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Quilt
08/21/09

In reply to Scientists Discover Why a Broken Heart Really Hurts
I'm So Ronery
So ronery
So ronery and sadry arone

There's no one
Just me onry
Sitting on my rittle throne
I work rearry hard and make up great prans
But nobody ristens, no one understands
Seems like no one takes me serirousry

And so I'm ronery
A rittle ronery
Poor rittle me

There's nobody
I can rerate to
Feel rike a bird in a cage
It's kinda sihry
But not rearry
Because it's fihring my body with rage

I'm the smartest most crever most physicarry fit
But nobody else seems to rearize it
When I change the world maybe they'll notice me
But until then I'rr just be ronery
Rittle ronery, poor rittle me

I'm so ronery
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Anekanta - Space Hippy!
08/20/09

In reply to Scientists Discover Why a Broken Heart Really Hurts
I suspect you can die of a broken heart, even if only indirectly. Heartache can lead to depression, which can itself lead to a whole bunch of other problems--other mood and anxiety disorders, substance abuse, suicide, physical health symptoms like insomnia or hypersomnia, etc.
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r0cketman22
08/21/09

@Anekanta: Padme died from a broken heart.
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Gann
08/21/09

@Anekanta: It's way easier to die from someone else's broken heart. Hell hath no fury...
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rabiera
08/20/09

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How is it news that emotions are experienced as physical sensations? And what has that got to do with free will?
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Boas_MC
08/21/09

@rabiera: Yes. In fact, (at least according to the excellent radio and podcast series Radiolab), studies have shown that people who become paralyzed in major portions of their bodies (neck down, chest down, etc.) actually report lower emotional responses. That is, they feel less emotionally because they feel less of their body. Powerful evidence that the body is a very important player in our emotional lives.
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Pegritz
08/20/09

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I wonder if this will shed any light on fibromyalgia and other chronic pain syndromes, as they generally seem to be connected to depression and other suppressive emotional conditions. Now, whether the pain causes the depression or the depression causes the pain...well, that's a sticky one. I tend to think it's probably *both* setting up a feedback cycle. Sure as hell feels that way to me, at least.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
08/20/09

@Pegritz: I'm going with pain causing depression -- everyone I've ever met with fibro didn't get depressed until several years into their illness, if at all.

It does happen the other way around, but not as often as the doctors wish it did (b/c that makes their job easier).
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twophrasebark
08/20/09

The most insidiously invalidating and pointless idea in psychology and medicine is the idea of somatic pain.

Pain is pain. In addition to the fact that the pain of fibromyalgia patients can be excruciating and is not somatic.

But even if it were, who cares?

Somatic pain is just code for "I am not a good enough doctor to admit I don't what the problem is. Therefore, I'll just blame the patient. But I'll use some medical terms to cover it up."
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twophrasebark
08/20/09

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Don't tell the psychiatrists.

They will be very upset.
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Super Moose
08/20/09

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Just more support for the evolutionary psychologists that say we have no free will.
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The_Sporean_Bob
08/20/09

@Super Moose: oh we have free will, its just heavily biased influenced by all the happenings in the brain.
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Hachiken
08/20/09

@The_Sporean_Bob:
The_Sporean_Bob...is that akin to The Tholian Web?

Wow man, apologies. Like, couldn't resist...
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Hachiken
08/20/09

In reply to Scientists Discover Why a Broken Heart Really Hurts
Stephen Stills had it right, then...love the one you're with!

Regularly!

Regardless of species!

(Oh man, talk about Pandora's Box...box? Wait a minute, that didn't turn out the way I hoped...does anyone have any grass?)
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Grey_Area
04/02/09

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Ummmm. well...Don't you think the positioning of the two figures is...ummm...well...
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Slatz_Grobnik
04/01/09

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A) It's not just The Penetrator, but that the book is titled Double Penetrator, proving without a doubt that they knew exactly what they were doing.

Also, he's wearing a denim jacket with blue jeans.

B) I note that Valentine is the sequel to "Vampire Junction." Something tells me that cover is far, far worse.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/01/09

@Kevin Howell: I knew there was that sort of joke in there, I just didn't...uh... dig for it.
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bluehinter
04/01/09

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Damn! I quite enjoyed "The Mote in God's Eye," but now I have to track down a version with that cover!

Also, I'm pissed that somebody already ripped off my terrible Punisher/Executioner parody character... even down to the Rowsdower mullet and porn star mustache!
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Xicer
04/01/09

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That Han Solo's Revenge cover is classic.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/01/09

@Xicer: I love how it's Han's revenge, yet he's in the background and Chewie's taking up most of the cover art.

Han Solo's revenge: hide behind the Wookiee.
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Belabras ate my dingo!
04/01/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom:

Hey, it's a winning strategy.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/01/09

@Belabras Voted 5: It's certainly the one I'd go for, but Han's butcher than I am.
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MikeHerbst
04/01/09

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I think I've got all of those beat:

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Grey_Area
04/01/09

@MikeHerbst: Delightful!

[5 stars]
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/01/09

@MikeHerbst: You definitely win.

Or something.
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AmishJohn
04/02/09

@MikeHerbst: Actually the art is semi-correct; but the blurb is wrong. They wanted brains to use as Bolo control systems.
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Grey_Area
04/02/09

@AmishJohn: Yeah, but more like giant humanoid mecha rather than supertanks. The Bolos had AI and the later models had human drivers (with their wole bodies intact) jacked in.

But I be picking the nits.
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AmishJohn
04/02/09

@Grey_Area: I was using 'Bolo' as a generic term; these aliens used stolen brains everywhere - cat brains for repair servos, and so on...
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Grey_Area
04/02/09

@AmishJohn: Gotcha.

And oh wow, I forgot about the catbots!
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SuperTuna
04/01/09

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"The Mote in God's Eye" = angry anal alien sex

"The Penetrator" = Burt Reynolds

"The Mind Masters" = Wednesday Night at io9? :D
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DumbledoreCalrissian
04/01/09

@SuperTuna: I want to work at io9!
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Belabras ate my dingo!
04/01/09

@DumbledoreCalrissian:

Bet you have a good time on Wed. night then. ;)
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Grey_Area
04/01/09

@Belabras Voted 5: Nope that cover's the other six days of the week. Wednesday is League Night at the Hyper Bowl Lanes.
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Plague
04/01/09

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If by "hideously awful" you mean "effin' great", then I agree.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
04/01/09

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Watchers in Space? You got Hobbits in my Rama!
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