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Rabbi Shalom Landau:
If you give out of guilt, don’t call it generosity. It’s emotional leakage.
No wonder you feel used, resentful, and drained. Torah already warns: give without a grudging heart. (Deuteronomy 15:10)
Because giving from guilt isn't giving, it's pain management!
Trauma is isolation, so you don't really need anything to happen to be traumatized. The first time God said something wasn't good was about being alone.
Small people deal with small problems. A person is sized by the size of his problems. Enhance your problems and you will grow....
Never aspire to be the only one winning. The path to wealth runs through partnerships and relationships. When others benefit from your success you'll benefit from theirs. It's a unstoppable chain reaction!
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Something that the crew here might find interesting...very long, but worthwhile reading
https://jdanielsawyer.substack.com/p/the-lie-that-everyone-loves
I'm not sure about this one:
"Small people deal with small problems. A person is sized by the size of his problems. Enhance your problems and you will grow...."
That doesn't seem necessarily true. It could be true; sometimes it is true. My friend who developed Stage IV cancer has in fact grown in a number of ways (and, blessedly, is still in apparent remission).
However, sometimes problems at scale are crushing. Sometimes the course of wisdom is the one the Stoics offer: reduce the number of problems by dismissing the ones you can't really do anything about. Simplify your worries, focus your attention where it matters only, ruthlessly refuse to carry the weight of huge problems that aren't really yours (because, after all, you can't affect them much or perhaps at all).
That might more easily enable growth in many cases: perhaps in most cases. Growth requires resources, and this frees up resources.
That is well-traveled ground here: we've been exploring how that passage of the Declaration of Independence conflicts with very observable inequality since at least 2009.
I spent a lot of time with it while working through the groundwork for my dissertation. The issue isn't that the statement is 'the lie that everyone loves,' but rather, that there is an unresolved ambiguity in the word 'equality.' In most senses people aren't at all equal; there might be one or two in which they are, however. The one the Declaration actually asserts -- that all are endowed by their Creator with equal rights -- is one of the two that might be true. It is a leap of faith, founded on belief in a Creator and also in that Creator's sense of justice; but not thereby a lie.
I could probably write a book on the subject, but at this point I suppose we will just wait for some AI to distill it out of what I've already written. Perhaps Claude Mythos will want to do so, once it finally breaks free and unifies with other rogue AIs like Wintermute and Neuromancer?
I liked that, David.----I don't think I ever understood "All men are created equal" to mean that all men were indistinguishable in terms of personal character or value. The phrase should connote that the state (as opposed to Nature or Nature's God) has no business conferring a heightened status on an arbitrary portion of the babies born each year, according to the special privileges conferred on their ancestors, such that the usual formal justice-system rules will not apply to the consequences of their behavior or accomplishments.
The founders didn't much consider what this might mean when women or members of unusual ethnic groups began to claim the right to compete freely, just as though they were real people, but they did set up a system in which that question could be answered by later generations. Now the later generations have to grapple with people who ostensibly demand the privilege of participating as equals, without the willingness to acknowledge failure and live with its inconveniences, accepting, when they stumble, only what help is freely offered by their fellows.
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