"To overcome fear of flying, it is critical to understand exactly how you are creating the fear. Vivid disaster movies in which the person imagines themselves right in the middle of an extreme situation are the hallmark of many phobia cases. But the images have to come from somewhere, and as flying is so safe, almost everyone is either making stuff up, or playing over visuals they've seen in the media."
The order of priorities is indeed crucial if one is on a course to achieve what has in mind beforehand. Check out media's agenda and priorities when it dramatizated Qantas plane's hole.
The order of priorities is indeed crucial if one is on a course to achieve what has in mind beforehand. Check out media's agenda and priorities when it dramatizated Qantas plane's hole.Fear of Flying is unusual among serious phobias because hardly any of the people who have it have actually experienced a real traumatic event on a plane. An intense past experience is one of the leading causes of all phobias, but not, it seems, of flying fear. "Over half the people who come to us for help with fear of flying run 'movies' inside their head of really bad stuff happening on a plane" says Seymour Segnit, Founder and President of CTRN: Change That's Right Now. "This is true of all phobias – but usually the person has actually been bitten by a dog, or died in front of an audience. We've never had a single case where the client had actually been on a plane that went down."The team at CTRN believe that many of the aviophobia-inducing movies clients run in the minds are inadvertently 'installed' by the media. Network and cable news, TV dramas and movies often depict planes going down with dramatic visual effects from a passenger's-eye point of view, providing the perfect images for a flying phobia inclined mind. The shaky real-life cell-phone movies from inside Qantas flight QF30 which landed safely this week after developing a hole in the fuselage mid-flight are a perfect example, according to Mr Segnit:Quote "To overcome fear of flying, it is critical to understand exactly how you are creating the fear. Vivid disaster movies in which the person imagines themselves right in the middle of an extreme situation are the hallmark of many phobia cases. But the images have to come from somewhere, and as flying is so safe, almost everyone is either making stuff up, or playing over visuals they've seen in the media."
mamyblue, did you "nick" yourself after the Demis Roussos's Mamy Blue? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ufdsRaso-s&feature=relatedI absolutely love that song!
Quote from: shall on September 10, 2008, 02:13:01 PMmamyblue, did you "nick" yourself after the Demis Roussos's Mamy Blue? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ufdsRaso-s&feature=relatedI absolutely love that song!shall, is Jessica Alba the woman of your avatar?! I absolutely love her!
Quote from: penda on February 06, 2012, 03:02:42 PMQuoteQuoteThey also hinted broadly that daughter Chelsea Clinton would be speaking Tuesday evening.I never get the point of politicians' children addressing crowds such as DNC's - I guess they do it to introduce their children to politics early on!A curious fact about Chelsea during the White House years of Bill Clinton was that the matter of Chelsea's privacy was debated in the press, and most media outlets concluded that she should be off-limits due to her age. But when Clinton was 13 her appearance became a matter of ridicule for some satirists and commentators, including comments by Rush Limbaugh and the comedy writers of Saturday Night Live.In 1995, freelance writer Tom Gogola released a tape of songs purportedly recorded by Clinton which commented upon notable people and included lyrics like "let's inhale"; the tape proved to be a hoax. Gogola defended the tape, saying "None of it had to do with being mean to Chelsea. Satire is satire."No doubt about it, penda, in the States there is a very strong culture of free debate supported and protected by the First Amendment rights.
QuoteQuoteThey also hinted broadly that daughter Chelsea Clinton would be speaking Tuesday evening.I never get the point of politicians' children addressing crowds such as DNC's - I guess they do it to introduce their children to politics early on!A curious fact about Chelsea during the White House years of Bill Clinton was that the matter of Chelsea's privacy was debated in the press, and most media outlets concluded that she should be off-limits due to her age. But when Clinton was 13 her appearance became a matter of ridicule for some satirists and commentators, including comments by Rush Limbaugh and the comedy writers of Saturday Night Live.In 1995, freelance writer Tom Gogola released a tape of songs purportedly recorded by Clinton which commented upon notable people and included lyrics like "let's inhale"; the tape proved to be a hoax. Gogola defended the tape, saying "None of it had to do with being mean to Chelsea. Satire is satire."
QuoteThey also hinted broadly that daughter Chelsea Clinton would be speaking Tuesday evening.I never get the point of politicians' children addressing crowds such as DNC's - I guess they do it to introduce their children to politics early on!
They also hinted broadly that daughter Chelsea Clinton would be speaking Tuesday evening.
http://www.lawschooldiscussion.org/index.php?topic=3005465.msg5399719#msg5399719QuoteWell, it's on the people's (individuals') best interest to watch for the amount of consent it's giving its government, and especially that the latter is not abusing that power.Curtailing their citizens' rights, for instance, overtly or covertly, by resorting to illegal tactics/strategies can result in "unintended and additional" consent being given, with the end result being over-accumulation of power.To top it all off, the history has shown that people are kind of confused as to how they are to organize themselves, with the State having become the norm by now as the adequate form of modern social organization. So, in all likelihood, people are prone to giving that "consent" to be ruled to just everybody out there who happens to have the courage/attitude to go ahead and rule others the way they will - with all this meaning that, once in power, these guys won't care too much as to how their actions will be judged, feeling all-too-justified in what they do!Here it is an interesting post on the other thread, bolo!QuoteQuoteWell, applewasp, what I have heard is this:"Money is like a big giant d i c k. The fact that they'll give you some is only going to make you have more and more of it inside you."For the sake of truth, there's more to the story, appropriate! When anality becomes a perversion in an individual it can result in a danger to that individual, and as a cultural phenomenon, to humanity. There is a clearly defined link between the anal-sadistic phase of sexuality and cruelty. An "instinct of cruelty" appears in Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality," stating that there is an intimate connection between cruelty and the sexual instinct; whether active or passive, it also stems from the drive for mastery. Like mastery, cruelty involves the use of the object simply as a means of satisfaction. Sadism involves a pleasure derived from the object's suffering. The deriving of sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others.After the introduction of the death drive in 1920, the drive for cruelty gave way to the "destructive drive," understood as an external deflection of the death drive and described as aggressive when directed at objects. If it is taken up by the ego, the ego itself becomes cruel or sadistic. The ego then risks not only losing the object's love but also being subjected to the reprimands of the Superego. This agency, which equates with moral conscience, can demonstrate an extreme cruelty, according to the need for aggression aroused by present/past frustrations. Rebellious by nature towards what is nevertheless the necessary process of civilization, the human being is always able to display a "cruel aggressiveness" if circumstances allow it.Contempt, indifference towards the object, cruelty, as well as false emblems of masculinity, faceless bureaucracy, violence, torture, the jackboot and the whip. Freud described the psychosexual development of the child, how he progresses from the anal-sadistic phase to the phallic (genital) one, at the end of which the Oedipus complex finds resolution. It is the smashing/destruction, a developmental arrest at the anal-sadistic phase, as opposed to resolution of the Oedipus complex, that characterizes Western culture.
Well, it's on the people's (individuals') best interest to watch for the amount of consent it's giving its government, and especially that the latter is not abusing that power.Curtailing their citizens' rights, for instance, overtly or covertly, by resorting to illegal tactics/strategies can result in "unintended and additional" consent being given, with the end result being over-accumulation of power.To top it all off, the history has shown that people are kind of confused as to how they are to organize themselves, with the State having become the norm by now as the adequate form of modern social organization. So, in all likelihood, people are prone to giving that "consent" to be ruled to just everybody out there who happens to have the courage/attitude to go ahead and rule others the way they will - with all this meaning that, once in power, these guys won't care too much as to how their actions will be judged, feeling all-too-justified in what they do!
QuoteWell, applewasp, what I have heard is this:"Money is like a big giant d i c k. The fact that they'll give you some is only going to make you have more and more of it inside you."For the sake of truth, there's more to the story, appropriate! When anality becomes a perversion in an individual it can result in a danger to that individual, and as a cultural phenomenon, to humanity. There is a clearly defined link between the anal-sadistic phase of sexuality and cruelty. An "instinct of cruelty" appears in Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality," stating that there is an intimate connection between cruelty and the sexual instinct; whether active or passive, it also stems from the drive for mastery. Like mastery, cruelty involves the use of the object simply as a means of satisfaction. Sadism involves a pleasure derived from the object's suffering. The deriving of sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional abuse on others.After the introduction of the death drive in 1920, the drive for cruelty gave way to the "destructive drive," understood as an external deflection of the death drive and described as aggressive when directed at objects. If it is taken up by the ego, the ego itself becomes cruel or sadistic. The ego then risks not only losing the object's love but also being subjected to the reprimands of the Superego. This agency, which equates with moral conscience, can demonstrate an extreme cruelty, according to the need for aggression aroused by present/past frustrations. Rebellious by nature towards what is nevertheless the necessary process of civilization, the human being is always able to display a "cruel aggressiveness" if circumstances allow it.Contempt, indifference towards the object, cruelty, as well as false emblems of masculinity, faceless bureaucracy, violence, torture, the jackboot and the whip. Freud described the psychosexual development of the child, how he progresses from the anal-sadistic phase to the phallic (genital) one, at the end of which the Oedipus complex finds resolution. It is the smashing/destruction, a developmental arrest at the anal-sadistic phase, as opposed to resolution of the Oedipus complex, that characterizes Western culture.
Well, applewasp, what I have heard is this:"Money is like a big giant d i c k. The fact that they'll give you some is only going to make you have more and more of it inside you."
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