GENIUS FORUMS

Shahrazad wrote:Iolaus, my oldest daughter, who has a brain disorder, at some point switched from left-handed to right-handed. It makes me wonder if that is what caused the brain damage. Or it could have been a convulsion she had at four.

It's more likely that the brain problem caused the handedness switch.

Oh Diiiie-beeert! Come out and plaaaa-aaaay! So about IDF shelling a UN school? Ooooops, that claim was an, uhhh, ummm, a clerical error : A clerical error led the UN to falsely accuse Israel of shelling one of its Gaza schools in the Jabalya refugee camp during Operation Cast Lead, the internationa...

I can't believe that Victor hasn't linked a study yet. Here's an article that reports that changing handedness results in brain damage. Ah, interesting study. Based on that, it seems to follow that using the non-dominant hand excessively would encourage similar damage. I didn't actually expect this...

As i said, comparing this to muscles, what Ignius suggested is like saying that exercising your arms should make your leg stronger. No, it's more like saying that exercising your arm for opening doors will help make your arm stronger for swimming. No, it's not. I know of no evidence suggesting that...

Brain is indeed like a muscle, in that exercising it grows new neural connections and even new neurons. The ones being exercised . That's why I find it hard to credit the supposition that, say, using your off-hand a lot will do anything for the brain but improve your off-hand coordination. As i said...

Tomas wrote:.


-vicdan-
You should really visit Israel. You won't be sorry.

-tomas-
You plan on ever going back for a visit?

Someday.

It makes no more sense that the notion that exercising your arms would strengthen your legs. See, the opposite idea is just as intuitively appealing. Body skills use up neuronal space. They literally occupy certain portions of the cortex -- and the more neural processing you use for a given body par...

Free advice: Pirsig is an idiot, in that special way in which some very smart people can be totally bonkers. And Foucault is worse! Well... Focault is a nut, but not an idiot. See, there is a fine arts to classifying various sorts of smart-people stupidity. There are nuts , who are totally off thei...

The second reason is my life long exposure to bright, notable Jewish thinkers and writers living inside and outside Israel who were and are opposed to the current Israeli state and its policies. And the fact that many other Jews worldwide are not representing Zionism at all in any way or form. Inde...

Free advice: Pirsig is an idiot, in that special way in which some very smart people can be totally bonkers.

Do you have any references on that? It's at odds with what I know of neurology.

Well did you see what happened to the president's proposal in the House of Representatives, im sure you're aware. After all the unprecedented ass-kissing Obama performed on these Republican Reps, what happened to his very first idea, one which he even reluctantly modified to suite them? One that he...

Ataraxia wrote:Hehe,bloody hell Diebert,you sure do write some interesting socio/psycholigical insights at times.Scientific materialism as a fascist former- geek reaction

yeah, scientific materialism is fascistic. Try another one, it's got bells on it. <smirk>

Nobody in their right mind would claim that Israel was 'minimizing' civilian casualties during their last incursion. Phone calls, leaflet warnings, knock missiles -- all of it doesn't exist in your delusional universe. look up what DIME weapons are. Their very point is to reduce civilian casualties...

That's because that's what power is : the exchange of any effect, change or control of everything we're in relationship with. Since we cannot be said to have a relation to something that is not effecting us or being effected by us, it doesn't make sense to talk about some non-power relationship. <p...

Come to think of it, that sounds indeed more like the typical mysticism that fascists like to surround themselves with <LOL> You sound confused. This whole discussion on fascism started because of your rant about power, some "quintessential expression of carnality" and "the physical ...

Why do you mention only anti-semitism as a factor, as though the only prejudice/hatred in this conflict is on the part of the Palestinians? Are Jews completely free of prejudice/hatred for Palestinians? for palestinians qua palestinians? Absolutely. Sure, they hate the current enemy; but there is n...

When you say that, do you mean Israel as a state that is majority-Jewish both in the composition of its population and government, or do you allow for the possibility of the existence of a state of Israel in which Jews are not the majority of the population and/or of the government? one state will ...

1) I am not interested in strength or power. i am interested in wholeness , of which strength and power are aspects. Of course. It's this organic wholeness-balance-synergy where the roots of any real and sustained strength lies. Riiiight. I guess hellenes were fascists too then. Well, Plato kinda w...

Smells fundamentally reactionary to me, the whole phrase. No wonder. Surviving is reactionary?.. Ooooo-kayyyyy... Over the last eight years the ratio is about 10 Palestinian civilians against 1 Israeli civilian, although last month it seems Israel tries to add a zero to that ratio for the coming ye...

Not in my experience. And I wasn't referring to you, as it happens. Interesting that you took it to heart. Must the Jew-Borg thing. No, must be the "I had countless other losers accuse me of this" thing -- IIRC, you were among them in the past. I've come across that attitude time and time...

The whole "anti-Semitism" paradigm is itself utterly pathetic. Anyone who uses that rhetoric as a debate device is a person of no moral and intellectual character. You may have noticed by now that to do as little as disagree with the standard Zionist line of argument is to be anti-Semitic...

Alex Jacob wrote:Am Israel Chai

Indeed. Yeah after year, century after century, era after era -- Am Israel Chai!

Le Chaim, chaverim (and even the not-quite-chaverim).

You should really visit Israel. You won't be sorry.

It's a bitter pill to swallow for some but it's something I slowly started to realize as I got older and noticed how nobody actually managed to change the deeper lying patterns. Under all the lifestyle and philosophical twitter there were still the basic individual tendencies they had as a teenager...

The comedian option is one I've seen a few times implemented and is somewhat related to the fascist option. In both cases one warps reality by putting oneself out there in a grossly distorted fashion. Right. Because, in your view, one cannot actually change themselves. Like I said, you have narrow ...