if someone is gay or straight does it really affect you??
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Does Sexual Activity Of Others Affect Your View Of A Person?
Of course, it's a simple question of line of sight. If they're between me and the person I am trying to see and going at it no less, it tends to be distracting if nothing else. Of course, there is a good chance there are mirrors in the immediate environment and I may be able to see the person that way.
since i've been out of the jw religion, i've had no desire to attend any churches.
although i've always liked the way many churches look with the (stained glass, etc).
growing up our kh was so ugly and boring to look at.
Rituals.. Is it too much to ask for things to be completely or at least mostly impromptu, considering it's like supposed to come from the heart and stuff? Shouldn't be a problem if someone actually knows something by heart rather than just repeating some bit of information put down at a previous point in time in a slightly different form. Far too contrived for my taste.
for any of you who may doubt this fitness routine, it is for real.
iam in my 6th week(phase 2) and i have never felt of looked better.
i was fit before p90x (ran 4-5 miles, kayaked, weight training etc), but this program has allowed me to break through the wall.
SBC: Exactly, because of the intensity it ends up being pretty much anaerobic across the board - I don't know how to do CrossFit at an intensity that falls in the endurance/aerobic zone and my guess is the vast majority of people will not be able to with most of the CrossFit workouts, and besides the point IS to push yourself that much. It seems to me they favor anaerobic zones and basically figure it'll raise your thresholds for all three so it''ll translate into your aerobic endurance over long distances, which is probably true. Like they said in this article:
Anaerobic activity also benefits cardiovascular function and decreases body
fat! In fact, anaerobic exercise is superior to aerobic exercise for fat loss! (http:
//www.cbass.com/FATBURN.HTM) Anaerobic activity is, however, unique in its
capacity to dramatically improve power, speed, strength, and muscle mass. Anaero-
bic conditioning allows us to exert tremendous forces over brief time intervals. One
aspect of anaerobic conditioning that bears great consideration is that anaerobic
conditioning will not adversely affect aerobic capacity. In fact, properly structured,
anaerobic activity can be used to develop a very high level of aerobic fitness without
the muscle wasting consistent with high volumes of aerobic exercise!!
And again, what I've read is the research shows improved brain function with aerobic workouts, not anaerobic workouts. So it's a matter of physical fitness vs. mental fitness. I've found that by pushing that much your body is in a perpetual state of recovery when not working out, and I'm too tired to even read anything.
for any of you who may doubt this fitness routine, it is for real.
iam in my 6th week(phase 2) and i have never felt of looked better.
i was fit before p90x (ran 4-5 miles, kayaked, weight training etc), but this program has allowed me to break through the wall.
For those interested but not familiar with CrossFit there's a good article of their integrated model of fitness here. The only concern I have is there's not much aerobic stuff and from what I've read that's what's helpful for brain fitness.
Oh the way they describe it in a nutshell is "constantly varied, functional movements performed at high capacity."
since i've been out of the jw religion, i've had no desire to attend any churches.
although i've always liked the way many churches look with the (stained glass, etc).
growing up our kh was so ugly and boring to look at.
I went to the Church of Religious Science for a while, as well as other not so church like groups and whether or not the services are intended that way, it has become clear to me that people go because they want to feel good. It is also pretty obvious that it is extremely rare to find what you might call spiritual/Godly people that can distinguish between this impulse to want to be nurtured (and I also think of nature/nurture) and spirituality in any other sense. If spirituality is about our nature, then what most groups are doing for the most part actually does not address that and is instead largely concerned with nurturing and conditioning.
And one of the things I've found is most religions have no interest in the individual becoming mature, if anything their idea of maturity is becoming more firmly conditioned in the values they teach - but that's just being set in your ways. This seems to be so ubiquitous that people can't seem to even imagine anything beyond living by a specific set of values, as if we're just machines with the goal of perfectly following this code of instruction.
Anyway, I think it does have to do with a social need, or wanting a combination of spiritual and social need if you like. From what I've seen though very few people actually qualify as an authority. Even when there is something a little deeper it most often turns out it's a form of illusion, but it feels good while you're immersed.
mainly, how awesome i am.
i have noticed several threads that are not about how awesome i am and, frankly, it's a little disturbing.
i might also be drunk.
scientific american article.
jaron lanier rails against the social trends being fostered by the internet--in particular its power to stifle creativity and grant anonymity as well as encourage groupthink and a lynch-mob mentality.
groupthink.
Jaron Lanier rails against the social trends being fostered by the Internet--in particular its power to stifle creativity and grant anonymity as well as encourage groupthink and a lynch-mob mentality
Groupthink
Lanier claims ideology and the Web's design—user interfaces and logins for example—marginalize individuals as "sources of fragments to be exploited by others." Of particular concern is "hive thinking," whereby personal expression counts for little and the creative process is harmed. Instead, he wrote, the hive mind esteems networked technologies and holds information stored in those networks—often referred to as "the cloud"—in higher regard than the people who create the information. Lanier worries that valuing the aggregate more than individuals will "leach" people of empathy and humanity.
"Drive-by anonymity"
But it is hardly progress, Lanier argues, when Web user interfaces allow people to log in with pseudonyms and contribute to "drive-by anonymity." That easily devolves into moblike hounding, which in some extreme cases has ended in suicide, as with Korean movie star Choi Jin-sil in 2008. Such "trolling is not a string of isolated incidents," Lanier wrote, "but the status quo in the online world."
if jws are borg, and exjws are the zerg from starcraft (hive mind) then who would win?.
If JWs are Borg, and exJWs are the Zerg from StarCraft (hive mind) then who would win?
do somebody know this book?.
robert jay lifton: thought reform and the psychology of totalism.
could you give me some description?
On a related note, I just read this in Jaron Laniers new book You Are Not a Gadget, under the heading Information Doesn't Deserve to Be Free. It sounds kind of like there has been issues along these lines on this forum, around the typical idea of free speech. In reading this it starts to make sense why there's a Mormon Transhumanist Association..
Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?
Information is alienated experience.
You can think of culturally decodable information as a potential form of experience.
Stored information might cause experience to be revealed if it is prodded the right way. Experience is the only process that can de-alienate information.
Information of the kind that purportedly wants to be free is nothing but a shadow of our own minds, and wants nothing on its own. It will not suffer if it doesn't get what it wants.
But if you want to make the transition from the old religion, where you hope God will give you an afterlife, to the new religion, where you hope to become immortal by getting uploaded into a computer, then you have to believe information is real and alive. So for you, it will be important to redesign human institutions like art, the economy, and the law to reinforce the perception that information is alive. You demand that the rest of us live in your new conception of a state religion. You need us to deify information to reinforce your faith.
Asians ARE bad drivers, jus sayin'
This is why we should have special reserved parking spaces, a tag with a big A on it. Also something like a carpool lane would increase safety for everyone, as it is we pack a ton of people in a van going to the restaurant every day.
