1. A Campaign of Denigration Alienated children are consumed with hatred of the targeted parent. They deny any positive past experiences and reject all contact and communication. Parents who were once loved and valued seemingly overnight become hated and feared. 2. Weak, Frivolous, and Absurd Rationalizations When alienated children are questioned about the reasons for […]
The California wildfires
There is a lot of buzz about the fires in California, with lives lost and billions in property damage, lots of blame to be spread (and rightfully so). The major contributor of these fires are a weather phenomenon called the “Santa Ana’s.” The Santa Ana winds, also sometimes called the devil winds, are strong, extremely […]
Does Filipino culture encourage self-destructive mindsets and behaviors?
One thing you have to understand is that the Philippines is a melting pot of cultures, races, and ethnolinguistics groups both pre- and post-colonialism. All cultures have their flaws and their own unique beliefs and lifestyles counter to the mainstream. The Philippines is no exception, one of the reasons that Filipinos exhibit behaviors that are […]
How Often Do Health Insurers Deny Claims?
With the recent killing of CEO Brian Thompson, the American (and world for that matter) people finally have a good reason (not like they didn’t in the first place) to demand a wide variety of changes to how health insurance companies operate. For decades, the health insurance system in the U.S. has, for the most […]
The Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov, born September 26, 1849 in Ryazan, Russia, was a Russian physiologist. The basic principles of human conditioning are to train a mind to know what is good and what is bad. An example of this can be summarized by saying that a whistle is normal, but if you put food and whistle together, […]