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Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you
The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.
it is difficult to solve a problem that you are almost entirely ignorant about. You cannot work for peace while ignoring violence any more than a doctor can create treatments while refusing to study disease.
Develop the habit of doing unpleasant things quickly and without hesitation. If you are going to jump in the cold water, jump in the cold water. If you need to get up, get your ass out of bed. Do the dishes that need doing. Finish the hard jobs at work while everyone else is coming up with excuses to get out of them.
Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.
To manage fear you only need to believe you can do things.
To manage danger you must be able to do things.
A common romantic script is the rescue. One person has a horrible past of abuse and betrayal and latches on to a romantic partner who wants to be the hero and protect her from all badness. The protection from harm quickly becomes a protection from consequences. The rescued princess uses the relationship as a safe environment where growth and becoming strong are not necessary. The relationship quickly becomes co-dependent. The victim cannot survive on her own, and the rescuer gets his identity from shielding her from the world.
In a thousand years or ten thousand, no one would remember my nation. It, too, would share in oblivion and prove to not matter, to never have mattered.
The same for my species, and the earth, the universe, and God. When the last star winks out, none of it will have mattered - and it ten billion years, I will still be nothing - and equal to God.
That was the first stage in my enlightenment: to understand that nothing matters. Hence, everything is equal.
Bad bosses chew-out in public for the purpose of showing their dominance).
ThePredatorhasalready"othered"youtoasufficientextentthatany communicationthatreliesonasharedfeelingofhumanitywillbeineffective. TheThreatdoesnotseeyouasthesamespecies.
social violence. The message is, "I am not challenging you, I will do nothing bad, you do whatever you want and I will stay out of your way." This is exactly what a predator is looking for.
No matter what any bleeding-heart tells you, 3% of the people in the world are scum. The trouble is, if you spent 80% of your time with that 3%, you start thinking that 80% of the world is scum.
No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'.
Read DeBecker's book.
Know this: Your own brain will lie to you. It will backstab and sabotage you to prevent ANY change.
Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts
If I label someone as "bad," I know my own meaning: he will hurt someone to get what he wants. If I use "evil" it means he will hurt someone even when he doesn't want anything.
