Researchers at Ohio State University examined what happens to people who are reading fiction. The result is people will feel the emotions, thoughts, beliefs and internal responses of one of the characters as if it happened to himself.

Researchers also found that, in certain situations, your mind sinking into a fictional character can change your behavior in real life although it is probably temporary.

In one experiment, for example, the researchers found that people who have been drawn into a fictional character when faced with a difficult choice, but a few days later he was able to take the decision of the options easily.

In another experiment, people are drawn into fictional characters can influence sexual orientation, behavioral psychology and may be less stereotypical.

“It can change you without you knowing it by combining his own life with those of the characters that you see,” said Geoff Kaufman, head of research at Ohio State University.

Effect of a fictional character does not happen all the time. This only happens when people are in a state wants to forget his own identity while reading a fiction novel.

In one experiment, the researchers found that most students do not carry over into fictional characters when reading a comic in a cubicle with a mirror.

“The more you remind yourself to be a personal identity, the less likely you sink into the identity of the fictional character,” said Kaufman.

A man or woman in charge, that is all love, love, responsibility, a super organized person, you have a good job earning high salaries not to suffer hardships, to have vacations and entertainment, with harmony and understanding in the home that will be.

The ideals are splendid, but it’s the disappointment that comes when your dreams do not go as planned, and you want an Adonis, your Prince Charming and married you join a frog that jumps to reality with its true form, given the environment in which they grew, which gives them a negative pattern of how they treated him or wanting to flee their homes to be free and not hear screaming or insults. The transformation of couples, go to live alongside dragging out his personality and character. It becomes a power struggle to see who tames whom, while living with a partner are coming to bear, but kill the love be told when they joined and as the years pass disappointment is rooted removing the submissive personality and prudent if loves, but lives depressed, taking it out on the stems or those around them. Without being emotional balance, not grounded in God who is love and protects the heart to love each other and form a team to enjoy the ideal home, durable, which exudes harmony, peace, tranquility, making children safe, successful, with hopes of fighting for the stability of the home of my memories, longing to return to you, no place under heaven sweeter than home truly Christ-centered

SOME QUOTATIONS ON IDEALS

What are ideals? How can we arrive at what are ideals? What are the criteria we can use to determine what ideals are? Ideals is perfect example; an excellent or perfect example of something or somebody, or something that is considered perfect example according to Microsoft Encarta Dictionary. Ideal is a principle; a standard or principle to which people aspire. Thesaurus has ideal as perfect, model, idyllic, supreme, superlative, ultimate and best.

Doing or accepting ideals is a parameter for judging maturity and knowing one who is aspiring for greatness. Doing the ideal or towing the part of ideals is the way to determine a truly learned and discipline one in a society. It is a way the society knows who is truly responsible.   

Are you aspiring to join the league of men and women what are termed great in the society? Then here are some quotations for you that will challenge you to living a fulfilling life here on earth.        

1. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities that it shall one day see and know. – Allen

2. He who cherishes a beautiful ideal in his heart will one day realize it.  Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. – Allen

3. Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character.  Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. – Anonymous

4. The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Bagehot

5. Be true to your own highest convictions. – Channing

6. God hides some ideal in every human soul.  At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing.  Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. – Robert Collyer

7. The ideals that have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. – Einstein

8. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Emerson

9. We aspire by setting up ideals and striving after them. – Fosdick

10. We must always remember that God has given to every soul the responsibility of deciding what its character and destiny shall be. – Jefferson

11. To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals-this alone is worth the struggle.  We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life. – Osler

Some Valuable Quotations on Character

Character is distinguished and positive quality. It is qualities that make someone attractive or acceptable in a society. It is reputation of an individual. It encompasses the integrity, honour, disposition, temperament, uprightness, moral life and rectitude. These are the things that make an individual. They are many who have money or even educated and in high position in the society but they have no character. Character is what matters in our society and where it is lacking, the society will be characterized by fraud, corruption and evil of all sorts.

Here are some valuable quotations on Character that can help us model our lives to be acceptable in the society.       

1. When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost! -Anonymous

2. Snarling at other folks is not the best way of showing the superior quality of your own character. -Anonymous

3. Characters are achieved-not received.  They grow out of the substance of a man’s soul.  -Anonymous

4. Character is like bells, which ring out sweet notes, and which, when touched-accidentally even-resound with sweet music. -Brooks

5. Grandeur of character lies in force of soul-that is, in the force of thought, moral principles, and love; and this may be found in the humblest conditions of life. -Channing

6. You must look into people as well as at them. -Chesterfield

7. The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, and to be a party to nothing underhand or mysterious. -Dickens

8. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. -Froude

9. Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. -Geikie

10. Fame is vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings.  Only one thing endures, and that is character. -Greeley

11. Every man has three characters -that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. -Karr

12. The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. -Macaulay

13. Be good at the depths of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to the same depths.  Therein lies a force that has no name; a spiritual rivalry that has no resistance. -Maeterlinck

14. Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. -Eleanor Roosevelt

15. To be worth anything character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life.  Cloistered virtues do not count for much. -Smiles

16. Not education but character is man’s greatest need and man’s greatest safeguard. –Spencer

17. Character breeds trust in relationship – Uzoma Morgan

18. Any marriage without character is bound to chaff – Uzoma Morgan

19. Character makes a man not money or education – Uzoma Morgan

Character

Character is person to holder. You cannot hide who exactly you are however hard you try, because character is inborn and fully wired in the individual’s DNA. People enjoy pretence, they try to act those who they really are not and in the process or for just a while, they dub others to think they are who they are not. But their true colors soon shine when you stay with them longer. We have seen people who go into a relationship with a different and desirable character, but 6 months down their marriage life, they assume their true characters to the bewilderment of their spouses.

 The Sun
The sun is a super star that controls the solar systems and determines existence on our own planet to a very big measure. Before we even think about the possibility of hiding the sun one day completely, we need to appreciate that without the sun, there would probably be no orbit in the solar system, there would be no day and night, there would be no seasons. Even in the event of an eclipse or a volcanic eruption so powerful that the visibility of the sun has been completely compromised, one can still see some specks of light from the sun. It may be a blur of light, trying to penetrate the consuming darkness, but by and large, the sun.

The best teacher must be a kind who teaches by example what she teaches to the students. Like teacher, like students. In other words, a teacher should also be ‘virtuous’ in character because a teacher serves as a role model to the student. Nobody believes a friar who teaches to refrain from adultery if he himself is adulterous. “Follow what I say, not what I do” is not applicable to Rizal.  In fact, to his sister Soleded, Rizal wrote:

“I was pleased to know that you are teaching because your position will oblige you to improve yourself more and more in an effort to be a model of virtues and good qualities, for one who should teach should be better than the persons who need her learning.

As one can see, Rizal’s views on education goes beyond the mere frame of academic excellence, it penetrates deep down into the person’s character, social commitment and responsibility.

Jose Rizal Execution Site (Manila) (Photo credit: ~MVI~ (too late for the dinagyang))

In “Killer,” David Denby’s review of the Patty Jenkins film “Monster,” Denby supports the film as a work of art that elucidates not only the savagery of Alice Wuornos, a serial killer and the film’s main character, but also her more sane side. This is in stark contrast to Nick Broomfield’s documentary of the same killer, which presents her as nothing but a ferocious murderer. Denby argues that the fictional “Monster” does a more effective job in “bring[ing] out the humanity in a crazy person” (86). One of the ways Denby attempts to support his point is by explaining how the setting, the run-down and impoverished state of Florida, contributes to a feeling of sympathy towards Wuornos, making her seem more human than any other description of her life.

Denby starts his discussion of the film’s setting by talking about other uses of Florida as setting in contemporary films and novels. All these films and novels, he explains, depict Florida as a “bedraggled kingdom of chaos” (85), where life is too messy and poor to allow for success of any kind. Before even mentioning Wuornos in relation to the film’s setting, Denby shows the reader that no one can become a “coherent human being” (85) in Florida, or that no one can make it in Florida. Wuornos is no exception to this rule, as she is a product of the horrible society depicted. When she was young, there was “no one around to protect her” (86); she is nothing but a “damaged survivor” (86) of this society. Denby’s choice of words serve to foster sympathy from the reader, who is made to think that Wuornos is not to blame for the way her life turned out, rather it is the society that raised her that is at fault.

Although it may be difficult to make an audience understand the misfortune of a serial killer, Jenkins has done this with “Monster,” Denby argues. He concludes by mentioning the irony of the film’s title, which rather than making Wuornos appear a victim of the society in which she was raised, does quite the opposite. This, he says, is only a reminder that Wuornos was, indeed, a serial killer, and a vicious one at that. The beauty of Jenkins’s film lies in its accurate portrayal two very different sides of a character that, at first glance, seems entirely evil.

I”ve never followed politics very closely until 2008. If anythng positive has come out of Barack Obama’s Presidency, it is it has broght a new interest for me and possibly for many others about the business of governing our Great Nation.

And now as we are narrowing down to logically only two candidates for the Republican ticket, what is transpiring between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich strikes me as really queer.

Mr. Romney is a very wealth man, who is unscupulous in how he uses this wealth. Consider the vicious, falsehoods he has levied at Newt Gingrich. He impresses me as a desperate man totally out of control with nothing to stand on but to contrive blantant lies about his opponent, Mr. Gingrich. Numerous sources have brought these accusations to light as being misconceptions and in many cases outright lies.

Why do lies and falshoods attract smart, intelligent people, indeeed patriots who love this Country, into total belief? Yes, so many have swallowed these lies “hood-lin-and-sinker”, Wake up folks, the bacon is burning! What a qeer situation this is!

Even queerer, is so many have expressed the fact they believe Mitt Romney is the “safer” candidate. Safer from what? How can anyone believe the ruthless, viciousness Mr. Romney has displayed is safe? Even his wife has stated that they were never convervatives. And Mitt’s professional records prove this. Why is it that Newt’s past marital problems become the BIG moral sin of the century?

I suppose a man who believes homesexuals have a right to participate in the boy scouts constitutes no moral issue? Neither does a repeated stand for aqbortion. And of course, bearing false witness against another, as Mit Romney as done repeatedly with Newt Gingrich isn’t so bad, huh? No moral sin here? God’s Word, the Bible, is clear on all these issues as being sins….and any sin is a moral issue.

What really strikes me as totally queer is these points of view, actions, and opinions of Mitt Romney directly relate to his character. If he is going to flip floop on issues he has supported all his professional career, how do we know he won’t flip flop back to these liberal beliefs should he become president? Frankly with the weakness demonstrated by Mitt Romney, as evidenced by him stooping to sinful tactics as falsehoods as the only means he seems to possess for trying to beat Newt Gingrich, I doubt seriously if he can beat Barack Obama. President Obama has him beat in this department!

The moral issue of Newt Gingrich is a serious matter for most Evangelicals. But based on testimony from several well respected Evangelical clergy, and the backing of the American Family Association, it seems clear that Mr. Gingrich has confessed these short comings (sins) and has taken them to the only One who can forgive him. Why are we allowing someone like Mitt Romney to bash Newt Gingrich over the head, yes, as Sarah Palin said, “crucify” him, when Almighty God has forgiven him of these trangressions? Are we bigger than God? This attitude, is also queer.

And queer too is condoning Mitt Romney’s sins by backing him for a candidate for President of the United States, when the very existence of freedom, liberty. justice – our entire American way of life – hangs perilously by a very thin thread.

Telling the Truth

To tell the truth is golden.  It is a mark of distinction that identifies our caliber.  Without it, a person is unable to be trusted.  Many persons do not think anything about telling occasional lies.  They lie about their importance.  We travel through life knowing that we can get away with things, some of them small and others not so small.  As it turns out, we bend the truth.  For some, after awhile, individuals are not able to distinguish truth from fiction.  But as it is said, “The truth shall set you free.”  Therefore, say it and experience the freedom it brings to your soul, body, and spirit.  Let others see your works, through the things that you do.  

Do not allow obscenities to leave your lips or be part of your life.  Instead of cursing why not praise.  Give thanks for the beautiful things you encounter daily.  Express these in words, pictures, and images.  Let your heart be open to the niceties of creation.  Think and live uplifting thoughts and delight in all things.   These expressions tell others about the truth that is present in the world and us.  They celebrate life and give joy.  It is very romantic to live your life to the fullest.

Your Body as A Temple 

Treat your body kindly and it will do the same for you.  Begin by praying and asking for divine intervention in your life.  Let your spiritual being be nurtured.  Through your psyche you can experience the goodness of all things.  Eat properly.  Have a balanced diet.  There is sound advice that is promoted by dietitians at a hospitals around the country.  Follow this and you will help ward off high blood pressure, diabetes, heart, and kidney disease.

Be sure to exercise.  Breathe fresh air as you walk and ride in gardens and parks.  Avoid pollution.  Polluted cities are a hazard and so is such water.  Be sensible about these natural blessings from which we partake.  They can be the cause of cancer.  It is a clever person that chooses where he lives.  A lifestyle in the country will be helpful.  Some people decide to grow their own food so that they will be able to eat organic meals.  Others may raise their own beef to avoid buying from the mass production of such produce.

Avoid Poisonous Substances

Alcohol should be drank in moderation.  Doctors recommend that a glass or two of wine will be beneficial for a person’s digestive system.  To go overboard, may cause harm.  Some persons may become alcoholics.  There are those that become addicted to drugs of all kinds and even pain killers.  Individuals should stay clear of these temptations,  for your objective is to live clean lives.  Drugs are harmful and detrimental.  Coffee can be helpful if drank in moderation.

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Undoubtedly, from time to time, many of us do backslide and we should surround ourselves with our cheer-leaders.  That is where good friends come in.  It is great to embrace these.  Call on them for advice, company, and reach out when you find yourself in trouble.  By these actions, many persons undergo a sort of healing and become better persons for it.  They soon will be loving the idea that they are aspiring to live lives that are as clean as possible.  A person’s life is on the right track when he can safely say that he has cleaned up his act, and his life is as clean as clean can be.

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Do they say that you demonstrate your cooperativeness on many occasions?
Do they say that sometimes you do not help others or do what they ask?
Do they say that you are always ready to fight?
Do they say that sometimes you do not show regard for others in manners, speech, behavior?
Do they say that you sometimes do not support a particular person or a belief?
Do they say that you are always  respectful and considerate of other people?
Do they say that you are always able to make decisions quickly and effectively?
Do they say that sometimes you show a feeling of hostility?
Do they say that you often have firmness of purpose?
Do they say that you sometimes show a very deep unfriendly feeling?
Do they say that you show intense enjoyment and interest?
Do they say that you sometimes do not show much emotion or interest ?
Do they say that you sometimes are indecisive, unsure?
Do  they say that you always do what is necessary?
Do they say that you always do what is convenient?
Do they say that you sometimes are indifferent?
Do they sometimes say that you are open, communicative, talkative, effusive?
Do they say that  sometimes you are extremely reserved?