{"id":1923,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/new-year-same-you\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:58:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:58:56","slug":"new-year-same-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/new-year-same-you\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year, Same You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Nik Varley<\/a><\/h6>\n
Dec. 31, 2015<\/h6>\n

Millions of people celebrated the coming of the New Year across this world this past January, and while many of them made resolutions and set goals of self-improvement, <\/insert>,<\/delete> <\/delete>s<\/insert>S<\/delete>ources close to the Shady Dealer<\/i> are <\/insert>reporting<\/insert>ed <\/delete>this morning<\/delete> that while the current year has changed from 2015 to 2016, you are still the same person that you were before, and that<\/insert> nothing significant about you has changed.<\/insert><\/p>\n

<\/delete>Embedded <\/insert>Shady Dealer<\/i> correspondents also <\/insert>confirmed that despite the<\/insert>is<\/delete> observation of the changing calendar year by billions worldwide<\/insert>, <\/delete>“<\/delete>a<\/insert>\u201c<\/delete>A<\/delete>ll of these people are exactly the same as they were before. <\/insert>.\u201d<\/delete><\/insert><\/insert><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very common misconception,<\/insert>\u201d says <\/delete>psychologist Eric Davis said<\/insert>. \u201cWhile many people believe that the human psyche changes when the Earth passes through an arbitrary point in its orbit around the sun, producing more competent, fitter, happier and more satisfied individuals, there is no scientific data to support this. <\/delete> Rather, it is believed by most scientists that everyone on the<\/insert> planet is exactly the same as they were at the end of 2015.<\/insert>\u201d.<\/delete> <\/insert><\/p>\n

Despite the testimony of experts, many individuals are starting 2016 completely ignorant of the fact that they are the same person that they were in 2015.<\/insert><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to be my year!\u201d said <\/delete><\/insert>said <\/delete>second–<\/insert> <\/delete>year student<\/delete> Janet Adams said<\/insert>, unaware of the fact that her conscious self has been completely unchanged by the<\/insert> onset of the new year. \u201cI\u2019m going to get on the D<\/insert>d<\/delete>ean\u2019s L<\/insert>l<\/delete>ist, hit Ratner three times a week, and finally start eating better! Who knows?<\/insert>,<\/delete> I might even pick up that cello I have lying around.<\/insert>\u201d.<\/delete><\/insert><\/p>\n

Leading s<\/insert>S<\/delete>cientists also predicted that not only is everyone on Earth the same regardless of the changing year, but <\/insert>everyone has always been the same and always will be into the future. <\/insert><\/insert><\/p>\n

<\/delete>“There is absolutely no reason to believe that the next change of the year will result in you changing, or any new year in the future, for that matter,<\/insert>” said <\/delete>Davis said<\/insert>.<\/insert>,<\/delete><\/insert>.<\/delete> “All evidence suggests that none of us is<\/insert>are<\/delete> ever going to improve in any way. The data says that you’d better learn to love yourself, because you’re not getting any better.”<\/insert><\/insert><\/p>\n

Philosopher Derek Parfit defended those claiming that they had changed in the New Year, telling the Dealer<\/i> that \u201cthe transcendental self is an illusion\u201d and that \u201cpersonal identity does not exists<\/delete> across time. You are a completely new and separate consciousness at every discrete instance.<\/insert>“<\/insert>\u201d.<\/delete><\/insert><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Nik Varley Dec. 31, 2015 Millions of people celebrated the coming of the New Year across this world this past January, and while many of them made resolutions and set goals of self-improvement, , sSources close to the Shady Dealer are reportinged this morning that while the current year has changed from 2015 to 2016, you are still the same person that you were before, and that nothing significant about you has changed. Embedded Shady Dealer correspondents also confirmed that despite theis observation of the changing calendar year by billions worldwide, “a\u201cAll of these people are exactly the same as they were before. .\u201d \u201cThis is a very common misconception,\u201d says psychologist Eric Davis said. \u201cWhile many people believe that the human psyche changes when the Earth passes through an arbitrary point in its orbit around the sun, producing more competent, fitter, happier and more satisfied individuals, there is no scientific data to support this. Rather, it is believed by most scientists that everyone on the planet is exactly the same as they were at the end of 2015.\u201d. Despite the testimony of experts, many individuals are starting 2016 completely ignorant of the fact that they are the same person that they were in 2015. \u201cThis is going to be my year!\u201d said said second– year student Janet Adams said, unaware of the fact that her conscious self has been completely unchanged by the onset of the new year. \u201cI\u2019m going to get on the Ddean\u2019s Llist, hit Ratner three times a week, and finally start eating better! Who knows?, I might even pick up that cello I have lying around.\u201d. Leading sScientists also predicted that not only is everyone on Earth the same regardless of the changing year, but everyone has always been the same and always will be into the future. “There is absolutely no reason to believe that the next change of the year will result in you changing, or any new year in the future, for that matter,” said Davis said.,. “All evidence suggests that none of us isare ever going to improve in any way. The data says that you’d better learn to love yourself, because you’re not getting any better.” Philosopher Derek Parfit defended those claiming that they had changed in the New Year, telling the Dealer that \u201cthe transcendental self is an illusion\u201d and that \u201cpersonal identity does not exists across time. You are a completely new and separate consciousness at every discrete instance.“\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}