February 2012
222 posts
Everyone looks like a hooker and I don't...
missionstreet:
They’re trying to attract agents. They need them contracts and dem prostitution jobs ain’t easy to get.
1. Walk around like a hooker
2. Get noticed
3. ????
4. JOB AS ACTUAL HOOKER
They also get a bonus if they don’t get frostbite.
THAT MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE!
Thanks, vina. I’m no longer confused and can just go buy them without my mind being all troubled-like.
Everyone looks like a hooker and I don't...
The negativity bias
Negative information is more salient to us. We’re better at picking out negatives. This has been proven over and over again in psychology.
Basically, it’s too easy to focus on bad things. Challenge yourself. Focus on something positive.
Taking drugs to study?
Huh.
Fucking pansies.
Don't be so down on psychiatry
Half the problems people have with the field have already been addressed. They have names. They’re taken into consideration. Believe it or not, doctors generally aren’t stupid people.
Is it underdeveloped? Yes. We’re working on it. In the meantime, there is a science behind it that gets as many people the help they need as feasibly possible. An imperfect science, but a science...
Oh, hey
Wow. Some cool stuff goes on around this place.
So basically I’m learning about how people’s past can influence the present. You get to learn why they think the way they do, rather than just what. Not that learning what isn’t really frickin’ important, too. You just get a sense of how things happen. It’s all really relevant.
There’s also a ton of research that...
I can think for myself.
Unfortunately for you, that doesn’t mean marching in the streets. My thinking landed me here, in this room, with a computer and a few textbooks, on my way to earning a bachelor’s degree. I’m sorry if that doesn’t fit in with your plans for world conquest.
Whenever someone starts telling you you’re brainwashed, a “sheeple,” or conforming, take them with a...
We're adolescents!
So let’s all hate republicans, have grandiose ideas about how the world works, and be confused about where we’re going in life.
Sounds like a plan.
“Welcome to the jungle,
We’ve got fun and games,
You read this in...”
– Erica
“It made me feel less stupid about myself”
– Kid from “kids react to” video on the asdfmovies
Somewhere along the line
this all boiled down to that first day at school where we got there, realized we had nothing to say to each other, and started hating each other.
I honestly don’t think anyone’s genuinely concerned about humanity. We don’t have the capacity for that kind of thing. Otherwise, you would be able to feel an instant connection with any passing stranger you saw on the street, rather...
Sarcasm
Let’s all have sex with each other, cry because we’re dependent, then blow our brains out over a gorge with a SPAS-12.
I want to tear someone’s arms off and beat them to death with them right now. I think I randomly decided to wake up annoyed at the entire planet, but I don’t know why that is. In any case, here are a few observations.
There’s bad shit going on all...
I am neither good nor bad.
Like most people, I am an amalgam of positive and negative personality traits that ebb and flow depending on the situation.
I make no effort to hide my inconsistencies. I operate under the polite assumption that you will have the decency to not point them out, as I would do the very same for you. There is an unspoken agreement between us to this effect; one that I believe ought to be kept.
Medicine is actually really interesting...
Once you start learning about how all of these diseases are caused, it just sort of flows. You see the whole system at once, and how slight changes can throw things off. I just learned how cystic fibrosis and diabetes work (or at least how they’re thought to some of the time).
It’s awesome.
"Get over it" is not a valid means of solving a...
You have failed to address several issues:
Why?
How?
When?
With what?
As if people just put themselves into these kinds of situations for fun…
Christ. Gag me.
Learning about transgender stuff...
So there’s this divide between nature and nurture that gets crammed down our throats in human development. The way it seems to me, there’s your biological gender and your mental gender. Sometimes they’re the same, sometimes they’re not.
Transgender seems to mean a lot of different things to people. It isn’t necessarily as simple as having/wanting a sex reassignment...
Cognition is dynamic.
Nothing we think is discrete. There’s always shades of gray and things going on that we don’t quite understand yet. We can see both versions of the Necker cube at the same time if we want to.
There is room for some confusion. We’ll work this all out one day.
I've once again come to the conclusion that:
That sounds about right.
Language is such a barrier
Honestly, how much of your thinking consists of words?
They’re so meaningless. You think you know what they mean, but when you look closer, they’re like abstract art. You’re left with a fuzzy sense of the definition and no way to specify it.
Language just makes it easy for us to fool ourselves. I say go with reality instead. If you’re going to make an abstraction, base it...
Refuting arguments against the existance of God
You know that dorm room philosopher stereotype? Me and my buddy here are that on crystal meth and espresso. Even though the original stereotype was probably on espresso to begin with…
To disprove the existence of God altogether, you have to prove that the premises about him are somehow contradictory. I thought I was pretty good at this until I got here, at which point I heard somebody...
oh-shenanigans asked: Shroom. I miss you.
On that note...
The way we process ambiguous stimuli is fascinating. The way we can imagine opening a book, and just see *TEXT*, without knowing what it says or what it looks like, yet still see it.
What implications does this have about human thought? For one, that we half-ass a lot of things. We have general concepts about what we’re going to do: “Get a job” “Take a vacation”...
Here's a weird one:
There are autistic savants that can do calendar equations, where if you ask them what day of the week a certain day of a certain month in an obscure year (say 1002 A.D.) was, they can respond “Tuesday!” or whatever with only moments of hesitation.
If you ask them how they do it, they just say, “Well I imagined a calendar and looked.”
Now you, speaking as a...
Right...
OK. I think I’ve finally got this straightened out.
The reason I can’t what I’m looking for is that it doesn’t exist yet. That’s the whole point with research. You have to pick a field and hope you find something interesting about it. It’s not about what you want to find there, it’s about what you do.
In that case, the kind of information I want to know...
Girls are getting more physically aggressive over...
Pulled from my HD notes. I guess that’s a good thing.
As far as I’m concerned, that’s a sign that this ridiculous dichotomy we have between man/woman is finally declining and we can all just be nasty, aggressive people rather than macho guys and catty girls.
My understanding of gender is as follows: People have genitalia. This causes problems and makes people angry, who then...
GAH!
I can’t even look through my notes today without getting annoyed.
/HDangst
On another note...
Why do we repress our emotions again?
Sometimes we feel like we need to be hard. Sometimes we feel like we need to be soft. Same applies for angry, sad, afraid, surprised, happy, or whatever else.
How about we all just feel what we feel and work from there rather than constantly lying to each other?
That sounds pretty nice.
Mildly irritated
There are so many crap theories in psychology. You could spend a lifetime sifting through only the stuff that was dead wrong or never validated.
Every time I hear an unsupported theory, whether it’s from an academic or a friend, I die a little bit on the inside. And I’m not saying it’s bad to have ideas; by all means, use your imagination. But there’s a difference between...
“STAY OUT OF THE SKY”
Nonconformity
You just have to deliberately avoid anything that classifies as normal.
Look… Normal in and of itself is not a bad thing. Just because something is popular doesn’t mean you get to automatically equate it with spoonfed bullshit from the government/society/large corporation/”oppressive” institution of your choice that’s keeping you and your homies down.
Please...
Is everything really subjective?
Sure, you’ve got the whole thing where you can’t see anything outside your own perspective, and that everything could be an illusion, and so on and so forth. But is any of that really meaningful?
For practical purposes, subjective basically means that it’s defined by people rather than being something outside of them. Stuff like chairs, atoms, report cards, and horses are...
If you're not a part of the world that's around...
Your imagination? If so, where did those ideas come from?
What the hell are we all doing?
Watch9inchpenis:
That moment when you put you’re old phone in the microwave and it turns into a demon from hell…lol
DEAR CHRIST
Personality
This is important shit.
This is the stuff Freud theorized about, and some of the stuff we now have the means (or at least more of them) to understand at a neurological level.
Personality is who you are in every aspect. It covers why you act, think, and feel the way you do, and touches the bases of those little idiosyncrasies. It explains why, how, and when you act the way you do.
On top of it...
Take a second to think about all of the things...
An explosion that involved all matter in the universe condensing into a point smaller than the tip of a pencil, incredibly complex recombination of energy and atoms into planets and stars, the formation of life entirely by chance, billions of years worth of evolution, the growth of a nervous system, and eventually, humans.
Then humans thought about stuff. They came up with a lot of ideas, like...
“The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States have ruled in accordance...”
– Supreme Court Justices Shroom and Andy
How do we get people to adapt?
I’ve been asking a lot of questions like this lately. All potentially stuff that could guide my future career in… whatever. Hopefully, they’re interesting to somebody.
The place I go to school is called the College of Human Ecology. That means that it’s a college focused on how people interact with their environments. I specifically study Human Development, which among...
I should be studying
What if there are ideas we have that that totally defy expression? As in, we know what they are, but by virtue of what they are, they’re impossible to express in language?
Or what if we’re just really bad at expressing them? We know what they are, but once we think about them, we can’t say what they are. Kind of like if you saw something along the lines of “3, 2, 65, 8,...
Two articles on feminism
Con
Pro
Personally, I think both of them suck, but they were interesting enough for me to put them up here.
In case you can’t be bothered to read them up front, the pro article is a direct response to the con article. The con talks about fundamental differences between men and women and how women may actually be better off than men, while the pro article focuses on the personal...
Is it possible to have an idea of something, yet...
If so, then this is me every day.
There’s some nagging little detail I’m trying to get at. I’m not sure if there’s a word for it, or if it’s even real. What I do know is that it involves the brain and the mind somehow, and it’s somehow involved with being a person.
Maybe I knew how to describe it at one point, but if I did, I forgot it. It’s the most...
“A fuzzy concept is a concept of which the content, value, or boundaries of...”
– Wikipedia