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encey

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  1. Me too, love Southern Tier ... & can't wait to drink some Pumking!! Edit: Pooping as I type :sup:
  2. Belhaven Stout is just as good as Guinness, better on nitro!
  3. encey

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    I almost wrote the guy back to be like 'FU!' but then I was like 'What the fuck am I doing?'
  4. Isn't that beer like 12% or something crazy?
  5. I only have a trackpad -- it took me forever to do those fuckin' letters! But my commitment to Sean is strong.
  6. Thanks for the thoughtful posts, especially Franklin. My dad has tried many many therapeutic and pharmacological approaches, to no avail. It's much easier in the therapy case to read it as someone not wanting to hear what they need to hear, and changing therapists when the fire gets too hot. I don't know what to think about the drugs. But knowing that he is someone who craves love, reinforcement, encouragement, attention, out of an unreasonable sense of insecurity and inferiority -- and I know this not only from being his son, but from being the same way myself, at least for most of my childhood and still deep in the fabric of my personality -- it makes it all to easy to see the 'depressed person' tag as another way to put oneself forward as someone deserving of special concern. I recognize that this could be wrong and is unfair to many depressed people. And I'm probably being unclassy by airing my dirty laundry here. -- Don't drink and type! The other thing I should say is that a took a whole host of issues that range beyond depression problems and crammed them all into a rant with a single target, which is why I am coming off so unreasonably harsh and single-minded. But the FMRI claims you make are definitely interesting and considerable. Questions that come to mind are: For the vain folks with normal mid-brain activity, couldn't their false beliefs result from some other kind of 'off' brain processing? And is the mid-brain functioning of depressed or anxious people simply a neurological given, or is this a pattern or habit of brain activity that can be reinforced and strengthened by constant thoughts of that very same type? It makes the direction of causation obscure to me. But this is not to deny that people's perceptions can be seriously distorted by underlying neurochemical processes. <3, encey
  7. addendum: I guess I've never mentioned this but I played P.:Ntil for Dave Brubeck and after about 30 seconds in all his age cried, "What the hell is this, farts on a backbeat?" lol what a dork Autechre - Take Eleven/8
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