Category: Thinkings and poems

Has the word trauma been overused?

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22876522/trauma-covid-word-origin-mental-health

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Trauma is real, and can result in real disorders, though its meaning is ever-evolving. The DSM-5, the standard in American psychiatric diagnosis, currently defines it as “actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence,” either as a victim or a witness. Growing attention to the term has pushed forth a larger acknowledgment of the indirect and long-lasting consequences of violence, certainly overdue in American culture.

Some who study trauma, however, say current cultural references to the word have become a mess of tongue-in-cheek and casual mentions, mixed with serious confessions and interrogations of the past — of definitional misunderstandings and the absurd and the trivial and the profound

Why hate speech affects us so much

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/opinion/caravan-hate-speech-bowers-sayoc.html

Exposure to hate speech can increase prejudice, as a series of Polish studies confirmed last year. It can also desensitize individuals to verbal aggression, in part because it normalizes what is usually socially condemned behavior.

Emptying yourself tonight?

You are going to do something creative. So how do you get ready? You are hoping for some new ideas some connections.

Well suppose you are going to bake a cake the first thing that you do is what?

You have to clear a space on your work surface or table to put you your baking bowl and you have to make sure the oven is empty

The very first thing you must do is to wash up in case the cake tin all the bowls you need all there being soaked and there’s no room for anything else so you wash up up.and put these things away and now you have a space in which you can set about creating the cake of your dreams

Supposing do you want to paint a picture or write a poem.

Our mind is full of ideas,of people we’ve just seen or a unfulfilled desires thoughts about food clothing who knows jealousy envy love

Well you can’t create when your mind is full like that.

That is what Marion Milner discovered that if she said

I am nothing I have nothing I want nothing

This freed her from the buzzing cloud of flies inside my head. And then thoughts and ideas from the deeper parts of the mind can come into the consciousness.

She calls this the gesture of

Inner Poverty.

By giving up for a time all the things that occupy our thoughts we create some space for new ideas.

I can’t guarantee that they will be any good but there’s a good chance of it if we follow up a little ideas with some hard work.

I think it might be rather like the desireless that is part of Buddhism.

Saying I am nothing is not self derogatory. Nobody is nothing o and if you believe in God you will believe that everybody has a soul equal two other people’s in the eyes and God regardless of your wealth or status. It’s it’s moving away from constant occupation with egocentric concerns which can impede perception.

Because these concerns are a barrier to our vision.

This is just one way of looking at perception and creativity

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Doctors getting the 19th off

Don’t get ill on the 19th of September because your doctor has apparently been given permission to close when he’s already been closed for 2 days over the weekend. Remember that a lot of people will be drinking heavily and therefore there will be crowds of people at accident and emergency. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to 0 come to London for the Queen’s funeral I am sure there will be accidents in London and other places

Embracing Wynne Godley, an Economist Who Modeled the Crisis

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/11/business/economy/economists-embracing-ideas-of-wynne-godley-late-colleague-who-predicted-recession.html

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Most, like Nouriel Roubini of New York University, issued warnings in informal notes. But Mr. Godley “was the most scientific in the sense of having a formal model,” Dr. Bezemer said.

It was far from a first for Mr. Godley. In January 2000, the Council of Economic Advisers for President Bill Clinton hailed a still “youthful-looking and vigorous” expansion. That March, Mr. Godley and L. Randall Wray of the University of Missouri-Kansas City derided it, declaring, “Goldilocks is doomed.” Within days, the Nasdaq stock market peaked, heralding the end of the dot-com bubble.

Why does a model matter? It explicitly details an economist’s thinking, Dr. Bezemer says. Other economists can use it. They cannot so easily clone intuition.

Mr. Godley was relatively obscure in the United States. He was better known in his native Britain — The Times of London called him “the most insightful macroeconomic forecaster of his generation” — though often as a renegade.

An experiment in leisure & On not being able to paint

The book from which I took the previous passage or should I say the passages on the previous post it’s cold

An experiment in leisure

By Marion milner

Marion milner also published a very important book for artists and others

On not being able to paint

The first book She wrote was

A life of one’s own

I found this book very very important to me throughout my life

But some friends of mine don’t like it so I would say it’s well worth looking at these books.

Giving up specific desires

From the book, an experiment in leisure by Marion Milner

I will post the details later.

hardly knew where to begin in trying to explore them. My first thought was, is it possible that by embracing inner poverty one could escape from the fear of actual poverty, of loss of friends or reputation or livelihood? Echoes of this theme, even from my childhood, began to crowd in on me. In Kipling’s Jungle Book I had especially loved the story of the Miracle of Purun Bhagat, a king who set aside his riches and embraced poverty, wandering with a

Writing Rules! Advice From The Times on Writing Well – The New York Times

https://archive.nytimes.com/learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/writing-rules-advice-from-the-new-york-times-on-writing-well/

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Writing Rules! Advice From The Times on Writing Well

  • Rule 1: Listen to the Voice Inside Your Head. …
  • Rule 2: Learn From the Masters. …
  • Rule 3: Read Like Writers. …
  • Rule 4: Review the Rules. …
  • Rule 5: Study Sentences. …
  • Rule 6: Write With Non-Zombie Nouns and Verbs. …
  • Rule 7: Punctuate That Thought. …
  • Rule 8: Nobody’s Perfect.

More items…

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20 Sept 2012

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.

How can we be willing to accept?

With the wounds of life whose cuts are very deep

We will feel the pains we have ignored

No more can stern denial lock the doors

We stand on cliffs whose fall is very steep

We must find the guidance from within

Pain will show the route that we must take

Do not think by murder to escape.

Oh coward heart I’ve hardly yet begun

Better to take slow and steady ways

Do not climb the rock face of your grief

Danger is the weapon of a thief

The ways of love must always be obeyed

Yet how can we be willing to accept

That we must pay the whole price of this debt?

My Sister Did Me Wrong in Secret. Should I Tell Her I Know?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/magazine/secret-wronged-resentment-ethics.html

We’re entitled, absent special considerations, to feel and to express resentment when we are wronged. Indeed, you aren’t treating people as responsible for their acts if you don’t respond to them with the appropriate “reactive attitudes,” as the philosopher Peter Strawson called feelings like resentment. Your elder sisters, you note, grew up without the financial stability you enjoyed and experienced the kind of corporal punishment that was once the norm and that you were fortunately spared. Yet these historically commonplace circumstances aren’t known to turn people into devious schemers. So your resentment is merited. If your aim is simply, as we say, to get it off your chest, there’s no moral reason

When will we be cummin’ ‘ome at last?

When wi wer cummin’ ‘ome at last
From het Somme and from et Trojan Wars
The ghosts of owa dead menfolk shuffled past

Making sense u’ livin’ is owa task
When th’ heart and soul are sad and sore
When wi eh cummin’ ‘ome at last

The rush an’ rasp of textures breaks et fast
We want to live ; we want to fight no more
The ghosts of owa dead neighbours staggered past

When wi all went mad ,wi acted daft
Wi felt dissected by yon eyes that saw
When wi were cummin’ ‘ome at last

Some we’ weeping ,others sat and laffed
Wi saw owa cat and touched her little paws
The ghosts of owa dead mammies staggered past

Do not kill that good that love adores
Do not dance with evil as ye source
When will we be cummin’ ‘ome at last?
The ghosts of owar own futures shuffle past

Who is never envious?

I enjoy drawing

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/learning/what-role-does-envy-play-in-your-life.html

But is there anything to be learned from envy? If Socrates was right and the unexamined life is not worth living, then surely we should examine our feelings to find what we really care about as opposed to what we would like to think we care about. And what better instrument for this kind of self-examination than envy, a feeling as honest as a punch.

For instance, I often find a reason to become angry with people

We beg you not to leave but you must go

Do not leave us for your lonely grave

Do not leave us here when you are gone

Do not leave my heart in blood to bathe

We need your kindness your work is not done

Do not leave a sister all alone

Do not leave a brother empty sad.

You who share my skin and share my bones

Come back come back live not with the Dead

Here’s your daughter with her newborn babe

Here’s your eldest son oh mother mine

Live again live again oh stay

Do not leave us yet without a sign

The tears run down our faces but too late.

The human world’s not ours to navigate

The examination results

I got a in my art exam

I see

And I got F in the physics exam

But physics does not begin with F.What did you get for algebra?

I think it was x. The unknown quantity

How extraordinary. Was there equation that you can solve?

It was non-linear.

How can they expect children at school to study non-linear equations?

I think they were handing out

Teach yourself everything in algebra in one hour a week .

And how long do you do that for?

X of course.

I wonder who will be the next education minister.

Did they not tell you?

Boris Johnson

Well I will be damned

No you won’t. Hell is full

But what about Donald Trump?

He might make his ownm

Winter

I did not know Death was near again

It’s not the death itself, we fear the pain,

We fear the lonely empty space you leave

I don’t know if you want to be deceived

We all know that one day we must depart

From our little castle in the heart

But we if have the energy to live

To thoughts of death no hearing do we give

When the winter comes the sun is low

Little creatures hibernate .,go slow

Without a human mind are creature sad?

Without our weary thoughts we might be glad

Irrational

Irrational numbers move about the paper when you’re not looking.

2 / 3 turns into to 3/2.

It plays hell with recipes for cakes.

Any number can become irrational especially in hot weather

The solution is never bake on a hot day. Ir6 to make cakes using cup measurements instead of weighing and measuring.

Bills are irrational when they exceed the limit on your credit card and/or your bank balance

God is irrational because he made right angles triangles with two of the sides of length 1 unit forcing he hypotenuse to be √ 2

And √ 2 is not a rational number. It cannot wait expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers.

But why?