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I hate working for the company I work for.

Sometimes it's good to get out of your comfort zone . . .

. . . but you don't want a job where you would be set up for failure!

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One thousand and one, one thousand and two, one thousand and three, one thousand and four, one thousand and five.

Some of the barbarians in the "mental health field" have brought back electroshock therapy. This tells me that psychiatry is still in the Middle Ages. No wonder we have so many crazy people running around--when the so-called mental health professionals are even crazier!

The suicide rate among psychiatrists is quite a bit higher than for the general population.

And let us not forget the Army psychiatrist at Ft. Hood who shot something like nine people.

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Someone I want to apologize to,but I don't want it all public and we aren't "friends"...

Can you elaborate?

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Your favorite horror movies?

J.N-Bucking wrote:
The paranormal activity films
Blair witch
Dracula
Texas chainsaw massacre
The omen
Exorcism
The mist
Psycho

Loads of them.
I love horror films and books.

I am think that what ghoulies in those horror films that could not be dispatched with a shotgun, that a SuperSoaker water gun filled with holy water would quickly dispatch!

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I hate working for the company I work for.

What would it take to learn the different job?

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Cannibalism.

There was a man in Germany who wanted to be eaten. He found a German computer programmer willing to eat him. The programmer killed and ate him--actually ate quite a bit of him. Of course, the law says you cannot legally consent to being killed and eaten, so the cannibal was sentenced to prison.

In some cultures, there is a ritual eating of dead people. And in one case I read about years ago, there was a tribe--I think in New Guinea--in which a woman's husband died. She knew that the chief relished human flesh, and she begged him not to eat her husband. The chief seemingly relented, and the husband was buried--but the chief dug him up and dined on his corpse, much to the widow's chagrin.

Interestingly enough, we feel more squeamish about inserting a fork into a corpse's flesh than in bayonetting a living person.

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Your favorite horror movies?

Perhaps the scariest movies (for me) were "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Day of the Triffids" (original versions). I saw both movies before I was a teenager. I guess I'd have to throw in "The Mummy" with Boris Karloff, with that limping, unraveling mummy lurching toward an unsuspecting victim. I have seen a number of horror movies in which I've said to myself, "A bunch of rednecks with their guns would have blown those bogeymen to smithereens." My favorite line in any horror movie: "I've got an idea--let's split up . . . " As soon as they split up, whatever ghoul has been stalking the group then leisurely picks them off one by one. I'm not sure that they are horror movies, but I like monster movies with such villains as dinosaurs. I cannot think of anything more horrifying than walking down a beach with a tyrannosaurus coming after you, with a mosasaur waiting for you in the water--no place to run!

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Cannibalism.

I have been a military advisor for quite a while. One thing that I've learned--and teach--is that after people haven't eaten for three days, the veneer of civilization pretty much wears through. Then most people will do anything in order to eat.

One of my favorite movies--and books--is "In the Heart of the Sea," by Nathaniel Philbrick. This is the true story upon which Herman Melville's novel, "Moby Dick," was based. After the "white whale" destroyed their whaling ship, the crew took to the whaleboats. Long story short, they were thousands of miles from land, and they resorted to cannibalism. But they didn't just eat the dead--they drew lots to see who was going to get shot--and eaten--next.

There is a story about some Spanish explorers in America who were kept in a small hut by the Indians, and were not fed. They ended up eating each other.

In a survival situation, expect something like a "Lord of the Flies" scenario.

If you are not big and strong, or have weapons, you can expect to be eaten.

This kind of thing plays out on a lesser scale in most human situations. Look at your average workplace, and you can see predators and prey, the "haves" and the "have nots."

There is probably something like these concerns in the backs of our minds when Docteur Ralph and I fondle our weapons . . . we have decided that we do not wish to be eaten in some future apocalyptic scenario!

I recommend checking out the 1970s movie, "Soylent Green," which starred Charlton Heston. In this movie, the dead were collected and processed into food for the living. Should you get tired of the "rat race," you could go into a euthanasia center and die a peaceful death--just before you were made into food.

So, yes, truth be told--in most survival situations, people would--and usually do--resort to cannibalism. Some Russians told me that during the war it was not unusual for cannibalism to have been practiced in some Soviet communities.

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Sherlock's predictions for the future .

And I'm betting that birth defects will be eliminated, and a way to regrow limbs and organs will be found!

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Should I write my professor?

twosocks wrote:

Sherlock wrote:
You have learned a very valuable lesson in marketing. The two or three people who were always talking undoubtedly got very high marks. In ANY professional situation, you want to stand out in a positive way. You don't have to be the biggest standout, but need to be visible. There's a name for people who work hard but never "blow their own horn." That word is "chumps."

You might ask the professor the best way to participate in a lecture format, which is admittedly a difficult thing to do. Lecture is the least desirable format for a class, but it is what 95 percent of university classes are about.

But always make sure the professor knows who you are. Ask some intelligent questions from time to time. Try not to sit in the back row--the profs believe that the least serious students sit there--really. Try to sit in one of the first two rows.

And, as Docteur Ralph says, you have to "talk up" your artwork. It's as much about blather as it is about brush strokes or stone chiseling.

I totally agree that this is how the world works. But I'm so against blowing your own horn! I think self-proclaimed people are a*******. Pardon my language. But I think being humble shows way more character.

Self-effacing humility doesn't get you very far in life, sad to say. Neither does hubris. You need to find that happy medium, the "sweet spot," between the two. There's absolutely nothing wrong with pointing out your achievements to others--just as long as you don't overdo it. But you have to "talk up" what you're doing in order to stay on people's radar screens--especially the people who decide who gets promoted, retained, downsized or outsourced. I wish it were different--but it's the way it is. So get in there and blow your own horn--even just a little bit!

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