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Just a decade ago, the only people who put computers together were those individuals who possessed an extensive technical background. Advancements in technology have eliminated some of the complexities in how computers work. This change has resulted in average people who have a basic understanding of computers being able to build a system themselves. Whether you are interested in building computers to establish a new hobby or to start a business, you can so in only a few easy steps and on a shoestring budget.

The first step in building cheap computers is to determine the route you want to use to build systems. You basically have three choices when considering building cheap computers: build a system from scratch, expand on a bare bones computer, or upgrade an existing system. Building a system from scratch can be a rewarding experience. However, it is not for everyone. If you are impatient or are intimidated by mechanical tools, you are better to choose one of the other two options.

Regardless of the method you choose, you will follow three basic steps:

1. Plan 2. Assemble 3. Test

The planning phase of your project involves determining the specifications for the computer you want to build. Once you know this information you can start shopping for parts that meet those specifications. Your main considerations should be hard-disk, memory, and CPU (central processing unit). The harddrive is important because it determines how much information you are able to store on the computer. While you could build a computer with a harddrive smaller than 2 GB (gigabytes), it is not recommended.

The harddrive and memory work together. The amount of memory you place in your computer will directly affect how the system is able to complete the different processes that you request when using the system. If you have no idea what size hard-drive and the amount of memory you need, you should consider the type of operating system you intend to load on the system. You can consult the manufacturer of your hard-drive or review the information on Cheap-Computer-Guy.com, which features a list of minimum harddrive and memory requirements for various operating systems, and use this information as a guide.

The equipment presented in this article includes the basics of a computer system. Of course, nowadays people want far more than the basics and you undoubtedly feel the same way. There are optional components available that you may want to add to your systems, which include CD or DVD drives, a modem or other communication component for Internet connectivity, or a video graphics card.

Once you have decided on the specifications of the computer you want to build, you are ready to assemble the system. In addition to detailed information about the parts you will need to build your computer, cheap-computer-guy.com includes step-by-step instructions for assembling a cheap do-it-yourself computer.

When you have finished assembling the computer, you will then need to test to make sure that the system boots and that all components are functioning properly. Once you have completed all these tests you will have built your own cheap computer.

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Diamonds are allotropes of carbon , whose hardness and high dispersion of light make it useful for industrial applications and jewelry.

Diamond in Greek means “impossible to tame”. Diamonds are found mainly in central and southern Africa ,although significant sources of the mineral have been discovered in Canada ,Russia ,Brazil ,and Australia.

There are Synthetic Diamonds and Natural Diamonds.

There is something so special about diamonds, and they are so valuable, that people have been trying to make them for a long time.

Synthetic diamonds were first produced in 1953, in Stockholm ,Sweden by ASEA ,Sweden’s major electrical manufacturing company. Pressure was maintained within a device at an estimated 83,000 atmospheres for an hour to produce these diamonds.

It now seems that it is possible to make diamonds in a laboratory so perfect down to the same atomic structure that DeBeers, the world’s largest diamond consortium, is running scared.

And you know what, these diamonds can be made and sold at a profit.

Apparently there are in Russia alone 5 laboratories producing synthetic diamonds that have the same atomic structure as natural diamonds but with ONE difference, they are too perfect. They have the same characteristics as real diamonds, the same hardness, same conductivity, the same sparkle.

Different types of Synthetic Diamonds

2 different processes are being used to produce Synthetic Diamonds:

The oldest process uses pressure, lots of it, and carbon.

Since diamonds are carbon, eventually people were able to make diamonds in this manner, but these diamonds were easily distinguishable from natural diamonds.

Originally, the pressure process was developed by GE and, by major manufacturers, on a much larger scale.

There is also a cubic press system.

The newest process actually grows diamonds layer by layer as a chemical process and is called Chemical vapor deposition. This process allows many new uses for diamonds which in the past had previously been either too expensive to implement or too difficult to make.

The most important characteristic of CVD diamond growth is the ability to control the properties of the diamond produced.

Diamonds are now being used to machine tools, especially for non-ferrous alloys. CVD diamond also has applications in electronics. Conductive diamond has been demonstrated as a useful electrode under many circumstances.

Diamonds are also being used as radiation detection devices. Diamonds also have uses as semiconductors because the diamonds can be contaminated with impurities.

Diamond is the ideal material. It can be used in computers to run them at speeds that would melt anything on the market today.

Diamonds can also replace rubies to make lasers of extreme power.

Diamonds can be used as memory storage devices which could be so small as to allow a cellphone to fit into a watch and an iPod to store 20,000 movies.

Tropisms

Tom Ogren

Plants are thought by some as less human, less important than animals, because plants are not “salient” beings. They just sit there, they don’t move. But actually they do. A tropism is an organism’s response, or movement to (or away from) some external stimulus. Usually this refers to plants and to a plant’s growth toward some sort of stimulation. Perhaps the most obvious tropism is that of the sunflower, which turns its “face” toward the sun, and actually follows the sun. If you want to photograph a glorious field of actively growing and blooming sunflowers, in the morning the flowers will be facing the eastern sun but in the evening they will be oriented toward the setting sun in the west. This sunflower tropism is an example of phototropism, but more on that in a moment. “Trop” comes from the Greek and means “turning toward.” The ending, “ism,” is also Greek, and means “a system.” Thus a tropism is a system for plants to turn toward something.

Electro-tropisms

Because of the work I do with pollen and allergies, I am especially fascinated by tropisms, in particular electro-tropism. A large, mature female red maple tree, for example, will have many thousands of tiny red female flowers. These flowers look like minute versions of the double winged seeds they will eventually evolve into. The tip of each female organ, the stigma, will be sticky and it will also produce a small negative electrical current. Because the tree’s roots are sunk into the ground, the tree itself is grounded, thus negative. Pollen from the male flowers on the male red maples trees will be released with the wind. Most of this pollen will fall, land, and stick close to the dripline of the tree, but some individual grains, each one shaped like a tiny football, will catch the breeze and float on the air. As the airborne pollen grains tumble about, they pick up a positive electrical current. Because the female flowers are negative, and the pollen is positive, the two are mutually attractive. The airborne pollen grains will attract to and stick on the receptive female flowers. This is an example of an electro-tropism at work. The end result is seed. A pollen researcher I know recently had an interesting experience with electro-tropism. She had just cleaned off the lens of her microscope with a cleaning solvent and was viewing some fresh alder pollen. The microscope lens must have still been moist and as she looked through the scope pollen grains started to jump up from the slide and stick to the lens. The grains did not jump one after another, but rather a few seconds would pass and then suddenly an entire clump of grains would spring from the slide. After a few moments another bunch of pollen would again suddenly rise from the slide and stick to the lens. Chemo-tropisms and Aqua-tropisms (Hyrdrotropism)

The roots of a plant will actually reverse their path and will grow in the direction of soil nutrients. Most typically this will be root growth towards sources of available nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium, the macronutrients. Sometimes though roots will re-direct themselves towards sources of soil iron or sulfur or toward micronutrient soil chemicals such as zinc, magnesium, or selenium. In row cropping where the irrigation is always done on one side of the row only, and where water-soluble fertilizers are used along with the irrigation, roots will grow directly to this fertilizer. Roots will also grow towards sources of water, as anyone with a willow tree near a septic line usually knows only too well. This is an example of aqua-tropism, which is also sometimes called hydrotropism. Gardeners, who soak the roots of a tree on only one side, will end up with a tree that has most of its roots only on one side. A tree like this would be more vulnerable to blowing over in a hard wind.

Geo-tropism or Gravitropism

Even though gravity affects everything on earth, most plants are geo-tropic and their roots will grow down and their tops will grow up. This is often demonstrated by placing a containerized plant on its side on the ground. If the plant is watered and otherwise properly taken care of, eventually the roots in the pot will change directions, and will start to grow down, even though “down” is now the side of the pot, not the bottom. This is most easily demonstrated by using an actively growing herbaceous plant like a tomato plant. Likewise, the top of the plant will start to bend, to change directions, and eventually it will lift itself so that the top is now growing upward. If later this same plant is taken out of its container and planted in the ground, it will again exhibit geo-tropic tendencies, and will once more re-direct its roots downward and its top toward the sky. Another good example of geotropism, suggested to me by Grandiflora editor Donna Williamson, is that of bulbs. If a plump daffodil bulb is planted incorrectly, upside down, it will produce a shoot that will emerge from the bulb heading the wrong direction, but that will then bend, change directions, and will eventually come out of the ground as it should. Likewise the roots of the up-side-down bulb will start to grow and will quickly reverse directions, and will grow down as daffodil roots were intended to do so. But if a bulb is small, weak, or planted too deep, and it is inverted like this, it may never emerge. It may run out of energy and die before the top reaches the sunlight. Sometimes in a nursery workers will accidentally stick cuttings of dormant wood upside down, or inverted. With some species an inverted cutting will never root and will just die. But with a few species the inverted cutting will root, the roots will grow down, and the lateral buds that sprout, will first go down but will quickly change direction and grow upward.

Photo-tropism

One of the first people to understand this process was Charles Darwin who did experiments on this response. Photo is Greek for “light,” and a phototropic response is one directed at growing toward the light, often toward the sun. Interesting things are at work to make a plant phototropic. Take the sunflower again–in the main stem of the sunflower plant is a naturally occurring growth hormone, called indole acetic acid. At night the indole acetic acid, which is light shy, will be spread though out the entire plant. But with the morning light, coming from the eastern sky, the indole acetic acid will shy away from the direct light shining on the eastern side of the plant, and will concentrate on the western side of the stem. Here the growth hormone will push extra growth of the tissues on the western side and this will cause the head of the sunflower to bend into the eastern sun. By mid day the indole acetic acid will be focused directly under the large flower head, shaded from the direct sunlight. The hormone will then cause stem elongation and will further push the sunflower head toward the overhead sun. As the afternoon progresses and the sun shifts to the western sky, the light-shy indole acetic acid gravitates now to the eastern side of the sunflower trunk and here it promotes growth of the tissues on that side. As the eastern side of the trunk grows larger and taller, the flower head is turned so that eventually it is turned to catch the setting western sunlight. When we see a bright patch of iceplant flowers that open wide at mid-day and close up late in the day, or on cloudy days, this too is an example of phototropism at work.

Touch-tropism or Haptotropism or Thigmotropism Response to touch or contact is a tropism. This can be seen in the reactions of the carnivorous plants. The sticky hairs of a Sundew plant will wrap around an insect when it comes into contact. Anyone who has ever had a potted Mimosa pudica, a Sensitive Plant, has seen this tropism at work. A little touch of a finger on a leaf and suddenly the entire leaf closes up. I used to always grow a few of these each year when I taught horticulture in the prison. My students would touch these Mimosa plants so often that sometimes they would die from what I assumed was over-stimulation. We sometimes see a dwarf, stocky tree growing in an open and over-exposed spot. There are some much-photographed Monterey Cypress trees, hanging precariously on the edge of steep cliffs above the Pacific Ocean. The trunks of these trees have grown thick and short from the constant stimulation of the ever-blowing wind. In a different but similar observation, on a recent trip through Maryland I drove along a country road and in several places I saw contorted and twisted trees growing directly underneath low-lying power lines. I would assume that this was a result of the trees’ reactions to all that stray voltage.

Thermotropism, also called Thermonasty

Some plants do respond and move when stimulated by temperature changes. Petals of crocus and tulip will open at temperatures of around sixty degrees Fahrenheit and will close below this. Some green algae have been observed that swim toward areas of optimum temperature.

Other tropisms?

There may well be other as yet undiscovered tropisms at work in the kingdom of plants. When I owned a dairy farm my cows used to produce more milk to classical music. I used to play Mozart and Chopin in my nursery greenhouses as well, and just assumed it was beneficial for my plants. I have no proof of this, but perhaps some plants, like some cultured gardeners, do indeed turn toward good music. If so, we could call this what? Music-tropism?

Thomas Leo Ogren is the author of Allergy-free Gardening

How to launch hundreds of UAVs for an autonomous mission from a transport plane. As we watched the MOAB parachute bomb drop out of a C-130 onto the desert and above the tunnels below into Afghanistan, it left the world in awe. Now then this parachute concept has another idea. Launching UAVs, hundreds of them in swarms of 25 to 50, to overwhelm the opponent.

Here is how it is done, the little cute UAVs are put into a bread rack type configuration but like a box made of plastic or composite. It is thrown out the back of the aircraft, okay see ya. Then the parachute opens. The UAVs are launched by relative wind as they dive down after release. Large propellers to start the motors since the motors would have high compression. Or the propellers would spin and break the small cellophane wall separating the chemicals in a little bag allowing them to combine and become a battery.

As the box slows down and the parachute deploys air pressure from under the box would cause the bottom to fall out since it would be on a spring and simply pop off and fall to Earth or it could hang there in an open vertical position until the launching device hit the ground and the door hitting first would trigger and explosion destroying any un-launched aircraft and the box it self, if made of composite it would of course burn cyanide gas so no one would attempt to go near it until it was finally all burned up. As each floor released its aircraft then the next floor would spring back since all the weight of the UAV were gone and the relative air pressure from the slowly dropping parachute started the next set of UAVs on that floor.

The falling UAVs would have some stability and of course dihedral and would simply start flying and the satellite would ping them to keep them flying where ever they were to go. Once in real close; each UAV would go to its exact target, usually five to six per target to be sure, low cost allows for this.

Once the aircraft were dropped out the bottom their higher rate of speed and lower drag than the parachute would easily clear them and the lift from the wing would allow them lateral separation. A small tooth pick could have the horizontal stabilizer in the up position as a temporary trim tab which would come off as the aircraft increased its speed, but stay on long enough to clear the chute. This set up could be used in a C-130, C-5, C-141, C-17 with such ease it would not even be funny.

You could even fly these UAVs in all directions and put flairs on them so they would have a big heat signature or pop out a piece of tin foil or drag a large metallic piece of crumpled aluminum to attract a radar and lock for anti-aircraft or SAM missiles and thus draw fire while AWACs watched pin-point targets and launched against all known radar sites, All because the enemy was fooled by model aircraft.

There are hundreds of types of scenarios and uses for these devices. The cool thing is they do not even have to be viable, work or be operational. It simply sends your opponent in so many misdirectional scenarios it overwhelms them and makes them hesitate to act, thus not commit and gives you the superior edge to make your opponent question themselves.

By flying UAVs with quarter mile spacing launched separately and turning them on in sequence you could mimic a flight speed of an F-18 and they would assume the incoming is a stealth which is remotely showing up occasionally or an F-18 coming in fast. Thus such a threat looks real and they have to turn on their systems to fire upon it. But it does not exist and all they will get after firing the SAM is a model airplane and have given away their position or possibly not even get the UAV, the one in the lead. Then you kill the SAM sight and turn the UAVs in another direction and keep going, they will never figure out what you are doing. Each time they simply at maximum get the lead UAV, which is relatively cheap considering you scored a SAM sight and will soon have air superiority for free basically.

By launching UAVs in all directions with different signatures you could mimic an all out attack from the wrong location, while your enemy sends resources to fight the diversion you are attacking key targets within other territories. A few times of this and they will stop chasing ghosts and then you arm the little UAVs and use them. Or use a stealth with the similar mimicking signature and they think it is simply a dud crying wolf.

You have to value the UAV scenarios. A weapon to prevent war, by eliminating threats which kill people on your team, making it easy to go in to get your exact target to serve your political will with no worries of reciprocal responses which will cost lives on your side. This is most perfect for regime change. No collateral damage and you do not even need a bunch of military lawyers deciding what a proper target is against an enemy who most likely would cut off the balls of one of your captured infantry and shove them in their mouth cut off the head and parade it around town. We are so polite in warfare yet our opponents so barbaric. War is hell and you must bring hell to you enemy.

If your real enemy is the regime leaders, you must eliminate defenses and go get them ASAP, that is the best for all concerned and in that sense if war can ever be humane, as we kill members of our own species and continue this notion of war, then this must be the way it is done. Some day there will not be wars, although a man who would not be willing to fight for what they believe in is not a man, and therefore we must evolve into something else or all believe in the same thing. That same thing could be a religion if you will, a sense of Earth pride, World Nationalism provided we are all of one nation, or admit to ourselves we are all together and we are all of planet Earth. Or we need to unite the world as one and possibly all have a common enemy such as “Evil” “mediocrity” etc. Asteroids, whatever, and something to name so we can unite.

But until then, in a sense we are still a warring species, we ought to find the best way to serve our will with the least amount of future conflict as war is an escalation of political will, which has advanced past the level of reason by one or more of the disagreeing parties.

Too philosophical? Maybe, Perhaps, but you must admit the UAV Swarm idea is part of our future.

“Lance Winslow” – Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

I always start my column with a question. So why break away with tradition now?

Would you believe that walls can cool themselves when they get hot? (Actually that’s 2 questions at the beginning of this column!) Many of you, if not all of you will answer a simple and flat, ‘NO’. I would have said so too until I read it with my own eyes (I didn’t actually see these walls with my own eyes, no).

The BASF company announced in mid-year that it had managed to do the impossible. The experiments were held in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Ok, I know you are all interested in reading how these walls in fact ‘work’ but it’s sort of complicated. Anyway I’ll try my best. Read on!

The walls are filled with plastic micro-marbles, which in turn are filled with paraffin wax. Now the wax will melt at a temperature higher than 24oC something. Melting, as you might know absorbs energy, which is in this case heat. The paraffin wax in the micro-marbles absorbs heat thus cooling their surroundings (they take all the heat away).

Of course, there’ll be millions, even billions of micro-marbles full of paraffin in only 1 wall. The walls will seem to absorb heat from their surroundings. A short nap next to one of those during a hot summer day would be great; no need to sit under trees anymore!!!

With this small invention-of-a-genius, we will be able to play computer games without sweating or even go to the toilet and not sweat there!

BASF for its part is not settling down there though. This is an invention for this summer but what will we see next. What will we see next winter? Mystery!

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Have you ever written yourself a letter in which you unload your concerns, worries, hopes and deep-felt thoughts? Probably not….though the Dr. Phils of our world would probably applaud the practice as deliciously therapeutic in the quest for self-awareness!

Each time you enter the world of dreams, you are, in essence, writing yourself such a letter. Your subconcious mind, without the distractions of the day, puts your life, your feelings, your emotions, your hopes and your plans all together. All the insight you could hope for is right there, ripe for analyzing!

Examining the nightly excapades which occur behind your eyelids will give you all of the insight and inspiration you need. Like the swallows to Capiatiano, you’ll return again and again to your dreams to give you the answers you seek.

How can Dream Analysis actually help you?

First of all, it helps to understand that what occurs in our minds when we are fully asleep is reflective of the emotions and thoughts we have while fully awake……granted sometimes they suffer in the translation, but our emotions are certainly at the root. The basic feelings make their way from our consciousness to our unconsciousness.

The difference is that when we are awake, we are too blamed busy to stop and say, “I’m wrapped tighter than a plus-sized woman in spandex…….I need some down time.” We just keep getting after whatever it is that’s stressing us out and don’t take any time to really look at the condition of our psyche…..something that quite often isn’t in as good working order as we suspect.

However if you’re having particularly troublesome, mad-as-a-hatter dreams, you can discern that you need to take a good long look at your lifestyle. Are you too busy? Are you being pulled in more directions than you can possibly stretch without snapping? Is there something in your life which is more bothersome to you than you gave it credit for? Try to work some time into your day that’s all about relaxing, whether it’s yoga, golf, walking, reading….whatever you can do that gives your brain a break.

Other times our dreams let us know that we simply need to start paying more attention to certain people in our life that we may be taking for granted. If we dream about a relative we haven’t seen in a while, we should give them a call. If we dream of starting an argument with our spouse, we should give them a little more attention than usual. Many times, our proverbial “guilty conscience” knows only one way to reach us, and that’s while we are asleep.

Another very interesting way dreams help us is in the healing process after a traumatic experience. Following such an occurence, we will often dream about the tragedy itself, or of something equally morbid. It’s our mind’s way of wrapping itself around what has happened. The dreams will eventually stop all together, as soon as your subconcious has come to grips with everything.

Sometimes it helps to discuss your dreams with others. If you think your dreams are trying to tell you something in particular, discuss it with someone. An outside opinion can often do a world of good.

When you take an honest look at your life and at your typical day, it will be obvious what your dreams are trying to tell you. Most people miss out on so much because they discard their dreams and forget all about them.

It would be the same as writing the letter we talked about before, putting all of your thoughts and feelings on paper, then crumbling the paper and throwing it away. Listen to what your subconcious mind is telling you. Don’t throw away a chance to grow.

From http://www.dreamprophesy.com

About the Author

This article is one of many featured at http://www.dreamprophesy.com, a website dedicated to the world of dreams and the study of dream interpretation. Feel free to e-mail the author at joi@dreamprophesy.com

Language is a behavior potentially under our control, and a powerful loop: it’s how we act upon the world, and how the world acts upon us. It’s how we express our thoughts and feelings, and it also influences our thoughts and feelings. It is probably not possible to have a feeling without a thought, and that thought is framed in words – coming from within our heads, or from the words of others.

Barring physical force, language is how we get what we want, influence, motivate, inspire, forbid, gain sympathy or support, incite, value or devalue, and make it happen – in other words, how we move the world, and ourselves.

Having a word for something allows us to “know” it and gives us a sense of power over it. It allows us to know “it” from “something else,” and to choose strategies for dealing with it.

Language is the power of “naming,” and this is the power of the secret, or the name of Yahweh. Something must be very powerful not to have a name, and we must be very unpowerful not to know it, or not to be able to use it. Who gets to say it, i.e., who gets to “know” it, is dictated by the powers that be.

It’s a great moment in a baby’s life when he learns the word “no.” Instead of pushing the thing away, averting his eyes, screaming, crying, or hitting, he can utter the word “NO” and — at least some of the time — the thing of offense will go away.

That’s power.

The power of language.

And when we can name that our anger is coming from fear (instead of just a mish mash or feelings or pounding temples), then we can deal with it and move forward, empowered. Anger, as they say, is a good way of knowing what we want, though not a good way of getting it.

Those of us who have lived through the “sexist” revolution in the US (in terms of “all men are created equal,” and “[s]he”) know the power of language and how it both influences and is influenced by feelings, attitudes and values.

You may also have experienced this if you decided, after assertiveness training in the 70s, to quit using the word “but” and to substitute “and” in each instance. It may have taken you a full year to quit thinking “but” automatically, but chances are you noticed a difference in your thinking and behavior after you became mindful of a habit, and changed it.

LANGUAGE AND HURRICANE KATRINA

Consider how you and those around you are talking about the events around Hurricane Katrina. What happened is this: Hurricane Katrina is the third most intense hurricane to make landall in the US. Early in the morning of August 29. 2005, the eyewalls of Katrina grazed by New Orleans, Louisiana and made landfall in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, with winds up to 160 miles per hour.

Those are the facts. The rest, as with the reporting of any event, can be, and usually is interpreted, reported, elaborated upon, commented upon, embellished, reported falsely, lied about, exaggerated, down-played, assigned emotional meaning, given value judgments, and so forth. It can also be “used” for various purposes, depending upon the one reporting – for sympathy, for outrage, for money, to incite action, to disparage, for support, to criticize and blame, and any number of other purposes.

The words we use in reporting about the hurricane personally, as a nation, and as a world, will be influential. Who dictates this language? The media? The leaders? You and I? The words used will shape your thinking, so pay attention and accept or reject it, but recognize your ability to choose and be mindful or both what you take in, and what you put out.

According to the Global Language Monitor (http://www.languagemonitor.com/ ), a fascinating website, here’s the way it’s being played in global reporting, in order of word/term usage:
Disaster is being used most often. Then Biblical. (The London Times reported ” …a town of 6,800 where corpses lie amid a scene of Biblical devastation”.) Next is global warming. (Der Spiegel reported: “…German Environmental Minister Jrgen Trittin remains stolid in his assertion that Hurricane Katrina is linked to global warming and America’s refusal to reduce emissions.”) Next, in this order, are Hiroshima/nuclear destruction, catastrophe, holocaust, apocalypse, and end of the world.

What do you think about these different terms? What are the connotations? What emotional overtones do they have, i.e., how do you react to them? How do they make you feel? What is “factual” and what is “descriptive”? As you sort through the data, are you discriminating the fact from the embellishment and commentary? Are you considering the possible biases of those reporting?

Are the survivors of the hurricane evacuees, refugees, or survivors of the hurricane? What difference does it make which term you use? Evaluate your emotional reaction to each. Various emotionally loaded terms are being used in order to manipulate your reactions.
Why not take some time today to apply this think/feel paradigm today as you speak and listen to those around you.

Is your word choice emotionally loaded? Incendiary, for instance (“Just try touching that television one more time and you’re grounded for a week.”) or depressing (“There’s no use even talking about it. There’s nothing you can do about it.”)

Is it passive? (“I’d sure like a new computer but I guess you’d never give me one.”)

Is it intimidating, designed to scare and silence the other (“If I’d wanted your opinion I would have asked for it in the first place. Just stay out of it.”

Is it victim language? (“This always happens to me because I’m a star-bellief sneech?”)

Is it politically correct, aka neutral of emotion and value judgments? Do you want it to be?

From your first smile as an infant, and the first time you uttered “Ma ma” and your Mama picked you up, you were learning how to work the world with language. And the first time your Mama said “Good boy” to you, when you ate your peas, and you did it again, you were being worked on by language. It’s a powerful tool. Use it wisely.
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