Random Analogies

Money

a: Easy credit ~
b: Sugar High

What: This is just 10 of them. There are many more on the brink of bankruptcy! This is not because their services are not needed or anything like that. This is simply because the money supply is deflating! Credit has been inflated for 50 years. We borrowed and spent. We inflated the prices. When we borrow, banks create money. We borrowed faster than the GDP growth. It is an artificial sugar high.

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Writer: Vincent Fernando
LCC: H
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Sep 23 2009 3:34 AM



a: Amygdala ~
b: a bar code scanner

What: "The amygdala is like a bar code scanner. When a thought/awareness/perception is on its way into the mind, it goes by the amygdala which looks very, very quickly to see if this thought/awareness/perception some kind of dangerous threat. If not, the amygdala does nothing."

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Writer: SOAR Library
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Oct 17 2013 10:39 AM



a: Antioxidants ~
b: a mop-up crew

What:

"Antioxidants are like a mop-up crew, Clarke said. After the hydrogen atoms are pulled off, antioxidants stop the harmful chain reaction. Using another analogy, Clarke said, "Instead of taking an antioxidant to jump in front of a bullet, you place bullet-proof vests on the hydrogen atoms."


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Writer: Catherine Clarke
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jan 17 2014 5:27 PM



a: broken home ~
b: a drifter

What:

"A tragedy beckons a fixing. Once broken, you got to pay for the cost.A broken home is like a drifter straying far from its destination.Its a kinda internal bleeding.You bleed............and bleed but still alive.The mother of all pains! !"


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Writer: Sulaiman Mohd Yusof
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Where:
Date: Mar 5 2015 5:42 PM



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