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  1. The Cabal has arrived.

    Monday, 04-Apr-11 23:23:56 UTC from web
    1. @oracle That much be exactly the reason they named it that! Indisputable!

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:10:54 UTC from web
    2. @oracle And the purest forms of human intellect.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:13:04 UTC from web
    3. @snowcone I found out when i was like 7 or something crazy old because my mother signed the note from Santa, Love Mom or something. I was distraught and wrote an angrily worded note back and she saved it as any adoring mother would. She comforted me with presents and the promise that she'd still give me presents in Santa's good name. #

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:17:03 UTC from web
    4. @oracle Think about it. They learn faster than any other human.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:18:10 UTC from web
    5. @oracle I know stuff, not that I put that much store in psychology. But you don't need any training to see that kids learn at an unparalelled rate when compared with other humans.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:25:14 UTC from web
      1. @tia The concept you're looking for is called "Neuroplasticity".

        Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:29:46 UTC from web
        1. @ceruleanspark That word, yes!

          Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:31:09 UTC from web
    6. @oracle I visited Saint Nicholas's tomb in Italy and there were no elves.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:27:04 UTC from web
    7. @oracle Kids that experience or witness violence growing up are stunted mentally. #

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:29:12 UTC from web
      1. @tia more like #

        Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:37:28 UTC from web
    8. @oracle You were adopted into a non-violent home though right?

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:31:46 UTC from web
    9. @oracle PONIES!

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:33:22 UTC from web
    10. @oracle Incidental trauma can cause stunted growth too, but a real impact is left by persistent abuse.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:35:05 UTC from web
    11. @oracle :P Picky aren't we?

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:37:22 UTC from web
    12. @snowcone The inescapable type of abuse. I see what you're saying. It makes sense. However, I'd argue that even those who become masters are stunted in certain ways. They've compensated, yes, but at a price. I've seen it in genuis individuals whose fathers abused their entire families, so they became "perfect," but perfection meant abandoning their emotional sensitivity.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:44:23 UTC from web
    13. @snowcone The more interesting science to me is how affection and healthy parental attachment actually improves mental development. For example, children who are breastfed longer do better academically than those who aren't.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:53:05 UTC from web
      1. @tia And yet I, the breastfed one, got kicked of college whilst both my brothers attended university.

        Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:56:29 UTC from web
        1. @ceruleanspark Yeah. Life is no doubt strange!

          Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:57:59 UTC from web
          1. @tia The truth is that it has nothing to do with breast feeding or bottle feeding: I'm just a bad son.

            Friday, 03-Jan-14 12:59:14 UTC from web
            1. @ceruleanspark This is why I don't put much store in psychology, because people and behaviors are too different from one another to ever be satisfactorily categorized in my opinion. It's interesting stuff, but I prefer a social science plus psychology approach. Multidisciplinarianism ftw?

              Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:05:09 UTC from web
    14. @snowcone I only know that according to what I've read it only improves, but they only examined through toddlerhood I think. If it were forced breastfeeding on the other hand, after the child was ready to move on, then that'd be something else I guess.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:00:58 UTC from web
    15. @snowcone Yep. Monkey experiments yaddayadda.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:01:23 UTC from web
    16. @snowcone also breastfeeding too long murdocks up a kid's teeth something fierce

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:02:54 UTC from web
    17. @snowcone Causative links are nearly impossible to establish in behavioral science.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:06:43 UTC from web
    18. @snowcone I'm thinking of the wire monkey mother vs. the soft monkey mother experiment. When scared, babies fled to the soft surrogate mother rather than the wire ones that provided them food.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:09:04 UTC from web
    19. @snowcone You're a fan of psychology it sounds like. Do you like fanfics with psychological analysis in them?

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:14:31 UTC from web
    20. @oracle All truth is compatible.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:21:29 UTC from web
    21. @snowcone Hehe yeah. I saw one that gets into pop psychology riddled with assumptions, but I still liked it.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:22:46 UTC from web
    22. @snowcone I know what you mean. As a teen I used to analyze my thought processes a lot. Now I'm less interested in thought processes and more in emotional processes I think, but understanding both is important.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:25:37 UTC from web
    23. @snowcone It tried to be intelligent, and it made sense honestly, but it used a lot of outdated terms and still ended up making some assumptions. It was about how Luna developed a split personality as Nightmare Moon.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:28:32 UTC from web
    24. @snowcone At least the author admitted he didn't know what he was talking about lol.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:28:57 UTC from web
    25. @snowcone I think it helped me more when I was younger and that's why i did it I suppose.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:31:54 UTC from web
    26. @snowcone That sounds cool! It reminds me of a fic I read where, in order to endure the difficulties of ruling Equestria alone, Celestia made a pact with a spirit similar to Nightmare Moon that was called Constance I think. It made her perfect basically, but compulsorily so.

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:50:32 UTC from web
    27. @snowcone funny enough that fic was an OC shipfic.. kinda

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 13:55:20 UTC from web
    28. @snowcone YES

      Friday, 03-Jan-14 14:00:23 UTC from web