A Cambridge professor, Simon Baron-Cohen, has written Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty. In this review, the author explains the professor’s ideas.
Read Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil, on Independent.co.uk.
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Hens, LMAO! 🙂
i LOVE BOYS WHO SCREAM…..mind you that’s what got me into trouble in the first place….(don’t ask. ;))
I went thru that ‘want to hurt him’ phase, I was like you 1step, I was afraid of him, still am I guess, but I moved the pile of rocks I kept by the front door,, I got my new boot’s on, dont need no rocks..
((((hens 🙂 :)))))
Dear guys,
I think I hold the record though when my therapist asked me to bring a witness and documentation that I wasn’t a NUT JOB WACKO PARANOID SCHITZ! LOL Actually I wasn’t offended, because I KNEW HOW CRAZY I SOUNDED…..I can imagine that you were hurt that Kathy asked you if you were on drugs though! LOL Actually the thought crossed my mind as well but I didn’t say anything. LOL
Believe it or not though, as “conventional” as I am in some ways, I’ve always had friends who were crazeeee—they are the most interesting folks…remember the chinese “curse” “May you live in INTERESTING TIMES” and boy is that the truth….living in times that are BORING means that nothing bad or really CRAZY (with a Y) is happening….when things are CRAZ-EEEEE they are “interesting” which means that your world is falling apart. I’ll take boring any day. BORING IS NOT PAINFUL!
But you know, I am proud to know each of you crazee folks, and proud to have made some of my journey along the path toward healing with you INTERESTING AND CRAZEE GUYS AND GALS….you are all pretty smart folks when you get right down to it, and there is a lot of wisdom here along with the humor that has helped us all get through the worst of the pain.
I will probably never even know most of the “real names” you have, or ever see your faces, but that doesn’t make any difference to me, or how much I care about each of you guys, or what wonderful things you have contributed to my life and my understanding of what is REALLY important in this life. I’m still here at LF because I get a lot more than I give here and seeing each of you make progress toward healing, to see the recovery and to hear the sanity in your posts instead of the crazeee and the pain….there is a lot of reward in that. TOWANDA to us all folks!!!!! Two baby ducks out and counting…one more shell is pipped so I think there will be at least three, maybe 4. I’ll know by tomorrow. They’re sooooo cute! Little brown blobs!
ps if there is a boy, I am going to name him Henry after his “daddy” (see you didn’t know that Henry and I were expecting babies did you!) We didn’t get married though. LOL
Hens ~ as long as you’re wearing them fine new boots of yours, you don’t have to worry the rattlers can’t get ya! LOL
Not sure they HAVE rattlesnakes in Costa Rica tho. They DO have the kind that like to give you a little squeeze. I’d be right there screaming with ya!!
Star ~ I have nothing against snakes in pictures… just not crazy about being up close and personal with ’em. 🙂
Heylo HopetoHeal – LOL – it dont matter if they rattle or squeak I dont like em…
Ox LMAO I think HENRY is a great name for a duck..how long you been sittin on that egg anyway?
Hens ~ you just reminded me of what I put my husband through so that stepson could have a pet green snake (they only grow to about 12 inches) a few years back. The boy really wanted one, so he earned it. I told husband that he would have to build an escape proof aquarium, with a very small opening for feeding the critter it’s crickets and a funnel with a long tube for supplying it’s water. I wish I could post a picture of the contraption he came up with!! LOL
I tried to pull up a video of my theme song (“Crazy” by Alana Davis). This is one I used to perform in my old band. But I couldn’t get the sound to play on the video, so I couldn’t post it.
a while back somebody posted a women singing patsy clines version at a high school reunion – it was hilarious