Also train, retrain, relearn, reanalyze, and teach myself and others, the principles of martial arts or skills that utilize the Art of War.

Only gets boring when I hit a plateau. Which happens often times enough that I have to spend time reading about current events before I get unstuck.

Learning how to destroy the human body, and also as a result to heal the human body, was also fun. A kind of destruction in one hand, creation in the other.

As for stories, Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and The House in Fata Morgana, were excellent depictions of this “Savior” concept, humans often need but don’t understand.

Always nice to see a lurker come out of the cybershadows.

biology… there are reasons women are more socially nosey than the guys and why they watch the interplay of relationships in their local group (you make the characters in the tv show your local group by watching them).

A new poll by the Lifetime cable network – a market leader in U.S. women’s programming – says that 67 per cent of women admit to spying on their partners, with 58 per cent acknowledging that they’ve also spied on their children

it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that our relationships and outcomes from that in a group affect group dynamics and outcomes, and in the past this was more acutely made conscious.

in many ways our neo modern society post patriarchy do not give us much chance to be social as in the past and circulate. TV makes up for what we lack for in other areas.

our lack of interaction all the time just dont let women get happy snooping… 🙂

Only 15 per cent of women polled by Lifetime said they’d bothered to spy on their bosses; far fewer are interested in looking at company plans or financial information than in reading their boyfriend or husband’s diary.

‘Women snoop because we juggle so many balls – including emotional ones – that we come to expect we have the right to know what’s going on in every aspect of our lives,’ says psychologist Dr Pam Spurr.

our brains dont really know that the people in the window box are not real, there is no special area of the brain that controls the input tagging as real or not… except for less than the past 100 years, nothing was fake. ergo, seeing is believing.

but then why watch a snoop show? easy.. its risk free, the fix without the risk. real snooping has penalties if caught. but snooping through the boob tube is safe, like a roller coaster. not to mention that one can say it channels a negative practice that isnt good emotionally either, into a harmless entertainment.

and from another source…

Theoretically, people may have voyeuristic tendencies (i.e. trait voyeurism) in which they enjoy any chance to see “what they cannot otherwise see” when “the curtains are left slightly open.” In other words, reality TV viewers may just like backstage views of many situations in life, which in fact reality shows often portray

but in truth, we ALL are voyeurs if you broadly think that fiction is just an arranged version of watching reality. that whether we are watching real people in some contrived artificial situation that hopes to coax or make fertile some behaviors and outcomes… or we are watching fake people in real or artificial looking settings and its the same thing. so if you were a guy and thought you are immune, sorry. but there are big differences in the tastes of either sex and unlike the feminists idea of it being programmed its mostly not…

(heck, on that socially programmed thing, the funny part is that even primate males and females prefer the same toys human children do… )