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	<title>Comments on: On The Wisdom of the &#8220;Gut Feeling&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: On Unintended Consequence of a Faulty Memory &#124; Oceans of Thought</title>
		<link>http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/03/17/on-the-wisdom-of-the-gut-feeling/comment-page-1/#comment-104</link>
		<dc:creator>On Unintended Consequence of a Faulty Memory &#124; Oceans of Thought</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] nor all parts of lives because while  skill like perfect memory would be useful in modern day, but as I stated,  kinda useless when 200 days go by looking the same as it was in the far past. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] nor all parts of lives because while  skill like perfect memory would be useful in modern day, but as I stated,  kinda useless when 200 days go by looking the same as it was in the far past. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: On Vaccines for More Birthdays &#124; Oceans of Thought</title>
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		<dc:creator>On Vaccines for More Birthdays &#124; Oceans of Thought</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] On The Wisdom of the Gut Feeling [...]</description>
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		<title>By: OceansOfThought</title>
		<link>http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/03/17/on-the-wisdom-of-the-gut-feeling/comment-page-1/#comment-14</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve rewritten this twice now, so i think I finally have what i want to say in mind:  unstable and psychopathic are not the same, but I would say the FBI behavioral unit (no, not the one on TV) would agree that pretty much all psychopathic behavior eventually unstabilizes the target person as they degenerate into a creature of wants and needs. 

We know from many studies that &lt;a href=&quot;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117131067930406235.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Crazy in Love&quot; &lt;/a&gt;isn&#039;t actually that far off, and very few people would assert that love doesn&#039;t make the best of us unstable. Physopathic, no, not really, (Fatal attraction not withstanding.) But even love makes us strange to our friends who don&#039;t understand what is happening, or why we are acting a certain way.    People in love are clearly not phsychotic, but can eventually cross that line; unstablity is a first step. 

In the end, I&#039;m saying in the post, that one has to be both &quot;unstable and psychopathic&quot; with an added dose of unsaid sociopath for the condition to be true to lead down the path which whereupon the rest of us need to stay away from said person. 

As for people who think outside the preverable box, or who traffic outside social norms, I&#039;d have to say i think we -you and I- are clearly of that type, and admire the other for it. I like to say &quot;our veiws are based upon our parents view of right and wrong and our parents views are based upon societies level of acceptablity of deviation from the norm.&quot;  In the end, I enjoy thinking outside social norms.  It keeps others on their toes. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve rewritten this twice now, so i think I finally have what i want to say in mind:  unstable and psychopathic are not the same, but I would say the FBI behavioral unit (no, not the one on TV) would agree that pretty much all psychopathic behavior eventually unstabilizes the target person as they degenerate into a creature of wants and needs. </p>
<p>We know from many studies that <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117131067930406235.html" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Crazy in Love&#8221; </a>isn&#8217;t actually that far off, and very few people would assert that love doesn&#8217;t make the best of us unstable. Physopathic, no, not really, (Fatal attraction not withstanding.) But even love makes us strange to our friends who don&#8217;t understand what is happening, or why we are acting a certain way.    People in love are clearly not phsychotic, but can eventually cross that line; unstablity is a first step. </p>
<p>In the end, I&#8217;m saying in the post, that one has to be both &#8220;unstable and psychopathic&#8221; with an added dose of unsaid sociopath for the condition to be true to lead down the path which whereupon the rest of us need to stay away from said person. </p>
<p>As for people who think outside the preverable box, or who traffic outside social norms, I&#8217;d have to say i think we -you and I- are clearly of that type, and admire the other for it. I like to say &#8220;our veiws are based upon our parents view of right and wrong and our parents views are based upon societies level of acceptablity of deviation from the norm.&#8221;  In the end, I enjoy thinking outside social norms.  It keeps others on their toes.</p>
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		<title>By: FlannelDoormat</title>
		<link>http://thestormypresent.com/ocean/2008/03/17/on-the-wisdom-of-the-gut-feeling/comment-page-1/#comment-13</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I take offense with your assertation that &quot;unstable&quot; and &quot;psychopathic&quot; are one in the same.  I maintain that thinking outside of social norms doesn&#039;t necessarily make one dangerous, and without it we be an artless, soul-less and otherwise ugly society.  The inherent beauty of free will is that I can choose to use my powers for good rather than evil; not to be arrogant, but in the end the world will be a better place for having let me be a part of it.

That being said, I agree that it&#039;s important to follow your instincts and not fight them, however it takes a certain amount of practice for many (most?) people to actually understand what their instincts are saying; myself included.

On an unrelated topic, I&#039;m going to have to set aside more reading time if you&#039;re going to post twice in one day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I take offense with your assertation that &#8220;unstable&#8221; and &#8220;psychopathic&#8221; are one in the same.  I maintain that thinking outside of social norms doesn&#8217;t necessarily make one dangerous, and without it we be an artless, soul-less and otherwise ugly society.  The inherent beauty of free will is that I can choose to use my powers for good rather than evil; not to be arrogant, but in the end the world will be a better place for having let me be a part of it.</p>
<p>That being said, I agree that it&#8217;s important to follow your instincts and not fight them, however it takes a certain amount of practice for many (most?) people to actually understand what their instincts are saying; myself included.</p>
<p>On an unrelated topic, I&#8217;m going to have to set aside more reading time if you&#8217;re going to post twice in one day.</p>
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