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• On "Doubting Jesus Resurrection"

  
  CADRE Comments — Authority: 412
  Kris Komarnitsky has a guest post on Common Sense Atheism, in which he summarizes the argument he made in his book of the same name, Doubting Jesus Resurrection. I have not read the book yet and I am sure it contains much more detailed evidence in support of that argument, but if the blog post is an accurate summary I ...
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• Many Americans Are Religiously Mixed Up

  
  Heaving Dead Cats — Authority: 414
  This entry is part 21 of 21 in the series Research and Studies The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life just released a new survey today. I’ve given it a quick persusal and I have to say, while some of it is interesting, most of it doesn’t surprise me. Apparently large numbers of Americans engage in ...
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• Terminal Hunger

  
  Robin D. Laws — Authority: 125
  Whenever you find yourself lf stuck in a place running a continual news-loop with inescapably loud audio, the Esoterrorists put it it there, as an emitter of low-grade cognitive dissonance. They particularly target airports, where their installations play to a captive audience of the already anxious. Their client ...
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• Sex Sells, and so does Tiger Woods, but do we buy his apology?

  
  Goal Posts — Authority: 103
  Four months ago, I wrote two blogs titled "Sex Sells, and so does Tiger Woods" ( #1 and #2 ). The blogs highlighted the fact that when Tiger contended for a championship, television ratings were more than 100% higher compared to when he was injured the year before, generating a tremendous amount of revenue for the ...
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• The power of positive thinking; put in perspective

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Think happy thoughts is common wisdom that many people rely on for getting through feelings of depression, and painful or difficult situations. Often, people try to be happy when theyre not; hoping that they will become the happy person theyre impersonating. This folk wisdom is backed up by science-to a point. ...
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• Not so fast

  
  labradore — Authority: 431
  "We dont need Ottawa." — Deputy Dan Kathy Blunderdale, speaking about the Lower Churchill on VOCM, September 4, 2009 . "Oh, yes we do," or words to that effect. — Dan, speaking about the same thing, some time in December .
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• Strategies for thesis completion: Not synthetic happiness

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  As Clay Shirky has said about Web 2.0, "here comes everybody," and with that we get great conversation, with real listening. My blog entry today includes 2 readers responses to my entry about "a downside to synthetic happiness" and my attempt to clarify the concept further. I begin with the shortest entry written by a ...
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• ‘Cognitive dissonance’ requires cognition

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 124
  ThinkProgress points out the hypocrisy of Sarah Palin’s recent appearance on a conservative radio show in which she endorsed the wild-eye conspiracy theorists called “birthers” — saying “the public rightfully is still  making [questions about Obamas place of birth] an issue” but then going on to ...
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• Why Does God Hate Pigs?

  
  Heaving Dead Cats — Authority: 414
  This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series bible Lessons More to the point, why do Jews and Muslims hate pigs, since god doesn’t exist. But for the sake of argument, let’s look at the bible and quran to see what they say about the other white meat. Question: Are pigs native to the Middle East, then? If no ...
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• When Others Believe Your Abuser

  
  Sanctuary for the Abused — Authority: 127
  WHEN OTHERS BELIEVE YOUR (Narcissistic or Psychopathic) ABUSER from this site: CLICK HERE Since when is it good to be friendly with bad people? Since when is winking at their wrongdoing a virtue? Perhaps someone can quote chapter and verse in the comments, because holier-than-thous really deserve to have ...
  2 weeks ago

• A downside to manufacturing our own happiness

  
  Don't Delay — Authority: 91
  Research by Dan Gilbert (Harvard), his students and colleagues clearly indicates that we can synthesize our own happiness despite what would seem like dire circumstances or poor choices. The thing is, this powerful innate coping mechanism or psychological immune system can be a liability as well, because it can ...
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• Why manufacturing our own happiness is a problem for procrastination

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Research by Dan Gilbert (Harvard), his students and colleagues clearly indicates that we can synthesize our own happiness despite what would seem like dire circumstances or poor choices. The thing is, this powerful innate coping mechanism or psychological immune system can be a liability as well, because it can ...
  2 weeks ago

• To Judge Or Not To Judge

  
  The Life Without Limits Community Blog — Authority: 109
  The day before U.S. Thanksgiving, we posted a video by a colleague of ours , about gratitude vs. appreciation, that got some polar opposite commentary. Some of the blog comments we didn’t approve, and other statements (written in ALL CAPS with lots of exclamation points!!!) went to our ticket desk, because the ...
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• Grinding . . . To . . . A . . . Halt. (Also known as “That Sneaky Bastard, Self-Sabotage”)

  
  Take Up Your Bed and Walk — Authority: 124
  Yeeeaaaahhh. First off, I just added a page at the top: One Week at a Time .  I have this habit of starting new healthy behaviors and then forgetting them a week or two later, when I add a new batch.  So now I have them all in one place.  In other news . . . I’m feeling SUPER un-motivated right now.  I just ...
  2 weeks ago

• Marriage Help: Better Living through Cognitive Dissonance

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Misinterpreting the message of cognitive dissonance ruins marriages, a fact that totally eludes marriage therapists and relationship authors who promote "getting your needs met." Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort of self-image colliding with reality. Such collisions are inevitable, as self-image tends to be ...
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• Better Living through Cognitive Dissonance

  
  Anger in the Age of Entitlement — Authority: 91
  Misinterpreting the message of cognitive dissonance ruins marriages, a fact that totally eludes marriage therapists and relationship authors who promote "getting your needs met." Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort of self-image colliding with reality. Such collisions are inevitable, as self-image tends to be ...
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• Confusion Technique

  
  Sanctuary for the Abused — Authority: 127
  ONE TECHNIQUE USED BY ABUSERS & SEDUCERS Confusion Technique The birth of Milton H. Erickson’s Confusion Technique: Milton Erickson’s Collected Papers-Volume I-pg. 259 "One windy day as I was on my way to attend that first formal seminar on hypnosis conducted by Clark Hull in 1923 , a man came ...
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• I Didn’t Quit Drinking to Get High On Hope and Change

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 745
  With the holidays fast approaching, I thought it might be a good time to jot down some thoughts on drinking.  Or, more specifically, not drinking – booze  or Kool Aid. Recently, I celebrated my eighth year of sobriety.  I have 9/11 to thank for that; it was shortly after the attacks that I began attending ...
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• WoW: The guild effect for teachers

  
  NetFamilyNews — Authority: 493
  There are lots of good reasons why an assistant superintendent of schools would start a guild in World of Warcraft (WoW) – all laid out in a fascinating profile of the Cognitive Dissonance Guild and its educator members in The Journal this month. But the reason why Catherine Parsons, assistant superintendent for ...
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• Merit and the marketplace, free choice etc

  
  Aristotle The Geek — Authority: 424
  Horwitz has an article on the “myth of merit” - In his various chapters and essays on the “mirage” of the concept “social justice,” F. A. Hayek makes a claim that is very often overlooked by those who support the market. He argues that markets generally do not reward “merit.” That is, the people who ...
  3 weeks ago

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