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Can some digital screens cause more fatigue than others?
I originally used an iPad for some years but also for the same period suffered severe mental fatigue, which even got to the point of seeing my doctor and trying antidepressants. I was unable to make a link between the two until I eventually replaced it with a Surface Pro 3 (for drawing) and immediately felt the feeling lift.
It was as if there was something in the light from the iPad which was wasn't the case with the Surface which made my mind foggy and nauseous, as if I've been looking into a lamp for too long. While I used the iPad I had tried screen filters and reducing the light to its absolute minimum, which had no noticeable effect.
I have also constantly used computer screens at work and at home every day, though these seemed to be okay.
I'd like to think it's something as simple as the difference between LCD and LED screens, though it seems complicated as LCD screens apparently also use LED backlight. There also seems to be the issue of screen flicker speed. Does anyone have a simple technical explanation of what might be making the difference?
1 AnswerMonitors3 years agoCan some digital screens cause more fatigue than others?
4 AnswersTVs3 years agoI am a night person - could Melatonin supplements affect this?
Like many people, the time of day I am most able to focus after 11pm at night, and I've got to the point where I don't bother even attempting my drawing (I'm an illustrator) before this time as it only leads to frustration. I gather this is genetic issue, not just 'bad habits', and my experience confirms this. However, we live in a world seemingly designed for morning people, and I have a day job, which restricts how often I can stay up late.
I don't feel I have any problem sleeping when I have to, so the issue isn't about finding an effective sleeping tablet... It's just that my mind simply becomes most alert at that time, so I'm sleeping through my most creative period and working slighly dazed through my least alert period. I know Melatonin regulates the body clock, so would it be likely that it taken at the right time of day it could help shift this alert period to a more sociable time of day rather than just induce sleep? With the right application, can this (legally procured) supplement make a night owl into at least a day person, if not a full blown early bird?
Thanks in advance.
1 AnswerMedicine8 years agoJehovah's Witnesses: Why would you ever choose to have children...?
...when there is a 70% chance you will later have to shun them?
Until you improve your track record surely you are only making more sinners for Satan's kingdom.Is it really worth it for the 30% chance they will not become an enemy of God?
In your own words, please.
An even more extreme example of what might be called "masked churn" is the relatively tiny Jehovah's Witnesses, with a turnover rate of about two-thirds. That means that two-thirds of the people who told Pew they were raised Jehovah's Witnesses no longer are"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,171...
Failure to adhere to the directions on shunning is itself considered a serious offense. Members who continue to speak to or associate with a disfellowshipped or disassociated person are said to be sharing in their "wicked works"
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoChristians: Does the fact that in surveys non-believers demonstrate more biblical knowledge than believers...?
...(You can Google it) suggest there in an inverse relationship between reading the Bible and finding it believable?
8 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoJehovah's Witnesses: I spoke to a Witness on my doorstep, and suggested he come back with some evidence...?
However, they haven't been back since. Have I been put on some kind of 'troublemaker' list?
21 AnswersReligion & Spirituality8 years agoWhat makes God madder: Not being loving enough after Jesus, or not being murderous enough before?
Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
7:2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
6 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhy doesn't God like people killing unborn babies, selflessly sending to paradise...?
...so they never have to be tempted by sin, risk eternal damnation or live amongst the devil and his work? They are the luckiest people on Earth! God even seems to even take millions himself.
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhy does the Jehovah's Witness organisation make claims about the risks of blood transfusion knowing it to be?
...false?
Watchtower magazine, October 5th, 1993:
"The Jehovah's Witness' patients decision to forego blood transfusions for major surgical procedures appears to add 0.5% - 1.5% mortality to the overall operative risk ...Less clear is how much morbidity and mortality are added by this practice, but they probably exceed the risk of not being transfused".
Awake! Magazine, November 2nd 1993, quotes selectively from an academic paper, but fails to mention the following from said paper:
"The risk of mortality from blood transfusion equals that of anaesthesia or appendectomy; In the London area there has been one death reported for every 13,000 of blood transfused" (0.0077% mortality rate).
Having all the facts it requires it its possession, and many more studies concerning the mortality rates from blood transfusion freely available, does it not seem as if the organisation have attempted to make the original claim knowing it to be false - Jehovah's Witnesses are 130 times more likely to die than non-Witnesses (remember that so-called "bloodless surgery" is available in only 200 hospitals in the world), thereby breaking the 9th Commandment, while hoping that the caveat "probably" will override all moral and legal objections?
Please do not copy and paste your answers from other peoples' web pages - thanks.
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoChristians: Were witch-burners doing the right thing, just at the wrong time?
Exodus 22:18 "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live
12 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoWhat is it makes me feel more able to concentrate far better in the evening than in the morning?
I am not a morning person, and find that the later in the day, the more able I am to concentrate on what I'm working on (which, as an illustrator, is usually drawing). My best work is done into the early hours, though it's not exactly conducive to a sociable lifstyle. I think if you were to test my hand for shaking, it would be far stiller at the end of the day.
It feels as if it might be dietary, as if my body relaxes more with each meal... though it feels also as if I'm more able to concentrate in a half-lit room when distractions are blacked out, and my pupils can focus on a narrower field.
I know some people thrive in the morning... what might be making me like this? Blood sugar? If I knew what it was I might be able to alter my lifestyle or diet to suit.
Thanks in advance!
1 AnswerDiet & Fitness9 years agoChristians: I'm making a list of messages to be found in The Bible which aren't contradicted...?
...elsewhere in The Bible - can you help?
Please no cutting and pasting other people's arguments from web sites.
Thanks in advance.
6 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoHow many minutes after receiving the commandment "Thou Shalt not Kill" did Moses kill 3,000 of his neighbours?
Exodus 32:27
He said to them, 'Buckle on your sword, each of you, and go up and down the camp from gate to gate, every man of you slaughtering brother, friend, and neighbor.'
11 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoSince the Jehovah's Witness organisation want us to make an informed opinion over blood, telling us the risks?
...of blood transfusion, have they also made available the risk statistics regarding abstaining from blood transusions - information that they can't help but have a good idea about, working so closely in the field? It seems a little odd that only half the data be reported when educating people on life and death decisions (though Awake magazine proudly tells us that children have "put God first".
"In the London area There has been reported one death for every 13,000 bottles of blood transfused". http://watchtower.org/e/hb/index.htm
Please do not cut and paste non-relevant Watchtower web pages about supernatural beliefs for your answer - thanks.
14 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years agoChristians: What was God doing when his word was being mangled by mis-translation...?
...as we are often told when The Bible contradicts itself, is factually incorrect, or tells us we have to hate everyone (Luke 14:26)?
Considering he supposedly made up speak different languages in the first place he would try and do a better job 'inspiring' the translators.
10 AnswersReligion & Spirituality9 years ago