Programming and Deprogramming.
When we get raised, brought up and shit, shit happens to us. Unavoidably the parent thinks this is normal. The child group up with his or her programming, and then goes through life.
At some point the now adult or even teenager rebels from his or her programming, and says, this was not fair. I didn't ask for it. Or goes on and tried to change the social structure they live in. Such is life.
Yet, I have stagnated in a sense over such sever programming, that I want to entirely deprogram myself. This was unjust, my life says all over. I have been subjected to too much of this programming.
Yet, the 60's wen't batshit, and said, down with all of this, we do not absolutely accept this, and then got whipped and put down like a turd down a toilet. What exactly wen't wrong with the 60's sentiment?
Furthermore, education is modification in incrimental steps. At first, we get programmed, then we reprogram. I didn't like my educational experience, I had troubled with authority. It was just fuckery written all over it. I went to college, and spent a near fortune on drugs, which were the best educational experience I could get.
How does one deprogram or reprogram? What's the secret here?
At some point the now adult or even teenager rebels from his or her programming, and says, this was not fair. I didn't ask for it. Or goes on and tried to change the social structure they live in. Such is life.
Yet, I have stagnated in a sense over such sever programming, that I want to entirely deprogram myself. This was unjust, my life says all over. I have been subjected to too much of this programming.
Yet, the 60's wen't batshit, and said, down with all of this, we do not absolutely accept this, and then got whipped and put down like a turd down a toilet. What exactly wen't wrong with the 60's sentiment?
Furthermore, education is modification in incrimental steps. At first, we get programmed, then we reprogram. I didn't like my educational experience, I had troubled with authority. It was just fuckery written all over it. I went to college, and spent a near fortune on drugs, which were the best educational experience I could get.
How does one deprogram or reprogram? What's the secret here?
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I feel as though this is the best of all possible channels. But, the remote is a little inflexible. I've gotten programmed hard here. How about you?
You must be moving at light-speed man.
*bliss*
With this, I can relate Shawn. There is no easy way to go about doing that though. It is a very very taxing ongoing everyday situation, and requires a good bit of understanding not only about what exactly needs 'reprogrammed' and/or changed, but also how to go about effecting/affecting such change. It also requires good judgment because in order to change one's initial mostly adopted worldview, one must seek out other world-views about the same things. Given the sheer propensity for unreliable information, one must somehow be able to separate trustworthy information from untrustworthy information...
Assuming of course that by reprogramming one wishes to avoid having and/or holding false belief. I would hope that that is a part of your own goal(s).
Put as simply as possible...
A reprogramming is a change in one's worldview, in how one thinks about the world and/or themselves. World-views consist of thought and belief. Thus, a change in programming is a change in worldview which is a change in one's own belief-system about the world and/or oneself.
What then, is a deprogramming sequence?
That's the first step. Set out as many of the adopted belief within your own worldview that you can.
Too fucking many, creative! Is creativity the answer? Is it really?
Not completely... nor is it needed. Not completely by yourself, it takes others.
As I said... it ain't easy. It has to be done though. Not all adopted belief need to be tossed.
Yup, I can believe that. What's wrong with accepting death?
It's cruel. We shouldn't accept death and become apathetic, should we? It hurts auer Gee-Dee-Pee.
Cruelty is accompanied by unnecessary harm and lack of concern for another's suffering. Accepting death is not(or does not necessarily/always include that as well). Nor does accepting the fact that death happens require also being apathetic about it.
Not sure what the mention of GDP has to do with this.
Good programming is good GDP.
Bingo, you're always on point.
I do not understand how pre-schools and schools got shut down. How did this travesty happen?
Too much error code?
The travesty is not the shutting down. That was - and is still - required for public safety.
The mistake in public programming(the language being used to talk about the pandemic nearly across the board atm) is to call the shut down a travesty, as if it is the problem. It's not. Rather, those measures were taken based upon our knowledge of how to best stop the spread of infectious disease which is, in turn, based upon our own past experience of them.
I'm still reprogramming, here. Bear with me here. What was the point of shutting down schools? It's not kids travel to Malaysia or China for the matter.
Short answer. To protect the public with the only means available at the time. To stop the spread of covid19.
Longer answer...
The only way to stop an infectious disease pandemic is to stop the spread. That's easiest and entirely manageable only when the case numbers are low enough to do effective contact tracing and mandatory quarantine of those infected. When those steps are taken, the overall damage is tremendously reduced and public safety is highest. In addition, everyday life for most people goes on far less impeded. There would have been no need to shut everything down, as a last resort for public safety, had we been aggressively tracking and tracing all the known cases early on.
Unfortunately, we began taking the steps necessary for reducing the spread, and all the damage that results from a pandemic far too late, and thus were forced to reduce the spread by the only means left available to us.
In order to stop the spread, those who are infected must be isolated from those are not. In order to know who is infected, we have to test people who are symptomatic and people who are not. We do not have the capability to perform the sheer numbers of tests that needs to be performed. So, we currently - still - do not even know how many people have the virus. We also do not have the tests that we need in order to ascertain that much.
Social distancing measures are the next best thing, including the shut down of all non essential activities... including schools.
OK, so everyone got shut down. Including harmless children and preschoolers at school. What a crazy world.
We still do not have what it takes to reopen without seriously increased numbers in unnecessary deaths.
Are you serious?
Sorry, did some research, and you're actually correct. My bad. What a crazy world.
Shawn, I have one thing to stress and then a suggestion. Changing one's programming requires coming to acceptable terms with what was happened, is happening, and sometimes with what one thinks is going to happen.
A healthy thought life is not all that hard to achieve so long as you take advice from reliable source.
My suggestion is to intentionally and deliberately set each and every presupposition(pre-existing belief you have about anything and everything) aside whenever it is possible and learn to see the world via borrowing another's eyes. We each have a worldly fingerprint impressed upon us as a result of learning how to talk about the world and/or ourselves. We adopt belief about what sorts of things to aspire towards and what sorts of things to despise; what sorts of behaviours are acceptable and what sorts of behaviours are not. We are taught how to treat others. We are taught how to think about others. This teaching does not require explicit language describing the situation as it's happening. Rather, we are shown by witnessing that very behaviour.
There's an author from Toltec lineage/background 'named' Don Miguel Ruiz. The author wrote a book called "The Four Agreements", which brilliantly explains a method for cultivating an everyday healthy thought life. I personally set all of the religious bits to the side, as they aren't needed to benefit from the wisdom in that book. It's been well over a decade, but I retain fond memories.
I strongly suggest it as a read for anyone and everyone who wants to change the way they think and thus feel about the world and/or themselves. It's a great starting point.
I have attempted something of this sort through distinguishing between needs and wants. How has that come about for you?
Something else man.
Addressing one's needs and wants assumes some remarkable demonstrable difference between the two. The difference is clear enough sometimes, but not so much at others. I'm not sure there is one all the time.
I'm a minimalist in life and theory(theory and everyday practice).
Good stuff. What does one really need? Positive social interaction. Trustworthy and dependable neighbors and friends. Contentment.
True belief about the world and/or oneself.
That's on page numero uno in my book.