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It seems to me though that "Satan" came here to defend herself. Because she felt threatened or that she was being attacked. Usually when one defends oneself, it is because one is forced to do so. Maybe, but this time she could have let you think whatever you want about her, all you know o...

I asked you first! Can you provide any evidence for your claims? What does the scientific community think about it? What you suggest is intriguing and I don't think any human being would deny it, so why haven't I heard of it before? Is there something you are missing? Unfortunately I can't comment,...

It seems to me though that "Satan" came here to defend herself. Because she felt threatened or that she was being attacked. Usually when one defends oneself, it is because one is forced to do so. You have to be psychological sadomasochistic or enlightened to survive here, and I'm not sure...

If you two are going to do this here, would it still be gauche to butt in and comment? I give you permission to address me with criticism. Thanks for asking. But do you not see this exposes Satan to criticsm as well? Not necessarily, you can easily pick on me. Lots of people find ways to do it. It ...

This guy Barrie I mentioned earlier handed me three Legion mags to look through today. I came across some articles on grief and post-traumatic stress disorder. With respect to grieving at Remembrance Day ceremonies: "If they want to go and want to participate, they should try to go," even ...

I should say on occasion "third persons" did see things quite differently. During my stay in the psychiatric ward I was eventually released because one doctor in particular didn't think I should be there and signed the release forms. Meanwhile my parents, my doctors, psychologists and prob...

I would like to add that there is something about my experience of pain that feels like "grounding in reality." When someone passes me a hot plate and says "careful its hot" I may hold it directly under the hot spot and not react to the pain sensation. The sensation does not make...

But those people then turned around to their normal expectations and failed to regard my situation. What would this situation have looked like to a third person? That really depends on the "third person" and their perspective on reality. At the time people had the same self-contradictory ...

In other words, when a person has a sufficiently solidified world-view, especially one with all kinds of emotional attachments, the force of conflicting concepts is not sufficient to cause a change in the rigidly formed neuroanatomical structure of the brain. In that way, what one experiences as ap...

Donna, it still sounds to me like you are focusing a lot on your own worth. Positive v Negative are value judgements. Aren't they just indicators? If there was one realization to share with you it would be that values are important, but valuing-value in a secondary way can be an unecessary neurosis....

I can be incredibly empathetic, but some people desire empathy too much. I was in a horrible accident as a child that nearly cost my life and never, to this day, have I felt any true empathy. If you have never felt any true empathy, how do you know you can be incredibly empathetic? Fair enough ques...

cousinbasil wrote:If you two are going to do this here, would it still be gauche to butt in and comment?

I give you permission to address me with criticism. Thanks for asking.

Ok, well. I just listened to Barrie, an WWII veteran and former police officer tell me about a surgeon who was decapitated in a horrible highway accident, and a teenager who was disemboweled while gripping the handlebars of his motorcyle. I guess my thinking is sufficiently jostled. "But of cou...

I'm going to take another break from my responses. I need to jostle up my thinking a bit, and come back with a fresh perspective. Bear with me.

In reference to the WHEN incident - " To my mind, I'm not trying to ask stupid questions, nor am I deliberately ignoring what she said the night before. It was just a very common human short-coming. None of us have perfect memories, though we might be deluded into thinking that we do. For one,...

I would ask that you start again and address what it is I am trying to say to you. I've been open and honest as I can. I used my name, copy and pasted emails, etc to show you how you are conveying me is not giving me the benefit of the doubt and that you constantly deflect instead of reflect. You s...

He then goes on Genius Forums and says: Her response has way more to do with our personal relationship than it has to do with the point I was making. But I notice how it ties many threads together into a gross justification for lazying around on the couch watching David Attenborough while claiming ...

Its going to take a while to respond to all of this. I have to run some tests for my job. I'll be working on this throughout the evening.

When I read this stuff on the internet my heart sank meaning made me want to vomit. It made me have to confront the reality of the situation square. I keep saying/seeing that he has a negative attitude towards me, or considers himself so be superior, etc. He says, no he only says that stuff when he...

Your response to the above statement on pros and cons, pens and pencils and the "design perspective": "Mensa says: However we look at ourselves, most of us don't see what others see, some us do see what others see!" My post has nothing to do with what others see, or what you don...

Tried explaining this scene to a friend(s) earlier, thought I'd share it here too. The scene is the alternate ending to Guy Ritchie's Revolver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNM1GhSQ8rY&feature=related In this scene Jason Stathom's character Jake has overcome his own ego and the scene begins wit...

I have been toying with this idea that psychological states are essentially egotistical representations of physical phenomena. I was initialled inspired by "Love" and the claim that "God is Love". Although the claim sounded ridiculous to me when I first heard it, and I had a stro...

I think that it is precisely the "thou shalt not compliment" attitude that is fostered here that leads to misunderstandings sometimes. Compliments are part of the cultural meme, possibly even part of the human hard-wiring, that balance out the criticisms. We keep a subconscious tally of h...

Ah, yes - actually I did admire your posts with actual statistics and/or links to statistics in them. I thought about giving you a compliment about them, but for a variety of board-specific reasons I did not make a public compliment, and I neglected to send you a pm with a private compliment. I'm s...

Apparently I'm not the first to think of apathy as a form of psychological inertia (http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl03b.html) others have taken up the idea too. My view is that due to limited resources in the brain, when the model of a system becomes so rigid that overthrowing the model would cost ...