!!, or at least mildly humorous, This tale stems from the inevitable stream of tears that runs down my face when I cut onions. So...

2 comments    advice education cooking
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Medical Uses of Catnip.

This hub occured to me this weekend when I passed this tip on to a friend of mine who had commented that she was in desperate need of cough medicine. Rather than name my favourite brand of cough medicine,...

0 comments    health medicine tea
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Sharing the Sandbox. Are Different Religions ready to play together yet?

Some of the greatest, most fantastic wars in Earth's history have been fought over this subject, so honestly I expect this Hub to be a contentious one, but it got my back up the other day when someone told me...

5 comments    relationships friends religion
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Bad Bad! Neighbour!

Perhaps I should clarify in response to a couple of comments, first, this is an amalgam of apartments, not all one, second, the true issue is one of responsibility. If the tenant isn't responsibile for their...

2 comments    health drugs addiction
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Combating homelessness and poverty- Every bit helps

Combatting homelessness- you don't have to be rich, politically minded, or particularly smart to help, just remember that every bit helps.

2 comments    education children politics
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Mental Illness Isn't Contagious!

What is that saying? What I don't know I fear, What I fear I despise? I recently saw a conversation on a social networking group about homelessness, and I became so frustrated at the choices people make to...

4 comments    health depression psychology
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How do we define Revisionist History?

right? Okay, assuming that is a correct statement, I have a number of questions. First, how do we determine the winner? In war, the winner is the one who kills the most people, or the one who has managed to...

1 comment    family education history
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