Josie C
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Josie C commented on Do sexy, chesty, SMART babes ever visit this website??? on March 24, 2008, 9:46 PM
I think asking me for a phone conversation is too much. In all honesty I don't know you. I see you made it a point to send a message in the evening...very responsive. Your response to the Gov. Spitzer thing was way too safe. No offense. Anyway, I'm thinking we could discuss issues on this site.
Josie C commented on What is Happiness? on March 23, 2008, 7:35 PM
This is the best explanation of happiness I've ever heard with one caveat. I'm not sure I agree with the part about our brain selecting the most positive view or situation. It sounds like we constantly kid ourselves over and over. Like we trick ourselves in order to feel better.
Josie C commented on Re: Re: Do we romanticize the impact of parenting? on March 23, 2008, 7:22 PM
Thank you for being an opposing voice. I completely agree with you.
Josie C commented on Steven Pinker on Nature vs. Nurture on March 23, 2008, 7:07 PM
I completely disagree with this line to rhetoric. What would professor Pinker think about the parental influence of an abusive father or mother and how that affects the upbringing of a child? To say that the influence your parents have on you is overrated is exclusionary to the effects that negative (or positive) influences have on the human psyche. How would a grown person who is insecure or afraid of the world say that the fact that his father beat him repeatedly as a child or tortured him as a child has nothing to do with who he is as a person now in his current state? Maybe that same person instead of being afraid used that same childhood negative experience and turned it into being a powerful successful individual but there again, we see how a parent's influence and/or upbringing either way affects a person, somehow shapes them, influences them. Regardless of whether it's in a negative or positive way, the influence is there. I'm very surprised this thought comes from a Harvard psychology professor.
Single, educated female on a continuous path of self improvement through challenge and exchange of ideas. For me, continous analyzing and thinking is real living.
Josie C commented on Why do we fear death? on April 14, 2008, 8:08 PM
We don't all fear death. But for those who do, I think the fear comes from recognizing that you have something to lose, something to finish, something unsaid or undone. But ideally we shouldn't fear death because you are right, its a part of life.