March 2011
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Psychological Defense Mechanisms (1)
High Adaptive Level: Defense mechanisms in this group result in optimal adaptation to stress. The defenses usually maximize feelings of well being and do not interfere with the conscious awareness of feelings, ideas, and their consequences.
•Affiliation involves dealing with stressors by turning to others for help or support. This involves sharing problems with others but not trying to make...
February 2011
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“One of his students asked Buddha, “Are you the messiah?”
“No”, answered Buddha....”
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AHAHAHA THE TWAT WHO STOLE MY ITOUCH IS USING MY...
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“I cannot imagine a more miraculous life than nonviolent resistance to violence;...”
– John Dominic Crossan
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Any swan could put his wings around your neck; hold you down against the river while he honks and flies. If you’re lucky, the baby will be a demi-god or soldier. If you’re unlucky the baby will become an old woman. Some wolves eat grandmothers. Some girl wears the canines’ favorite color, hands them napkins and finger food at dinner parties, trains to be a lady while her father watches. These...
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…and the city was lovely, highly orinamented, like Paris, and untouched by war. It was supposedly an “open” city, not to be attacked since there were no troop concentrations or war industries there.
But high explosives were dropped on Dresden by American and British planes on the night of February 13, 1945, just about twenty-one years ago, as I now write. There were no...
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