Word: belief
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...leave or were not sure whether they would leave if an evacuation order was given. But it was homeowners, at 39%, who were particularly stubborn. Lack of funds or transportation does play a role for stay-behinds, but according to the poll, a greater consideration is a vague belief that their home is built well enough to survive a storm--a justification offered by a whopping...
...they wouldn't evacuate are worried that the roads would be too crowded, and 67% believe shelters would be dangerous. That's understandable, unfortunately. One of the most damaging legacies of Katrina might be the TV images of looting and the graphic rumors of violence that crystallized our belief that we turn into savages in a disaster--a notion that is demonstrably untrue; after most disasters, including Katrina, the crime rate goes down. Ironically, 66% of those surveyed were also confident that if they stayed at home, they would eventually be rescued--a faith hardly justified by the Katrina experience...
...cool folks." What advantage does that have? My premise is if you have a choice, try to work with human nature and not against it. Sadly, humanity has a lot of negative aspects, and the two I focused on were laziness and shallowness. It is my belief that we are aesthetically shallow. We are very aspirational; it really matters how we dress, what kind of car we drive and what our place looks like. That's why gossip mags, TV and movies are so aspirational - it's always about something that is slightly out of our reach ...I want...
...Naturopathy is an interesting belief system based on the premise that the myriad ingredients in whole plant parts cancel out the side effects of the "drug" in the plant. And many drugs do come from plants. The classic example is digitalis leaf. The foxglove plant contains a chemical, digitalis, that can regulate an irregular heartbeat. Digitalis, the purified chemical, has many well-known side effects, while whole foxglove leaf, say the naturopaths, does not produce these side effects because the other ingredients in the leaf "cancel" them out. Is this really true? I've got my doubts; I have treated...
...have never understood the belief of some that you can love employees and hate employers, but that seems to be what's driving this...