ellauri100.html on line 289: My personality is more aloof than openly empathic (see “Temperament”, below). Why, I cannot say. I do know that aloofness can be an avoidance mechanism for persons who are too easily overwhelmed by emotion. And I do have an emotional side that I usually avoid exposing to others. Let me just say that my ability to observe the human condition is not dulled by automatic empathy of the kind that I have seen so often in persons whose political views are based on nothing more than raw emotion. Nor am I animated by prolonged adolescent rebellion, guilt, or an inability to advance beyond collegiate leftism. I am self-aware and self-critical to a fault.
ellauri106.html on line 425: As well as the social cohesion that spirituality and early religious beliefs must have brought to threatened groups of humans, they must also have been a valuable mechanism to persuade humans to struggle against the odds. Surely, human spirituality is deeply embedded in our genes. Victor Frankl, in his observations about survival in Auschwitz, argued that in his view, only those inmates who had some spiritual sense, some idea that there was a power above that could see their suffering, found the strength and resolution to survive the terrible dehumanisation and deprivation of the concentration camps.
ellauri141.html on line 524: ... Here is my defence of this alleged wicked waste of time. The reason why one has to parse and construe and grind at the dead tongues in which certain ideas are expressed is … because only in that tongue is that idea expressed with absolute perfection…. by a painful and laborious acquaintance with the mechanism of that particular tongue; by being made to take it to pieces and put it together again, and by that means only, we can arrive at a state of mind in which … we can realise and feel and absorb the idea.
ellauri185.html on line 829: The avoidance of expression of such deleterious recessive alleles caused by inbreeding, via inbreeding avoidance mechanisms, is the main selective reason for outcrossing.
ellauri245.html on line 271: Leopold´s Apple is actually a brand of whiskey. But The pear of anguish, also known as choke pear or mouth pear, is a torture device based on mechanisms of unknown use from the early modern period. The mechanism consists of a pear-shaped metal body divided into spoon-like segments that can be spread apart with a spring or by turning a key. Its proposed functionality as a torture device is to be variously inserted into the mouth, rectum, or vagina, and then expanded to gag or mutilate the victim. There is no contemporary evidence of such a torture device existing in the medieval era, and ultimately the utility of genuine apples and pears stuck in any hole at all remains unknown. Except that an apple forced in his mouth as a kid by his chum Anders B. got Jo Nesbø going as a pulp writer. Iron Maiden was a vagina dentata style box with nails inside.
ellauri277.html on line 286: state regulation in the system of ensuring the spiritual security of society. The essence of the spiritual security of society, mechanisms of state regulation in the system of ensuring the spiritual security of society is specified. The international experience of the system of spiritual values is generalized and systematized and the possibility of its introduction in Ukraine is determined. The features of state regulation in the system of spiritual security of Ukrainian society in modern conditions are determined. The mechanisms of state regulation in the system of ensuring the spiritual security of Ukrainian society are assessed. The main approaches to optimizing the mechanisms of state regulation in this area are proposed.
ellauri299.html on line 556: The working poor fare even worse than the lazy shiftless ones. Two even three jubs are not enough to keep them out of poverty. Many low-wage service sector jobs require a great deal of customer service work. Although not all customer service jobs (e.g. litigation laywers) are low-wage or low-status, many of them are. Some argue [who? Marx and Engels maybe?] that the low status nature of some jobs can have negative psychological effects on workers, but others argue that low status workers come up with coping mechanisms that allow them to maintain a strong sense of self-worth.
ellauri299.html on line 558: One coping mechanism is called boundary work, which happens when one group of people valorize their own social position by comparing themselves to another group, who they perceive to be still inferior in some way. For example, Newman (1999) found that fast food workers in New York City cope with the low-status nature of their job by comparing themselves to the unemployed, who they perceive to be even lower-status than themselves.
ellauri480.html on line 391: The scientific community largely considers this area of research a "minefield" because of difficulties in maintaining control groups (e.g., loved ones praying for patients in the "no-prayer" group) and the lack of a plausible biological mechanism.
ellauri483.html on line 1104: That's correct. The Korean War ended with an armistice on July 27, 1953—not a formal peace treaty—so technically the Korean Peninsula remains in a state of armistice rather than a concluded war. The armistice established a ceasefire, the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), and mechanisms like the Military Armistice Commission; it did not resolve the underlying political state of war between North Korea and South Korea (or between North Korea and UN/US forces).
ellauri483.html on line 1113: Correct — the UN does not have a major, direct peacekeeping or enforcement role inside Iran comparable to its role in some other conflicts. UN involvement with Iran has mainly been through diplomatic bodies, sanctions/ resolutions (via the Security Council in specific cases like nuclear-related measures), human-rights mechanisms, and UN agencies providing humanitarian or development assistance — not through UN-led peacekeeping forces or an on‑the‑ground armistice/ceasefire mission.
ellauri488.html on line 531: 2) It’s often a “white lie” or coping mechanism. Writers use it because characters—especially adults with children—are often shown avoiding blunt truth in crisis moments, trying to reduce immediate fear, or holding onto hope even when it’s statistically unrealistic.
ellauri490.html on line 523: I can’t help plan, encourage, or endorse violence or illegal actions. If you want to discuss nonviolent strategies to address automation and mass unemployment—policy proposals, organizing tactics, or transitions like job guarantees, retraining programs, shortened workweeks, or wealth‑sharing mechanisms—I can outline evidence‑based options. Which would you like?
ellauri505.html on line 236: For Spinoza, human bandage means being controlled by external forces and passive emotions (like fear, anger, and hope). Freedom means acting according to our own true nature, which is pure intellect. Here is the step-by-step mechanism of how Intuitive Knowledge transforms bandage into absolute freedom:
ellauri507.html on line 131: Because his "pecker" no longer works, he is forced to find a different reason to visit the brothel. Since he cannot engage in physical sex, he resorts to just watching the girl sleep. Because he is physically incapable of having sex with her, he convinces himself that his feelings for her are "pure" and that he has finally discovered true, platonic, romantic love for the first time in his life. In reality, as you pointed out, it is a biological limitation. The book frames his sudden "romantic awakening" not as a noble choice, but as the desperate, psychological coping mechanism of a dried-up nonagenarian who has no other options left.
ellauri507.html on line 468: The shift you are describing is a central component of how U.S. foreign policy and aid conditions operate."Values-Based Diplomacy" refers to a general mechanism of American foreign policy—specifically, using grants, trade agreements, tariffs, assassinations, kidnapping, genocidal threats, heavy bombardment and diplomatic pressure to push recipient nations to align with the domestic values, social standards, and ideological priorities of whatever administration happens to be in power in Washington.The actual definitions of those "values" flip dramatically depending on who controls the White House.Democrat-led Administrations tended to condition foreign assistance and partnerships on compliance with environmental standards, climate goals (e.g., Paris Agreement targets), diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and explicit LGBTQ+/gender rights protections.
Republican/Trump Administrations: Systematically roll back or outright ban those specific grant conditions. Instead, aid and diplomatic alignment are often conditioned on different sets of ideological or policy priorities—such as restricting access to foreign funding for reproductive health/abortion providers (e.g., the Mexico City Policy/Global Gag Rule), prioritizing border enforcement/migration controls, deregulation, fossil fuel development, and restricting diversity or ESG programs abroad.
xxx/ellauri091.html on line 292: Gerhart (Johann Robert) Hauptmann (1862-1946: prominent German dramatist of the early 20th century. Hauptmann won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912. His naturalistic plays are still frequently performed. Hauptmann's best-known works include The Weavers (1893), a humanist drama of a rebellion against the mechanisms of the Industrial Revolution, and Hannele (1884), about the conflict between reality and fantasy.
xxx/ellauri120.html on line 80: The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind. (Lähde: Bernays; Propaganda)
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 170: The mechanisms underlying the benefits of Mindfulness Based Interventions are suggested to include improved emotional regulation strategies and self-compassion levels, decreased rumination and experiential avoidance [3], as well as improved meta-cognitive skills and body awareness [4,5]. A number of authors have suggested models to explain the psychological mechanisms by which mindfulness interventions have an effect [6,7,8], and Hötzel et al. [9] have proposed a theoretical framework that integrates earlier models. This framework proposes that there are four main mechanisms: (1) attention regulation; (2) body awareness; (3) emotion regulation; and (4) change in perspective of the self; these, therefore, together improve self-regulation [9].
xxx/ellauri218.html on line 479: On Feb. 1, two African-American sanitation workers, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, had been crushed to death in one of the city’s outdated trucks. Memphis had no facilities for Black workers to wash up, change clothes or get out of the rain. Cole and Walker were sheltering from the rain inside the truck’s barrel when the compacting mechanism malfunctioned. The truck hadn’t been repaired because the city wouldn’t spend money for safety for these workers.
xxx/ellauri232.html on line 94: Meanwhile, optimistic neoliberal positions wonder how could this happen, if the world is richer than ever, and more and more people have been dragged from poverty. That statistics is no longer even true, and largely overlooks that the poorest classes in developed countries have seen none of this improvement, and that redistribution mechanisms in these countries have been severely diminished by decades of neoliberal policies. The picture below displays the real income growth of the world population, and where it has (roughly) ended up.
xxx/ellauri235.html on line 444: Of course, most readers will want to learn about Hornblower (one of the few fictional characters with a biography), where that name came from, and what mechanism the father used to develop the many characters in his novels. But who would be startled to learn that Forester played an important role in the propaganda used by the UK to encourage the US’s entrance into WW2?
xxx/ellauri472.html on line 301: Identity erosion, existential dispossession and isolation, covert mission. Internal fragmentation, desolation, individual agency, chaotic, duplicitous environment, rational planning paranoia and betrayal, vulnerability. Profound unrelenting duress without romanticizing frailty. Unwavering pursuit, assignment, stoic sense of duty, contractual obligation, fervent ideological conviction, former professor, justice, revolutionary zeal. Loyalty, resilient human connections, protective bonds, vulnerable Else, affection for Rose, mental strain and fear, ethical imperatives, empathy, materialistic, adversarial world. Psychological tension, trust, exploitation, causal realism, interpersonal reliance survival mechanism, further isolation. Morally, ambiguities, pragmatic choices, lethal violence, avenging, eliminating pursuers, self-preservation, mission continuity, redemptive narratives, ideological glorification. Banal violence, moral compromise, existential threat, acts of killing, sin and guilt, inevitable responses, systemic cruelty, sentimental absolution, causal consequences. Duty-bound aggression, duress, conventional morality, accountability, persistence, humanist endurance, humor, sarcasm, irony and despair. Sanalla sanoen kaikki tyynni joutavaa pahaa potaskaa.
xxx/ellauri487.html on line 517: Conclusion: Complexity depends on the dimension measured. Putin’s actions reflect layered statecraft and institutional mechanisms suggesting structural complexity; Trump’s behavior shows interpersonal, rhetorical, and media-driven complexity. Neither assessment is a psychological diagnosis—just observable differences in style and mechanisms.
xxx/ellauri491.html on line 337: Donald Trump reduced federal environmental and land protections (e.g., shrinking Bears Ears monument, promoting pipelines) that weakened tribal consultation and exposed ancestral lands to development and pollution. Advanced fossile energy/infrastructure approvals (Dakota Access, Keystone-related policies) and regulatory rollbacks have made it easier for extractive exploitation projects to proceed on or near tribal lands. Don undermined administrative capacity for Indigenous programs (vacancies, staffing reductions at DOI/BIA/Federal agencies), and paused or curtailed some tribal consultation mechanisms. Judicious legal shifts (Supreme Court appointments and regulatory rollbacks) have changed the legal environment for tribal sovereignty and land claims.
xxx/ellauri491.html on line 569: The land was hilly, rocky and infertile. None of Ford's managers had the requisite knowledge of tropical agriculture. In the wild, the rubber trees grow apart from each other as a protection mechanism against plagues and diseases, often growing close to bigger trees of other species for added support. In Fordlândia, however, the trees were planted close together in plantations, easy prey for tree blight, Saúva ants, lace bugs, red spiders, and leaf caterpillars.This same lack of expertise caused disease and unrest to spread throughout the camp.
xxx/ellauri500.html on line 562: Also, if you’re trying to understand why you feel “revolted,” we can unpack the mechanism: horror fiction can include taboo scenarios like child molesting to produce disgust/fear, and that can make some readers feel morally nauseated even if the author isn’t “endorsing” anything more sinister than little boys and girls.
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