This may sound like a bit of an odd suggestion; but if you are made mad by this, maybe you have an unjust sense of superiority and entitlement.

I made a similar mistake last night, I was laying in bed with my girlfriend, but had my wallet in my pocket. I was laying on my wallet which was ontop of her hand, and I said "Oh, I'm laying ontop of my hand that is ontop of your wallet."

We both knew what I meant, but it came out wrong. Remember the "Have a good meal." "You too" bit. People are prone to making errors, it really shouldn't surprise you or upset you unless you fancy yourself error free, and that is probably a delusion.

I thought these were just called "Mules" or at best "zebra mules". But I guess that term doesn't sound playful enough, we had to come up with "donkra", "zebroid", "zebrule", "zorse" and so on. Anyway, I think I'll stick with mule or equine hybrid

Yet, if you believe the creationists they were giant humans, and if you believe the atheists giants never existed at all... err... wait... they did, we just didn't have sufficient evidence to believe they did, so we asserted they didn't.

“Stupidity is evil waiting to happen”

- Clay Bond

Men with real values don't care.

On another note; I was just annoyed that everywhere I turn there appears to be a bunch of infantile fools frantically foraging for funny facts and figures to flit their fancy. We are doomed. The Rock is going to fall.

Crazy boy--
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town
Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground
We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears
You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years

"The rock is gonna fall on us." He told the magistrates
"I believe that we can stop it but the time is getting late
You see I've done all the research my plans are all complete."
He was showing them contingencies when they showed him to the street

- Harry Chapin, The Rock

Low intelligence theory: People with low intelligence find this entertaining.

Let's test the hypothesis using Clifford's criteria for the ethics of belief: It is wrong in all cases to believe on insufficient evidence; and where it is presumption to doubt and to investigate, there it is worse than presumption to believe.

But isn't it fun to fabricate assumptions that propel ourselves to superior heights, from whence we can peer down on our less endowed brethren and laugh.

The Hamburger of Babel; Man's culinary attempts to reach the heavens.

All this stuff is sort of lumped together in the science of consciousness. They aren't considered 7th 8th and 9th senses, but one sense. The name of which is evading me.

I happen to be reading a book by Dean Radin right now, which is not my first choice, but was ordained by selection pressure; when I went to the bookstore I grabbed a random stack of philosophy books. Dean Radin is a parapsychologist and his book The Conscious Universe attempts to give credence to Psi research.

If his methods and statistics are taken at face-value, Radin makes a strong case for clairvoyance, precognition, and other forms of ESP. But this comes after reading several books that deny the existence of ESP. If I believed them both, their methods, and statistics, I'd be in an irresolvable state of cognitive disonnance. Fortunately enough for me, I don't care if ESP is real or is not real.

I just went over to Tim Horton's which, unless you live in Canada or New York, you probably don't know it. It is a coffee chain named after the hockey player Tim Horton. It is extremely popular in Ontario, Canada with locations on just about every corner, sometimes on opposite sides of the same intersection.

When I got to the counter a young man whose nametag read "Christian" was serving customers. Being a frequent customer of this particular location over the last 6 years means I recognize when new employees are hired. Christian was a new employee, today was his first day. I placed my order as "Two large double double" which means "Two large coffees with 2 cream and 2 sugar" to most people. He charged me less than what I thought it should be and asked for confirmation of the quantity "That's for two coffee right?" and he confirmed, but then when my coffee was ready I found they were medium, not large. So I said "I ordered larges..." and before I could finish he threw his hands up in the air and lamented "See, I've done it again..." at this point I interrupted his tantrum and said "It's okay, I'll be happy with medium."

Then I was reminded of this post and how utterly shallow-minded and ego-centric customer complaints can be.

Didn't think it was neat to spotlight people's auditory and verbal comprehension or spelling errors. I guess ridicule continues to pass as entertainment. HAHAHAHA! Look at that! The buffoon made a mistake.

Nevermind all the not-so-neat advances made in the social and psychological sciences that push our understanding of ourselves and reality forward. Those aren't neat, they are tedious and boring, laughing at human error takes the cake.

I think all of these errors of medical judgement relate to the "Cartesian Theatre", the belief in a disembodied soul, which is far more pervasive than our own psyches would have us believe. Aldous Huxley wrote in "The Doors of Perception" that the brain is "A cerebral reducing valve" that distorts the reality of the situation into a reduced image, taking out parts of brain matter doesn't kill the soul which exists independent of the brain, it merely eliminates certain "reductions" performed by the brain. Maybe he was onto something in some measure, but separating soul and brain into independent domains, opens up channels for all kinds of speculation on effective treatment methods. Why not perform lobotomies? If the person is just suffering from a faulty valve.

A similar thinking factors into neuropharmacology, that there is some genetic cause for brain abnormalities that must be corrected by pharaceuticals. They don't ask whether or not the psychological issues are existential and recommend seeing a priest or monk. They may not know the difference, it is a joke that researchers speak of a "Normal brain" as if there was a kind of brain that everyone had except the abnormals. This is ridiculously near-sighted and ego-centric. Some "autistics" have become wise to this and jokingly refer to themselves as "Neuro-Atypicals" and reject the term "Autistic".

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we don't know, that is true knowledge. - Confucius

I'm saying there are a lot of things we don't know until it is too late. By the methods and standards of his time Freeman was in-line, that's why thousands of people opted to have the procedure, hundreds of doctors learned the procedure from Freeman, and Rose Marie "Rosemary" Kennedy sister to John F. Kennedy also had a frontal lobotomy at the hands of Walter Freeman.

If you think it was obvious at all that the procedure was counter-productive you don't understand the history of medicine. It was not very clear at all that removing large portions of brain matter would result in serious dysfunction. Beginning with Aristotle it was believed that the brain was a radiator for the body, that it cooled blood and little else. The animate essence of the human was said to be in the "Vital Spirits" that circulated the blood, and thus the Heart, not the Brain, was the seat of the soul. Vitalism didn't die when William Harvey plotted out the circulatory system in the 1600s, but it may have marked the decline of elan vital.

Nevertheless, during the behaviorist dominance of mental health the brain was believed to be a static entity, and that removing faulty parts would help patients. There was no concept of healing the broken bits, because there was no concept of neuroplasticity. If there was something wrong with a part of your brain, it would just be removed. Frontal Lobotomies aren't the only such procedures. Split-brains that have been severed down the connecting fibres of the corpus callosum are still common for treating severe epileptic seizures. Michael Gazzaniga has done extensive research on split-brain patients and has done some pioneering work in revealing the defecits acquired by people who have the two hemispheres of their brain disconnected from each other. It is difficult to tell there is any defecit because each half of the brain is consistent with itself an handles different sensorymotor tasks. The split becomes apparent when one half of the brain says it believes in God and the other half says it doesn't. When the researcher says "Draw whatever you like" the left and right hands draw different objects. Its as if the brain which normally facilitates one personality and one set of beliefs, is not split into two personalities with two different sets of beliefs and preferences. Otherwise there doesn't appear to be any side-effects of splitting the brain in half down the corpus callosum.

Even less is known about the effects of pharmaceutical drugs, especially drugs that target receptors in the brain. The brain is poorly understood, but we know that seratonin is implicated all over the brain and especially regarding mood regulation. We know that the brain habituates, the whole body habituates at a quick pace. I just bought some Senekot-S last night to help with bowel function and the label clearly warns of habituation "Prolonged use may cause dependence on Senekot-S for bowel movements." They are only saying this because they know and have demonstrated with multiple clinical trials that people become dependent on the drug. If they didn't know that with such rigor, they couldn't say it. Just as they never used to say that having your brain cut in half would also split your personality in half, that wasn't demonstrated. Lack of awareness of a defecit is called anosagnosia and it is pretty common with brain injury.

Anyway, cognitive behavior therapy is poor as well, there is a reason people spend their whole lives performing dull rites to a nebulous God they can neither prove nor have adequate faith in, the reason is; they don't want to get better, they don't want to repent or be healed. The same is true of depression a lot of times, people are depressed because they think they ought to have something and they are not having it, or they ought to be something and they are not being it. I've known dozens of people on SSRIs who eventually drop whatever is causing them to be depressed and then they have to deal with SSRI discontinuation syndrome. You may think it is "well monitored" but it really isn't, just tell your doctor you are particularly depressed and he or she will authorize extra dosage. Their primary concern is making patients stable, not working through their deep psychological problems. The latter requires the involvement of the patients will to self-reflection, the former just requires consumption which is pretty much par for popular treatment methods.

the purpose and spirit of anything should not be projected into statues. This is idolatry. Rather the purpose and spirit should be embodied in the human.

Who assumes macaques are incapable of snapping photos?