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A RARITIES ALBUM spanning the man's ENTIRE CAREER and it's got TEN TRACKS?!?

...AND two of the ten are just different versions of songs that have already seen mass release!?!

We see you "Prince Estate"

They started the mail-in ballot phenomenon not to "keep people safe" during Extra Scary Flu Season, but so they could 'find' as many ballots as they needed to win any 'election.' Are we all gonna pretend like we don't see that?

In these passages, the phrase is part of the legal principle known as lex talionis (the law of retaliation), which mandates proportional justice. This principle ensured that punishments were equivalent to the harm inflicted, reining in excessive retribution. Appropriate application of justice involves a proportional response from Authority, such that it will (1) serve as a deterrent to future potential criminals, and (2) for those that are capable of such thought, cause them to put themselves in others' shoes and perhaps comprehend the feeling of injustice they themselves would feel if such a thing were done to them, allowing their very own innate sense of Justice to speak to their conscience. The very reason the concept of Government exists is to rein in humanity's sin and encourage peace on earth, but "Do not say, 'I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.'" (Proverbs 24:29) Vengeance belongs to the LORD (Deuteronomy 32:35), because only He can execute perfect justice perfectly. We must not bear it in vain, but we must nevertheless bear the sword when necessary.

The natural, sinful, state of humanity is exactly the type of behavior you see in cultures like India and Muslim Arabia, and has been throughout the entire history of humanity. They do in fact "need Jesus;" not only for the sake of their individual immortal souls upon the Final Judgment, but because Christianity has been that domesticating influence upon every culture it takes root in throughout the entire world. It is not merely the divinely superior moral system in theory... it is also that in practice.

They can't stop thinking that way either, because the moment they do, the floodgates to Independent Thought open up and they are already on their way out of the Left.

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

Offend them, trigger them, make them seethe

*nods