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originally posted by: AnkhMorpork
a reply to: IAMTAT
I think that fiver is driven by a strong political bias rooted in a sexual orientation that assumes you cannot be Republican and gay both at the same time.
It's a kind of mental prison-box that people can easily get locked up in due to all the MSM propaganda.
Hatred and heavy bias are sad to see.
originally posted by: AnkhMorpork
Strength through peace to secure the basis for a lasting prosperity appears to be the Trump agenda.
originally posted by: AnkhMorpork
I think you assume too much in part because you may presume to possess a higher level of intelligence, which is blinding and can form a heavy bias with contempt, prior to an open-minded investigative process.
originally posted by: AnkhMorpork
No, NK and Iran are problems that need to be solved in order to PREVENT war.
originally posted by: Skyfloating
originally posted by: Aallanon
a reply to: Skyfloating
I have often thought there were "paid shills" (anti Q on this thread).
Then I thought well, it stands to reason there must be "paid shills" on the other side also (pro Q).
I sometimes wonder if I am surrounded on all sides by "paid shills" and I'm the only real person here. LOL
Laughed out loud on this one.
To take it one step further: Maybe all of us, on both sides, have been MKUltra programmed to be shills and dont even know it.
Maybe all of us, on both sides, have been MKUltra programmed to be shills and dont even know it.
During the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, while undergoing an fMRI bran scan, 30 men--half self-described as "strong" Republicans and half as "strong" Democrats--were tasked with assessing statements by both George W. Bush and John Kerry in which the candidates clearly contradicted themselves. Not surprisingly, in their assessments Republican subjects were as critical of Kerry as Democratic subjects were of Bush, yet both let their own candidate off the hook.
The neuroimaging results, however, revealed that the part of the brain most associated with reasoning--the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex--was quiescent. Most active were the orbital frontal cortex, which is involved in the processing of emotions; the anterior cingulate, which is associated with conflict resolution; the posterior cingulate, which is concerned with making judgments about moral accountability; and--once subjects had arrived at a conclusion that made them emotionally comfortable--the ventral striatum, which is related to reward and pleasure.
"We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning," Westen is quoted as saying in an Emory University press release. "What we saw instead was a network of emotion circuits lighting up, including circuits hypothesized to be involved in regulating emotion, and circuits known to be involved in resolving conflicts." Interestingly, neural circuits engaged in rewarding selective behaviors were activated. "Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones," Westen said.
www.scientificamerican.com...
originally posted by: 0bserver1
a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
What do you actually want from us ?
I really don't get it , one moment you're with us and the other you're attacking us some kind of constantly denial or something?