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Why Psychology is Whack

from Psychologists, the New Priesthood:

It is not science; how can it be science when Freud, Jung, Adler, Assagioli, are not agreeing on a single point? The four great psychologists—and not agreeing on a single point! Science always comes to an agreement. When the truth is known about anything, the scientist is humble enough to drop his prejudices and accept it. It does not matter who has discovered it, what matters is that it has been discovered.

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Timeless Lack of Direction

Time really flies then you don't know what you're doing. (from slashdot)

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OutKast Speakerboxxx/Love Below

Phil recommends OutKast's new album, Speakerboxxx/Love Below... go get GrabIt and then try alt.binaries.sound.mp3.complete_cd or alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.full_albums to get the album... I only found Love Below, but my guess is that Andre, the producer of that cd, is the better half.

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Intuition on anti-work

When I was in High School, all I really wanted was to make lots of money. So for 6ish years, I read a lot of succeserata, read a lot of programming books, and eventually, I became well off by senior year. What I learned was that with some strategy and hard-work, one could make lots of dough.

(Dah, now I can already hear the negative vibes that come when discussing money and work... even though I've turned off commenting.... nonetheless I think it's important to discuss)

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Being Fake slingshot effect

For me, when I try to curb a natural, yet undesireable personality trait, I find that I eventually feel the urge to sling-shot back. I.e. if I go on a trip where I focus on "being a good listener" or whatever, I find myself then compensating by talking profusely when the self-control wears off. On the one hand, this is annonying because it prevents me from changing myself. On the other hand, though, it is a good defense mechanism, in that it prevents me from abusing self-control for potential purposes of social desparation. i.e. I later find out sometimes, that there are very good reasons why I act like a jerk or become ultra-negative in certain situations... such as my body subconsciously barring me from bad relationships, etc.

A positive note I picked up from The Owner's Manual for the Brain, is the suggestion that every personality combination (whether including bad or good traits) is in someway there because natural selection found it expedient..

Grasping this idea is a segue for my self-acceptance, albeit odd. Or I'm just getting older...

So chalk up another point for being natural!

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Bicycle Karma

biking to school today, three cars spotaneously emerged out of nowhere in reverse, all at differnt times... man, i need to start wearing helmet. maybe someforce is out to get me..

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The Universe is Finite??? wtf

Scientists have announced hints that the Universe is actually relatively small -- something like 70 billion light years across -- with a hall-of-mirrors illusion tricking us into thinking that space stretches on forever.

The thinking is based on observations by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which measures temperature ripples in the cosmic microwave background.

Our Universe seems like an endlessly repeating set of dodecahedrons (12 identical pentagons) and space wraps back on itself, says mathematician Jeffrey Weeks. If you exit through one pentagon, you re-enter the same region through the opposite face and you keep meeting the same galaxies over and over again. (link by way of Kurzweil)

WTF... I guess I have long since conceded that the math of our perception, is truly inadequate for understanding all the nuances of our space.

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Giraffe and Dragon Union

This acrylic is wonderful.

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Stanford Nerdism 292982

You know you're at Stanford when in a mid-level, undergrad, engineering course, the teacher asks, "has anybody read Flatland?" and half the class rumbles in affirmation.

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Stranger Loops

Blog-friend Strange Loops writes.. Simply put, looking back on my life and my behavior patterns, I find very little independent thought, indeed very little thought at all. More often I coast from one authority to the next (based on whatever I think makes a reliable authority - once it was teachers, later news, more recently the internet, and of course all along books), and my little ejaculations of thought (say in expressing an opinion or explicating an idea face-to-face or on a message board) were more often than not just regurgitation of ideas or opinions I had heard elsewhere, stated by better writers than myself.

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