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It’s called the “Sunk-cost Fallacy.” Definition: The Sunk-cost Fallacy is the phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial. It causes irrational decisions by focusing on irretrievable costs, commonly known as …
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You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a land whose boundaries are that of imagination. You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone. In order to get the reference, you have to be old enough both to have seen the 60s TV …
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Barney: Welcome back to the show, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Author, pastor, activist, and martyr. Bonhoeffer: Thank you. Glad to be here. Barney: We left our discussion last week comparing your historical context with our hysterical one––hysterical, not in the sense of humorous, but as in bizarre, even manic. Everyday we 21st Century Americans wake up to some new whacky thing our president …
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“Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity? No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.” (Psalm 58:1-2) To date, the Trump administration has unleashed at least 17 strikes against boats suspected of transporting drugs, killing more than 70 people. They claim the …
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