In a way this person has a point. However, I do tend to be very open here,Smokey too,and a few others. Their and your openess is very much appreciated by those of us likeminded. I suppose it could come back and hit you in the face,who knows? But if I,m a dog there,s no point telling me to be a cat. I am what I am and I can,t change that.
Oh gawd,she,s back, like bloody bad penny you are.
Hi Irish. How ya doin Cath. We gonna be nice to each other for a change,or give the folks here a show and try to out insult each other til we get tired (tis fun)?
Stuff that.Why not enjoy it now. I,m having a great time right here and now on the basis I might not be to later. If I am still here that makes me a double winner.
As a side issue,the reason for the retirement age of 65 was established on the basis that the average life expectancy for a man is sixty six and a half. The idea was to give men a year and a half to sort out their personal affairs before they popped their clogs.
I,ve seen it a few times. It,s like the second person loses the reason and then the will to live. It,s one reason I,ll never,ever retire.Seen too many keel over shortly afterwards. It,s like you,re telling you tired old body " Ok,that,s me done,can we go now please?"
Cognitivism:the process by which we treat all experiences,comparing them to past ones, making snap judgement calls in what those experiences signify and how we should treat them. We can,t escape it,it,s one of the ways in which our minds work. This is no bad thing,on the contrary it helps to keep us safe. I don,t touch a naked flame cause I know from the last time I did it,ll hurt. However......
Sometimes we misjudge new experiences and people because of the past and if we are not careful then that past can prevent us from enjoying new experiences, which may not turn out anything like the old ones.
So, the question is, if we try to ignore the past,what will keep us safe from being hurt again ? Or do we simply proceed cautiously,half expecting a hurt, just in case ? In other words,brace yourself (as the bishop said to the actress).
Also,can we ever truly jettison the past, cast off the shackles of experience which we have made ourselves a prisoner to? Do we perhaps hang on to those shackles as some sort of a safety harness ? We may even come to love our hurts and take some sort of perverse comfort in them, to find succour in them (beware of the victim).
Maybe we just need to be thicker skinned and learn to take the blows,to ride the punches and reeduce their impact,just like Casius Clay did with one of his fiercest opponents, Joe Frazier, in the rumble in the jungle. So in a sense we can re-self-condition ourselves in order to embrace the future whatever it may bring.
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Cognitivism and self conditioning
In a way this person has a point. However, I do tend to be very open here,Smokey too,and a few others. Their and your openess is very much appreciated by those of us likeminded. I suppose it could come back and hit you in the face,who knows? But if I,m a dog there,s no point telling me to be a cat. I am what I am and I can,t change that.