Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - Boiling Springs State Park, Woodward OK
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Night camp
Site 19 - Boiling Springs State Park, Woodward OK
- StateParks.com introduces the park with: "Recreational facilities include 10 RV sites with modern hookups and pull through sites, 29 semi-modern back-in sites and tent campsites. Modern sites have 50amp/30amp service and semi-modern sites have 30amp service. The park also offers four cabins, two group camps, security, a swimming pool with concession stand and changing house, restrooms with showers, playgrounds, fishing spots on Lake Shaul, picnic areas, group picnic shelters, outdoor grills, hiking trails and wildlife viewing. Boiling Springs Golf Course, an 18-hole course, is located next to the park."
- Verizon cell phone is weak.
- Verizon Broadband service is available here with an amplifier.
- Locate Boiling Springs State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
That's the Point of Emotions: Survival
That's the point of emotions: survival. Normal emotions are essential to staying alive and well. ... To most people this doesn't make sense. We humans tend to think of emotions as dangerous forces that need to be strictly controlled by reason and logic. But that's not how the brain works. In the brain logic and reason are never separate from emotion. Nothing is neutral. That's what you have to remember. ... A lot of people's emotional life is unconscious a lot of the time, especially when you're calmly thinking something through. You feel like you're just using logic, but you're actually using logic guided by emotion. You just aren't aware of the emotion. ... I recommend Descartes' Error to anyone who's interested in emotions, intuition, and decision making. ... Nature seems to have tried to wire animals and people to have useful emotions, useful meaning emotions that keep us alive long enough to reproduce. Emotions keep us alive by letting us make good predictions about the future, and good predictions let us make good decisions about what comes next.