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No I've never seen ads for Paxil but I've heard about it, maybe it does make things better by making you less conscious of your problem but I don't believe it solves anything

@Satori: That's exactly why I'm skeptic when it comes to health in the US, here the custom is not to produce when there is a need but to create the need and then worry about production. This is all the more true in the pharmaceutical market where it's easy to point at a common behavior and say...

@Messenger: I can understand your christian existantialism, many people have the same view but you have to accept that some don't, existanyialism has different versions. Giving your life a meaning by following the path of God is fine but one can give a meaning to his life through achievements of...

@Winter: thanks for the explanation of the origin of the word hell, sonds a lot more plausible than the Viking origin, but I did read it somewhere; reading is never enough.... I did expose my views on the subject a little bit too impartially, I guess I got carried away by the fact that most...

@Maciamo: The only difference is that there are some places where heaven would exist in the US and likewise, places where hell exists in Japan. About hell being only part of christianity, not the concept, all beliefs seem to have some kind of punishment in the afterlife but the word hell...

Thanks for the feed back everyone, however, to Lineartube and Kirei_na_me, what if the person is not a child but a grown up (my brother was 23 at the time and in the last two years he improved a lot). In any case I agree with you about feeding drugs to kids who are perfectly healthy, maybe too...

A while ago my older brother decided that he had ADD (attention deficit disorder) and bought a few books about it. When he explained what it was I could only laugh, how could such a thing exists? Well, later I read a part of one of his books and found a description word for word of him, then he...

Hell is a pure invention of humans, just like the Bible. The Bible wasn't writen by God with the help of some chosen humans, it was writen by normal (or maybe not so normal) humans who wanted to put into words the stories they had heard (and by the way enhancing them to make it sound like it was...

I wonder if that could be another difference between the US and the rest, the separation of cities according to ethnic groups, since I never lived in a big city I don't know. Come to think of it, Paris has some districts with a dominant ethnic group, right? But maybe it doesn't feel as separated...

desole d'avoir fais une generalisation mais franchement les francais sont reputes pour leur chauvinisme, evidement ils ne sont pas les seuls, tout ce joue a niveau de l'individu. mais j'ai toujours du mal a accepter la fierte national, francais ou pas. Would be interested in your point of view...

Wow! There is way too much to be said about this thread, so I'll just go over what I remember. First about all this alcohol/gun debate, I don't have a real opinion or a solution but the fact is that drunks driving is one of the first cause of car related death in every country with a lot of...

This is very interesting, as always, but I would like to say that, in my opinion, it was a little bit idealized. Since I grew up in France I will use this country for my examples, first since it has been the latest subject, diet and obesity. Bossel got the facts just above and I agree, people in...

I think developping countries (there is no such thing as a non-developped country IMO) can be irritating. It's sometimes sad to see how they develop, Brazil for example has something like 95% of the wealth held by the top 1% percent of the population and they also cut the forest by the acres...

I get informed on internet, don't have a TV nor a radio, sometimes read the newspaper. If I have my bike and can't catch the bus I just keep riding, in town I can usually ride faster than the bus, takes more effort though. Sniker, butterfingers a way too sweet IMO and also you get some sticking...

This is a very long post so you might not be interested in reading all of it but give it a try, thank you. In my opinion the problem resides in the American myth. Europeans used to believe in that myth called the american dream and land of freedom, they believed that the US trully was a better...