Women Stress; Christian Nationalism? Central Park Five (Wed. 7-27-22)

Science: Ladies go into imagination in stress! Al Gore pretends to protect kids! Libs pretend Christian Nationalism is bad! Central Park Five: Guilty? 

The Hake Report, Wednesday, July 27, 2022 AD: Pocket/Prevention article: "How stress hits women's brains harder — and why men don't always get it," feat. Dr. Amit Sood, the far-left American Psychological Association (APA), and a couple ladies. // Al Gore and the establishment spread fear and untrustworthy predictions, "alarmist nonsense" to get power! // INTERESTING CALL AND SUPER: What are the benefits of immigration? // Liberal "Christians" (like Rev. Marvin McMickle) supporting globo-homo "antiracist" false religion bash, strawman, and fear-monger about "Christian Nationalism"! // Correcting the record on the Central Park Five: Not quite innocent! Not quite exonerated! // 

MUSIC: "Save Me Save Me" - Xiu Xiu - The Air Force (2006, 5 Rue Christine)  // "Kicked Up Pumps" - Audionautix - YouTube Audio Library (Hassan selection) // 

JUST ONE CALLER

Art in Ohio talks common sense about cause and effect, and scare-mongering for power! // 

TIME STAMPS

• 0:00:00 Wed, Jul 27, 2022

• 0:02:14 Hey, guys! USS Liberty tee

• 0:04:44 Stress Gender Gap: Dr. Sood, APA

• 0:34:14 Women don't get along: Savannah Guthrie vs. Hoda Kotb

• 0:39:01 Al Gore and mainstream climate hysterics

• 0:47:20 ART, OH: Dishonest people using cause and effect for power

• 0:59:01 Super: Lie about benefits of immigration?

• 1:03:40 Super: Wordy Pocket article: Do Silent Prayer

• 1:04:39 "Save Me Save Me" - Xiu Xiu

• 1:07:49 Reading chat during music

• 1:12:51 Christian Nationalism: Nate Fischer, Rev. Marvin McMickle, J. Suffering

• 1:36:29 Central Park Five: Daily Wire, Townhall, WSJ

• 1:56:40 "Kicked Up Pumps" - Audionautix

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STRESS GENDER GAP

(Far-left Firefox’s extremist Pocket) How Stress Hits Women's Brains Harder—and Why Men Don't Always Get It (orig. Prevention dot com, Mar 2019, by Jenny Cook, also in East News [perhaps abridged], 2021) The gender stress gap is impacting women’s health, but there are effective ways to cope.

… even though you may be basically healthy, tension is doing its stealthy damage. The latest evidence? Researchers have linked high levels of the stress hormone cortisol to brain shrinkage and impaired memory in healthy middle-aged adults. And get this: The effect was more pronounced in women than in men. 

… Though stress affects your whole body, ground zero is your brain. … 

How Stress Affects Your Brain

Aspects of the brain’s design that served us well thousands of years ago now make us susceptible to negative emotions and mental fatigue, both of which ratchet up our stress, says Amit Sood, M.D., professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic and founder of the Mayo Clinic Resilience Program. Although our brains have evolved over time, “the speed of life today is the main stressor—it’s much faster than our brain’s ability to adapt,” he says. And that means we often end up with too little time and too few resources to address what life throws at us each day, which adds to a diminishing sense of control over our lives. Perceived lack of control has been shown to be a huge source of stress. 

In his book Mindfulness Redesigned for the Twenty-First Century, Dr. Sood describes a number of traps that frequently ensnare our brains. 

Focus Problems… Fear… Fatigue 

Why Stress Hits Women Harder Than Men

…. In an annual survey by the [far-left, globo-homo] American Psychological Association [see their website front page and Wikipedia: Positions on homosexuality], women have repeatedly reported higher levels of tension than men and sometimes even more stress-related physical and emotional symptoms, including headache, upset stomach, fatigue, irritability, and sadness. 

What’s more, midlife women have been found to experience more stressful events than both men and women of any other age, reports an ongoing study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute on Aging. Stress overload may even lead to chronic disease: Long-term pressures at home and work plus stress from traumatic events almost doubles the risk of type 2 diabetes in older women, according to a recent study at the University of California, San Francisco. Women are also more prone to stress-induced mental health problems such as depression and anxiety disorders. 

Here’s the why of it: A triple whammy makes women uniquely vulnerable to strain and pressure, says Dr. Sood. First, women’s brains make them more sensitive than men to stressors and a perceived lack of control. The limbic areas of women’s brains, which help control emotions and memories, are highly active, making them remember hurts and slights more readily. Stewing over these and having difficulty letting them go strengthens the brain circuits of those negative emotions—another example of the negativity bias at work—which also increases women’s stress.

In addition, the multiple demands of parenting and being in charge of the well-being of the household mean that women’s focus tends to be more diffuse. And an unfocused brain, as noted earlier, is another source of stress. A mom’s protective radar is always up for her kids too, which makes her sense a threat more quickly, and she’s more likely than her husband to get stuck and dwell on it, says Dr. Sood.

What Men Don't Always Get

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New studies are looking at how the genders process stress in the moment and coming up with reasons for the disconnect. Recently, using fMRI to measure brain activity, researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine found that while imagining a personalized, highly stressful event, the action- and planning-oriented parts of men’s brains were actively engaged, while women’s brains were busy visualizing and also cognitively and emotionally processing the experience.

In the second part of the study, when men and women were experiencing intense anxiety, brain regions that were active in women were inactive in men. This suggests that women tend to get caught up in processing their stress, turning it over and over in their minds and reimagining it, says Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center.

“Women cope by talking about being anxious and describing their emotions and stressors,” she says. This could put them at risk for ruminating about the issues. Men seem not to access that cognitive-processing part of their brains and “are more likely to quickly think about doing something, taking an action, as opposed to expressing their distress verbally. It’s just the difference in the way we’re wired.”

That might explain why women tend to provide emotional support to someone who is stressed, whereas men might offer advice or something tangible like money or physical help. Ironically, what both genders want is emotional support when they’re tense, says Jennifer Priem, Ph.D., associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University. So men and women who are stressed out prefer to get support from women. 

Bridging the Gender Stress Gap

Priem has found that problems arise between couples when each person has a different perception of what’s stressful. The result: When people are really tense, their partners aren’t necessarily motivated to offer support if they think, If I were in this situation, I wouldn’t consider it that big a deal. So how do you get the response you want when you need it?

Ask your partner to just listen

“That’s number one—listening to and validating the other person’s feelings,” says Sinha. “So even just saying ‘You’re really frustrated by this’ in a nonjudgmental way is validating and will ease someone’s anxiety.” GAY! 

Explain that you feel defensive when he dismisses your experience

“When a partner downplays the significance of something, the person who’s stressed may hold on to it more or feel they have to convince the other person it’s true and that they have a right to feel that way,” says Priem. “You might say, ‘I’m really upset right now, and I feel frustrated when it seems you’re making light of my feelings. It would make me feel better if you’d be more responsive to the fact that I’m upset, even if you don’t understand it.’” 

Treat yourself with compassion

“Women tend to be more self-critical about not being able to control their emotions,” says Sinha. So they may see a partner’s comment as judgmental even when he didn’t mean it that way. If that’s the case, forgive yourself and let it go—and hug it out, which can reduce tension and boost positive feelings.

Learning to negotiate conflicts is a big step in easing pressures. Also important: figuring out strategies to deal with the distractions, fears, and fatigue your brain naturally accumulates (see below for four smart ones). These can help you take stress in stride, with a terrific payoff: better health and greater happiness, plus a more resilient brain.

How to Control Stress and Calm Your Brain

To keep stress in check, you should of course be eating healthfully, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep to improve your mood, emotions, and cognition. But those are just the basics—and they’re not always easy to accomplish…. Dr. Sood has advice that can up your stress-reducing game, based on the successful resilience program he runs at the Mayo Clinic. … four…  strategies… : 

Give your brain some RUM

That stands for Rest, Uplifting emotions, and Motivation. You need all three to help energize your brain and head off fatigue. So when you’re engaged in a task, take three to five minutes every couple of hours (or sooner, if you start getting fidgety) and pause for RUM.

How-to: Get up from your computer, or stop what you’re doing, and look at photos of your kids or of your favorite vacation spot, read inspiring quotes, text or call a friend, or watch a happy short video. Choose an activity that makes you feel good and is motivating.

Begin a morning gratitude practice

Take control of your brain before it gets hijacked by the day’s concerns and greet the morning in a happier, more connected frame of mind. (Check out these simple ways to practice gratitude.)

How-to: When you first wake up, before you get out of bed, spend a few minutes thinking of some people who care about you and silently send them your gratitude. Another reason it’s a good idea: A recent study found that anticipating a stressful day when you first wake up affects your working memory later that day—even if nothing stressful actually happens. (Working memory is what helps you learn things and retain them even when you’re distracted.)

Be mindfully present

Meditation is a great stress reliever, but not everyone can sit still, looking inward, for 20-plus minutes. Good news for the fidgety: Research has shown that focusing your attention outward engages the same brain network, so you can get similar stress-easing benefits by consciously giving the world your attention.

How-to: Challenge yourself to be curious and notice details—the color of the barista’s eyes at the coffee shop, the pattern of your boss’s necktie, which flowers are blooming in your neighborhood. Curiosity feeds the brain’s reward network, which makes you feel good; it also augments memory and learning.

Focus on kindness

Even the nicest among us are quick to judge others, especially if they’re different from us (thank the amygdala, a region of the brain that interprets difference as a threat).

How-to: To calm the amygdala, focus on two things when you’re feeling judgy about someone: that every person is special, and that everyone has struggles. Start a practice of sending silent good wishes to people you pass on the street or in the halls at work. The benefits for you: Your oxy­tocin, the hormone of connectedness, rises; your heart rate slows; and you feel more benevolent. All of which makes you healthier and happier. 

WOMEN DON’T GET ALONG(?)

Gossip: (Far-left Twitter) Today show host Hoda Kotb shares cryptic quote after 'secret reason' behind clash with co-host Savannah Guthrie exposed by insider / Twitter 

AL GORE LIKENS CLIMATE PROCRASTINATION TO UVALDE POLICE

[A LITTLE BIT OLD NEWS BUT…] Don’t procrastinate! Be afraid NOW! Be anxious! Be impatient (like Obama said on NowThis)! 

Clinton’s VP the loser, came out with a movie “an inconvenient truth” 

He said climate deniers or something are like the Uvalde police officers who ppl are claiming let kids die (I’m not so sure, doesn’t sound like the whole truth anyway)... 

(RichardWByers) List of hysterical claims over the decades… 

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM BAD

Dec 2020 tweet thread: Nate Fischer on Twitter: 

“Christian nationalism” is the boogeyman du jour to a certain class of evangelical influencer. Though their stated complaints center on recent election-related matters, these critics intentionally frame the real issue as this supposedly sinister concept. 1/6 / Twitter 

The definition is typically left vague, but some evangelical influencers seem to associate it with almost any suggestion that Christians should defend America’s national interest and seek to see political decisions informed by Christian concepts of truth and justice. 2/6

These critics decry this as a quest for “Christian power,” but are less clear what alternative they prefer—they talk of respecting “norms” and “expertise,” and promoting forms of justice that align with secular priorities and preserve “unity” and “Christian witness.”  3/6

The exercise of power is inherent to any political action (no matter how polite). Yet evangelical influencers do not explain why populist efforts are problematic attempts to gain “Christian power,” while establishment-aligned Christian political “engagement” is laudable. 4/6

Re nationalism: @aaron_renn observed that these evangelical influencers express endless love and concern for “the city,” but get oddly uncomfortable if Christians express the same love for or desire to promote the interests of the nation. 5/6 

YOUTUBE VIDEO: We Should Love our Cities More Than Our Nation - Love Your City, Not Your Country #8 - Clips (The Aaron Ren Show) Description: Why is there a push to love our cities more than our nation? We identify with our cities, and we're pushed into it.  

Broadly these evangelical influencers seem to lack a clear conception of the “Christian nationalism” they decry, and of why—besides aligning with cultural elites—their advocacy for “justice” and “the city” differs from support for Christian values and America’s interests. 6/6

OP-ED: Christian nationalism is an oxymoron: Marvin A. McMickle - cleveland.com (Jul 22, 2022)

(The Rev. Marvin A. McMickle is pastor emeritus of Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland and retired president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York.) 

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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican [female], recently gave voice to this movement when she asserted that, “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church,” adding in her June 26 comments at a church two days before Colorado’s primary elections, “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk.”

Boebert correctly observed that the actual phrase, “separation of church and state,” does not appear in the Constitution. She stated that the phrase was contained in what she called “a stinking letter.” What she was referring to was the 1802 letter sent to a group of Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut, by then-President Thomas Jefferson, in which he spoke of Americans’ determination, in adopting the Bill of Rights in 1791, to build “a wall of separation between Church & State.”

What the congresswoman (sic) either did not know or failed to consider is how the First Amendment to the Constitution, part of that Bill of Rights, enshrines the concept of separation of church and state in two specific ways.

First, is the phrase: “Congress shall pass no law respecting the establishment of religion.” That means that, unlike many of the countries in Europe at that time, there would be no favored or preferred religion, denomination, or church in the United States. (NO, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT!) No person would be forced to affirm any religious belief against their will under penalty of loss of job, or even loss of personal liberty. (NOBODY CARES ABOUT THAT.) Neither would citizens have their tax dollars used to support a religion of which they were not a member. (DUH!) In short, the government would not support any one religious tradition over another. (NOT TRUE.) NONE OF THAT CHANGES WHAT SHE SAID! 

The second clause in the First Amendment concerning religion says, “nor prohibit the free exercise thereof.” The government does not instruct any religious community what its practices must be. Just as important, the free exercise clause also means that people are perfectly free to declare no religious faith whatsoever. (NOBODY CARES.) 

The congresswoman (sic) and all other Christian nationalists also seem unaware of or uninterested in Article VI, Section 3 of the Constitution, that states, “no religious Test shall ever be required as Qualification to any Office or public Tust (sic) under the United States.” 

Christian nationalists hold a quite different view. They insist that their religious beliefs must inform public policy for the entire country on everything from immigration to abortion rights, human sexuality, foreign policy, gun ownership, and every matter that has long been sheltered by the right to privacy. (WHAT? THIS MAN DOESN’T MAKE SENSE… WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? TYPICAL BLACK PREACHER!)  

Not only is Christian nationalism a bad political philosophy (HOW?), but it is also faulty Christian theology, asserting that God has some special bond with the United States (HUH?). Christian nationalism seeks to take a worldwide religious faith centered in the love and grace of God, and in concern for one’s neighbors and for the neediest among us, and wrench that faith into an ideology that presumes that an extremely conservative group of persons can impose their political agenda on the nation and the world. (PROJECTION!) 

There can be no such thing as “Christian nationalism,” because the God such persons claim to represent is discussed in the Bible as the architect and creator of every nation. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” says Genesis 1. “The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world and all who live in it” says Psalm 24. God’s favorite hymn is not “God Bless America.” It is “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands!” (INCLUDING AMERICA! DUH!) 

JEFF BETTGER: CHRISTIAN ANARCHIST

My teenage hero, Jeff Suffering from 90lb. Wuss, I believe is a Christian anarchist, talked about this. A liberal! (Maybe he’d differ with the liberal label.) 

(Facebook)  Jeff Suffering shared this article, saying: I do agree. Christian Nationalism is not coherent with the message of the Gospel. I would go one step further and say that because of this unholy alliance of nationalism and Christianity it is fundamentally done in the Spirit of Anti-Christ. People who practice this type of religion are decieved and actually antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.  

Some guy commented: Can we also call it idolatrous AND syncretistic?

Jeff responded: I think it is automatically that by being a spirit of Anti-Christ.

CENTRAL PARK FIVE / NOW 'EXONERATED' FIVE?!

(TheSkimm Tuesday 7/26/22) Who’s seeing the record "corrected"… Steven Lopez. Yesterday [Monday], a co-defendant of the Central Park Five — now called the Exonerated Five (BY WHO??) — was cleared of a related conviction. Lopez is considered the “forgotten“ sixth co-defendant of the group of [b]lack and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a jogger in NYC in 1989. But in 2002, evidence linked the attack to someone else. Collectively, the five men served close to 45 years in prison before their convictions were overturned. 

Lopez pleaded guilty to robbing another jogger in order to avoid a rape charge and served more than three years in prison before being released in the ‘90s. His lawyer called what happened to Lopez a “profound injustice” and an “American tragedy.” Lopez only had two words: “Thank you.” 

WERE THEY EXONERATED? UHHHH, NO…? I’VE COVERED THIS BEFORE

I covered this in 2019, probably because of this, or just before: The Central Park Five: ‘We Were Just Baby Boys’ - The New York Times 

(BASED Daily Wire, Oct 9, 2016, Aaron Bandler) 7 Things You Need To Know About The Central Park Jogger Case | (Archive | Wayback)  

REFERENCED: (BASED Town Hall, Aug 10, 2014, Jack Kerwick) Lies Surrounding 'the Central Park Jogger' Case | (Archive) 

REFERENCED: (BASED WSJ, Jul 29, 2014) Michael F. Armstrong: Persistent Myths in the Central Park Jogger Case: Time for a reality check as New York prepares to award the defendants $40 million. | (Archive) 

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