Don't pity the insane
For they are blessed.
They are blessed
because they have an excuse not to be "normal".
There are some instances in our lives when we don't make ourselves understood despite our need to be understood... the reason for this is because we are aware that being understood just won't make a difference.
Dear Lord,
Thank you for giving me a sincere and loving friend. Thank you for the gift of his/her being. I pray that we continue to find in each other a piece of You, a hint of joy, a sense of peace, a serving of inspiration and a bucket of overflowing love. May each of us be a source of hope and enlightenment when one is down and troubled. Finally Lord, may we face more adventures together... may both of us remain good friends as ever... and may each of us remain an angel of the other...
You are truly ever-giving, most powerful, my all in all.
Amen.
I bathe in the stream of God's abounding love and I long to stay afloat,
sustained forever in His hands.
Saan ka mas excited, papasok o palabas ng simbahan? Isipin mo.
Ang makulay na mundo ng pamamasada
Para sa mga feeling lost"Happiness (like winning) is a matter of right thinking, not intelligence, age or position. Our performance is directly related to the thoughts we deposit in our memory bank. We can only draw on what we deposit." Charles Swindoll
I found this on my Animal Behavior notebook. I forgot from where the idea is exactly from. My professor was Dr. Pablo Ocampo (a generous teacher! brilliant too!) from the University of the Philippines -- I found this really interesting:
"The main evolutionary problem for males is to attract females in the face of competition from other males. The main evolutionary problem for females is to attract sexual partners that will endow their offspring with the greatest chance of survival and reproduction.
Courtship involves a contest between male salesmanship and female sales resistance. Coyness helps the female to assess the suitability of the male as a potential mate and may also encourage the male to invest in the future offspring."
I have these big boxes (before they were carton boxes, but now my mother bought me plastic ones... for the purpose of you know what) where I place my old projects, scratch papers, written thoughts, Mc Donald's french fries cartons (yes, believe me ladies and gentlemen), and other memorabilias. Now I am opening them up once more to read random thoughts I have written before. So now, I present to you a special label in this blog called "From Old Carton Boxes"! If you see posts categorized with this label, most probably I have typed the posts with cobwebs in my hand :)
Here are a few examples:
"If you really want something, it will happen. If not, you'll make it happen." (May 2003)
A simple random thought, right?
By the way, I will put thoughts by some of the people I know too... I will just put a name in the end of every quote/poem/etc. so you will know, okay?
How about a verse I wrote when I was in love? (For some people who knows me or who wants to know me this could be interesting!)
My heart speaks of a love that's sincere,
It is you and no one else I find so dear.
In your arms, let me leave no stone unturned,
With time, let our feelings be nurtured.
Hear my lips say your name under you breath,
With you, my life has never been the same.
I wasn't able to finish this, and I don't think I will be able to...
'Til my next post!
An Escape from the Objective World
Have you ever explained your point to someone and he/she just don’t get it? Have you ever thought that it is not because of plain stupidity but something else.. like intentionally choosing not to get it?
Mary O. Howard, in her article on SELECTIVE PERCEPTION to explain its use in advertising, wrote that during the 1950’s, Donald E. Broadbent created a model of human perception which emphasizes that due to limited capacity we process information selectively. Our brain works in astounding ways where every stimulus that is received by the body is sorted. Howard added that due to the restrictions on our individual perceptual systems, we tend to process only that which is believed to be most relevant. This may be affected by factors such as the type of channel used and the method at which the information was delivered.
Four stages of cognitive processing is involved when a stimulus or information is received from the environment through our senses. These four stages are: stimulation, registration, organization, and interpretation (Anil, 2000). As we progress through these four phases, the role of true facts gathered from the stimulation diminishes while the role of garnering meaning from the stimulation increases.
People respond or does not respond according to how well the stimuli makes it through the four stages of processing. The process of choosing what will make it through these four stages is what we call “selective perception.”
Selective perception from a psychological standpoint is how we view our world to justify or create our own reality (Sherif and Cantril, 1945). In other words, the world is how one sees it thus the information processed is in accord with his/her current beliefs.
Our perceptions may be selected at one of two levels: low-level (perceptual vigilance) or high-level (perceptual defense) (Assael, 1985). Howard explained that the low-level or vigilant perception is primarily concerned with physical safety where our senses filter out what is not needed to achieve a task at hand. A good example for this level of perception is when we drive. In driving, we see a lot, we hear a lot. The brain could not accommodate all the stimuli available so it tends to sort out sensory data to focus on those which are important for one to be able to safely get to the destination.
On the other hand, high-level perception or perceptual defense is more withstanding and long-term. It acts as the grounds for interpreting “facts”. Howard emphasized that it is at which we choose to perceive the world on which we live and relate it to our belief systems and ways of being. It is at this level of selectively perceiving that we likely don’t even realize we are the ones selecting. Over the course of time, the meanings we have created become routinely imbedded in our pool of knowledge.
We may habitualize both low-level and high-level ways of selectively perceiving. It is interesting to note that the reason we make our ways of perceiving, including the very act of perceiving, into habitualized actions is that such actions carry with them the psychological gain that we receive when our choices are narrowed. According to Howard, it frees us from the burden of numerous real decisions life gives us .
Thus in selective perception, we are able to distort reality and the truth. It may be destructive in instances when one imposes their false ideas into what they believe they perceive.
Would you still dwell on futile, “non-negotiable” conversations? Well, it could still be worth the try.
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