Sentence completion exercise. May 02, 7.42 AM, India 1. If someone had told me my wants were important... I would be flattered. 2. If I were willing to...
Try ten endings for each stem and repeat for ten days. Or mix it up. Let it flow and don't think about what the completions should be-- don't worry about them...
... Explaining might be more wordy, but it sounds like it could be described as self-centered and attention-seeking behavoir. ... No. ... See above. ... ...
"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? -- Or how wilt thou say to thy brother,...
Basil Abou El-Komboz asked: "When the person is there, we feel a little bit sick. We feel repressed and a little bit hurt. We feel some hate of this...
whos and how is the goverment(police) is going to be paid, what about the intelligence services?What about the bombs and planes to prepare for a war?...
... For most part that explanation make sense, yet during war the cost is measured in billions and billions, soon many of out technology would became old, what...
... that ... War is a system that no one can ever handle. There are no complete answers, regardless of the economic system. We've got the strongest arsenal...
Just interesting stuff... triumphantly browsing my 39-cent copy of The Virtue of Selfishness... March 1963 NB essay, called "Mental Health versus Mysticism and...
Entertaining read.... ... All That Glisters Is Gold (from the NY times) By MAUREEN DOWD Published: May 4, 2005 I went out once with a guy who didn't care for...
Now this is fascinating... The Time Traveler Convention When & Where? May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) (events start at 8:00pm) East Campus...
... CAMBRIDGE, MA, May 8 (UPI) by Nathan Hawking: MIT campus police responded to a disturbance at the First and Only Time Traveler's Convention late Saturday....
... <nathanhawking@y...> wrote: Nathan, I'm so jealous you got your hands on that first, but I'm not sure I could've done it more justice... that was freekin'...
By freewill, i mean only the degree of control that one has over oneself and one's power to influence one's environment, especially relative to the capacities...
In my view, they dont, I dont think you have to wait for them to murder on of your babies till you realize they are sick and mentally ill and you can lie and...
... forge ... I think all countries and cultures have their major problems. They are more overt. Speaking of problems, I see there's a nice stink going on...
Cognitive distortions oft occur in situations where a false-positive is less costly than a false-negative. For example, the consequences are less severe if...
... wrote: For example, men tend to overestimate an ... Yes, this does have an evolutionary origin associated with it. Better to impregnate as many as possible...
Self esteem is not comparative or competitive. I agree with this, but, in order to grow we must compare and compete. Maybe for prime movers it's different....
... Taking the liberty of adding to your sentence: Normal people need to compare and compete...against the actual performance of other people. I think...
May I interject one notion at this juncture, and I don't mean to be facetious or didactic; by the way, all metaphors off in this post; is the conclusion which...
... I also think social comparison is important as a means to generate self-standards. That is, social comparisons can have ~informational~ value for setting...
... Indeed. Self-assuredness and self-acceptance is a lot less work. I know a woman who used to have a habit of explaining herself whenever she would...
... wrote: If any of this ... It doesn't, though, does it? Unless your sole practice is to derive from others. But I don't think you're saying that, are you...
So if someone asked me if social comparison is bad for self-esteem, I ... they ... Walter to be prudent, you mean of course, that comparisons are necessary...
... improve ... be ... Evolutionary psychologists would argue that you are confusing proximal and distal causation. You do not have to be consciously ...
... That's correct. In my original post, I tried to illustrate with reference to research that making social comparisons ~in order~ to make oneself feel good...
... Sounds almost exactly like what Mike the Psych has been saying all along. ... I believe Mike the Psych has called this "encapsulation". ... Ah, yes,...
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