you can`t always get what you want...........

but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.

was mick talking about the chelsea drugstore again, or some higher form of insight?

coming up; a discussion about evolution........and there are questions, yes indeed.

why do people act stupidly?

in the post on stupidity, a stupid person is defined as someone who`s actions bring harm to themselves and/or to others without net benifit.

why?

internal dialog.

people have a conversation in thier heads going all the time that creates pictures and generates more conversation.

we hear voices and see things.

we are experiencing hallucinations that we passively accept as reality.

the stupid person lets those internal mechanisms run the show.

so does the hapless, the bandit and the intelligent.

the internal dialog of these different groups is the mechanism that creates the different behaviour, and is situationally specific.

some stupid people become a bandit in the courtroom for instance, and some hapless souls become intelligent behind thier desk in the office.

horses for courses.

and there are those who consistantly make a horse run the wrong course.

it is my personal and professional view that stupidity is a conditioned state, and that with training people can become bandits quite quickly................

obligation, expectation and reciprocity.

it is a cornerstone of salesmenship that the more the client feel as if he`s recieved benifit and value in a presentation, the more he`s likely to reciprocate with a purchase decision.

this kind of early bonding can last for many transactions during the relationship of the buyer and seller.

this is borne out in customer loyalty, and is referenced in the clinical work of skinner, pavlov et al.

though in some cases the client genuinely likes the product and would have made the purchase over time, it is in the best interest of the salesman to expediate the process mechanically by patronising.

and after all, the salesman has to make the sale to survive.

this form obligation has come to be known as pressure selling, and has given car salesmen and insurance agents a bad name.

and to the sophisticate that strategy is about as subtle as a hammer in the head.

or.............

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stupidity.

A stupid person is someone who causes damage to another person, or a group of people, without any advantage accruing to himself (or herself) -- or even with some resultant self-damage.


http://cantrip.org/stupidity.html

i`m going to find the rest of this, but enjoy anyway...............

http://www.panix.com/userdirs/clocke/EGR/Stupidity.html


apparently the executors of the estate of this writer of this illuminating paper felt that it was important to force people to remove copies of his work for some reason.

stupidity possibly.

anyway, the thrust of this work is that it sheds light on how people are thier own worst enemies.

i find stupidity breathtakingly funny for the simple reason that a large percentage of the stupidity in the world could be avoided if people would read the paper posted above and recognise thier potential for stupidity.........and fucking stop it.

at this point there is abound to be someone who figures that i`m discluding myself from the group of people refered to as stupid.

well, here`s the thing. i have my days where i`m as stupid as the next person, getting drawn into political debates or agreeing to go to a wedding or helping a friend move a piano for instance, but where i differ is that i resist the urge most of the time, whereby sharply increasing my functional intelligence.

my motto; lead, follow or get out of the way.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1831992200947793079&q=abduction&total=3330&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6

ok, so here we are. a harvard professor of psychology investigates alien abduction experiences and writes books on the subject.....gets investigated by an internal committee at the school and is allowed to continue while the lawyer alan dershewietz comes to his defence.........not materially, but in his right to say what he wants.

meanwhile people keep having the experiences.

a lot of people.

i`m new to this one.............

http://isaaccaret.fortunecity.com/

hoax, viral marketing, or what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xXdIJmjQFE

the crack in the cosmic egg.

http://www.deepspirit.com/sys-tmpl/thecrackinthecosmicegg/

i had forgotten about this book.

i read it when i was quite young, maybe twenty-five or so, but it woke me up to something i always felt somehow but couldn`t voice........that we were creating reality as we experienced each new second.

i found the idea and the fact that someone wrote a book about it that actually got published extremely intoxicting.

i`ve been high on it ever since.

games.

we all play games and are playing games all the time, whether we realise it or not.

there are thousands of games to play and many different levels of game play for each type.

the question one has to ask is; what game am i playing and what level am i playing at.

therin lies the key to psychoanalysis.

most are unaware of the fact that they are part of a game, what the rules are, or whether they are winning or losing.

and that`s why therapy is a necessary service.

to analyse the game and explain the rules.

now i have to play soccer, and the myriad games within................

oh, to be alive. dum-dee-dum-dee-dum.

your government is here to help.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-526459202678637497&q=mind+control+duration%3Along&total=521&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6

no really............

the a.m.a.

http://www.healthe-livingnews.com/articles/american_medical_association_sorbid_history.html


http://www.rense.com/general19/enemy.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Fishbein

wilhelm reich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

amongst a number of clinical researchers imprisoned for thier work in human developement.

others who have been similarly treated include royal rife, who`s work is, alongside reich`s, being resurrected thanks to the open nature of information on the internet.

these pioneers in healing are part of what the american medical association have helped to characterise as "quacks."

wait until you learn exactly what the a.m.a. is really all about.

the criminal history of the papacy.

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/Papacy1.html

there have been those who wish to seperate the actions and fallability of the humans named pope, while preserving the infallability of the office of the pope and the law of the catholic church.

to those i would ask how one makes the distinction between the person and the words of a person. (?)

do as i say, not what i do?

if you haven`t seen a history of the papacy before and are easily shocked, i would suggest bracing one`s self and have a good grip on one`s jaw.

david beckham.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mls/news?slug=ro-beckham080607&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

firstly, i live in toronto and am part of the soccer community here, playing the game three times a week on two different teams. i know of few people who have even mentioned david beckham playing here this week-end and while the game was on we were actually playing ourselves.

secondly, david beckham wasn`t hired to play the game. he was hired to sell shirts and attract attention to the game, which has struggled to gain popularity in america since the aborted first attempt to promote it 27 years ago with the nasl. whether he plays or not he will still be earning his fees.

while beckham was with real madrid he sold over $300 million worth of merchandise with his name on it. a big number that has been fact checked.

if he does similar numbers here everyone will be watching soccer.

we are consumers and we consume what we are told to consume.

even if we dislike, or even hate soccer.

proof?

you know who he is.

stats.

http://www.tinyvital.com/BlogArchives/000220.html

oh yeah.

image stolen without concern from tim boucher, while on the aforementioned...............

wow.

In 1896 the famous John Dewey, then at the University of Chicago, said that independent, self-reliant people were a counter-productive anachronism in the collective society of the future. In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations-not by their own individual accomplishments. In such a world people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they don't know by themselves, without consulting experts. - Kurt Johmann

privately empowered.

well, that about sums my life up.

http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/john_kaminski/how_us_schools_create_sheeple.htm

and i know how to find things out without consulting experts.


so do you guys.

in the article linked above, once you get past the tiresome political bit, you get to the real purpose of education of children.

like church and state, where most are oblivious of the methodologies, the mechanisms are still in effect.

live from wiltshire.....

........... it`s tuxedo boy.

smart people are happier?

well, this little jasper has approximately 14 brain cells, the majority of which are dedicated to shitting and chasing small pieces of string, and he`s as happy as a clam.........except for just this second when some clever git flashed a really bright light in his eyes just as he was about to solve for x.

interesting.

http://chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm

as a therapist i have to say that i see people who`s i.q. varies dramatically, but never have i seen a direct correlation between i.q. and mental health.

having said that, i consider myself bright enough not to play games that i can`t hope to win, and so wouldn`t have voted for either candidate.

then i read how negative the correlation between college grads and bush voters was and something clicked.

maybe it`s that college education makes you socialist.

funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfv-Qn1M58I

i`ve posted this little gem before, but here it is again for your edification.

and he doesn`t say anything about oranges. or nuts. or most other food sources, like cows........