When my video got removed/banned by YouTube, the thing I noticed the most was the use of the word “safe”: We know that this might be disappointing, but it’s important to us that YouTube is a safe place for all. They need to keep their site “safe”. But, safe from what? By now many are aware of YouTube’s policies to […]
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Facts don’t always win people over to reality or truth. Emotions have a large say in what is accepted. How we feel about information influences us. Many of us are only moved by appeals to emotion to pull, tug, move and push us into accepting something, or into certain actions. The truth and reality of the issue doesn’t matter as […]
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Change for the better is hard, but especially for children. Having children can be difficult at times. Trying to get them to stop doing something can be a challenge. Some things parents do to try to correct the behavior and motivate change is by using a scornful tone, or other punishments like a timeout or losing some form of privilege […]
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There’s a “positivity” motto or saying that goes along the lines of: if you have nothing “nice” to say then don’t say anything at all. This false philosophy is a dangerous one in the face of falsity and evil that needs to be changed in order for our overall lives to improve on this planet. Most people don’t find the […]
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“Balance” implicitly refers to an equalization, an evening out, a middle ground, not more of one or the other but having things be equal. To balance yourself on a beam is to not fall over to the left or right, but to stay in the middle, equally centered. “an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright […]
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Be it a sports team, athlete, celebrity, food, or something else, many people inflate the importance of something based on them being related to it in some way. Especially from a geographical basis. Source“My home team is the best.” “I love X because it’s where I’m from!” “X is so good because it’s where I live!” We were born somewhere, […]
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Life has it’s ups and downs, and a serious downer is when we lose something we hold dear. It could be the loss of something we own, or of a loved on. Something in our lives is gone. Something that we value is missing. When something goes missing by our own fault of misplacing it, or forgetting it somewhere and […]
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There are choices we must make in life in order to accomplish a goal or objective. If we want something enough, we have to do what is required to obtain it. We may need to choose between two or more things and pick one, because we can’t have it all, and certainly not at the same time. SourceThere are short-term […]
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Change is a constant in life. We meet new people. We get jobs. New things are invented. We have children. We buy new things. We go on vacation. These are basic changes that deal with our personal life. We can handle this change because we are bringing it on ourselves. We choose to do these things based on our desires […]
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There is a ladder with grades and levels to get off the checkerboard floor, the low, base, beastly, carnal, fleshly consciousness stuck in the pleasure trap and baser instincts, evolving towards a higher ego, a higher self, a higher consciousness, a higher soul. Consciousness, self, soul, ego are references to ourselves. Some people try to make the ego itself an […]
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