Zigzag Idiot

Leo’s brief entry into his blog about psychopathic stage orange CEO’s reminded me of a recent study I encountered. I’m absolutely the least qualified to have an informed opinion on this matter, but the experiments described by Ralph Losey I found to be very interesting and encouraging. There seems to be hope for a appellate court system that would move at a much quicker pace eliminating back logs and with what seems like a very ethical oversight.

Leo’s brief entry into his blog about psychopathic stage orange CEO’s reminded me of a recent study I encountered. I’m absolutely the least qualified to have an informed opinion on this matter, but the experiments described by Ralph Losey I found to be very interesting and encouraging. There seems to be hope for a appellate court system that would move at a much quicker pace eliminating back logs and with what seems like a very ethical oversight.

Nanotechnology Artificial Intelligence Robotics Quantum Computing There are so many areas of our life that are undergoing a paradigm shift. Wonderful, beneficial advances,,,, At the same time just consider how vulnerable we become through loss of privacy. Are you a bit shy or self conscious in some areas of your life? What would you do if you saw images of yourself having sex being displayed on an electronic billboard or through a website and then disseminated by email. Think how people in politics have to consider these possibilities. Because of the strong opinions involved and potential vindictiveness of political adversaries. Our opinions are affected considerably through advertising, varieties of news sources, deep fakes in cheap tabloid news with its paparazzi on the prowl, computer hackers for hire, etc.,,, Pubic opinion is swayed so easily. People who are in politics, legislators, law enforcement, judicial posts, teachers who have to answer to administrators or school board meetings. How important is personal privacy to you? How free are you? To do as you wish or to say what you really think,,,, Look at how identified we all become over different issues. Being gaslit in today’s world or in the near future could be very vicious. Stop and consider with brutal honesty your own psychological integration. Are you individuated enough that you could withstand public ridicule? For arguments sake, can you admit to having parts of your life that you would not on public display? Strong opinions given to a spouse or close friend while in an angry rant. How long has it been since you had freaky sex? What if you were to realize that you were being monitored and were unsure how long it had been going on? Setting aside politics for a minute. Be thankful for all people in public life that make sacrifices you’re not even aware of. No one is perfect. We are all flawed and vulnerable in some way.

This guy is pretty funny. Here are my picks of his short vids- I’ve been remodeling an older house. All new flooring. Installing carpet and linoleum planks. Painting walls, plumbing repairs etc.,, This has been keeping me fairly busy as well as doing some welding repairs on a steel corral. Finally got a windshield put back on my pickup. I’ve been driving it around for the last 8 months without a windshield. I mostly drive a 2015 Subaru and work out of it. Blah, blah blah. I haven’t meditated in a long time. Two days ago I prayed. A short petitionary. It felt good. Perhaps a layer of cynicism was shed. I SHOULD return to doing centering prayer meditation like I did in the past. I was a lot more efficient in work and accomplishing tasks. That “SHOULD”, is, sometimes the voice of the superego. It keeps you from truly individuating. But it also coincides with one’s inner truth or conscience. I find it both paradoxical and ironic that Freud’s delineation of the superego or inner critic can be a barrier to one’s own awakened conscience. But from my experience and understanding, the dang thing goes back to sleep. Us humans do that. We nap. I I’ve got an excellent podcast to share maybe next time I post. It’s about emotional purification. It’s just great. Very reaffirming ,,,, There’s a part or two in it that makes me feel like a complete phony. Well shoot,,, Here it is,,,

@UpperMaster Good suggestion. To humble brag. I assume you’re thinking of spiritual materialism. People who take on a role in which they think they are very “spiritual” , compassionate, realized or enlightened. But when faced with the everyday problems of the world,,, they rage or fall apart. @Santiago Ram I believe your heart is in the right place. Admiting unflattering things about yourself takes courage. Some people who think that they know more than you do and see you admit your pride are likely to challenge you. Because they themselves have deep insecurities and pretend that they don’t. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

Consulting the I CHING this morning I got hexagram 13. No changing lines,,, 13. Associating with People Ch'ien Li The Judgment: Associating with people in the open. Success. It furthers to cross the great water and to be firm and correct. In this hexagram, the Sage addresses the Cosmic Principle of Re-lating, which principle is observable in a person's relationship with the Sage, and which relationship is defined in Hexagram 4, Youthful Folly. The Cosmic Principle of Relating is defined by one single limitation: "no relationship with the ego." Through firmly refusing to relate to the ego in himself and in others, a person follows what is correct. In this way the "great water," which is a metaphor for the gulf standing between the way of the collective ego and the Cosmic Way, is crossed. "Associating with people in the open" means that one's openness is restricted to another's true self only. We relate openly to others when the ego in them is absent, and withdraw into caution and hesitation when the egos become active. Reserve and caution prevent the predatory and parasitic appetite of the ego from gaining the sustenance (our chi energy) it seeks to stay alive. Observing this restriction also aids, nourishes, and strengthens others' true selves. This is the way the Sage retreats the instant the ego in us is present, and returns the moment we have reached a true humility. When a person observes this limitation in relating to another, he is in harmony with the Cosmos. He also creates duration in his relationships by ensuring that they are based on the attraction that always exists between people's true selves. The retreat of the Sage in the presence of the ego gives the example of how to retreat from others. The Sage, in retreating, calls out to our true self to rally itself to stand up to the ego, to affirm its leadership of the personality. Thus the Sage does not "give up" on us. When the ego in another is dominating, we say the inner No to it, and call on their true selves. This activates the Sage in their presence (which has been shut out) to displace the ego's dominance. Just as we experience hindrances in our relationship with the Sage when we put the Sage up as "special," or higher, or in an opposite way see ourselves as the judge of the Sage, we erect similar hindrances when we relate to others in these ways. The Sage also points out the problems connected with the ideals of fellowship and brotherhood traditionally associated with this hexa-gram. These ideals are the basis of the attempt to create a humanistic society where "men are brothers," as a remedy to the evils caused by factionalism as, for example, during the historical era of the "warring states" in China. Such ideals of a universal order designed to create a "lasting unity among men" are bound to fail because they are man-centered, and thus fail to take into account the Cosmic Order on which all unity is based. They also rule out the Helpers, which are necessary to make unity possible.

Addiction This is one part in how I go about healing an addiction. This may sound like bullshit to some. It may not work at all with some essence or personality types. It’s my addiction and with it my self deception,,,,, and other stuff. Don’t shame a person. Don’t divide them against themselves. It may be the job of parents to see their children through the ability to feel shame. I’m only guessing because I’ve never been a parent. Only a child. Perhaps in arrested development. To be brutally honest. When does shame become a hindrance? Children have a brutal honesty at times which is perplexing and stubborn. Perhaps when shame limits innocent curiosity that stifles growth or understanding does it interfere with higher stages of growth. Are my actions actually malicious? Is there a gray area here between right and wrong that has so many variables in this area that one’s personal sense of propriety require metaphorical binoculars and time for pondering,,,,,? Humans who understand the difference between shame and remorse or regret are being contacted by conscience. Cultivated conscience is different from awakened conscience. The yo-yo of being energy and the fluctuations in awakened conscience are something to be considered. We awaken and then we nap, so to speak,,, Somehow connected with that brightly glaring vision of hindsight,,,,😮 SATIATE, SATE, SURFEIT, CLOY, PALL, GLUT, GORGE mean to fill to repletion. SATIATE and SATE may sometimes imply only complete satisfaction but more often suggest repletion that has destroyed interest or desire. years of globe-trotting had satiated their interest in travel readers were sated with sensationalistic stories SURFEIT implies a nauseating repletion. surfeited themselves with junk food CLOY stresses the disgust or boredom resulting from such surfeiting. sentimental pictures that cloy after a while PALL emphasizes the loss of ability to stimulate interest or appetite. a life of leisure eventually begins to pall GLUT implies excess in feeding or supplying. a market glutted with diet books GORGE suggests glutting to the point of bursting or choking. gorged themselves with chocolate Timing- The individual themselves have to decide this. This decision is connected with a willingness to endure suffering. Having gone through periods of being completely satisfied, an organic, inner will is stimulated to see this through. In chronic depression, the ability to remember the felt sense of happiness is lost in a fog of sorts. That’s been my experience in the past. To satiate with intensity allows one to build a storehouse of fullness in satisfaction that you can contact again through memory. It can be a rather seemingly bland place you contact in the future but nonetheless, it can give you the faint memory that the indulgence you need to get past is a practical necessity to move onward in life.

Two steps forward. One step back. This typifies our growth both collectively and individually. From our mistakes and experiences in learning from them, we gain a more solid understanding. Along the way we may experience our every-which-way-ness. You may find yourself tongue tied trying to explain it to others. Everyone you encounter in life is a teacher. There is no one-time across the finish line enlightenment experience, in actualization. This is true, yet it is not true. But it is more true than not true. In other words, we have small earthquakes.

I’m complaining and it helps nothing. I was arc welding on a corral yesterday and got my eyes burnt from being careless. The effects came on about midnight and are just now starting to recede enough that I can tolerate some daylight. When you have these effects. It feels like the inside of your eyelids are sandpaper,,,, Blinking feels like the pupils are having sandpaper drug across them! I had this condition a few years ago and it’s very uncomfortable. I really shouldn’t be looking at this screen,,,,

Good morning Two YouTube shorts for ya

@Apparition of Jack Here’s another bit from a Joe Rogan interview 3 days ago.

https://m.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-847207

You know what? I’ll tell you what. That’s James Watt. He was President Reagan’s Secretary of the Interior. That’s what I know now and I’ve known it before this moment also. Here’s what else. I’m a quiet person but I express myself in the oddest of ways in this Journal. Almost like I do with close friends after we’ve been sitting around for a while and it’s too quiet. Just out of the blue say something completely screwy just to see if they have a sense of humor. To laugh is a fairly common reaction from people but how in the hell could I discern if they were to ‘guffaw’ or ‘chortle’? And if they did. I would feel uncomfortable to verbally distinguish whether or not they did guffaw or chortle,,, That’s enough of that. There are many different people on this forum and they are vastly different in ways. Some relate about issues that are of a sober nature,,, Their concerns about different issues and some of them are very personal.. I’ve learned to not disturb these people. Just read what they need to write about and love them from a distance. It may not be love either that I feel but the need to not argue with them may be what I have to wrestle with. For the most part. The way I express myself in this journal is so foreign to how I am in daily life with people in my community,,,, I would almost say this journal would disturb or piss-off a good number of acquaintances or family members. On the other hand, there are a very few people who know me better than others. They would enjoy a part of what I say here or maybe how I express myself. For the most part,,, it’s all lighthearted.