Archive For The “The Mind Game” Category
Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you. – Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Admittedly, he’d had too much to drink the night before. She was brown and…
He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. – Chinese Proverb Most of the time we live on the back of a tiger. And most of the time, the tiger is sleeping. We get to concentrate on being writers, parents; we know who we are and what we’re trying to do. Then every so…
If only we could always say our truths–if we could name the things that haunt us–maybe they could float up from us like the kind of helium that the birds would sip in the treetops. Then they would make us laugh and laugh. — Rita Zoey Chin In the mid-1800s, John Godfrey Saxe wrote a poem…
The techniques of many cults fall under the general rubric of brainwashing… Consciously and manipulatively, cult leaders and their trainers exert a systematic social influence that can produce great behavioral changes. – Margaret T. Singer, professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley Deprogramming the neighbors. My inclination would be to explain quietly,…
A delusion is a false fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust…
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. – Jodi Picoult Barker Ajax been called a lot of bad names by many many people, since…
If you can dream it, you can do it. – Walt Disney Lottery Winner Moves To Key West & Becomes A Famous Artist In His Old Age…. Uncle Walt Disney Never Dreamed Goofy Would Be Played By Matt Gaetz…. Putin Forces Ukrainians Onto Reservations. What The Fuck, Vlad?…. 2-4-6-0-7- You can figure the last number…
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a…
Boswell’s elaborate self-examination makes him a prime modern case of those who believe that fame and recognition will satisfy their desires to be complete, “uniform,” and filled with character, only to discover that nothing is really sufficient to satisfy the hunger within. You have probably never heard of Professor Leo Braudy. He is the unknown…
My dad raised me to believe we are what we accomplish, that what matters isn’t who we are, but what we do. He said we’re all paper cups, disposable and replaceable, that the work we contribute to the world is what we hold in our cups, that the work we do is what we’re worth….