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if u have a magizine get it to
User ID: 517332
10/11/2008 9:53 AM
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page 15 October 20 Time magazine
3rd column to the left.
first lines of 2nd paragraph in that column.....
read it up, it says evolution of our lizard brains... thought it was weird, read the context. it seems evil |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 9:58 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
Thanks for the heads up. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 517332 (OP)
10/11/2008 10:23 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
deff read it guys.
no prob peace |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 10:26 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
page 15 October 20 Time magazine
3rd column to the left.
first lines of 2nd paragraph in that column.....
read it up, it says evolution of our lizard brains... thought it was weird, read the context. it seems evil Quoting: if u have a magizine get it to 517332
You seem evil. |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 10:41 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 10:43 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
Do tell |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 517332 (OP)
10/11/2008 10:51 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
alright i'll just type what is says real quick, you gotta get the magazine urself to read the part
"But fear is a persistent emotion, one embedded in our lizard brains."
was referring to how everyone is afraid to invest right now. |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 11:01 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
Can anybody please post this here? I am outside US and didnt have acess to the magazine. Thanks. |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 11:13 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
The Moment
By John Cloud Thursday, Oct. 09, 2008
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Historians trying to decide when the Panic of 2008 began may look to the morning of Oct. 6, when the U.S. government's vaunted $700 billion rescue plan barely slowed the market meltdown. The usually ebullient CNBC host Jim Cramer went on Today and implored, "Whatever money you need for the next five years, please take it out of the market right now." Retirees were frantic. Even Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, his face a rictus of worry, said the economy probably won't improve until next year. Stocks veered wildly.
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Financial panics--short-term, acute market upheavals that often coincide with long-term recessions--were common as the U.S. economy developed. There was the Panic of 1857 (prompted by railroad-bond defaults), the Panic of 1873 (sparked by a stock crash in Vienna) and the Panic of 1907, which started when shaky New York City banks quit lending. We learned a lot from those scares--the U.S. Federal Reserve was created in the wake of the 1907 Panic--and some believed we were too smart to panic again.
But fear is a persistent emotion, one embedded by evolution in our lizard brains. That's why there's no precise economic definition of a market panic; it's more a psychological than a fiscal phenomenon, simultaneously anticipatory (you think something terrible will happen) and retrospective (you think you have waited too long to avert disaster). Swimmers being dragged to sea in a rip current often try to swim directly to shore--against the current--and end up exhausting themselves. Panic can kill.
Years ago, the Princeton psychologist Hadley Cantril posited that social panics occur when large groups can't discern reliable sources of advice from unreliable ones. The jumbled frenzy of 24/7 information access may be making our current panic worse. It's tempting to check your investments every few minutes. But having more information, in this case, isn't necessarily better. Panic attacks end when you take a deep breath, and a step back. |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 11:16 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
another brain article in same mag, no reptile reference though. interesting though
Race and the Brain
By Jeffrey Kluger Thursday, Oct. 09, 2008
The human brain is surely the most sophisticated data-processing machine in the world, except when it's not. In fact, in some ways our brains can be flat-out crude--like when they're dealing with matters of race.
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Like all other animals, our species emerged in a world where there was critical value in distinguishing between members of your own tribe--who nurture you and protect you--and members of other tribes, who see you as a competitor for food and mates. Your very survival can turn on making this distinction quickly and reliably; as a result, the primal wiring that makes such discrimination possible is not very easy to disconnect. And in a culture like ours, in which race is an issue we grapple with nearly every day, the impulse may have heightened over time.
In the 1990s, psychologist and social scientist Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University co-created what's known as the implicit-association test (IAT), a way of exploring the instant connections the brain draws between races and traits. Previously administered only in the lab but now available online (at implicit.harvard.edu) the IAT asks people to pair pictures of white or black faces with positive words like joy, love, peace and happy or negative ones like agony, evil, hurt and failure. Speed is everything, since the survey tests automatic associations. When respondents are told to link the desirable traits to whites and the undesirable ones to blacks, their fingers fairly fly on the keys. When the task is switched, with whites being labeled failures and blacks called glorious, fingers slow considerably, a sure sign the brain is struggling.
When Banaji, along with cognitive neuroscientist Liz Phelps of New York University, conducted brain scans of subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging, they uncovered the reasons for the results. White subjects respond with greater activation of the amygdala--a region that processes alarm--when shown images of black faces than when shown images of white faces. "One of the amygdala's critical functions is fear-conditioning," says Phelps. "You attend to things that are scary because that's essential for survival." Later studies have shown similar results when black subjects look at white faces.
The brain, of course, is not all amygdala, and there are higher regions that can talk sense to the lower ones. Phelps cites studies showing that when blacks and whites are flashed pictures of faces from the other race so quickly that the subjects weren't consciously aware of seeing them, their amygdalae reacted predictably. When the images were flashed more slowly so that subjects could process them consciously, the anterior cingulate cortex and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex--regions that temper automatic responses--kicked in.
Phelps conducted other studies in which the images included such friendly faces as Will Smith's and Harrison Ford's and found that this helped control the amygdala too. "The more you think about people as individuals," she says, "the more the brain calms down."
But what about when the brain goes the other way? What about when racism isn't an unconscious bias you wish you didn't have but a hatred you embrace? It's hard to know how ordinary human brains become so twisted, but the problem may begin with our ability to fathom time.
Animal brains operate mostly in the present and past; they know what's happening now, and they recall things that occurred before. When animals encounter an unwelcome outsider, simply driving away the interloper is thus sufficient, since they don't give much thought to whether the intrusion will happen again. Humans, however, operate with awareness of the future, which means we seek to extinguish not only a current threat but also future ones--and that can mean trying to eradicate the entire group that poses the perceived danger.
Worse, as our ability to develop weapons has progressed, our ability to carry out our murderous plans advanced along with it. "For the same aggressive impulse, we can do a lot more killing," says psychologist John Dovodio of Yale University. The bad news is that wisdom, the human faculty that trumps all this, can be very slow to arrive. The good news is that with enough time, both individuals and the species as a whole do acquire it. |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 11:18 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
Thank You very much, OP.
Very strange, indeed. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 517332 (OP)
10/11/2008 11:23 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
yeah no problem, it just seems that the sentence didn't even belong in the article, i was wondering what the hell they knew. lol cause far as everyone else knows we supposedly evolved from some far off monkey ancestors lmao, oops, they slipped.
lol it made me laugh too cause i hate the whole reptilian agenda thing, then this came sceaming in the article. really made me pause and re read it like 10 times. |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 11:30 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
OP...did you not know the human species has a reptilian brain? Watch a snake and you can observe "our"core nature. That's why it is so important to use the other parts of our brains to override our natural tendancies to stike out blindly when afraid. I know it seems scary but yes...WE too ALL have reptilian aspects. |
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Eagle # 1
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10/11/2008 11:32 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
Great consiousness raising articles, OP !
Thanks for the post. We need MORE of these to take our minds off those despicable 'spics', LOL !
Seriously, it WAS a NICE change of pace, BUT, DON'T try to confuse me with FACTS; my mind is made up !
Just because I'm paranoid, DOESN'T mean they are NOT after me. Got to RUN ! Here they come ( I think ) !
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 11:34 AM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
I believe we may have those characteristics, but at the same time, if 'everyone' know that then why isn't it taught in school, why no research? why the fuck do they think monkey's if they KNOW we're from a long lost reptile... what other knowledge is suppressed i wonder.
it's like people finally get on the right track and someone throws a 'monkey wrench' into our evolution ideas, and starts to de rail our thought process to only look at apes since that's what everyone else thinks. |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 12:57 PM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
More lizardophilia hidden in plain sight.
[link to www.eonline.com]
Leapin' Lizards! V Gets Rebooted
Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 11:55 PM PDT by Josh Grossberg
Jane Badler, June Chadwick, V NBC Photo by Gene Trindl
Hide the hamsters...the Visitors are baaack!
Hoping to do for V what the Sci Fi Channel did for Battlestar Galactica, ABC has given the go-ahead on a reboot of the hit 1980s franchise about alien lizards from another planet who take over Earth.
Scott Peters, the brain behind The 4400, will write and executive produce the update with Warner Bros. TV, per Variety. Warners shepherded the 1983 NBC TV movie, its sequel and a standalone series that ran during the 1984-85 season.
The new version will completely revamp the original, including changing the allusions from the Holocaust to 9/11. |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 1:04 PM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
I believe we may have those characteristics, but at the same time, if 'everyone' know that then why isn't it taught in school, why no research? why the fuck do they think monkey's if they KNOW we're from a long lost reptile... what other knowledge is suppressed i wonder.
it's like people finally get on the right track and someone throws a 'monkey wrench' into our evolution ideas, and starts to de rail our thought process to only look at apes since that's what everyone else thinks. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 517332
Wait, so my mammal ancestors fucked dinosaurs and stole their brain genes? |
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Anonymous Coward
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10/11/2008 1:20 PM | | Re: OCT 20 time magazine article<------- READ | Quote |
This is common sense. |
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