Doctors on a roll

First they needed a plan 

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A plan to take over the world
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To be able to control our health and lives and the type of treatment we receive.
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In the first phase it was necessary to define when the life of the body begins and ends
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Because once that can be done then Doctors have control over who can do what with a human body.
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By the 80's Doctors now ruled the body having successfully persuaded everyone when life begins and ends
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Thus allowing them to have control over how life begins and ends
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They then grabbed hold of the mind by classifying what is and is not mind
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And the final act in 90's they grabbed hold of the spirit
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They controlled the question of life and derivatively the question of unhappiness
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Unhappiness is a huge growth area for the control of treatment once you have been able to classify unhappiness as a disease
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Why?
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Because once unhappiness is classified as a disease then doctors can prescribe treatment
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And treatment for most diseases today is a drug
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Voila!
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Another area controlled
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What am I talking about?
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In order to advance their power and business it was necessary for Doctors to gain more control
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To do this they started with the body
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By becoming the arbiters of when life begins and ends they increased their power to prescribe treatment and what type of treatment
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By moving to control what is and what is not mind they could then control treatment
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By moving on to dictate what is or is not spirit they are now able to dictate treatment
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Controlling treatment = money = power
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Game and set to the Doctors
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Or is it?
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Many doctors are not happy with this situation as it offends their ideas about what they are here  for
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Offends their ideas about what kind of treatment they can offer.
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Others merely play the game and go along with whatever their organisations say
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For the present time the rules are clear and free thinking Doctors are in a minority
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For the rest of us it is important that we understand medical motivation so that we can be responsible for our own health
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That we can make informed decisions
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That those decisions be based on objective criteria
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This is after all your own life we are talking about
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Be aware that most doctors must conform to the rules of their organisations and procedures.
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That what they prescribe must also fit within those rules, whatever their own thoughts might be.
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This might or might not be what is best for you.
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Inform yourself and always get second opinions where important decisions are involved

Learn from these

There are only two ways to live your life. 
One is as though nothing is a miracle. 
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
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To dream of the person you wish to be is to waste the person you are.
Author Unknown
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Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
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It is not length of Life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might just be the world.
Author Unknown
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The same hammer that breaks the glass forges the steel.
Russian Proverb
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Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.
Author Unknown


We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
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And sometimes when you turn, there is a shoulder to lean upon, a smile to believe in, a hand to hold. 
Those are the times your faith in the world is restored.
Nirvikar Dahiya


Laughter is the music of life.
Sir William Osler


Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we will find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly


Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. 
It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.
Author Unknown


We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
Francois Rochefoucauld
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They who wonder discover that this in itself is wonder.
M.C. Escher
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Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero, 44 B.C.
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In the giving-is the getting.
David Matoc


The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin


To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Johnson, 1709-1784
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Anyone can become angry-that is easy, but to become angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way-that is not easy.
Aristotle


Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Goethe, 1749-1832
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961


Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers


Sickness is felt, but health not at all.
Thomas Fuller

Side effects

Too often the individual or corporation making a profit does not take his full real costs into consideration
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Too often his profit is someone else's  cost
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He who can most successfully push his costs onto others benefits the most
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This logic of externalization applies on the level of the individual or corporation.
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Profits accrue to those who most successfully externalize their costs.
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This is the second step of the eternal formula for business success.
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The first is to take something away from people and then sell it back again.
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Make someone else pay at least some of the costs, while you get the profits.
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Do the printers of unwanted junk mail have to pay the costs of disposing it in landfills?
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Do the makers or users of pesticides have to pay the costs of cleaning the groundwater they eventually contaminate?
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Do the makers or users of nitrogen fertilizer have to pay the costs of eutrophication.


Those things like algae blooms that deoxygenate water and kill the fish?
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Would the mounds of plastic junk we buy every Christmas still be so cheap if they incorporated the medical costs of toxic petroleum by products?
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When cancer rates rise 500% near an incinerator, refinery, or paper mill, does the manufacturer pay the medical costs? 

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Paul Hawken writes,
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Gasoline is cheap in the United States because its price does not reflect the cost of smog, acid rain, and their subsequent effects on health and the environment.
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Likewise, American food is the cheapest in the world
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But the price does not reflect the fact that we have depleted the soil, reducing average topsoil from a depth of twenty-one to six inches over the past hundred years
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Contaminated our groundwater and poisoned wildlife through the use of pesticides.
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All of these examples are real and continue to this day
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Multiple this around the world.
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Consider how it is almost impossible to hold those responsible for damaging the environment liable for the damage they cause.
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Fortunately Nature is on the case

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Nature in the shape of her increasingly violent weather changes is bringing many of these situations out into the open making it harder to spin away from responsibility.
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Hard times are a coming, are upon us.
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Maybe just maybe we will understand that we have not much time
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Time to change how we behave.
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There is a choice 
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A choice to choose  to live in harmony with nature.
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Rather than abusing her.

More for you

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
Henry David Thoreau
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"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
E. Hubbard
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"Nothing is quite as funny as the unintended humor of reality."
Steve Allen
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"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."
John Lennon
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"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain
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"Sometimes people come into our lives and change it forever, and we never ever stay the same."
Charles Goodrow
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"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."
Sally Koch
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"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
Author Unknown
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"Be like a duck. 
Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."
Michael Caine
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"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. 
I am thankful that thorns have roses."
Author Unknown
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"We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. 
If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you."
Jeff Warner
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"How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend."
William Rotsler
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"It's not denial. 
I'm selective about the reality I accept."
Calvin
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"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
Madeleine L'Engle
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"We are never alone. 
We are all aspects of one great being. 
No matter how far apart we are, the air links us."
Yoko Ono
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"Team spirit is knowing and living the belief that what a group of people can accomplish together is much larger, far greater, and will exceed that which an individual can accomplish alone."
Diane Arias
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"What comes from the heart goes to the heart."
Samuel Coleridge
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"Always laugh when you can. 
It is cheap medicine."
Lord Byrom
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"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer."
Ed Cunningham

Thoughts on life

Our life experiences are all different

Or so it seems

Yet when we look at the thoughts below we can see that we all go through the same experiences.

The circumstances might be different but the experiences lead to the same learning

Enjoy these they might be you

It’s not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts. 

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

You can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes but after that you’d better know something.

You cannot make someone love you all you can do is be someone who is open to love and the rest is up to them.

It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.

No matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and it is smart if you can forgive them for that.

You can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

It’s taking a long time to become the person I want to be.

Always leave loved ones with loving words because it may be the last time you see them.

You can keep going long after you can’t.

We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.

Either you control your attitude or it controls you.

Regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there had better be something else to take its place.

Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of
the consequences.

Money is a lousy way of keeping score.

My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have great times.

Sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you’re down will be the ones to help you get back up.

Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.

Never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish because it is such a put down and what do you know that allows you to know better, besides what a tragedy it would be if they believed you.

It isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others you have to learn to forgive yourself.

No matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

Just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other and just because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do.

You shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.

Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

No matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt and you will hurt in the process.

Even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.

Credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.

It’s hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people’s feelings, and standing up for what you believe.

People will forget what you said, and people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Social Book

Lost chances

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Just a little story that resonates...........
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10th grade
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As I sat there in English class, I stared at the girl next to me. 
She was my so called "best friend". 
I stared at her long, silky hair, and wished she was mine. 
But she didn't notice me like that, and I knew it. 
After class, she walked up to me and asked me for the notes she had missed the day before and handed them to her. 
She said "thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. 
I wanted to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.
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11th grade
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The phone rang. 
On the other end, it was her. 
She was in tears, mumbling on and on about how her boy friend had broken her heart. 
She asked me to come over because she didn't want to be alone, so I did. 
As I sat next to her on the sofa, I stared at her soft eyes, wishing she was mine. 
After 2 hours, one Drew Barrymore movie, and three bags of chips, she decided to go to sleep. She looked at me, said "thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.
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Senior year
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The day before prom she walked to my locker. 
My date is sick" she said; he's not going to go well, I didn't have a date, and in 7th grade, we made a promise that if neither of us had dates, we would go together just as "best friends". 
So we did. 
Prom night, after everything was over, I was standing at her front door step. I stared at her as she smiled at me and stared at me with her crystal eyes. 
I want her to be mine, but she isn't think of me like that, and I know it. 
Then she said "I had the best time, thanks!" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. 
I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.
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Graduation Day
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A day passed, then a week, then a month. 
Before I could blink, it was graduation day. 
I watched as her perfect body floated like an angel up on stage to get her diploma. 
I wanted her to be mine, but she didn't notice me like that, and I knew it. 
Before everyone went home, she came to me in her smock and hat, and cried as I hugged her. Then she lifted her head from my shoulder and said, "you're my best friend, thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. 
I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.
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A Few Years Later
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Now I sit in the pews of the church. 
That girl is getting married now. 
I watched her say "I do" and drive off to her new life, married to another man. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn't see me like that, and I knew it. 
But before she drove away, she came to me and said "you came!". 
She said "thanks" and kissed me on the cheek. 
I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why.
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Funeral
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Years passed, I looked down at the coffin of a girl who used to be my "best friend". 
At the service, they read a diary entry she had wrote in her high school years. 
This is what it read: 
I stare at him wishing he was mine, but he doesn't notice me like that, and I know it. 
I want to tell him, I want him to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love him but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why. 
I wish he would tell me he loved me! `
I wish I did too...` I thought to my self, and I cried.

Oh Shit Moments

These are truly oh shit moments


Have a look

This Weeks Top Oh Shit Moments [21 Pics]

Imagine yourself in one or two of these situations


No thanks!

The longer term shift

                              

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Today so many of our words are lies

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Lies we use without thinking
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And where the sentences are not lies they carry hidden assumptions
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Like the phrase human nature
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There is no such thing separate from ourselves
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Most of us have not thought of this, do not think of this
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Not realising how this simple expression creates an artificial divide
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Another we often use is the expression "is like" implying that something is the same as something else, when it either is or it is not
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Or matter and spirit which are not two separate things they are two aspects of one and the same thing
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If we were to examine how often we make false distinctions between ourselves and whatever it is we are saying we would be quite shocked
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Poor lonely us isolated in a big nasty world
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Just a story of our making for that is what it is and we are slowly beginning to awaken from this story
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Stories we have told ourselves since we were little
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Maybe we were shouted at and that became 'nobody likes me'
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We live in a world of interpretation we created that we mistake for reality.
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We live in our stories
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Which then create events to justify themselves and strengthen the prison of our story
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A story where we are the victims
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Fast forward many years and here you are manipulating
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Controlling
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Weaving and ducking
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And all because many, many years ago
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You were frightened and created this strategy to avoid and hide the fear 
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A fear created by your fear
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A story you told yourself

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On a broader wider scale the same is true of humanity
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We told ourselves stories and over time these have become unchallengeable truths
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Such as Darwin's ideas, except he actually had other ideas little mentioned about cooperation and not competition.
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These are seldom talked about as it would mean examining our understanding of ourselves and our role in nature.
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Our stories
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Easier to continue with the lies
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Problem is lies have a habit of coming back at us
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When at long last someone challenges them.
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We then have to create new ones.
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Then slowly we accept the new thinking implicit in this new story
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Until it too becomes the unchallengeable orthodoxy
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And so it goes on
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Slow learners humanity
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The difference now is that many stories are coming unglued
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The pace of life is making it hard to sustain them
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Giddy times where the orthodoxy can no longer sustain its lies
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And you are part of these times.
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You too are living in this period of unprecedented change.
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How are your stories?
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How do you handle the stories society uses?
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Do you try to find the truth of things?
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Or do you just go with the flow?

Flourshing

One of the pioneers of positive psychology, Professor Martin Seligman insists he is not recanting the doctrine which has made him a bestselling author and world-renowned expert on optimism but just that we should be focusing less on people's happiness and more on their ability to "flourish". 
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He said he was naive in the past to think wellbeing was based only on mood.
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The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.
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The prime minister has long been interested in Seligman's work and first floated the idea of a "happiness index" in 2005. 
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When he was in Downing Street Tony Blair considered the idea but dismissed it as "too flaky" and Cameron has been criticised for focusing on wellbeing as a distraction from the economy. 
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He has admitted that measuring happiness could be seen as "woolly" and "impractical" but insists he wants a gross domestic happiness scale to become as reliable an indicator of a country's progress as its economic output.
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Now the Office of National Statistics has four happiness questions in this year's annual Integrated Household Survey which will be sent out to 200,000 British homes this month.
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Seligman, who has been in touch with the British government over his methods, said he welcomed the move on "both on scientific grounds and on political grounds". 
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But he added that the notion of what made people happy had to be rethought. 
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He said he has become increasingly frustrated with the perception of what he called "happyology" and has written a new book called Flourish to make a distinction.
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I wanted to be much clearer that this was much more than a happyology. 
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What humans want is not just happiness. 
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They want justice, they want meaning. 
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Even depressed people, he said, can flourish. "I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. 
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When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
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When positive emotion was more central to your ideas, one problem was the evidence that most people have a 'set point' or 'set range' for their mood
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This meaning that whatever they do or whatever happens to them, they tend to revert to a certain level of happiness.
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It was while president of the American Psychological Association in 1998 that Seligman began to promote the idea that psychology should be about creating better mental health. 
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He is involved in a project with the US Army to increase levels of resilience and decrease mental health problems among soldiers and there is enormous interest in what positive psychology could achieve in schools.
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Martin Seligman 
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A good idea indeed but not if the surrounding environment is in deep trouble.
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Our world, his context, is in deep trouble
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Difficult to flourish in such an environment.
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It is not impossible
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Just a bit more of a stretch at this time.

For those who take life too seriously

Save the whales. Collect the whole set
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A day without sunshine is, like, night
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On the other hand, you have different fingers.
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I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
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42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
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I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
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You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
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I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
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Remember half the people you know are below average.
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Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it  remains
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Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool.
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Atheism is a non-prophet organisation.
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He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
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The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the
cheese.
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I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
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I intend to live forever - so far so good.
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Borrow money from a pessimist - they don't expect it back.
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If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
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The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.
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Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.
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When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane and going the wrong way.
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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
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Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
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For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
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No one is listening until you make a mistake.
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Success always occurs in private and failure in full view.
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The hardness of butter is directly proportional to the softness of the bread.
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The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.
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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
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To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
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You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
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Two wrongs are only the beginning.
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The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
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The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
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Change is inevitable except from vending machines.
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Get a new car for your spouse - it'll be a great trade!
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Plan to be spontaneous - tomorrow.
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Always try to be modest and be proud of it!
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How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand...
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Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
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If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you.