#motivation and behavior

[pier-carlo-universe]

Uzbekistan: Motivazione ed efficacia didattica nella psicologia pedagogica"

Abstract. Questo articolo studia la motivazione interna ed esterna degli studenti nel processo educativo, il loro atteggiamento verso le loro attività educative e il loro impatto sui loro risultati. Evidenzia inoltre l’impatto delle moderne tecnologie educative sulla motivazione e il ruolo degli insegnanti in questo processo. Introduzione Innanzitutto, è opportuno comprendere il concetto di…

[charlesoberonn]

The "No True Scotsman" fallacy should be renamed to the "No True Christian" fallacy based on how often I see Christians (both progressive Christians and conservative/evangelical Christians) use it to claim other Christians shouldn't count because they're doing Christianity wrong.

[eat-a-handful-of-bees]

Someone tell Brian Murphy that he needs to stop. The entire Dimension 20 team needs to stop airing Cloudward, ho. The gay people in my phone won’t stop barking for Maxwell (which is so understandable. He is a very attractive gay man). I’m worried that if we see anymore of Maxwell the barking and swooning will have dire consequences.

For my safety and everyone else’s it would be best if they just gave me Maxwell to hold onto until everyone has calmed down.

[theskeletongames]

He has 0 standards besides not being kids and his bro

Toriel has beat his ass many times... She probably mentions he was such a nice boy when there was a wall between them... He's looking for humans in specific, because he's not into the idea of not knowing and being a human virgin...

Too bad he's, uh... horrible at understanding appropriate human culture, or just human culture in general.

[sweethysteria]

please, Lord

[sforzesco]

you know what. I've overlooked the potential that cassius-caesar has for drama with some real bite to it. caesar was playing these men like a keyboard.

Now that there were several praetor­ships to be had, it was expected that the one of greatest dignity, that is, the praetor­ship of the city, would fall either to Brutus or to Cassius; and some say that the two men, who were already slightly at variance for other reasons, were still more estranged by this circumstance, although they were relatives, since Cassius was the husband of Junia, a sister of Brutus. But others say that this rivalry was the work of Caesar, who secretly favoured the hopes of each until, thus induced and incited, they entered into competition with one another

Plutarch, Brutus

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[solarcapitan]

People who try to get Cats to make sense are missing the point. All the nitpicking about "oh but what IS a Jellicle cat, the opening number is vauge and confusing--" It's supposed to be! The unspecific and fantastical allusions in the Jellicle Songs prologue create a purposeful air of mysticism around the Jellicles because cats for centuries have been associated with mystery, witchcraft, granduer. The original book of poems was all about imagining what fantastical and creative things outdoor cats were doing when they were out of the house. Even in the house cats do weird inexplicable things we can't understand, and the musical embraces that sense of confusion because it is the perfect breeding ground for fantastical storytelling. Obviously the sensuality of Cats removes some of the inherent childishness of this concept, but the musical still manages to retain that not exactly child-like but proudly primitive sense of wonder that comes with any kind of anthropormorphization.

[dreams-of-void]

"oh Jason fought Tim in Titans tower because he didn't want any child to be a vigilante after how he ended up" sometimes what you guys want is just Joey Wilson.

[gayofthefae]

I just posted this but literally the way Mike doesn't act like he and Will are together and he doesn't act like they're going to be and he doesn't act like they're grey area

He acts like they were.

The fights' whole "I moved on and you didn't" act. Because, honestly, that's what it gives. Not "I think we're friends and you don't". "I found someone new and you didn't".

And I stand by what I said about him fully expecting the Snow Ball to result in both of them having girlfriends and taking it as a go-ahead.

Mike does not act like they're best friends with tension like other shows or like season 2 Jonathan and Nancy or like Joyce and Hopper.

NO LITERALLY CONFIRMED. BECAUSE JUST THINK ABOUT THE SEASON 4 BYLER ST@NCY PARALLELS.

A FUCKING ACTUAL EX-FLAME.

Yeah. The writers mean it that way.

Mike and Will aren't friends to lovers. They're exes who don't know how to broach the topic of getting back together. But also...they're unspoken exes. So there's that.

[conneronpav2]

Red version

[catenary-chad]

Slick: “Average person eats a credit card worth of plastic a week” factoid actualy statistical error. I, Microplastics Georg, who live in an oil refinery adn eat 10,000 credit cards worth of plastic each week, am an outlier who should not have been counted.

[demodraws0606]

Guys...I think Whit is the culprit.

Sorry guys this is gonna be a long one

You know I'm a big believe of Whit mastermind theory and depending on how the trial goes he could still be the mastermind despite being the culprit but uhm...

Mf has like an 80 pourcent chance of being the culprit

My theory of Levi being the culprit kinda has went down the drain though i'm not really that upset about it because it was admitidely the most generic route.

I still do not buy for a second Eden is the culprit mainly because it contradicts a lot of her behaviors and also is only really based on one piece of evidence that could be explained by something else.

I think the most credible option to me right now, is Whit, especially because with how certain things are laid out for us we can actually make out a concrete motive for why Whit would do this.

I'm gonna write down what I think and explain why I believe Whit is most likely the culprit (also i'll deal with a couple of holes and explain why the theory still works alongside them) and also i'll use a couple of speculations made by other people as well

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I think it's known by everyone that the way Whit's secret was revealed is extremely strange, for like two reasons.

One, it means that it's impossible for anyone (including Whit himself, we'll get into that later) to have known what Whit's secret was, or to confirm it with certainty in the trial. We only have Whit's word for it.

Second, Whit takes a very strange amount of time until saying what secret he has, like right after Hu denied to say which secret she has. Which is extremely weird because if his life was so uneventful wouldn't he have managed to pick out a secret as blatant as this.

I thought this would be meant as a red herring to put suspicions on Whit however with Levi revealing his secret and this loose thread still not being addressed, I think it has to be important to the case at hand.

Now, despite people pointing this out every analysis that tries to handle this kinda goes into a brick wall because it immediatly assumes that Whit is lying about the dead mother secret being his. However there's too much pointing towards Whit having the dead mom secret.

No, I think we're going about this the wrong way. It's not about us not knowing what Whit's secret was, it's that Whit had no idea what secret actually was his

In fact that's mentionned before trial on how Whit just didn't know WHAT his secret even was, and no one could really tell him what it was because Rose threw it away

But that's weird right ? You would think Whit would know that his dead mother would be the likely secret, you could argue he just didn't want to share with everyone but that still doesn't explain the strange amount of time until he revealed he had Rose's secret.

And if he didn't want to share that his mom was dead, why did he let everyone the opportunity to say if they had his secret and to spill the beans...

Unless things are more complicated than just Whit having a dead mom, after all if it was just that wouldn't he have known immediatly that was his secret ? After all Teruko had the same issue as well as she didn't know what her secret could actually even be.

You could argue that I put my back against the wall here. If Whit not knowing his secret was his motive as to why he commited the murder then why did he let a bunch of people the opportunity to air out a potentially incriminating secret. Wouldn't that mean he wasn't worried about it ?

However, you have to keep in mind Whit had no idea how bad the secrets were, the only secrets that was revealed was J's which in retrospect of other secrets seemed like a much lighter one.

You could argue "Well Whit had David's secret which was pretty bad" however despite how bad that secret was it was also very vague and since Whit didn't know how much about David it doesn't really mean much on how deep the secrets were.

Considering Whit's personality as well, it was possible he was in denial or some deeper reason as to why he wasn't thinking about it. "Bitter things need to go down the drain" and all that.

In fact Whit was one of the first ones to say they shouldn't reveal their secret before J's secret was immediatly revealed.

I also don't think Whit being in denial has to be rooted in logic either (especially with how inconcistent he seems to be about the secrets), the murder was commited right before the deadline and although there was planning behind it, it was still a last minute decision (aka not done immediatly during the day of the motive reveal). You could argue pressure got to him or he overthought it as it became increasingly clear how much deeper the secrets went and how much the people who set this game up knew about them (something Whit investigated himself).

I think the way Whit acted about the secrets is too contradictory to really use any of what he says as actual evidence against the secrets not being his motive basically.

Now, let's go into the other point and how it works with the potential motive, the speculation that Arei was waterboarded.

Yeah, this seems to hint heavily that this is what happened and Arei's actual cause of death would be by drowning instead of strangulation like expected.

But why not strangulation ?? Why do a technique that is much harder to kill Arei, unless they were trying to get something out of drowning her. I mean we don't technically know if it was actual waterboarding but considering how planned this murder was and how we do actually have pieces of clothing that would serve for waterboarding, it seems to be likely.

(I'm not exactly sure how it stuck together with the starch afterwards but considering how the playground's ventilation works it's possible it dried up quickly) (There's also Arei's missing glove if you don't believe Teruko and Hu's clothing where used for it)

There's also no reason to drown her instead of strangling her with the rope unless there was another justification for it. But the episode actively goes out of it's way to say that there probably wasn't an attempt at tricking people into thinking the murder happened during 7:30 PM.

Anyways, why would the culprit waterboard Arei then ??? Clearly this means they were trying to get information out of her...

Which makes 0 sense unless it was Whit who would at least have a small justification for it, aka him not knowing what his secret is. I do admit it is a bit blurry on what type of information Whit would've truly wanted or why he did this before just killing her. However out of anyone (that already isn't pretty much confirmed innocent) it would only make sense for it to be him.

Now onto other stuff unrelated to the secret thing, like how unhelpful Whit has been this trial to a suspicious degree. AKA :

-Trying to distract away from the letter framing Eden and then just throwing her under the bus immediatly when he's questioned about it.

-Refusing to reveal David's secret

-Coincidentally having an excuse for not seeing Arei's body swaying

Now all of these could be argued to be in character reasons, after all didn't he do something like that chapter 1 with Charles (kind of). However this is a new level of trial interferance that really isn't justifiable at a certain point.

You could argue "well wouldn't talking about the note and David's secret be useful to make them seem guilty"' and while that'd be right to an extent. However everytime Whit witholds something like with Eden and David, he seems to cave eventually so the only thing he has achieved in this trial so far is to stall for time. Which could potentially be intentional if he's the culprit.

Now that I've kinda covered the major points, here are a list of suspicious things, mostly things that Whit knew before I get to my final point (how this would fit the narrative this chapter).

(I do wanna say most of this things isn't technically necessary info that the culprit needed to know but it definitely helps).

Whit was present during Teruko and Hu changing, meaning he would have known about their old clothes and could have found out where to get them.

Whit was present during the fight in the cafeteria, which is when Arei demanded to have her rope thrown away leading to Mono-TV putting it in storage

(Eden was busy helping J and Arturo so only Teruko, Charles and Whit could've known this information by listening in)

Whit also is the reason David is in the relaxation room leading to his conversation with Arei although idk how much of that would even possibly be planned or how that would help him, still important to note though.

There is probably more I could say however I want to get to my last point, I do think Whit being the culprit fits this case more than anyone else.

I know the question of the tape is still unanswered, if Eden did take it wouldn't that mean she is the culprit ? Well I don't think so but overall I just don't think this one singular piece of evidence is enough to say Eden's the culprit especially if we look at the bigger picture.

I'm probably just repeating the same things people probably have heard already but Eden committing such a gruesome murder for pratically no motive at all (outside getting out but it would make the secret motive useless) just doesn't really make sense.

However it is true that from what the title of this chapter suggests "all that glitters (is not gold)", it would mean a character isn't as innocent/good as they seem.

But wouldn't that title make more sense with Whit ?

Eden and Whit both are seemingly the positive vibes character of the cast, both being seemingly "normal". However Whit's positivity is a lot more toxic than Eden's, cracking jokes at innapropriate time and seeming to not let himself show even negative emotions (contrary to Eden who has let herself be upset multiple times).

Narratively speaking, Whit being the culprit, would put Charles in a similar situation to Teruko perhaps deepening their bond further without having Teruko going through a regression arc (she was way closer to Eden than she was with Whit).

It would allow Eden's message to not be lost/contradicted while also going with the apparent theme of the chapter that things aren't as they seem.

And also "all that glitters is not gold" would be a very smart saying for Whit, the one who died his hair blond (would be a very fun double meaning)

[epiphainie]

we've seen buck get jealous and be possessive with friends and family but we've never seen him do that with a love interest so i think tommy kinard should have that honor and buck should be getting reallyyy upset about him fucking someone else idk

[toffeebrews]

Killer would put collars on his gaster blasters and name them like his cats.

[starlightswait]

moral scrupulosity is literally SO funny if you think about it

bc it's literally like "btw you're a monster and a terrible person if you don't approach literally every single situation with kindness care compassion and nuance no matter the context and any misstep no matter how small you make means you don't care. but also if you do that it doesn't even matter because you're just doing it so you can feel like a good person so it's selfish and you're still terrible."

like you literally (and i use this word a lot but i mean it here; it is IMPOSSIBLE that's the POINT) cannot win and once you zoom out and look at it that way it's like oh!!! this literally doesn't help anyone!! least of all me! what's the point what's the point!! (the point is literally just self-psychological torture btw hdoshsuhsh. it's hard to realize but once you do it's like. oh.)

and i know it sounds sarcastic to say it's funny and it is a little. but it also kind of is like. when you can look it from a more objective viewpoint it's like ???? "i fear the logic isn't there."

and honestlyyy. honestlyyyyy. i agree that more people need to learn what moral scrupulosity is and take Steps because it is wayyy more common than people realize. you do not have to have ocd to be struggling with it. like. diagnositc criteria and labels can be beneficial but they're really just there to put a name and potential options for treatment based on what's worked in the past to collections of thought and behavioral patterns. and honestly i can't speak to everywhere but in the us at least i honest-to-god believe moral scrupolosity is something societally enforced in ways it's hard to see unless you know what it is and what to look for. free yourself <333