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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2008, 03:14:48 PM »
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sophist!   :hug:

hi, darlin', how're you?   :-*

Hiddee.  :laugh: I'm doing very well at the moment.

--Am I allowed to ask questions back of the Askers? If so, How are you?


me's about the same as usual, you know, F.I.N.E.  ;)

fucked up, insecure, neurotic and eczematic.   ::)

LOL. Well then I am F.I.N.E. too (flippant, insane-- but in a good way--, narcissistic, and erotic)  ;)

sounds good to me.  :-*

completely fucked up the quotes, but i think i've remedied it.

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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2008, 05:40:13 AM »

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Oh, I thought it was ask for something and you'd get it!  damn....  misunderstood again.

Ah, sorry. Maybe if I close my eyes tight enough and think hard enough, you will get a small group of close friends...

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Did it work?



Apparently the group is so small, I can't see them....    But they are a close bunch because I hear them talking. ;D
Feeling neutral is very normal.

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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2008, 05:42:51 AM »
ok, with that all cleared up, I will ask a question...


Can you tell when a guy is hitting on you?
Feeling neutral is very normal.

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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #18 on: August 07, 2008, 08:20:55 AM »
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Apparently the group is so small, I can't see them....    But they are a close bunch because I hear them talking. ;D

Yay! It worked.  :zoinks:

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ok, with that all cleared up, I will ask a question...


Can you tell when a guy is hitting on you?

Hmmm... well, that depends. If I am looking for it (i.e., I'm in flirting mode), then yes, usually I can.

If I am not in flirting mode and my brain is somewhere else COMPLETELY, then I usually miss it, sometimes to the point that I don't get it until the person makes a very OBVIOUS move, like kissing me, lol. In which case, said "move" is usually unwelcome because if I'm interested in a person I'm usually ALWAYS in flirting mode.  :eyebrows:
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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #19 on: August 08, 2008, 06:46:27 AM »
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Apparently the group is so small, I can't see them....    But they are a close bunch because I hear them talking. ;D

Yay! It worked.  :zoinks:

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ok, with that all cleared up, I will ask a question...


Can you tell when a guy is hitting on you?

Hmmm... well, that depends. If I am looking for it (i.e., I'm in flirting mode), then yes, usually I can.

If I am not in flirting mode and my brain is somewhere else COMPLETELY, then I usually miss it, sometimes to the point that I don't get it until the person makes a very OBVIOUS move, like kissing me, lol. In which case, said "move" is usually unwelcome because if I'm interested in a person I'm usually ALWAYS in flirting mode.  :eyebrows:

OH GOD NO, DON'T TELL ME THERE HAS TO BE FOREPLAY BEFORE FOREPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feeling neutral is very normal.

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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #20 on: August 08, 2008, 07:43:05 AM »
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Apparently the group is so small, I can't see them....    But they are a close bunch because I hear them talking. ;D

Yay! It worked.  :zoinks:

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ok, with that all cleared up, I will ask a question...


Can you tell when a guy is hitting on you?

Hmmm... well, that depends. If I am looking for it (i.e., I'm in flirting mode), then yes, usually I can.

If I am not in flirting mode and my brain is somewhere else COMPLETELY, then I usually miss it, sometimes to the point that I don't get it until the person makes a very OBVIOUS move, like kissing me, lol. In which case, said "move" is usually unwelcome because if I'm interested in a person I'm usually ALWAYS in flirting mode.  :eyebrows:

OH GOD NO, DON'T TELL ME THERE HAS TO BE FOREPLAY BEFORE FOREPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That wasn't a question, but I'll answer it anyways:

Yes, there needs to be fore-foreplay.  :laugh:
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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #21 on: August 08, 2008, 08:17:44 AM »
OH GOD NO, DON'T TELL ME THERE HAS TO BE FOREPLAY BEFORE FOREPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That wasn't a question, but I'll answer it anyways:

Yes, there needs to be fore-foreplay.  :laugh:

Well, at least now I know, maybe that was one of my original problems.....   Let the pre-flirting begin!   (I guess that's why they call it "courtship".  You need a "ship" because its a journey, and also like "court", one false move and you'll be found "In-contempt") !
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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #22 on: August 08, 2008, 09:58:12 AM »

OH GOD NO, DON'T TELL ME THERE HAS TO BE FOREPLAY BEFORE FOREPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That wasn't a question, but I'll answer it anyways:

Yes, there needs to be fore-foreplay.  :laugh:
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Well, at least now I know, maybe that was one of my original problems.....   Let the pre-flirting begin!   (I guess that's why they call it "courtship".  You need a "ship" because its a journey, and also like "court", one false move and you'll be found "In-contempt") !
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Stop thinking in terms of fore- and aft-  play.

A constant, play must be.
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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #23 on: August 08, 2008, 11:28:11 AM »

OH GOD NO, DON'T TELL ME THERE HAS TO BE FOREPLAY BEFORE FOREPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That wasn't a question, but I'll answer it anyways:

Yes, there needs to be fore-foreplay.  :laugh:

Well, at least now I know, maybe that was one of my original problems.....   Let the pre-flirting begin!   (I guess that's why they call it "courtship".  You need a "ship" because its a journey, and also like "court", one false move and you'll be found "In-contempt") !

Stop thinking in terms of fore- and aft-  play.

A constant play must be.

A "play"?            Sounds more like a major production...

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." — Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)

To sum it up, "'Life sucks, and then you die...."     and.... curtain.
Feeling neutral is very normal.

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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #24 on: August 08, 2008, 07:02:14 PM »
Good point, it's a constant play.

--Unless of course either person's just not in the mood, and then it's just annoying as hell.

I.e., if she's PMSing, it's probably a good time to call a timeout to the "play".  :thumbup:
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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2008, 01:03:01 AM »
do yuo have any favourite psychology books you can recomend?  I know you like Oliver Sacks.  What do you think of  N L P?

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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2008, 09:49:11 AM »
do yuo have any favourite psychology books you can recomend?  I know you like Oliver Sacks.  What do you think of  N L P?

Strict "psychology" books, hmm... not so much. I have tended to lean towards reading Neurology and Medicine if anything. I don't think I'm familiar with NLP; what/who is that?

Here's a short list of books I've really enjoyed (not in any particular order):

-Why We Get Sick  by Randolph Nesse and George Williams

-Postcards from the Brain Museum  by Brian Burrell

-A Body of Work  by Christine Montross

-Phantoms in the Brain  by VS Ramachandran

-Mutants  by Armand Marie Leroi

-The Knife Man  by Wendy Moore

-The Lobotomist  by Jack El-Hai

-Descartes' Error  by Antonio Damasio

-Oliver Sacks' case studies books

And I also have Plague Time  by Paul Ewald and Synpatic Self  by Joseph LeDoux still sitting on my shelf which I haven't gotten to yet. My personal uber-favorites from the above list are A Body of Work, Postcards from the Brain Museum, and The Knife Man.
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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2008, 09:51:13 AM »
Can you give as a brief synopsis for those books? Some of those titles look very interesting.

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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #28 on: August 09, 2008, 10:15:52 AM »
Can you give as a brief synopsis for those books? Some of those titles look very interesting.

Sure. :)

Why We Get Sick: It takes a look at current medicine and treatments through a Darwinian or Evolutionary perspective. It cautions that doctors should not always be so quick to treat what they assume to be an "illness" because oftentimes evolution has evolved it as part of the overall adaptive system. The authors also strongly believe that doctors should get more training in Darwinian Medical Theory and it should become a part of every day treatment approaches, as opposed to the just "patient comes in and we fix it" methods.

Postcards from the Brain Museum: This is a hodgepodge about the history of Neurology from Descartes onwards. It's a fascinating book and so difficult to sum up because it's such an interesting collecting of historical tidbits.

A Body of Work: This book is beautifully written. It is by and about Christine Montross and her time in medical school. She went through an MFA program in poetry and after finishing that, decided she wanted to become a doctor. It's a lovely narrative, particularly focusing on the Gross Anatomy course all med students take first semester and coming to terms with life, death, and basically defiling (for knowledge) what used to be a living human being.

Phantoms in the Brain: This book is another hodgepodge, chapter by chapter. Very interesting. It's title is based on the sections of the book that explore Phantom Limbs.

Mutants: Excellent book, the author uses physical mutations to illustrate embryogenesis and how amazing it is we come out of the womb alive at all!

The Knife Man: A biography about the life and mainly the work of John (Jack) Hunter, the Father of Surgery. He was a brilliant anatomist and was even one of the few men who thought of a concept similar to Evolution about a century before Darwin.

The Lobotomist: A biography of Walter Freeman, who was not the inventor of the lobotomy, but was the man to popularize it and bring it to America. It isn't the most well-written of books (a bit boring at times), but for the information itself I find it fascinating.

Descartes' Error: The first half of the book deals with Phineas Gage. I personally find this the best part of the book. The remainder of the book is different, chapter by chapter, and focuses on different aspects of neural systems.

And of course Oliver Sacks' case studies books are always brilliant and entertaining, particularly The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars. I haven't read his book, Musicophillia yet.
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Re: Ask Madame TMFKASophist and Ye Shall Receive!!!!!! (Maybe)
« Reply #29 on: August 09, 2008, 10:23:08 AM »
Thanks Sophist :green: