The Beauty in Knowing

 Denial is a gauze; willful denial, an opiate.
Essay by Pat Darnell  |  July 11, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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Hidden under its hood is a predator; not human or animal but a rapacious, and exploitative, condition. Living with this condition proves to be venturesome, often perilous. Experts tell us that the condition is passed on by hereditary processes. If you see it in your family, chances are that it is with you as well.

Bipolar disorder has a way of staying close to home. It is a mental condition that escapes detection by the uninitiated. Symptoms often resemble exuberance during the manic stages of bipolar episodes, and resemble seasonal blues on the depression side of the disorder. Thus the reason for the "bi" in bipolar, two opposite conditions vie for your attention.

Racing thoughts, tendency to over-indulge, decreased need for sleep, increased drive to perform or achieve goals, and risky behavior, may seem like a list of qualities of highly successful people. Yet these too are basic symptoms of hypomania.

Sadness, hopelessness, suicidal thoughts and behavior, anxiety, guilt and fatigue, with loss of interest in activities once considered enjoyable are symptoms that announce the depressive phase of one being bipolar. Haunting, yes, -- unknowable, no.

At some point in the life of bipolar persons there is a great questioning: "Why aren't I progressing like others?" and "Something must be wrong with me." Situations like finding and keeping a relationship, or, becoming obsessed with another person's life until you smother the person, can lead to this great moment of self-questioning. If the bipolar person seeks help at this point, he might be diagnosed with straight up schizophrenia, or borderline personality disorder, or one of three bipolar conditions, showing the great range of this condition. Most of the time one is asked what drugs she takes, what kind of self-med's are you taking. Such misdiagnoses can lead to more confusion.

One person describes her realization phase this way:

" ... My illness was insidious, gradual and inexorable. I had a preview of depression in high school, ... The hormonal chaos of having three children in five years, the pressure of working on a Ph.D. dissertation and a genetic predisposition for a mood disorder took me to a place of darkness I hadn't experienced before. Of course, I didn't recognize that right away. Denial is a gauze; willful denial, an opiate. Everyone seemed in league with my delusion. I was just overwhelmed, my family would say. I should get more help with the kids, put off my Ph.D. (LINDA LOGAN. Published: April 26, 2013. LINK ) ... "

Your friends and lovers who adore you because you are unique, are going to go along with your mood swings. They will protest when you say you want to kill yourself. Most will recognize and love your balls to the wall attitude about life during manic phases, but the same will fail to recognize the times you are alone, curled up with racing thoughts, and unable to move in your depressed phases.

Bipolar people who harness their energy when they are in a hypomanic phase can be really productive. But, the most dangerous attitude is denial: denying that you actually have a severe reaction to life situations, not recognizing your ups and downs, is very often fatal.

Long term denial can lead to destruction. Family members who have not recognized bipolar conditions in themselves can actually destroy one another. Each family member thinks from his own point of view and holds tight to his belief that he is right, and the others are thinking wrong. With no real give and take communication the family is torn apart.

Bipolar "unrecognized," and untreated, and denied is the worse case condition. Bipolar "recognized" allows the sufferer to begin channeling all that energy, because "Bipolar is Energy." Imagine the things you could accomplish if you channeled all the bipolar energy into finishing all your projects! There is beauty in knowing.


_____________________________Reference
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bipolar
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/the-problem-with-how-we-treat-bipolar-disorder.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/bipolar_disorder_symptoms_treatment.htm
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20436786,00.html
https://store.mayoclinic.com/products/books/details.cfm?mpid=46&trkid=21242S128003910
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bipolar-disorder/DS00356/DSECTION=symptoms

MooPig Moment of Science Department :: "2012 Highlights"

Welcome to the Age of Trans-humanism
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Dec 31, 2012  |   Bryan TX

Business Insider has made a beautiful slide show for this year's best moments in science. If we could just put it all together, shake out all the old gray matter, and apply these discoveries, we might survive the next hundred years.

Humanity is a blip on the radar screen, in the overall scope of earth's history. Yet, already we are stumbling into trans-humanism, augmented human action using technology, implants and thought capturing sensors.

And was that the God particle after all? The good thing about science is that most of the time you can be assured that people are telling the truth.

Science's 2012 Breakthroughs Of The Year - Business Insider:

The discovery of the Higgs boson confirms mainstream physics theories.
On July 4, scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, in Geneva announced with near certainty that they had found a Higgs boson. The Higgs boson is a big deal because it provides proof of an invisible field that gives mass to matter. The theory "explains how particles interact via electromagnetic forces, weak nuclear forces and strong nuclear forces in order to make up matter in the universe," writes Science.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover lands on Mars.
A special "sky crane" landing system placed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars on Aug. 5. The complicated landing maneuver was famously dubbed the "seven minutes of terror" by NASA engineers because that's how long it took Curiosity to get from the top of the Martian atmosphere down to the surface of the Red Planet. The mission control team had no contact with the one-ton robot during those critical minutes.
Curiosity survived the landing with 100 percent working parts, and is going strong five months into her two-year mission on Mars, sending back new photos and crucial data for future space travel each day.

'via Blog this'

Scientists created eggs from mice stem cells for the first time.
Japanese researchers showed that embryonic stem cells from mice could be made into viable egg cells, that could be fertilized and result in healthy babies. The healthy mouse pups shown here were bred from the eggs they created. The experiment only involved mice, but may one day be used to treat infertility in humans.

Scientists discovered the structure of a protein involved in the transmission of African sleeping sickness.
Membrane proteins span the outer shell of each and every cell in our bodies, sending signals and shuttling stuff between the inside of the cell and the outside. These proteins play a role in almost everything the cells do, and their involvement is critical in the transmission of diseases and disease-fighting drugs, so understanding their structure is important for developing new drugs to target the disease.
Researchers used an X-ray laser a billion times brighter than traditional X-ray sources to provide a detailed structure of one of these membrane proteins, which plays an important role in the transmission of the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, a disease that kills around 30,000 people each year. This finding
The enzyme is shown spiking out of the insect's cell membrane below.

Sub-atomic particles known as neutrinos are caught changing from one type to another.
Some nuclear reactions, including those that take place inside the sun, create neutrinos. Neutrinos and their corresponding antineutrinos come in three basic “flavors": electron, muon and tau.
Measurements from the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment in China revealed how electron antineutrinos transform into different flavors — either muon or tau — as they travel at the near-speed of light.
The results could help explain why the universe contains so much more matter than antimatter.

Researchers sequenced the genome of the Denisovians, a group of ancient humans that lived 41,000 years ago in Siberia.
Along with the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome, researchers also sequenced the genome of the group of ancient humans named the Denisovians, who lived 41,000 years ago in Siberia.
They isolated DNA from a bone fragment, a finger bone that belonged to a girl with brown eyes, brown hair and brown skin who died in Siberia between 74,000 and 82,000 years ago.
By comparing the genetic sequences of these ancient hominins to modern humans and our primate relatives, researchers learn more about how these ancient species lived, acted, and evolved. The DNA even informed us that humans possibly interbred with both of these species, since we can find some of their DNA in the genome of some modern humans.

Physicists detect particles, known as Majorana fermions, that act as their own antiparticle.
An antiparticle is a subatomic particle that has the same mass as a given particle, but opposite electric or magnetic charge.
A group of physicists from the Netherlands provided the first evidence that the Majorana Fermion, a particle that has the unique property of being its own antiparticle, exists.
Scientists think "quantum bits" made of these mysterious particles could be more efficient at storing and processing data than the bits currently used in digital computers.

The ENCODE project revealed a ton of data to help us understand our genomes better.
The results of a gigantic biology project — called ENCODE — were released in early September. The project covered ten years of effort by over 400 scientists and has culminated in 30 scientific papers published today.
The data from the project is still being analyzed, but it will help us understand our own genomes, not just based on the sequence of letters in the DNA code, but how this DNA interacts with proteins and other strands of DNA and RNA. These interactions happen in the non-coding regions of the genome, which are kind of like the "dark matter" of our genome — they don't get turned into proteins (only about 1.5 percent of your DNA does), so researchers were unsure what roles they played.
They think they've found the functions of about 80 percent of these non-coding regions with the ENCODE survey.

A new tool helps researchers manipulate our genes.
In 2012 researchers created a remarkable protein that they can use to change a cell's genes on the fly. Known as TALENs, which stands for "transcription activator-like effector nucleases," gave researchers the ability to alter or inactivate specific genes in zebrafish, toads, livestock and other animals — even cells from patients with disease.
These TALENs can be customized to seek out and edit any DNA sequence, so it's very specific. It can be used to chop out a bad gene and replace it for a treatment, or can be used in research to understand what specific DNA stretches do in healthy and diseased individuals.

Paralyzed patients use their mind to move a robotic arm.
A sensor implanted in the brain's cortex and used to monitor brain signals was able to control a robotic arm. The prosthetic limb shown below responded when the user simply thought about moving his arm or hand.

Relive one of the greatest science stories of the year.
Red Bull Content Pool via National Geographic

Felix Baumgartner Breaks The Sound Barrier In A 24-Mile Plunge To Earth >


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_______________________Reference
http://www.businessinsider.com/sciences-2012-breakthroughs-of-the-year-2012-12#the-discovery-of-the-higgs-boson-confirms-mainstream-physics-theories-10
http://www.businessinsider.com/astronauts-could-survive-radiation-on-mars-2012-12
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-latest-pictures-of-mars-look-exactly-like-something-from-earth-2012-8
http://www.businessinsider.com/encode-genome-data-and-human-genes-2012-9

http://www.businessinsider.com/felix-baumgartner-broke-records-with-his-skydive-2012-12
http://www.businessinsider.com/felix-baumgartner-broke-records-with-his-skydive-2012-12#preparations-for-the-big-launch-begin-before-sunrise-on-sunday-oct-14-the-weather-looks-good-for-an-early-launch-though-lift-off-is-eventually-delayed-two-hours-1

MooPig Site Review :: "Reality Sandwich Social Network"

[Picture LINK] ... an Alex Grey blog...

Reality Sandwich | Evolving consciousness, bite by bite.:

'via Blog this'

I think it is an attempt to give the Internet some meaning. That meaning of course some "class." I don't think the Internet needs anything except freedom to expand, but many who are learned and full of cosmic depth look harder into the goings on of the Net. Hooray for them.

Reality Sandwich plies through gregarious philosophers' contributions, I think, mostly in search of transcendental thought. If this part of the Internet, that is Transcendence, is to exist for us all, it will pop out of this site and other ones like it.

Reality Sandwich uses the social network aspect of the net, collaborative blogging, to find relevance. It can hamper others in some creative acts though. It can become hyper critical of budding creations in the Internet vine of worthiness.

Being grafted into the vine of learning that is the Internet, after all it is 12,000 years of human information and codex's at your finger tips, is to be grafted into that root. The Internet is then a means, not an end. Gathering one's correlations into a site is the gift Reality Sandwich brings.

Reap what is sown in the Internet, oh friends of mine, and be ever swelled up in infinite knowledge.



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http://www.realitysandwich.com/
http://cosm.typepad.com/cosm_blog/page/9/ 

For Crying Out Loud, It's the Body of Work that Counts

MooPig Correlations "Sorry to report: The Best Minds are not in Charge"

Google search: Didacticism, Elly May Clampett ...

Response to Fondue Symposium at Pribek.net  #71 HERE

“Obama's address [stem cell research] was morally unserious in the extreme. It was populated, as his didactic discourses always are, with a forest of straw men.” (Prager, Dennis. 03.17.2009)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 | Excerpts from Discourse by Prager
Brilliance is Overrated
by Dennis Prager at Conservative Talk Radio

"That is why people were persuande into having their babies listen to Mozart after it was reported that listening to Mozart -- even in utero -- would make babies smarter. As an occasional orchestra conductor, I am delighted when anyone of any age is exposed to classical music. But love of music was not an issue here -- the Mozart-for-babies craze was about love of brains, not love of music."

"That is why, for example, people assume that a Nobel laureate in physics has something particularly intelligent to say about social policy. In fact, there is no reason at all to assume that a Nobel physicist has more insight into health care issues or capital punishment than a high school physics teacher ..."

"Intellectuals, e.g., those with graduate degrees, have among the worst, if not the worst, records on the great moral issues of the past century. Intellectuals such as the widely adulated French intellectual Jean Paul Sartre were far more likely than hardhats to admire butchers of humanity like Stalin and Mao."

The reason we have too few solutions to the problems that confront people -- in their personal lives as well as in the political realm -- is almost entirely due to a lack of common sense, psychological impediments to clear thinking, a perverse value system, or a lack of self-control, -- or all four.

Let's Go to the Comments, Shall we:
oracle1 Location: GA
Reply # 203
Date: Mar 18, 2009 - 7:09 AM EST on intelligence as a litmus test
If we would benefit from intellectuals (as distinct from the very smart) as POTUS, then we would seek out our presidential timber among academe. But many on campuses have too little common sense or real world perspective to pour pisx out of a boot!

Still, Dubya was dense, is a brick and incredibly incurious. As I noted in my 4:25 post, it tells me nothing that a son of privilege like him got into Yale (with scores too low otherwise).

HOWEVER, it ALSO tells me nothing (given AA and PC) that Obama graduated from Harvard Law. He had done NOTHING in an executive capacity in his entire life which suggested the aptitude for this job-- even Presidente Jorge Bush had been a popular 2-term guvner of a large state... but the Peter Principle would be proven in his case-- his Zionist advisers played him like a Stradivarius to get us into the wrong profligate war for Israel's benefit. Just a bit more discernment might have seen thru that.

Elly May Clampett -- Situation Comedy :: The return to the more mundane sensibilities of comedy unencumbered with the angst of messages also seemed to satisfy the needs of television audiences in the 1960s and 1970s. During this time CBS developed the theme of rural (or “hick”) sitcoms, which seemed to hit a responsive chord with audiences. The idea wasn't new.
Indeed, Ma Perkins, a radio soap opera with a homespun countrified theme, ran for 7,065 episodes, realizing its final broadcast on November 25, 1960, with Ma telling her loyal listeners, “Goodbye, and may God bless you.”

In 1959, under the leadership of newly appointed network president James Aubrey, the tone and substance of CBS programming changed. Under his guidance, CBS acquired one of television's greatest hits and longest-running sitcoms. Combining the themes of rural humor and urban chic, The Beverly Hillbillies, which began its network run in 1962 and lasted for nine seasons, was the highest-rated television program for the first two seasons it was broadcast. ... Irene Ryan as Granny. The younger members of the clan were played by Max Baer [Jethro] and Donna Douglas [Elly May]. (SOURCE)

The program struck a comic chord with audiences, who reveled in the down-home behavior of the Clampetts and their ability to best the conniving city slickers who tried to take advantage of them. (PHOTO's from Here)

Conclusion:
Draw your own conclusions; but I suppose the outcome is that the greatest minds are not governing the USA like has been the pattern for the first two hundred plus change years.

[... I thank the Lord everyday, as you should too, that I am not leading the Nation ...]

Now we are a nation like all others, where 'Global Chic' meets 'Innocence,' -or- 'Urban Hype' meets 'Bucolic Stupefaction' ... and the former is dominating.

"straddling the fences" is pd[aka]moopig_______________________NOTES
Followup (Or not)
1. Jess Oppenheimer, Laughs, Luck … and Lucy, with Gregg Oppenheimer (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1996); Bart Andrews, The I Love Lucy Book (New York: Doubleday, 1985); Joyce Millman, “The Good, the Bad, the Lucy: A Legacy of Laughs,” New York Times, 14 October 2001, p. 30.
2. “The Classic Sitcoms Guide to … All in the Family, The Pilot Episodes—1968–69, Season One: 1970–71,” http://www.classicsitcoms.com/shows/family1.html.
3. Bernard Weinraub, “Turning Bloopers into Comedies of Errors,” New York Times, 30 November 2001, sec. E, p. 3.
4. William S. Paley, As It Happened: A Memoir (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1979), p. 256.
5. Craig Tomashoff, “Farewell to ‘Third Rock,’ Truly Out of This World,” New York Times, 13 May 2001, p. AR21.
6. Bernard Weinraub, “Low Ratings Haunt Sitcoms with High-Profile Stars,” New York Times, 15 October 2001, p. E1.
7. Lynn Hirschberg, “Meta-Midler,” New York Times, 8 October 2000, sec. 6, p. 78.
8. Caryn James, “There's a Lot of Elaine in This Star's New Sitcom,” New York Times, 26 February 2002, p. E1; Bill Carter, “Another Short Second Act for a ‘Seinfeld’ Alum?” New York Times, 25 March 2002, p. C1.
9. http://www.ellen-m-site.com.
10. Jim Rutenberg, “Charlie Sheen's Redemption Helps a Studio in Its Struggle,” New York Times, 4 February 2002, p. C1.
11. Leonard H. Goldenson and Marvin J. Wolf, Beating the Odds (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991), pp. 238–42.
12. Stephen Battaglio, “The Big Business of Fond Farewells,” New York Times, 29 July 2001, p. AR23.
13. George V. Voinovich, http://voinovich.senate.gov.

Day TWO: BLOGGER STRIKE

Boggled & Blogged
Bunged highways are not an unusual occurrence in Houston. Absence of collisions is a new concept, that has police confused. Certain groups have shut down the highway to our Blogoshpere, in a collision-free coupe. Was it by subversion; does it pose any threat?

The quiet hum of the Internet is appreciably quickened at the start of the BLOGGER STRIKE yesterday. Somehow 'http://~header' has been replaced nationwide with 'http://~STRIKE Blogger.'

MooPig has been running extra shifts to make sure it is available when the news comes out. "We have assembled a team of cracker jack Aggies at an undisclosed location to monitor and report."

Apparently last night two people were taken into custody. Websites led special agents to an industrial office park in Valparaiso, IN. It turns out all pre-planned as at that location were a man and a woman in their late twenties who had handcuffed themselves to a post in their office. Some say the postal event was recorded of course by live feed webcam. The tiny surveillance cameras were fitted in NY ballplayer B. Williams' bobble head dolls all around the room.

Alledgedly son of billionaire Roy Welch, Roy jr., and Annabelle Leviton have been monitoring players of parts in a game called "Attrition."

Early views of the video recording shows Roy, jr. sort of spelled it out for us in the video stream, before the detectives arrived. He said, "After 9/11 his research team stumbled upon a quatrain written by Nostradmus that alluded to a Scribe Walkout in late 2001." It also referred to a communication break in long-standing invisible waves upon the air occurring about 2012.

"We started right away in 2001 organizing Internet Protocol state-of-the-art into a second internet, using rapid xenon processing," says Roy in the video. "We relied on web crawls through the IP to supply us with the body of knowledge we would need to start up. For instance we searched for the ignition key for the large subdural bootlog, and we found the answer in a business log. We needed the cosmic debris of baby Giraffes being born, so we set up shop at the Herman Park Zoo Giraffe tunnel. Yes, docents aided us in that task, and it works."

In interview with a docent on duty at the Hermann Park Zoo's Giraffe Tunnel, she offered this: "Well, giraffes do have seven neck bones."

"We needed a substantial grounded housing; we found willing Texans to fund our activity and help us. We chose the locomotive at Herman Park in Houston as the best low lying remote grounded vehicle," says Annabelle. "The Miller Outdoor Theartre Roof nearby is the dish we use to communicate with the satellite that Texans sent to orbit for us late in 2001."

"Even though it all seems clandestine; we are allowing ourselves to be incarcerated today in civil protest of the way writers are treated throughout history. If we don't do this now, who knows what will happen in 2012?" says Roy, jr.

Good question says MooPig. "Giraffes, tin roofs, quatrains, clandestine satellites? What next?" >pd/draft