2024/08/12
jamais vu
The opposite of déjà vu is "jamais vu", when something you know to be familiar feels unreal or novel in some way.
Jamais vu may involve looking at a familiar face and finding it suddenly unusual or unknown. Musicians have it momentarily – losing their way in a very familiar passage of music. You may have had it going to a familiar place and becoming disorientated or seeing it with "new eyes".
Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life
Jung’s Five Pillars of a Good Life
1. Good physical and mental health
2. Good personal and intimate relations, such as those of marriage, family, and friendships
3. Seeing beauty in art and in nature
4. A reasonable standard of living and satisfactory work
5. A philosophical or religious outlook that fosters resilience
Taken together, Jung’s ideas about happiness and his five pillars of well-being stand up solidly to modern research findings. I propose this practical seven-point summary:
1. Do not fall prey to seeking pure happiness. Instead, seek lifelong progress toward happierness.
2. Manage as best you can the main sources of misery in your life by attending to your physical and mental health, maintaining employment, and ensuring an adequate income.
3. If you’re earning enough to take care of your principal needs, remember that happiness at work comes not from chasing higher income but from pursuing a sense of accomplishment and service to others.
4. Cultivate deep relationships through marriage, family, and real friendships. Remember that happiness is love.
5. If you have discretionary income left over, use it to invest in your relationships with family and friends.
6. Spend time in nature, surround yourself with beauty that uplifts you, and consume the art and music that nourish your spirit.
7. Find a path of transcendence—one that explains the big picture in life and helps you comprehend suffering and the purpose of your existence.
Todays Thought
People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.
-Lillie Devereux Blake, novelist, essayist, and reformer (12 Aug 1833-1913)
2024/08/11
Rose Dugdale
Rose Dugdale
Bridget Rose Dugdale (25 March 1941 – 18 March 2024) was an English debutante who rebelled against her wealthy upbringing, becoming a volunteer in the militant Irish republican organisation, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).[1] As an IRA member, she took part in the theft of paintings worth IR£8 million, a bomb attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station using a hijacked helicopter,[2] and developed a rocket launcher and an explosive.
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There is the distinct sense, in all of this, that Rose Dugdale saw her renegade life as a series of reckless, revolutionary episodes, all of which were designed to prove her credibility and commitment to a cause she embraced with a kind of born-again fanaticism. She had, in short, to become even more fanatical than the most hardened Irish paramilitary foot soldiers that she so admired, but who often viewed her Englishness and privileged upbringing with deep suspicion.
“If you come from England, you are always a Brit,” she said in an interview for Irish TV in 2012, “and if you come from my background, it wasn’t surprising that they had difficulty taking me as a part of the republican movement.”
To be accepted, she had to wage a long war on her own country, her class and her lineage. “I had to wrestle with the idea of killing people but, at the end of the day, it’s the only way to deal with them,” she later said of the decision that would dramatically redefine her. “Essentially, it was military action that had a chance to succeed. In my mind, there was no doubt about that.”
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