6/30/2023 0 Comments Influence by robert b cialdini![]() Guadagno RE, Muscanell NL, Sundie JM, Hardison TA, Cialdini RB. Let them all eat cake: Providing VIP services without the cost of exclusion for non-VIP customers Journal of Business Research. ![]() Self-Control Moderates the Effectiveness of Influence Attempts Highlighting Injunctive Social Norms Social Psychological and Personality Science. Jacobson RP, Mortensen CR, Jacobson KJL, Cialdini RB. Trending Norms: A Lever for Encouraging Behaviors Performed by the Minority Social Psychological and Personality Science. Mortensen CR, Neel R, Cialdini RB, Jaeger CM, Jacobson RP, Ringel MM. ![]() Perspectives On Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association For Psychological Science. The Constructive, Destructive, and Reconstructive Power of Social Norms: Reprise. Schultz PW, Nolan JM, Cialdini RB, Goldstein NJ, Griskevicius V. Kenrick DT, Cohen AB, Neuberg SL, Cialdini RB. How Bad Apples Promote Bad Barrels: Unethical Leader Behavior and the Selective Attrition Effect Journal of Business Ethics. Poison Parasite Counter: Turning Duplicitous Mass Communications Into Self-Negating Memory-Retrieval Cues. ![]() Cialdini RB, Lasky-Fink J, Demaine LJ, Barrett DW, Sagarin BJ, Rogers T. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Emptiness by Guy Armstrong![]() It is also widely misunderstood, leading people to see Buddhism as nihilistic or life-denying. “Over the centuries, the term “emptiness” has taken on a number of meanings in Buddhism. This is an important foundation for anyone interested in the meditation practices of Buddhism.” Author: Gil Fronsdal, author of The Buddha before Buddhism ![]() ![]() Encapsulating Guy Armstrong's decades of dedicated Buddhist practice and study, Emptiness presents profound Buddhist teachings and describes ways practitioners can experience them for themselves. ![]() “ Emptiness is a brilliant and practical introduction to the practice and attainment of liberation. “For anyone seeking to understand emptiness, this is a clear and fine guidebook, with precise and practical ways to explore and deepen your practice.” Author: Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart “Armstrong’s book is an insightful exploration of one of the most confusing Buddhist teachings inexperienced and experienced practitioners alike will find it very rewarding and thought-provoking.” Source: Publishers Weekly ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also the second deadliest school shooting in the U.S, and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting overall. The incident is, as of 2023, the deadliest mass shooting in Connecticut history, and the deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school in U.S. As first responders arrived at the school, Lanza died by suicide, shooting himself in the head. Earlier that day, before driving to the school, Lanza fatally shot his mother at their Newtown home. Twenty of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people. Wrongful death lawsuit against Remington Arms settled for $73 million 22LR Savage Mark II bolt-action rifle Ģ8 (27 at the school, including the perpetrator and the perpetrator's mother at home) ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Maud newton ancestor trouble![]() ![]() The image above is Chagall’s Rachel and the Household Gods, inspired by the story in Genesis (which I wrote about in 2015 ).Īs the story goes, Rachel’s husband, Jacob, has spent twenty years working for her father, Laban. So it interests me that ancestor veneration is suggested even in the Bible. While I don’t feel connected to Christianity, I’ll probably always be in mental dialogue with it, whether I want to be or not. Now I’ve given up my allegiance to unbelief, and that’s a little scary to navigate and strange to talk about. Ultimately, I reacted by becoming a devout agnostic but fearing a future religious conversion. I attended a fundamentalist school, with yet another spin on the gospel. My mom started a Hallelujahful church in our living room, and my father, though also born-again, went to a Presbyterian church and was mortified by hers. This development, like my family, is complicated. Recently these kinds of practices have become important to me. Over time, I’ve been drawn to ancestor-focused spiritual practices. ![]() |