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מציג פוסטים מתאריך ינואר, 2013

seeking a deeper communion

You say I am repeating my-self, But I can't. How can I ? No river can be crossed thrice! This know-how won't be changed a bit, even if you keep throwing that dice. You and I, We both know that sad truth - we know as much about the world as a little white mouse, treading his wheel in the lab, trusting his house, not knowing that the path thru ignorance shall be paved thru his sacrifice. Ignorance and knowledge, despite what a poet might say, are two different roads, and one, at least, is most definitely going astray. property, location, education, have nothing with self identification. You say I am repeating my self ? Let it be so.

The vocabulary of missing feelings: a beginning

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Every once in a while, one feels that he lacks a word for the accurate description of one's feelings. It might be an unbridgeable gap between the cognitive and the emotional, and yet, one has to make an effort... What is a feeling ? A feeling is a generalizing term for a subjective, aware, experience which can be characterized by psychphysiological & biological expressions and mental states. Feelings such as Love, Hate, Courage, Fear, Enjoyment, Sadness, Disgust, Happiness and others can be described both by physical terms and psychological terms. For example: A feeling can be described by a change in the beating rate of the heart, in the level of sweating, or in the extraction of facial muscles and the formation of facial expressions.  A feeling can also be described by the changes it brings in a person's self-assesment of one's condition, and his pseudo-rational choices of action, upon that self assesment. Different Researchers have proposed different ...