Apparently studies show that you should keep your goals to yourself. People talk too much anyway.
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… there was a baby elephant and to stop it from running away its owner tied its leg with a rope to a tree. We toota toota ferghet el 7adoota. {My sister told me this story yesterday} You might also like
I watched the documentary Food Inc and was this close to turning into a vegetarian. I am not a “meat” person, I am not in love with burgers although I will get a burger craving every once in a while but this documentary made me decide never to eat a fast food burger or any kind of meat of unknown origin again. I never really thought about where the meat came from, because ground beef comes from cows right. In my imagination it came from one happy cow that munched on green grass somewhere with blue skies and maybe a fresh water stream in the background. Wrong! It come from cows in these extremely highly packed feeding areas and one burger can come from literally thousands of cows. There was a part about a mom turned food activist because her 5 year old son ate a burger and contracted E.Coli then passed away 12 days later. That wasn’t what scared me the most. It was the bit where she described how his kidneys had failed and he would beg for water. I am not a particularly healthy eater ( I’d be very happy to live on pizza, brownies and diet pepsi if I could get away with it) but this isn’t about healthy eating or not. This is about the fact that even the food that you might assume to be healthy or hygenic could be the exact opposite. How about fruits and vegetables. Do you have any idea what has been done to them to make them season less? No wonder everything tastes like cucumbers and cucumbers taste like cardboard. A couple of weeks ago my husband bought some kiwis. I love kiwis, but they tasted like pipes. They were so metallic in their taste that we forced ourselves to eat them. Any way, this started the search for the best homemade burger recipe. We made burgers twice (from beef, ground before my eyes from a trusted butcher), they were good but not perfect yet. It took us over six months (26 thursdays) to get our pizza the way we wanted, so we are not in a hurry. I just realized that it takes the same amount of time to make burgers that it takes to order them, although if you order them you get to sit on your butt for 30 minutes and don’t have to wash any dishes. Or the chicken, eeeewwwwwww. I am not eating chicken unless it is free range. Gross how they have re engineered chicken. One of the other interesting facts was how the food industry has always fought labeling. This is a movie that you really should see. Just make sure you are not eating dinner (or have plans to). You might also like
The lovely Jana from Hijab Style is having a giveaway. She also has links to awesome hijab tutorials and videos, not to mentions her own sets and ideas for what to wear with what if you are a hijabi.
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Back to the specific podcast I mentioned, which was quite interesting. Britt discusses how men in most cultures need to prove their manhood, and how many cultures have rites of passage men have to go through to go from being boys to men whereas women in most cultures have nothing similar. The podcast was inspired by a specific study about the subject; how also men were more sensitive and defensive about their gender identity than women were. What I also found interesting was that men were more likely to react to to negative situations by aggression whereas women used relational aggression. In other words men fight while women exclude, gossip or spread rumors. Listen to the podcast and let me know what you think. Do you believe men have to prove their manhood? Why do you think women don’t have to prove their womanhood? That’s what I find really weird, shouldn’t both genders have the need to prove their gender identity? You might also like
Are you a history and art buff? Then I have a lovely surprise for you. Part of PBS’s Empire Series, The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance is a lovely documentary which tells the story of how the Renaissance was born in 14th century Europe. The Renaissance which means rebirth in French was a period of cultural, artistic, scientific, political and religious rebirth. You can also watch the rest of the episodes on YouTube in HDTV. You might also like
Deciding on the criteria is always a very critical thing. I did a quick search on facebook and found that Amr Diab has more groups dedicated to him than Mohamed Mounir and with lots of members whereas Mohamed Mounir has more fan pages with just as much fans. How do you compare and decide? One friend commented that Mounir has fans in Germany and all over Europe too which is true, but Amr Diab won the international Music Award too. Every way you look at it, you realize that they are both very famous and have lots of fans and loyal followers. Nevertheless my own personal opinion is that Amr Diab is a stronger brand because :
That was my simple analysis, what do you think? You can click on the image to read the discussion. You might also like
The positivity blog has an interesting post on 7 powerful tips for charisma which you can learn from the mentalist. You really should read the post but here they are in short:
Personally I have some other reasons I think the character is so cool.
Cold Reading. Cold reading is a series of techniques used by mentalists, fortune tellers, psychics, and mediums to determine details about another person in order to convince them that the reader knows much more about a subject than he or she actually does. Even without prior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold reader can still quickly obtain a great deal of information about the subject by carefully analyzing the person’s body language, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. Cold readers commonly employ high probability guesses about the subject, quickly picking up on signals from their subjects as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, and then emphasizing and reinforcing any chance connections the subjects acknowledge while quickly moving on from missed guesses. [Wikipedia]. Yes I would love to be a master of cold reading. Hypnosis. My first brush with hypnosis was when I was 9 and read The Demon Headmaster series and then like any self respecting nerd I walked into the adult section and asked for a book on hypnosis. The librarian gave me a dark navy blue book which I read but didn’t understand and I’ve been intrigued by hypnosis ever since. Fast forward a couple of years later and I started reading about NLP and cold reading. I am not an expert but an amateur who thinks we are not harnessing our brains’ real capacity. Who would you like to be when you grow up? What skills does that person have that you would love to have? You might also like
 The Questions Cube by Grunge “Quality questions I used to be guilty of updating my status with cryptic messages of pure depression, frustration or anger. Getting out of my own pity party and canceling all future ones was a great decision. It took me a while t0 realize that the people who really care usually already know and don’t need to be updated and the people who don’t, shouldn’t really know. Instead, I ask a daily question of the day (QotD for short) and wait for my awesome friends to come up with funny, insightful and interesting answers. Basically I have achieved more than I had in mind when I first started to ask the questions.
So to all you amazingly cool friends who have answered my questions, thank you. What do you do with your status? You might also like
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Interesting Discussions to Follow
Organica had a very interesting post on “Muslim Dating” which I found very interesting. Young people today are finding it harder than ever to find a partner and still do it right. The comments that followed were mostly deep, thoughtful and interesting.
Sudanese Optimist posted a very racist video made by Egyptians and called it Reason Number 9734 Not to support the Egypt. I found the video annoying and stupid. I had never given Sudan much thought to be honest, I never thought that Egypt was better or worse than Sudan. I just knew that Sudan used to be part of Egypt one day and that there are conflicts in Darfur. The discussion is a very intellectual and important one. Please go over there and give the comments a read. This is what some people think of the Egyptians and Egypt, it just might change your outlook.
And as James Nathan Miller said “There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.”
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