Of course, denying hunger doesn’t make it not exist: in one early study, ‘the [anorexic] patients perceived hunger in a manner similar to the controls, but they were more preoccupied with thoughts of food, had a stronger urge to eat, and were more anxious when hungry’ (Garfinkel 1974...
Because of this, such people try to live frugally, and their vice of choice is avarice. On the other hand, there are people who don’t have a favorite line of work and for whom work is chiefly a way to get money. For them, the joy in money is the ability to spend it. No soone...
If we allow ourselves to realise that it illustrates the meaning of the phoenix – it is consumed by the flames, and yet it arose anew. We have the fire of life within us, we eat and feed the fire that consumes us and gives birth to us continuously. It is the warmth of our body,...
Despite the fact that not all people with anorexia are underweight and, contrary to popular belief, people with anorexia DO eat, as a general consensus, people associate being anorexic with losing weight, being thin and never letting a morsel pass your lips, three things that are seen as good...
One of the problems in explaining enlightenment is that we have to use words. Words are only symbols and don’t give the real understanding. The letters of a word are merely a code that the mind translates into meaning. Words only have meaning if you already have an experiential knowledge ...
I know the meaning of many things now. You would be happy to know that I have not had a drink all week. It’s not that I didn’t want to I just had no time for booze, or shopping, or even eating. All I wanted was a clean house. Since I will never have a clean soul. ...
238 Words 1 Page Open Document Barbie is infamous for causing eating disorders and lowering self-esteems. She’s also famous at the same time for being societies standard of “perfect”. Barbie is an absolute horrible role model. She puts everyone, especially young girls, under the impression...
In this situation, there will be variation in the number of successful guessers and in some of them there will be “super-guessers”, meaning that there can statistically be expected to be one person in the whole group who guesses correctly ten times in a row. Moreover, there’s a ...
There really is a Sally Claus There is No really, there is This is not your dad’s old Raleigh but your dad would not feel out of place on this bike The respectfully neo-retro Port Townsend features proven technology and no fluffy trendy shit. Full fenders and bar end shifters. This...
Yes, my “problem,” annoyingly dismissed by so many well-meaning people throughout my life, is that I’ve always been chronically underweight. Stick-thin. Skin and bones. Nothing to me. Size 000. (Okay, they don’t make a triple zero. But I was super jazzed the day they came out...