The word “hate,” for example, has been redefined to mean disagreement with the political objectives of the Sexual Revolution. Christians are accused of “hating” gay people for disagreeing with gay marriage. But if Christians truly believe that the gay lifestyle puts people further from God, then would it not actually be hate to endorse gay marriage ( Read more... )

Stage 1: The first and foremost reason that Greece got into trouble was the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008 that was the brainchild of Wall Street and international bankers. If you remember, banks came up with an awesome idea of giving subprime mortgages to anyone who can fog a mirror. They then packaged up all these ticking financial bombs and ( Read more... )

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Dismay - Oh! Fuck it ( Read more... )

Westeros, unified by Aegon the Conqueror 300 years before the events of Ice and Fire, was in much the same situation as fifteenth-century England. The various claimants to the throne in the War of the Five Kings had much the same goals in mind as did the participants in the Wars of the Roses. Accordingly, their battles were fought to annihilate one ( Read more... )

Negativity Bias

People tend to pay more attention to bad news - and it's not just because we're morbid. Social scientists theorize that it's on account of our selective attention and that, given the choice, we perceive negative news as being more important or profound. We also tend to give more credibility to bad news, perhaps because we're ( Read more... )

Ukraine: The Price of Internal Division | JackMatlock.com

I believe that nobody can understand the likely outcomes of what is happening unless they bear in mind the historical, geographic, political and psychological factors at play in these dramatic events. The view of most of the media, whether Russian or Western, seems to be that one side or ( Read more... )

То есть здесь есть три вещи. Первая: предположительно в английском массовом сознании уже отсутствует ритмика строчного барьера. То есть строчное деление не понимается как деление метровое. Разбил поэт по строкам как-то, у него были соображения, они, по всей видимости, ни с чем не связанные, выделяются только заглавной буквой, там можно сделать ( Read more... )

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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded ( Read more... )

Книжное похмелье (Book hangover)
Чувство, когда окружающий мир кажется несовершенным и сюрреалистичным из-за того, что человек только что закончил читать книгу, в которую был полностью погружен.

Именная засада (Name ambush)
Неловкая ситуация, когда вы сталкиваетесь с вроде бы знакомым человеком, но не успеваете вспомнить, как его зовут.

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