JoyDyan
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I think self acceptance is the key. Accept yourself as you are, with all your so-called imperfections, flaws, what have you...these are the traits that make you an individual. Don't try to compare yourself to others. The people that are worth knowing will see the difference between confidence and conceit.
Hmmm...then those men that are just looking at the superficial are probably not worth your time.
Do people go to bars to find their soulmate or to just have a good time and get that one night hookup?
Exactly.
People go to bars to meet people. If you can't get their attention, how are you supposed to do either one??
I don't have a problem with talking to just the couple of men smart enough to look past superficialities. And not that I'm ugly, not at all....I'm saying that men flock to a "type"...they buy porn with that type...and they show appreciation for it as consumers. So Hollywood is going to keep churning that shit out, because that's what they can sell.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving. - J.R. Martinez
I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving. - J.R. Martinez
from the jrmartinez.com website:
Jose Rene Martinez was born June 14, 1983 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Maria Zavala. His two sisters, Consuelo and Anabel were raised in El Salvador with his mother’s family. He never met Anabel, who died as a toddler. At nine years old J.R. moved with his mother to Hope, Arkansas where he lived until he was 17 and then he moved to Dalton, GA, a place he proudly calls his hometown. J.R. always loved playing football and had aspirations of becoming a pro football player even though he was injured his junior year playing with the Bobcats in Hope. During his senior year he played strong safety for the Dalton High School Catamounts and they went to Georgia’s State Championship.
After high school he joined the army. J.R. was proud to serve, as a way to give something back to a country that had already given so much to him and his family. In September of 2002, J.R. underwent Basic and Advanced Training at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he gained skills as an 11-B Infantryman. After reporting to Fort Campbell Kentucky in January of 2003, he was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.
In March of 2003, J.R. was deployed to Iraq, and on April 5, less than a month into his deployment, he was driving a Humvee in Karbala, when his left front tire hit a roadside bomb. The three other soldiers were ejected from the burning vehicle, but he was trapped inside and suffered smoke inhalation and severe burns to 34 percent of his body. J.R. claims that while he was fighting for his life and awaiting medical help his sister, Anabel, appeared to him giving him the strength to live.
J.R. was evacuated to a local medic station in Iraq and then to Landstuhl, Germany, for immediate care. He spent 34 months in recovery surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) in San Antonio, Texas, and underwent 33 different surgeries including skin grafts and cosmetic surgery. During recovery, a nurse asked him to speak to a burn patient, who had just seen his body for the first time and had become withdrawn. After a 45-minute visit, the patient opened the curtain letting light in his room and his heart. J.R. then understood the impact he had on this patient and decided to use his experience to help others. He continued to visit patients sharing his story and listening to theirs.
While J.R.’s experience was certainly life-changing, amazingly he claims this is actually a change for the better. “I discovered it is what is inside a person that matters most and I wouldn’t change anything…absolutely anything!” states J.R. “I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I’m extremely grateful for that day because it led me into this life!” When he does have leisure time J.R. likes to spend it with his family, friends, girlfriend Diana, their daughter Lauryn Anabelle and his black lab. He resides in Los Angeles, CA.
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Respy - that is what I am talking about.
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Just a reminder....
This thread is in praise of all things beautiful.
Calling out someone not of your type is not kosher.
This thread is in praise of all things beautiful.
Calling out someone not of your type is not kosher.
I do understand what you're saying.
My issue with the entertainment/fashion industry is the devastating effect it has on youth. It's amazing to me that you can go to different parts of the US, the world for that matter, and you find these teens that are okay to be different, to stand out through their individuality. Then you have the "step ford" teen...clones.
I wish every school had a class where self acceptance and self like concepts were introduced. I do some work with teens that have eating disorders/weight issues and a lot of our counseling is working on "liking yourself". It really breaks my heart.*steps off soapbox*
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I do understand what you're saying.
My issue with the entertainment/fashion industry is the devastating effect it has on youth. It's amazing to me that you can go to different parts of the US, the world for that matter, and you find these teens that are okay to be different, to stand out through their individuality. Then you have the "step ford" teen...clones.
*steps off soapbox*
Some of the problem is that the parents are affirming worth and independence either. It's not up to our teachers to do that, it's up to the parents and mentors and coaches.
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Sundayschild
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You sound almost...English in that regard. ;-)
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Do I?? Is that an English quality?
Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment!
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I saw a great short film yesterday by Dove. It had a sketch artist first sit down with a person who he couldn't see while they described themselves and what they thought they looked like to others while he drew what they described. Then, before seeing them, he sat down with another person who spent the last hour or so getting to know the first. The second person described the first person and then the artist sketched the first again from only the second's description. The difference from the first and the second portraits was remarkable.
How we see ourselves and how others see us, really made me think.
How we see ourselves and how others see us, really made me think.
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Do I?? Is that an English quality?
Coming from you, I'll take that as a compliment!
It is indeed a quality of many English, luckily I go out of my way not to earn any, thus neatly sidestepping the problem
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Thats interesting - Googling...
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Thank you for my first laugh of the day
You got the penis pic then?
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And thank you for *my* first laugh of the day!!
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You don't have to google it...that video is what inspired this thread. It's on page one.
Page one of this thread.
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I was smiling as I wrote it.
Well I don't read EVERY page....
Luckily BBB comes to my rescue and stops me looking like an idiot. (Whispers:think we got away with it...)
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Well I don't read EVERY page....
That's too funny. I kinda figured you didn't start at page 1. My bet is that you were post stalking someone and stumbled upon this thread.
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This is a picture of one of my friends, Go-Go Amy (on the left). She's an interesting character. She's an old-school go-go dancer who was once featured in RHCP's Zephyr video and now travels the country with her Pretty Things Peep Show.
She teaches classes on pinup photography and has been know to teach wives/fiances/bfs of soldiers deployed so that they can send risque pictures to Muslim countries. She is thin - almost painfully so - and she's celebrates the female form every day. She sews all of her costumes and they are pretty ornate.
Her father is a minister....and at his ordination ceremony she gave him a garter to wear under his gown.
This is a picture of one of my friends, Go-Go Amy (on the left). She's an interesting character. She's an old-school go-go dancer who was once featured in RHCP's Zephyr video and now travels the country with her Pretty Things Peep Show.
She teaches classes on pinup photography and has been know to teach wives/fiances/bfs of soldiers deployed so that they can send risque pictures to Muslim countries. She is thin - almost painfully so - and she's celebrates the female form every day. She sews all of her costumes and they are pretty ornate.
Her father is a minister....and at his ordination ceremony she gave him a garter to wear under his gown.
