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Reality is Not All That We Make It Up To Be
Thursday night’s first hearing will feature firsthand witnesses to the violence at the U.S. Capitol as well as video clips of testimony from top Trump aides.
— Read on www.huffpost.com/entry/jan-6-committee-first-hearing-capitol-riot_n_62a10863e4b06169ca862faf
—— We get to make our own realities.
This is the basis through which all current political worlds can be found to be reducible to the explanatory of mental health.
That is a very common phrase that has become so ubiquitous to our modern reality, we forget it is a post-modern ideal. From a counseling and mental health standpoint yes, we make our own realities through making meaning.
However, a very simple and basic truth of it is, sure, we get to make our own worlds, but at some point the truth of the universe, big-R, REALITY is coming in and you are going to have to deal with it.
The way that mental health becomes explanatory is happens next.
Those who stick to the total idealism of semantic reality-making get defensive, and double down on the world they have made. This leads to one or both of two things:
- Mental break down, or what we like to call an existential crisis. This is where ultimately the person is faced with the truth of their situation and has to deal with it.
- Violence.
This is mental health, not an existential issue. An existential issue has to with with item #1. The true issue has to do with both items.
That is to say, how do we ethically reconcile our want to enact violence for the righteousness our ethical worlds?
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For the First Time Ever, Plants are Growing in Soil From the Moon! – Goodnet
For the first time ever, plants are growing in soil from the moon!
— Read on www.goodnet.org/articles/for-first-time-ever-plants-are-growing-in-soil-from-moon
—- For all the drama human beings love to enact, as a species, we’re gonna be alright.
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Acceptance of Death by Mass Murder is as an Integral Part of Being a United States Citizen; Now Required to Be an Elected Official.
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“There is nothing we could have done to prevent this,” noted American politician says.
Death by mass murder becomes the new ethical standard for the United States, says Gun Rights Advocates. “It’s the 11th commandment” someone said, “thou shalt not do anything to prevent gun violence because God loves guns and death. I Thank God for my guns…oh, and God doesn’t like abortions either.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-school-shooting-uvalde_n_628e65efe4b0b1d98450b451
“Always blame someone that is not me” is the new Maerican creedo.
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“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the …
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing-Michel Houellebecq
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My first academic love was linguistics, and I am still very interested in language. Besides philosophy, I spend a lot of time researching, reviewing,…
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What is more important for speaking and communicating: clarity or fluidity?
Just in writing that sentence I noticed a tremendous amount of opacity.
Speaking has something to do with communicating, but one’s clarity in speaking I think does not necessarily denote greater communication.
Sometimes the very fluidity and, in a way, murkiness of a manner of speaking might be communicating something very intentionally and clearly, though not succinctly.
It seems this woman in the short video is speaking more about being able to communicate succinctly, which I do appreciate, being someone who, through most of my life, would hear comments from friends and acquaintances that I should get to the point quicker in What I’m saying.
Back in high school, a friend even told me that my style is to speak my thoughts, the process of my thinking about something, so the listener gets to experience what’s actually going on in my mind, the processing, the working out of contradiction, the pondering of options, and then they hear my conclusion at the end. His suggestion was that I should just stay quiet until I have the conclusion and then just tell people the conclusion.
Oddly enough, My colorful fluidity caught up with me in my training as a counselor. One of the basic skills that I was pointed to specifically was to listen, to formulate my thought, deliver the thought, and then wait.
That was so great to hear to clearly, the steps. I must’ve learned it pretty well. I think the skill has extended over even to my writing.
I feel this woman is really talking about an ability of a human being to be intentional with how they present themselves in the world.
What do you think?
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