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Post by htmb on Jan 17, 2015 15:09:38 GMT
That's very interesting but, of course, a lot would depend on how many people were sampled, where they came from, their range in age, etc. On a personal level, I'd mark the last several years - late fifties, early sixties - as the happiest. I imagine the definition of "happy" also varies quite a bit over time. I can certainly recognize happiness in the small, still, little moments much easier now than I could when I was younger. If I could just have the body, strength and physical abilities I had at twenty-nine, I'd be even happier.
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Post by mossie on Jan 17, 2015 15:21:32 GMT
At 82 I think that life is much more relaxed now, but if only I knew at 19 what I know now how much better my life could have been, or could it. Ignorance or innocence covers a multitude of sins.
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Post by breeze on Jan 17, 2015 16:02:58 GMT
Well sure, if you ask 34-ear-olds, they'll say 33.
It would take a lot of thought for me to figure out how to answer this question and I'm not sure I'd want to. My life has been on a fairly even keel for a long time, most of my past is a blur, but I do remember that when we grew a lot of strawberries I was very happy. I felt very rich then, but not in money.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 17:26:39 GMT
I would imagine that the poll was taken using people at least 50 years old to get a bit of perspective (it was a British poll). I would probably set my happiest years around age 30-31 when I was having the greatest number of adventures all over the planet. My happiness has always come more from adventure than achievement.
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Post by htmb on Jan 17, 2015 18:42:11 GMT
I would think that successfully completing challenging adventures was always an accomplishment.
For me, the important achievements HAVE been adventures. When I say achievements, I mean those non-tangible things that make you feel good and worthwhile. Making a decision to completely change my life at the age of fifty-something was quite the adventure, though I realize that's my own personal definition of the word.
I also know that relationships with family, friends, and loved ones has also contributed to my happiness in many different ways. Though I tend to be a loner much of the time, I also find joy and satisfaction through good, positive connections.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2015 14:23:35 GMT
Movies are shorter on video that in a movie theatre for technical reasons. Movies are shot at 24 images per second, but anything on video must be shown at 25 images per second on the PAL and SECAM systems (most of the world) and at 30 images per second on the NTSC system (United States, Japan...). Therefore a movie that lasts 1h30 at the cinema only lasts 1h26 on video in Europe and 1h12 in the United States.
The reason for the higher speed is the threshold at which the screens can be seen to flicker.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 31, 2015 3:31:57 GMT
Perhaps that explains why, more and more, Mr. Kimby and I must use the English language subtitles to follow the dialog even in English language films! They're talking too fast!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2015 18:16:21 GMT
Blue is the favourite colour of occidental cultures. Most of the attraction is religious. The sky only became blue around the year 1000 and was considered to be a divine colour. Then of course the Blessed Virgin's coat was blue, and a few hundred years later the fleur de lys representing French royalty was blue starting in 1130. The Protestant reform of the 16th century did not change things because it established a list of 'honest' colours and those that were not. The 'good' colours were black, white, grey and blue. 'Bad' colours were green, yellow and red.
People were really crazy back then.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 15, 2015 19:24:02 GMT
And I just learned (from the supermarket bag boy, no less) that some primitive culture had no word for the color blue. If you pointed to the sky and asked what color it was, they had no answer. It's just the sky. (He heard this on Nstional Public Radio so I assume it's true.)
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Post by rikita on Feb 27, 2015 7:08:51 GMT
well, the arrangement of the colour range varies per culture anyway, afaik. for example, some colours have different words for light blue and dark blue, so their distinction is probably felt much stronger by their speakers than in cultures where the only distinction is adding the word "light" and "dark" ... and in german (not sure about other european languages) there was no word for purple in the middle ages, apparently, so purple things were classified as blue or red, depending on their shade ... and googling a bit just now i saw an article claiming that none of the ancient languages had a word for blue (but i don't have time to read it properly now) ... anyway, some shades of green and some shades of blue are pretty similar, so i could imagine that a lot of blue things could be classified as green is the distinctions are made differently somewhere ...
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Post by rikita on Feb 27, 2015 7:11:31 GMT
i learned (well in theory i already knew) how little regard toddlers have for the fact that someone is in pain and really just wants to be left alone for a few minutes ...
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 27, 2015 10:04:52 GMT
rikita, have you seen the article in Spiegel online about the blue/brown dress? K2 mentioned some time recently about ancient cultures somewhere not having a word for the blue in blue sky.
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Post by rikita on Feb 27, 2015 11:54:24 GMT
no ... do you have a link?
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Post by Kimby on Feb 27, 2015 14:40:55 GMT
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Post by rikita on Feb 27, 2015 23:06:26 GMT
interesting, though i guess here the different perception has more to do with how the eye works than with language/cultural differences? will copy a photo down and see what happens when i photoshop a bit with it though ...
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Post by rikita on Feb 27, 2015 23:09:06 GMT
running automatic white balance and colour improvement makes it blue and dark brown - though on the photo i did indeed see more white/light blue and gold ... i think it might also just have to do with weird photo quality though. on some photos in weird lighting people's skin looks blue or green, but there since i know that it isn't that colour, i guess my brain is more ready to correct it ...
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Post by rikita on Feb 27, 2015 23:09:36 GMT
ah as about learning, read about cotard syndrome today. sounds scary ...
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Post by Kimby on Feb 28, 2015 1:20:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2015 6:10:59 GMT
I'm glad I recognised the correct colours. I am reminded of numerous disagreements about whether something is blue or green, but that's at lot easier to understand when the real colour is something along the lines of turquoise. But disagreeing about whether is something is blue & black or white & gold seems incredible.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 1, 2015 0:16:13 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Mar 1, 2015 15:07:58 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Mar 7, 2015 19:58:28 GMT
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Post by htmb on Mar 7, 2015 20:19:02 GMT
Interesting, but I'm not completely convinced.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2015 21:30:26 GMT
Barack Obama has 56 million followers on Twitter but is also the person in the world who 'follows' the most people with his account -- 644,300 people. I'm sure the NSA helps him out with that.
An ordinary person can only follow a maximum of 2000 people, but the ceiling rises depending on how many people follow you.
#citizenfour
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Post by rikita on Mar 7, 2015 23:31:22 GMT
i learned about tarantism today and found it pretty fascinating ...
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Post by questa on Mar 8, 2015 8:28:34 GMT
Rikita, did you read on to the linked 'ergotism'? Although ergometrine is still in use for migraines and midwifery, this naturally occurring drug can cause all sorts of reactions. One is the feeling the affected person has that he can fly.
I briefly nursed a patient (he was transferred to psych) who was out of this world after ingesting ergot, unknown quantity. We had to put him on the ground floor kids ward as the balconies there were enclosed. He had tried to launch himself from the third floor so he could fly home.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 18:49:24 GMT
I don't know who manages to calculate this sort of thing but apparently adults eat 92% of what is in their meal plate whereas children who serve themselves eat only 59%.
It appears that adults have more experience at knowing how much they want to eat, but they also suffer from not wanting to waste food and sometimes eat more than they should just to finish the plate. Children have not yet learned to calculate the proper quantity to take but have the healthy advantage of just stopping once they are full.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 8, 2015 21:25:59 GMT
Rikita, did you read on to the linked 'ergotism'? Although ergometrine is still in use for migraines and midwifery, this naturally occurring drug can cause all sorts of reactions. One is the feeling the affected person has that he can fly. I briefly nursed a patient (he was transferred to psych) who was out of this world after ingesting ergot, unknown quantity. We had to put him on the ground floor kids ward as the balconies there were enclosed. He had tried to launch himself from the third floor so he could fly home. Isn't ergot related to LSD somehow?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2015 21:29:06 GMT
That's what I was thinking, too. Same generation.
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Post by questa on Mar 9, 2015 7:16:51 GMT
Ergot has been around for ages. It is a type of mould that gets into crops, specially rye. If animals eat the rye grass they have a nasty death. If humans eat bread made from affected rye they get ergotism. Symptoms like LSD but often fatal. Imagine a whole village getting it at same time. Apparently it was not unusual in Middle ages to 19th Century before there were chemicals to treat the mould. There is also some link to fire as well...sufferers were either fire starters or afraid of fires...I've forgotten which...sorry.
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