humanity
The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.
How Being a Caregiver Changed My Life
When I was growing up, I wanted to be famous. Super cliche, I know. I wanted to sing and act, win awards, and have tons of money. I think a lot of kids think that way at some point. As I hit my teenage years, I started to develop a likeness to helping people. I began volunteering and decided that instead of being famous, I wanted to help people. As I got closer to adulthood and closer to graduating high school, I felt that going to nursing school would be the next move. Well, that didn't happen. I ended up making not so good choices and was not a nice person. I had a lot of anger. Then I focused on bettering myself, it helped, but it made me have to think about what other ways I could help people that didn't require a nursing degree. I just knew I wanted to do something in healthcare.
By Virginia Shefcyk3 years ago in Journal
It's The Letting Go
There's so much about parenting that no one tells you far beyond shitting on the birthing table, bleeding out of your lady bits for weeks on end, stiches in said lady bits, and loss of bladder control. All the above sucks, albeit worth it, but I’m talking about something else entirely.
By Melissa Godshall3 years ago in Journal
Cosmic Balances In Myth
The King Arthur myths and legends are a prime example of the heroic journey. His call to adventure is some myths that start when he pulls Excalibur from a stone. It proves to be his call to adventure because he is the only one who can do it, the only one worthy of the sword because he is the son of Uther. He is the rightful king of England and only he can rule. His mentor and supernatural aid comes in the form of Merlin the druid, the Lady of the lake and his sword Excalibur. Merlin is often tied to magic and seen as a wise man in most stories and tellings with great power who educates Arthur sometimes by turning him into animals, in other tellings he is the one who created the sword Excalibur another item that in some sources seems magical or has magical properties, one being that only Arthur and can use the sword. And the Lady of the lake who in some cases also holds onto the sword for Arthur can give it to him so long as he is near some body of water, so long as he is close to a source of water he can summon the sword thanks to her help. Then you have his knights such as Percival, Lancelot, and Gawain to name a few. They are his allies in his journey, each providing some form of help to him and his cause, whether it is Percival and his strength or Gawain with his humanity. They help him along his journey and fight for him and his kingdom. Now during the time in which this story would have been originally told in an oral tradition it was during the Saxon migration from Germania to the British Isles and perhaps during the Viking age in which England was divided and didnt have a single king. This myth of a great warrior king who ruled over all England would have been seen as a rallying call, a way to unite the people against a single threat. But the moral and philosophical purpose of this myth is that all of England can be united under one banner no matter what boundaries exist and when times are at their darkest a ray of light shines through.
By Thomas Tome3 years ago in Journal
The Shackles of The Genocide Convention
Following the events of World War II the countries of the world came together and agreed on a legal document. A legal document that would ensure the prevention and punishment of genocide. The Genocide Convention. Sadly due to state sovereignty, the document is useless. Since its creation, it has not once been employed due to different interpretations and definitions of the Genocide Conventions by the international court on how to prosecute the crime and dictate punishment, as well as the qualifications of a genocide and who is guilty of the crime.
By Thomas Tome3 years ago in Journal
When Is It Time to Intervene
John Stuart Mill once said “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing”. A statement based on truth and fact, as a species that lives in a society where many people consciously make the choice to not help when others need it, and instead act on self preservation. As a society, as a species we must instead choose to intervene and help, protect one another as a collective unit, and do everything in our power to help no matter the situation; whether it's based on instinct, religion and cultural normalities, or out of compassion.
By Thomas Tome3 years ago in Journal
5 Things That Truly Happy People Never Do
Happiness is not one of these things you can put off until later. It’s something you have to create in the present if you want to be completely satisfied in the future. We often sense that we have to do many matters to be certainly happy. But some comfortable humans have realized that we frequently don’t have to do certain things if we favor being truly happy.
By Cosmin Child3 years ago in Journal
Thoughts on Goodhart’s Law
Goodhart’s Law can be stated in a number of different ways; any measure which becomes a target ceases to be a good measure, when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure, any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes (this was Goodhart’s original formulation), entities who are aware of a system of rewards and punishments will optimize their actions within said system to achieve their desired results, a policy with a purpose that can be/is measured can be manipulated once that purpose is known (my own formulation), and many others. On the face of it they all appear to state something that had been known to quantum physics since well before Goodhart published his first paper on the topic in 1975, which is that observation/measurement of a (quantum) thing necessarily changes that thing (the observer effect which stems from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle). The "statistical regularity" which is the focus of Goodhart's law is said to "collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." i.e. once it is observed/measured. This seems analogous to the way in which the wave function of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle collapses upon observation/measurement.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Journal
