psychology
Topics in psychology presented by Futurism.
Manifest Destiny...
We all have hopes and dreams. There are things we want and goals we want to attain. It seems like we all get tripped up by the same thing: “where do I start?” The when can be an issue too. People tend to make excuses; I know I did. “I don’t know where to start”, “I don’t have the time/money”. I have a couple philosophies that I live by: “Every time you leave the house is an opportunity”. An old friend said that to me, and I held on to it. Now it can be interpreted many ways. When we leave our house, who knows who we may meet. Meeting people leads to developing relationships. Those relationships are also connections. Maybe you take it to mean when you leave the house, you should look good. Looking good usually leads to feeling good. When you feel good, you tend to make better choices. Those better choices, in turn lead to better outcomes. You see that positive chain of reactions? Another philosophy I try to live by and have even instilled in my daughters is: “you can’t control how people act, but you CAN control how you REact. Pretty self-explanatory right? People are gonna be who they are. They are gonna do what they do. Sometimes, the things people do don’t align with our goals or feelings. Now, you could get upset, angry or sad about it, right? Or, hear me out, you could accept said actions and change how you interact going forward. It is far less energy consuming to go through life this way. Don’t you agree? Now think about some people in your life whose actions made you feel a “not so good” way. Write down their names. Ok, now write down beside each name, the feeling they gave you. Could you have changed your actions in any of those situations to get a better outcome? Write down what you could have done differently with each person in each situation. These are situations that have already passed, and I wish I had a time machine, but I do not. So, we can't change anything unfortunately. We are gonna go into situations with these people and others with a different mindset and different actions. GO US! We ‘bout to be out here creating better situations for ourselves in order to protect our energy! Another set of words I live by: “some bridges are burned to prevent us from going back to places we don’t need to be”. In other words, we try to hold on to things or people that are no longer good for or beneficial to us. For whatever reason, we can’t walk away on our own, so the universe gives us a little help. Does the thought of burning or burned bridges make you think of any of the people from your list? If not, awesome! If so, why? Do you think you should separate from him/her/them? Something to really think about.
By Latoya Giles 4 years ago in Futurism
The Dark Side of Light Things:
In the late 2060s the Minskerian school was founded upon the revolutionary discovery that fundamental particles are coupled to a constellation of higher dimensional objects called dians. Dians encode and implement the physical laws of lower dimensional matter. The field of cognitive science found hope in deciphering the enigma of consciousness when an interdisciplinary group discovered unusual activity in the diantic particles linked to the nervous system, and knocked emojis out of everyday usage. More sophisticated was Gottfried Leibniz’s Characteristica Universalis, an alphabet for representing ideas; Leibniz postulated reasoning obeyed a grammar. Inspired by Leibniz’s ideas, Professor B. Minsker developed Quantum Metacognition Theory (QMC) which states the human conscious condition emerges from the behavior of the diantic particles coupled to the nervous system. Utilizing QMC, physicists developed a method to construct artificial consciousness out of diantic particles and temporarily inject them into another’s mind.
By Akiva Lipshitz4 years ago in Futurism
Where Are You Going?
Salutations, Earthling. I come in peace. I see that all is not well on this beautiful, delicate planet at this time. I see lies, manipulations, bondages, shame; beings treating other beings horrifically. There is greed and excess, scarcity, poverty and suffering.
By Angie Allanby4 years ago in Futurism
Calculators All the Way Down—OfPublicInterest.01
‘Turtles all the way down’ is the idea that Earth rests on the back of a giant turtle, which rests on the back of a larger turtle, which rests on the back of an even larger turtle, and so on, all the way down to infinity. This concept, or belief (however you see it), is a demonstration of the knowledge problem of infinite regress — an infinite series of things that depend on an infinite series of predecessors that go beyond the realm of proof. Infinite regress is the child ever asking ‘why?’ where the answers inevitably run out before the questions.
By Jacopo Mulini4 years ago in Futurism
What is existentialism?
It is, perhaps, a challenge to try and define existentialism, as the definition may vary depending on who you ask. There have been many philosophers throughout the centuries that shared their views and thoughts on this subject, some of them differed, but they all had one thing in common: hunger for answers.
By Julian Diep5 years ago in Futurism
Rainbow Vortex
The year 2044 Post-apocalyptic earth where cyborgs outnumber the human race. The majority of humans became engulfed with the dependency of technology, distracted, living in an illusion of a utopian society. When in fact it was slowly but surely turning into the exact opposite. The agenda of the darkness was to have complete mind control over humanity shifting earth into a slave planet. Where the consciousness of humanity was uploaded into a mass centralized hard drive. The plan from the very beginning was to instill fear, causing civilization to give up free will and hand it to the darkness on a silver platter. A combination of fear, brainwashing, repeating unwarranted propaganda, and distraction was a perfect recipe to complete their diabolical plan. The darkness knew the outcome, for their frequency was unable to increase to where we were heading. Therefore, they did everything possible to keep humanity in a low-frequency state.
By Monica IsChosen5 years ago in Futurism
This is Enough
Maria sits on the former east bank of the Mississippi River, looking west. The sun is about gone over the horizon shining a late streak of light on a faded memory. She thinks of the last time water flowed here. Her father would take her to this spot as a child and tell her of the endless barges and tugs traveling up and down the mighty waterway. As the years went on and the drought persisted, the level became so low that only a kayak could float the stream, she remembers her father telling her. Finally, it became as it is now, a marshy meadow with rivulets forming when a light rain does at times manage to fall.
By Jeffrey Kohl5 years ago in Futurism
