I go the opposite way:

I’m old, & the defect of being too young to understand is just below my age.

Always…

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Change the rules.

Within the current rules, you already know it is rigged for you to lose, right?

Therefore, CHANGE the rules, please.

Grab leverage that “moves the fulcrums”, & make that into a survival-habit.

The book “Corps Business: the 30 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES of the US Marines” is a book I recommend to all new parents.

I loaned it to a hippie-mom friend, & she wished she’d read it years ago.

Mom loved it.

Please invest-in & read that book, & ask your wife to read it too.

It wasn’t written by a Marine, Freedman, a senior Forbes editor called up the USMC & asked them if they’d mind if he observed them & wrote on it… they, being Marines, realized they could learn something, so the assigned people to keep him alive, & let him do his thing…

Kegan & Lahey ( researchers ) wrote “Immunity to Change”, which is on our unconscious-mind’s fighting off of adapting, of protecting dysfunction.

It isn’t a joyus evening romp through literature, but it is important as hell & I’d force high-school kids to read it, if I could. NOT knowing the stuff in that book costs our lives, our populations, immensely.

Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright’s research I haven’t read. Their condensed-version of it “Tribal Leadership” I have read, & strongly recommend ( I’d require all high-school kids read this one, too! )

It is on the 5 culture-LEVELS, or social-process-levels.

They’re mistakenly calling them stages, but stages is like caterpillar/butterfly: they’re irreversible, whereas culture-process is levels, & one can get bashed down again, after being in a higher one…

Please read these books, & get everyone in your circle to read them, if you can, because the set of you are more powerful than you-the-individual are.

I had to do it alone: nobody’s going to be close to me, ever, & that’s fine: suits my life, might as well adapt to my life’s nature, eh?

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Please read Schneider’s book “Lead Right For Your Company’s TYPE”, & understand the 4 quadrants of work, & how much of the problems in workplaces is a result of not understanding this simple & fundamental thing!

Make a 2x2 Matrix:

Top is Potential ( Schneider does it upside-down, which I can’t understand why… Pie-in-the-sky is up, the solid/concrete is on the bottom. Period. )

Bottom is Actuality

Left-side is People

Right-side is Tasks.

Top-Left is NurturingEnriching quadrant, with kindergarten, infirmaries, learning, spiritual-retreats, etc, all in that quadrant…

Top-right is DrivenDiscovery ( these names are mine, not his, btw ), where Science, Invention, etc, all live He calls it Best-in-class

Bottom-Left is ConsensusCollaborating, so consulting, mediation, urban-planning, etc… all live in this quadrant…

Bottom-Right is ControlPredictability, so manufacturing, etc, all go in here.

The reason this is so liberating, is that it clarifies which parts of one’s job are in what modes, which parts of one’s home & life are in which modes, & then one can be in the right gear for that something, see?

It reduces one’s exhaustion when one has clearer understanding…

William J. Walsh’s book “Nutrient Power” I found helpful, & have replicated both his pyrrol-disorder ( PTSD-RAGEs, in me ) treatment ( combining arachidonic-acid-precursor, which is evening primrose oil, the p5p B-vitamin, & zinc ), and that treatment gave me the only experience in my entire life of not having to fight-every-second against amygdala-highjack/PTSD-RAGE’s highjacking me, so there was a kind of happiness that was complete, & the only reason I’m not doing the full treatment now, is because I want to earn, through my meditations, the origin/root of curing me…

I’ve also replicated his treatment for undermethylated-DNA disorder, but he never explained that one properly either ( he forgot to explain the evening-primrose-oil IS the arachidonic-acid precursor, & he never mentioned that SAM-e has to be enteric-coated, & has to be taken with clear water, about 40mins before breakfast, to get it past one’s stomach, for it to work: as soon as the nausea hits, then you can eat )…

the SAM-e took 3 months to work, when I did it with Methionine, it took 4 months, & was weaker ( so I should have been taking more, obviously ).

4 times tested the pyrrol-disorder treatment, 2 times tested the SAM-e undermethylated-DNA treatment ( yes, depression is one of the undermethylation disorder effects, other people get depression as a result of overmethylation of their DNA, that treatment is folate & niacinimide, iirc )… & 2 times I tested the Methionine treatment, they work consistently, when done correctly.

I’m autistic. All autistics are undermethylated-DNA.

If I really needed to “take the edge off”, to de-stress, I’d take methionine, until I was less brittle.

It works.

Anyways, he identifies what he learned with his 30,000 patient database, & 2 of the 3 major causes of problems, I replicated his treatments for, repeatedly, & they worked.

For depression, there is another key to treating it, I’ve learned:

bright light, like outside, in the daytime ( downtown in big cities can be dark, due to the skyscrapers, so that can’t work, obviously. SAD-treatment lights work using the exact same mechanism as getting out in daytime-sunshine does: you HAVE TO cross YOUR light-threshold, & when you do, it’s like being kicked in the brain with a measure of happiness. Put MUCH brighter lighting in your home, & see if it works, but aim for complete-spectrum, enough so the colors aren’t all fucked, the way poor CRI lamps make things… you want minimum 85CRI: mix warm-white & daylight lamps, & see how much it takes to cross YOUR light-threshold, to get your brain switching into the living mode… For me it’s a ridiculous amount of light, but it works,.

Living in a light-box is better than being needlessly under continuous depression, right?

Oh, put lights on a timer, to use them as your alarm-clock: it works better.

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I hope something in this helps, I don’t want depression winning, OK?

Please invest in changing the rules, & in winning against it.

Even if only somewhat, even if only for the rest of your life ( instead of some symbolic “infinite victory” that our unconscious-mind seems to fixate on )…

Move the fulcrums…

Neither inertia, nor “the system”, cares about your reality/life, you have to make it moving/happening, see?

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, Hoomin…

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I almost agree with you.

Any mind-alteration which is produced by unconscious or conscious intent, or even by hypnosis, can be mental-illness.

This includes social-programming.

One of Doidge’s books identifies that masochism is when one’s mind … I think in abstract-shapes, so remapping the concept into English, the way I remember it, is going to seem strange…

when one’s mind folds such that the portion of one’s mind which had been among the pleasure-brain now is among the pleasure-brain AND the pain-brain, so it’s getting lit-up by both…

he said the treatment is to get people to notice pleasure that isn’t having any pain in it, to try to get their mind to differentiate again…

“folds” ( sorta like crossing one’s legs, compromising one’s balance, while standing ), is how the abstract-shape feels, in my mind, but he cannot possibly have said it that way…

Also, differentiating between the cause ( the brain-damage of child-onset schizophrenia, e.g. which reduces the person’s brain volume by 10% ) vs the effect of that brain-loss, combined with all the social-pressure to behave as though everything were fine ( I experienced this: if kids were helped, instead of bullied & gaslit, then maybe the suicide-rate would be lower than 10% for such lives )

would be better integrity than what we do.

Further, since the placebo-effect and hypnosis both work, provably, then I’d want to use mentally-induced-healing on physical/biological things which yield to it, wherever possible…

( not ignoring it, or blocking awareness of it, but actually dismantling it, like allergies for some people should be dismantlable by hypnotherapy…

a psychiatrist, who happened to be my dad, told me that it was reliable that some people with allergies would have allergic-reactions to entering his office, when he had a picture of a rose visible.

They woudn’t consciously notice it, but he did. )

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For that kind of money, I can buy the tools required to make my own made-to-measure frame, the DIY RETUL used for finding my perfect-fit, the tubing & pieces, etc, & have the most bespoke bike possible for me to have, AND have the tools to build other stuff, too…

Wouldn’t be titanium, but if I wanted to do Ti, then the tubing’s a couple of dollars per inch, & it has to be DC TIG welded, ttbomk, instead of brazed, to it’d be a steeper learning-curve, but still possible…

Why the hell would anybody want a road bike, is the real question…

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DEET is the only chemical that I know-of which they HATE.

I use mosquito-netting to keep them away from me.

I don’t want DEET touching me, at all, ever again.

No, I’m not a mosquito.

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That means that neural-net/deep-learning therapist if done properly is a real potential.

And that means that we may finally hae a psychological equivalent to a “cane” or “wheelchair”, soon, to help us when we’re too exhausted to help ourselves, or when we need another’s help, & there is no other, except for money which we don’t have…

( no, I’m not saying that any for-profit business would do it properly.

I AM saying it’s now possible. : )

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Never count your chickens, before they hatch.

Context ( global ) can change everything, in all kinds of ways.

I hope Harris wins, hugely, but … “The Jezebel”'s cult

( see https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/ for evidence that the label I used is Christian-bible based, ie accurate, according to their Book of Revelations )

has promised civil war if they don’t win.

I’ve been telling people for years that US Civil War Part2, as I now call it, is going to happen with Trump…

( the actual reason is that human unconscious-mind is rather like a 70 billion pound toddler, & it wants to beat God, to break God, to MAKE GOD OBEY, and the Tantrum/Pogrom that will break the world nearly to death, because the collective-unconscious’s toddler wasn’t catered-to enough … is going to take up the rest of this century.

I expect the global everybody-going-at-everybody to begin in 2035 or 2036 or so.

There’s a stage between now & then where the US Civil War butchers NATO, & the anti-NATO empires grab all of the world that they can.

India, betting that Russia’s going to protect it from China, when Russia’s essentially a vassal-state of China, now, … India is hosed for that fight.

Anyways, it’s just The Great Filter: no religion, Abrahamic or otherwise, is the origin of it, it’s just that when someone, including a world-species, reaches nuclear-capability without earning unconscious-mind-growing-up, then … that unconscious-toddler’s going to go RAMPAGING when global population-saturation-frustration becomes inescapable AND when food-insecurity becomes global/continual, AND when political tantrum/pogrom becomes a means of “getting even” with not being catered-to, AND when religious supremacism is doing the same thing, AND when ClimatePunctuation, which WE caused, is accelerating much faster, between Temperate-Planet & Hot-Planet, through the next decades.

The kinds of predictions in that biblical stuff could have been dropped into any planet going into its Great Filter, the simultaneous terrestrial & marine food-chain-collapse ( Rev ), etc, the quakes ( rising sea-levels does that, as it alters the plate-techtonics pattern-of-stresses ), etc…

But given humankind’s unconscious-toddler is the real ruler of our world, & it “needs” to “prove that god must obey” its ignorance’s authority…

same as any narcissistic 2yo’s tantrum,

humankind’s unconscious is going to MAKE the world break, to prove that the tantrum is the ruler, the “god”…

Only problem is, that Universe isn’t going to cater to our racial-toddler…

So, either we force our own race’s unconscious into growing up …

… XOR …

we earn extinguishment.

Universe is honest, at least.

Will the “myth” making of our unconscious, in its enacting of the biblical armageddon, succeed in breaking all life, to “prove” its “greatness”?

Ask the toddlers who killed people with guns, in the US, if they “won”…

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/152/3/e2023061296/193711/Trends-and-Disparities-in-Firearm-Deaths-Among?autologincheck=redirected

not the article on toddlers, that I wanted, but … illuminating-as-hell, unfortunately…

nearly doubled in a few years, eh?

Bah. )

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Feel free to reject what I say as worthless or inapplicable…

Please try doing some no-stark-lines shading art,

perhaps some charcoals or something,

to get you farther into right-hemisphere-dominance mode, RMind, as I call it…

Some of what you’ve earned shows you’re earning some RMind, but the lines-centric stuff is preventing you from getting deeper into it…

just an opinion of some internet rando, is all…

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Isn’t that interesting…

The anbility to prevent the getting-out of evidence of what the authorities do to the locals…

Just like the unconstitutional state-laws which criminalize capturing-of-video-evidene of police executing people…

“I wonder” if this would ever be abused by anti-accountability authorities…

( remember that the whole Christian religion is founded on a guy who was a kind of whistleblower, & had spikes hammered through his wrists, in his crucifixion, for his calling the legalists “hypocrites”…

I wonder how “Christian” he’d find them to be, if he returned, & saw what they’re doing? )

Human nature & demon nature seem … related?

or is that too harsh?

… perhaps … but wasn’t the Inquisition demon-law in the name of benJoseph?

hmm…

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IF you are in accounting, especially if you are in regulatory compliance accounting, or going into it, you NEED to know about a book named “Financial Shenanigans”.

I’m not intellectually-equal to it ( or to accounting, for that matter: psychology’s much easier to crack, for me ), but it is THE most important book for forensic-accountants to know.

The bullshit that they’ve been pulling, where “Between 2017 and 2021, Amazon had more than $25 billion in losses from its devices business, according to the documents. The losses for the years before and after that period couldn’t be determined.” didn’t produce criminal consequences…

You’ve got to be kidding, right?

Individual human goes to jail or prison for $2k tax fraud, but … big tech gets a free pass on that kind of “accounting”??

couldn’t be determined??

Either run a tight-ship or don’t be surprised when it sinks.

Economies are the “ships” that carry our countries, & have to be properly regulated, exactly as a tightly-regulated ship has to be, to keep it afloat longer.

It isn’t the sloppy mechanic-racers who win NASCAR, it is the ones who control everything correctly, with total right-regulation.

I remember when I’d read that Cisco switched to closing their books out daily, so as to always know the exact position of the company…

what an incredible degree of financial-operations integrity that was…

Anyways, “Financial Shenanigans” is THE book to dig into, if you want to know if the business you’re considering investing in is cooking the books… and you’re capable of understanding that stuff at the level it’s speaking…

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Obviously, the EU hasn’t the spine to eject Hungary, so Putin’s Ally/Representative in the EU will remain disabling the EU’s strategy, in all ways possible…

I wonder how many extra thousands of EU troops will die in the escalations of Russia’s aggression, through the next decade(s), as a result of their current-spinelessness?

( remember the English appeasers of Hitler helped the Nazis, & remember that Stalin was providing supplies to the Nazis right up until the day they invaded Russia. Having spine enough to do what is correct/proper isn’t common-enough )

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This may well work for the repubs, though.

They want dictatorship, not representative-republic ( falsely-called “democracy” by us foolish peons ).

Legalism, which the christ they pretend to be aligned-with, repeatedly railed against, calling its devotees “Hypocrites!”…

https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=hypocrite&version=AMP

I believe that in the gaslighting-about-being-aligned-with-christ republican territories … they’re going to get that result to happen…

Which only could have been prevented had the dems put Harris in the race months ago…

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Conflict-of-interest is the root of all corruption.

You remember reading how Biden was being at risk of not being on the ticket in some state because the Dems hadn’t filed paperwork in time?

I fear that there are laws, somewhere, which will prevent Harris from being on the ballot, in that jurisdiction…

Humans only react correctly when it’s too-late, by default.

ClimatePunctuation’s only 1 example of an ocean of them, throughout history…

While Harris is a Godsend, compared with all the alternatives, … I don’t know that all of the required chain-of-leverages is in-place to pull this off, & save the US of A’s life…

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That’s treason, isn’t it?

Enemy-of-the-state?

Political-highjacking/illegal-political-operations, or something?

Something like that…

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“Pro-Life” but they will execute oceans of lives, in their regime.

I expect full-on human-sacrifice worship of Trump within 4y of his gaining dictatorship.

( there’s been continuous human-sacrifice-cult activity in the Americas, Central & northward, for about 11.7 millenia, ttbomk.

This won’t be anything new: it’ll just be the same-old same-old getting blatent about it.

I bet every one of you an imaginary-dime, right now, that the “uncanny valley” is going to be stark on Trump’s face, within 4y, to those who aren’t his worshippers.

I don’t know if there’s a remind-me-bot thingy for lemmy, but if there is, & anybody wants to set a reminder, so you can prove me wrong, go for it.

I think this bet of mine is certain.

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Rule # 1 in dictatorships:

THE PURGE happens, up-front.

Remember “Q” was pushing that that would happen?

The prediction was early, but it was spot on.

As I’ve been saying for years, now.

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This escalation will continue,

until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:

They will simply say something like:

"Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,

XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule."

I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.

Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??

They’ve already done so, in some places…

( Facebook & … was it Myanmar? as 1 example )

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Sooo close…

It isn’t the 2nd US CivilWar,

rather, it is the US Civil War Part2.

Not the US Revolution at all,

rather the Confederates revolution, within the US ( a “reverse takeover”, since they never really surrendered, in the previous half of the US’s Civil War, back before the 1900’s )

This is … ludicrous:

I’ve read that in the Jewish culture/religion that Yehoshua “Jesus” benJoseph, the woke socialist convict, grew up in, there was legal-divorce,

& there was a kind of rule, too:

“you aren’t allowed to marry someone, if you aren’t mature-enough to divorce them honestly/fairly/sanely” in that culture…

I’m not remembering the exact phrasing of it, obviously, but that was the essence of it.

IF you were too immature to divorce responsibly, THEN you were too immature to marry, in the 1st place.

For … to use a phrase from the Christian bible, just updating it to modern terminology … “those who call themselves Christian … but are not” to be warring against wokeness … in the name of the wokest guy in the entire New Testament, … & to be warring against socialism … in the name of the guy who literally is famous for feeding thousands of hungry people who wanted learning/understanding & food, for no money/commercial-exchange, & who also gave free healthcare to any who’d spiritually-earned it … you can see that their bible’s phrase “those who call themselves _ _ _ _ _ _ _ … but are not” is applicable to those who fake ANY religion’s membership, of any culture, anywhere!

How completely shameless can people be??

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