IDENTITY GIVING
Telling a person who or what they are or also treating them in certain ways to improve or deteriorate their identity and get them to do or not do something.
Telling a person who or what they are or also treating them in certain ways to improve or deteriorate their identity and get them to do or not do something.
Some religions tell their followers they are "sinners"; other religions tell their followers they are "the chosen." Compliments such as "you are the best," or insults such as "you are a fucking idiot" are also examples of "identity giving".
by but for June 30, 2020
To get consumers to go buy things,
via the media,
corporations make individuals feel
so superior to most people
they feel disgusted of others
and stop interacting with them.
via the media,
corporations make individuals feel
so superior to most people
they feel disgusted of others
and stop interacting with them.
The glorification of movie stars, and the innate—it seems—cognitive bias that makes everyone think they're better than almost everyone else, help induce "consumer self-isolation".
by but for February 24, 2020
Writing down the exact words each individual says (or only the keywords) and/or electronically recording the words to deter speakers in a discussion, argument, conversation, or negotiation from making false statements, saying they said something other than what they said or saying they did not say something they said.
Because human beings tend to make false statements it is extremely helpful to practice Truth Upholding.
by but for February 26, 2018
I did indoor running—especially at night, in the small house I rented in Pharr, Texas I moved my bed away from the wall and ran around the house daily.
by but for September 27, 2018
In the small house I rented in Pharr, Texas I moved my bed away from the wall and did indoor running—especially at night.
by but for September 27, 2018
Though a painting's frame is separate from the painting, it influences how viewers see it. Any human interaction can be framed as, for example, an urgent complaint, a compliment, something serious and safety or life-threatening, or as something positive, pleasant, friendly, funny, inquisitive, etc. How a person presents himself to others by means of 1) his body's shape (athletic, fat, or skinny), 2) how he is dressed, 3) his hair, 4) what he says and the tonality with which he says each thing, 5) how confident or insecure or fearful or loving he is, and other details frame the situation he created, which whether the person knows it or not are modified by the five things above, and affect and can even determine it's outcome. To fool someone or for other purposes, individuals frame situations as something other than what they are. Some individuals can modify or even flip a "situation framing", to their advantage.
by but for February 24, 2020
A method to differentiate a dash placed at the end of a line to indicate that a word has been separated into two parts because it did not fit on a line, from a hyphen inserted between two or more words, such as "hands-on", "brother-in-law", or "state-of-the-art".
It is best to differentiate a dash placed at the end of a line to indicate that a word has been separated into two parts because it did not fit on a line, from a hyphen in a compound word such as "hands-on".
A "compound word" is comprised of two or more words and has a hyphen between each word.
If a line ends in "able-" and the next line says "bodied", readers automatically interpret "able", followed by "body", to mean "ablebodied". Most people do not remember that the correct way to write "ablebodied" is with a hyphen (able-bodied). I call this method to differentiate dashes from hyphens the "next line hyphen".
If the last word on a line of text says "for-", and the first word of the next line says "profit", the logical way to interpret the dash is as being a dash, though in reality, the writer means “for-profit”, not “forprofit”.
A "compound word" is comprised of two or more words and has a hyphen between each word.
If a line ends in "able-" and the next line says "bodied", readers automatically interpret "able", followed by "body", to mean "ablebodied". Most people do not remember that the correct way to write "ablebodied" is with a hyphen (able-bodied). I call this method to differentiate dashes from hyphens the "next line hyphen".
If the last word on a line of text says "for-", and the first word of the next line says "profit", the logical way to interpret the dash is as being a dash, though in reality, the writer means “for-profit”, not “forprofit”.
by but for February 24, 2018