Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes.

Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Thu Apr 13, 2023 12:57 pm

apaosha wrote:: I've never joined any social media so I can't really speak from experience but doesn't the positive feedback from likes, retweets, followers exert a strong psychological effect? Isn't it addictive? Don't you get a kind of adrenaline surge when you see the notification symbol and so forth?

Yes, you get dopamine from it and yes it's designed to be addicting, I find getting likes sometimes very stressful so I've turned off mentions/likes that isn't from people that I follow, I rather come back to the comments when/if I feel like it

Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:22 pm

Jarno wrote:: Yes, you get dopamine from it and yes it's designed to be addicting, I find getting likes sometimes very stressful so I've turned off mentions/likes that isn't from people that I follow, I rather come back to the comments when/if I feel like it

but I don't use it mainly for that reason, just that I get dopamine from reading something insightful, not by receiving attention

Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Mon May 01, 2023 2:26 pm

"Man is a god when he dreams, a beggar when he thinks."

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Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Tue May 16, 2023 5:46 pm

Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Tue May 16, 2023 6:40 pm

What a performance...

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Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Tue May 16, 2023 7:54 pm

Macbeth is one of my top Shakespeare plays.

I just finished watching this guy's performance of Macbeth. I liked Ian McKellen's performance.
But this guy blew me away.

Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Tue Jun 27, 2023 9:08 am

This page rarely has any good quotes, but I like this

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Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Mon Jul 03, 2023 9:08 am

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Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Fri Aug 04, 2023 8:42 pm

“Around the hero everything becomes a tragedy; around the demigod everything becomes a satyr-play; and around God everything becomes — what? perhaps a 'world'?”

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Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Sat Aug 05, 2023 8:17 pm

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Subject: Re: Quotes, Excerpts, Anecdotes. Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:14 pm

Wilhelm Röpke wrote:: Of what avail is any amount of well-being, if at the same time, we steadily render the world more vulgar, uglier, noisier, and drearier and if we lose the moral and spiritual foundations of their existence? Man simply does not live by radio, automobiles, and refrigerators alone, but by the whole unpurchasable world beyond the market and turnover figures, the world of dignity, beauty, poetry, grace, chivalry, love, and friendship, the world of community, variety of life, freedom, and fullness of personality.

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