There’s a news story on Gizmodo today about a teen gamer who tried to strangle his father with a cord from a gaming controller. Apparently, the father had repeatedly told the boy to turn off the console and finally ended up going into the boy’s room and pulling the power cord, causing the boy to [...]
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Church and Psychology
A friend of mine has started blogging. In his first entry, he shares his thoughts on the Church and psychology and the current tension between the two.
For years the Church has tended to deny that psychological problems really exist. Some have openly stated that psychological problems do not exist, only sin exists and that what some [...]
SchizoDID, SchizoDONT
Ok, this bugs the tar out of me, especially since I’ve seen a lot of writers, both for books and for TV, who get this wrong. Schizophrenia is NOT the same thing as multiple personalities. Schizophrenia involves delusions and hallucinations, among other things (see A Beautiful Mind for a flick that actually gets it right). [...]
Robots Among Us
Amazing Robot Reality, or Techno Puppet Show? – Gizmodo
Technology really is coming a long way. I’ve recently started tuning in to Gizmodo in my Google Reader1 and have, as such, been keeping abreast with a lot of the latest and greatest in the tech industry. This article highlights a very lifelike robot that has the ability to interact [...]
Psychology of Observation
The human eye makes millions of individual observations a day. The vast majority of these are ignored by the conscious brain, but far more of these observations than we realize are recorded into long-term memory. The thing of it is, we don’t usually realize it. It’s not quite photographic memory – most of us simply can’t recall [...]
Heavier Traffic
How do you greatly amplify your daily hit count? Create and release a WordPress theme and then tell Weblog Tools Collection about it. Already at this point in the day, my numbers are up four times higher than normal. It’s pretty cool.
And I have to admit that it was really weird to see the first blog [...]
Forthcoming
I’ve just quite a bit of material to write about, all of it stacking up in the queue. Most of it right now has to do with theology and philosophy and the like, some of it has to do with writing, and some to do with gaming. All of it requires a clear head to [...]
Commercials and Marketing
I will periodically remark on a commercial I’ve seen or heard with a comment like, “That was really stupid. That company ought to fire whoever wrote that commercial.” My wife will then give me this knowing smile and say, “But do you remember what company the commercial is for?” When I say that [...]
Intermittent Explosions
Study says millions have ‘rage’ disorder
There comes a point when even I think psychology and science end up just looking plain, down-right ridiculous. If you explode in a rage at seemingly random intervals, don’t look to your own attitude for a fix. Look to your physiology. Or at least that’s what a recent scientific study is [...]