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Just as the positive (+) and negative (−) electrical charges attract each other, the N and S poles of a magnet attract each other.
In electricity like charges repel, and in magnetism like poles repel.
While face-to-face social connectedness is strongly associated with well-being, it's not clear what happens when those interactions happen virtually. To investigate, Primack and his colleagues surveyed 1,787 U.S. adults ages 19 to 32 and asked them about their usage of 11 social media platforms outside of work. The survey also gauged social isolation by asking participants questions such as how often they felt left out. (As will happen in this type of survey, people may have lowballed their estimates of media use.)
It turns out that the people who reported spending the most time on social media — more than two hours a day — had twice the odds of perceived social isolation than those who said they spent a half hour per day or less on those sites. And people who visited social media platforms most frequently, 58 visits per week or more, had more than three times the odds of perceived social isolation than those who visited fewer than nine times per week. The study appeared Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
originally posted by: ARM1968
You can amass $50 million through various means which neither imply greed or selfishness.
originally posted by: ARM1968
And unfortunately you could give a 1000 have nots $1 million each and after a year or so some would have considerably more and others would be broke again. It's the way of the world.
originally posted by: ARM1968
Altruism though is something different. You can argue that being an altruistic billionaire is easier than one who only has a few thousand in the bank. But think what a wonderful life this would be if we all helped each other and didn't look up or down at anyone over their financial status.
originally posted by: toysforadults
The duality of this plane of existence is known to many. In fact it is a major part of our "science" otherwise known as negative and positively charges particles.
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Krazysh0t
Dualism denotes the state of two parts. The term dualism was originally coined to denote co-eternal binary opposition, a meaning that is preserved in metaphysical and philosophical duality discourse ...
Fits my OP exactly.