“Misery to Stay, Misery to Go”

Misery and Freedom: Reply to Walls

In this brief reply to Walls’ challenging critique, I try to do two things: first, clarify the most fundamental point on which I think Walls and I disagree, and second, argue that, as surprising as it may first appear, Walls’ free will theodicy of hell requires that God interfere with human freedom in inappropriate ways. For a number of years now I have considered Jerry Walls to be one of my be...

Misery of mystery of Muzaffarpur.

The mystery disease that is provisionally referred to as Acute encephalitis syndrome is unfailingly back, casting its deadly spell over the young children of Muzaffarpur and neighbouring districts of the State of Bihar, Northern India. The mystery of etiology remains a misery for everyone from families of hundreds of victims who have already succumbed to this illness this year to the health off...

Cerebral misery perfusion due to carotid occlusive disease

PURPOSE Cerebral misery perfusion (CMP) is a condition where cerebral autoregulatory capacity is exhausted, and cerebral blood supply in insufficient to meet metabolic demand. We present an educational review of this important condition, which has a range of clinical manifestations. METHOD A non-systematic review of published literature was undertaken on CMP and major cerebral artery occlusiv...

SA's happiness-and misery-index.

Misery loves company: mood-congruent emotional responding to music.

We examined emotional responding to music after mood induction. On each trial, listeners heard a 30-s music excerpt and rated how much they liked it, whether it sounded happy or sad, and how familiar it was. When the excerpts sounded unambiguously happy or sad (Experiment 1), the typical preference for happy-sounding music was eliminated after inducing a sad mood. When the excerpts sounded ambi...