Letters to the Editor
Cosmic Mojo
Published Letters: 684 Editor's Choice: 13
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RE: Questioning religion is imperative
[Read the article: A friend is involved in Scientology. Should I interfere?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, questioning religion IS imperative, for YOUR own personal choices. We Each question and challenge while chosing our own path.
However, questioning someone else's religious choices IS not the same. We can not make those choices for another. We do NOT have the right (legal or moral) to question some one else's personal religious choices.
ANY writing praising questioning is talking about one's own INNER struggle, NOT an attempt to control another's right to practice their own religion.
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not again
[Read the article: I'm an existential artist. People just don't get me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]stock letter #43: "I"m a great artist and all these philistines don't appreciate how great *I* am."
Cary's stock answer #43: "I know, I'm a great artist too and often people don't appreciate how great *I* am. We artists are special people, BETTER than the masses; that's why they don't understand us, they're too simple to get our greatness. It's impossible that they're special in other ways, we're more special and better."
ick I feel sick
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26 IS too old for this
[Read the article: I'm an existential artist. People just don't get me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]by 26 you're out of college and earning a living. Far past time to grow up. And by grow up, we don't mean get dull, we mean start acepting that YOU'RE responsible for your own happiness and stop blaming the world.
By grown up, I mean start acknowledging that you have to WORK at making your life how you want it. It doesn't just drop in your life cuz you want it. It takes effort and it's a never ending process, just as soon as you figure something out, things change and you have new challenges.
By grown up, I mean acknowledging that you're responsible for your own life: your goals, your efforts, your happiness, your rent, your upkeep, your impact on the earth and how people remember. Choose wisely.
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accept the job
[Read the article: Take this survey about Plan B]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]pharmacists dispense medicine. Period. They do NOT advise patients on the best medicine, that is the doctor's job. (Pharmacists may advise on how to take the medicine, but as to which, that is between the doctor and the patient.) If the pharmacist does not like that job definition, he can find a new career
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I make them run relays before school
[Read the article: How to explain my husband to my kids?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]?waaa? There has to be a better way, even besides drugs.
In fact, I think both Dad and the boys can stand with a little instruction in learning to do right even when you don't feel like it. Boys can learn the MUST sit still in class, it's the RULES.
And Dad should be told to KEEP it cool for the sake of the kids. He can learn to be mature in front of the kids and go to the gym and punch a punching bag if he needs to let out frustration. We are human being who learn how to make choices about our behaviors. We don't run totally controlled by impulses. We don't always do exactly what we feel like doing, we choose to act right.
Family counseling for everyone is in order.
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I understand those of you who are saying MYOB. However, I've never really enjoyed it when my friends can't be honest with me about controversial things.
[Read the article: A friend is involved in Scientology. Should I interfere?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]well dear, there's a HUGE difference between listening to your friends when they need to ventilate, which you advocate now--and thinking you have the obligation to change someone else's religious path, which you said in your first letter. Listening to friends is good, but don't listen for the sake of changing your friend's religion. Your base assumption that you have the right to choose your friend's religion is wrong wrong wrong. Listen cuz you're freinds, not cuz she's in the wrong religion. Understand that important distinction, it doesn't look from your second letter that you get that at all.
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You know that abstracted, glazed look that Scientologists get, that steely, cold, rationalistic, power-hungry force field around them
[Read the article: A friend is involved in Scientology. Should I interfere?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]yes, I see it in the Catholic priest's eyes when they try to close down women's health care facilities
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so what's the problem?
[Read the article: My dad is a writer -- a very, very bad writer!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]your Dad has had many interests in his life, which he actively engages in, producing paintings, screenplays and novels. They're OK but nothing spectacular. What's the problem? Your retired dad is actively engaged in life, producing creative endeavors (that aren't great, but neither are the other 4 billion hobbiests') and keeps striving for more. OK, when you view a family member's work, a child, a sibling, a parent, you can honestly say "that's great, I"m so proud of you!" without lying. You are proud of their effort and focus. So admire his work, congrdulate him and move on. It's not like you're obligated to find a billion dollar option for his novel if you say you're pround of his work. What is the problem here?
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You argue that there's less social stigma around office romance these days, yet recently the head of the American Red Cross resigned because of a relationship with a female subordinate.
[Read the article: Romance in a fluorescent-lit cubicle ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]well, HE was married! that's a world of difference, geeze!
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re: "a psychiatrist basing a diagnosis on a documentary isn't any more legitimate."
[Read the article: The man who lost his past]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chickadee, the author is a Neurologist, not a psychiatrist. Very different training and practice.
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For you, the most important thing is that you remain good neighbors and on friendly terms. Ask him what he thinks would be a fair price to settle this matter.
[Read the article: My ex-con neighbor owes me money]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And after that you can hold hands and sing "Kumbaya."
This is a sick violentlawbreaking cheater who'll take further advantage of you AND your fiance. Acting the way Cary recommends will only show him you're even more of a doormat than he thought. He WILL rob, use, hurt you more.
Stop him by calling the police on him and his juveile delequent son.
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D-E-N-I-A-L!
[Read the article: I left an abusive marriage, and now I'm in love with a thief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]IT IS CATAGORICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO BE kind, considerate, expressive, gentle, loving, smart, AND wise becauSe HE stole large sums of money from an incapacitated relative.
He isn't KIND, he's aBUSIVE, just with manipulative words, lying, and stealing rather than the fists you're used to.
HE IS BAD. STOP. He's a smooth talker, most crooks are--that's how they trick people into giving them stuff.
Run away. FAST! and get to a women's center to find out why you think you deserve another bad abusive man.
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no CARy! wrong
[Read the article: Some drunken chick is texting my husband while we're sleeping]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the problem is NOT primarily her trust or lack thereof!
Trust is important, but
HIS FIDELITY is more important.!
how horribley sexist and blame the victim to say the problem is that she can't trust him.
The problem is that her husband slept with another woman!