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August 15th, 2006, 06:59 PM
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Re: OT : A psychosocial question
I think we like bringing forth (old) emotional pain in certain moods and situations. Self-pity can feel very good and comforting, and an experience of pain can push your current problems and situation into the background, thereby making them appear less important or inconsequential.
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August 15th, 2006, 08:17 PM
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Re: OT : A psychosocial question
Music and lack of sleep, not to mention drugs, alcohol and some foods might bring about an unexpected upsurge of long forgotten, or well hidden emotional pain.
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August 16th, 2006, 10:03 AM
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Re: OT : A psychosocial question
Stimulants of any kind, remove you from "control" over your own life. Your decisions are no longer based on any set of principles or experiences. You forfiet control of your life when you use drugs, alcohol or any other mind altering substance. You open the door to everything that you had closed it on...
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August 18th, 2006, 03:06 PM
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Re: OT : A psychosocial question
Hmmm...up here, we don't get a 21.4% refund rate for aluminum cans.
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August 18th, 2006, 09:48 PM
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Re: OT : A psychosocial question
Really? A bunch of empty aluminum cans from $1000 worth of beer 1 year ago is worth $1214 today? That's hard to believe. By "earn" $214 do you mean a gain of $214 above the original $1000, or do you mean it is $214 total?
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August 19th, 2006, 10:10 AM
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Re: OT : A psychosocial question
Aluminum is up over a year ago, but your right, those numbers are inflated as only a mathmatician could do. See my point? There's only one way I know to prove / disprove this. Anyone up to trying it?
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August 19th, 2006, 11:58 AM
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Re: OT : A psychosocial question
Xrati phrased that badly. The point is not that you "earn" $214, it's that you have more money left after investing in the beer than in the stocks. The experiences you had while drinking the beer are supposedly a bonus on top of that.
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August 19th, 2006, 05:10 PM
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Re: OT : A psychosocial question
capnq is right.
...and please don't confuse mathematicians with the advertisers and politicians who distort their statistics.
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August 19th, 2006, 07:43 PM
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Re: OT : A psychosocial question
I didn't say 'Prove mathematicians'.
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