From Positive Disintegration Dabrowski also described a group of people who display a different course: an individualized developmental pathway. These people break away from an automatic, rote, socialized view of life (which Dabrowski called negative adjustment) and move into and through a series of personal disintegrations. Dabrowski saw these disintegrations as a key element in [...]
I would like to thank MS for helping me move this website to an open-source host. This website is running on an Ubuntu Server virtual machine, and was on a Vista host. Foolishly I felt compelled to install the latest Win updates, which broke the networking components of VMWare server. Link to this post!
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the [...]
There was going to be a harmless Wikipedia excerpt and link here, but the article was symptomatic of foolishness – Egalitarian in some matters but not others? Equal sometimes? Sounds like quantum physics. Link to this post!
The numbers are meaningless What was music yesterday is plastic-coated vibration today Better, but worse Remote controlling the body Crushing complexity Rapidly aborted thoughts Soft cotton blue jeans Green grass Wooden handle Metal spade Direct experience Streaming mind Link to this post!
From Wikipedia: Lars Trier was born in Copenhagen, and raised by nudist communist parents.[1] Trier notes that he was brought up in an atheist family, and that although his stepfather was Jewish, he was not religious. His parents did not allow much room in their household for “feelings, religion, or enjoyment,” and also refused to [...]
Emerald Tablet 1) This is true and remote from all cover of falsehood. 2) Whatever is below is similar to that which is above. Through this the marvels of the work of one thing are procured and perfected. 3) Also, as all things are made from one, by the consideration of one, so all things [...]