Before opening your mouth, here are 10 rules for free speech
She thinks like I do.
Related: Free Speech Handbook
Accepting revulsion 3: (I don’t know what to say.)
March 31, 2018
When I attend enough to becoming upwardly mobile myself, I often find myself looking down on the men around me now.
I don’t want to look down on anyone. These are (mainly) good guys. These are friends.
So this a learning opportunity, a growth opportunity.
It appears to be a common problem for folk who seek upward mobility.
I find this morning that perhaps I can sublimate or incinerate those feelings as they come on, burning up emotional filth to release light and admiration for guys who, after all, are doing the best they can with the resources they’ve got, and whose motivations no one can gainsay.
Related:
– The request of James and John, part 1
– The request of James and John, part 2
– Resolution
When needs are met
This is the third of three posts about entitlement:
07/12 – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy”
07/19 – “How I became homeless”
Today – “When needs are met”
I have no trouble sharing my candy, when I have plenty.
Jim Snyder even offers people cigarettes, when he has plenty.
When needs are met, one becomes generous.
Continue reading When needs are met
Using a prayer list
It is actually very hard for me to believe this works, but I have a lot of convincing evidence it does, and I do it every day.
The Nun Study
At this writing, I’ve just enrolled at this organization —
http://www.endalznow.org/genematch
— that seeks to match potential participants, with research studies concerning possible genetic bases of Alzheimer’s disease.
I’m not recalling offhand how much I may have told here, of how Alzheimer’s disease took my father away from us.
Referred pain
URGENT ACTION NEEDED — SAVE THE NATION
A FB post by my alter ego, Timothy Wright:
URGENT ACTION NEEDED — SAVE THE NATION
How I became homeless
This is the second of three posts about entitlement:
07/12 – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy”
Today – “How I became homeless”
07/26 – “When needs are met”
This is a long post. One may want to avail oneself of a navigation resource here.
I don’t write about easy things.
At this writing, a more immediate question is how I’ve stayed homeless, which has prompted no small amount of anger and depression in recent weeks. The short answer appears to be that I’ve stayed homeless the same way I became homeless.
Heart and soul
| “Purity of heart is to will one thing.” | |
| — Soren Kierkegaard | |
Changing the subject
Free Speech Handbook Guideline No. 7: Don’t change the subject.
In a recent classic case, unable to refute Emma Gonzalez on the question of gun violence, Steve King accused her of being allied with communist Cuba.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I, as William Tell, will respond when people say ugly things. Sometimes I myself may change the subject.
The Homeless Blogger 