Angela

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    Decided to go in to a forest with a guy I was dating to prevent sun burn, get to some rather passionate kissing and then get busted by the police, with a name check and a details taken down.

     

    Not charged, still feels bad though.

    You don't get busted for just........kissing........ :sniffle:

     

    They thought there was the possibility of us going further and breaking the law

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    One two three

    Four five six

    Seven eight nine

    Ten eleven twelve

    Ladybugs

    Came to the ladybugs' picnic

     

    One two three

    Four five six

    Seven eight nine

    Ten eleven twelve

    And they all played games

    At the ladybugs' picnic

     

    They had twelve sacks so they ran sack races

    They fell on their backs and they fell on their faces

    The ladybugs 12

    At the ladybugs' picnic

     

    They played jump rope but the rope it broke

    So they just sat around telling knock-knock jokes

    The ladybugs 12

    At the ladybugs' picnic

     

    One two three

    Four five six

    Seven eight nine

    Ten eleven twelve

    And they chatted away

    At the ladybugs' picnic

     

    They talked about the high price of furniture and rugs

    And fire insurance for ladybugs

    The ladybugs 12

    At the ladybugs' picnic

    12!

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    many people with Obsessive Compulsive traits have highly ritualised lives which go as far as to have things they 'must' do or some terrible thing will happen. In this case the dangerous aspects are a little unusual, and the tortured effect of the 9/11 acts on the boy are highly unusual, which is why it has become a case in the spotlight.

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    The boy who thought 9/11 was his fault

     

    Researchers in London have documented the case of a ten-year-old boy with Tourette's syndrome and obsessive compulsive symptoms, who believed the terror attacks of 9/11 occurred because he had failed to complete one of his daily rituals.

     

    Mary Robertson and Andrea Cavanna claim this is the first ever case reported in the literature of a person believing they were responsible for causing a major disaster of the proportion experienced in America in 2001.

     

    The boy - described as "extremely pleasant and likeable" and with good school grades - was first referred for consultation a year before 9/11 took place. As is characteristic of people with Tourette's syndrome, the boy displayed several forms of uncontrollable tics, including excessive blinking and vocal outbursts, and he also showed obsessive tendencies and attentional problems.

     

    Robertson next saw the boy two weeks after 9/11, at which point he was in a terrible state - "tortured", as he put it, by his tics, and wracked with guilt, believing that 9/11 occurred because he had failed to walk on a particular white mark on a road.

     

    This was just one of the many rituals the boy had developed during the course of the year. Others included so-called "dangerous touching" rituals, including the need to feel the blade of knives to check their sharpness, and to put his hand in the steam of a kettle to check its heat.

     

    Importantly, the researchers said the boy's beliefs about 9/11 were distinct from the kind of delusions expressed by people with psychosis, and instead reflected an extreme form of the anxiety that people with obsessive compulsive disorder often experience when they fail to complete their rituals.

     

    Fortunately, a mixture of drug treatments and reassurance (including explaining to the boy that his missed ritual actually occurred after 9/11, given the time difference between the USA and UK), led to him realising that he was not responsible for the attacks.

     

    Robertson and Cavanna said this case study brings attention to the way our modern media - "immediate, realistic, and evocative" - can lead to terrorist attacks and other disasters having harmful effects on vulnerable people miles away from the immediate environment of what happened. "Only time will reveal the many further psychosocial sequelae of 9/11, as well as the Madrid and London terrorist bombings," they said.

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    Blogging on Peer-Reviewed ResearchRobertson, M., Cavanna, A. (2008). The Disaster was my Fault!. Neurocase DOI: 10.1080/13554790802001395

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    My first impressions are it is a fake. Assuming it hasn't been entered yet; look at the bottom of the circle, (1) see the extra walking and the foot tracks leading to a natural area of lines in the field for walking out.

     

    The areas at the middle left, (2) do not appear to line up with the rest of the circumference, the messiness nearby (3) suggests to me they needed to do more walking around in that area to fix it than they would have liked. Same at the arrows at the smaller top circles, (4) the lighter shaded areas appear to be lots of extra walking around.

     

    Finally, the outer ring as whole; (5) the groove-like rings within it give the flattening board away.

     

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    It may be mathematically complex but it's too sloppily done to be authentic imo.

     

    Not buying your objections, they all could be fakes, maybe none of them. Who cares. The fact that it was done at all is astounding.

  17. Posted

    WOW, you have your own book?!?!

     

    i'll try that. thanks!

    Well, I'm a writer, so I've got seven Star Trek novels, a Trek novella, a Voyager episode, and several other works to my credit.

     

    Hope you enjoy Serpents.

     

    I think the kids gonna have a total geek out when he realises that you actually have an hour of television to your name.

     

    Ok so I am pretty awestruck too. But you aren't the only trek Writer I read about regularly.

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    Whilst I am not American, I do recognise the sacrifice American's have made along brothers and sisters of other Nations.

     

    With that in mind, I hope you do not mind me posting this video; Tim McGraw -" If You're Reading This"