Good News Wednesday:
Overpopulation is a myth. Human population is stabilizing. There will never be the 12th billion human.
People living in extreme poverty is the lowest in history.
Immigration is becoming more and more important for stabilizing population and importing fresh blood and genius.
2% of the brain (two table spoon) is relational brain. That’s what organizes our thoughts coming from the rest of the brain.
98% of the brain functioning alone produces only intuition.
We have lost our intuition power by losing touch with our raw thoughts and feelings, and communicating through text/email.
Judges are the new heroes.
Facebook is the new public Television.
Tweets are the new press release.
The constitution will be tested and tried like never before.
Every American eligible to vote will vote in the next elections.
If you are waiting for anything, you won’t get it. Patience is an excuse for pain. Either go get it, or let it go mentally.
“The Holocaust did not start with gas chambers.”
#muslimban
The Quran is just the New New Testament.
How to speak to People who don’t respond well to facts:
1. Keep emotions out
2. Discuss, don’t attack
3. Listen and articulate carefully and slowly
4. Show respect
5. Acknowledge
6. Show then how accepting the fact doesn’t change their believes or world view necessarily.
Source:
Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College
Jason Reifler, University of Exeter
The word of 2017:
GASLIGHTING
Gaslighting is a form of manipulation through persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying in an attempt to destabilize and delegitimize a target. Its intent is to sow seeds of doubt in the targets, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Instances may range from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim. The term owes its origin to Gas Light, a 1938 play and 1944 film, and has been used in clinical and research literature. (Wikipedia)
#gaslighting
There is no such thing as a US interest first. It is the Human Global interest first.
If it is a US interest but harmful globally, then on the long run, it is not US interest. The US does not live on a separate planet. When are we going to learn this?
I don’t believe in evil. We are just a bad species.
Wissam Charafeddine 