Reading Lustick Carefully
Jerry Haber
September 19, 2013
Never has indecision, infidelity, and insecurity seemed quite so tangible.
July 18, 2012
In addition to insecurity, those arriving in refugee camps cited forced recruitment as one of their main concerns.
Islamist Group Al-Shabab Retreats From Somali Stronghold
Laura Heaton
September 29, 2012
Her daily missives chronicle the longing and insecurity that often befall long-distance relationships and eventual breakups.
December 17, 2012
Historical Examples
It was this sense of doubt and insecurity in the nation that gave significance to trifles.
The Age of Pope
John Dennis
This ignorance of the foe’s whereabouts carried with it a sense of insecurity.
A Set of Six
Joseph Conrad
Argenson saw the storm coming, and feeling the insecurity of his position, wished to save himself.
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete
Duc de Saint-Simon
This ignorance of his adversary’s whereabouts carried with it a sense of insecurity.
The Point Of Honor
Joseph Conrad
In times of insecurity the Kai used to build their huts for safety among the spreading boughs of great trees.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3)
Sir James George Frazer
Word Origin and History for insecurity Expand
n.
1640s, from Medieval Latin insecuritas, from insecurus (see insecure ). Specific psychological sense is by 1917.
Cybercriminals don’t just send fraudulent email messages. They might call you on the telephone and claim to be from Microsoft. They might also setup websites with persistent pop-ups displaying fake warning messages and a phone number to call and get the “issue” fixed. They might offer to help solve your computer problems or sell you a software license. Once they have access to your computer, they can do the following:
Trick you into installing malicious software that could capture sensitive data, such as online banking user names and passwords. They might also then charge you to remove this software.
Convince you to visit legitimate websites (like http://www.ammyy.com) to download software that will allow them to take control of your computer remotely and adjust settings to leave your computer vulnerable.
Request credit card information so they can bill you for phony services.
Direct you to fraudulent websites and ask you to enter credit card and other personal or financial information there.
“Remember, Microsoft will never proactively reach out to you to provide unsolicited PC or technical support. Any communication we have with you must be initiated by you.”
Below is more information on what to look out for with telephone and web pop-up scams and how to report them:
Why do the Palestinians and now the US see that as a problem?
Settlements have already made it considerably more difficult to envisage a Palestinian state, not least because the huge apparatus of roads, military infrastructure and protected land that services them – an estimated 40 per cent of the West Bank in all – which helps to cut the occupied territory into separate cantons and often swallows up Palestinian farmland. Second, opponents of settlements argue that they have had a profoundly negative effect on the peace process, put at its most extreme by Amos Elon, the Israeli writer who died this week and in 2002 wrote: “Imagine the effect on the peace process in Northern Ireland if the British government continued moving thousands of Protestants from Scotland into Ulster and settling them, at government expense, on land confiscated from Irish Catholics…”
Inevitably that effect is magnified the more they are allowed to grow. Which is why Palestinian President Abbas, who saw President Obama yesterday, has been arguing he won’t negotiate with Israel until there is a freeze.
I didn’t abuse you, it was a snap-dragon next to me Please give me peace,lily. Roses can be read by those in the know Where’s the menu? I ate it? I need solid food Polyanthus is a name I abhor.I can’t even spell it. What’s the bill? A piece of paper .That figures Lupins are my favourite form of life I’d hate to read a paper on quantum theory.That’s why we get the Sun.We know what to expect.Probably…. about 96% sure Why do people eat ducks’ legs? Seems so cruel.I know ducks swim but…… This is my mobile home.What, a tent? No, it’s a headboard A pity gold was discovered.Mud is less contentious Satan is my fiend today.Let us pray/play.prey
T S ELiot
The poets know things before most other people do…I am sure many of us have heard of Freud and his “discovery ” that we are not conscious of many of our desires, fears and past traumas,That we may, without knowing, lie to ourselves about why we do things…[ he was not interested merely in sex]
That nervous illnesses may be an attempt to solve such problems may be known to some… however it seems this may make life harder.
So for example you may
hate your mother-in-law but you do not find this0 acceptable to your ideal self image…. of the loving person you believe you are [Of course we both love and hate most people who are really close to us]
A person in that situation might develop migrainous style headaches,agoraphobia,fear of walking on cracked pavements ,fear of driving,fear of women,obsessive cleaning etc… and so in a way they avoid the real issue… that they hate a family member.
They don’t do this because they are stupid and they don’t choose their symptoms [ which may also be caused by perfectionism,overwork,fatigue,anguish].
They do it partly because anger or hatred are so painful for them because of past life events or severe punishments that they are completely unable to allow the emotions out into their conscious mind.At some level we all deceive ourselves.
I was wondering if something similar might be applied to politicians.Think of the bedroom tax,sanctioning benefit claimants leaving them starving,making people blind and mentally ill apply for work etc.
Or ask yourself did the British Government consciously want to commit genocide in South Aftica in the Boer War when they invented Concentration Camps and filled them with Afrikaaners?
From our perspective it seems unthinkable that governments could do such bad things with no anxiety or fear
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Now,we can suffer from lack of imagination like Generals in WW1 who were horrified by trench warfare only after they saw it in the flesh.
Or could there be a mechanism like a neurosis where they do not really know what they are doing?
I suppose it brings us to a perrenial question:
[If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives” (1 John 1:8-10).
]
In recent years sin has gone out of fashion as a concept and we tend more and more to call bad people sick…This implies they have no choice or free will about some of their actions whereas sin implies we have chosen our actions to some extent,, and using a stupid economic model may be sinful if enough advice has not been taken
Just look at the American Handbook of Psychiatry where disobedient children have “oppositional defiance disorder” as opposed to normal childish ways of learning how to be a part of a family or group.. and knowing when it’s good to obey.. and when older maybe it’s not always good as adolescents learn slowly and painfully.
Returning to discuss politicians I think it would require tremendous effort not to know what is happening to the poor here.
Indeed I was talking about this with a taxi driver, coming back from the biopsy, who was so interested in the topic and enjoyed it so much he knocked 30% off the fare for me…
Most of the people i know believe either the government is sinful or that the poor are sinful and deserve this punishing regime….
But what if they do not realise? How can Ian Duncan Smith go to Mass receive Communion [Jesus’s body] having confessed his sins and done penance then carry on with his style of politics unless he is using some defence mechanism to blind himself to the effects of his works
BTW how much have they wasted on new technology and how can they expect older unemployed people to buy computers and do everything online?
I found it a bit daunting and I am a mathematician… or was;I have forgotten most of what I knew but I suppose there are mental habits one gets.
I enjoy it now especially when I am ill and can’t get out or do much…. but it sometimes takes quite a lot of effort to sort things out…
I suppose I recall Jesus’s words a lot these days.
Father,forgive them for they know not what they do”
I am less kind than Jesus…I’d say give them some nightmares,Lord…… maybe it will get through but if they are psychopaths they will not change.But we can attempt to vote them out… it seems hard with Labour still being Blair-ish but that’s what i am choosing after the Lib Dems lies in 2010.I likw the Greens but is it a wasted vote?
Why did noone tell us the cost of living;
Of time wasted listening to dull repeats of lessons
that were repeats of other, so called, lessons
improperly heard and undigested.?
How these lumps and clots of half knowledge might clog the arteries of the mind
blocking the paths of all common sense;
clogging the channels through which life flowed
Waiting to be told something unsayable..
The unspeakable was only an instant behind the moment.
Evidence sprung up in the library,bound copies
told of secret police
night raids and death marches
but that was in another country
and a long time ago.
Why was there noone to listen to our story,
to treat us like more than receptacles.
And how the urge to retain a small piece of self
would be seen as defiance and ill will
stopping us from becoming the perfect image
the mother dreamed up before the mirror as the father gazed at our polished shoes and smoked a pipe.
And how our not being them reborn was a shattering blow
that we were punished for,
when it was our creative life they were stealing.
The cost of living might bankrupt a person before they became adult;
And the sense of judgment paralyse new action or fresh speech.
The cost of living is greater than we can know.
Being alive is not always permitted,
but one must be a very good actor even while dying;
otherwise punishment will be added to the tortured mix.
How to survive being under another’s control when it’s clear they love you only if you are what they decide?
Perhaps one can shrink into a nutshell and be buried
hoping for good weather rain and sun.
Sometime in the unknowable and fictionally hopeful future.
The sun also rises.
My washing will not dry laid on the hedge But I stand here while nurturing a grudge I rarely feel one so I must retain The nasty feeling and the horrid pain
Yet since it hurts me,I must be a fool The errant friend will turn into a ghoul I’ll hear her footsteps from my ancient bed Till she enters carrying her head
Oh God lift up my ruminating curse Let me have your grace or I’ll get worse I do not wish to have a bitter heart Grudges turn to dread; it’s hatred’s art
For if I learn destruction and its ways Cruelty will have the final say
I wish I were on Hutton Roof again The limestone and the little open flowers The sea at Arnside like a distant gem The spaciousness, like days with far more hours
I wish I were as agile now as then I’d climb the mountains, hills,the little lanes
Windermere below still winding on The handsome Lake the old man, Coniston
I wish I were in Dent, the curious shapes The hills and their deep mystery engross The height, the little river, the mistakes The lost loved man alive, to hold me closeI
I yearn to be on Hutton Roof today The holy smell of grass, the feel of air
I think it’s not so surprising amongst Christians because Jesus came to save sinners and so more sinners go to Church…They need salvation but it must take time!That’s why we have Confession/Or maybe people who go to Church are from lower social classes and so are short of cash?I always found rich people avoid tax and so on regardless of religion.
Maybe “trying “to be good is counterproductive!
I’m not sure about Jews….I knew a lot at work and they were all more than honest.Also they seem more intelligent…. after all they invented the alphabet writing,story telling,ethics,morals,poetry…..God!Why should they steal?
Also in ancient Greek, “departed soul, spirit, ghost,” and often represented symbolically as a butterfly or moth. The word had extensive sense development in Platonic philosophy and Jewish-influenced theological writing of St. Paul (cf. spirit (n.)). Meaning “human soul” is from 1650s. In English, psychological sense “mind,” is attested by 1910.
psych
as a noun, short for psychology in various senses (e.g. as an academic study, in student slang by 1895). As a verb, first attested 1917 as “to subject to psychoanalysis,” short for psychoanalyze. From 1934 as “to outsmart” (also psych out); from 1963 as “to unnerve.” However to psych (oneself) up is from 1972; to be psyched up is attested from 1968.
In Roman mythology, a beautiful girl who was visited each night in the dark by Cupid, who told her she must not try to see him. When she did try, while he was asleep, she accidentally dropped oil from her lamp on him, and he awoke and fled. After she had performed many harsh tasks set by Cupid’s mother, Venus, Jupiter made her immortal, and she and Cupid were married. Her name is Greek for both “soul” and “butterfly.”
psyche [( seye -kee)]
The mind, soul, or spirit, as opposed to the body. In psychology, the psyche is the center of thought, feeling, and motivation, consciously and unconsciously directing the body’s reactions to its social and physical environment.
I bit the cat because the cat bit me Yet I was wrong for this will make him worse Now I shall be tried for hurting fleas
A cat may bite from curiosity I was wrong to swear and wildly curse I bit the cat because the cat bit me
I forgot to buy the carrots and the peas. Neither have I booked the cat a hearse Oh, no I shall be tried for eating fleas
Learn my lesson, it is almost free My cat has died and it will hit my purse I bit the cat because the cat bit me
I have no cat to sit upon my knee No longer will he linger by the hearth I always thought that puss would outlive me
I feel I have destroyed my moral worth No longer should I dwell on this sweet earth I bit the cat because the cat bit me Where’s my love and whose the victory?
How my heart speaks 