I just looked on iTunes and it’s apparently "Black Music Month." I’m sure you know we also have heritage and history months for other ‘minority’ races.

I have two questions:

Where did these things come from? What are the historical and sociological facts behind their existence?

What is your opinion of them? Are they adding to the general levels of racism in America by promoting racial separation, or not?

Suggested category – Gender Studies. hah.
Good points, but seeing that about half of marriages end in divorce in the US (and on the rise in other countries), wouldn’t that be a realistic consideration and prudent – rather than pessimistic?
Ah Babushka, did not know that! If such is really the case then what’s the point of their existence?
Ah Babushka, did not know that! If such is really the case then what’s the point of their existence?

I have a wonderful girlfriend- I foresee us getting married one day. But I am thinking that I would like for her to sign and agree to a prenup agreement. You see, I want to have money saved up for the car of my dreams. I have already told her that part.

I don’t intend nor hope that the marriage fails- but it could happen. You just never know. Hence, I want to know for sure that she wouldn’t try to take away that money that I save up, if we ever decided to go our separate ways. Does that make sense?

I am reasonably sure that an attorney would be able to find out about my secret account- certainly if she informed him/her of its existence. I hope and pray that this never happens- but I can’t predict the future.

So, I feel reluctant to talk to my sweetheart about this. If I try to see things from her point of view, I can understand why it may bother her if I wanted to have a prenup. It may even suggest that I feel that we may not stay together forever.

What do you think?

Intimacy, not the physical kind. How do I have it in my life if I don’t regularly see people for an established mutual purpose? Most of my communication consists of one time exchanges, and nothing further is needed to be exchanged leaving huge gaps of downtime which I don’t enjoy. Without this intimacy, I feel friendless and insecure in the world. I guess I grew up learning to depend on verbal intimacy or bonding as a buoy for self-esteem; an indicator that I was worthy to share intimate details with. I came to depend on it as a way to feel good about myself and now I have to unlearn that and find a substitute. I’ve gone so far as to trade sexual intimacy in hopes of some verbal kind of intimacy which didn’t happen.

I feel rejected when I don’t have an outlet where I can share the intimate details of the happenings in my life no matter how irrelevant or insignificant they may be to the listener’s life. By sharing, I validate my existence. Am I going overboard in some way?

Buddhist meditation is based on anatta (no-self, that there’s no such thing as a real ‘you’, which rules out the possibility of having a soul), anicca (nothing is permanent, which rules out the existence of an eternal god), and dhukkha (nothing is permanently satisfactory, except nirvana).

Is this in conflict with hinduism? What do hindus meditate on?