Psychology

» redback - where do you find the motivation?

In response to where do you find the motivation? posted by LauriePK:

"...Is that too much to ask?"

None of the questions you've asked is too much to ask. And none I've raised were of the ilk: "Go Back. You're Going The Wrong Way!" Failure needn't be part of the vocabulary either. At the very worst, you're simply delaying the success you seek. Note (im)patience is a relative term.

Hope you find authorsden helpful. Here's the authorsden blog of my lifetime friend whose bio is very interesting reading, his poetry sometimes dark. We went to school together a lifetime ago and I was lucky enough to stand in for him in walking his 2nd eldest daughter down the aisle those seemingly short years ago.

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» redback - where do you find the motivation?

In response to where do you find the motivation? posted by pink101:

The book industry in the USA must be mindboggling so even if you capture just 0.1% of the market, the money is good. Getting on Oprah's Book club(?) seems good for books even if the author is later discredited as happened recently.

Your mention of c-span? Is that about online books? Remember T5zine? Wasn't he into online zines?

-- posted by redback

» pink101 - where do you find the motivation?

In response to where do you find the motivation? posted by redback:
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Zines. That kid from Great Britan? T5zine? What that his handle? He was a prodigious one. I think he went off on a trip of learning around the world. Hopefully he'll pop up again. It would be interesting to see how he is progressing on his journey through life. I'm sure he is no dummy.
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C-span is a television broadcasting system that is funded by mandatory support from the commercial channels. It's sort of a privately funded public operation if that makes any sense to you. No commercials and supposedly neutral in all political affairs. Almost everything in the USA is leaning toward the conservative right. The liberal left is, mostly, seen as a bad--if not outrightly evil--place to be. As you probably have noticed, I'm seen as a liberal; although I think I'm a fairly conservative thinker.
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Being a published author is like having achieved the American Dream. 15 minutes in the sun.
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» redback - 15 mins of fame

In response to where do you find the motivation? posted by pink101:

I think I may have left a letter off his user name...'T5zine' is close. His name was Don from memory and it was in the era suite101 had dynamic dialogue, eh? C-span is unusual. We have TV channel 2 (ABC) and the multicultural SBS. Definitely the first and I'm almost sure both, taxpayer funded. An industry funded opposition sounds "courageous" along the lines of Yes Minister.

From memory, these labels of being right wing, conservative, liberal thinkers loses translation for me across the Pacific. Is 'conservative' more hardline on status quo eg keeping the death penalty?

I'm almost heathen...I can't auto recall who's a Democrat and who's a Republican. And of course this concept of 'evil' ought to be a badge proudly worn given some of the interpretations. My granpappy always said: "Evil is as Evil does."

I've been watching the article count here. That young Laurie is getting kinda "prodigious" and may get top billing?

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» Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen - 15 mins of fame

In response to 15 mins of fame posted by redback:

I had to look up prodigious! ABC as I was doing it, was funny.

I'm writing an article a day. I love writing, and it's fun to post, and my other forays into the writing world aren't really paying off yet.

BUT, I did write a "research short" for a magazine that rejected 3 past article pitches, and she said it's very good! She's put it in the "for consideration" pile and will let me know in a month. I'm hopeful! Cautiously optimistic.

I don't think conservative means death penalty - not in Canada anyway. I mean, can conservative Christians possibly believe in the death penalty?

Can ANY Christian believe in the death penalty?

» redback - 15 mins of fame

In response to 15 mins of fame posted by LauriePK:

But you don't have the death penalty in Canada, do you?? The USA has the death penalty. Aren't the 'liberals' trying to remove it there? Who knows what a 'conservative' Christian is. Is it a literalist? The conservative political party here is the Liberal Party.

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» Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen - 15 mins of fame

In response to 15 mins of fame posted by redback:

No death penalty in Canada, nope. We're too nice (wink).

I don't think all the states in the US have the death penalty; in fact I think most don't.

I thought a conservative Christian follows the Bible's words literally. That sure would make the definition simple, wouldn't it?

» pink101 - Politics

In response to 15 mins of fame posted by LauriePK:
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Politics, of course, is about power. At least that's what I think it is.
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Things--whatever they are--seem to evolve. Politics, in the United States, has always been around. In America's earlier days, political parties were distinctly different from each other. The Torries represented conservativism and the Whigs represented ordinary people.
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That has changed. Political parties have turned into career paths for people who are interested in acquiring power of their fellow citizens. Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and others have come to be ladders up which individuals climb to gain power.
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Pretty much, in my mind, religion is a form of politics in that some individuals enter into it as a career path in which they gain status with their fellow Christians. Of course, you'll find few career path Christians who will admit to that. Instead, they will say that they are "called" to provide some service to others on behalf of God.
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Here, in America, the various denominations appeal to the different interests of those who follow. I find it very interesting to interact with people who take their religious beliefs so seriously as to be a matter of Heaven and Hell--glory and punishment--for time without end after they die.
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Politics and religion are so closely related, one can barely tell the difference. So, an evolution is taking place with the merging of these two--supposedly--different career paths.
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» pink101 - Conservative Christians

In response to 15 mins of fame posted by LauriePK:
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There was a special television program aired back in December, 2006, and again last night, here in America, on Cable News Netword (CNN). I think you get a good idea about it by going to this link:
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http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/...
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Various aspects of Christianity were reviewed. It was quite interesting..

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» redback - in the here...and now

In response to 15 mins of fame posted by LauriePK:

The question of conservative or liberal etc started with pink's comments. I understand Pink's a 'conservative' 'liberal' with a modicum of 'luck' in his life.

If a death penalty exists in a state...and one is for it...I understood one would have conservative views. But it's like your topic on "luck". It may be all about bad fitting labels and the lust to pigeonhole people? And in that sense, no definition is simple.

BTW...there was a time when one could start a conversation from an article via a hotlink. Whatever happened to that?

Is it where we try hard to understand what is meant by:
"For the corresponding "live" discussions, post in the here." ABC

-- posted by redback