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Category Archives: ignorance
Lost friends #2
Seems to me there’s a lesson learned with each lost friend – as with all of life’s significant experiences. When the friendship is lost through death, there are perhaps different types of lessons, but they are there for the plucking … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, education, friendship, ignorance, loss, personal growth, Reflection, values
Tagged consciousness, friends, personal growth, reflections, social commentary, values
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Attack of stigma…
I have asked what changes we might be willing to make, as neighbours, as friends, as relatives, as a society, that would contribute to eliminating stigma*. I didn’t ask the question because I had an answer, but because I wanted … Continue reading
Posted in community, compassion, consciousness, Feelings, ignorance, psychology, reflections
Tagged communication, community, consciousness, personal growth, psychology, relationships
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Lost potential…
“R” and I sat glued to our conversation, astonished and excited that, by some amazing coincidence, we both had a passionate interest in what we were talking about: how mental distress tends to be handled by the psychiatric or medical … Continue reading
Posted in causes, compassion, consciousness, education, ignorance, Inclusion, personal growth, Poetry, psychology, reflections, schizophrenia, suicide
Tagged community, consciousness, ignorance, inclusion, reflections, schizophrenia, social commentary, suicide, values
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Fear of so-called schizophrenia
Partly because of my friend “A”, and partly because of Mad Pride Week, I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of the label “schizophrenia”. There’s been so much discussion about it in recent years, and people are only just … Continue reading
Posted in causes, community, compassion, consciousness, education, fear, ignorance, Inclusion, personal growth, psychology, reflections, schizophrenia, values
Tagged community, consciousness, ignorance, psychology, schizophrenia
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Teach Internet Awareness
Are we missing the boat in education. We are simply not keeping up with the changes in – let’s call it – “information transmission”. Books are, bluntly, too slow; by the time an “expert” book is published, the information in … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, education, ignorance, inteernet, Internet, modern life, reflections
Tagged consequences, education, internet, Internet literacy, social commentary
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Reality check…
Here’s a sad but true fact of life: everyone farts, and no one looks good flossing. Once you accept that reality, the world is your oyster. You can look in the mirror, and realize you are perfectly normal. No matter what. … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, experience, fear, Feelings, ignorance, judgment, personal power, Reflection, reflections
Tagged choices, feelings, ignorance, power, reflections, values
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The sins of our “fathers”…
There we sat, in the café, a lot of Canadian history between us. Her ancestors indigenous Canadian and holocaust survivors, mine ‘Scottish Presbyterian’ and English settlers who imposed themselves on land that may never have belonged to them. If my … Continue reading
Posted in causes, community, consciousness, consequences, education, heritage, history, ignorance, Inclusion, indigenous, Reflection, values
Tagged aboriginal, community, fathers, heritage, history, honesty, indigenous, political philosophy, reflections, social commentary, values
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Longing, before…
When I was young, longing was a weakness – a character flaw. One would sooner express anything embarrassing, than admit to any kind of longing. Instead we admitted nothing, closed our eyes in the dark, and listened to the poetry … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, experience, Feelings, ignorance, modern life, Poetry, Power, reflections
Tagged feelings, ignorance, openness, power, vulnerability
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Legalize drugs? Duh!
A lot of people I know smoke cigarettes. Most drink alcohol. Yes, some have problems resulting from these activities. But for the most part, they know what they are consuming. And above all, no one is being murdered over it, … Continue reading
Posted in community, consequences, criticism, drug crime, fear, ignorance, marijuana, reflections, values
Tagged consequences, ignorance, legalize drugs
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Thinking and Dreaming 
There but for luck…#2
I’ll call him Mr. Suburbia because he had to move a long way out of the city to find an affordable room. At some point he developed brain damage – he believes caused by Paxil, though the frontal part of … Continue reading →