There’s a whole lot of thought being put into what may or may not happen in the year 2012. Many people have come to believe that some kind of major disaster is going to happen in that year. Maybe even the end of the world. The basis for all this activity is a buzz...
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The burp is one of the bodily noises that can communicate satisfaction beyond words. In western culture the public burp is frowned upon but in China, for instance, a public burp is just part of life.
Many people every day use search engines to find out how to burp loud. It says a lot that...
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October 31 is Halloween. All Hallows Eve. We all know about it – it’s a famous American holiday. Halloween began around two thousand years ago in the region that corresponds to Britain, Ireland and France. The people of this region were known as Celts and they believed that this time of year was the...
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Hoaxes are a part of life. Governments offer us lies or half-truths to further their aims, scientists cite fictitious studies to back up their claims, religious people pretend that their doctrines are science instead of religion. But hoaxes would never be accepted if we did not have the willingness to accept any old tale...
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Oddly enough, one of the requirements in order to be a champion hotdog eating contest winner is a healthy diet. It stands to reason that if you are going to abuse your stomach on a regular basis, you should be kind to it the rest of the time. If you are going to enter...
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Being hypnotized is a relationship between the hypnotist and the subject. It is not a matter of one person putting another to sleep or being in control of another person’s will. The hypnotist induces, by any of a number of methods, a state of willingness to cooperate in his subject. The subject’ awareness of...
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The popular conception of conversational hypnosis is of the act of hypnotizing a person while simply talking to them as in an everyday conversation. But how can suspending someone’s control over themselves be suspended so casually?
The genesis of conversational hypnosis is the theory that we all go off into hypnotic trances during our daily...
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The world is full of people actively pursuing happiness but rarely finding it. I though I would look at the idea of achieving happiness by NOT selfishly grasping for it. The idea that “virtue has its own reward” has been around for centuries but when I have tried to actively help others I encounter...
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Out of body experiences are occasions when a person has the sensation of floating above their body, observing themselves and events in their vicinity from above. This kind of experience is often associated with the idea of astral projection which presupposes that we possess a less physical entity living inside us which is released...
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A photographer in Norwich found what kind of looks like a double exposure on one of a series of photographs he took at a local cinema. Rather than go wild and rashly assume that the picture WAS a double exposure, he decided, as any reasonable person would, that he had inadvertently photographed a ghost.
According...
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