Word: objectional
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...Frattaroli might object that, as Freud put it (in a quote that introduces a chapter of “Healing the Soul”) “If it [a discoverable connection between brain and mind] existed, it would at most provide an exact location of the processes of consciousness and would give us no help towards understanding them.” And yet, it seems that we may concede this point and still not abandon the expectation that a concept of the soul will eventually become irrelevant in psychiatry...
...changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that students are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Curriculum, and to provide new Guards for their future intellectual stimulation. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Students; and such is now the necessity which constrains them...
Unfortunately, this trend extends into our own Harvard community where scores of type-A students often start the search for someone to love. It is well known that telnet commands and the Internet hold enlightening background information about many a desired object. Although figuring out someone’s schedule is an understandable means of increasing the “chance” of a rendezvous, changing oneself based on knowledge of that person to become more interesting to him or her erodes a fundamental basis of love—honesty...
...cannot be denied that the pins do tend to appeal to people’s hearts rather than their minds, despite their actual symbolic meaning, but perhaps this is not all bad either. I am certain that most people (even those who favor abortion) would strongly object to the idea of a poor little dog being shredded by a chainsaw. But there are far too many people who feel no qualm about a human fetus being impaled by a sharp hook. I think that these insensitive people must be reminded that, although a fetus may look ugly, a fetus will...
...from where I sit, Carey’s in better shape now than she’s been in for years. Besides the $49 million she earned as severance pay from her record label, Carey’s more famous than she’s ever been, more an object of public interest than anyone else in the music industry. She’s so famous, in fact, that instead of having porn advertisements sent from “Brittney Spears” filtered out of my Hotmail account, they’re now coming from “Mariah...