February 2012
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“I live in the Twentieth Century
and you lie here beside me. You
were unhappy...”
– Richard Brautigan, “I Live in the Twentieth Century”
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Can you feel your heart breaking? Study shows... →
The relationship between emotional and physical pain goes both ways: just as physical pain-relieving drugs can kill emotional pain, so too can emotional support — for example, holding a loved one’s hand — reduce physical pain.
Research even shows that emotional pain can sometimes activate brain regions that normally process only physical hurt. One recent study of people who had just been...
Anonymous asked: if you were born a vegetable what vegetable would you have been born as?
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“I’m nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I’ve begun reminiscing events...”
– Max, Kicking and Screaming
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Anonymous asked: anyone ever told you that you're absolutely gorgeous?
“The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com
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Modest Mouse, Talking Shit about a Pretty...
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“I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more...”
– Nick Hornby
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all...”
– Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
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Theory of Humor
Benign Violation Theory states that humor occurs when three conditions are satisfied:
(1) Something threatens one’s sense of how the world “ought to be”.
(2) The threatening situation seems benign.
(3) A person sees both interpretations at the same time.
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“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in...”
– John Waters
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MISTY AND PHOSPHORESCENT’S M....
January 2012
37 posts
