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Tweeps are Praying Again
I once wrote a post about activity, passivity and prayer in Twitter trends. It’s an ineffective social media phenomenon that is annoyingly still in use, which allows the people who do it to try and sound as though they’re actually … Continue reading
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On “Transcending Pain”
I’m a chronic pain patient on morphine. It amuses me when healthy people ascribe romantic ideas or evaluations of the experience of pain, especially chronic or severe pain the likes of which most of them have not experienced. More than … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic pain, disabilities, fibromyalgia, headaches, morphine, pain, social psychology
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Thoughts on Kate Bolick and Marriage for the “Modern Woman”
Reading this article from The Guardian, some thoughts come to mind: Considering this article is coming from someone who grew up in an individualist culture – sure. But if you’re raised in a collectivist culture, things are different. Marriage doesn’t have … Continue reading
Prayer, Grammar, Activity and Passivity in Twitter Trends
I’m annoyed. Today, one of the top trends in Twitter is #prayforjustinbieber. Why does Justin Bieber need prayers? To stop people from chasing him? Why doesn’t he just do what Graham Chapman’s character did in Monty Python’s The Meaning of … Continue reading
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Tagged activity vs passivity, atheism, cancer, cancer research, grammar, linguistics, social psychology, twitter
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