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I have found this to be true ... even at my beloved Clipmarks

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:17:30 GMT

clipped by: NonStatQuo
clipper's remarks: I have stayed away from clipmarks from a while, in order to facilitate a more balanced life. I stopped visiting for awhile when I noticed some folks were taking my own opinions to be critiques of them almost personally. This scared me. It said to me that they and I were spending too much time here.

Need some real world connection ... when we care more about our invisible friends than the person next door or next to you in the bookstore, it is time to check reality.

We don't know each other on clipmarks we only know a portion of the person behind the keyboard. We know what they clip, not who they are.

Clip Source: scrapsmack.blogspot.com

Everyone is for free speech, as long as the speaker sounds like them.

Strange Phenomena of the mind

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:42:45 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth

Clip Source: listverse.com

Déjà Vu

Déjà vu is the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously - you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. The experience is usually accompanied by a strong sense of familiarity and a sense of eeriness, strangeness, or weirdness. The “previous” experience is usually attributed to a dream, but sometimes there is a firm sense that it has truly occurred in the past.

Déjà Vécu

Déjà Visité

Déjà Senti

You could think of it as the feeling of having just spoken, but realizing that you, in fact, didn’t utter a word.

Jamais Vu

It is often considered to be the opposite of déjà vu and it involves a sense of eeriness.

Presque Vu

L’esprit de l’Escalier

Capgras Delusion

a person believes that a close friend or family member has been replaced by an identical looking impostor

Fregoli Delusion

a person holds the belief that different people are

the same person in a variety of disguises

Prosopagnosia

Depression can be Good for You

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:01:57 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: There is serious depression that needs help. There are poverty, abuse, bad circumstance that need addressing. But for most of us, a bit of depression, the article suggests, is a catalyst for refelction, change and growth

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A leading psychiatrist says that depression is not a human defect at all, but a defence mechanism that in its mild and moderate forms can force a healthy reassessment of personal circumstances.

Dr Paul Keedwell, an expert on mood disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, argues all people are vulnerable to depression in the face of stress to varying degrees, and always have been.

The fact it has survived so long - and not been eradicated by evolution - indicates it has helped the human race become stronger.

"Psychological unease can generate creative work and the rebirth after depression brings a new love affair with life."

Aristotle believed depression to be of great value because of the insights it could bring. There is also an increased empathy in people who have or have had depression, he says, because they become more attuned to other people's suffering.

Tags: depression

On Bullshit

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:09:13 GMT

clipped by: dakotayii
clipper's remarks: Long article.Good Bullshit.

My take:
Bad Bullshit - Instantly found
Good Bullshit - A little research you will find
Genius Bullshit-Took a very long time to find

The whole world is made of bullshits - one pile on top of one another. We are all bullshitters - Bad, Good and Genius. Cheers.

P/s I am one of them.

Clip Source: web.archive.org

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, we have no theory.

Tags: humor

Erin Go Brea: Beautiful Ireland

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:59:05 GMT

clipped by: carrerinyes
clipper's remarks: Ireland, a terrible beauty

Clip Source: www.iol.ie

   Office of An Taoiseach at Government Buildings, Dublin

   Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin

   Merrion Square Gardens with Georgian townhouses in the background, Dublin

   Sorrento Terrace, Dalkey (Dublin SE)

   View of Scotman's Bay, Dun Laoghaire (Dublin SE) with 
the James Joyce's Round tower in the distance

   St Kevin's Church (11th Century) with stone walls and stone roof at Glendalough Monastic City

   Traditional celtic cross in graveyard at Glendalough

 The HSS is the largest fast ferry in the world
40m wide and carries 1,500 passengers and 375 vehicles 
at 70kph between  Dun Laoghaire and Holyhead in N Wales

Clip Source: www.iol.ie

Above: Kinsale (CK), 30 kms from Cork city. Kinsale is the oldest town in Ireland and is known as the gourmet capital of the country. It is one of the major sailing bases in the Cork area.

Clip Source: www.iol.ie

   A water feature in Powerscourt Gardens

   Another water feature in Powerscourt Gardens

   Lakes of Killarney from Torc Waterfall

   Blarney Castle

   A walk in the forest at Killarney National Park

   The Custom House Dublin