Appearances
Raving
Appearances are descriptions painted with bluster, bravado,
credibility and emotion.
Personally, I never have had much time for 'appearances'. Being all
flash and show, pride and self regard, 'appearances' are 'perceptual
illusions' that are invariably destined to mislead oneself and others.
For skill in 'Appearances' take "Snake Oil Salesmanship", Course #101.
It is a mandatory curriculum requirement.
Then again I never did earn a PhD or MSc. Nor did I have the patience,
prudence, vanity or enthusiasm to acquire a ready made degree, sold
off the rack. No surprise there. I was too proud, too trusting, too
presumptuous, too respectful, too lazy, too foolish, too desperate,
too full of myself, and too dependent.
So it comes to pass that I appear as a raving looney to my family, to
those that know of me personally, and to society in it's full, wide,
extent. So it comes to be that I have no career, no colleagues, no
friends, no future, and nobody to share my thoughts with. So it turns
out that I feel traumatized, that I feel too embarrassed to show my
face in public. It's hardly any wonder that I fear being too foolish,
too inept and too sorry for myself to just walk away from all the
nonsense.
That is what comes of disregarding 'appearances', of dismissing
appearance as being misleading and worthless. I tar and feather myself
accordingly. I succumb to my own insecurity as to how I must appear to
others. I fall victim to my own appearance of 'self'.
That is the price that I pay for hoping and presuming that others are
more substance than mere appearance. Others value the worth of
appearance. I must respect that. There is nothing which I can offer to
such 'self opinion'.
I fail.
Raving
... better to be a Raving Loonie.
Linda
If your country desired someone other then psychopaths and sociopaths
to be adorned with Phd's et al, then, it wouldn't be among the
countries who enacted Compulsory Education Laws requiring children to
enroll in school several years before normal children develop the
reasoning skills they require to successfully cope with the
psychopaths amongst them.
By compelling children to enroll in school several years before a
normal child develops the reasoning skills needed to cope with the
psychopaths amongst them, your government ensured the best and
brightest students are all weeded out, and, psychopaths and
sociopaths are adorned with all the higher educational credentials.
In a country like yours, being a psychopath or a sociopath is a pre-
requisite to being adorned with a phd.
Everyone must choose between becoming a gangster with a Phd, or,
doing something else with their life.
If you aren't a true blue psychopath, but, you still want a Phd,
then you gotta munch down SSRI's et al, like nearly 72% of all US
medical and graduate students do.
The SSRI's et al don't merely trigger depersonalization and
derealization, but, hypersuggestibility and deindividuation as
well.
On SSRI's et al it's monkey see, monkey do, without any qualms or
pangs of conscience whatsoever, cause your conscience as an
autonomous human being has ceased to exist.
On SSRI's et al, it's all group think, the collective conscience
ala The Borg.
Where SSRI's don't turn the user into a sociopath, betablockers like
Provigilant probably will.
So stop whining about your conscience, scruples, and/or moral
compass preventing you from engaging in the deception, posturing,
ego inflation, and criminal versatality you want to be able to engage
in because you have to in order to gain admittance to the gang with
Phd's, and, munch down the SSRI's or Betablockers that will relieve
you of your conscience, scruples, and moral compass, and enable you
to become a member of the gang of phd's.
Buzzard
> (snip)
That reminded me of something I recently saw on a news segment.
(a PBS news segment, i think)
This being just past the 40th anniversary of the creation
of sesame street, I saw some clips of it, some old, some recent.
Back in the early 1970's, sesame street was rather wild and
maniacal. It spoke to the mind of a child the way that mind
really was. Nowadays, its the "Here's Elmo" show, and follows
a more structured path throughout. It speaks to the mind of a
child the way grownups *want* that mind to be.
Whatever happened to childhood? Is it really the requirement
now that kids must think like adults right away?
--
A Buzzard, remembering a huge yellow canary from long long ago
Linda
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-antidepressants8-2009dec08,0,433635.story
Antidepressants linked to major personality changes
A study finds steep drops in neuroticism and increases in extroversion
among patients taking Paxil. Such traits had been believed to shift
very little over a lifetime.
By Melissa Healy
December 8, 2009