I think it admirable if you help support social victims, we all knew or were one at school.
Support is necessary because it's one of those minor, but occasionally damaging social issues that will just never go away, because it's a species thing, normal although uncivilized behaviour. We didn't start off civilized, it is a learned thing not a default state.

If however talking about bothering yourself with a memory of victimization or some such self entertainment just for the sake of conversation, well it's a bit vain and doesn't help anybody.

Well let's just look a little more closely at the article shall we?

Published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, but so are a lot of things. One of the roles of scientific journals is to provide peer review, ie. half of what they publish are easily falsified assertions, that's the point to publishing them in a scientific journal.
It is not media reporting of scientific breakthroughs, which is how the article is misrepresenting the study. It's a falsifiable hypothesis from one particular research group. Now it can be falsified or stand up to peer review within the journal.
Reporting the publication at a major news media forum is premature, it's what news media groups do when they're scratching for a story, so they make one up.

The lead researcher heads a department of experimental psychology. It is not medically qualified psychiatry. It is not even clinical psychology, which at leasts keeps within a set of goalposts given by the medical community. It's experimental psychology, the land of placebo-fairies causing/curing cancer by will of the patient and hypothoses like that.



Let's play opposites. Oh contrare, what if psychotic characteristics were to act only predictably or socially, or to relate predictability and impulsiveness with the capacity for social relationships, and a tendency to assume intimacy. Wait a minute, those are psychotic characterstics! It's psychopath versus sociopath.

1. Psychoses are pathological extremes of behaviour which cause the patient distress. They are never anything else ever.

2. Psychopathy and sociopathy, relating to disposition of patients to experience psychoses are not in the field of clinical psychology, they're in the field of criminology. The function of these behavioural profiles are for identifying, tracking or capturing habitual criminal offenders. Basically you cannot strictly be psychopathic or sociopathic without first breaking the law. That's the difference between clinical psychology and criminology or other forms of psychology.

Sounds like the hed of the study is just trying to make a place in the journals for his "experimental psychology" department, and the big experiment is blurring and mixing clinical psychology with criminology, polishing the turd he made and calling it new.

The article is about a wack****ed study and group of researchers. Believe me it happens all the time in scientific journals. One group in the mid-90s published in Nature the Pyramids at Giza were at least 12,000 years old.
These are hypotheses. They're designed to be falsified, but half of them are so ridiculous if you know anything about their fields, you just laugh them off and roll your eyes.

Two relevent studies.
One on dyslexia.
One on palaeoanthropology, regarding cultural brain pattern changes between cultures which teach by oral tradition, and developed nations using academic schooling systems (verbal vs written learning).

The study on dyslexia found that people recognize words by the shape of the letters composing the word, like a codex. It triggers the memory response for what the word means. Dyslexic people just can't retain the order of the letters, but can read just fine with special attention to their needs during schooling.

The palaeoanthropology study found that stone age cultures teaching by verbal tradition use different brain areas for memory when compared to students of academic studies like modern developed national cultures.
Memory recall is far more accurate and retrievable using verbal tradition, people remember the fairy tale even if they don't remember the lesson. Math students can forget most of what they've been taught if they're simply forced to concentrate on other occupations and have no more exposure to it.

Meaning the person taught that voices always have meaning will have more trouble with misplaced lettering than an academican, who simply passively looks at a page and recognizes whole words visually, almost in ignorance of what they might mean.

So, it's counter-intuitive, and harder for some.

nice post metalwing, perfectly illustrative.



oh should add, due to work on mapping the (regionally isotropic) CMBR in which an acquaintence at the UNSW has been modelling (cosmology professor, astrophysics dept., his wife does black hole models he does CMBR mapping), the "photon veil" is in fact at 10^(-32), successfully mapped and corroberated everything from that moment.
Looks like a 'big bang' but even proper CMBR mapping shows isotropic variation (it's not a uniform field), which matches computer models for an Inflation Theory, but not a "big bang" one. Inflation Theory really stipulates due to GR that entropy forms a black hole universe irrespective of content, it's kind of sweeping that way.

To be different, the universe would have to be an M-Brane Theory model.

^ he's a bluetongue lizard. And not trying to sink the competition but this feller's got ticks.

Oh I agree. If she comes at you with an axe give her the arm. Then you whip out your hatchet and take her arm as payment. It's like communicating without even words. I don't think you could do it with a closed mind.

Yes!



so what did I win?

sorry, I am in fact a highly trained iguana.

And anyway the whole do-it-yourself trip is kind of silly if you don't know the first thing about it, don't have a workshop and couldn't fix it yourself anyway. So handyman/backyarder advice isn't going to help you much.

If you didn't first pull the plugs to see what's going on in the cylinders and start problem solving around the usual suspects before you even posted on the web to ask, then you need to take your car to a mechanic and pay him some money.

It's what you're going to have to do whatever happens. This is just kicking cans and wasting some meantime.

Show how letting things go doesn't change your personality. Love is more about letting things go than desperately trying to hold onto things. The main thing that helps a description of sanity is being consistent in personality between extremes of reaction and circumstances. So it's more about letting things go like a man, not keeping hold of them thinking it's manly.

FYI, with the wrong person you're always going to miss the mark.

I don't think any sane person is willing to go beyond lawfully aged relationships, however beyond that if anyone is going to try to tell me what I can and can't do, they'll want to arm themselves first.


Kind of goes for anyone near me too really. Call me a democrat.

Counting apples is a measurement. Could an alien understand what you meant, using a completely different language, when you theatrically compare the difference between one apple and two apples?
The answer is an obvious yes.

Doesn't matter how we made up the words we use. The observation is independent of any observer, and observable by any other observer.

You need the victim star's atmosphere to be bigger diameter than the lagrange point (the balance of neutral gravity between them).

This can happen in a binary system where one star is a giant.
Or in a binary where one has a prodigous gravity well, like a captured stellar remnant in close proximity.

Helps to know the year and engine fitment (ie. make/specific model/year).

Modern EFI tunes itself dynamically, it doesn't require "tuning". They do need maintenance and servicing, a good idea at manufacturer listed intervals, necessary when something goes wrong.

Meaning they never need a tune up, but something can be in need of attention like it hasn't been serviced regularly and needs new plugs/filters.

All the sensors and the chip does the tuning for you while you drive, in any weather, elevation and loading conditions.
Tune ups was for old points ignition and carby setups, you could only set them for one thing like say, hot weather no load, then when the weather changed or you put a camper on the back, you had to get them reset to run at the car's best. EFI does it for you by itself.
So, don't need tune ups.

Keep your feet on the ground. Accept who you are and be yourself. Let other people choose to like your dislike you, don't try to influence them one way or another. Size up whether you like or dislike them, look at their actions and how they treat strangers to get to know them.
Don't do sales pitches and don't listen to sales pitches.

Conceptual woe seems all a bit vain to me.

So I take it you're a really big NASA fan. We'll just leave it at that.

Time and distance are independent of conceptualization because they are physical dimensions, meaning an objective reality, or that which can be measured by any system, expressed in any language, and by more than one observer.

If you are simply using a different language than another for the same expression or measurement, then you are simply speaking different languages, not independently speaking about nothing worth hearing.

Lost the family unit as a kid, sisters in foster care and me in a wackado church home, didn't see them again until a few years ago.

Along the way I learned you don't overthink it.
Having a little fashionable victimisation is great for working class folks, you can act all "woe is me" with an easy life and it's all very dramatic in conversation, without any real physical threat on your actions. It's all whimsy. It gets the chicks and for chicks makes them feel more on daddy's level.

When you actually have knife fights at the train station over simply hunting for food out of your territory it's kind of a different game.

You don't sit around overthinking a conversation for a psychologist. You discipline yourself and kick into survival gear. Then you do the next task. And so on.
Surprisingly, what you find is it's really not any kind of issue, assuming you maintain some regular social activities for general emotional health. Loved ones are an intellectual concept, familiarity comes from proximity and routine, you can set that up easy enough among strangers, trick your own instincts into feeling healthy and well adjusted.
It works. Most survival skills do.

Patient distress is the greatest descriptor of a medical problem, ie. that you could be dealing with some kind of biochemistry imbalance.

In terms of self diagnosis you're basically describing a pathological behaviour which causes you distress. This is pretty much the textbook description of a medical problem.

Consult a clinical psychologist, therapist or a general practitioner who can give you a local referral. Make sure they're qualified before you hand over cash or accept treatment, there are scammers wherever there's money. Clinical support therapy is big business, homeopaths and everybody tries to get in on the action, some are dangerous.