Tag: Brian Explains Life

• Brian Explains Men and Women – Thoughts from December 17, 2010

  

  Brian Explains: Men and Women Men and women are the similar in more ways than they are different. We are both humans, have feet and hands in the same general area, and have heads that are tied to our bodies with skin string. We are so similar that you cannot tell which category some people…

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  July 20, 2023

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• Brian Explains OCD – Thoughts from December 3, 2010

  

  Brian Explains: OCD Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is defined by Merriam-Webster as a “psychoneurotic disorder in which the patient is beset with obsessions or compulsions or both and suffers extreme anxiety or depression through failure to think the obsessive thoughts or perform the compelling acts.” I don’t mean to brag, but I have several forms of…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 13, 2023

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• Brian Explains Boredom and Change – Thoughts from October 15 and 22

  

  October 15, 2010 Brian Explains: Boredom Some people have a hard time being alone. I am not one of those people. I can be alone for hours and I always find something to do. The hardest part for me is deciding what to do. I guess this makes this an anti-explanation of boredom, but I…

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  June 29, 2023

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• Brian Explains Screwing Up and Food – Thoughts from October 1, 2010

  

  Future note: This is the third Brian Explains Life blog article I am including as part of the Thoughts from Life blog, but it should have been the first. I thought it was strange that the introduction to the blog was from 2010, but the articles were from 2011. To make up for this screw…

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  June 27, 2023

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• Brian Explains Freaks – Thoughts from January 27, 2011

  

  Brian Explains: Freaks Freaks are all around us. It is easy to say that someone is a freak if they have a third leg or tree bark skin. I saw the movie “Freaks” (from 1932) years ago and was fascinated. I wasn’t fascinated because of the sideshow performers in the movie, but more that the…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 22, 2023

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• Brian Explains Life and Time – Thoughts from September 14, 2010 and January 14, 2011

  

  September 14, 2010 (Future note: The following Thoughts papers are not actually Thoughts papers. They are articles I included in my blog Brian Explains Life. I explain many things in these articles, but this Blog Intro describes them best.) Brian Explains Life: Blog Intro All right, you are here. I don’t know where you came…

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  June 20, 2023

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