///////////////GATHERING SENSE OF POINTLESS SUFFERING
///////////////SWISS IDEAS-RED CROSS,DIGNITAS
////////////////////Team finds language without numbers (7/3/2008)
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A Piraha man participates in an experiment that MIT researchers say indicates his language contains no number words. - Photo Credit: Edward Gibson
A Piraha man participates in an experiment that MIT researchers say indicates his language contains no number words. - Photo Credit: Edward Gibson
Amazonian tribe has no word to express 'one,' other numbers
An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led team.
The team, led by MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences Edward Gibson, found that members of the Piraha tribe in remote northwestern Brazil use language to express relative quantities such as "some" and "more," but not precise numbers.
///////////////////Do not overreact. Remember, most incidents are temporary so don't magnify what happened. Serious jealousy stems from a fear of loss, reputation, control of ourselves, our spouses, or relationships. Losing control of our emotions and feelings will only make things worse.
//////////////// How hospitals make decisions -Just for a laugh
Posted by: "Dr.Anil Mohandas" anilmohandas@yahoo.com anilmohandas
Fri Nov 7, 2008 5:07 pm (PST)
When a panel of doctors was asked to vote on adding a new wing to their hospital:
The Allergists voted to scratch it and the Dermatologists said not to make any rash moves.
The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the administration had a lot of nerve, and the Obstetricians felt they were all labouring under a misconception.
The Ophthalmologists considered the idea short-sighted; the Pathologists yelled, 'Over our dead bodies,' while the Paediatricians said, 'Oh, grow up!'
The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, the Radiologists could see right through it and the Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing.
The Internists thought it was a bitter pill to swallow, and the Plastic Surgeons said, 'This puts a whole new face on the matter.'
The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the Urologists felt the scheme wouldn't hold water.
The Anaesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas and the Cardiologists didn't have the heart to say no.
In the end, the Proctologists persuaded everyone to leave the decision up to some A*seh*le in Administration.
//////////////////////Cutting off healthy limbs OK, says Dr Christopher Ryan
By staff writers
NEWS.com.au
November 07, 2008 12:12am
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Amputee wannabes ... a rare condition makes people crave having a healthy limb removed.
* Condition makes people crave an amputation
* Expert says let them become amputees
* Removing limbs "makes them far happier"
TO most people, the thought of amputating a perfectly healthy limb is unimaginable.
But for at least three Australians, possibly dozens more, cutting off their leg has felt perfectly normal.
These so-called "amputee wannabes" have a very rare condition in which they feel one of their limbs is not truly their own, and they become obsessed with cutting it off.
And people suffering from the bizarre body image disorder should be able to opt for amputation, a Sydney psychiatrist says.
Christopher Ryan, a psychiatrist at the University of Sydney, says there is a good argument for allowing patients with body integrity identity disorder (BIID) to have their unwanted limb removed.
///////////////////5 BEN NEVISES=1 MT EVEREST
//////////////////A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
--Stephen Crane
///////////////////A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed
and over three years in eating.
-- Arnold Bennett
/////////////////In 1925 British adventurer Colonel Percy Fawcett disappeared into the wilds of the Amazon, never to be heard from again after going there in search of a lost city he called Z. But decades later, a city of sorts—actually a series of settlements connected by roads—has been found at the headwaters of the Xingu River where Fawcett went missing in an area previously buried beneath the dense foliage in what is now Xingu National Park.
///////////////Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
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//////////////////"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
////////////////////// “A well-spent day brings happy sleep [and] as a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
////////////////////////It's nothing more than a personal choice of whether you want to make life happen, or if you want life to happen to you.
/////////////////////"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”
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