Smarties vs. Dummies

    Once upon a time, in a country founded on equal rights, the country became divided on the very same issue: equal rights. One large section believed in equal rights, and perhaps coincidentally, knew how to make things that worked. Because of this, they are called (here) smarties.

    The other section did not believe in equal rights, but in free unpaid labor, especially by those easily identifiable, usually by a different tone of skin color. This section believed that if they acted important, or had important positions, and pretended that they were important, they were actually important. This was a distortion and mutilation of destiny. They (here) are called dummies.

    Because dummies are, fundamentally, dumb, they either didn't or couldn't perceive that anyone born human is indeed a human, and separation should not be based on an easily identifiable difference, that, when considering the accident of birth, makes no difference, despite silly theories and opinions that rationalize those differences.

     So, because of this fundamental  difference regarding equal rights, these two sections went to war. Imagine that: two sections in the same country went to war! Therefore, it was called a civil war, when actually, because it was a war, there was nothing civil about it.

    It is no surprise that the smarties beat the dummies. In any analysis, it couldn't be otherwise.

    The difference between smart and dumb has become more obvious the many years following the war.

    So dumb, the losing dummies simply don't acknowledge that the war was lost, and continually work against the idea of equal rights! Also (and sadly) as a result, the conceptions of equity and equality fall by the wayside. 

    And now, the dummies have their president. But I am confident that the smarties will eventually win because the dummies will, sooner or later, make a fatal mistake! (In my opinion, they are a mistake!)

Sympathy/Empathy

Comparing sympathy to empathy is like comparing a candle flame to the light of a 1,000 watt bulb. The first just takes a match. The second requires real power.

Forgiving - Poem

Know this: forgetting is not forgiving.

Which: first or second, adds most to living? 

Don't dwell on memories: simply forget

But when you forget, it's an unpaid debt

That will be collected, sooner or later.

Subconscious memories are the traitor.

If you consciously choose not to recall,

You create an impenetrable wall

Made of memories you don't want to face!

Forgetting, you hope to not leave a trace.

Forgetting, badness is just held at bay,

With forgiveness, the badness goes away.

          Don't take all the responsibility,

          First ask yourself: was it only just me?

FOR-GETTING or FOR-GIVING

For-getting is not for-giving. If you forget what happened, you don't forgive. Forgotten, the event remains stuck subconsciously in memory, unforgiven.

Rationalizing vs. Rationale

Logic can be used to make what sounds like a good argument to justify opinions or actions. This is rationalization. An argument that sticks to proven facts and real evidence is more likely true. This is rationale.

"Be Here Now" equals denial.

Just as the act of denial acknowledges that what is denied exists, the"now" in the admonishment Be Here Now acknowledges that the past exists. The "past" once did exist, but does not now. The way to emphasize this is to say that living in the moment, which is concerned with now, is not the same as Be Here Now, which actually addresses the past by first, acknowledging it, then trying to correct it. The past is gone--it  can't be corrected. What can be corrected is the mistakes, or errors, that were committed in the past, which can only be done now. Errors made in the past created their own future: corrections made now have their own future, too. Live it.

Website reference.

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It separates Willed action from thoughtful (Mind) action.

Psychological Profile - Poem

My psychological profile published?

Available for anyone to see?

You can't curse me for being really pissed--

It's plain to see, it is not really me!

Who is it they think they are describing?

Some clueless dummy with a checkered past?

Look between the lines--they are deriding

Innocent me. Still, I remain aghast!

So my past is checkered, but I try hard

To do the right thing, try to stay on guard.

I'm pursuing my goals, and all the while,

I tell myself that I am using guile.

        Does this begin a new set of troubles,

        Carelessly exposing all my foibles?

 

The Flow - Poem

 I love to watch the water in a brook:

Flowing fast over a rocky bottom,

Flowing slower closer to placid shore.

To the ocean, or lake, it's flowing.

Nevertheless, water's fate is certain,

The only changes are in where it goes.

Vapor, rain, sleet, snow, within a body,

What purpose it serves, only Heaven knows!

What purpose life serves, only Heaven knows!

Like water, it is in a fluid state,

A state in which life's dependent on fate,

Changeable according to where it runs.

Rocky bottoms, smooth sailing, even both.

Could be across the land, sea, or air.

Sometimes where it does go may not seem fair,

But it is also the story of life--

In peace, smooth sailing, or difficult strife--

What ever--it finally comes to rest,

And learns that the flow was only a test--

Like water subject to what's coming next.

Complex physical/mental attributes.

The human being is overwhelmed by the complexity of the physical body and overestimates his/her grasp of the complexity of the mental body. No one is as smart as they think they are.  

Illness = Mental Illness?

Does it surprise you that someone who is habitually angry, habitually anxious, or some other habitual negative emotion may eventually, because of that mental condition, suffer a physical one?

Environmental triggers.

 Robert M. Sapolsky said (I believe) that the human DNA contains susceptibility to various ailments. However, an environmental trigger may not turn on one of those susceptibilities. Many possible ailments stay dormant because they weren't triggered! 

Large unconscious effect.

 Which spatial body has the most personal effect? The sun, the moon, the planet: Venus, Mars. Jupiter, Saturn, etc. I guess they all do, but the planet that has the most effect is the one we're on. What is its effect?