Phi for All

OK, sit quietly for a bit, and close your eyes if it helps. I want you to focus on a warm spot on your back. That's my virtual hand, signalling the beginning of the hug. Now feel it spread as I clasp you to me with both arms. It's like a tingling warmth, and it moves as I describe my hand moving. It's like a hand-sized ray of sunlight is shining on your back in the middle of winter. Unfortunately, I can't extend the sensation to include the little pat on the back I usually give with a hug. These strange, self-induced feelings stop short of being percussive, or in any other way physical.

It's abuse in interpreting the Constitution, plus a lack of checks on presidential power to balance the conventions Trump has flouted (not putting his business in a trust, blatant nepotism, ignoring the emoluments clause, etc), in addition to the corruption you suggest. What the ballsy politician needs to suggest is that we've forgotten there are things money shouldn't be able to buy, like honor, scholastic merit, and votes. That's really the definition of corruption here, where money becomes "the root of all evil". It's not evil to buy the right things, it's evil when you use money to stifle the process for your competitors, or make it favor you above others. It's evil to use your money to change public opinion through misinformation and misrepresentation, which is exactly what so many lobbyists have become so good at. The average American has little intellectual defense against the PhDs of Spin.

There's nothing new about being able to isolate a particular sensation. Please read ALL the posts in this thread. Science discussion forum. Can you define what you mean by this? Do your pupils change from being round? OMG, nobody here would call it that. We don't like guesses, or new age woo, or nebulous phrasing. And we can be real jerks about it, but we just don't like science being misrepresented by pop-sci descriptions of the natural world.

I read something about Bush's surgeon general being considered a laughingstock because he had the proper reaction to an outbreak back in 2005. He reacted correctly, but got the Chicken Little treatment.

alpha015 has been suspended for a month for repeatedly spamming their YouTube channel. We're a DISCUSSION site, in case I didn't say it before.

Many humans also have a high degree of intelligence, and overcome regrettable stances with critical thought and reasoned action.

! Moderator Note Thanks for understanding and moving on from this site. A piece of advice I'm pretty sure you'll ignore? If you truly want to help, you should stop acting like you work for a troll farm. Your posts are laden with conspiracy and misinformation, and your further claims of medical professionalism are untrustworthy. Best of luck elsewhere!

This is evidence of the grim effectiveness of Trump's flood-the-zone-with-shit strategy. Expectations are so low wrt his moral character that pointing out just one of his obvious conflicts of interest is met with calls of Bias! from his supporters. Apparently his behavior is perfectly fine, and if we'd just get over our dislike of the man himself, we'd all see that. It supposedly has nothing to do with how we feel about lies and corruption. Huh.

You're so negative! Why can't you say, "It's amazing how consistent you've been in defending your perspective"? Why can't you say it like that? I've been right a lot. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

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In this case, I believe it IS both. This is sounding more and more like Trump talking up something one of his sycophants mentioned. He often gushes about a topic he's heard from someone who speaks well of him, as part of his blatant flattery pro quo policy. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/opinions/in-trump-world-flattery-will-get-you-everywhere-and-nowhere-parker/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/21/frenzy-flattery-around-trump-is-reaching-new-extremes/ https://apnews.com/f9fb8c41b7f8acc215e3ec78ca32210a

Master Lawbringer has been banned for spamming and soapboxing the same intellectually lazy crap after being warned repeatedly to stop. Please learn some science.

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I don't see hate at all. I see a grownup and realistic assessment based solidly on historical facts. He refused to get out of business when he took office, it's a conflict of interest, and he's abused it repeatedly. Suggest you get your head out.

I would call that a visceral fear. You were scared, but it caused you to take reasoned measures to ensure your safety first. If your fear had been irrational, you might well have jumped through a closed window just to get away.

There seems to me to be a difference between "irrational" and "visceral" fear of spiders (or whatever), although it may just be a spectrum of behavior. But what I think of as "irrational" is the type of fear that would cause you to do something possibly equally dangerous, like you see a spider/snake and go into such a blind panic that you forget to duck as you dash out the door, or you start throwing your spouse's antique porcelain figurine collection at them just to keep them away. That seems different than a healthy fear of something that could hurt you, deep visceral feelings for sure, but not the type that sends you into a panic. A visceral fear is the kind where you want to know where that spider/snake is so you can keep your distance. An irrational fear is the kind where you don't stop running just because the critter is a mile back.

What if the women of the time had a more practical focus on this life rather than the afterlife? Perhaps they were grateful the guy's work on their man-caves kept them out from underfoot?

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I used to know.

I'm not a doctor like you, but it seems easy to understand why we need drastic action while containment is still a possibility. Are you telling us the truth?

I want instructions, and I get philosophical guidance with drawings by Escher. 😝

Interesting choice of words, and most likely exaggerated. Even if you could sterilize the whole elevator every hour, it's non-sterile the moment someone enters. If anything, I'll bet they sprayed some Lysol into the cab. I wonder if they chose not to write "disinfected" because it implies the elevator used to be "infected"?

Serious?! It's in the Sculptures Made of Almonds section of the Lounge. This is the least serious section on the whole site. This is a section for silly, silly.

Actually, he's leguminous. Willie Nelson is nuts, but sings "Crazy". He also has one of the world's most non-existent almond sculpture collections.