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A man and his wife are out driving, and get pulled over by a police officer.
The husband, who is the one behind the wheel, asks, “What’s the problem, officer?”
Officer: “You were going at least 75 in a 55 zone.”
Man: “No sir, I was going 65.”
Wife: “Oh, Harry. You were going 80.” (The man gives his wife a dirty look.)
Officer: “I’m also going to give you a ticket for your broken tail light.
Man: “Broken tail light? I didn’t know about a broken tail light!”
Wife: “Oh Harry, you’ve known about that tail light for weeks.” (The man gives his wife another dirty look.)
Officer: “I’m also going to give you a citation for not wearing your seat belt.”
Man: “Oh, this? I just took it off when you were walking up to the car.”
Wife: “Oh Harry, you never wear your seat belt.”
The man turns to his wife and yells, “Shut your mouth!”
The officer turns to the woman and asks, “Ma’am, does your husband talk to you this way all the time?”
Wife: “No, only when he’s drunk.”
https://t.me/MkNotes/682
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An old lady is visiting her granddaughter in New York City in a very lavish shopping center. She was riding the elevator when a young, beautiful woman gets into the elevator, smelling of expensive perfume. She turns to the old woman and says arrogantly, “Romance” by Ralph Lauren, $200 a bottle!”
Then another young and beautiful woman gets on the elevator, and also very arrogantly turns to the old woman saying, “Chanel No. 5, $350 a bottle!”
About three floors later, the old woman has reached her destination and is about to get off the elevator. Before she leaves, she looks both beautiful women in the eye, then bends over and......and says: ""Broccoli – 2 dollars a pound!”"
The moral of the story: Don’t try to get snobby with older ladies – they’ve got more experience and smarts than you!
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SCIENTISTS CONFIRM: BEING FORGETFUL IS A SIGN OF VERY HIGH INTELLIGENCE
Scientists confirm: Being forgetful is a sign of very high intelligence. Everyone forgets something from time to time. It can be from leaving an umbrella at a restaurant to an address disappearing from your brain. I myself have a hard time keeping track of all the passwords you have to remember nowadays. Over the years I have given a try to different memory exercises and tricks to improve my own, but it rarely works for me. Maybe it’s only fair to accept that you’re a bit forgetful and probably good at something else. However, some time ago, we came by a fantastic research, which is about forgetfulness! It is a study which came to a rather amazing conclusion. It turns out that having a bad memory doesn’t have to be negative. Sure, it’s difficult for a person to forget things from time to time, but this could be a sign of something to be proud of, the site likewifty reports.
COMPETITIVE INFORMATION
Yes, in the future you should probably stop giving yourself a bad time about how forgetful you are. This new research indicates that forgetfulness can be a sign of very high intelligence. I’d have thought it was the other way around, but it’s not. People with the best memories tend to forget about relatively unnecessary details. So if you forgot the directions to that new restaurant, it’s probably because you have more important things on your mind. Instead, if you remembered everything, then it would mean that you have a hard time making decisions because you have so much competing data taking part of your thought process.
YOU CAN STOP WORRYING
An intelligent person’s brain lets go of things that it no longer needs, which facilitates thinking and decision making. Makes sense, when you think about it! So from now on, you can stop putting yourself down over all the little things that escape the brain. Instead, you can think about yourself as a very intelligent person who has considerably more important things to think about.
https://en.thelaughbible.net/news/scientific-conclusion-being-forgetful-is-a-sign-of-very-high-intelligence/?fbclid=IwAR3iukRdWwm-JeltdjQ1Hta32Rgu4gxv5NWTROkIAjlxb5NpAQ7qUnMRHVE
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Such memories, of course, would imply the unthinkable: that Iran was as beautiful, as fun, as energizing and romantic, as Oklahoma or Montana or New York.
when all conversation would stop and she would be asked to repeat our escape story. The problem, of course, was that they wanted our salvation story as a talisman, no more. No one ever asked what our house in Iran looked like, what fruits we grew in our yard, what books we read, what music we loved and what it felt like now not to understand any of the songs on the radio. No one asked if we missed our cousins or grandparents or best friends. No one asked what we did in summers or if we had any photos of the Caspian Sea. “Men treat women horribly there, don’t they?” the women would ask. Somehow it didn’t feel OK to tell them about my funny dad with his pockets full of sour cherries, or my grandpa who removed his false teeth when he told ghost stories.
In many of the classes I’ve taught, my quietest kids have been Middle Eastern. I’m always surprised by this, since the literature I choose should resonate most with them, since I’m an Iranian teacher, their ally, since the civilized world yearns for their voices now. Still, they bristle at headlines about the refugee crisis that I flash on the screen, hang their heads, and look relieved when the class is finished. Their silence makes me angry, but I understand why they don’t want to commit to any point of view. Who knows what their universe looks like outside my classroom, what sentiments they’re expected to display in order to be on the inside
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-ungrateful-refugee?CMP=share_btn_fb
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PSYCHIATRIC LABELING LACKS SPECIFICITY
Basically, the labels in practice now tend to generalize the experiences of many individuals rather than highlighting the nuances of those experiences. THIS CREATES A LOT OF GREY AREA in understanding the extent to which individuals are affected by their mental illness, and creates expectations as to what their experience is like. For example:
TWO INDIVIDUALS DIAGNOSED WITH DEPRESSION MIGHT HAVE VARYING WAYS THAT THEIR ILLNESS MANIFESTS. ONE PERSON MIGHT FEEL A STRONG LACK OF MOTIVATION, WHILE THE OTHER MIGHT BE CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE.
Given the significant difference between these two experiences, would it not be more worthwhile to invest in more specific terms that can be applied to the experiences of affected individuals? To apply the same generic treatment to these two individuals might not be the best way to proceed given the difference in their experience.
ALSO, SOME PEOPLE FEEL THAT PSYCHIATRIC LABELING IS BASED ON SOMEWHAT ARBITRARY PRINCIPLES, AS IT IS SUBJECTIVE TO THE EVALUATION OF THE MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER.
How do we decide the extent to which an individual is affected by a mental illness? What makes someone “really depressed” instead of “just depressed”? How many symptoms of a particular mental illness must a person experience in order for them to be diagnosed with that illness? Clearly, the current system of psychiatric labeling lacks the specificity it is in need of.
https://sites.google.com/a/haverford.edu/the-psychology-of/teaching/psychiatric-labels-cause-harm-by-stigmatizing-people
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STOP LABELING PEOPLE
1.THINK ABOUT HOW BEING LABELED WOULD AFFECT YOU. Whenever you notice yourself inappropriately labeling someone, try to think about how you would feel if they did the same to you.
2.CONSIDER WHY SOMEONE MIGHT ACT THE WAY THEY DO. You won't always know why someone is acting in a certain manner.
3. ASK FOR YOUR FRIENDS TO HELP YOU. It can be difficult to notice when you are labeling people if you are just beginning to put an end to the habit.
4.IMAGINE HOW LABELING MIGHT AFFECT SOMEONE'S LIFE. Although labels are just words, they can have serious effects on a person's behavior and can change how people are treated.
5. REMEMBER THAT A PERSON IS MORE THAN A LABEL. Human behavior is complex and a simple label won't capture the entire personality of an individual.
6. FOCUS ON WHAT YOU HAVE IN COMMON WITH OTHERS. Focusing on what you have in common with others can go a long way in cutting down on the amount of labels you apply to them.
7.AVOID GOSSIPING. If you find yourself gossiping about other people, try to stop and shift the focus of your conversation. Gossip can easily create more labels for the people you are discussing.
8. CHALLENGE YOUR PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS. Maybe you've already labeled a person or group of people negatively.
https://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Labeling-People
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Rape allegations against Cristiano Ronaldo 'not fake news,' accuser's lawyer says
A lawyer representing the woman claiming Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the world's biggest soccer stars, raped her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009 has said the accusation is not "fake news."
➖ @cnnbrk ➖
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America's shifting moral beacon signals a bleak future for the world - CNN
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/10/01/opinions/kavanaugh-case-signals-bleak-times-ahead-opinion-intl/index.html
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Donald Trump's me, me, me, me press conference - CNNPolitics
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/09/26/politics/donald-trump-press-conference-analysis/index.html
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The Drive to Keep Growing Emotionally
We know well enough that we are equipped with an innate drive for physical growth; that the human animal is geared to keep developing towards its outward mature form, adding muscle and bone and fatty tissue, in a spontaneous process of development that begins in our earliest days in the womb and ends around our sixteenth year.
What is less obvious is that we are marked by an equally innate, equally powerful, although here life-long, drive towards emotional growth. Without anything mystical being meant by this, unless we are impeded by internal or external obstacles, we are set on an ineluctable path towards emotional development.
An obvious conceptual difference between the two drives is that we can know easily enough what it means to be fully grown physically, but it is rather harder to pin down what equivalent emotional maturity might look like.
https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-drive-to-keep-growing-emotionally/?utm_source=The+School+of+Life&utm_campaign=173a67f19f-TBOL_ENEWS_21092018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_717e06d46b-173a67f19f-22277669&mc_cid=173a67f19f&mc_eid=62fb72e0b8
