... on a certain subject. I want to hear people out. All people. Weigh their advice. Give it a chance. Try it out. As I've mentioned in a previous blog, we can not really help that we have prejudices. All of us have them whether we admit it or not. Everyone. The test comes when we decide 1. to try to be aware of our prejudcies rather them be ignorant and ignore them and 2. what we do with the ...

... can do the job, the standard of the work’s good and you keep your professional life reasonably seperate from your personal life where’s the problem?  That question, forces us to confront our prejudices and frankly it’s needed. All of this raises questions about how far employers should be allowed to go in these dictates, at what point do we turn and say “That’s ...

... :21 Medicine and psychiatry in Western culture: Ancient Greek myths and modern prejudices Fornaro M, Clementi N, Fornaro P. Dipartimento di Psichiatria, Università ... ancient myths focus on ambiguous feelings patients may have had towards drugs, especially psychotropic ones. Interestingly, such prejudices are common even today. Recalling ancient findings and descriptions made using myths ...

When I moved to Yorkshire at the age of ten (well, not on my own, it was a family thing), I heard a lot of comments about what life was like 'in the South', and about the people who lived there. Which was interesting, because I'd never thought of myself as living in any place with a particular allegiance or whatever, it was just, as a child might think, where I lived, and the people ...

I am going through a little bit of a struggle these days, and working hard to be positive and cheerful. But one of the issues is confidence, and another is focus. When I look terrible I get a bad return-vibe from people; and under good circumstances people usually feed me with positive energy. And when I feel really sick I tend to wind down and want to do nothing; so my writing is negatively ...

My brain has been cluttered with a few obsessive thoughts for the past two days, which I'm trying to offload here: I feel pressured to see "Precious." I will see it, mostly because I can't go on saying to anyone who'll listen that I think it's probably terribly critically overrated without seeing it. But here is what I predict will be disappointing about the movie: 1. ...

“Our brain has been designed to believe itself, wired so that our prejudices feel like facts, our opinions indistinguishable from the actual sensation. If we think a wine is cheap, it will taste cheap.” - Jonah Lehrer on A blind wine tasting with Robert Parker (where wine experts couldn’t even tell if a wine was white or red, let alone if it was expensive). Perception is everything. ...

Take this kiss upon thy brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the ...

Source: Enid News (11-14-09) Called “Oklahoma’s Greatest Historian” by Gov. Brad Henry, Angie Debo was born Jan. 30, 1890, in Beattie, Kan. She came to Oklahoma in a covered wagon with her parents and younger brother at age 9 to Marshall, Oklahoma Territory, her home for much of her life. She taught in rural schools at age 16 in 1906 and graduated from Marshall High School at age ...

... this was the first time I thought a DJ sounded like another DJ, which make me think about the prejudices I have against those making music by whatever means necessary, which made me think about prejudices in general, which made me think about how I think about things, which is the kind of thinking one should always be doing. Check it. Dare Say - Oh No Dudley Perkins - Holy Smokes ...