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print / present / slide(s) / cycle(s)

serious-break(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... pain = an unpleasant sensorial and emotional experience, associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or describe in terms of such damage ... -- ... you feel physical pain when your arm breaks, and you feel mental pain when your heart breaks ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-comedy(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... does comedy set in motion the stimulation produced analgaesia (iasp-pain.org :SPA) that cancels pain?
... electrodes / long-distance running -- in effect triggers the release of endorphins and of related neuropeptides -- called encephalins and dynorphins

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-crisis(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... chronic pain ... -- constitutes an immense invisible crisis at the center of contemporary life ...

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life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-culture(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... our culture -- the modern, western, technocratic world -- has succeeded in persuading us that pain is simply and entirely a medical problem ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-desire(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


[Marguerite Duras]: ... narrative(s) of desire ... -- the writing of contemporary women represents the imperfect recovery of speech that the male social order and the male reason have long suppressed and driven underground, forced into such outlawed spaces as witchcraft, madness and sexual transgression ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-edge(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... any experience of survival, whether of large disaster, intimate personal loss, or more indirectly, severe mental illness, involves a psychic journey to the edge of the world of being. The formulative effort is the survivor's means of return ... Robert Jay Lifton MD

socialization of evil / serious games / logic / pattern(s)

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-epidemic(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... the current epidemic of chronic pain takes place largely within a system of explanation based solely upon the mechanical assumptions of modern medicine ...

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life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-explore(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... historical meaning(s) of pain -- the mysterious process that binds human sensation to emotion, perception, language, time and place, ... -- that we must now begin to explore ... / ... pain seems the quintessential solitary experience ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-feedback(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... in this future, everything you do will be monitored ...
you will receive feedback, from the system on how you are doing.
and when behaviors beget feedback loops - you guessed it - people start to play -- Dignan (2011) cited from: exergames -- chapter 4

serious games / logic

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-future(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... new thinking ... -- ... when we learn what pain can teach us, when we apply what we learn to the arena of cultural change, may just lead us to a future worth the pain it takes to create ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-gain(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... secondary gain ... comes only at the cost of an unending conscious misery that the patient desperately wants to shed ...

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life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-gamification(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


gamification(s) -- goal(s)-feedback / motivation-discipline / reward(s)-punishment(s) / reputation-status: ... in many cases it might be not the principles but the style of gamification that arouses disgust, but after all these are targeted for a mass-audience, and does that include you ... ?

gamepocalypse / facebook / serious games

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-goal(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


[Joyce Carol Oates]: ... systematic cultivation of pain in the interest of a life goal: ... such a pain is less chosen or accepted than inseperably bound up with the combination of talent & obsession that drives some writers to write and some fighters to fight ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-humor(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


[Viktor Frankl]: humor = the soul's weapon in the fight for self-preservation -- laughter is almost inherently social and thus at the very least helps to break the psychological isolation of pain ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-ignorance(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


scratch / investigation(s) / serious games / impact(s) / decor []

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-key(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... in almost every culture, a selective anesthesia is what permits us to tolerate the intolerable ... -- [Sade]: showed us that the politics of the nervous system kead not to the sentimentalist utopia of moral reform and human fellowship, but to a tyrranous, underground system of rape, sodomy and murder ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-master(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


[Alfred de Musset]: ... man is an apprentice, pain is his master ... -- with the help of (this) additional knowledge, I am convinced, we can begin to recover some of the individual control over pain that as a culture we once possessed and too hastily gave up ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-math(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)







life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-pain(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


no pain(s) no gain(s) -- ... action(s) / energy ... ... []

crush / serious / article(s): A BL C D ? EVO H ! ... QJ X Y Z

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-pill(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... it is less our pain than our culture's. however, that draws us irresistably toward the medicine cabinet, as if pills and tablets held a kind of magnetic, eternal attraction for (our) unseen torments ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-placebo(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... the placebo response ..., it begins to appear, may be celebrated among our most effective and inexpensive defenses against the maladies of everyday life ...

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life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-point(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


[Joyce Carol Oates]: ... boxing ... takes us back to a ritualized world of action ... / tragic pain ... -- places us in touch with the primal unspoken world of the body where our answers and explanations always seem somewhat beside the point ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-power(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... hysteria -- formerly possessed the mysterious power to simulate any illness -- ... now it may have discovered its ultimate disguise and learned how to simulate the invisible omnipresent malady that passes these days for health ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-repression(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... the only way to acknowledge such disaster (... holocaust/genocide ...) at the deepest level of emotion(s) would be through repression and denial, ... self-protective, trance-like inability to feel, a culture-wide anesthesia ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-silence(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... silence ... is the natural language of chronic pain ... -- ... revolution(s) in medical thinking about pain, like a political revolution, fall(s) far short of creating an instant utopia ...

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life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-sin(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... laughter ..., according to the monk's theory, entered the world with original sin, and we know how quickly sin makes us intimately acquainted with the fun-loving, pain-filled life of the body ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-sport(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... professional athletes and dancers face injury as an almost forgone conclusion, but jogger's knees, tennis-elbows, aerobic shins, have almost turned the health and fitness boom into an unoffical pain factory ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-style(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


neurotic style(s) = the obsessive neurotic person's concern is to direct his/her slightest action(s) by general maxims and priciples as s/he replaces the need to reach his/her overall decision by the technical problems of applying general principles to the given details ... (David Shapiro)

the examined life / theme(s) / DSM

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-tear(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


[Edmund Burke]: sublime = (might be properly defined as) an aesthetics of pain -- .. the tears of sentimentalism are meant to confirm and to elicit an emotion in the human heart that contains the power ultimately to transform the world ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-theory(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... to understand the behavior of (political) actors as they pursue particular ends in an evermore complex world necessitates the construction of theoretical models that help transform vague insights into coherent and logical explanations that clarify the insights and relate them to eachother ...

game theory and politics

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-thing(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... pain like weeping is also an intellectual thing ...

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life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-trivium(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


design / in transition / serious games / mission(s) / impact(s)

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-trust(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... the famous sentimental trust in natural goodness thus drew strength from a medically reinforced belief that our bodies in effect require us to share eachothers pain ...
[Richard Selzer]: there is no more beautiful sight in the world than that of a kindly, efficient doctor engaged in the examination of the body of a fellow human being ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-vision(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


... political & visionary pain ..., no matter how alien to the dominant system of medical thought, is still actively at work in the modern world, like a neglected but potentially sacred text ...

life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

serious-write(s)

serious -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

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education(s) question(s) moral(s) rethoric(s)


[Marguerite Duras]: ... narrative(s) of desire ... -- provides an example of contributions that writers can make toward understanding maladies still resistant to the analytical lenses of medicine ...

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life(s) / closure(s) / reflect(s) / fight(s) / culture of pain

norm(s) utopia rule(s) ethic(s) answer(s) failure(s)


* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ


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