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Old 01-06-2011, 01:27 PM
 
Location: Great Falls, Montana
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It makes sense. And really, it's a good thing. In society, we need a balance of people who have a healthy dose of fear, along with others who aren't afraid to make changes.
So .. um .. what's that they say about "fools rushing in"? ..
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Old 01-06-2011, 01:28 PM
 
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Are you suggesting that it's a bad thing? Perhaps libs are just too dumb to realize they should be scared.
No, not at all. Liberals fear certain things too - like a President Sarah Palin, for example. Actually, that's a fear that I believe most Americans share.
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Old 01-06-2011, 01:30 PM
 
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So .. um .. what's that they say about "fools rushing in"? ..
Making changes doesn't amount to being a fool. You have to know how to make changes wisely and rationally, just as it wouldn't make sense to keep things the same forever. If you don't change and evolve at least a little bit, you stagnate, and eventually, die.
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Old 01-06-2011, 01:36 PM
 
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Bwahahahaaaaaa!!!!! Can you say, "junk science"???
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Old 01-06-2011, 01:38 PM
 
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No, not at all. Liberals fear certain things too - like a President Sarah Palin, for example. Actually, that's a fear that I believe most Americans share.
Yeah, I wonder where Matt Damon's fear center is located?



Fearless Matt Damon.
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Old 01-06-2011, 01:39 PM
 
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No, not at all. Liberals fear certain things too - like a President Sarah Palin, for example. Actually, that's a fear that I believe most Americans share.
I continue to be amazed at the fascination you guys have with her. Nobody here mentioned Palin...but you felt the need to take a jab at her.
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Old 01-06-2011, 01:42 PM
 
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I continue to be amazed at the fascination you guys have with her. Nobody here mentioned Palin...but you felt the need to take a jab at her.
I just wanted to use an example that you could understand. Glad you got it.
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Old 01-06-2011, 02:07 PM
 
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Isabel Dziobek, Stefan Fleck, Kimberley Rogers, Oliver T. Wolf and Antonio Convit. "The ‘amygdala theory of autism’ revisited: Linking structure to behavior." Neuropsychologia, Volume 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1891-1899

http://www.autismresearchcentre.com/docs/papers/2000_BCetal_amygdala.pdf (broken link)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10781695

"Political conservatives worry about fear of chaos and absence of order while political liberals operate out of a fear of emptiness, they say."

http://www.science20.com/news_releas...ses_says_study

"These laboratories have trained animals on a variety of learning tasks and found that drugs injected into the amygdala after training affect the animals' subsequent retention of the task. These tasks include basic classical conditioning tasks such as inhibitory avoidance, where a rat learns to associate a mild footshock with a particular compartment of an apparatus, and more complex tasks such as spatial or cued water maze, where a rat learns to swim to a platform to escape the water. If a drug that activates the amygdalae is injected into the amygdalae, the animals had better memory for the training in the task. If a drug that inactivates the amygdalae is injected, the animals had impaired memory for the task."

"Despite the importance of the amygdalae in modulating memory consolidation, however, learning can occur without it, though such learning appears to be impaired, as in fear conditioning impairments following amygdalar damage."

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

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Old 01-06-2011, 03:39 PM
 
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Normal women got huge amygdalas.

Security, that's all they think about!

ScienceDirect - Neuroscience Letters : Increased amygdala volumes in female and depressed humans. A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study
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Old 02-05-2011, 06:24 PM
 
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Males have larger amygdalas.

[url]http://www.bionity.com/en/encyclopedia/Amygdala.html[/url]

Females have larger anterior cingulate cortices.

[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/business/media/25adco.html[/url]
[url]http://books.google.com/books?id=4scDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=anteri or+cingulate+cortex+female+larger&source=bl&ots=ip PWrNHFxg&sig=Tuz5mp0KnLjsXcZpgrpQmWoEsAY&hl=en&ei= NPFNTeiWKML98AaT_pSvDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=resu lt&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=ante rior%20cingulate%20cortex%20female%20larger&f=fals e[/url]

Also see here
[url]http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/social-networking-amygdala/[/url]
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