Armageddun Loc: The show me state

Iliamna1

We have become a nation of moonatics.

Auntie Dee

MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO ME!

Smedley_buzkill

The problem is that more than 90% of the asylum seekers don't qualify, and KNOW it. They simply disappear. Less than half show up for their court appearance. They do NOT have a right to flaunt this country's laws and take advantage of our generosity.

Mikeyavelli

As a bartender I can attest to that. Full moon brought out the crazies.

Singularity

This is actually in my area of training and expertise. It is a very common belief/assertion.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lunacy-and-the-full-moon/

“It is the very error of the moon.
She comes more near the earth
than she was wont. And makes
men mad.”
—William Shakespeare, Othello

ACROSS THE CENTURIES, many a person has uttered the phrase “There must be a full moon out there” in an attempt to explain weird happenings at night. Indeed, the Roman goddess of the moon bore a name that remains familiar to us today: Luna, prefix of the word “lunatic.” Greek philosopher Aristotle and Roman historian Pliny the Elder suggested that the brain was the “moistest” organ in the body and thereby most susceptible to the pernicious influences of the moon, which triggers the tides. Belief in the “lunar lunacy effect,” or “T***sylvania effect,” as it is sometimes called, persisted in Europe through the Middle Ages, when humans were widely reputed to t***smogrify into werewolves or vampires during a full moon.

Even today many people think the mystical powers of the full moon induce erratic behaviors, psychiatric hospital admissions, suicides, homicides, emergency room calls, traffic accidents, fights at professional hockey games, dog bites and all manner of strange events. One survey revealed that 45 percent of college students believe moonstruck humans are prone to unusual behaviors, and other surveys suggest that mental health professionals may be still more likely than laypeople to hold this conviction. In 2007 several police departments in the U.K. even added officers on full-moon nights in an effort to cope with presumed higher crime rates.


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Water at Work?
Following Aristotle and Pliny the Elder, some contemporary authors, such as Miami psychiatrist Arnold Lieber, have conjectured that the full moon’s supposed effects on behavior arise from its influence on water. The human body, after all, is about 80 percent water, so perhaps the moon works its mischievous magic by somehow disrupting the alignment of water molecules in the nervous system.

But there are at least three reasons why this explanation doesn’t “hold water,” pardon the pun. First, the gravitational effects of the moon are far too minuscule to generate any meaningful effects on brain activity, let alone behavior. As the late astronomer George Abell of the University of California, Los Angeles, noted, a mosquito sitting on our arm exerts a more powerful gravitational pull on us than the moon does. Yet to the best of our knowledge, there have been no reports of a “mosquito lunacy effect.” Second, the moon’s gravitational force affects only open bodies of water, such as oceans and lakes, but not contained sources of water, such as the human brain. Third, the gravitational effect of the moon is just as potent during new moons—when the moon is invisible to us—as it is during full moons.

There is a more serious problem for fervent believers in the lunar lunacy effect: no evidence that it exists. Florida International University psychologist James Rotton, Colorado State University astronomer Roger Culver and University of Saskatchewan psychologist Ivan W. Kelly have searched far and wide for any consistent behavioral effects of the full moon. In all cases, they have come up empty-handed. By combining the results of multiple studies and treating them as though they were one huge study—a statistical procedure called meta-analysis—they have found that full moons are entirely unrelated to a host of events, including crimes, suicides, psychiatric problems and crisis center calls. In their 1985 review of 37 studies entitled “Much Ado about the Full Moon,” which appeared in one of psychology’s premier journals, Psychological Bulletin, Rotton and Kelly humorously bid adieu to the full-moon effect and concluded that further research on it was unnecessary.

Persistent critics have disagreed with this conclusion, pointing to a few positive findings that emerge in scattered studies. Still, even the handful of research claims that seem to support full-moon effects have collapsed on closer investigation. In one study published in 1982 an author team reported that traffic accidents were more frequent on full-moon nights than on other nights. Yet a fatal flaw marred these findings: in the period under consideration, full moons were more common on weekends, when more people drive. When the authors reanalyzed their data to eliminate this confounding factor, the lunar effect vanished.

Where Belief Begins
So if the lunar lunacy effect is merely an astronomical and psychological urban legend, why is it so widespread? There are several probable reasons. Media coverage almost surely plays a role. Scores of Hollywood horror flicks portray full-moon nights as peak times of spooky occurrences such as stabbings, shootings and psychotic behaviors.


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Perhaps more important, research demonstrates that many people fall prey to a phenomenon that University of Wisconsin–Madison psychologists Loren and Jean Chapman termed “illusory correlation”—the perception of an association that does not in fact exist. For example, many people who have joint pain insist that their pain increases during rainy weather, although research disconfirms this assertion. Much like the watery mirages we observe on freeways during hot summer days, illusory correlations can fool us into perceiving phenomena in their absence.

Illusory correlations result in part from our mind’s propensity to attend to—and recall—most events better than nonevents. When there is a full moon and something decidedly odd happens, we usually notice it, tell others about it and remember it. We do so because such co-occurrences fit with our preconceptions. Indeed, one study showed that psychiatric nurses who believed in the lunar effect wrote more notes about patients’ peculiar behavior than did nurses who did not believe in this effect. In contrast, when there is a full moon and nothing odd happens, this nonevent quickly fades from our memory. As a result of our selective recall, we erroneously perceive an association between full moons and myriad bizarre events.

Still, the illusory correlation explanation, though probably a crucial piece of the puzzle, does not account for how the full-moon notion got started. One intriguing idea for its origins comes to us courtesy of psychiatrist Charles L. Raison, now at Emory University, and several of his colleagues. According to Raison, the lunar lunacy effect may possess a small kernel of t***h in that it may once have been genuine. Raison conjectures that before the advent of outdoor lighting in modern times, the bright light of the full moon deprived people who were living outside—including many who had severe mental disorders—of sleep. Because sleep deprivation often triggers erratic behavior in people with certain psychological conditions, such as bipolar disorder (formerly called manic depression), the full moon may have been linked to a heightened rate of bizarre behaviors in long-bygone eras. So the lunar lunacy effect is, in Raison and his colleagues’ terms, a “cultural fossil.”

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We may never know whether this ingenious explanation is correct. But in today’s world at least, the lunar lunacy effect appears to be no better supported than is the idea that the moon is made of green cheese.

This article was originally published with the title "Facts & Fictions in Mental Health: Lunacy and the Full Moon" in SA Mind 20, 1, 64 (February 2009)

doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0209-64

(Further Reading)

Much Ado about the Full Moon: A Meta-analysis of Lunar-Lunacy Research. James Rotton and Ivan W. Kelly in Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 97, No. 2, pages 286–306; March 1985.
The Moon and Madness Reconsidered. Charles L. Raison, Haven M. Klein and Morgan Steckler in Journal of Affective Disorders, Vol. 53, No. 1, pages 99–106; April 1999.
P***********e and the Paranormal. Second edition. Terence Hines. Prometheus Books, 2003.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
SCOTT O. LILIENFELD and HAL ARKOWITZ serve on the board of advisers for Scientific American Mind. Lilienfeld is a psychology professor at Emory University and Arkowitz is a psychology professor at the University of Arizona.

Radiance3

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Effects of the changes of the face of the crescent moon.
The Muslims symbol of worship.

Changes on he moon's faces affect people behavior, nature, the earth, and animals.
Example:
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moons-people-crazy-12157

The Moon affects the tides because of gravity. ... This is because the Earth's gravity is pulling you back down. The Earth's spinning means that another high tide occurs on the opposite side of the Earth to the Moon. The Moon has gravity of its own, which pulls the oceans (and us).

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moons-people-crazy-12157
Do Full Moons Make People Crazy? ..... The full moon most definitely turns my partner into a “lunatic” and has done for the 30 years that we've been together.

Animals affected by full moon.
Most pet owners will tell you that the full moon definitely has an effect on their pets' behavior. Dogs, like their ancestors the wolves, are known to howl at the moon when it's full. Cats tend to hide. Birds become agitated and sometimes even disoriented.

Often times, I don't believe on many psychologists theory. On my observations, I think they appear to behave lunatics too.

Mikeyavelli

Must be a full moon...

bggamers Loc: georgia

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

You aren't alone at all. For i******s...

Mikeyavelli

What I don't like is that all of Washington DC gives the Mueller report and the ongoing c**p all the legality and dignity and urgency that they can muster. Each and every one, save for maybe 5 Trump loyalists. All the rest are complicit, sympathetic, and hell bent to remove Trump from office.
That's why nothing gets done by Trump. It would strengthen America too much. They all, kommiecrats and Rinos, stand in his way.
Keep Trump, throw the rest out and get American Patriots into government.

sisboombaa

Mikeyavelli

Rah, rah rah, 👍👍👍👍🇺🇸😉

Larai Loc: Fallon, NV

🇺🇸

CounterRevolutionary

According to our border guards, some 130 different nationalities have been arrested crossing our southern border just within the past year:

ISIS, al Qaeda, Hesbollah, HAMAS, MS13, FARC, ODESSA, the Peruvian Shining Path, and Mexican drug cartels, Croatian Utashi, Ukranian neo-n**i Bandera gangs, Bosnian terrorists, Afghan Pashtun and Pakistani Taliban; human sex traffickers, not to mention the Russian Mafia like c*******t Mikhail Khodorkovsky's "Open Russia" camped out in the sanctuary city of San Francisco trying to topple the new Russian Federation. Judicial Watch has been reporting on this for years!

List of United States i*********n l*ws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_immigration_laws
(this is a very long list since 1787, so only the newest are below)

I*********n l*ws CURRENTLY ON THE BOOKS from Wikipedia which are quite sufficient. These laws are not being enforced by the DOJ or Attorney General William Barr. WHY?

2002
Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act
Provided for more Border Patrol agents.
Requires that schools report foreign students attending classes.
Stipulates that foreign nationals in the US will be required to carry IDs with biometric technology.[19]

2002
Homeland Security Act of 2002
Moved all t***sportation, customs, immigration, and border security agencies to operate under the Department of Homeland Security.
Requires agencies to share information and coordinate efforts in relation to national security and border control.
Stipulates which agencies are responsible for which duties in relation to immigration and border security.
Outlines specific requirements on handling of children in immigration and border issues.

2005
REAL ID Act
Required use of IDs meeting certain security standards to enter government buildings, board planes, open bank accounts.
Created more restrictions on political asylum
Severely curtailed habeas corpus relief for immigrants
Increased immigration enforcement mechanisms
Altered judicial review
Established national standards for state driver licenses.
Cleared the way for the building of border barriers.