Personality Hereditary?

"roughly 50 percent of almost every personality trait turns out to be attributable to genetic inheritance" p.47 Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman, Professor of Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania

Thoughts?

What If Creation And Evolution Are Both False?

What if Aristotle (the father of numerous ancient sciences) was correct in believing that everything has always been here? What if there was no beginning? What if 'extinction' is merely that when a species isn't doing well in this world, some of its members go off into another world?

Cute Flash Video About Domestic Spying

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/fiore/2008/02/spies-who-love-you.html

Two Short Poems

And everything is water
and everything is air
and there is a blue flame
at the base of his spine
which she draws with her finger
up one vertebre at a time.

Doesn't know she is ready
to be vulnerable
so she plans to write a song
so that shielded by quotes
she can open her heart.
Annie will help her
peel away the quotes
line by line.

My Other Blog

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http://academicsanonymous.blogspot.com/

On the Virtue of Minimalism

If I can't make an item for my to-do list related to a thing that I own, then I give away or throw away that thing. This is something I have done for a long time, and here is, if nothing else, a good justification for it:

"'The casting away of things is symbolic, you know. Talismanic. When you cast away things, you're also casting away the self-related others that are symbolically related to those things. You start a cleaning-out process. You begin to empty the vessel.'

"...It's an emptying-out process and also a diminishing of the ego...

"'Now think of yourself as a battery. You really are, you know. Your brain runs on chemically converted electrical current... Everything you think, everything you do, it all has to run off the battery. Like the accessories in a car.'

"'Watching TV, reading books, talking with friends, eating a big dinner. . . all of it runs off the battery. A normal life... [is] like running a car with power windows, power brakes, power seats, all the goodies. But the more goodies you have, the less the battery can charge. True?'

"'Well, what we've done [by casting away things] is to strip off the accessories. We're on charge."

- Stephen King, The Stand p. 1028-1030

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Eliminating what you can go without has its benefits--being a minimalist has its physical as well as spiritual perks.

If I am not going to use something, then I throw it away or give it away. The other thing I like to do is if it is something I am not certain I will use, or if it is something I will only use infrequently, then I will give it away to someone I can borrow it from, someone I know who I'm sure will keep it or someone who never throws away anything.

Here's to recharging!

Shapes of the Human Nose

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_nose#Shapes_of_the_human_nose

And it would seem that some people have a combination.

Anyone finds other things like this that differentiate the names of differences in human features, please send it along to me.

Prostituting for a Hug

One of the most heartbreaking moments I ever experienced with an ex-girlfriend while we were dating was her latenight confession to me one evening that many times she had given herself over to sex with the true aim of her behavior being the desire to have someone hold her--she just wanted to be held.

I held her, and just like so many women prostitute themselves for a fancy piece of jewelry or for a fancy dinner, and think they must reciprocate with sex, she thought she owed me sex for holding her. Nonsense! If anyone reading this has such rubbish ideas, then throw them out in your mental garbage bin.

If you only want someone to hold you or cuddle you, then there are plenty of people in this world who will give that at no cost, without expecting anything in return. To think that being held is of greater value than getting to hold someone, and therefore requires some kind of additional payment, is to greatly overvalue being held.

Ladies, if you want something, then you shouldn't have to remove your clothes to get it, and gentlemen, if you want something, then you shouldn't have to remove your wallet to get it.

Robert Anton Wilson on 9/11

"Pearl Harbor Redux?

"Sitting, literally, right next to some of the 'hijack suspects,' of AA Flight 11 was Daniel C. Lewin, an American citizen with dual Israeli citizenship, who was a former elite Israeli commando officer in a secret unit of the Israeli Defense Force called 'Sayeret Mat'Kal.'

"While a member of the IDF, Mr. Lewin apparently had received extensive 'anti-terrorism' training. Sayeret Mat'Kal was formed in 1957, and explicitly created to infiltrate enemy territories; members of this unit are trained on the finer points of 'looking and thinking like an Arab,' and have been charged with conducting numerous death-squad killings, disguised as civilians."

- Robert Anton Wilson


Does it make sense to anyone else that maybe the Israeli government arranged 9/11 as a false-flag attack, and the US government covered it up in order to protect our innocent American Jewry from the potential backlash?

Is it possible that getting away with their false-flag attack on the US Liberty made certain puppeteers of the Israeli Government bold enough to think they can get away with bigger and bigger false-flag attacks?

After all, if the public gets too close to the truth, the people who are really behind such things can simply blame it on the Jewish People, and the brainless common people will punish innocent Jews rather than those who hide behind them. Pearl Harbor Redux may lead to Holocaust Redux, absit omen.

Adolph Hitler's problem: He was unable to distinguish between innocent Jews and the guilty individuals who pretended to be Jewish in overthrowing Tsarist Russia. Either that or he saw no way of getting the common people of Germany to understand the complexity of infiltration and counter-infiltration--which may be exactly the position the US Government is currently in:

most people are too ill-educated to understand something like "British spies pretending to be Freemasons pretending to be Jewish pretending to be Arab" much less "British spies pretending to be Freemasons pretending to be Jewish pretending to be Arab in order to secretly unite Europe and North America under control of the British Crown" or whatever form the truth may actually have.

Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, but making an epithet of the term "conspiracy" neither eliminates the phenomena nor makes the belief that 'major conspiracies do not exist' any less absurd and stupid to uphold.

What comes after?

"It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do."

The Game of Life

"This is the game of being alive. And you think you're what? You think you're above that? Above alive is what? Dead; in the clouds. You're on earth--plant a foot, stay a while." - Angels in America

Good Being

"Good Being is knowing who in fact we are; and in order to know who in fact we are, we must first know, moment by moment, who we think we are and what this bad habit of thought compels us to feel and do. A moment of clear and complete knowledge of what we think we are, but in fact are not, puts a stop, for the moment, to the Manichean charade. If we renew, until they become a continuity, these moments of the knowledge of what we are not, we may find ourselves, all of a sudden, knowing who in fact we are." - Huxley, Island page 42