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  To better understand our behavior, we must first begin where it all started. In the preliminary stages of conception, there is the oldest part of the brain called the amygdala. Within this amygdala is one cognitive component called the Mix Match Negative or MMN. The MMN informs the fetus body when it is time to form the parts of the body, but it also has another function which is to begin to record everything that occurs from that moment on including our reactions to them. This dynamic gets more become increasingly important as we age, develop, and grow. In the initial stages of development, it becomes our “go-to” safe harbor when anything happens that is close to or identical to what may have already happened. The study of cognitive behavioral therapy teaches us that thoughts influence feelings and feelings influence behavior but what does not explain is where the origin of those thoughts. Now it is unquestioned that for any thought to occur, it must be sparked by some type of...

  My wife saw this article and decided to share it with me because she knows just how the actions of many claiming the title of U.S. Marine has been making some erroneously bad choices and doing untold damage to the universally wide image to the title MARINE. The title was “Three men — including ex-Marines — sentenced for involvement in plot to destroy power grid” written by MAKIYA SEMINERA for the Associated Press on July 26, 2024, it reported that “three men have been sentenced in federal court for their involvement in a plan to strike a power grid in the northwestern United States. Three men with connections to white supremacist groups were sentenced Thursday in federal court after plotting to destroy a power grid in the northwestern United States, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Paul James Kryscuk, 38; Liam Collins, 25; and Justin Wade Hermanson, 25, were all sentenced for their yearslong involvement in a scheme to strike the power grid as part of a larger, viole...

  I find it quite humorous when I hear people claiming to be one thing or another.   Claiming to be a republican, a Democrat, or an Independent but the thing that seriously bothers me when people claim the title of Christian and yet act like a total hypocrite. Hypocrisy is defined as “the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense” and if we are to be honest with ourselves and those around us, not one person can ever claim to not have claimed to be one thing while their actions depict something else.   I don’t think that any one mortal can ever claim that they have not fallen into this trip at least one time or another in their lives.   Because we are human, and accidents happen, it is okay to admit that we have faults and work to fix them instead of covering them up but of course many of us will go to our earthly graves pretending that this has not or currently happened to them. Hence the title of...

  There are two avenues of approach on how and why traumas that occur in our lives are not only necessary but very important to the outcome of what many seek.   You can accept the spiritual one or the pragmatic one but if you are truly daring, you can accept that both are true because one does not exist alone and needs the other to be complete.   Here let me try to explain. From the stage of infancy to the age of eleven (11), is the time span where parents have to educate their children, instill proper manners and behaviors, and lay out options for their children in as many situations as they can think of so that if that situation happens, our children will react to it without thinking and avoid that Freeze, flight, or fight mode we enter when faced with something that we have never encountered before. At the age of twelve (12) to twenty-five (25) is our exploration stage and here we are trying out the skills taught by our parents, combined with those from society, an...

  Let’s begin at the beginning.   For those who wish to think that evil existed at the very same time as good, here’s something to think about.   In the Garden of Eden, there lived only two people and much vegetation and one particular apple tree, deemed the Tree of Knowledge.   Adam and Eve lived in a utopia without worry, fear, and dread until they allowed the one representative of evil to convince them to take a bite of an apple from that tree.   When they did this, they now knew themselves to be completely naked, which started the trip to now question everything.   That bite of that apple did more than just make them aware of their surroundings, it opened the door for evil to enter this world from which it would never leave.   Another shocker for those of your wishing to continue to stumble around in the dark.   Adam and Eve were not white, as many wishes us to believe.   Adam and Eve were Indian. Think that’s a lie, consider this. Ice-...

  Today’s experts say that what we are dealing with today regarding Donald Trump and the Maga-Republicans making an unveiled attempt to end democracy as we think we know it is new.   Some used the word “unprecedented” but these proclamations from those who we are supposed to depend on to help understand what is really going on are WRONG.   The time of Donald Trump and the Maga-Republicans is neither new nor unprecedented.   It has happened before in our history but because we did not learn the lessons of the past and still to this day refuse to even honor that past, we are allowing history to repeat itself.   For the same souls that occupied the bodies of the once Dixiecrats have returned and now they inhabit the bodies of Maga-Republicans. In 1957 there was a small faction of governmental leaders lead by then Governor Strom Thurman within the Democrat Party who called themselves Dixiecrats.   These highly educated dictators were so in defense of the so...

  According to an article titled “The Conversation- A concise history of the US abortion debate, by Treva B. Lindsey, Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University, Published: June 10, 2019, https://theconversation.com/a-concise-history-of-the-us-abortion-debate-118157 . History has again been totally ignored and the lesson lost.   This being the case, it bears out the great need for educated people to finally diagnose history as it happens and make the necessary changes to ensure that this particular piece of history is not constantly repeated. Consider this, “While many may think that the political arguments over abortion now are fresh and new, scholars of women’s, medical and legal history note that this debate has a long history in the U.S.   It began more than a century before Roe v. Wade. As of 2019 “around 1962 the Food and Drug Administration approved the first commercially produced birth control pill, Enovid-10. Although various ...

  America has always been the land of opportunity however we have become lax in our efforts to ensure that this right is made available for all of us to achieve and enjoy.   Far too often, those who see themselves in a position of authority or great wealth begin to confuse themselves with an idea that since you may be thought of as successful, means your now have the power and authority to dictate to everyone else. This lying power makes those allowed to flex it feel bigger and better than they really are.   It gives them a false sense of righteousness and security over all people, places, and things which must be corrected before we completely lose our very humanity. Every last one of us knows this is wrong but history has allowed these individuals to exercise this false position of power without consequences and punishment. Every one of us is guilty of sitting on our hands and waiting on someone else to save us instead of finding our own intestinal fortitude to save o...

  During the second week of conception as the fetus grows so does the brain but the only cognitive part of it, at that time is called the Mix-Match Negative or MMN.   The MMN has but two tasks, first being telling the fetus when it is time to form all of the organs and parts of the body and the second is to begin recording everything that occurs as well as the fetus’ reaction to them.   These instructions or messages are sent to the temporal lobe to be housed and disseminated as needed.   This dynamic creates our “normal” which often times manifest as our core behavior.   Knowing this allows us to change our normal/behavior if we so desire and alter the way we see, feel about, and even absorb things. For example, whenever something new and frightening happens to us, we revert back to our only option and learned a solution, which is to cry, we learned this behavior when we were snatched out of the womb and the only really safe place we knew.   Our only def...

  At the Start In the second term of conception, when the fetus begins to form, so does parts of the brain.   The parts of the brain that begin to form contain only one cognitive component which is called the Mix-Match Negative (MMN).   This portion has two major functions, the first is to instruct that body when it is time to form the different parts of the fetus body and organs, the second, and one which will present more influence than any other aspect of our existence is designed to record every event that happens to us and our reactions to them. All the information created and recorded by the MMN is sent to the temporal lobe to be housed and disseminated when necessary.   These recordings begin to establish your normal, the safe harbor you will run to every time something like a past event or even similar to it happens because it is the only defense you have and the safest place to be. How this works is based on the example of being born.   For nine...

  If we are completely honest with ourselves, even the blind can see the connection between mental issues and criminal activities.   You can gather all the proof your need through live interviews with those who are currently incarcerated or those who have a criminal record including misdemeanors.   Since there are not one human being free of trauma in their lives which spawns a mental issue, the alarm should ring quite loudly when you hear them say that they are fine, normal, sane, or free of sin.   The very fact that a living, breathing human being thinks that they are immune from mental issues should, itself, be very alarming. We all begin contact with mental issues at birth.   Abandonment is the first mental trauma we face as we are forced out of the only safe and secure environment that we know.   We then spend most of our time trying to make sense of this new world that we are now a part of.   To get an idea of how we are supposed to...

  I remember the times when Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, many called him the “Anti-Christ” and proclaimed that he would lead many down a very destructive path.   A destructive path that will cause major damage to humanity and this very nation but last check, Barack Obama preached calm and even demanded protest to remain peaceful and non-violent.   Can we, honestly, say the same thing about Donald Trump, by which, none of those claiming Obama as the anti-Christ even whispered this titled be attached to Trump.   Let’s be honest, for it is written “Romans 16:17-18 says I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naïve”.   Which explains why, I was not too surprised to find this headline in th...

  When people say “the truth” they often are confused as to what this truly mean.   Many will tell you that there are but two ways to do things, the right way, and the wrong way when really there are quite a few more ways.   These other ways are often hidden from the view of many because they are never recognized or unacceptable to suit our idea of the truth. There is the perceived truth which spawns all other truths.   This perceived truth originates from what you were told, what you have learned and what you have perceived during your lifetime.   The number one reason for it being the perceived truth is that what we view as the majority of human beings believe.   Consider being told that the sky was blue.   We perceive this to be true based upon it being widely accepted and repeated as the truth, but what if whomever gave us the name of colors were wrong and what we consider blue now is brown.   Would then the sky be brown instead of blue? T...

  A brother Marine asked me “Why does the African-American community vote Democrat?   He asked me if I could try to explain it to him and below is my explanation. Since no race of people are all the same, I can only tell you what I think that reason maybe but if you want a more definitive answer you are going to have to ask individual blacks.   Here is what I believe could possibly be the reason so many others vote Democratic.     The first thing that needs to be made clear is the majority of African Americans don’t follow a party but an idea.   If a politician promises to do right by the African-American community, he/she has a really good chance of getting their votes but when they get in power, forget their promises and/or turn their backs on blacks, know that next go around, many blacks would not spit in their butts if their guts were on fire and if the turning of the back was brought on by a group of people, that group would pay as well.   Her...

  Today’s focus is on this election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden for the office of the President of the United States and while I cannot say that it is not something we should not be focused upon, there are other things going on behind the scenes of this that we refuse to recognize or choose to just simply ignore. Many claim that it is a fight between Democrat and Republican, Liberal and Conservative, the Right and the Left, the Right and the Wrong but that is not the truth, as I see it.   It is and always will be the fight between Good and Evil. This battle has been waging since the beginning of time and it is a never-ending war.   It is a battle that will be and must be fought every day of our mortal existence.   It is one that will never have clear winners and losers because if just a few of us fail to achieve victory in this war, we all fail.   This is not a battle to save the soul of a country, a nation, a world, or a universe.   It is the ba...