One of my beloved family members told me to stop procrastinating, and get writing on this blog-post, but I don’t procrastinate. With thanx to Jim for making me aware of it, I’ll start this year’s series from a dead stop, with the word
ANOSOGNOSIA
Anosognosia is a neurological deficit in self-awareness, a condition in which a person with a disability is unaware or in denial of its existence. Like most other medical conditions, there is a minimum threshold value which must be reached before a doctor will officially diagnose this problem.
That doesn’t mean that people in your life don’t suffer from it to some degree, while we have to suffer because of it. Whether it’s the wife/husband that you happen to be married to, or the idiot in the next cubicle at work, they’re all a Little Miss Can’t-Be-Wrong. They can’t be in error! You must be mistaken.
I was going to suggest meditation for recovery of calmness, but the last time I meditated, by the time I was finished, I had amassed a significant list of, mainly undetectable, methods of murder removing the problem: eye drops in the coffee, rat poison in the doughnut in the break room fridge, which I knew he’d steal, a shoelace garrotte, a computer power-bar that just happened to short out. Perhaps you should just leave the meditation alone.
I’m not always right, but I’m never wrong. I thought that I was wrong once, but I was mistaken. There’s nothing wrong with you showing up again in a couple of days. I’m all right with that. 😀
Thanks for the ping Archon. Awareness of these deficits is the beginning to wholeness. Here’s a click to the actual post
https://jimoeba.wordpress.com/2019/11/16/anosognosia-and-religious-certainty/
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Thank you…. for educating me – and others. 🙂
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Well, you are the Archon, I am the Polemarch. Teamwork man, teamwork
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I am greatly pleased, and somewhat in awe. Not only do you know the correct basis for my Archon handle, but you taught me another new word. Recently Christian apologists have begun accusing me/Archon of supporting some kind of imaginary demons. 😛
I had to look up ‘Polemarch.’ I thought it was what Hitler had his army do, to start WW II. You’re right. I have things covered on the administration side, while you control the application. 😉 😀
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We share a passion for good words. I have learned many from you as well. Happy to share my fire with you any time.
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😀
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Hilarious perspective on meditation. Yes, some of us just shouldn’t meditate.
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It’s hard to describe as ‘meditation,’ when my mental image is a food processor – Whirrr…. Whirrr . 😯
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I think we all know a few of these people…
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Just another situation where ignorance would be bliss. 😳
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If I’m ever wrong about something one day I’ll be the first to admit it and notify you.
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I will wait patiently, but with no real expectation. For guys like you and me, it’s tough being infallible. 😉
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I think Mac Davis sang about it.
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