I am so pleased you asked first CJ, the puppies have been mentioned a couple of times and I was a little afraid to question it amongst all the serious stuff.

Piper, Dickie hates Yabby so much that she throws anything she can
think of at him. She does not understand the context, but it will
take me a post or two, which I don't have to waste right now.

First to Antonious!

*His own, self-created definition of emotional intelligence*

Yup,
he took the concept from an obsure paper in a journal, included it
in a book he was writing about emotions at the time and popularised
the term globally. I gather around 5 million books were sold, EQ
is now common language, thanks to Goleman. The basics concept is
taught in thousands of schools and right through the business community,
because it works and gets results.

The science behind the basic concept was done by neuroscientist
Joseph LeDoux. That is today accepted science. This stuff is not
rocket science. You can bother to read the book, apply it to yourself
and notice how it works, but you have told us that you have no interest in how brains work.

Who is your critic? He is a writer who owns a website with a clever
name. He has no qualifications in psychology or neuroscience and
simply shares his opinions with others, as he travels around.

Amusingly enough, he comes up with his own self appointed definition
of emotional intelligence :) So in terms of credibility, you will
have to do better then that Antonious!

*I don't recall trying to mount rape or bash every female I fancied*

You don't need to have, Examinator. But you might have masturbated, due to those erections, in other words, hormones affected your behaviour!

Now the fact is, that if a woman feels maternal, or a man paternal,
or a teenager argumentative, or a myriad of other examples, they
are all examples of brain chemistry affecting our behaviour in
some way. That is the issue here, the interacting of the limbic
system with the neocortex, when we make decisions.

What EQ is about is learning to stop and think about what you feel
and why you feel it.

Yabby, you come across as knowledgable in the workings of the human brain and hormones, yet your brain does not seem as open to other peoples ideas or experiences, particularly females?

Just wondering if, as you asked another writer, you have any qualifications in psychology or neuroscience? How about neurosurgery or psychiatry?

There is an old saying that if you don't really have any idea about what you are trying to say, blind them with science!

Hey Yabby, Can I guess about the pups? I’m guessing it’s literal…You had some unwanted puppies on the farm and so got rid of them? If that’s wrong then I’m just fair worried about that answer.

Can I make a guess at something else? Because this stuff is of interest to you I reckon you have become an emotion voyeur, and of course to observe emotions you have to be quite emotive?

You’re just poking and prodding us all over the place and then analyzing the responses and if it isn’t strong enough you step up your game.

It works both ways, if someone is mean enough to you then you get to analyze your own feelings – my god, it’s win win.[smile] See I have touble leaving a post if the emotion I am attaching to my words isn't obvious - I need to "[smile]"

Can I ask a general off topic question - how do you know you're about to run out of posts - do you just count them as you go or is there a secret to it?

Pelican

<< What ever happened to adults choosing to stay together for the kids surely it can't be any worse than what we have now (excepting the obvious for domestic violence situations).

Surely if two people loved each other once they can work it out and we can stop using children as pawns in what is really an adult problem. >>

<< At least the kids will benefit from having one parent at home during the most important development years >>

You've probably long since left this thread, but I just had to let you know that I agree with your post, and consider the above statements in particular worthy of a repeat!

<< (probably not PC to say that anymore) >>

You're right, it almost is that way, all the more reason I admire you for being gutsy enough to put it out there.

I've only had a quick scroll through the thread so might have missed it, but it looks as though your remarks scored a zero response. Now, why is that?

We'll probably never know, because I'm sure this post will receive exactly the same non-response!

That's okay folks, I understand, the debate that's raging here is much too interesting to be sidetracked by latecomers throwing around unwanted observations.

Perhaps someone though might pick these ideas up in a new thread at a later stage.

“how do you know you're about to run out of posts - do you just count them as you go or is there a secret to it?”

No secret there PP – Yabby’s procrastinating - preparing his defence. He’s hormonal you know, the hypothalamus just kicked in - the “fight or flight” response (that response denied to his victims.) Naturally, he needs to work out how best to put a repulsive, act of savagery into “context” so he can justify that act to his audience.

Therefore, while Yabby’s back preparing his brief – look what I discovered in my “favourites” to assist his recall:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2246#50713

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2246#50950

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2246#50383

“We need a boundless ethic which will include the animals also. The ethics of respect for life makes us keep on the lookout together for opportunities of bringing some sort of help to animals, to make up for the great miseries men inflict on them.

"The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret.....It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind." - Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) - Nobel Peace Prize Address, "The Problem of Peace in the World Today."

Great horny toads - I must be "hormonal?" Yay!