Apophenia: the tendency to mentally relate a series of potentially unrelated ideas. When someone employs apophenia, they seem to be bouncing randomly from one subject to the next, making connections between things though the connections are questionable. Extrasensory: not related to the five common senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell). A person could develop an …
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Obsession
Count how many times a person mentions a particular topic. Find the topic with the highest count and you’ve found their obsession. For some, an obsession will be a sport. They might be a bit zealous over hockey or hang gliding, baseball or bocce ball. For others, they might obsess over politics or public figures, …
Mother
Mother’s Day is May 9th, 2021. Making cookies is a hobby I most likely gained from my mother. She taught a great many things, and one of the best lessons is to enjoy life. You don’t know my Mom, though you could imagine her, if you think of a woman quick with a laugh and …
Recently Viewed: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
This is a post about movies and movie ratings and cowboys and violence, and a renegade bum. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, or as it was titled in Italian: “Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo” is a movie which will draw you in. It tells a story of three men on the trail …
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OK is not okay.
Since man lived in a cave the arguments over words have been enduring. If you’ve ever had an argument about words, you know how ludicrous the battles can be. However, if you haven’t, then you might be surprised at how many ways people can argue about words. The word okay, for example, has shown up …
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