Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm syndrome is a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express adulation and have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims.
Came across this term while getting some extended reading on hostage psychology. It is such an interesting phenomenon which has been consistently demonstrated in a series of kidnapping events. Well, as I previously mentioned, human emotion may partly (at least what I believe) be generated via a sequence of subconscious reflex neuroendocrine responses -
祈禱心理學
首先，神既是全知，便早已知道你要向祂說些甚麼；你知道祂已知道，卻還是要說，每次也是如此，只要你想一想，
嚴禁攝影
Faux pas
On a lovely August day, I received a card from my patient's family. This reminded me of that patient's recent bleeding complication after colonoscopy at another hospital. His wife requested me to speak to his surgeon. I did. His surgeon told me what happened, cautiously remarking that bleeding was under control
Lifeisaprayer.com ranked in top .25% of all websites!
Due almost exclusively to the Articles section of this website, it seems that Lifeisaprayer.com (this website) ranks at number 422,290 of approximately 180,000,000 websites on the Internet (according to Alexa).
The most popular content on the site, by a very large margin, are the following articles:
The Feast of St. Louis IX, King of France
The Archdiocese of St. Louis is celebrating the feast of its patron saint today, St. Louis IX. Saint Louis was a very generous man, always giving to the poor, helping charitable organizations and religious orders, and generally being the kind of king who tries to please God rather than man.
You can read more about the feast of St. Louis IX (and about the man himself) on the Archdiocese of St. Louis' website.
Column in the Review: Catholics should be leaders in online communications
I recently had the first of, I hope, many columns on Catholic online evangelization in the St. Louis Review . I will post the column here for archival purposes, but you can read the column on the Review website as well:
The Digital Continent | Catholics should become leaders in online communications
by Jeff Geerling
The status quo is no longer acceptable.
That was the gist of the two keynote talks during this year's Catholic New Media Celebration in Boston. The Catholic Church needs to become a leader in online communications
品牌故事—Zappos貼身企業文化
讀過不少有關Zappos的報導，讓我成為了這公司的小紛絲，我更自動向他們表白，給人家的Marketing Director寫了個電郵，轉個頭來，人家不僅馬上回覆道謝，事隔數天，我更收到該公司每年推出的Zappos Culture Book。
Delivering Happiness是Zappos老闆Tony Hsieh的新書，我前天在HMV
If
If I were the police officer in charge, I would have asked two of my elite collegues (corrupt them if needed) to