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Listen and watch that. With headphones, if possible.

Then, leave a comment telling me one incredible thing you've done today for yourself or a fellow human animal or your community.

If you haven't done one incredible thing, get off the fucking computer and go do something.

XO.
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tadkil:
Took my 10 year old outside and watched the sun rise. We focused on how light and color interact and tried to describe it. He said, "The green comes back as the sun wakes up and smiles.". He was still working in his journal last night before bed.
cheyenne:
i beat cancer...does that cover my incredibles for the next few years? wink
I love your blogs.
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blackrosemd1:
I'm so glad to see you back. You were my first favorite SG, and are reclaiming the crown easily.
evermansice:
Hm. You may insist you're boring these days, but, if nothing else, you still appear to me as one of the prettiest girls in all creation.
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In continuation of the "Flux is boring" argument:

An Average Day:

6:30 AM: Wake up naturally to the birds singing in my backyard; heat water, brew tea
6:45 AM: Meditate
7:00 AM: Drink tea; get in shower, scrub hard, dry off
7:20 AM: Start bacon (locally raised on pastured by a farmer I'm on a first-name basis with, naturally)
7:30 AM: Cover body in kukui...
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hoorayparade:
I second Candaxis 's question. I loved using coconut oil after the shower but it was giving me deep, painful blemishes. I use it before I wash my face now.

I love your routine. It sounds so serene. I always tell myself I will get up earlier so I am not so rushed but it never happens. Have you always been an early riser?
sweetbutch:


820 AM

ROCK ON WITHCHER BADSELF!
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The best part about reading evolutionary psychology journals is finding rationalizations for every bad habit and horrible quality one has.

I was really sad when that "blondes are aggressive warrior princesses" thing turned out to be misspoken.
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waldo_jeffers:
I once read a book in which evolutionary psychology was described as being something akin to "Just So Stories" (remember Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories"?).

The book was called "Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature" by Steven Rose, Leon Kamin and Richard Lewontin.

Rose (a Biochemist and Professor of Neurobiology), Kamin (a Psychologist) and Lewontin (an Evolutionary Biologist) argue against biologically reductivist explanations of human behavioural / psychological traits. They also spend a brief part of the book arguing against culturally reductivist explanations. For them, any form of reductivism whether biological or cultural is misguided.

They specifically attack the Sociobiology of EO Wilson and the biological reductivism of Richard Dawkins.

The book also spends a bit of time attacking the notion that IQ is hereditary and criticising Cyril Burt (arguing that Burt's classic research on IQ heritability in twins was based on data that he had made up) and a couple of his followers Arthur Jensen and Hans Eysenck (both of whom have claimed that there are genetically determined IQ differences between black and white people). Kamin was among the first to demonstrate that Burt had faked his IQ research data.

It has been a fair few years since I read this book (I first read it back in the early 1990s when I was at university studying for a joint honours degree in Biochemistry and Philosophy) so my memory of the book may not be 100% accurate.

Personally, I don't find it credible that a full explanation of human behavioural / psychological traits can be put together without including the role of both genetic and environmental factors. Even if Rose, Kamin and Lewontin aren't completely correct they make a very important point. Claims by scientists to have found biological explanations for human behavioural / psychological traits are often treated as firm fact by the media and are not subject to sufficent scrutiny, when the actual research data may only support conclusions of a more equivocal nature.
elwood:
Don't believe it for a second. ...It's a conspiracy to shake your confidence.
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Ways I got boring/lame/annoying since I left:
*I only got one more tattoo. It's a pretty cool one, I guess, but I am still fairly unmodified. Because I hate spending money on things.
*I found out I have a totally sweet autoimmune disease (ankylosing spondylitis) and so to avoid being on tons of meds for the rest of my life, I adopted the paleo diet...
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maslow:
i'm really happy to see you back. you've always been one of the most inspirational ladies on here.
djh1976:
So glad to see you on here again!
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This doesn't mean anything crazy or big or sexy is afoot.

Just, you know, getting reacquainted.

ADDENDUM: I come back to a staggering 139 messages. What the hell, people?! Some of us have jobs!

ADDENDUM II: Oh, shit is going to be hilarious, though, I went off on the health and nutrition deep-end in the past couple of years and now all you fuckers are...
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necros:
welcome back lil dude smile
jlh1019:
So what would this diet consist of. I am a firm believer we should eat by how are teeth formed which coincides with your evolutionary diet.
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A few weeks ago I was sitting on a bench in a local park, enjoying the sunshine and a copy of El hacedor when I heard a small, throaty cough to my right. I turned to see who had joined me. Hmm. Her.

"So," she began, "you seem to have changed a lot lately, little war-fetter. I don't suppose you actually believe that you've grown...
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denie:
wow! welcome back yo!!!
grompf:
smile
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And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed (them) altogether. Numbers 23:11

Life is good, kids.
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l_f:
And Balaam said unto Balalaika, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to cure mine maladies, and, behold, thou hast brought (them) altogether.
Frous in Numbers 11:23

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takfuji:
Still miss you.

Who am I supposed to e-stalk without you?
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So as I have noted before, I have a pretty playful view of astrology, best encapsulated in the phrase "it's fun to think about," also used by me to explain how I feel about playing within and outside of gender roles, the symbology of hair color, and God(s).

So I have an e-mail subscription to Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology, and when this showed...
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tafkasp:
indeed, chica. indeed.




see you out on the dance floor. kiss



ebernal:
karma can be good, karma can be bad...its best when its good! smile
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dusti:
Thank you. blush
s_eldorado:
Ever read a book called "Stolen Continents" by Ronald Wright?

Probably won't tell you much you don't already know about the Mayans and their Meso-american pals down south but may learn you up a think-notch or two about the Iroquois and Cherokee.
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I'm glad y'all are liking my new video.

Tomorrow, I am going to vote early (I have an exam on May 6, the day of the NC primary). I'm kind of excited that even this late in the game it seems like votes still mean something.

Even though most of you have voted by now and my political leanings haven't really been masked, I...
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spaceboy:
That video was seriously rad.
oubliette:
Name the date, Toots.