Emotional Maturity Test (part 2)

  Points with comments   1. My country is hopeless. I wish to emigrate!YES: +2, NO: 0, MAYBE/SOMETIMES: +1Explanation: “Yes” indicates focusing on the negative, generalizing, black and white thinking, playing the victim – especially if you...

Past and Prejudice

  Our brains live in the past Many people become grumpier and grumpier as they age. Perhaps you notice that you are more judgmental and critical than you used to be? Perhaps you feel that people were nicer and more polite when you were younger, that the sun shone...

你太敏感了吗?

  Emotional “hypersensitivity” is a relative category, just like various types of sensory sensitivities. Can somebody tell you that you are “overly sensitive” to chili, for example? People are differently sensitive to sounds, smells,...

5 Reasons Why I Hate Manipulation

Quite often, when discussing or reading discussions about manipulative marketing and other ways in which individuals cheat other people out of their hard-earned money (or time, or energy, or anything), I see people admiring skillful manipulators. Many will describe...

My 2 Cents About Chemtrails

  Some years ago, the idea of chemtrails (conspiracy theory which claims that condensation trails left by airplanes are full of dangerous chemicals deliberately sprayed to damage, manipulate and enslave people) was rather unknown and promoted by only a handful of...

Stray Thoughts About Spirituality

  From time to time, I meet people who proudly proclaim that they don?t want to be around anyone who is not ?spiritual enough?. Recently that got me thinking: but what does it mean? For some people, it might mean following a certain religion, or any religion. For...
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