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The chemistry of "getting used to"

Cosmic Trigger said:
I don't see what's "higher" about it.
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You are being high on endogenic chemicals if you can tolerate being woken up every few hours during night and still at the same time can function during the day and feel like going through wonderful time.

I am pretty good example of this getting used to phenomenom as after few years we had our daughter we ended up divorcing.
 
MrRoot said:
You are being high on endogenic chemicals if you can tolerate being woken up every few hours during night and still at the same time can function during the day and feel like going through wonderful time.

I am pretty good example of this getting used to phenomenom as after few years we had our daughter we ended up divorcing.
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There is an epidemic of the metonymy "function". Machines made by man, function, but not men. It's an insult to even refer to a human in that way...when someone gets cancer do you say "he broke down"?

There's also expressions like "thinking positive". They are killing me with this one. Thinking is a rational process, it involves reason, comparison, analysis, where you often weigh in the pros and cons...there are positive aspects you consider and also negative aspects you must consider for you to think rationally. A positive thinker is most likely an idiot who never takes into account what can go wrong.

Also, be aware of people who speak in parables and use uselessly complicated vocabulary, such as "it is my understanding that" or "that's not exactly at the forefront of my thoughts". People who talk like this are idiots and can only impress other idiots. An intelligent person speaks in plain language and, only if he has no other grammatical choice, uses that language.
 
I am sorry for the choices of words and how I form them into sentences. I am not a native english speaker and I don't often have change to speak it with others who are speaking it either totally fluently or as native speakers so I don't have much of "normal" vocabulary which others happen to have. Also the word order in Uralic languages is totally different so I have to pretty much bend my brain over when trying to write or speak English.
 
Ksa said:
There is an epidemic of the metonymy "function". Machines made by man, function, but not men. It's an insult to even refer to a human in that way...when someone gets cancer do you say "he broke down"?

There's also expressions like "thinking positive". They are killing me with this one. Thinking is a rational process, it involves reason, comparison, analysis, where you often weigh in the pros and cons...there are positive aspects you consider and also negative aspects you must consider for you to think rationally. A positive thinker is most likely an idiot who never takes into account what can go wrong.

Also, be aware of people who speak in parables and use uselessly complicated vocabulary, such as "it is my understanding that" or "that's not exactly at the forefront of my thoughts". People who talk like this are idiots and can only impress other idiots. An intelligent person speaks in plain language and, only if he has no other grammatical choice, uses that language.
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Using metaphors and analogies etc. Those are just fine, but when you talk around your point in trying to use PhD English then it gets confoosing.


But I didn't see anything really wrong with Root's post...




Might I mention that I often hear that there is a "rush" with love in couples early in the relationship. Science describes this as a quick release of Dopamine, Serotionin, and Adrenaline. And of course, we can't have this rush 24/7. As much as we'd like to.
 
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