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Hey Myrna,
I'm sorry. Not an easy one. Thanks for being brave and honest. Sometimes we do things for reasons even we can never figure out.
Its part of the journey. Even the hurting part. It's never bad, really, to take a dumb chance even if it doesn't pan out.
Have a hug and say hi to Stony Brook and New York City for me .....
SG
That's kinda f*cked-up that what Lowteck proposed actually works.
I liked this - so there you go. Have some fake vote points :>
Now that's actually funny....
Good on you, Loksie.
Mortgage finance company Fannie Mae said it is forgiving the mortgage debt of a 90-year-old woman who shot herself in the chest as sheriff's deputies attempted to evict her.
Fannie Mae announced later Friday that it would dismiss its foreclosure action, forgive Polk's mortgage and allow her to return to the Akron home where she's lived since 1970.
"Just given the circumstances, we think it's appropriate," Fannie Mae spokesman Brian Faith said "It certainly made our radar screen."
Polk remained in Akron General Medical Center and was expected to recover from chest wounds suffered last week.
Information from: Akron Beacon Journal, www.ohio.com
Just for this line: "If you are clever, you may find that food products can also make excellent moisturizers and cleaning agents"
Cheers,
SG
The point of the task, as I read it, isn't a silly guessing game about whether the subject would pick the chocolate mousse or the peaches flambe for desert. Although it can be fun to see if one is "right" about that or not.
The point of the task is to get as far into the head and history of another as you can and try for a day to operate with a set of beliefs, experiences and personal narratives very different from your own .
This requires you to respect that people operate with a set of beliefs, reactions, and expectations that are based on what has happened to them and how they see the world around them. The story of their lives and how they tell it makes them who they are.
The quality of the listening is generative of the predictive power of the interview.
I disagree. The task has some inherent problems, most noticeably that people often don't behave in exact accordance with their stated beliefs. But if you expand the lens to their actual experiences, past history and temperamental profile, then you can get a pretty good read on what drives other people, and where they are coming from. Then their trivial choices about food, sexual attraction and music make sense in context.
But it takes a very long time to actually *get* someone's history and past experiences - one interview is unlikely to produce that much information and honestly, most of us don't listen well enough or long enough to other people to absorb all that . We generally tend to pick out the parts that are most like us or that we identify with. Such are the problems of ego and the nature of human connections.
The obsession with subtle preferences is not to the point. Those are among the easiest things to explain to other people. I know *exactly* why my food preferences are the way they are and exactly who I find attractive and why and if anybody really wanted to know - I could explain in mind numbing detail what sets of past experiences make me fond of creamy foods and attracted to certain characteristics sexually and what I react to positively in music, art or cinema.
Its puzzling to say that one couldn't hope to explain such things. Or "get" them, especially in the case of friends, where more often than not, redundancies in matters of taste and the histories that lie behind are established stories, as well as the more serious stuff relating to flaws and destructive behavior patterns we see our intimate friends and family struggling with.
A little sad to imply the impossibility of understanding another person and what makes them tick.
Maybe if we get a bead on our own behavior and what drives us and why we do the things we do and like the things we like, then we'll develop the tools to understand other people fully. There's big advantages in figuring out how to explain ourselves to ourselves and to others. One of them is the ability to extend a less dumb analysis of whats going on around us.
Hey, it's what I personally aspire to with my recreational time ....
Actually, it's kind've a personal goal to *upset* the Wall Street Journal, if possible.
What exactly does one make of the magic water, the strap-on forcefield, and the hand-held conflict resolution gizmo?
"Though largely uncredited, The Jejune Institute was an integral part of the philosophical breeding grounds of EST, Esalen, and Dianetics, which collectively spawned a thousand like-minded schools of pop psychology"
I'm not sure there's a huge rush to take the credit for EST and Scientology nowadays :,>