Thin the Herd*

[glowing_rd_eyes]

[In the spirit of the holidays, I'm re-posting my annual holiday diatribe

Comments

[nellythemermaid]

Bahahahaha....that's amazing. I love you for shit like this.

[glowing_rd_eyes]

Well, I'd like to think that you know me well enough to tell when I'm being satirical. Even when you're depressed.

:P

[glowing_rd_eyes]

Ah, but therein lies the cognitive difference. I am not, in fact, ridiculing the depressed people.

I am ridiculing the morons who repost ad nauseam the imbecilic bulletins, chain mail letters, forwards, photo e-mails, etc. that prey upon emotional reaction to ultimately stupid stories of pointless good intentions that A) probably never happened and B) have no bearing on most of our lives. I am ridiculing anybody stupid enough and gullible enough to let a fictive tale of well-wishing influence their lives.

Depressed people are just the secondary targets. Because they don't fight back. They just...get depressed. :-P

[lizmoop]

I actually saw an article recently that said that while stress levels go up around the holidays, suicide rates don't really spike.

Let me see if I can find it...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071121/sc_livescience/thebigholidaydepressionmyth

Yay science!

[glowing_rd_eyes]

1. Correlation does not equal causality.
2. IQ tests are measurements of how a person does on IQ tests, and little more.
3. How intelligent can you be if you think that suicide is the best option? Sorry, I don't buy that. Granted, there are exceptions, but for most people it's just not.
4. The study has not been repeated or peer-reviewed. It's a nice theory, but there's simply no support for it (yet).

[lizmoop]

Yay! I'm smart!

Kiss my ass, Stephen Hawking!

[gothic_ko]

haha, that made my day.

[spazandsurf23]

Have my babies. Then eat them. WHAT? Yeah I said it.