Why is it that everybody seems to be searching for true and fair friends, but so few people are apparently willing to be that for others?
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    Takes one to know one … right?

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    Otter Logi
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    How do we motivate men to participate in a movement to positively change the macho culture?
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    concerns re domestic violence escalating.

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    Barbara Semler
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    Have things got better?
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    It’s just strange that people disagree so much about this.

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    Michael Lord
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    Where are all the caterpillars? I used to see a lot when I was much younger.
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    I used to see a lot when I was a child and even though I’m in the garden a lot, they are not.

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    Sandra Both
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    What isn’t a thought?
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    Thoughts consume most of our lives and they don’t even exist.

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    @stevenadams52
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    Are we becoming Generation Device?
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    Modern society has taken to mobile technology at an astonishing rate. Most of us are plugged in, connected, friended or have followers; but is our immersion in the online world and our obsession with the next gadget adversely affecting our engagement with, and enjoyment of, the real one?

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    @glenworking
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    Why is there still such a profound gender wage gap?
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    When I heard the recent statistics on this it really just took my breath away and illustrates how far women have to go to be empowered and valued.

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    Shelley Matulick
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    Why is Cameron Frye such an underappreciated character? He was the kid I related to most in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
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    This cult film is loved by so many, and yet there are many overlooked ideas in the movie. Did Cameron really make things better with his dad? What’s the deal with Ferris, anyway? He’s so sure of himself, and his parents love him and he can do whatever he wants, and he knows it! Cameron is the real MVP. Recognition is needed.

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    Alani Sharp
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    If you could choose the legacy you leave behind, what would it be and why?
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    What we should be doing for our future is important.

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    @thatrahrah
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    Why do humans have such an affinity with and love of dogs?
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    Dogs have been
    important members of human communities for centuries. Some communities eat them and others are repulsed by this. I wonder how they are differ from other domestic animals.

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    @Trudy3113
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    All leaders of the developed world declare that they seek peace, not war. Why then do they continue to manufacture, market, and sell arms on a global scale? Are their brains missing something?
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    The horrors of war are making the planet unliveable. Every decent human being wants it to end.

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    Monica Hingston
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    As a community, how can we support a person with a mental health issue, without creating stigma?
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    I have a mental illness in a regional city. I had an episode of anger which I understand is due to acute anxiety, at my daughter’s school. Three years on, people still cower, there is gossip about me, that is of the effect that I am going to coffee shops to ‘meet’ and ‘pickup’ men, and that I am most interested in meeting married men. I am told I have to just move around and amongst the society, (by my psychologist) but I find it safer and apparently I am becoming more reclusive, to remain at home. I don’t condone aggressive behaviour. The school and my workplace, were trying to ‘support’ me, by having psychologists at the school, monitor my behaviour and have people behave ‘accordingly’. I began to feel I was living ‘The Truman Show’, and realise none of my interactions were authentic. Initially those people were being ‘kind’ but misguided, in supporting me, and I guess, my daughter. I have 3 years until she leaves school. I will go ‘somewhere else’. Michael Kirby has spoken of the chaplaincy program being a ‘front’ to filter through students of need/risk. I plod on. This stigma came into my new workplace. I plod on. Btw: this is not my paranoia. Underneath, I find it deeply alienating and distressing.

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    Stigma_or_Getoverit
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    What makes you a good parent?
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    New parent myself – but more importantly in light of the Syrian refugees placing their children in scary waters in the hope of providing their children a better life in Europe.

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    Tammy Iliou
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