tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.comments2023-10-23T22:20:33.854+01:00Anders Rasmussen BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger851125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-21122709797302269592015-07-21T09:33:22.517+01:002015-07-21T09:33:22.517+01:00Thank you for the comment anonymous,
I couldn'...Thank you for the comment anonymous,<br />I couldn't agree more with what you said. Being an optimist is certainly beneficial in many circumstances in life, and a positive attitude is likely to have good outcomes, just not for the reasons suggested in this book.rasmussenandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094631016209971125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-4214551860212255892015-07-20T23:10:25.475+01:002015-07-20T23:10:25.475+01:00I was thinking the same thought when I read the bo...I was thinking the same thought when I read the book. That book is littered with quotes that have been taken out of context. It's the quotes from Einstein that annoyed me the most. I googled "Einstein did not believe the secret" just to see if there's anyone out there with similar thoughts. This webpage is all I managed to find.<br /><br />I think that the main idea of the book isn't bad, really. By changing your attitude to a more positive one, you could for instance see opportunities in situations where, if you were in a more negative state of mind, you would have found none. Also, people can see by your body language and the subjects you talk about, whether or not you are "partner-worthy", and someone who "beams" of positivity is almost always going to be chosen over the depressed emo.<br />A positive mindset is healthy, and changing your mindset to a more positive one can change your life dramatically, but what this book suggests is complete ignorance. Just ignore everything that could go wrong and only focus on the good. And on top of being a typical self help book, it goes a step further into saying that you can make basically anything happen, and get anything you want.<br /><br />It's insane how many people buy this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-33353906500888580002014-01-12T16:00:30.814+01:002014-01-12T16:00:30.814+01:00I think it's more abstract in the way she inte...I think it's more abstract in the way she interprets Einstein's thoughts and quotes. It's not to be taken literally. Off course we can't control absolutely everything that happens to us. But we can affect it greatly. If you have positive thoughts, use positive words, commit positive actions the positive grows. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-48180626125408294572013-11-25T21:47:19.998+01:002013-11-25T21:47:19.998+01:00Thank you Katarina for pointing out my error, I wi...Thank you Katarina for pointing out my error, I will correct it immediatelyrasmussenandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094631016209971125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-140839203114451952013-11-25T16:01:14.849+01:002013-11-25T16:01:14.849+01:00Dear Anders,
Thank you your comments about Front...Dear Anders, <br /><br />Thank you your comments about Frontiers. Please note however that your information not correct. <br /><br />Reviewers and editors are anonymous all throughout the review process. The reviewers and editor are disclosed on the final publication. This ensures and transparent and efficient process. <br /><br />In addition, Frontiers provides a collaborate, fair and constructive review process that enables an open dialogue among our authors, reviewers and editors. <br /><br />Please click on the following link to read more about how Frontiers has revolutionised the Peer Review: http://www.frontiersin.org/about/reviewsystem<br /><br />Best,<br />Katerina<br />Katerinanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-23719502869452473972013-11-18T07:34:33.298+01:002013-11-18T07:34:33.298+01:00Thank you for the comment NLPhilia,
In the link I...Thank you for the comment NLPhilia,<br /><br />In the link I provided in the blog the following paragraph can be found: <br /><br />"The first time "Visual Accessing Cues" were discussed (at least to my knowledge), was by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in their book "Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) " From their experiments this is what they found."<br /><br />In addition I do have near acquaintances who have received NLP training who said that this was taught in the course. <br /><br />Is this just a coincidence? <br />rasmussenandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094631016209971125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-79448827368668736632013-11-18T00:15:17.665+01:002013-11-18T00:15:17.665+01:00"Proponents of neuro-linguistic programming (..."Proponents of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) claim that you can tell if someone is lying based on how they move their eyes."<br /><br />No, they do not. Nowhere in any legitimate NLP training or text will you find this claim.mdebuskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15691739807968425696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-34679384944139291712013-11-06T22:01:50.306+01:002013-11-06T22:01:50.306+01:00Hi,
Healthline is interested in contributing a gu...Hi,<br /><br />Healthline is interested in contributing a guest post to rasmussenanders.blogspot.com. We would be open to contributing any blog that would be of interest to your readers. Healthline bloggers have been featured on a variety of sites including:<br /><br />Washington Times: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tango-mind-and-emotion/2012/aug/10/how-healthy-choices-easy/<br />Natural News: http://www.naturalnews.com/036515_diabetes_strawberries_prevention.html<br />Patch.com: http://strongsville.patch.com/blog_posts/where-and-what-to-eat-in-cleveland-to-beat-the-winter-blues<br /><br />Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your consideration.<br /><br />Warm Regards,<br />Tracytracy.rose@healthline.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-76058228323941708452013-10-02T07:56:55.801+01:002013-10-02T07:56:55.801+01:00Thanks for the comment Timothy,
I think that you ...Thanks for the comment Timothy,<br /><br />I think that you are partially right and partially, I think you may be overinterpreting Sam Harris arguments. <br /><br />Well being is indeed a difficult concept to grasp and it is extremely difficult to get a detailed understanding of the factors that make someone happier. There is also bound to be individual differences which makes it harder still. I also agree that happiness probably involves some form of roller coaster ride. <br /><br />Still, I do think that Sam Harris acknowledges all these limitations. He compares it to the way that there are often areas in science where we don't are not really sure about certain relationships. However, there are usually areas where there is little doubt as well. I think the same goes for well being. Certain things or policies to bring about greater well being in general, and some types of societies are associated with reduced well being. We can use these examples to determine which policies are good and bad, and as our knowledge grows we may be able to say more about what policies produce happy people. <br />rasmussenandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094631016209971125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-13741800573020366862013-10-01T04:29:06.665+01:002013-10-01T04:29:06.665+01:00It works when you look at extremes like "Jose...It works when you look at extremes like "Josef Fritzl's basement, or in a Tutsi family experiencing mutilation from Hutu militia". But therefore should children be given rights, and which ones? How about a right to see both parents? This is not a right in Japan, where post-divorce, children are brought up by one or other parent. How about a right to porn? <br /><br />Furthermore, most of the well being research uses self-reports, despite the fact that it is well know that Westerners have a strong tendency to over-report all positive self descriptions. I have not got to the end of the book yet but I think that the biggest problem is that "well being" and perhaps can't in principle be measured.<br /><br />Finally "well-being" sounds very fair, as a suitably general goal but are we sure that it should not be "well-becoming?" Can human thriving be measured in states, or in transitions? I have met people that claim that human's seek positive changes in states not steady states. My father says "happiness is not stuff-able-on-top-wise." Someone else in terms of Newtons laws of motion, where well-becoming (he used "happiness") was compared to acceleration which does not occur in steady states. This man even recommended marriage and children as a way of introducing ups and downs into ones life, since while bringing an equal amount of suffering, it at least results in a reduced incidence of steady states, and on the rebound, more happiness. Another friend (who is disabled) believes that happiness is related to expectations - the smaller they are the smaller changes in state result in greater increases in happiness - and I am not sure that expectations will ever be found in the brain.<br /><br />All the same, I guess if it were found that humans strive after well-becoming then future governments could ensure that their citizens get the right kind of roller coaster ride, and modifies our expectations according to the sort of ride it can provide. I think that governments do already do this to an extent.<br /><br /><br />But I think that it may be very complicated. <br />Derrida's "Differance," and iterability of the sign. Not sure what he means but I get the feeling he is onto something. <br />The way in which, as Sam Harris points out in Free Will, that Libert's neuropsychology shows we are predicting things in the past.<br />The way in which self-caused things seem to occur sooner<br />The way in which sensations take time to reach consciousness so we somehow manage to push them back in time to occur when they did even though there was in fact a lag. <br />(The last two I found on a neuroscience website by looking up libert)<br />And the way in which Kanzi, the bonobo that evolved speech in the lab, started speaking in speech acts which predicted his own behaviour to himself.<br />The way in which sex always seems to involve repetition, even in ladybirds. <br /><br />I think that the ideal roller coaster ride may be impossible to plan, ever, so Sam's attempts are barren. <br /><br />Sam Harris is a bit too common sense. Timtakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15758001805467131401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-70820565289395107032013-09-29T18:32:55.074+01:002013-09-29T18:32:55.074+01:00Thank you for the comment,
I was a bit surprised ...Thank you for the comment, <br />I was a bit surprised that a Christian person tries to distance him or herself from the old testament to to the extent you did<br /><br />Do you think that the old testament is true? If you do then do you think that God's acts were wrong (can they be wrong in your opinion)? <br /><br />Or do you think that the old testament is a lie and if so is that how most Christians think (not my impression)? rasmussenandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094631016209971125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-39846681496294107172013-09-28T11:41:24.192+01:002013-09-28T11:41:24.192+01:00I am sorry Rasmussenanders if my comments are thre...I am sorry Rasmussenanders if my comments are three years late, but after reading your comments, I had to comment, because your inferences of the laws of Christendom is malicious and proves nothing, because those words weren’t spoke by God, but by the worldly leaders of the Jews. You are challenging the Jewish faith no the Christian faith. The Jews live by the Old Testament (OT), and Christendom by the New Testament (NT). Christendom use the OT so as to understand the prophesy of the Jewish Bible in regards to our Lord Jesus Christ, and for wisdom through the Psalms and Proverbs.<br /><br />When our Lord Jesus Christ came, the Jewish people experienced love for their first time, and dwelled in His love for that short time of our Lord’s ministry. The NT was written from experiences and described the “WAY OF LIFE”, referred to as “THE WAY”. Our Lord Jesus Christ taught the Jewish people of HIS Teachings of love and forgiveness. The Bible you refer to is the Rules and Regulations for the Jews that is religious dogma written by the Pharisees of the Jewish religion over 3,000 years ago. The OT was their way of life through the eyes of their Priesthood, the Pharisees and their brutal way of life, as no doubt you are aware of the brutal slaying of our Messiah on the Cross.<br /><br />The NT is the story of “THE WAY” to a new life of living in love, forgiveness, and humility; and has nothing to do with being a Jew, it’s all about being like our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, if you read the NT, then you will know that those simple practices are a good way of life.<br /><br />The walk of a believer in our Lord Jesus Christ is a lesson in love, peace, joy, kindness, goodness, gentleness, patience, self-control and faithfulness. It has nothing to do about raping virgins or doing all those things that you have accused the Body of Christ of. A Christian life is a NT Life, not a Jewish OT life! The NT was written for Jewish converters who became Born Again, and for the Gentiles. Rasmussenanders, your facts of practices are inconceivable and with muck.<br />Brave Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03267179872957103805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-23046516854300303572013-08-27T14:09:24.958+01:002013-08-27T14:09:24.958+01:00Thanks for the comments.
I think that one can ma...Thanks for the comments. <br /><br />I think that one can make a valid argument claiming that science cannot determine moral values. There has to be an arbitrary starting point specifying what we want to achieve, however, if we have reached such a point I think that we can use science from then on.<br /><br />Harris such state is in essence a utilitarian goal - the greatest possible well being in as many individuals as possible. If this is what we want to attain (and I think it should be), then acts that help us toward this point are moral and those that pulls us away are not good.<br /><br />I agree with Eclecticity that our culture is rooted in judeo-christians traditions. Sometime these traditions are good and sometimes bad. Why not keep the good ones and get rid of the bad?<br /><br /><br />rasmussenandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094631016209971125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-3755210449609390732013-08-13T22:29:48.054+01:002013-08-13T22:29:48.054+01:00For an interesting constructive criticism see http...For an interesting constructive criticism see http://philosopher.io/Science-Religion-Ontology-EpistemologyJackhttp://philosopher.ionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-26662299713453276652013-08-10T19:13:17.020+01:002013-08-10T19:13:17.020+01:00Thoughtful post.
I think the foundation of weste...Thoughtful post. <br /><br />I think the foundation of western civilization is rooted in the Judeo-Christian traditions. When you look carefully at the 10 Commandments, for example, I think you can make the case for most our laws, ethics and political-economic systems in the Western world. Eclecticityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515852321697380521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-13132200347613009782013-07-21T21:02:10.606+01:002013-07-21T21:02:10.606+01:00If you're interested in a criticism of Harris,...If you're interested in a criticism of Harris, search on amazon.com for "Mining The Moral Landscape: Why Science Does Not (and cannot) Determine Human Values."steveihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00210969737898191354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-18600504759184657022013-06-02T19:44:39.284+01:002013-06-02T19:44:39.284+01:00Thanks for the compliment on my site!
Watchtower ...Thanks for the compliment on my site!<br /><br />Watchtower society false prophets declare Armageddon end of world in 1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975, and 1984....<br />---Danny Haszard <br />(Armageddon-aint-a-coming-so-im-a-getting-outta-here...)Danny Haszardhttp://www.dannyhaszard.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-27998271318144802102013-06-02T17:45:37.063+01:002013-06-02T17:45:37.063+01:00Thank you for the comment Danny
I actually was aw...Thank you for the comment Danny<br /><br />I actually was aware that JW predicted armageddon in the beginning of the 20th century. I thought that they had simply updated the date to another year further into the future. Do you know if that is the case?<br /><br />Liked your website very much by the way =)<br /><br />Cheers<br />Andersrasmussenandershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094631016209971125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-86785704479501919912013-06-02T16:35:05.637+01:002013-06-02T16:35:05.637+01:00The big difference between Jehovah's Witnesses...The big difference between Jehovah's Witnesses and other Christians is that the Watchtower Society's central core creed proclaims Jesus second coming in October 1914.<br />They sometimes try to obscure this today and say that he came *invisibly*.Yes,all other Christains are awaiting Jesus return,the JW say he ALREADY came in 1914. <br />Reports from TIME Magazine-*An even more extreme example of what might be called *masked churn* is the relatively tiny Jehovah's Witnesses, with a turnover rate of about two-thirds*.<br /><br />That means that two-thirds of the people who were raised Jehovah's Witnesses no longer are.<br /> Jehovah's Witnesses are the highest loss of any religion.<br />---Danny Haszard <br />FMI dannyhaszard(dot)com Danny Haszardhttp://www.dannyhaszard.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-18253387645418729982013-02-08T13:24:16.340+01:002013-02-08T13:24:16.340+01:00I love self help books
and self help books's ...I love <a href="http://www.scholastic.co.in/index.php/non-fiction/self-help-book.html?___SID=U" rel="nofollow">self help books</a><br /> and self help books's contents are very well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11754554118180598008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-90994234817601901512013-01-09T17:23:04.389+01:002013-01-09T17:23:04.389+01:00Hey! much thanks for the link you mentioned ! :) C...Hey! much thanks for the link you mentioned ! :) Cheers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-37331644328605664802013-01-03T08:47:11.656+01:002013-01-03T08:47:11.656+01:00Deprivation of water brings death more quickly tha...Deprivation of water brings death more quickly than that of food. However, impure water can be the cause of numerous diseases. The diseases can even be fatal. In places where the water is contaminated, people fall ill more often. Whether it is drinking water or the being used for cleaning and bathing purposes.shower filterhttp://www.lifestreamhealth.com.au/mobile-phone-radiation-shieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-309129773755579342013-01-03T08:45:43.486+01:002013-01-03T08:45:43.486+01:00It may contain bacteria, viruses, suspended partic...It may contain bacteria, viruses, suspended particles, algae, parasites or fungi. Only boiling water may not be the only solution to completely pure water. That is why water filters should be used. It removes many impurities that can cause serious diseases. Not many people are familiar with alkaline water. It is the gateway to a new lifestyle. Alkaline water has many anti-ageing properties. It uses free radicals. electromagnetic radiationhttp://www.lifestreamhealth.com.au/mobile-phone-radiation-shieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-59082228225115248282012-12-05T05:21:52.949+01:002012-12-05T05:21:52.949+01:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i2uXhKLFys&fea...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i2uXhKLFys&feature=player_embedded<br /><br />Being and EHS sufferer and worked amongst the EMR and EMF equipments and devices, I believe what this video has to say first, before I would believe anything that this five part series is trying to prove. I did notice that he had never stated that wireless technology is SAFE.<br /><br />How SAFE is SAFE?<br /><br />I've always stated that the lack of evidence isn't due to the absence of evidence, but the evidence is absent, because the evidence is denied.<br /><br />The sad thing about it all is that the airm of science is not to open the door to endless wisdom, but to put a limit on endless error.<br /><br />Blessings.Brave Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03267179872957103805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-562680309009676006.post-12083816069870891612012-11-28T07:40:11.116+01:002012-11-28T07:40:11.116+01:00thanks! very helpful and interestingthanks! very helpful and interestingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com