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Your Brain is Blue

Of all the brain types, yours is the most mellow. You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don’t try to think away your troubles. Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

What Color Is Your Brain?

Originally posted 2007-02-16 22:21:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

1. Its No. 1 product would be known as “Microsoft Winders.”
2. Instead of an hourglass icon you’d get an empty beer bottle.
3. Occasionally, you’d bring up a window that was covered with a Hefty bag and some duct tape.
4. Instead of “Yes,” “no,” or “Cancel,” dialog boxes would give you the choice of “Ahight, Naw, or Git.”
5. Instead of “Ta-Da!” its opening sound would be “Dueling Banjos.”
6. The “Recycle Bin” in Winders 95 would be an outhouse.
7. Whenever you pulled up the Sound Player, you’d hear “Freebird.”
8. Instead of “Start Me Up,” the Winders 95 theme song would be “Boot Scootin’ Boogie.”
9. Powerpoint would be called, “ParPawnt”
10. Instead of “VP,” Microsoft big shots would be called “Cuz.”
11. Hardware could be repaired using parts from an old Trans Am.
12. Four words would be en vogue: Daisy Duke Screen Saver.
13. Its sign on would blurt, “Well, the first thing you know old Bill’s a billionaire…”
14. Flight Simulator would be replaced with Tractor-Pull Simulator.
15. Microsoft’s CEO would be “Billy-Bob (a.k.a.”Bubba”) Gates.
16. “ParPawnt” would have a “Pond Scum” and “Junk Yard” scheme.
17. One wrong turn while surfing the web would send you face to face with a .12 gauge.
18. Its company screensaver would read, “This computer protected by “Smith and Wesson”.
19. Directions to Corporate Headquarters, “Down the road about a hoot n a hollar or so.”
20. Microsoft Word includes a phonetic spell checker “Hookt on fonics werkt 4 me.”

**Read in an email this morning

Originally posted 2007-06-29 07:09:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

It’s official but almost 5 years too late.

“President Bush was in the midst of explaining how the attacks of 9/11 inspired his ‘freedom agenda’ and the attacks on Iraq until a reporter, Ken Herman of Cox News, interrupted to ask what Iraq had to do with 9/11. ‘Nothing,’ Bush defiantly answered. Watch it.”Bush says that no one in his administration has ever suggested that Iraq was involved with 9/11! What about this?

Dips hat to Pip Wilson

Categories: bush, iraq, 9/11

Originally posted 2006-08-22 03:22:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Apathy is a lack or suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation and passion. The word is derived from Greek a- (without) + pathos (emotion). Other words often pass as synonyms, or are considered at least similar, such as: detachment, disinterest, disregard, doldrums, impassiveness, indifference, insensibility, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, nonchalance, torpor, and others.

Apathy has been felt after witnessing horrific circumstances, such as wartime conditions. It is also known to be associated with many medical conditions such as: Alzheimer’s disease, Chagas’ disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, dementia, excessive vitamin D, general fatigue, Huntington’s disease, Pick’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and schizophrenia. Medications and other substances may promote apathy as a side effect.

During the First World War the appalling conditions of the Western Front led to apathy and shell shock among millions of soldiers. Upon dealing with shell shock and other traumatic experiences, those who became apathetic often had no emotion or thought process about murder and death in general. In present day in Iran this term is often blamed as an aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War.

Originally posted 2008-07-18 17:16:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.”
*Leonard Bernstein

Originally posted 2007-04-04 21:46:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The Center for Constitutional Rights has holiday cheer already this year. It has a special gift in mind for President Bush. While it may not be fashionable, it is in fashion here in the United States. It is a personal Christmas gift. It is one that every US citizen has been given but Bush doesn’t know about it. It’s a one of a kind. It’s a gift more than fitting for a U.S. President who has everything yet knows nothing. It is a gift that keeps on giving for those who recognize and honor it.

“The Center for Constitutional Rights plans to “flood the Oval Office with copies of the Constitution this holiday season as a seasonal reminder that the Constitution needs to be upheld; not destroyed.”

Those interested can also sign an accompanying letter addressed to President Bush, which poses a multitude of questions reminding the president “that he swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States.”

Originally posted 2007-11-21 10:24:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

A number of organizations are actively concerned with monitoring the ways in which various governments have attempted to limit or restrict access to the Internet, and the OpenNet Initiative is one such group. Drawing on a collaborative partnership with four academic institutions (including the University of Toronto and Harvard Law School), the group’s aim is “to excavate, expose and analyze filtering and surveillance practices in a credible and non-partisan fashion.” On its homepage, visitors will have access to a number of their research publications, case studies, their blog, and a selection of external links of note. Some of their more recent research papers include their investigation into the extent to which the Republic of Yemen controls the information environment of their citizens as well as similar efforts in Myanmar. Overall, this site will be of great interest to those with an interest in cyberlaw and related fields.

Originally posted 2006-06-09 14:36:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

[...]was tagged this morning by Her Royal Highness Kim the Mystical of Withering Glance who in turn had been tagged by Empress Ev

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Fortune Cookie

My Fortune Cookie told me: You have forgotten something very, very important. Get a cookie from Miss Fortune

I’ve tagged these Regal Grand Poobahs to join us with their royal titles and Fortunes. Lay it on us, Your Regal Grand Poohbahnesses:

Originally posted 2007-08-20 05:42:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

What a year this has been!

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You’ll often hear about others who will be sometimes erroneously labeled, Emotional Vampires. You’ll also be out on a limb when asking for detailed information on what that actually means. More often than not, you’ll hear that they are visionaries who search long and hard for “the Truth.” Moreover, they claim to see things that others can’t. The real question is whether those “seen” things are realistic. They will:

Look for absolute certainty about themselves and their beliefs with an incredible distrust toward any and all proven facts.

They’ll draw you into their emotional state with their personal virtue, creativity, perceptiveness, protectiveness, and potential deliverance.

They’ll drain your emotional energy level with their jealousies, unshakable prejudices, and constant cross-examination of every difference of opinion. And, while absolute belief is neither good nor bad, it is a door through which either good or bad may freely enter.

You’ll run into jealous spouses, conspiracy theorists, and people who post weird things on the Internet. They are the emotional vampires I’m writing about here. You’ll run into them most any day, moreover, you’ll probably work with one sometime or another or live next to one during your lifetime. It’s something that one can easily get overwhelmed with although knowledge is good. Being able to identify plus understand the covert dynamics behind what motivates them is an important key.

One defense strategy is to know how to recognize a crazy idea when you hear one. For one, they don’t answer questions even when asked a second time. Co-dependents are notoriously identified as emotional vampires as are Narcissistic Personalities equally identified as Psychic Energy Vampires. Kaleah LaRoche, addressed Narcissistic Personalities as Psychic Emotional Vampires in a post today. Be sure to read it.

Overall, Emotional Vampires, Narcissistic Personalities and, Co-dependent Personalities are one and the same animal. The differences are ever so minute yet enough for specific documentation written on each one of them in the ICD-10 where it is yet listed as “Emotionally unstable personality disorder.”

Originally posted 2008-04-24 10:52:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

Thanks, Pip!

Update: I still wonder if anything has changed since the time it was initially posted over 3 yrs ago? [Nahhh, 'nuff said.]

Originally posted 2006-06-14 23:28:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

As we start out the last full week of the year 2009, let’s move into 2010 right with a bit of Herbie Hancock for our Music Monday celebration. If I don’t see or speak with you before the New Year, know that I love yas and will see you sometime soon. And don’t forget to take a good look at the Blue Moon this New Year’s Eve. We won’t see another Blue Moon until August 2nd 2012 so don’t forget to howl and blow out the funk. If you’re out and about, do it right and have a designated driver if you’ll be under the influence. I’d like to see you around somewhere, sometime.

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“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”

~Victor Frankl

Originally posted 2006-04-28 19:50:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The narcissist is the centre of the world. He is not merely the centre of HIS world – as far as he can tell, he is the centre of THE world. This Archimedean delusion is one of the narcissist’s most predominant and all-pervasive cognitive distortions. The narcissist feels certain that he is the source of all events around him, the origin of all the emotions of his nearest or dearest, the fount of all knowledge, both the first and the final cause, the beginning as well as the end. This is understandable.
The narcissist derives his sense of being, his experience of his own existence, and his self-worth from the outside. He mines others for Narcissistic Supply – adulation, attention, reflection, fear. Their reactions stoke his furnace.

Absent Narcissistic Supply – the narcissist disintegrates and self-annihilates. When unnoticed, he feels empty and worthless. The narcissist MUST delude himself into believing that he is persistently the focus and object of the attentions, intentions, plans, feelings, and stratagems of other people. The narcissist faces a stark choice – either be (or become) the permanent centre of the world, or cease to be altogether.

This constant obsession with one’s locus, with one’s centrality, with one’s position as a hub – leads to referential ideation (“ideas of reference”). This is the conviction that one is at the receiving end of other people’s behaviours, speech, and even thoughts. The person suffering from delusional ideas of reference is at the centre and focus of the constant (and confabulated) attentions of an imaginary audience.

When people talk – the narcissist is convinced that he is the topic of discussion. When they quarrel – he is most probably the cause. When they smirk – he is the victim of their ridicule. If they are unhappy – he made them so. If they are happy – they are egotists for ignoring him. He is convinced that his behaviour is continuously monitored, criticized, compared, dissected, approved of, or imitated by others. He deems himself so indispensable and important, such a critical component of other people’s lives, that his every act, his every word, his every omission – is bound to upset, hurt, uplift, or satisfy his audience.

And, to the narcissist, everyone is but an audience. It all emanates from him – and it all reverts to him. The narcissist’s is a circular and closed universe. His ideas of reference are a natural extension of his primitive defence mechanisms (omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence).Being omnipresent explains why everyone, everywhere is concerned with him. Being omnipotent and omniscient excludes other, lesser, beings from enjoying the admiration, adulation, and attention of people. Yet, the attrition afforded by years of tormenting ideas of reference inevitably yields paranoiac thinking.

To preserve his egocentric cosmology, the narcissist is compelled to attribute fitting motives and psychological dynamics to others. Such motives and dynamics have little to do with reality. They are PROJECTED by the narcissist UNTO others so as to maintain his personal mythology. In other words, the narcissist attributes to others HIS OWN motives and psychodynamics. And since narcissists are mostly besieged by transformations of aggression (rage, hatred, envy, fear) – these they often attribute to others as well. Thus, the narcissist tends to interpret other people’s behaviour as motivated by anger, fear, hatred, or envy and as directed at him or revolving around him. The narcissist (often erroneously) believes that people discuss him, gossip about him, hate him, defame him, mock him, berate him, underestimate him, envy him, or fear him. He is (often rightly) convinced that he is, to others, the source of hurt, humiliation, impropriety, and indignation. The narcissist “knows” that he is a wonderful, powerful, talented, and entertaining person – but this only explains why people are jealous and why they seek to undermine and destroy him.

Thus, since the narcissist is unable to secure the long term POSITIVE love, admiration, or even attention of his Sources of Supply – he resorts to a mirror strategy. In other words, the narcissist becomes paranoid. Better to be the object of (often imaginary and always self inflicted) derision, scorn, and bile – than to be ignored. Being envied is preferable to being treated with indifference. If he cannot be loved – the narcissist would rather be feared or hated than forgotten.

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AUTHOR BIO
Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com) is the author of his books, Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited, After the Rain and, How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Global Politician, Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, a United Press International (UPI), Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite 101. Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia.

Visit Sam’s Web site at: http://samvak.tripod.com

Originally posted 2006-09-13 03:40:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter