Nov 1
"I zato (Švicarci) su učinkoviti i produktivni, nikada nisu pod pritiskom ili u stresu i to mi je bilo najčudnije kad sam tek došla, nema žurbe i nema stresa, ovdje ako si u stresu znači da radiš nešto pogrešno"
Nov 1
"Svaki Švicarac se bavi društveno-korisnim radom, a to onda, naravno, implicira i funkcioniranje kompletnog sustava, koji ovdje radi za društvo i sve njegove članove, a ne protiv njega, kao u Hrvatskoj"
Nov 2
A change in mindset only works if it is backed by a change in action.
YT 15 Mindset Shifts That Change Your Life
Nov 2
Do the thing your brain tells you it won't work out and stop defaulting to No. It is free and literally life changing.
YT http://ALUX.com
Nov 2
In 1968 Soviets were trying to hoax the Westerners by faking a Moon landing.
YT Dark Space
Nov 3
It is important when we try to forgive ourselves that we recognize there are people on this planet who intentionally mean to hurt other people. They very rarely feel empathy, say sorry or really mean it.
YT Lisa A. Romano Breakthrough Life Coach Inc.
Nov 4
Whistleblower from a bank in Croatia discloses how corrupt system in a corrupt country works:
"We divided our clients to stupid ones and smart ones".
https://www-index-hr.translate.goog/vijesti/clanak/video-bankarica-u-ekskluzivnom-intervjuu-klijente-su-dijelili-na-glupe-i-pametne/2312316.aspx?_x_tr_sl=hr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui
Nov 4
Success is not comfortable procedure. Be comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever wanna be successful.
YT "You will fail in your comfort zone - Steve Harvey"
youtube.com
Nov 4
In Italy, the movie "Home Alone" is known as "Mom I missed the plane".
Nov 5
Narcissists are not open to any form of criticism and they have extreme reactions when they perceive any form of criticism.
YT Lisa A. Romano Breakthrough Life Coach Inc.
Nov 5
This is sign when you are dealing with someone with high narcissistic traits; when we are dealing with the word 'No'. Another is when someone's being highly reactive to the slightest hint of being slighted.
YT Lisa A. Romano Breakthrough Life Coach Inc.
Nov 5
Paying attention to dynamics, you will not get hooked as much. You won't get upset so about it, you wont pay attention of content what they are yelling at you. You'll be 'that's cute, they try to pull me in'.
YT Elizabeth Kupferman
Nov 5
Rather than 'I still need to fear their response', it's more like 'Their response tells me where they belong in my life'. Dependency on their approval is no longer, I do not need them any longer to survive.
YT Happiness After Codependency
Nov 5
This part of you has done wrong, it is not bad, it did anything wrong, it didn't earn this. Our job is to bring space love into it, care, be valued. You advocated yourself, they got angry and left, that is manipulation, that is harm, you did not earn that.
Nov 5
"Early on, before she became a vegetarian, fried shrimp was indicated as her favorite food." (simpsonswiki)
Lisa Simpsons eating fried shrimps in the first Treehouse of Horror (1990)
Nov 5
We're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch.
Psycho (1960)
Nov 6
Jurassic Park but with a Cat
Nov 7
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
Nov 8
People pleasing doesn't always look like saying what people want to hear. Sometimes it looks like being so chill about things, go with flow, not ruffle any feathers and you make it super easy for people to be around you.
YT Moon + Manifest
Nov 8
If you're highly sensitive, you really don't want to piss people off. You don't want to have people not like you. You don't want to deal with that discomfort of potential conflict. Ask yourself if that's really the truth of who you are.
YT Moon + Manifest
Nov 8
It might be possible that you've cultivated that persona as a way to people please. As a way to make it easier for people to be around you and as a way for it to be easier for you to be around other people.
YT Being Cool As a Form Of People Pleasing
Nov 8
Stop thinking 'I hope they will like me'. Switch it up. Start thinking Do I like this person? Am I enjoying talking with this person? Get to see if I enjoy talking to this person.
YT How to be okay with people not liking you.
Nov 8
A person has to achieve two seemingly completely disparate things simultaneously: be aware of the trends and current problems, and avoid conventional solutions to those problems. Inside box to observe, outside box to solve problems.
YT Successful People
Nov 8
"Perceived by the Catholic Church as a parody of Christ's second coming" - opening scene in Fellini's 'La Dolce Vita' (1960)
Nov 9
If you avoid all the risk you will have very limited, restricted, terribly painful life.
YT Dr. Aziz
Nov 9
There is something magical that happens when we realize other people are on par with us. We can start question them and we no longer see them as our automatic masters. This realization removes fears and panic and anxiety related to other people.
https://77ranko.blogspot.com/2021/04/my-yt-comments-about-social-anxiety.html
Nov 9
GPS navigation unit as prophesized in James Bond's Goldfinger (1964).
Nov 9
Social Anxiety is similar to 3D chess from Star Trek, it is multidimensional issue.
Nov 10
If I have belief that there is something wrong with me, then my brain will actually look for circumstances where I recreate that or I live that belief out so it reaffirms my reality.
YT Michele Lee Nieves Coaching
Nov 10
'Hollywood Candlelight and Wine' is an Internet Radio station broadcasting from Hollywood, California.
CandleWine glassMusical score
Easy Listening, Lounge, Chill-out, Oldies and Smooth Jazz Music:
http://hollywoodcandlelightandwine.playtheradio.com
Nov 10
Our mind can play trick on us especially trying to gain certainty. It can derive patterns of thought based on past experiences being projected onto, overlaid onto our current reality.
YT Thais Gibson
Nov 10
If you come to terms with your morality, insecurity will go. You're acting like you are going to lose something. There is nothing to lose or gain. Important thing is you shine in yourself, that's all that matter, if they don't see it, that is their problem
Nov 10
Godzilla attacking Japan in the movie "Godzilla 1985".
T-RexFlag of Japan
The picture was nominated for Hastings Worst Picture of 1985, and computerized Godzilla becoming the first fictional character nominated for a 6th Razzie. (IMDb trivia)
Nov 11
If you are dealing with external guilt tripper you do what they want.
Change your emotional vocabulary. Delete word guilt and replace it with word regret. Regret does not imply personal responsibility.
YT Caregiver Help
Nov 11
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Nov 11
Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963) versus French and Saunders parody
Nov 12
At stage one we make moral judgements based on obedience and punishment. He asks himself how can I avoid punishment? At stage 2 we are motivated by self interest. She knows she could become a victim herself someday.
Kohlberg’s 6 Stages of Moral Development
Nov 12
At stage three Interpersonal accord and conformity guide our moral judgement. When she realizes that all the others are just watching, she decides not to get involved. She wants others to see that she's a good girl conforming to the ethics of the community
https://youtu.be/bounwXLkme4
Nov 12
At stage four we value authority and want to maintain social order. He feels it is important to follow the rules, otherwise chaos breaks out. At stage five, we understand rules as social contract as oppose to strict order. Does a rule truly serve all members of the community?
Nov 12
At stage six, we are guided by universal ethical principles. The commitment to justice carries with it an obligation to disobey unjust rules. He believes that all people should learn to understand each other's viewpoints.
YT Kohlberg’s 6 Stages
Nov 12
The headmaster follows a universal ethical idea at complete disconnect with what society thinks or the rules say. To him, everything is solved through compassion. Not every person reaches this level.
YT Kohlberg’s 6 Stages of Moral Development
https://youtu.be/bounwXLkme4
Nov 12
Narcissistic parent absolutely discourages autonomy and discourage boundary. You are not allowed to have boundary, it is just like a betrayal to them. If you don't want to do something they're doing, you get guilted and shamed for it.
YT Jared Mello
Nov 12
It teaches people that whenever I have a thought on my own, whenever I am doing something that is comfortable for me, it's wrong. That's what a narcissistic parent teaches their kid. To not trust their intuition, not trust their gut, to not speak up.
Nov 12
The only people that will be upset about boundaries are the people who benefit from us having none. If someone gets mad it is more proof that boundaries were needed to begin with.
YT To A Codependent, Boundaries Are Brutal!
Nov 12
People resent being told or shown they are incompetent. When you rescue adult you are by definition telling them they are incompetent and we are competent. That's always going to bring up somebody's defenses.
YT Elizabeth Kupferman
Codependent No More
Nov 13
Slow to speak, quick to listen, slow to wrath.
You don't have a problem on focusing. You have a problem on choosing. Be intentional what we choose to look at.
HOUR OF POWER
Nov 13
American singer Donny Osmond and Miss Universe contestants examined the Skylab wreckage, which was on the show's stage.
Perth Entertainment Centre, 1979
https://perthnow.com.au/community-news/western-suburbs-weekly/chaos-reigns-at-miss-universe-pageant-in-perth-1979-c-1370462.amp
Nov 13
As people rushed forward at the Miss Universe end to congratulate Miss Venezuela, part of the elaborate plywood stage collapsed under their weight.
Perth Entertainment Centre, 1979
https://perthnow.com.au/community-news/western-suburbs-weekly/chaos-reigns-at-miss-universe-pageant-in-perth-1979-c-1370462.amp
Nov 13
We teach other people to disrespect us because what we accept, we allow to continue.
YT The Reason Why Many People Tolerate Disrespect
Nov 13
The Red Balloon (1956) versus Roger Sanchez - Another Chance (2001)
Nov 13
You must devalue and discard the narcissist - both in your mind and in your physical reality, if you're still maintaining contact with him or her somehow.
Becoming the Narcissist’s Nightmare, Shahida Arabi
Nov 14
The quicker you let things go, the easier it is.
JOEL OSTEEN
Nov 14
To a narcissist, any open wound is an invitation to cut deeper and the narcissist can and always will cut a wound even deeper than the first.
They live for that power, because it is the only power they have in their pathetic, empty lives.
Shahida Arabi
Nov 14
A cumulonimbus can hold as much water as a whole lake. So, it could as well harbor an uncharted ecosystem.
Weathering with You (2019)
Nov 14
The world's always been crazy. So, it's no one's fault
that it's like this.
I've chosen this world. I've chosen to live here.
Weathering with You (2019)
Nov 15
Somebody who doesn't like you, you will never win them over.
He taught me how to be more authentic person and not to be edited. When someone doesn't like you, it rarely has to do anything with you.
YT LittlePoet
Nov 15
Our body is producing chemicals, hormones that prepare us for imaginary danger, triggered by people or situations similar to original trauma that caused social anxiety.
We are literally being drugged by our own body and we are not aware of it.
https://77ranko.blogspot.com/2021/04/my-yt-comments-about-social-anxiety.html
Nov 15
Wisdom lies in seeing our own faults, our own foolishness. Foolishness is being blind to your own errors – leading you to repeat them.
YT Lao Tzu - See Your Foolishness, Become Wise
Nov 16
Man is not the master of destiny, but a wooden doll that is strung on a string.
The Mahabharata, Volume 3: Book 4: The Book of the Virata
Nov 16
"LuxuraMusic" radio is playing smooth instrumental music like:
Armando Trovajoli - Girandole (From Il giovane normale)
Nov 17
You didn't want to disappoint her, you wanted to kind. But now as traumatized kid, who didn't get taught these things, you get to learn now that just saying 'Yes' to people to make them feel good in the moment – there can be high price to pay.
Nov 17
Abuse in childhood conditioned us so well to not risk getting anyone mad at us that we ended up with a distorted idea how to be a good person. We just abandon ourselves and think that's going to work, but it doesn't.
YT Crappy Childhood Fairy
Nov 17
Definition: good person does serve and support others and takes care himself enough that what is given to others is given freely, happily, not resentfully
Sometimes there is duty, but this is not a situation where you had a duty to say yes at the beginning
Nov 17
Man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
'Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.'
Candide, Voltaire
Nov 17
Gullible and naive, Candide is incapable of forming his own opinions on life: his vision of the world – his ideas on determinism, optimism, and free will, for example – is constructed by the views of the people around him.
Candide (1759), Voltaire
DK The Literature Book, J.Canton
Nov 17
The ending, with Candide saying “We must go and cultivate our garden”, indicates that it is possible to be happy – by means of hard work, and an absence of philosophy.
Candide (1759), Voltaire
DK The Literature Book, James Canton (Editor)
Nov 17
Never has law formed a good man: ‘tis liberty that breeds giants and heroes.
The Robbers (1781), Friedrich Schiller
Nov 18
"Learn to manage and resolve the conflict quickly and successfully" - I don't need to learn it, I simply have to start voicing images and texts that appear in my mind that I self-censor, start talking them out.
Social Anxiety - The Quick Tips
Nov 18
The fact that you are afraid that's robbing you of all of the experiences you want to have in life.
Afraid to fly will limit your ability to travel and to see the world. Afraid of public speaking - will limit your ability to express yourself.
MEL ROBBINS
Nov 18
It's not their fault masculinity makes intimacy so hard.
Man Park - SNL
Nov 18
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Les Misérables (1862), Victor Hugo
Nov 18
Homer pressing the core destruct button.... with his tongue.
Treehouse of Horror XV (2004)
Nov 18
I, for one, have never come across a perfectly healthy human being.
The Magic Mountain (1924), Thomas Mann
Nov 18
Unreliable narrators come in different guises: some are liars or conceal facts, others are unstable, confused, or manipulative.
They may be immature or unaware, reporting events that the reader perceives differently.
DK The Literature Book, by James Canton (Editor)
Nov 18
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Harper Lee
Nov 19
One of my favorite question to somebody who is an adult in the victim space is "Oh my, that's so hard, what are you going to do about it?". They are waiting for us to do it.
YT Elizabeth Kupferman
Nov 19
When environment where we're growing up in isn't secure, we revert to codependent approach trying to please and appease them so that they will contribute to our safety, sense of connection and identity valued by someone else
YT Happiness After Codependency
Nov 19
The alternative to codependency is self respect. I know myself, I can trust my identity. I can follow it, I can lean, rely on it, who I am. Who I'd be if I come from my confidence. Following our own value, voice, vision.
YT Happiness After Codependency
Nov 19
What I learned growing up was that what I felt was needed to be questioned. I was conditioned I shouldn't feel what I feel. It disconnected me and taught me to distrust my needs, wants, intuition. Trauma got trapped.
YT Emotional Well-Being #4
Nov 19
We depend on the person whom we project our power outside of us, we learned that being codependent keeps us safe. They're more confused than anyone, they just pretend to know so they feel confident when you look upon them.
YT Candace van Dell
Nov 19
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.
Allen Ginsberg
Nov 20
Where Marx had a vision of workers’ emancipation and the establishment of a utopian communist state, Weber argued that in modern industrial society everybody's lives are shaped by iron cage of rationality.
DK The Sociology Book, Max Weber
Nov 20
To have a sense of ourselves, the “I” can reflect on...the “me” that represents the behaviors and attitudes formed by interactions with others.
G.H. Mead (1863-1931)
DK The Sociology Book
Nov 20
By absorbing the media’s messages people accepted society’s rules and values as their own; they realized that to step beyond them would seem neurotic. The possibility of rebellion quashed:
mass culture reinforces political repression.
H. Marcuse(1898-1979)
DK The Sociology Book
Nov 21
US sociologist Robert Agnew insists that anomie,
or strain theory (1992), can be used to explain crime and deviancy but should not be tied to class.
DK The Sociology Book
Nov 21
Our identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified.
Individuals who internalized the label of deviancy, making it their defining characteristic, and went on to adopt lifestyles with deviancy.
Howard S. Becker
Labeling theory
DK The Sociology Book
Nov 21
Shockingly, this makes social anxiety: to have empathy for others, without having empathy for oneself. To have huge understanding and rationalizations and excuses for others, but in the same time having none for oneself.
https://77ranko.blogspot.com/2021/06/complex-trauma-induce-social-anxiety.html
Nov 21
In the eyes of others, strangers, she is terribly shy and lives in the world of her own. These things makes her seem a little peculiar to people outside of house. She lives in the world of little glass ornaments, plays old phonograph records, that's all
The Glass Menagerie (1966)
Nov 21
Inferiority complex, I had it too. Until I took public speaking, and develop my voice, and learned I have an aptitude for science. I never thought of myself to be outstanding in anyway, whatsoever.
The Glass Menagerie (1966)
Nov 22
They laughed at me what they considered stupid question. The reaction to child's inquisitiveness when growing up contributes to their mental growth in later life. They instilled a fear in me of asking stupid questions.
YT The Social Anxiety Solution
Nov 22
Being kind and being nice are very different. Nice is exchanging energy. Being nice to you, and you're going to give me validation and support in exchange. It's need and wanting, people don't respect it.
YT Aaron Doughty
Nov 22
You over explain yourself to people that you don't need to. It comes down to Self worth. Would you let people treat you certain way if you really felt 100% worthy, whole and complete?
YT Let Go of People thinking you are a "good" person
Nov 22
As far as we know it, you are the only lens you are going to experience the world from. So it makes sense to make your lens as nice as possible. With you, you have potential to make world slightly better.
YT struthless
Nov 22
If you harbor anger, and resentment towards somebody, that person has power over you.
YT TNC194- Why do toxic people blame you for all their failures. Narcissist dont like accepting blame
Nov 22
Carl Linnaeus realized that flower parts parallel the reproductive organs of animals.
Christian Sprengel observed that many flowers contain both male and female parts, and that in these, the parts mature at different times, preventing self-fertilization.
DK The Science Book
Nov 22
Without the Coriolis effect, winds would simply blow straight from high pressure areas to low pressure areas. The wind direction is in fact a balance between the pull of low pressure and the Coriolis deflection.
GASPARD-GUSTAVE DE CORIOLIS (1792–1843)
DK The Science Book
Nov 22
2nd law of thermodynamics
Every isolated system becomes disordered in time (entropy - lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.)
Nov 23
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Colette
Nov 23
This whole journey that you're on is you're actually climbing out of a pit. Then you realize, get sense why it's so hard – you're climbing a steep wall out of a deep dark pit. It's challenging. It's not easy.
YT Unshakable Self-Confidence
Nov 23
There are people in the pit who will never climb out, they're always going to stay in the pit. They don't want you to climb out of the pit because if you leave it causes them conflict and pain. They will do anything to not experience pain.
YT Unshakable...
Nov 23
People in life in general will tear you down to make sure that you get into the pit where they are so that they can stay comfortable and use you as justification for not answering their own call of climbing out the pit and living the life the way they were suppose to.
Nov 23
Wait for the storm to pass. You cannot control the storm, you cannot get rid of fear in terms of never going to be bothered by it again. You don't need to run for shelter or to even be afraid. Just chill.
YT Unshakable Self-Confidence
Nov 23
You can't solve one problem by creating bigger one to distract yourself.
YT Colin Galen
Nov 23
Talk yourself off the ledge, remind yourself you are not in the real danger. It's important not let panic attacks control your life.
YT How to Stop Panic Attacks
Nov 23
We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!
Neal Cassady
Nov 23
I was questioning my sense of reality versus the social sense that was being imposed on me. A total self-rejection, a rejection of, you know, their own universe. Lip service to supposedly acceptable social patterns.
Howl (2010)
Nov 23
He said, 'Why don't you do it then?' I mean what will happen if I grow old and nobody loves me. And he said, 'Don't worry about that. You're very charming and lovable and people will always love you.' I realized it was all a fear-trap. Illusory!
Howl (2010)
Nov 23
I very soon realized nobody was really shocked by anything. Unless you're out murdering people, you know. People would never really be shocked by an expression of feeling.
Howl (2010)
Nov 23
One of the most popular pieces of light music during the 1950's
Clive Richardson - Melody On The Move
Nov 23
Eugene Wigner suggest that it was not simply interaction with large-scale systems (as in the Copenhagen interpretation) that caused the wave function to collapse—it was the presence of intelligent consciousness itself.
Particles have wavelike properties
DK The Science Book
Nov 23
Konrad Lorenz focused on a form of learned behavior in birds that he called “imprinting.” He studied the way that greylag geese imprint on, or follow, the first eligible moving stimulus they see.
Life itself is a process of obtaining knowledge
KONRAD LORENZ (1903–1989)
DK Science
Nov 24
The MWI (many-worlds interpretation) says that all possibilities do, in fact, occur. Since we inhabit a world where only one outcome occurs, this is what we see. Other possible outcomes are inaccessible to us, since there can be no interference between.
DK The Science Book
Nov 24
As psychologist Robert Leahy points out: “The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s.” This national surge in nerves is somewhat baffling because we're actually safer from true danger than we've ever been.
Nov 24
People don't get mad when you share your experience. What people get mad at is being made wrong. Everybody interprets what's being said to them in different way, based on our history.
YT Michelle Farris, Relationship Therapist
Nov 24
We are the cause of global warming.
CHARLES KEELING (1928–2005)
DK The Science Book
Nov 24
It is impossible to replicate a pool break...many, tiny differences in the initial setup will cause the final distribution of balls to vary wildly.
These minute uncertainties forbid us from knowing how a system will change.
Butterfly effect
EDWARD LORENZ (1917–2008)
DK Science
Nov 24
Shy, introverted, socially anxious have high level of perfectionism. They think in order to be accepted, liked them in any way they have to be perfect. Nobody else doesn't have to be perfect, they need to be. Bar is too high so, you just rather do nothing.
Nov 24
You can't measure your self-worth. It's just a feeling.
You feel worthy when you forget about being worthy altogether. Forget about the notion that you're not good enough.
Be willing to put yourself out there.
YT Jason Miller Coaching
Nov 24
It is suggested that string theory’s six hidden dimensions may take this form;
6-dimensional mathematical structure called a Calabi-Yau manifold.
A theory of everything
GABRIELE VENEZIANO
DK The Science Book
Nov 24
Punishments in the 16th century for being thought “shrewish” (promiscuous) were brutal.
Women could be forced to wear a horrific metal device called a scold’s bridle.
The Taming of the Shrew (1590-1594)
DK The Shakespeare Book
Nov 24
The NYC Transit Authority refused to grant permission for filming on its property. Subway footage was filmed by concealing the cameras inside bags. Police became suspicious when they heard whirring sounds inside the bags.
The Incident (1967) - Trivia - IMDb
Nov 24
Suppressing negative emotions and toxic people and trying to be nice and good, obedient & perfect paradoxically turns us into passive passengers, easy targets to bullies, as shown in the movie Incident (1967). The only anger we'd show are people close to us that do not deserve it
Nov 25
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances
William Shakespeare
Nov 25
Assertiveness means give and take, it means I am able to effectively share what I want and need, and listen what you want and need - and then seeking collaboratively a solution that works for both of us.
The Passive-Aggressive Narcissist
Nov 25
Assertiveness means honoring your needs, your values, principles and interests. It means being able to express yourself confidently to disagree with others in respectful way. And not feeling the urge to please others.
YT How to become more assertive
Nov 25
Your dial might be a little uncalibrated. They communicate in way that is assertive-it's clear, direct, asking what they want, respectful. And afterwards, 'it was rude, I came out harsh'. You think you're being rude when you are not.
YT Get More Confidence
Nov 25
You are so conditioned to being so pleasing and nice that anything other than that feels mean, bad and wrong.
Speaking clearly and directly. None of that is rude. What is rude when you provide no space for other person to share or counter you in any way.
Nov 25
Describe specifically what's happening, talking about the thing, not the person and their intelligence and their capability. That is respectful. Leave character attacks out of it, blame and disparagement.
YT Dr. Aziz, Confidence Coaching
Nov 25
If you are giving space for somebody else to communicate, and you're not attacking them, then you're not being rude. You're being assertive. You're being clear, direct and it just feels uncomfortable. Practice, it will become matter of familiarity
Dr. Aziz
Nov 25
The way you treat yourself will set the tone for how others treat you as well. Unless you do this you will always attract abusive people into your life.
YT Social Confidence Mastery
Nov 25
Shakespeare's play "Twelfth night" (1601) is set in Illyria, the name for a province on the Adriatic (present-day Croatia and Slovenia) in Roman times.
DK The Shakespeare Book
Nov 25
Yet notions of sexuality were different in Shakespeare’s time. Close relationships between two men could be considered the ideal of friendship.
The play’s subtitle, “What You Will,” may be a message for us all to embrace love wherever we may find it.
DK The Shakespeare Book
Nov 25
World is full of people who genuinely think they have the right to tell you what to do.Because they act like authority our response is to think they have it
But 99% of these people are wrong.They get away with it because we as humans like to avoid conflict
Nov 25
We have this sense that we have to achieve things in order to be worthy of other people's love. But really we also have to achieve things in order to be worthy of our own love. We attribute that lack of self love to first thing we see and control – success
Nov 25
Don't let the internet rush you, no one is posting their failures.
Wesley Snipes
Nov 25
Control your temper. Dysregulation is so intense. There is time and place when you need to fight. Losing it frivolously where there is nothing to be gained, it's not worth it.
YT Crappy Childhood Fairy
Nov 25
Milhouse feels the change coming in Treehouse of Horror XXI
The Simpsons s22 e4
Nov 25
In Shakespeare’s time, Cleopatra would have been played by a boy actor. In a 1999 production at the Globe, London, that aimed for authenticity, Mark Rylance took on the role.
DK The Shakespeare Book
Nov 26
We match with person that aligns with the treatment we have always received. If we don't think we are enough we'll align with somebody who is looking for somebody who is not feeling enough.
YT Elizabeth Kupferman
Nov 26
All the mistakes I've made in my life, I've made because I was trying to please others. I went outside myself to do something I shouldn't have. To please them. Just for the purpose of pleasing them. You are worthy to say No and people don't like you.
OPRAH
Nov 26
When you don't know what to do, you should do nothing. Until you figure out what to do. I wait. Trust myself and my higher power to help me make the right decision. We create stress for ourselves because you feel you have to do it.
OPRAH
Nov 27
Social Anxiety as avoidance & Complex Trauma as dysregulation as hypervigilance are products of two contradictory dysfunctional programmed messages clashing inside:
1) to fawn and serve everyone and
2) not to disturb others;
resulting in Bystander effect.
Nov 27
Message was that my emotions were problem, they had to be fixed, they had to be solved, that there were specific sets of emotions I should be feeling and specific sets of emotions I should not feel.
YT Happiness After Codependency
Nov 27
Having all the nice clothes or a great house, all of those things are lovely and wonderful and gifts from God. But you don't need any of them to live a great life and to be a great person.
HOUR OF POWER
Nov 27
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
Nov 27
We had taken note that day that there are none who trespass against us as we trespass against ourselves.
The Plunderers (1960)
Nov 27
She opened a book and a box of tools
Sunny came home with a mission
It's time for a few small repairs she said
Light the sky and hold on tight
The world is burning down
She's out there on her own and she's alright
Shawn Colvin - Sunny Came Home
Nov 27
You Tube comment by Stormdragonbrisvagas:
"Nina Hagen makes Lady Gaga see like a cruise liner performer."
Nov 27
Today, Malthus' ideas are echoed in fears that population levels are pushing against the capacity of the Earth in ways that new technology cannot offset.
DEMOGRAPHICS AND ECONOMICS
Thomas Malthus (1766–1834)
DK The Economics Book
Nov 28
People will have plenty of opinions about how you are to run your life. Successful people are so focus on their goals, their dreams, they don't pay attention to the crows. You have destiny to fulfill.
JOEL OSTEEN
Nov 28
Buy Nothing Day is an international day of protest against consumerism.
Nov 28
Victorian Moon spacecraft would apparently look like this;
First Men in the Moon (1964)
Nov 28
Hayek maintains that this “spontaneous order” is the best available means to organize a complex modern economy, given that knowledge about society can never be perfect.
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992)
DK The Economics Book
Nov 28
Individuals are assumed to be rational decision-makers. For some reason the presence of other choices in a set of options seems to matter to people— it makes a difference. People are influenced by irrelevant alternatives.
Maurice Allais (1911–2010)
DK The Economics Book
Nov 29
We pick up energies of other people while they go into their mask. We think they are so confident, but it is persona, an act. Until you see this you will always think something is wrong with you.
YT Sam Roff
Nov 29
Sometimes it's not practical to be radically authentic all the time. Someone attacks, you want to use your persona very well and suppress your emotions to do that. Suppression of emotion, putting on a mask, act in a certain way takes a lot of mental energy
Nov 29
Economies contain many distortions that are inefficient and may cause harm. Attempts at removal may worsen the effects of other distortions, so governments should act with caution.
Policies to correct markets can make things worse.
THE THEORY OF THE SECOND BEST
DK The Economics
Nov 29
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11
Nov 29
The mixture of free markets with elements of socialism worked dramatically well. Germany experienced a Wirtschaftswunder (“economic miracle”) in the 1950s, Scandinavia and Austria.
THE SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY
DK The Economics Book
Nov 29
People are temporarily fooled into thinking that their increased money wages reflect a raise in real wages because they take a while to realize that prices have also risen. You can’t fool the people.
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS
DK The Economics Book
Nov 30
I want other people, total strangers to feel good at my expense. I do not want to bother other people. Whatever I do or not do - other people will nag and criticize no matter what. Especially if they are toxic.
https://77ranko.blogspot.com/2021/04/my-yt-comments-about-social-anxiety.html
Nov 30
The Kola Superdeep Borehole project began in 1970
Breaking into Earth’s upper mantle hadn’t been done before. The operation was halted because of the incredibly high and unexpected temperatures
YT 5 Experiments People Thought Could have Destroyed the World
https://youtu.be/Jyf2u-bhHzY
Nov 30
Watch how people switch up. This is how you can tell people fake people in your life when they start to act funny when you tell them 'No. No, I can't do that'.
YT Telling people NO brings out people's true colors
Nov 30
Despite what most people might think based on their diet of cable news and the front page of reddit, we are living through one of the most peaceful periods of human history, ever!
YT MIT Has Predicted that Society Will Collapse in 2040
Nov 30
Knowing the speed is like being able to see the walls of the hologram. Because holograms are made of light, the speed of simulation is a fundamental law of this reality.
"Speed is limit so you can't get to next thing before we build it."
YT Jack Simmonds
https://youtu.be/D7K6N55WlsA
Nov 30
We are probably inside a virtual reality world that we fully entered by choosing to forget who we were, to fully immerse ourselves in this world as someone new.
YT Jack Simmonds
Nov 30
You don't look at their faces
And you don't ask their names
You don't think of them as human
You don't think of them at all
You keep your mind on the money
Keeping your eyes on the wall
Tina Turner - Private Dancer
Nov 30
Amor Fati - Embrace them and make most of them. Loving what happens to you. Not just accepting or tolerating things that happen to you but actively loving it. Anything else is waste of your time. Stops you being infected with bitterness.
YT Jack Simmonds
