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leia131I should be studying and/or reading right now, but I'm not.
Point the first: We're reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People in Christian Ethics, and it's really irritating. He makes some points that I really want to agree with, and then he says such retarded things next to them that i just can't. He holds, for example, that if you act like you love someone, and sacrifice and be loving, the feeling of love will come. Which is basically saying you can make yourself love someone. Which is basically bullshit.
Also, dear Mr. Covey, if you're going to talk about human responses being conditioned, don't talk about Pavlov. Pavlov's experiments involved involuntary reactions to stimuli. Things like increased heart rate, blinking, salivating... things you can't control. Say it with me now: INVOLUNTARY. If you want to talk about people being able to choose not to react the predicted way to a stimulus, you need to talk about operant conditioning, which deals with voluntary reactions. The man you're looking for is B.F. Skinner. He invented the Skinner Box, he worked with rats, and he deserves some credit. Besides, operant conditioning is "when I do this, this happens" and/or "when they do this, they want me to do this" which is what you're talking about anyway. Give the man his props, bitch.
And lastly, a meme.
Point the first: We're reading The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People in Christian Ethics, and it's really irritating. He makes some points that I really want to agree with, and then he says such retarded things next to them that i just can't. He holds, for example, that if you act like you love someone, and sacrifice and be loving, the feeling of love will come. Which is basically saying you can make yourself love someone. Which is basically bullshit.
Also, dear Mr. Covey, if you're going to talk about human responses being conditioned, don't talk about Pavlov. Pavlov's experiments involved involuntary reactions to stimuli. Things like increased heart rate, blinking, salivating... things you can't control. Say it with me now: INVOLUNTARY. If you want to talk about people being able to choose not to react the predicted way to a stimulus, you need to talk about operant conditioning, which deals with voluntary reactions. The man you're looking for is B.F. Skinner. He invented the Skinner Box, he worked with rats, and he deserves some credit. Besides, operant conditioning is "when I do this, this happens" and/or "when they do this, they want me to do this" which is what you're talking about anyway. Give the man his props, bitch.
And lastly, a meme.
Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following...
* They have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up!
* Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same
1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. (It is harder than you think.)
What is your name? Megan
Four-letter word: Milk
Vehicle: Mazda
Movie: Mulan
TV Show: M*A*S*H
City: Memphis
Girl Name: Molly
Boy Name: Matthew
Alcoholic drink: Mudder's Milk (Brownie points if you know what that's from. It's sad that that was the only one I could come up with. That's what happens when you don't drink.)
Occupation: Mailman
Something you wear: Mac (Yeah Penny Lane!)
Celebrity: Megan Mullaly
Something found in a bathroom: Mat
Reason for being late: Missed the bus
Cartoon Character: Minnie Mouse
* They have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up!
* Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same
1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. (It is harder than you think.)
What is your name? Megan
Four-letter word: Milk
Vehicle: Mazda
Movie: Mulan
TV Show: M*A*S*H
City: Memphis
Girl Name: Molly
Boy Name: Matthew
Alcoholic drink: Mudder's Milk (Brownie points if you know what that's from. It's sad that that was the only one I could come up with. That's what happens when you don't drink.)
Occupation: Mailman
Something you wear: Mac (Yeah Penny Lane!)
Celebrity: Megan Mullaly
Something found in a bathroom: Mat
Reason for being late: Missed the bus
Cartoon Character: Minnie Mouse
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