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Rabbi Harold S. Kushner in his book When Bad Things Happen to Good People describes schadenfreude as a universal, even wholesome reaction that cannot be helped. "There is a German psychological term, Schadenfreude, which refers to the embarrassing reaction of relief we feel when something bad happens to someone else instead of to us." He gives ...
Shit happens is a slang sentence that is used as a simple existential observation that life is full of unfortunate unpredictable events, similar to "c'est la vie".The sentence is an acknowledgment that bad things happen to people seemingly for no particular reason.
Another is a legal term, referring to the indefinite postponing of a case, "until Elijah comes". Hindi - The common phrases are (1) सूरज पश्चिम से उगा है ("sun has risen from the west") and (2) बिन मौसम की बरसात ("when it rains when it's not the season to rain"). The second one is ...
Definitional retreat – changing the meaning of a word when an objection is raised. [23] Often paired with moving the goalposts (see below), as when an argument is challenged using a common definition of a term in the argument, and the arguer presents a different definition of the term and thereby demands different evidence to debunk the argument.
The main cause behind frequency illusion, and other related illusions and biases, seems to be selective attention. Selective attention refers to the process of selecting and focusing on selective objects while ignoring distractions. [5] [6] [7] This means that people have the unconscious cognitive ability to filter for what they are focusing on.
Watching a concert or a sports event alongside thousands of other people can be both exhilarating and dangerous, and researchers now have new theories about how people behave when they get too ...
Image credits: CesaroSalad #6. Clean a pan/pot/cutting board etc. while my other stuff is cooking. By the end of cooking, the only other thing I need to clean is the dish that holds the final product.
The 19th-century Australian term flash mob referred to a segment of society, not an event, and showed no other similarities to the modern term flash mob or the events it describes. [ 23 ] In 1973, the story " Flash Crowd " by Larry Niven described a concept similar to flash mobs. [ 24 ]