"It should be known that all 12 jurors felt that this verdict was a statement regarding the various failures of the prosecution to prove 'conspiracy' in the count itself – and not any form of affirmation of the defense's various beliefs, actions or aspirations," Juror 4 wrote in an email to the Oregonian.
"All 12 jurors felt that this verdict was a statement regarding the various failures of the prosecution to prove 'conspiracy' in the count itself – and not any form of affirmation of the defense's various beliefs, actions or aspirations," Juror 4 wrote in an email to the Oregonian.
Happiness is also a form of life-affirmation: "the feeling of one's blessing upon the whole of the earth, the feeling of being in love with the fact that one exists and in this kind of world" (1957, pp. 105 6).
To buy them, and even to read them, is less a quest for a literary experience than it is a form of endorsement and affirmation.
And, incidentally, it explains France's eagerness to see off others whom it considers to be encroaching on its domain, notably the British, whose first attempts to join the European common market were vetoed by de Gaulle.Moreover, defying the might of America is a form of muscular self-affirmation, to be contrasted with the unmanly British tendency to jump when American fingers click.
Leonard believes memes function as a form of "social corroboration," an affirmation of a truth or moment that grows more powerful the more it's shared, and often, more dangerous.
I admit that not all of us interpret it the same way -- Episcopalians are not necessarily known for their apocalyptic flair -- but it seems to me that Camping's followers have turned this ancient affirmation into a form of the lottery.
Thus, when the self is threatened, they must cope with it; self-affirmation is a form of indirect psychological adaptation.
