- Feb 2016
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www.psyke.org www.psyke.org
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"Expelled. We don't use the word terminated here." Laughter.
I'd laugh too, terminated has too much of a negative connotation in that line of duty because it means the end unlike expelled, it's over what else is there? kind of thing doing on.
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Yes, but...
Something always has to happen, life is very unpredictable, so there isn't always that other option being visible. Given the right circumstance and factors this would intentionally lead to an impulsive suicide attempt
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I didn't realize the impact of that statistic until I talked to friends and acquaintances while researching this article. Everyone I talked to, whether I interviewed them or casually brought the subject up, knew someone who had attempted suicide.
It is crazy how frequent this is and how easy it is to find someone who has attempted unsuccessfully or even considered the idea of doing so.
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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"I have to say no, it couldn't have happened to me. I am a watchful father."
The idea sounds stupid, of course. But the fact that it can happen to anyone regardless of gender or social status, we tend to forget things if we are not reminded. And I completely understand this man's statement, but the potential of it happening to him is still there. And its hard to imagine something like that, we cannot force ourselves to imagine a situation so heart breaking to bear and endure something so terrible, but realistically it can happen to anyone even if they say, "I'm a watchful parent." That may have screwed up the case for the defendant, but that's only because that is something any parent wants to happen to them, something they must avoid
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"Memory is a machine," he says, "and it is not flawless. Our conscious mind prioritizes things by importance, but on a cellular level, our memory does not. If you're capable of forgetting your cellphone, you are potentially capable of forgetting your child."
So the threat is still there, and it seems to be one of those issues that can just happen because it has that potential to be forgotten and its scary to think stuff like this can happen, but we somehow let a child out of our site and loose in the mall.
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What he's found is that under some circumstances, the most sophisticated part of our thought-processing center can be held hostage to a competing memory system, a primitive portion of the brain that is -- by a design as old as the dinosaur's -- inattentive, pigheaded, nonanalytical, stupid.
i don't disagree with this statement it thousands of year for our mental capacity to be at the point where its currently at.
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Diamond is the memory expert with a lousy memory, the one who recently realized, while driving to the mall, that his infant granddaughter was asleep in the back of the car. He remembered only because his wife, sitting beside him, mentioned the baby. He understands what could have happened had he been alone with the child. Almost worse, he understands exactly why.
Its truly frightening when this can happen, you suddenly remember and are truly thankful it did't happen at the worse possible moment
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Diamond says that in situations involving familiar, routine motor skills, the human animal presses the basal ganglia into service as a sort of auxiliary autopilot. When our prefrontal cortex and hippocampus are planning our day on the way to work, the ignorant but efficient basal ganglia is operating the car; that's why you'll sometimes find yourself having driven from point A to point B without a clear recollection of the route you took, the turns you made or the scenery you saw.
Oh so now I know why these things frequently happen, except a couple years back i would really blank out and not remember anything at all in a short walk
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Balfour is tall and stands taller, moving with a purposeful, swinging stride. She's got a weak chin but a strong mouth that she uses without much editing. She's funny and brassy and in your face, the sort of person you either like or don't like, right away.
I like how descriptive the author was even though the woman had lost her child through what should be called an accident, but even though that word doesn't exactly fits the nature of stuation
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It had been Balfour's idea to go to the trial of Miles Harrison, and it was she who walked up to Harrison in the hallway during a break, pushed past a crowd and threw her arms around his neck, pulling him close. For almost a full minute, she whispered in his ear. His eyes grew wider, and then he sobbed into her shoulder like a baby. What she had told him was who she was and that she knows he'd been a good, loving father, and he must not be ashamed.
Things like this seem to be taken out of, not a movie, but through page in a well written book to me as can almost visually see how she has done with her kind gesture to the grieving father.
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- Jan 2016
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harpers.org harpers.org
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Twoofthekidsareblack,thefirstblackpeopleI'veseenanywhereonthegrounds.
I've been in that similar situation where I went to a state fair a couple years back and i swear our small group of five were the only Hispanics there. I don't believe it is typical to see any other race in huge numbers to attend.
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