How the Universe looks from here for Wednesday, April 13, 2005

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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

About ape behaviour... Inspired by a post by Emptyhanded painter...

A few years ago I had the great privilege of meeting and hanging out for a while with some chimpanzees that have been part of an on-going ASL project since the 1960s. What I learned there is that not all people are human. A recent post by Emptyhandedpainter brought up the subject, and I want to clarify some things. I would be interested to know of any documented case of chimps stealing and killing human infants for food or any other purpose. That they rarely but occasionally kill and eat chimp... Sign in to see full entry.

Affirmations Don't Just Affirm: Words and Beliefs

Hello, again! Grounded? Centered? "Can you hear me now? Good!" Lenny Bruce did a bit about the emotional power we give to words, along with a suggestion that we exercise a bit more conscious control over that dynamic. If you want to see it, Dustin Hoffman recreated the act in the film, Lenny. The 'parts' of self that drift around in the unconscious mind are esssentially fragments of our conscious selves that, like pearls around grit, we have formed around our hard-earned truths: The tougher the... Sign in to see full entry.

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