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Thursday GNR: Everyone Needs a Friend [1]
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Date: 2022-07-07
Muppet Songs: Gladys Knight - Friendship Train
There are many other songs about friendship done by Muppets and their guest stars.
Muppets - Vincent Price - You've got a friend
The Muppet Show Singers - "Why Can't We Be Friends"
Muppet Show I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends (Warning Muppet sacrifice)
Muppet Babies Yes, I Can Be A Friend - Live Action Kermit and Robin Cuts + End Credits
Muppets - Candice Bergen - Friends
Biz Markie | Just A Friend | Muppets Version
Muppet Songs: Carol Channing and Miss Piggy - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Muppet Songs: Cowboys - Four Legged Friend
Muppet Babies - S3E02 - The Best Friend I Never Had
A few appear below.
We Know About Friendship
The Incredible Power Of Friendship
The scientific literature offers plenty of insight on what close friends do for us.They give us confidence and bolster our sense of self, especially during tough times. They increase our sense of purpose and belonging. And they significantly influence some of our most important behaviors. Studies have found that if you have a friend who becomes obese you are 57 percent more likely to become obese; if you have a friend who quits smoking you become 36 percent less likely to start lighting up. The flip side of this is also true: when your friends adopt healthy behaviors, like regular exercise, you become much more likely to do the same. In other words, the people with whom you surround yourself have an enormous impact on your life. In many ways, they shape it. But when it comes to what — or perhaps more accurately, who — makes a good friend, the scientific literature is sparser. Simply being in the flesh with someone does not make a lasting, meaningful relationship. Which got me thinking: what, exactly, does?
Aristotle wrote about friendships based on utility, pleasure, or virtue. I am going to leave the first two alone. That’s Trump territory.
While all three of Aristotle’s friendships can be advantageous, only those founded in virtue — and with common core values — are enduring and meaningful: “Perfect friendship is the friendship of [those] who are alike in virtue,” he wrote. “For these [individuals] wish well to each other [in all circumstances] and thus [these friendships] are good in themselves.”
To befriend Deplorables we must therefore first find common ground—shared values. This is also how we begin Truth Sandwiches.
Shared value number one is that people like to be appreciated and listened to empathetically. That is what Daryl Davis did, and what cult deprogrammers do, among others.
Steven Hassan, the author of The Cult of Trump, was a cultist himself, a Moonie (Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church). After being rescued by his family, he set himself to understand the thousands of cults that plague us, and to find the most effective methods of protecting ourselves from them, and rescuing other victims. He has written a densely packed book, with far too much genuine information for me to summarize here. Please get this book and read it, and take time to absorb and apply it. Effective deprogramming begins by building friendship and trust. The same thing works on terrorists, as in FBI practice. CIA torture just hardened their resistance.
The pretense of empathy is unfortunately the starting point for grifters, quacks, seducers, and cult leaders. But they don’t do it for real. For them it is just an act to get at some form of utility or pleasure. We, on the other hand, can insensibly lead our friends to virtue by taking them seriously while challenging them to think for themselves, just as we would do with our own children.
We are talking about people who live inside carefully-constructed shells impervious to assault from outside. We have to encourage them to break out from the inside, using their natural abilities, which no shell can destroy.
All of this is a familiar part of human culture. TV Tropes has collected a wide variety of examples, some Older than Dirt, like Gilgamesh and Enkidu, and some from centuries yet to come, like Darmok in ST:TNG.
The Power of Friendship
That’s a term from pro wrestling kayfabe, in which such events are simply acting. What we want is the real thing, like ex-slave ship Captain John Newton or Daryl Davis’s ex-KKK friends.
In Other News
Not everybody wants to have friends, of course.
x In a scathing ruling against Rupert Murdoch, Dominion was given the green light to proceed in its $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News.
Discovery could expose text & email messages between Trump WH, Fox News hosts, & Rupert Murdoch.#DemVoice1 #Fresh
https://t.co/xPzZGO2xIv — Tony 🌊 #DemVoice1 (@TonyHussein4) July 6, 2022
x A new Quinnipiac poll shows incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock jumping out to a double-digit lead over Republican challenger Herschel Walker. - @meetthepress
https://t.co/skAG43mTRw — NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) June 29, 2022
Our hpg and others will have much more political news for us.
Animals! Science! Weirdness!
Gonzo!
Muppets - Candice Bergen - Friends
x Safe baby elephant hugs to anyone who cant sleep tonight pic.twitter.com/xGAnQF6oiu — Abused into silence, a child without a voice (@HannahEHarris12) July 1, 2022
Be a friend to Planet A
x The Big Thing You Can Do for Climate Change
Bill Nye — “The Science Guy” — told the Aspen Ideas Festival that the main says the main thing you can do about climate change isn’t recycling — it’s voting.
Vote for people who support Climate efforts.🌎🐝🐺🐘🐯🐅🐝 — CatT Reigning Typo Queen🌻👑 (@typo_cat) July 5, 2022
Webb First Light images in one week more
x How do we know that 91.2% of the Sun’s atoms are hydrogen, or that exoplanet WASP-39b has water in its atmosphere? Spectroscopy! It will play a huge role in #NASAWebb science. Take a crash course to get ready for all the new discoveries to come:
https://t.co/oQPDgvGoJU pic.twitter.com/QTTZ95vs5T — Space Telescope Science Institute (@SpaceTelescope) July 5, 2022
x Additional images from yesterday's #NASAWebb Media Day at the Space Telescope Science Institute with @Astro_Pam and @Dr_ThomasZ!#UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/eJCZrjUS8q — Space Telescope Science Institute (@SpaceTelescope) June 30, 2022
You can’t have too many elephant babies.
x Baby elephants are so cute. From a young age, elephant calves love cuddles or running around with their friends. Elephants are such beautiful animals. All they want is to be loved and protected.
https://t.co/b7vZ7mO2rw pic.twitter.com/U9nE6jKmCI — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) July 5, 2022
My beloved is mine, and I am my beloved’s.
Song of Songs
x ✨ funni sea creature fact of the day ✨
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris) families tangle themselves up in kelp and hold hands when sleeping to prevent from getting separated by the waves 🦦 pic.twitter.com/Nq1mi98K8C — COLLEGE HIATUS Rasai Rui | VSlug 🐌| Vウミウシ | (@RasaiSlug) February 14, 2021
Upgraded CERN Crosses the Beams
Creates new particle combinations. Sorry, no black holes or portals to—better not say. If you can read this, they haven’t destroyed the Universe, either. I will spare you the collective weirdness about CERN out on the Web. It isn’t the right kind for a GNR.
x CERN say they have observed a new kind of "pentaquark" and the first-ever pair of "tetraquarks", adding three members to the list of new hadrons found at the LHC.
https://t.co/IHseaPgnHU — NotSoVirtual 💙 (@VirtualNot) July 5, 2022
Pentaquarks are combinations of a three-quark baryon and a quark-antiquark meson. This new one includes a strange quark. Tetraquarks are made of two mesons.
3 Tiger Cubs Born at Indianapolis Zoo
In May, but it was in the local paper yesterday.
Laura Ingraham is a Weirdo
x Cat and parrot pic.twitter.com/WaU5j5Z1Fw — Unlikely Animal Friends (@UnlikelyAnimal) July 1, 2022
x Astronomers have detected the rotation of a galaxy dating back to just 550 million years after the big bang, suggesting this baby galaxy was not an amorphous blob but rather an organized disk.
https://t.co/OqGJu6I3tk — News from Science (@NewsfromScience) July 6, 2022
x Skater Dude 😎 pic.twitter.com/HiG5heBI3r — Cute Animals (@FuryFriendsNow) July 2, 2022
Funny or Cry
Kermit the Frog Sings with the Whales - "Friendship"
x A political cartoon from the Iran Contra era that still slaps today pic.twitter.com/FmIkl0M5nE — Keeper of the Fudd-Lore (@freespeechhaver) July 5, 2022
x Clay Bennett, The Chattanooga Times Free Press @BennettCartoons pic.twitter.com/n8URaoBKgq — Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) July 5, 2022
x Why is it that when Christians want to eat shrimp and get a tattoo it's all "Jesus made a new covenant, so the Old Testament laws are over"
[Disney Alice]
But when they want to persecute gay people, it's suddenly "Leviticus this, and Deuteronomy that"?
https://t.co/Wykngh5Bbe pic.twitter.com/oGtT57LLdb — Mokurai Delusion Fighter 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 (@Mokurai) July 6, 2022
x Editorial cartoons at their best
https://t.co/aNHLvQcyoF — Bill Shapiro (@Bill_Shapiro) July 2, 2022
x Editorial Cartoons for Friday from Times Wire Services
https://t.co/RCGx0IjMQo — Tampa Bay Times (@TB_Times) July 1, 2022
The Muppet Show Singers - "Why Can't We Be Friends"
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