Pththya-lyi posted:

This is a classic false dilemma. Why can't I have toilet paper that is both ultra strong and ultra soft?

Mo Tzu posted:

Sorry I just really like Robert Lentz, it's pretty great seeing progressive figures and LGBT subjects done in traditional iconography. The fact that he's a Franciscan brother is also really cool.

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For Catholic peoples of Latin America, the Sorrowful Mother - Madre Dolorosa - is a central image in their life. Her statue stands in most churches, clothed in black. Mary’s bitter experience on Good Friday has made her a sympathetic sister to those whose lives are marked by similar sorrow. She has shared the lot of the downtrodden and can stand in solidarity with them through all ages.

Tens of thousands of Latin American mothers have had family members abducted -- "disappeared" -- by death squads in recent years. What can these women do in their despair when their governments ignore their requests for help? In 1976 a number of Argentinean mothers began a silent protest every week in front of the government offices as a way to release their despair. Wearing black dresses and white kerchiefs; they carried photographs of their missing loved ones and marched around the plaza. They wore a white rose bud if they hoped their loved one was still alive, and a red rose bud for the dead. From Argentina, the march of the mothers spread to El Salvador and other countries.

This icon presents a new Madre Dolorosa, who stands in solidarity with the Mothers of the Disappeared. She wears their white kerchief, and her wine-colored Byzantine garment is almost black. She has no photograph to carry of her son, who was also abducted by a death squad and tortured to death, but she carries his crown of thorns. She wears both red and white rose buds, since she has become mother of all the disappeared.

The white handprint smeared across the side of the icon is the signature of the El Salvador death squads. It is unusual to add such a detail to a Byzantine icon, and the result is shocking: the icon is violated! The hand, however, expresses a deep truth. The death squads violate icons of God every time they abduct and torture a human being. If the truth is not pretty, let it challenge us to action.

Svaha posted:

Here's That Lana Wachowski speech if anyone's interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHHycz7T_c

Frosted Flake posted:

Maybe if cognitive behavior therapy was more common, people with gender dysmorphic disorder could get the help they need without worrying about changing society.

Mo Tzu posted:

Kieselguhr Kid posted:

Perfect excuse: The Black Gestapo trailer


What does this mean? Because if by 'strident' we mean things like a blubbering, drunken Hitchens abusing religious people for their irrational stupidity (why else wouldn't they support wide-scale invasion of the Middle East?) then it's pretty hard for me to play this 'oh, a tone argument! Just like we righteous social justice types have always been shut down with!'

Crasscrab posted:

Earth posted:

What's this?

Alhazred posted:

The crown achievement for cognitive behavior therapy. In 1920 John B. Watson wanted to see if he could condition kids to fear things. A wet nurse offered her son to the experiments, he was called little Albert. Now Albert was fond of a white rat, he absolutely loving loved to play with it. Watson noticed this and so everytime the rat approached little Albert Watson would scare the everloving poo poo out of him, usually with loud noises. In the end little Albert became terrified of the rat and would try to get away every time he saw it. Watson was content with this result and returned little Albert to his mother without thinking of maybe trying to repair the damage he had done. In 2009 it was revealed that little Albert was really little Douglas Merritte, he was born on March 9, 1919 and died on May 10, 1925 of hydrocephalus. He was buried in the cemetery of the Locust Grove Church of the Brethren in Mount Airy, Maryland:

Alhazred posted:

The crown achievement for cognitive behavior therapy. In 1920 John B. Watson wanted to see if he could condition kids to fear things. A wet nurse offered her son to the experiments, he was called little Albert. Now Albert was fond of a white rat, he absolutely loving loved to play with it. Watson noticed this and so everytime the rat approached little Albert Watson would scare the everloving poo poo out of him, usually with loud noises. In the end little Albert became terrified of the rat and would try to get away every time he saw it. Watson was content with this result and returned little Albert to his mother without thinking of maybe trying to repair the damage he had done. In 2009 it was revealed that little Albert was really little Douglas Merritte, he was born on March 9, 1919 and died on May 10, 1925 of hydrocephalus. He was buried in the cemetery of the Locust Grove Church of the Brethren in Mount Airy, Maryland:

SSJ2 Goku Wilders posted:

This is coming back on Dutch TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjGiEkdzeSg
Watch the whole thing.

Alhazred posted:

The crown achievement for cognitive behavior therapy.

Alhazred posted:

The crown achievement for cognitive behavior therapy. In 1920 John B. Watson wanted to see if he could condition kids to fear things. A wet nurse offered her son to the experiments, he was called little Albert. Now Albert was fond of a white rat, he absolutely loving loved to play with it. Watson noticed this and so everytime the rat approached little Albert Watson would scare the everloving poo poo out of him, usually with loud noises. In the end little Albert became terrified of the rat and would try to get away every time he saw it. Watson was content with this result and returned little Albert to his mother without thinking of maybe trying to repair the damage he had done. In 2009 it was revealed that little Albert was really little Douglas Merritte, he was born on March 9, 1919 and died on May 10, 1925 of hydrocephalus. He was buried in the cemetery of the Locust Grove Church of the Brethren in Mount Airy, Maryland:

Androc posted:

Not all of this is exactly accurate. Per the fourth edition of "Introduction to Learning and Behavior":

The study was terminated by Albert's mother leaving the hospital or Albert being adopted by an out-of-town family (depending on which accounts you believe) before Watson had the chance to de-condition the fear. The theory that Albert was Douglas Meritte isn't quite as certain as it used to be, either, mostly due to the fact that the ages don't match up.

For whatever it's worth, it's unlikely that Albert continued to experience the conditioned fear throughout his lifetime (however long that may have been). Even within the experiment itself, he showed extremely large decreases in fear response when there was a 30-day break between sessions. With that being said, the study itself was still hideously unethical and would never be allowed today.

Content: noted behaviorist B.F. Skinner constructed what was basically a climate-controlled cradle for his second daughter, which he believed was more comfortable for her than just bundling her up in blankets. Possibly due to its resemblance to the eponymous 'skinner box' used to conduct research on rats, rumors circulated that he basically raised his daughter in the box and conducted experiments on her resulting in later mental illness and suicide. Spoiler alert: he didn't, and the daughter in question is currently an artist and writer living in London.

Skinner was still a weird dude, though.

dr.gigolo posted:

My favorite crazy Skinner experiment was the idea to use pigeon guided missiles during WWII



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

He certainly didn't have the craziest idea during the war, but it was up there.

While behavioral psychology always gets a bad reputation (some of it deserved) it can produce effective results and is an integral part of the aforementioned Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, which is one of the most commonly used therapies around and often the only one supported by insurance plans. Its also used in Applied Behavioral Analysis, which is considered one of the most effective treatments for autism spectrum disorders.

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In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.

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The picture which emerges from a scientific analysis is not of a body with a person inside, but of a body which is a person in the sense that it displays a complex repertoire of behavior. . . . What is being abolished is autonomous man — the inner man, the homunculus, the possessing demon, the man defended by the literatures of freedom and dignity. His abolition has long been overdue.

Androc posted:

hotgreenpeas posted:

Monkey abuser, Harlow

Wikipedia posted:

The pit of despair was a name used by American comparative psychologist Harry Harlow for a device he designed, technically called a vertical chamber apparatus, that he used in experiments on rhesus macaque monkeys at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s. The aim of the research was to produce an animal model of clinical depression. Researcher Stephen Suomi described the device as "little more than a stainless-steel trough with sides that sloped to a rounded bottom".

Harlow had already placed newly born monkeys in isolation chambers for up to one year. With the pit of despair, he placed monkeys between three months and three years old in the chamber alone, after they had bonded with their mothers, for up to ten weeks. Within a few days, they had stopped moving about and remained huddled in a corner.

In 1971, Harlow's wife died of cancer and he began to suffer from depression. He was treated and returned to work but, as Lauren Slater writes, his colleagues noticed a difference in his demeanor. He abandoned his research into maternal attachment and developed an interest in isolation and depression.

After 30 days, the "total isolates," as they were called, were found to be "enormously disturbed." After being isolated for a year, they barely moved, did not explore or play, and were incapable of having sexual relations. When placed with other monkeys for a daily play session, they were badly bullied. Two of them refused to eat and starved themselves to death.

hotgreenpeas posted:

Rejected wire mother (the one with food) on the right

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=642KbtSiMbA
A vote for Obama is a vote for living in a Tom Clancy world.

Human Rights Watch posted:

Human Rights Watch identified 811 destroyed structures on the eastern coastal edge of Kyauk Pyu following arson attacks reportedly conducted on October 24, 2012, less than 24 hours before the satellite images were captured. The area of destruction measures 35 acres and includes 633 buildings and 178 houseboats and floating barges adjacent on the water, all of which were razed. There are no indications of fire damage to the immediate west and east of this zone of destruction. Media accounts and local officials said that many Rohingya in the town fled by sea toward Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State, 200 kilometers to the north.

Violence renewed between Arakan Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims on October 21 and continued all week in at least five townships: Minbya, Mrak-U, Myebon, Rathedaung, and Kyauk Pyu. This was the first time violence had reached Kyauk Pyu and most of these other parts of the state since the sectarian violence and related abuses by state security forces against the Rohingya began in early June. The Rohingya have suffered the brunt of the violence.

“Burma’s government urgently needs to provide security for the Rohingya in Arakan State, who are under vicious attack,” said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Unless the authorities also start addressing the root causes of the violence, it is only likely to get worse.”

The Burmese government initially said that more than 2,800 houses were burned down in the new violence and that 112 people were killed, an estimate they later reduced to 64. Human Rights Watch fears the death toll is far higher based on allegations from witnesses fleeing scenes of carnage and the government’s well-documented history of underestimating figures that might lead to criticism of the state.

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

i poo poo trains posted:

18% of Americans think Obama is Jewish, from 0% in 2010? What the gently caress?

e: Plus there was a 33% gain in 'No Religion'. Who the hell were they interviewing?

i poo poo trains posted:

18% of Americans think Obama is Jewish, from 0% in 2010? What the gently caress?

e: Plus there was a 33% gain in 'No Religion'. Who the hell were they interviewing?

i poo poo trains posted:

18% of Americans think Obama is Jewish, from 0% in 2010? What the gently caress?

e: Plus there was a 33% gain in 'No Religion'. Who the hell were they interviewing?

Mo Tzu posted:

Seoinin posted:

Holy poo poo I think that woman on the left in the sunglasses is my cousin.

Contribution - your daily reminder that the Catholic church is dreadful.


Leonardo Boff
"One of the worst fundamentalisms is that of neoliberalism".
An outspoken advocate for the poor and downtrodden, as well as an early supporter of Liberation theology. Accused of Marxism, because honestly where does a man of the cloth get off speaking for the voiceless, he was gagged by order of the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (aka the loving Inquisition), Cardinal Ratzinger.

The threat of second gag order in '92 lead to him leaving the Franciscan order.