Psychology Today Website:
Published on December 21, 2010
Forgiveness and its connection to anxiety, depression, and overall health and happiness.
by Matthew B. James, Ph.D.
Become right with yourself and others around you through forgiveness.
''We Met Online!'' Stories of Married Catholics Who Met Their Spouses on the Internet.
“Isn’t this for the desperate?” Skeptics continue to feel the Internet is a pale substitute for the traditional ways to meet someone and fall in love. But exchanging messages in a controlled environment to develop mutual interest is really more natural than contrived matching by friends or relatives, and certainly better than office romances or other likely scenarios in our hectic world. Add to this the difficulty of finding someone who shares a deep love for the Catholic faith, and the Internet can become a true godsend. We Met Online! provides proof for the skeptics and assurance for the unconvinced. These accounts offer hope for those who feel they will never meet someone, and insight for those who want to know if this is a way for Christian men and women to become acquainted. But it is also for parents, grandparents, siblings, friends, priests and anyone who knows and loves wonderful single Catholics who seek love in a married vocation, but have not yet met that right person for marriage. Does God care what happens on the Internet? He sure does. At least, we know He cares for those whom He loves dearly and who love Him as they pass from traditional ways of finding good and loving spouses to share their lives in Christ and turn to opportunities online. These are only 25 of the hundreds of stories of such devoted Christians who turned with hope to God for help, and found the love of their lives on a web site called AveMariaSingles.com.
Esquire magazine August 2010
Interesting study about what men do and don't do in relationships, affairs or one night stands. You might be surprised who benefits more.
ARTICLE: The Surprising Science of a One-Night Stand by Marty Beckerman
“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.” ~Calvin & Hobbes
Find out what happens when you are left, truly alone.
Very interesting documentary which subjects 6 people to any contact from outside sources for 48 hours.
Observed by psychologists, the documentary shows what can happen to people who are cut off from various senses, and what happens to our minds in the process.
For the first time in 40 years Horizon re-creates a controversial sensory deprivation experiment. Six ordinary people are taken to a nuclear bunker and left alone for 48 hours. Three subjects are left alone in dark, sound-proofed rooms, while the other three are given goggles and foam cuffs, while white noise is piped into their ears
"Imagine if sexuality was no longer an issue and the world no longer fought to suppress it. We would have one thing fewer that serves to divide us, turn us against ourselves, further marginalize minorities, and deem some individuals below the rest."
If "Chat Room" and "The Social Network" is your thing - then Catfish is a must see. Described as "Bizzare and completely unpredictable" this thriller is going to shake you to the bone.
Coming to theatres on Fall 2010.
Starring: Nev Schulman, Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost
More at http://iamrogue.com/catfish
In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariel's brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project would lead to the most exhilarating and unsettling months of their lives. A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times, Catfish is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue.
I've long thought that beta males are just as, or more desireable than their alpha counterparts. Great article that tells us why.
Cybersex allows real-life partners who are physically separated to continue to be sexually intimate. In geographically separated relationships, it can function to sustain the sexual dimension of a relationship....
The broad goal of the MIT Media Lab is to explore the impact of modern computing on human society. Groups at the Media Lab study the implications of computational technology at all stages of the human life cycle,.....
Very interesting predictions from Arthur C. Clarke given in 1964 about what he thought the future would be like.