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After I caught covid for the first time about 3 years ago, I've been having debilitating headaches every day. Cluster-Headaches I beleive their called. I began taking Exedrin for the pain recently, and it worked. It kept the pain at bay and manageable, it helped me focus, and helped with other pains due to the fact I'm already chronically-ill. As of recently, I realized I'm addicted, 100% dependent. I get shakey when I don't have it in my system as I'm scared of feeling the pounding stabbing pain, The nausea and dizziness. The pain-meds keep it away. I'm not sure how to ask for help, I need the meds or I'm bed-ridden with agony. But I'm so dependent on them I'm taking it every day, 3 tomes a day. Help?

Hi,
Went on a date last weekend. He said let's have drinks and dinner and after that we will do something in the area there.
We are having dinner and the date lasted 1h and 15 min. He said "I'm meeting friends tonight in the city. Maybe we can hang out next week again". So we didn't do anything afterwards as he said we would do..
I came home, he texted me and I replied. The next day we texted again. I also asked him a few questions..no reply since 3 days.
I don't know about this..I'm thinking that he can't be that busy. I don't want to overreact, but if you really are interested you wouldn't disappear for 3 days imo
We are both in our 30's.

I had 3/4 inch acacia wood floors installed a couple of years ago. The guy who installed it laid the floor butted up against the dishwasher front and subflooring. Now I need to pull out the old dishwasher and replace it with a new one but when delivered the installer said he can’t remove it without damaging the existing floor. The area is approx 2 feet wide and he said he needs about 4 inches of clearance in front of the existing dishwasher. What can I do that’s cost effective to solve this issue without having to tear up the entire floor?

Just moved out to valley river area from near campus, xfinity is bending over with their advertised speeds vs what I'm actually getting. Paying for the 1200 down, getting 550. Even if I can ignore that because it's "fast enough" I hate that there's even a cap in 2023. How's Centrylink or are there any other alternatives that I can look into?

Hello kind people of Portland.
My friend and I are visiting your fair city and having a most wonderful time! After the most delicious breakfast at Belle Pomme, we decided to take a walk down Burnside to the waterfront on the recommendation of the locals. As we were walking, we noticed a line forming outside of a Catholic church. On our way back, we were warmly welcomed and offered a coffee by the priest, Father Tom. We asked him what was going on and he explained that they offer free meals and support to people in the neighborhood. However, after some really rough years during Covid, they are only down to 3 volunteers. As such, they do not have enough staff to fully open their doors to run the kitchen and allow people to sit inside.
Father Tom was a wonderful and kind person who told us that they have been serving the Portland area for years. He met every person there with a warm greeting and didn't care if you were a blundering tourist or a struggling person down on their luck, every person was a warm hello and a offer of coffee or food. He needs at least 15 volunteers to fully open the kitchen. Maybe if you or someone you know is looking for an opportunity to help the less fortunate, please do help!
The church is Saint Andre Bessette Catholic Church, Father Tom Gaughan.
https://www.saintandrebessettepdx.org/volunteer
We love visiting your beautiful city. However I think the most beautiful thing I've seen so far is Father Tom's heart for his people.

Hey guys. I just had a comment removed for “attacking” someone and I’m very sorry that’s how it came across. I was maybe aggressive to the doctor’s treatment suggestion but it was because I was alarmed. Glaucoma runs in my family. I have borderline ocular pressure. There are eye drops to treat this and I was very concerned that a person’s relative’s doctor said that the patient had to lose weight or go blind.
I would just encourage everyone to follow Ragen Chastain’s advice of asking, “What would you do if a skinny person came in with this problem?”
Lots of times, fat people have worse outcomes in many areas because weight loss is the first rec out of the gate and it’s often years later that their actual problem is appropriately addressed.
I’m sorry if the person who made that comment (or anyone who read it) felt attacked. That was not my intention. I was reacting strongly to the doctor’s suggestion and guess it came out wrong.
Please advocate for yourself in medical spaces and bring someone along if you feel like you can’t.

Male
20 Years Old 6ft/350lb
History of Epilepsy Medications: Keppra, Vimpat
Hi, went to take a shower 4 days ago. While washing my face extreme pain erupted. After looking in the mirror there was extreme redness in my face and slight blistering. However, the entire face wasn’t covered, some areas around mouth and eyes where okay. The next day there was a rash on my stomach. I was already applying Hydrocortisone, Calamine, and taking Benadryl. Day 4 and I have had two more breakouts in other areas including my wobbly bits(not fun). I went to see my doctor and he prescribed Prednisone. However, he said it’s very likely my anti-seizure medication “Keppra.” I really don’t understand this because I started taking it when I was 13. Why would this be happening now? I don’t want to stop the medication because the last time I quit it only took two days to end a 4 year long seizure free streak. Is there any other options? Medications, Creams, Snake Oils, Anything?
Face has calamine in photos:
https://imgur.com/a/uQBJJRo

1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.

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1. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy.

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1. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.

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1. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society.

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1. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.

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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MODERN LEFTISM
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1. Almost everyone will agree that we live in a deeply troubled society. One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is leftism, so a discussion of the psychology of leftism can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of modern society in general.

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1. But what is leftism? During the first half of the 20th century leftism could have been practically identified with socialism. Today the movement is fragmented and it is not clear who can properly be called a leftist. When we speak of leftists in this article we have in mind mainly socialists, collectivists, “politically correct” types, feminists, gay and disability activists, animal rights activists and the like. But not everyone who is associated with one of these movements is a leftist. What we are trying to get at in discussing leftism is not so much movement or an ideology as a psychological type, or rather a collection of related types. Thus, what we mean by “leftism” will emerge more clearly in the course of our discussion of leftist psychology. (Also, see paragraphs 227-230.)

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1. Even so, our conception of leftism will remain a good deal less clear than we would wish, but there doesn’t seem to be any remedy for this. All we are trying to do here is indicate in a rough and approximate way the two psychological tendencies that we believe are the main driving force of modern leftism. We by no means claim to be telling the WHOLE truth about leftist psychology. Also, our discussion is meant to apply to modern leftism only. We leave open the question of the extent to which our discussion could be applied to the leftists of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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1. The two psychological tendencies that underlie modern leftism we call “feelings of inferiority” and “oversocialization.” Feelings of inferiority are characteristic of modern leftism as a whole, while oversocialization is characteristic only of a certain segment of modern leftism; but this segment is highly influential.

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FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY
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1. By “feelings of inferiority” we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strict sense but a whole spectrum of related traits; low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self- hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have some such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism.

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1. When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem. This tendency is pronounced among minority rights activists, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities and about anything that is said concerning minorities. The terms “negro,” “oriental,” “handicapped” or “chick” for an African, an Asian, a disabled person or a woman originally had no derogatory connotation. “Broad” and “chick” were merely the feminine equivalents of “guy,” “dude” or “fellow.” The negative connotations have been attached to these terms by the activists themselves. Some animal rights activists have gone so far as to reject the word “pet” and insist on its replacement by “animal companion.” Leftish anthropologists go to great lengths to avoid saying anything about primitive peoples that could conceivably be interpreted as negative. They want to replace the world “primitive” by “nonliterate.” They seem almost paranoid about anything that might suggest that any primitive culture is inferior to our own. (We do not mean to imply that primitive cultures ARE inferior to ours. We merely point out the hypersensitivity of leftish anthropologists.)

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1. Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto- dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society. Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who have secure employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority of whom are heterosexual white males from middle- to upper-middle-class families.

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1. Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. ARE inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.)

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1. Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may NOT be as strong and as capable as men.

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1. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.

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1. Words like “self-confidence,” “self-reliance,” “initiative,” “enterprise,” “optimism,” etc., play little role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society to solve everyone’s problems for them, satisfy everyone’s needs for them, take care of them. He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser.

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1. Art forms that appeal to modern leftish intellectuals tend to focus on sordidness, defeat and despair, or else they take an orgiastic tone, throwing off rational control as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation and all that was left was to immerse oneself in the sensations of the moment.

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1. Modern leftish philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that everything is culturally relative. It is true that one can ask serious questions about the foundations of scientific knowledge and about how, if at all, the concept of objective reality can be defined. But it is obvious that modern leftish philosophers are not simply cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality. They attack these concepts because of their own psychological needs. For one thing, their attack is an outlet for hostility, and, to the extent that it is successful, it satisfies the drive for power. More importantly, the leftist hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior). The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is “inferior” it is not his fault, but society’s, because he has not been brought up properly.

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1. The leftist is not typically the kind of person whose feelings of inferiority make him a braggart, an egotist, a bully, a self-promoter, a ruthless competitor. This kind of person has not wholly lost faith in himself. He has a deficit in his sense of power and self-worth, but he can still conceive of himself as having the capacity to be strong, and his efforts to make himself strong produce his unpleasant behavior. [1] But the leftist is too far gone for that. His feelings of inferiority are so ingrained that he cannot conceive of himself as individually strong and valuable. Hence the collectivism of the leftist. He can feel strong only as a member of a large organization or a mass movement with which he identifies himself.

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1. Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait.

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1. Leftists may claim that their activism is motivated by compassion or by moral principles, and moral principle does play a role for the leftist of the oversocialized type. But compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism. Hostility is too prominent a component of leftist behavior; so is the drive for power. Moreover, much leftist behavior is not rationally calculated to be of benefit to the people whom the leftists claim to be trying to help. For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and symbolic concessions to white people who think that affirmative action discriminates against them. But leftist activists do not take such an approach because it would not satisfy their emotional needs. Helping black people is not their real goal. Instead, race problems serve as an excuse for them to express their own hostility and frustrated need for power. In doing so they actually harm black people, because the activists’ hostile attitude toward the white majority tends to intensify race hatred.

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1. If our society had no social problems at all, the leftists would have to INVENT problems in order to provide themselves with an excuse for making a fuss.

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1. We emphasize that the foregoing does not pretend to be an accurate description of everyone who might be considered a leftist. It is only a rough indication of a general tendency of leftism.

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OVERSOCIALIZATION
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1. Psychologists use the term “socialization” to designate the process by which children are trained to think and act as society demands. A person is said to be well socialized if he believes in and obeys the moral code of his society and fits in well as a functioning part of that society. It may seem senseless to say that many leftists are oversocialized, since the leftist is perceived as a rebel. Nevertheless, the position can be defended. Many leftists are not such rebels as they seem.

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1. The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and act in a completely moral way. For example, we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not. Some people are so highly socialized that the attempt to think, feel and act morally imposes a severe burden on them. In order to avoid feelings of guilt, they continually have to deceive themselves about their own motives and find moral explanations for feelings and actions that in reality have a non-moral origin. We use the term “oversocialized” to describe such people. [2]

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1. Oversocialization can lead to low self-esteem, a sense of powerlessness, defeatism, guilt, etc. One of the most important means by which our society socializes children is by making them feel ashamed of behavior or speech that is contrary to society’s expectations. If this is overdone, or if a particular child is especially susceptible to such feelings, he ends by feeling ashamed of HIMSELF. Moreover the thought and the behavior of the oversocialized person are more restricted by society’s expectations than are those of the lightly socialized person. The majority of people engage in a significant amount of naughty behavior. They lie, they commit petty thefts, they break traffic laws, they goof off at work, they hate someone, they say spiteful things or they use some underhanded trick to get ahead of the other guy. The oversocialized person cannot do these things, or if he does do them he generates in himself a sense of shame and self-hatred. The oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thoughts or feelings that are contrary to the accepted morality; he cannot think “unclean” thoughts. And socialization is not just a matter of morality; we are socialized to conform to many norms of behavior that do not fall under the heading of morality. Thus the oversocialized person is kept on a psychological leash and spends his life running on rails that society has laid down for him. In many oversocialized people this results in a sense of constraint and powerlessness that can be a severe hardship. We suggest that oversocialization is among the more serious cruelties that human beings inflict on one another.

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1. We argue that a very important and influential segment of the modern left is oversocialized and that their oversocialization is of great importance in determining the direction of modern leftism. Leftists of the oversocialized type tend to be intellectuals or members of the upper-middle class. Notice that university intellectuals [3] constitute the most highly socialized segment of our society and also the most left-wing segment.

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1. The leftist of the oversocialized type tries to get off his psychological leash and assert his autonomy by rebelling. But usually he is not strong enough to rebel against the most basic values of society. Generally speaking, the goals of today’s leftists are NOT in conflict with the accepted morality. On the contrary, the left takes an accepted moral principle, adopts it as its own, and then accuses mainstream society of violating that principle. Examples: racial equality, equality of the sexes, helping poor people, peace as opposed to war, nonviolence generally, freedom of expression, kindness to animals. More fundamentally, the duty of the individual to serve society and the duty of society to take care of the individual. All these have been deeply rooted values of our society (or at least of its middle and upper classes [4] for a long time. These values are explicitly or implicitly expressed or presupposed in most of the material presented to us by the mainstream communications media and the educational system. Leftists, especially those of the oversocialized type, usually do not rebel against these principles but justify their hostility to society by claiming (with some degree of truth) that society is not living up to these principles.

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1. Here is an illustration of the way in which the oversocialized leftist shows his real attachment to the conventional attitudes of our society while pretending to be in rebellion against it. Many leftists push for affirmative action, for moving black people into high-prestige jobs, for improved education in black schools and more money for such schools; the way of life of the black “underclass” they regard as a social disgrace. They want to integrate the black man into the system, make him a business executive, a lawyer, a scientist just like upper-middle-class white people. The leftists will reply that the last thing they want is to make the black man into a copy of the white man; instead, they want to preserve African American culture. But in what does this preservation of African American culture consist? It can hardly consist in anything more than eating black-style food, listening to black-style music, wearing black-style clothing and going to a black- style church or mosque. In other words, it can express itself only in superficial matters. In all ESSENTIAL respects most leftists of the oversocialized type want to make the black man conform to white, middle-class ideals. They want to make him study technical subjects, become an executive or a scientist, spend his life climbing the status ladder to prove that black people are as good as white. They want to make black fathers “responsible,” they want black gangs to become nonviolent, etc. But these are exactly the values of the industrial-technological system. The system couldn’t care less what kind of music a man listens to, what kind of clothes he wears or what religion he believes in as long as he studies in school, holds a respectable job, climbs the status ladder, is a “responsible” parent, is nonviolent and so forth. In effect, however much he may deny it, the oversocialized leftist wants to integrate the black man into the system and make him adopt its values.

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1. We certainly do not claim that leftists, even of the oversocialized type, NEVER rebel against the fundamental values of our society. Clearly they sometimes do. Some oversocialized leftists have gone so far as to rebel against one of modern society’s most important principles by engaging in physical violence. By their own account, violence is for them a form of “liberation.” In other words, by committing violence they break through the psychological restraints that have been trained into them. Because they are oversocialized these restraints have been more confining for them than for others; hence their need to break free of them. But they usually justify their rebellion in terms of mainstream values. If they engage in violence they claim to be fighting against racism or the like.

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1. We realize that many objections could be raised to the foregoing thumbnail sketch of leftist psychology. The real situation is complex, and anything like a complete description of it would take several volumes even if the necessary data were available. We claim only to have indicated very roughly the two most important tendencies in the psychology of modern leftism.

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1. The problems of the leftist are indicative of the problems of our society as a whole. Low self-esteem, depressive tendencies and defeatism are not restricted to the left. Though they are especially noticeable in the left, they are widespread in our society. And today’s society tries to socialize us to a greater extent than any previous society. We are even told by experts how to eat, how to exercise, how to make love, how to raise our kids and so forth.

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THE POWER PROCESS
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1. Human beings have a need (probably based in biology) for something that we will call the “power process.” This is closely related to the need for power (which is widely recognized) but is not quite the same thing. The power process has four elements. The three most clear-cut of these we call goal, effort and attainment of goal. (Everyone needs to have goals whose attainment requires effort, and needs to succeed in attaining at least some of his goals.) The fourth element is more difficult to define and may not be necessary for everyone. We call it autonomy and will discuss it later (paragraphs 42-44).

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1. Consider the hypothetical case of a man who can have anything he wants just by wishing for it. Such a man has power, but he will develop serious psychological problems. At first he will have a lot of fun, but by and by he will become acutely bored and demoralized. Eventually he may become clinically depressed. History shows that leisured aristocracies tend to become decadent. This is not true of fighting aristocracies that have to struggle to maintain their power. But leisured, secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic and demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one’s power.

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1. Everyone has goals; if nothing else, to obtain the physical necessities of life: food, water and whatever clothing and shelter are made necessary by the climate. But the leisured aristocrat obtains these things without effort. Hence his boredom and demoralization.

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1. Nonattainment of important goals results in death if the goals are physical necessities, and in frustration if nonattainment of the goals is compatible with survival. Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.

Hi there,
My family (myself, wife, and two sons who are 11 and 13) have just relocated from Auckland. We are currently in a three month rental contract, and we intend to buy a property to move into at the end of our tenancy.
Having come from an Auckland suburb where we were uneasy allowing our kids to play on the streets due to gang activity etc; we are keen to buy in an area that is safe and relatively quiet.
We are aware that Welbourn, Merrilands, Frankleigh Park and some other suburbs meet these criteria.
We would like more info regarding Spotswood, Moturoa, Blagdon, Lynmouth, Westown, as these suburbs seem to have more mixed reviews. We are hoping to Purchase a house for as close to 600-650k as possible, and there are a lot more options in these suburbs.
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Any insight is greatly appreciated,
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Thanks
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Repairs: none
I can meet in the 60137 area.

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2021 M1 iPad Pro 11 WiFi with White Magic Keyboard	iPad is in mint condition, almost always used in conjunction with the keyboard (even when it's not, it's sitting on top of the closed keyboard - never on any other surface). Color is Space Gray, has 128GB of storage, 8GB of RAM. The Magic Keyboard is in good condition and the color is White. The only cosmetic flaws of the keyboard are the marks on the bottom as well as an impalpable mark on the "R" key. Comes with original box and accessories.	$750 shipped or $700 local	https://imgur.com/a/i2fNON1?s=wa
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I know there are so many stories lately about swapping seats so I just wanted to share my story.
Last year, I had just moved several states away and started a new job. I had none of my belongings and just getting settled.
I then got the call. My father was in the final stages of dying.
He had been on hospice for less than a month and while I had seen him before I left, I now had limited time. Things were hysterical and frantic for my partner and I. Getting and arranging last minute flights. Explaining to my boss why I needed to leave after less than a week at my new job. Since we had just moved to this area, no dog boarding would take our dog so we had to take him on the plane with us. There was so much stress as we raced to the airport. Desperate to see him for the final time before it was too late.
We ended up getting a flight but we were not seated together. We figured we would ask if any of our seat mates wanted to switch and if they didn't it would not be a big deal. Apparently my partner told a lady next to him the situation and she switched with me. This lady sacrificed her aisle seat in the 12th row for a middle seat near the far back of the plane. It allowed me to sit next to my partner and discuss the upcoming steps and plans and to get ready to say goodbye to my father. This kind and wonderful lady did so much for me in my time of need, and she doesn't even know it. She allowed me to have my partners support and kind words during an emotional time. I think about her from time to time and wish her the very best in life.
And in case you were wondering, I made it in time to see my father once last time.
Please share your airport or travel acts of kindness and try to pass it along when you get the chance.

Photo of shoes
About me: Male, 25, 180lb, 6'0", 8:30ish/mile for easy runs, 22:15 5k, heel-striker-trying-to-transition-to-midfoot-striker
As stated in the title, I was planning on running the half in a pair of Ghost 12's that I found at Goodwill basically brand new back in January. This isn't my first half, and while training I generally switched between my Rebel v2 and the Ghost 12. However, I picked up the Rebel v3 from Joe's Outlet for like, $50 a month ago, and they've since become my favorite, even on slower days.
I didn't notice how compressed the foam in my v2's had become until the v3's showed up. Granted, I have put about 300 miles on them and the rubber on the bottom is almost completely gone. The one area the Ghost definitely beats out the v3's on is stability, as there's not as much rocking motion like you find in foamier shoes. But, even considering the stability, I still feel like the v3's push me forward more and can keep up for the duration of the race.
Anyone else recently surprised by a new shoe you've added into your rotation?

I can meet in the 60137 area.

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Hi everyone! I am not new into Neville’s teachings and I even manifested big changes in time crunch before and I have a good belief about I get everything I want in urgent situations.
But this one is scaring me: I need to find a new house before 20th of June, and housing market is awful: way too expensive that it is almost impossible for a student like me to live on her own, houses around my desired area are old and I seriously need to find a house that I can live alone, is very cheap and beautiful & new inside and out. Otherwise I have to live with people I don’t know and under unwanted circumstances.
Maybe I am scared because even though I manifested big things before I have never become this spesific, anyone lived through something similar and successfully manifested their new home?
I might need some guidance

Anybody buy property in an AE flood zone? Is this something I should automatically run away from, or is this just a necessary evil dealing with otherwise seemingly in demand areas between tidal creeks (ie Ogden/Middle Sound Loop area)? Apologies if this is obvious to those from here, new to the area and to coastal/hurricane climate in general

I was let go from my former EA role about a month ago, and as I search for new opportunities, I'm now interested in bumping up my professional development, as well as other certifications/training, to build out my resume more and obviously to gain more knowledge! Perhaps certifications/training that simply provide more knowledge in areas like admin, ops, business/corporate, or anything else that could be beneficial for EAs, or any professional, really (example off the top of my head is G-Suite or Microsoft proficiencies).
Inexpensive/free options are preferred, of course lol. Also open to book suggestions!

From time to time its asked how the Imperium would react to new human worlds. Despite their cruelty, the Imperium actually tries to negotiate first with humans, only reacting with violence when "heresy" is detected or their offers rejected, but, how this is done? The excerpt that follows explain

The Word of the Emperor
"The Emperor's light can read) every corner of the galaxy, so long as we bear bis torch."
— Pax Missionary Flestin Drunn.
The Ecclesiarchy never stops spreading the teaching of the Emperor. It is a faith constantly expanding, growing and spreading on the heels of the Imperium's armies Not counting those worlds soiled by aliens or incapable of supporting life, there are countless worlds where humanity has taken root but has lost contact with the Imperium. Often these places fall to barbarism and the worship of heathen gods, isolated and alone as they are in a hostile universe. When such a world is discovered, the Ministorum is among the first to make contact, ensuring that the local population embraces the glory of the Emperor. They are also vital in weeding out heresy among the inhabitants and deciding whether or not they are a worthy addition to the Imperium. In some cases, a population is irredeemable and must be purged, so that the world can be resettled with "good" stock. Even after a world has accepted the rule and worship of the Emperor, complete conversion of the population can take many years. Whole arms of the Ministorum are dedicated to this task and travel from world to world, ensuring the faith of local populations.
New Words
When a new world is identified, the Administratum records its position and reviews its worth based on the information at hand. While some worlds are discovered by Imperial explorator fleets, most are chanced upon by individual vessels such as Rogue Traders and other questionable characters. Initial information about the new world can be sketchy at best or misleading at worst. More than one Rogue Trader has concealed the location or details of a planet so they might exploit it themselves. In any case, once the Administratum has properly processed the information available, a task that can sometimes take years given the thousands of worlds discovered within the Imperium each year, they issue it a priority. This is an order that allows other arms of the Imperium to decide whether or not the planet is worth their notice. If the world appears to have a human population, the Ministorum becomes involved.
The next step when such a world has been identified is to conduct a high-orbit survey. This allows data to be gathered, such as the technology level of the world, basic geography and a list of its abundant resources. Depending on the sophistication of the populace, this may be the point where they become aware of Imperial presence. When this is the case, one of two things occur: they concede to the will of the Imperium. or they resist. In the latter case, Imperial forces are swift and brutal in the suppression of such dissent, crushing it utterly. If this occurs, or the inhabitants remain unaware of the gaze of the Imperium, then things move along to the next step.
Now the Ministorum arrives in full force, hundreds of missionaries and thousands of lesser Ecclesiarchy servants descend upon the world. Their task is to educate the populace and instruct them in the worship of the Emperor. They are also there to delve into the planet's culture and history to examine it for signs of taint. Typically, they start with the world's leaders, kings, governors and dictators. Turning them to the cult makes it easier to sway their subjects They subvert local beliefs and religions, either by integrating them into the Ministorum as a cult of Emperor worship or by outlawing them as heresy. Over time, the population is taught that they have always been servants of the Emperor and the gods they once worshiped have been "echoes" of His great cult all along.
Acolytes sometimes play a role in this part of a world's integration into the Imperium. Called upon by the Inquisition, they arrive disguised as settlers or traders and integrate themselves inside the communities. They explore the culture and the planet, often travelling to remote areas in search of the stain of heresy and sedition.

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