Post No.: 0112 Furrywisepuppy says: Like throughout history so far, people, maybe fifty to a hundred years in the future, might look back to today and think that our generation was strange, blind or naïve regarding many things … Read More
Post No.: 0111 Furrywisepuppy says: Hostile aggression springs from anger or hostility – so being in a ‘hot’ state and acting in the heat of the moment. When angry, we usually lose perspective and may say or do … Read More
Post No.: 0110 Fluffystealthkitten says: Evolution is just heritable variation plus selection pressure, and that’s it, with no intentional direction or goal. ‘Success’ in this context also just means something ‘passed on (some of) its genes onto its … Read More
Post No.: 0109 Furrywisepuppy says: Sports success depends on biological (e.g. genes), sociological (e.g. opportunities), psychological (e.g. discipline) and educational (e.g. coaching) factors, as well as luck (e.g. what injuries happen to your competitors or which opponents you … Read More
Post No.: 0108 Furrywisepuppy says: At what point does a ‘crazy’ thought or feeling of sadness (that we all feel at least every once in a while in our lives) become a mental health problem? Depression, for instance, … Read More
Post No.: 0107 Furrywisepuppy says: Most of us are generally unaware of what techniques and tricks are influencing us as consumers, leading to behaviours like buying frenzies during sales, cult-like followings towards certain brands, people purchasing things they … Read More
Post No.: 0106 Fluffystealthkitten says: Do deterrents such as possessing nuclear weapons work? So far, since WWII at least, they haven’t been used in ‘hot’ anger (although they’ve played a key part of a tense and long ‘cold’ … Read More
Post No.: 0105 Furrywisepuppy says: Our early life experiences with food greatly shape our food preferences when older – we tend to like what we got used to consuming when young. This can possibly even extend to during … Read More
Post No.: 0104 Furrywisepuppy says: So much about modern life works against affording happiness and achieving optimal day-to-day health (e.g. being stuck inside buildings and away from nature, forgoing exercise or social encounters because increasingly more things can … Read More
Post No.: 0103 Furrywisepuppy says: The ‘echo chamber effect’ and ‘filter bubbles’ are troubling in this modern world of news and social media – they occur when people self-select their own circles of people and sources of information … Read More
Post No.: 0102 Fluffystealthkitten says: I personally have no fluffy problem whatsoever with people who are homosexual because it’s not sufficiently persuasive to say that it does harm to other people or even to the individuals involved, as … Read More
Post No.: 0101 Furrywisepuppy says: Despite mental health being related to one of the, if not the, most complex enclosed machines we currently know of (i.e. the brain) and therefore mental health problems being far more common than … Read More
Post No.: 0100 Time for another personal post. This one follows on from Post No.: 0058 and should complete the very broad overview of my personal experiences with depression to date… After university and that trip around the … Read More
Post No.: 0099 Furrywisepuppy says: Whereas mathematical symbolic language must be precise (e.g. ‘A > B’ should mean nothing else except ‘the value of A is greater than the value of B’) – everyday language can often be … Read More
Post No.: 0098 Furrywisepuppy says: Rhythm is innate for most infants. So, as kids, learning to play a musical instrument can be a great joy in and of itself and if they love it then that’s perfect. But … Read More
Post No.: 0097 Furrywisepuppy says: One day, I decided to pay homage to Charlie Chaplin by cutting and styling my moustache to look like his. I got some weird looks and comments though when I was outside of … Read More
