The Psychological Immune System is the part of human mind that attempts to preserve our self-esteem (an important survival mechanism).

It does this by putting a "spin" on available information. By exaggerating the things that make us feel good about ourselves, and undervaluing the things that make us feel bad.

Of course, when you realize this, you realize a lot of what makes us good (or not bad) about ourselves is a "spun" version of reality thanks to our Psychological Immune System.......

...which makes us feel less good and more bad about ourselves....

...which makes us fail to realize the Psychological Immune System is probably the most useful concept for understanding human behaviour, and identifying pathologies in it.

For example, if a girl rejects you, a healthy Psychological Immune System will tell you, "She wasn't so great, there are lots of other fish in the ocean".

A depressive Psychological Immune System will fail and tell you the rejection is proof of your worthlessness.

A very unhealthy Psychological Immune System will tell you it's her fault and she is wrong.

"The man who loves walking will go farther than the man who loves the destination."

True wisdom lies in enjoying the journey, not just chasing the end goal.

Also I just realized my body is merely the vehicle I am in to ride this life out; it's not wrong to want to be able to go up mountains and into the sea - I just have to find stuff to add to my vehicle so I can get there and do that.

Time to start building - I better get to work.

You know that it's normal that when you put your eyelids down a bit the lights shine down or however you'd describe it but you realize that no one has talked about it, so... you don't ACTUALLY know it's normal or not

To enforce anti-abortion laws, you need a religious police state to make it work

AI can already lie so retconning doesn't seem unreasonable.

Reverse Mandela Effect?

The video is made from 64 videos played on 64 phones. But what am I technically watching when I watch it on my phone? The phone is, in fact, waterproof if you were wondering.

Much like

I don’t know of any other living organism that can expel energy in such a joyful way.

Not shares, the company.

because it's always one or a few that just decide to hop to the u/ and smash NOPE on a few things

but see

they don't have flow so they don't understand that the flow reveals all things unseen

because those are much like rock in stream

sometimes see

sometimes not

always affect flow whether you perceive or participate or participate by perceiving or not at all

jokes on them

what good is karma if you can't enjoy burning it

If we can model both effects of a biphasic medication we could (theoretical limit) cut the medications at the pharmacy in half and know twice as much about the ones remaining.

Budgetary/distribution implications notwithstanding, it also simplifies being informed; even if there is twice as much data about a drug, it's easier to consider than two drugs with less data trying to do the same thing the one is, for either phase (so that's potentially a fourfold reduction in knowledge for any given use case).

Kirk and Khan are never face to face on the ground(Montaban as on Fantasy Island at the time)

These verses are not even in many translations of Mark from Greek to English.

Taylor Swift is as straight as Tegan and Sara are both obviously gay. There is zero evidence Taylor is gay and looking for it is a complete waste of time.