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Enduring abuse over time can lead to broken down self-esteem, feelings of low self-worth and intense emotional stress or even PTSD. While it’s never healthy to yell back at a partner or be violent with them if you are experiencing abuse you might have used one of these strategies when you felt your safety was at risk or you were trying to re-establish your independence in the relationship. Self-defense is not abuse, and identifying it as such can increase any fear you already feel in the situation. Everyone has the right to defend their safety, both emotionally and physically.
The Myth of Mutual Abuse | the National Domestic Violence Hotline
thehotline.org
No, they are often very intelligent. They’re very good. Ironically, people who are highly intelligent are a lot better at rationalizing their own beliefs. So they are much more sophisticated in locking themselves into the beliefs that they want to hold. So if raw intelligence isn’t enough, you really need critical thinking skills. You have to be able to get outside of yourself and think about your own thought process. So otherwise, it does not matter how much you know, your factual knowledge, your memory. Other measures of intelligence actually work against you in that they will make it – they’ll give you the tools to lock to yourself into whatever belief system that you want.
Transcript: Interview with Steven Novella from Episode 016 – You Are Not So Smart
youarenotsosmart.com
Noch deutlichere Worte findet Fritz-Albert Popp, Leiter des *Instituts für* *Biophysik* in Kaiserslautern. "Die Kritiker sind wesentlich unseriöser als diejenigen, denen sie mangelnde Seriosität nachweisen wollen." Getäuscht worden sei auch die angesehene *Stiftung Warentest*, die im "blinden Vertrauen auf Titel" auf vorurteilsbeladene und inkompetente "Fachleute" hereingefallen sei. Popp selbst hatte gehofft, den Beweis für die Wirksamkeit der Bioresonanz-Methode zu erbringen. Dies ist ihm nach eigener Aussage zumindest vorläufig nicht gelungen, "die Experimente verliefen negativ".
Die "Technische Homöopathie" - Schrot Und Korn
schrotundkorn.de
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