Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Not pretty exactly, but gleaming with the loveliness of youth.

The difference between the Haves and Have-nots? The will to sacrifice and to do what others won't.... Very simple.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

Love understands love; it needs no talk.

You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?