Psychology
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Dead horse
Native Americans have a saying that means something akin to “when a horse is dead it’s time to dismount”. Einstein repeated the same sort of sentiment when he suggested that a sign of stupidity, real stupidity, was to repeat what has many times not worked, what in fact has never worked, yet to hope for Continue reading
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People watching
We are at the services in Gloucester having coffee and a snack, we have been to many many services in the last few years as Em often needs the loo, I’m told it’s a woman thing, who am I to disagree? People Watching is not just a 2025 song by Sam Fender, it’s a phenomenon Continue reading
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Inventing our own stupidity
I watch a lot of YouTube videos, not the ones with cats though, the ones where ideas are posted and discussed. I, like everyone else, form my ideas and thoughts as a mash-up of other people’s thoughts and output, that which I find compelling, not pleasing, compelling in an intellectual sense, then I perform a Continue reading
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Find the right reasons
I’m convinced that the constant focus on pornography and violence is a distraction from what is really wrong. A subject that the media, owned by those that benefit most from peddling the false porn and violence narrative, refuses to speak on. Inequality, and every social malady it drives, that is the real problem. I’m not Continue reading
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A most miserable happiness
I’m a big fan of reality, telling the truth, representing yourself as the flawed human you are rather than the modern overprotected ego creation I described in earlier posts. For this reason I am often drawn to the philosophy written by critical thinkers. The masters of suspicion as Roderick references some of them in one Continue reading
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Seeking negativity
After a days work I may sit down to read a book, watch the news, or maybe a film. I wish to escape my own circumstances in some way so I engage my mind in the elsewhere. you do this too I’ll bet. Now I have many choices, but a quite common one for some Continue reading
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I met an horrific person
A car crashes and people die, the witnesses tell people how they felt about what happened, what a surprise it was to them that it happened, how they were ill prepared for it happening, how it has potentially impacted the thing that they were on their way to do. It’s almost impossible for them to Continue reading
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Keep people as pets?
People are not property, or are they? A person cannot own another person, but they can control another person through processes of coercion or manipulation. In every situation, your choice to participate is based on a negotiation in the form of an offer that meets your wish, a manipulation that meets some need, or in Continue reading
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By the Gaslight
The process of creating doubt in the mind of the victim, doubt that he or she is correct about assessments of the situation or even about things remembered or known. Undermining the confidence and the self worth of the victim is the goal of the gaslighter, their power and their control is dependent on the Continue reading
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Facade
“This is what real police men look like, this is what real policemen smell like” – Whitechapel, TV series Soldiers don’t polish boots and iron clothes and clean rifles and paint tanks because they need to go into battle looking good, it is for 2 distinct reasons that this tiresome drudge of never ending attention Continue reading
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