Random Facts Flashcards

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What is the lowest quality energy?

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Heat

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The three states or phases in which matter can be found:

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Solid, fluid, and gaseous

Also plasma

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What we mean by heat and measure in temperature is _______

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disordered movement.

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Temperature is a concept that means anything only if we have a lot
of _______

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molecules at once.

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After a while, a molecule in a gas will have bumped into other molecules and therefore acquired a certain _______

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“knowledge” of the speeds of the other molecules.

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All “facts” we currently accept are still, at their core, _______

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just ideas that are our best current explanatory models rather than permanently settled truths.
New evidence or perspectives could revise or overturn previously held “facts.” So in this view, facts are constantly updated working ideas about reality rather than permanently factual.

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The distinction between an act as a category and activity as something beyond categories is _______

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nuanced and relates to how we perceive and interact with reality. An act can be seen as a category because it represents a defined, discrete action or event that we can label and categorize. It’s a way of breaking down our experiences into manageable, understandable units

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If you ignore something thats real _______

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sooner or later its gonna cause you trouble

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Nietzsche believed that Paul, and later the Protestants following Luther, had removed moral responsibility from Christ’s followers. They had watered down the idea of the imitation of Christ. This imitation was the sacred duty of the believer not to _______

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adhere (or merely to mouth) a set of statements about abstract belief but instead to actually manifest the spirit of the Saviour in the particular, specific conditions of his or her life—to realize or incarnate the archetype, as Jung had it; to clothe the eternal pattern in flesh

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For Nietzsche and Dostoevsky alike, freedom—even the ability to act requires _______.

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constraint

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“Spiritual is good, physical is bad” is a key _______

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Gnostic belief

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Gnostics see salvation as _______

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escape from ‘matter’ - the physical world

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in the context of relationships, intimacy is generally considered the opposite of _______

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lust, as lust is primarily focused on physical attraction and immediate sexual desire, while intimacy involves a deeper emotional connection and closeness beyond just physical attraction

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Chronic stress can _______

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shrink the hippocampus. And not just that, but cortisol is toxic to the hippocampus, the area of the brain that’s responsible for memory function.

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“He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a _______.”

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lunatic

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The only difference is that Orwell saw surveillance and control and the domain of _______, whereas in reality the surveillance world we have come to know is one of _______

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the state

private companies monitoring, monetizing, and manipulating society for nothing more than commercial gain

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Evil eye

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The concept that the awareness of your success from those who wish bad upon you can affect you

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Everything that is not order—that is, not
predictable, not usable—is, by default (by definition) _______.

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chaos

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Higher perception without action risks becoming _______

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inert—an abstract understanding that doesn’t translate into lived experience.

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Action without higher perception risks becoming _______

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aimless—mechanical movements devoid of depth or purpose.

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Perception and action are _______

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inseparable in the pursuit of meaning. To perceive meaningfully is to act meaningfully, and vice versa. This interdependence suggests that the pursuit of meaning isn’t just a mental exercise—it’s an active engagement with the world.

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Your connection between “real” and “serious” is thought-provoking. Pain is real because it demands _______ and _______. It forces itself into the _______. True love, as you suggest, may feel “more real” than pain because it _______. By this logic, seriousness might function as a _______: the more something _______

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attention

can’t be ignored

forefront of existence, asserting its reality

transcends the moment, offering meaning and purpose

litmus test for reality

commands our focus and alters our trajectory, the more real it feels.

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We invent tools to _______

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compensate for our shortcomings

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The premise:

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Consciously, practically, psychologically, socially, and iterably fulfilling

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How do the 16 personalities make decisions differently?
An overly simplified version Ti: Why Te: What works Fi: What I want Fe: What they want (or what they need)
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Yawning after waking up is a common _______. It's also part of a natural response to _______
reflex that can occur due to sleepiness, boredom, or stretching. prolonged muscle contraction, called pandiculation
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Novelty is very _______
motivating as well as anxiety provoking
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The problem with a perfect static state is that _______
there’s no novelty, which causes all of incentive reward to disappear.
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For things to be perfect, there has to be some _______
chaos
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The process vs the state of both good and evil:
Good and evil are not independent of each other. They define each other dialectically, as opposites do. They are both states that can be embodied, but more dangerously and more truthfully, they are processes—pathways that you unconsciously follow. Good is a movement that aims at the betterment of being, in all its complexity. While evil is an underlying process—a movement, a path—that the resentful, the bitter, the vengeful, the foolish, the ignorant, or even the innocent may stumble into directly or indirectly.
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Your brain is organized to react to the universe as if its constructed of 3 things:
1. The territory that you have explored 2. The territory that you haven’t explored 3. The process of exploration itself
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Self esteem is a _______
lie. The word you’re looking for is confidence.
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Thoughts are sometimes hard to be put _______. Because thinking, by its very nature, is _______. Words operate as a kind of _______.
into words an intricate and often subconscious process. bridge between the abstract realm of ideas and the concrete realm of communication, but that translation isn't always smooth.
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Music is far richer than _______. It doesn't just synchronize brainwaves; it engages _______. It structures _______ into something _______. It can _______in a way that simple entrainment techniques can't.
brain entrainment emotion, memory, and meaning chaos comprehensible and moving inspire, challenge, and even transform a person's psychological state
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Awareness is the _______. Awareness of _______. Awareness of _______. Awareness of _______. The more you see, _______.
key how words shape thought how others perceive the world the structures that govern reality itself the more precisely you can wield language
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Opposites:
Light/Dark, Order/Chaos, Masculine/Feminine, Known/Unknown, Up/Down, Hot/Cold, Life/Death, Self/Other, Concrete/Abstract, Objective/Subjective, Physical/Mental, Good/Evil, Love/Detest, Freedom/Slavery, Hate/Like, rationality/emotion
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Theory of cognition based on relational opposites
that the mind structures reality by defining everything in relation to its opposite.
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It seems like opposites work best when _______. When we get specific, the concept of "opposites" becomes _______. But that itself is interesting—maybe the broader a category, _______
we're dealing with broad, fundamental categories fuzzier the stronger its opposite?
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More specific things (a chihuahua, a banana, a specific person) don't have obvious opposites, unless _______
you broaden the category they belong to.
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Heat = Cold=
Life Death
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The Law of Opposites
"The more fundamental a concept is to existence, the more it requires an opposite to be intelligible." "The broader a category is, the more its meaning depends on an opposing category." "Some opposites are embedded in nature, while others are created by the mind to structure reality."
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Opp of what
This
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The most authentic and fundamental axiom anyone can adopt:
to the best of my ability I will act in a manner that leads to the alleviation of unnecessary pain and suffering. You have now placed at the pinnacle of your moral hierarchy a set of presuppositions and actions aimed at the betterment of Being.
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Lust is a powerful tool that the enemy uses to _______
distract and weaken those with divine callings
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Without inner healing, lust becomes _______
a coping mechanism, creating a cycle of sin and shame that is hard to break
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T/F “it is possible to perceive nothingness.”
True
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You don’t get to pick what interests you, _______
it picks you
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Its not about being fulfilled or satiated, its about _______
adopting an authentic and optimal mode of being
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"The goal of life is not to be _______, but to _______. There are no _______, only _______. The aim is not mere _______ but the _______"
satisfied engage in a meaningful struggle final destinations an unfolding adventure that demands strength, wisdom, and authenticity happiness continuous development of character through voluntary confrontation with the unknown.
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The process of necessary eternal overcoming constantly _______
constructs and transforms our behavioral repertoires and representational schemas.
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Everything we know, we know because _______. Everything we know, we know because _______
someone explored something they did not understand—explored something they were afraid of, in awe of. someone generated something valuable in the course of an encounter with the unexpected.
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Civilization advances by extending the number of _______
important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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Some things we know, demand our _______
attention
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To know something is have _______
the meaning and the optimal reactions to or for it
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The nervous system is “designed” to _______
eliminate predictability from consideration, and to focus limited analytical resources where focus would produce useful results.
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We attend to the places where change is _______
occurring; where something is happening that has not yet been modeled, where something is happening that has not yet had behaviors erected around it—where something is happening that is not yet understood.
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Consciousness itself might be considered as that organ which _______
specializes in the analysis and classification of unpredictable events
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Attention and concentration naturally gravitate to those elements in the experiential field that contain the highest concentration of _______
novelty, or that are the least expected, prior to what might normally be considered higher cognitive processing.
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There is limited information, positive and negative, in the _______. The novel occurrence, by contrast, might be considered a window into the _______
predictable “transcendent space” where reward and punishment exist in eternal and unlimited potential.
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Seducers are never _______. Their gaze is directed _______. When they meet someone their first move is to get _______.
self-absorbed outward, not inward inside that person's skin, to see the world through their eyes.
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The irrational can prove immensely _______
seductive, even more so for men, who must always seem so reasonable.
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The _______ is often the one most susceptible to the Siren call of pure _______, because _______
intellectual physical pleasure his life so lacks it.
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Danger is surprisingly _______.
seductive
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Highlighting actually works when you do it for _______
the most insightful points
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Mathematical ability is connected to _______
musical ability
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XThe opposite of nihilism would be _______
a world full of meaning
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Isolation leads to _______
hidden battles
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The ultimate revenge is _______
to become astronomically succesful
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There is the rhetorical aspect of language— _______.
the ability to use language to convince other individuals of a course of action.
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There is the potential of language to explain its own activities— _______.
the ability to use language to reflect upon language, to engage in “meta - linguistic” analysis.
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Emotional intelligence is _______
agreeableness
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Never tolerate evil especially when it hides behind _______.
culture and religion
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Existence must be _______, _______.
limited to be at all.
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Post-Orgasmic Neurochemical Changes: After orgasm, the body releases _______, a hormone associated with _______. Elevated prolactin levels can lead to reduced _______.
prolactin sexual satiety sexual desire and increased feelings of tiredness
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Pornography can overstimulate your brain's _______, making other forms of stimulation (like _______) feel _______. This might explain why you feel _______.
reward pathways creativity or natural beauty muted in comparison less sensitive to aesthetics or creativity after PMO
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The past has _______. We cannot live without _______.
value the integration of the past
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There’s an integral relationship between consciousness and _______.
being
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You don’t have anything better to do than the _______ by _______.
best definition
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If you add some sugar to cold water, and stir it, the sugar will dissolve. If you heat up that water, you can _______. If you heat the water to boiling, you can _______. Then, if you take that _______.
dissolve more add a lot more sugar and get that to dissolve too boiling sugar water, and slowly cool it, and don’t bump it or jar it, you can trick it into holding a lot more dissolved sugar than it would have it if it had remained cold all along. That’s called a super-saturated solution
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Sometimes you have to change the way you understand everything to _______.
properly understand a single something
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The ability to listen is a subset of _______.
attention
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When at the university of Ingolstadt, what goal did Frankenstein devise for himself?
To “bestow animation upon lifeless matter.”
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XIt's generally true that you can recover from lost sleep, but it may not be a perfect recovery. While you can make up for some lost sleep, UAMS Health states that the amount of sleep recovered might not be the same as the amount lost, especially if the sleep debt is significant. Some studies suggest it can take several days, even up to nine, to fully restore bodily functions after sleep deprivation