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The anosognosic's dilemma

Readers

Thank you for sharing with me your personal connections to an anosognosic's dilemma. We share the dilemma. None of us really escape the dilemma?

We all like to feel we are in control and fully aware of what's sending messages inside us and around us. Fact is we have only a varying percentage of awareness and spend most of our waking hours guessing what the messages are. We can firmly say that we occupy two worlds, that inside our heads and that outside, at the very least. There is much more going on, however!

I think we are attached to billions of quantum worlds through our brains and the billions of bugs and plants that make us what we are, a massive world of living organisms, many of which continue to live on after we lose our own memories and self reflections, those amazing abilities to conjure up a multidimensional abstractions from thousands of living organisms sending messages to each other.

In brief, if you don't think we send messages to the quantum worlds you are flying in the face of mounting evidence, and we are discovering how organisms can and do exchange both to and have components that receive messages from quantum worlds. They say plants could not exist if they did not occupy our universe and the quantum ones. We are so much more than plants and we do have billions of plants living within us making us what we are and can be, consciously or otherwise!

RT

One person aware of the problem wrote!

> My mother was an anosognosic after a massive stroke resulting in a non-functioning the right hemisphere confirmed by Pet scans. She definitely did not know what she did not know. It was impossible for me to imagine what she experienced. So I did not know what she knew and could not know what she

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Making your weaknesses work for you! The pain-balance hypothesis.

Making your weaknesses work for you! The pain-balance hypothesis.

Our weaknesses for the purpose of this note are the things that we like. Our bodies recognise lots of weaknesses and strengths, the things we do not like. To harness and enjoy our weaknesses, we can put are strengths temporarily aside. For example to enjoy a sweetie, we can put aside the pain of a tooth ache. That is an extreme example, but you should get the equation. A minus of weakness is bodily offset by a plus of strength. In the end we have a balance or imbalance. A big negative total in the short term will be offset by borrowing on or use of our stored up positive assets, our stored up strengths, the painful things that we have had to endure.

This note is not about making our stored up strengths work for us. For example, to enjoy a sweetie we could think of the death of a toad that we witnessed a week ago. That type of offsetting will happen, but it is not my main focus now. Rather, I want to consider how to make weaknesses work for one in real time. The background and main issue is that weakness has to be offset by strength if you are not to expire prematurely. I won't say die, but in a larger context that is what happens if we indulge our weaknesses without offsetting them. One might say that we sin and then we ask For forgiveness which comes about through indulging in our strengths. A corollary, of course is that those that will experience the greatest of weakness will also experience the greatest of strength. For example, those that steal will be caught and subjected to harsh punishment. The more punishment one can endure the more one can steal and still survive. The problem with stealing is that it is a very narrow weakness that one may try to do in secret, but one still has to offset this with a strength if one is not to expire prematurely. It's generally not a good idea to put all one's eggs into a single basket, if you get the drift of this particular argument. It's better to indulge in a broad range of weaknesses because an overindulgence in one weakness reduces what can be enjoyed in others.

You may think that my concept of weakness is already adrift. I can assure you that it is not. Take time to observe around you how people and all living creatures indulge their weaknesses and you will observe how their strengths come into play. Developing one's strengths is a necessary precondition to enjoying one's weaknesses. Thus, it is that we can make our weaknesses work for us. The trick is that they must be used to develop our strengths.

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Article: The Anosognosic’s Dilemma

This is not to imply anything about the reader.  But, what am I to know, or do I?

What will you think?

The Anosognosic's Dilemma
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/

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Article: The Perils of Positive Thinking

This article suggests we embrace our flaws rather than trying to improve ourselves all the time.  Well I certainly have loads of flaws!  I heard that, Amen.

RT 

The Perils of Positive Thinking
http://www.unlimitedmagazine.com/2010/06/the-perils-of-positive-thinking/print/

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Article: Economists Who Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)

Wooosh .... Learning about the economy and how it really works!

I respect your brain and forward this accordingly. 

The economists referred to in this article, I have met and can vouch for their credentials. Not only that, but they are on that rare track of getting it right most of the time.  This is a must read if you have a pension and value your savings and hard work.  Learn where the economics industry and teaching has gone wrong.  

Enjoy, RT, your guardian angel.

Economists Who Did Their Homework (800 Years of It)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/economy/04econ.html?_r=2&hpw=&pagewanted=print

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Article: How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain

Wooosh .... as sent to my blog today.

This article is not aimed at you, but I refer to it because I respect you as thinking and sound individuals. 

We are probably the lucky ones for whom addictive disease is not such a tragedy as described by psychologists, social scientists and preachers, and even Judge Judy.  

You have heard me mouth off occasionally about all forms of addiction as a secret disease that ultimately leads to premature death (this is Anne Sheaf's conclusion after a life time working in the inner city.).   

The following very considered long article, which includes references to research published by The Royal Society, summarises one of the main problems of our modern society, so it is a good idea to understand how the process works by reading the article carefully, how one can be affected, and how such a common addiction undermines relationships ultimately killing society, and families and producing slower economic growth and smaller profits!  It's becoming increasingly clear how wrong it is to condone pornography and to accept the misinformation published by the porn industry.  Sex is great but this addiction is like an ever tightening plastic bag over one's head squeezing away the breath of life. 

Arthur  

How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain
http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo13/13hilton.php

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Anne's Retirement Party

Well Anne!

Congratulations on a life of service. I am proud of you, and so are
we all.

Sketch with lots of help from Bert's photo of an at your celebration
on Monday.

Arthur

The Internet is Flat

Boring! Boring! Boring! The death nells of the Internet are ringing
louder and louder. We are no longer addicted to the Internet because
our tastes are evolving and we have been there and done that, and it's
getting increasingly boring. At least with a paper on your hand you
can get a feel of something. With the Internet you are getting blah!
Blah! Blah!

If newspapers think they can go digital with innovative Ipads and
electronic desks and Turner or Murdoch want to do a turn with the
Internet then the newspapers we are reading have to go because it is
getting in the way. Along with the paper will go the tactile feel.
Or will it?

Well, perhaps what you feel about the Internet will be what you feel.
The next step beyond 3D screens has to excite the sense of touch!

Montreal Family of Lakes - Stage Seven

Now to set the real tone if this image! Surprise! Surprise! It was a
very happy time and really established the directions of our future
lives! Dad was in his element and got meaning from his work! Bob
showed everyone how brilliant he was! John painted the trim on the
house his way and gave it novel and distinctive character, a white
glorious tribute to individualism and agility! We all enjoyed meeting
Edith Guard from Devon, EXPO 1967 and getting our passports stampted.
Driving licences all round! Mom enjoyed the company of the UCW and
read ever more intensely! I met Beatle music and road over swaying
Jacques Cartier Bridge on the back of Ross Stuart's scooter. I
learned how to bake and paint at altitude!

Wow what a wonderful time we had!

RT

The Montreal Family - Stage Six

Partly cubist symbolic!

Feeling more comfortable with this now.
Personalities are starting to appear!
Need theme to develop to place them in context of larger aspect.

RT

Cosmic Explosion - I Quit Here

This is a point of understanding. The cosmos is my own brain. As I
look out I am looking within! What we regard as the very large is
the very small that our eyes enable us to see in a convoluted manner.
As we go out of our world scale into the very large, we enter the very
small world, our inner world. To travel outward, we must travel
inward. What we see is an illusion that can only be reached by
transforming our very nature into an entity that is extremely small
like a ray of light, but in so doing we lose our very essense as an
observer of the world around us. Our observation of reality and the
impressions on our mind is our reality!

RT

Cosmic Explosion - Stage 6

I can forget which stage the image is at, but the intent is only to
show a sequence of increased impression. Each layer adds to
understanding and is cummulative as aspects of lower layers are hidden
from view. Thus one builds a more realistic impression of reality
until the view is clear and exact, more specific and the result if
hard work and direction!

RT

Cosmic Explosion - Stage 5

My mind tells me it is the Hubble satellite and not Huxtable, though
perhaps that was a Freudian slip!
In any event the naked eye cannot see something so large! Makes one
think what else we are blind to!

RT

Cosmic Explosion - Stage 4

Cosmic Explosion - Stage 3

Hi!

This is the start of an impression of a photograph of a super nova
exploding. The super explosion is too small for the naked eye to see
without the Huxtable Satellite and its monster lens, yet too large for
the human mind to comprehend, it is a very strange creature indeed.
It is so large that the earth cannot even be rendered as a pixel in
it's scale, the earth being almost the size of nothing. Despite all
that there us a strong organization of matter and forces which are
truly awesome hense the attempt to get a personal impression

RT

Wave Rider - Stage Three

Storm cutting into the scene from the right!

Differences of Behaviour Between American and British Banks

I was startled to hear the responses of American bankers to the
questions asked at the Bear Stearns Hearings. In Britain, there was
once an unwritten rule that the figures published on third Wednesdays
of the month were representative of the banks balance sheets during
the whole month. The object of publication was to show compliance
with the spirit of the law. It was a surprise that American banks
operating in the UK did not enter inti thus spirit and as a result
cane begging fir finance on the make up days causing all sorts of
market upheaval.

Now the hearings are revealing to British bankers that in the USA it
is the norm not to adhere to any spirit of the law. It is accepted as
the norm to break the spirit of financial cooperation. It is not
surprising that the paria/diease of the world banking systems comes
from America.

There will be continuing turmoil in financial markets so long as US
banks misbehave in what other communities see as criminal behaviour,
and certainly not in the spirit of the law.

This necessitates a publication of the banks' balance sheets on a
daily basis!

How to Improve the Stability of World Financial Markets

If you were watching the TV broadcast of the US Congressional Hearings
for certain US banks, and had the experience of large bank balance
sheet management that I have had, you would have to conclude that
there is one way to improve the transparency of the banking systems
worldwide and and the same time help prevent a future crisis.

The answer is simply that of updating the reporting of banks to their
central authorities so that it can begin to meet the challenges of the
information age.

At the very least this is to enforce with huge penalties for none
compliance a daily business reporting system of the banks balance
sheets. At Barclays in 1978 the whole balance sheet was managed on a
daily basis. It is simple! In an information age it is a no brainer!

Second, is the enforcement of liquidity and capitalization
requirements on a daily basis. This is also very easy to achieve.

Third is the regulation of maturity mismatch on a daily basis!

Fourth iis the raising of precautionary deposit balances with central
authorities.

Fifth is the limitation of borrowed funds for acquisitions. Control
of the financing of acquisitions to profit earnings would reduce the
merger mania.

Sixth is the international taxation of salaries of executives based on
moving five year averages for the industry and geometric profit
performance measures.

Seventh is measures of deviation from best practice published daily.

As always, the issues are not confined to any single view of markets
and a further list of measures will be forthcoming!

P5 Sweep - Stage 5

Not sure how much spray to add and still not satisfied with wave steps!