The Art of the Cheese Plate
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The Art of the Cheese Plate
Thank you Eustace for the 60 Minutes link. I watched the show - a good plug.
Jon Kabat-Zinn is looking peaceful. :) If Anderson Cooper can surrender his
mobile devices and keep coming back to his breath, than so can I. And, I
practiced this morning and I do feel calmer. If it is good enough
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In theory, theory and practice
: [FairfieldLife] Humor and Self-Deception
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No, that's it. Thanks for your reply.
What were you hoping for?
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...In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not
(Yogi Berra) In
Hm.I am hitting the pause button today.a small skill I'm learning
when I am in danger of reactingjust me.will get back to you tomorrow. :)
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I've been thinking about humor - how some things strike some as so funny and
others as not at all. I had to be taught by others in early adulthood to
appreciate the absurd, for example, as that element of humor was lacking in my
upbringing. This article is from 2012 so may have crossed here
such funny guys was that
they had gotten past their self-importance.
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I've been thinking
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I've been thinking about humor - how some things strike some as so funny and
others as not at all. I had to be taught by others in early adulthood to
appreciate the absurd
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The ability to laugh at oneself typically increases with age and
experience. I
of a swimmer. :)
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O.K. Get ready...do you mean controlled foolishness? I've gotta
take my dog
BTW, compare to definition #2 below. :-)
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In my experience (given all possible observations, a rather microscopic slice
of life) those that have loosened up or (possibly) lost a straight jacket sense
of limited and static identity, tend to laugh a lot. Not (necessarily) in dumb
and silly reactive ways, but more towards deeper,
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...In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not
(Yogi Berra) In theory, I love science and its methods, despite severe
limits. Particularly neuroscience, broadly defined. However, in practice, I am
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Comments below. I tried to put reply in different color, but can't get
formatting to take so used initials:
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SEER: In my experience (given all possible observations, a rather microscopic
slice of life) those that have loosened
Re: With most others, in daily life - not so much. Probably because all that
deceptive conditioning sets in subconsciously. Know thyself is a very large
concept.
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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not (Yogi
Berra) In theory, I love science and its methods, despite severe limits.
EM: I posted this article because I like the topic; personally, I think the
test they used, based on what they mentioned of it, is a bunch of BS. There
are no black and white answers. The article itself is lousy and dumbed down
for public consumption.
SD: I think the premise of the
Let me try out some mindfulness (no, not a TM'er - no hope for enlightenment
here) and see if I can answer you coherently.
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EM: I posted this article because I like the topic; personally, I think the
test they used, based on what
If people here are offended by my occasional use of salty
language, WTF are they going to make of this? I don't know
who created it, but my bet is one of the MUM students who
contribute to the Facebook MUM Secrets group. Good for
him/her, whoever it is. I know about it only because a
person who
I'm not sure what these kinds of pairs of words are called
in English:
Ollin kurjuus (Ollie's misery) Kullin orjuus (A penis' slavery).
I gather those are way more difficult to invent in English, because
of the obsolete spelling.
Here's a short story written by Finnish engineering students
One of the aspects of politically-incorrect humor
that the politically-correct will never get is the
usefulness of inappropriate humor in determining
who, among the people one finds oneself working or
living with, is actually *worth* associating with.
All one has to do to tell the difference is
Though I'm not an atheist (been there, done that, got the t-shirt) this
is quite funny.
http://www.bigfatwhale.com/archives/bfw_439.htm
http://a4.vox.com/6a00e398ace085000300e398ba29540003-320pi
I have an email list (not a chat group) to which I send things that I find
funny, interesting, etc. Usually several things a day. Sometimes attachments
as large as 5mb. If you’d like to join, send a blank email to HYPERLINK
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
No virus found in this
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Curtis wrote:
Always appreciate an ass mention.
Is the song 'Tutti Fruiti' in your song bag?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ngk6whtbE
Curtis wrote:
Always appreciate an ass mention.
Is the song 'Tutti Fruiti' in your song bag?
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Sal Sunshine wrote:
As you can see, there's absolutely no
arguing or insulting going on
On Feb 2, 2007, at 7:42 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
...and dozens more. Interestingly, a Google search
for humor in Hinduism doesn't seem to turn up much.
I honor of this fact I'll share one! The good news is: I'm delighted
to tell you that despite recent written verification of Perv-O-Rishi
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...and dozens more. Interestingly, a Google search
for humor in Hinduism doesn't seem to turn up much.
I honor
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Geezer, You have provided me with some great laughs - I like your
sense of
Thats the stripper Barry wrote one of his stories about,
right?
I thought that was Toots Sweet.
There's now effective drugs that can cure that for you Rory. Or
think of baseball.
Cure what? Alzheimer's? And think what of baseball?
Toots Sweet -- Tout suite
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