Archive for the 'Psychology' Category

Climate change: Requirements for a well founded argument

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Ok, enough people waffling on about “global warming”, “climate change”, “cO2″ offsets etc etc. Back to basics for me. I dont know what is happening with the climate. This is fine, I am not jumping to premature conclusions based on weak media articles. An argument requires premises and supporting evidence to reach a firm conclusion. Therefore, for anyone to present their conclusions, I want to start seeing the following fundamentals addressed:

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Becoming aware of my own overreactions

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

The topic of disgruntlement this week has mainly been gold digging women who are out for a free ride. This can be out of plain laziness, or lack of earning potential. More specifically, what is getting me this week is those women that can do nothing apart from have kids and sponge off either the state or some mug of a bloke. This situation makes me see red.

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“He said, she said” drama VS getting things done

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

People often cause themselves untold amount of trouble, and then spend half their lives telling other people about said trouble. I want to get things done in my life, so I haven’t got time or energy to listen to their self inflicted woes. If people make bad choices and refuse to change things, then I have no time for them.

Weighing matters up, if I spend time listening to other people’s (boring) dramas, then I am not doing things that are important to me. Whining people will take ALL of my time if allowed to, and will only get themselves in more trouble anyway. Therefore, I will spend NO time listening to them, and get on with important and pleasurable things instead. Some authors talk about “toxic characters”, and their toxins rubbing off on people that support their attention seeking ways. Bye bye, toxic people.

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Review: Sperm Wars by Robin Baker

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I was bought this book as a present by someone and he told me it is “the scariest book I have ever read”. I agree, but for a different reason. The basic premise of the book is that due to evolution, we have inherited mating strategies that result in us promoting our family line. Sperm Wars describes a hypothesis to “explain” this. Essentially, women aim to confuse their partners as to their fertile time, fuck as many men as possible and then let the sperm battle amongst themselves to fertilise her egg. May the best sperm win.

While Baker makes a strong argument for this hypothesis, the book and methodology sets off red flashing lights to me.

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Vaguely rude psychologist’s names

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

During my time hunched over journals in the library, I could be heard chuckling to myself for apparently no good reason. These authors are the reasons:

  • Dyck
  • Goodwood
  • Badwood
  • Koch
  • Minge
  • Boner
  • Weiner
  • Spotteswood
  • Wood
  • Wang
  • Kant
  • Poon Teng Fatt

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