Ban me? Burn me? Fear me? OK, Kamloops, take a cool soothing breath while I take a short break today to not talk about the rebooting of the Occupy Movement in 8 days. I know most of you in The Loops are doing just fine and that most of you
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The Disaffected Lib: The Stench of Fear
The smell of fear is real. It’s detectable. It is said that higher predators can detect it and it triggers them to attack. Even if they can’t smell it, they can surely read it in how we behave. You encounter a cougar, turn and run, that cougar will be coming for you.
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM: Overcoming Fear by Moving Forward
Recently, I came across a fascinating interview on YouTube. It was The Times UK reporter John-Paul Flintoff speaking with the author of “Ghost Boy”, Martin Pistorius. Pistorius is a non-speaking wheelchair user with an incredible life story. Flintoff wanted to know about a conversation that changed everything for Pistorius and
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Conservatives are fear-driven. Their minds work differently than ours, or at least they work differently than progressives’ minds. Brain scan research has found that rightwingers process information via the right amygdala, the centre of the brain’s threat response system. Lefties perform the same process using the insula, a small part
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: New Studies Confirm Conservatives are Fear-Driven
Sideshow Steve Harper understands the power of fear to distract and manipulate his supporters. He conjures up images of threats and dangers and watches his Conservative flock recoil in shock and terror. Two new studies confirm the brain differences between conservative and liberal minds. First, in the American Journal of
Continue readingcartoon life: The Asteroid of Doom
Coming soon to a planet near you. Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: asteroid, Doom, extinction, fear
Continue reading350 or bust: TED Talk Tuesday
Fascinating! Imagine you’re a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates — but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose? In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: The Grad School Gospels – Part 3: Academe Can’t Be Your Everything
The Grad School Gospels is a series of posts inspired by Dirk Hayhurst‘s The Bullpen Gospels. In the Bullpen Gospels, Hayhurst tells stories from his struggle to self-actualize through professional baseball. Inspired by Hayhurst and the many commonalities I noticed between the minor league track to the Majors, as he
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: This New Year’s, Resolve to Stop Chasing Happiness
Many wisdom traditions encourage a path or process orientation rather than a destination or product orientation to living well. Happiness makes for a poor goal. It’s not particularly well-defined. What is happiness? How much happiness is enough to be happy with – to not eventually be let down by? The
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: The Grad School Gospels – Part 2: Passion, Fear and Indifference
In The Grad School Gospels: On Professional Baseball, Academia, and My Shared Experience with Dirk Hayhurst, I juxtaposed Hayhurst‘s pro baseball journey – which he recounts in his first book, The Bullpen Gospels – with my journey through academic psychology. Several factors conspired to make our situations alike. We both
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: America The Ugly
With friends like this Romney doesn’t need enemies: It’s enough to make an atheist want to believe in god so we can call on him to save us from them, but as they tell us, and so fervently believe, he is on their side, their vengeful hateful god.
Continue readingCanada II: Why? Why? Why?
Gwynne Dwyer is obviously wondering why world powers are clinging to so much military capacity. Defence Budgets and Cave Men For the first time in history, NO great power is planning to attack any other great power. War between great powers became economic nonsense more than a century ago, and
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Gwynne Dwyer is obviously wondering why world powers are clinging to so much military capacity.
Defence Budgets and Cave Men
For the first time in history, NO great power is planning to attack any other great power. War between great powers became eco…
Canada II: Why? Why? Why?
Gwynne Dwyer is obviously wondering why world powers are clinging to so much military capacity. Defence Budgets and Cave Men For the first time in history, NO great power is planning to attack any other great power. War between great powers became economic nonsense more than a century ago, and
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Our fears of airplanes, and terrorism
Many of us have a fear of flying; it ranges from a mild discomfort to a paralyzing fear. For the most part, this fear is not rationally founded. On a per kilometer basis, flying is far safer than driving which usually elicits no fear among us at all. It is
Continue reading350 or bust: What Are We Waiting For?
A powerful message beamed onto the Verizon building in New York City: Now is the time to STAND UP for yourself, to be BOLD, be CREATIVE, be RADICAL To Dream BIG, IMAGINE, Feel the fear but DO IT! Anyway its time to Question Expert Authority, ASK hard questions, PROPOSE and
Continue reading350 or bust: The Night is Dark, and We are Far From Home
On this Remembrance Day, here’s the choir of Wells Cathedral singing Lead Kindly Light: Lead, kindly Light, amid th’encircling gloom, lead thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home; lead thou me on! Keep thou my feet; I do not a…
Continue readingTasha Keirridin embraces the Daddy State
Tasha Keirridin is a frightened woman. She is terrified of everyday life. She wants a man around to protect her from the inconveniences of life, the petty criminals and especially the big bad Muslim men with big black beards (emphasis mine).
Personally, I’d like to see some more law and order in this . . . → Read More: Tasha Keirridin embraces the Daddy State
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