AP:
A person's optimism in the future seems to be controlled by a small front part of the mid-brain, according to a study that used brain imaging.
That area deep behind the eyes activates when people think good thoughts about what might happen in the future. The more optimistic a person is, the brighter the area showed up in brain scans, the scientists reported in a small study published online Thursday in the journal Nature.
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Eeeeexcellent!(tap fingertips) This information
will be MOST useful for my mind control project...
Is that "Area 24" or just below it?
So that's what's wrong. The Decider has no vision, but his off-the-wall optimism works anyway. It's consistent with one of Einstein's hypotheses, namely that light bends around dense objects (George's eyes), but gets back on course in time to hit his optimism chamber.
The next endeavor of this nature should seek to find the epicenter of 'hind-sight'. Being able to fix a person's faulty hind-sight will put Limbaugh, Colter, Beck, and a number of other rodeo clowns out of business, but they would get used to it.
I guess that part of my brain is suffering from all the pollution in the air since before Bush and this disaster of an adminstration, I was an optimist. Lately, I find less and less about which to be optimistic. As for the trolls who make it their morning ritual to preuse the liberal blogs and write their negative comments about the liberals, I say to them, "Get a life." And for God sake's get a brain...or a lobotomy. ( How is that for "pissing and moaning?") oh and BTW, have a nice day.....
Yeah, lately they've even given up on putting up nonsense arguments. Even Owns-the-Portapotty seems to be in full retreat.
Simply attacking liberals appears to be their final desperate approach to a blog filled with intellectual liberals they cannot control.
Rather like the banzai charge on Saipan. GI's had to use bulldozers to bury all of 'em.
But the Condi Rice comments. Who or why were they scrubbed? Clearly SOME conservative exerted some influence there. It's ok, we all know she's a war criminal.
I disagree, optimism is controlled by the tongue and the brain has nothing to do with it except wag the tongue. Bush keeps reminding us that "I'm an optimist" which proves my point. Bush's brain, I don't mean Rove, is malfunctioning due to his drug and alcohol abuse.I've known people that became addicted to coke and it changed their brain chemistry for the worse and with Bush's decided lack of brain matter, well it's obvious that Bush is one sick puppy.
What part of the brain makes liberals piss and moan about everything nonstop?
That would be the part that recognizes that there are far too many conservatives whose rostral cingulate cortex causes their eyes to see everything as rosy.
V.
What makes "conservatives" do so?
By the way, what principles do "conservatives" stand for?
I have no idea.
By the way, do you enjoy your weekend? Thank a progressive.
I enjoyed mine, but I don't thank you. I enjoyed it because I've got a fuckin' job.
For that I thank a Conservative.
Obviously this is the part of the brain PING is missing..Thanks Huff for showing me about PING..
"...Optimism Controlled By Small Area Of Brain "Deep Behind The Eyes" "
Which no doubt explains why people shot right between the eyes experience such a drastic downturn in mood. :-)
"OPTIMISM"?????
What is that word doing in a headline on HuffPo?
Well, at least the HuffBots can now go to a doctor and see if it's a medical condition that makes them such downers to be around.
The trick is to be optimistic despite people
like you Schmelly.
This is just one thing:
It was 80 degrees in the Northeast on Tuesday, October 23rd.
Year over year each one is hotter than the next.
Yet people like you do not want to acknowledge it or do not want to do anything about it.
Believing blindly that the "market" will take care of things.
Even though there is unanimous scientific consent around the matter and GM has promised environmentally friendly automobiles for 30 years with nothing doing.
If progressives are upset about anything more than others it is because for people like you the ends justify the means.
The ends are yourselves and the means is everyone else. There are no positive externalities and the free hand is not the same as freedom.
Hospital #19 on the outskirts of Moscow is the repository of Stalin's Brain...
...the good doctors froze it and sliced it thin in a meat slicer, then preserved it on 10,000 slides of glass..
it's proof his noodle was gobbled up by syphilis.
.....now, if you froze all of the brains of the whole USA political leadership, I doubt you'd find enough to fill grandmas sewing thimble.
hmmm... a small area deep behind the eyes,eh?
I misspent my youth watching B&W TV..
musta lost that li'l g-spot somewhere between "I Love Lucy" and "Leave it to Beaver"...
Welcome to the Twilight Zone..
..oh, how much I'd like to drink another bourbon with Rod Serling !
"That area deep behind the eyes activates when people think good thoughts about what might happen in the future."
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Hmmm, that's the very spot my migraines seem to come from. No wonder I am such a bitter pessimist.
Same here.But I think also..just keep telling yourself everythings hunky dory like Bush does and you'll never get migraines..and you will sleep like a baby.
I wonder if I can collect welfare. I seem to be missing the key area of the brain.
Would a tumor in that area cause you to think you could light a fire in the Middle East without getting burned?
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First Posted: 10-25-07 12:02 AM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:45 AM