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The Dark Side
When someone speaks of satanic attacks, there are of course two questions: (1) Do such events or actions ever actually occur? And, if yes, then (2) was what occurred an event or action of that kind? The answer may … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Good Look at Evil by Abigail L. Rosenthal, a trusted associate who undermines, accommodating the Inquisition, agreeing with the Inquisitors, angelic when observed, Apollo’s Curse of Cassandra, betraying trust, concealing heretical views, creative innovation in therapy, creative innovator and undermining subordinate, creativity and self-correction, denying the obvious, denying the official view, devilish when unobserved, devilish when unobserved and angelic when observed, disloyal employee, disloyal subordinate, endorsing the official view, experience tailored to preconceptions, explanation fitted to experience, Galileo recants, ill-wishing actions, innovative holistic treatment, innovative therapy, manipulated results, masked bullying, medical power dynamics, naturalistic worldviews, neuropathy treatments, new evidence and theory revision, official power and private opinion, patient intimidation, philosophy and evil, philosophy and satanic attacks, portraying innovation as naive self-deception, power and personal opinion, pretended compassion, pretending to agree with official view, pretending to agree with the powerful, putting a negative spin on everything, refusing to recognize evil, satanic attacks, sincerity vs pretense, spoiling a life story, standard treatment vs holistic innovation, supernaturalism excluded, switching personae to match new situation, switching social masks to match situations, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, the Dark Side, The Little Dutch Boy, the placebo effect and the nocebo effect, trusting someone untrustworthy, two-tiered worldview, unforeseen reversals, unheeded whistleblower, unlucky events, using pessimism to undermine others, vulnerability of the innovator, withholding support from helpless patient
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Loving Thyself
Sometimes the chief happenings of one’s life occur in the form of inward shifts. That’s been true of me lately. Late Saturday night, we returned from five days of neuropathy treatments in California. In the evenings, we dined with some … Continue reading →
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Tagged achieving social harmony, allegedly free, anti-Jewish vulgarity, award for participating, bruised self-worth, can't lose setup, challenge to integrity, Chillul hashem, choice in boyfriends, class and classlessness, countering social bigotry, defending coreligionists, defending fellow victims, demeaning epithets, demeaning language, desecrating the Name, dialectical exploration, dialectically serious, dilemmas of politeness, escapism, feeling of self-worth, fight for one's footing, fight for one's place in the world, getting it right in retrospect, giving up prematurely, handling social combat, historical Jesus, holding one's own, holding one's own socially, inner life, insincere capitulation, insincere harmony, inward change, Jerry Martin's God: An Autobiography as told to a philosopher, Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus the man, Jesus's love, Jesus's unfiltered love, Jewish self-protection, l'esprit de l'escalier, Loma Linda clinic, losing the argument but winning the truth, love they neighbor as thyself, loving one's self, loving thyself, loving truth, loving unreservedly, Mark Bussell, meaning what you say, neuropathy treatment, New Orleans, no win situation, painful memories, premature peacemaking, replaying memories, replaying social blunders, rigged competition, risks for truth, rodeo events, saying what you mean, search for truth, self deprecation as defensive, self insult as defense, self love, self love as an hypothesis, self love in social life, self-approval, self-esteem, sincerity vs pretense, smoothing things over, social double binds, social expertise, social ineptitude, social life as war, social missteps, social putdowns, social skills, spoiling the party, styles of being Jewish, tension of disagreement, the embarrassing boyfriend, the humanity of Jesus, truth inadequately defended, truth seeking argument, unqualified love, what I should have said
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