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News Briefs 30-08-2007

Happy birthday to my beautiful Isis!

Quote of the Day:

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man’s history.

Arthur Koestler

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  1. The “Reward” System
    ” Since the drugs feel the same, both of them must activate the same target.”

    Every psychoactive drug activates the reward system. Contrary to popular belief, this reward system has nothing to do with making you feel good. It is “rewards” in the Skinnerian sense — positive reinforcement. True, things that make you feel good also do this, but they’re not the only things. Any successful exploration does it too. It is the basis of the learning process. The effect is to cause the organisim to approach, rather than avoid, the next time it encounters the subject. Even sedative chemicals such as morphine cause this ‘approach’ action through the reward system. The fact that the rats reacted in such a way as they do to other things they know to be to their benefit is a trivial point. By anology, it could be said that since we react the same to each, we must feel the same way about sex, chocolate and frisbees.

    No, I am not the brain specialist…..
    YES. Yes I AM the brain specialist.

    1. just wait
      In about 20 years, we will have to chuck all the new technology that produces CO2-less power. Because of the global cooling.

      I distinctly remember discussions about how to avoid the coming ice age. One of the suggestions was to melt the arctic ice shield using soot.

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      Wanderer, kommst Du nach Liechtenstein – tritt nicht daneben, tritt mitten rein.

      1. Next
        The politically motivated scare-mongers really should try to be more original. The whole Warming-Cooling-Warming thing has been going on for a hundred years. I recommend for the 2012 election cycle they go with “Global Wobbling”. After all, the northern hemisphere has to be far heavier than the southern, what with all those evil Americans and their heavy SUVs.

  2. Isis?
    So Greg, if you call your beloved “Isis”, does that make you like… you know… Osiris?

    You DO know what happened to the poor chap’s “equipment” don’t you? 🙁

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

    1. Clarification
      Isis is the name of my daughter (6 years old yesterday).

      Kind regards,
      Greg
      ——————————————-
      You monkeys only think you’re running things

      1. Well now
        That could scare the living hell out of any potential future boyfriends, now couldn’t it? 😉

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

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