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Old 12-15-2007, 02:38 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Sounds to me like abstracts are anthropromorphized and given names. Some of your presumably most logical and intellectual people still use feelings to govern their decision making process to some degree at least. Stock brookers rely on similar instincts you'd otherwise see in wild animals [that's not a joke and not necessarily a bad thing].

When I described to someone one here how the stock market really is just another jungle, based on economic producers; atop that are financial grazer/consumers; and then predator and parasite institutions and firms; that's the sorts of personalities which contribute the the market. And, as with any untamed realm, the stock market has its own sharks cruising the numeral seas [hostile takeover capitalists].

Criminal investigators sometimes use a certain feeling to make a decision they later affirm with their more logical methods, and even scientific research occasionally falls back on "the hunch" or the "what the hell, let's try this just because" to get results.
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