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Solipsism (pronounced /ˈsɒlɨpsɪzəm/) is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. Solipsism is an epistemological or ontological position that knowledge of anything outside one's own specific mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist. In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a skeptical hypothesis.
There are varying degrees of solipsism that parallel the varying degrees of serious skepticism.
Metaphysical solipsism
Metaphysical solipsism is the "strongest" variety of solipsism. Based on a philosophy of idealism, the metaphysical solipsist maintains that he is the whole of reality and that the external world and other persons are representations of that self having no independent existence. Few, if any, have taken this position beyond hypothetical discussion.
Even physical sight depends on the imagination. If we behold an object, it is not scientific to say, "I see;" but we ought to say, "I imagine to see."
A painter paints a picture upon a piece of wood, and you will then see the picture, but not the wood; but a wet rag may wipe out all that the painter has made. Thus we have been cut out by the hand of God, and He formed us in the three Substances and painted us all over with Life, but death wipes out the picture. Therefore we should not allow ourselves to be seduced by the temptations of life, seeing that they are nothing but illusions, resembling colours which in themselves are neither red, nor yellow, nor green, but merely appear to be so to the eye.
Philosophy informs us that the world is made out of the will of God. If, then, all things are made out of will, it logically follows that the causes of all internal diseases are also originating within the will. All diseases, such as are not caused by any action coming from the outside, are due to a perverted action of the will in man, such as is not in harmony with the laws of Nature or God.
The world of corporeal forms is an external expression of the world of mind. Each thing represents an idea; each star in the sky is a visible symbol of a universal power or principle.
As it is outside of man, so is it inside, and vice versa, for the outside and inside are essentially one thing, one constellation, one influence.
Nature (Heaven) is Man, and Man is Nature; all men are one universal Heaven, and Heaven is only one universal Man.
All the organs of the body, and the body itself, are only form-manifestations of previously and universally existing mental states.
-- The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus and the Substance of his Teachings, by Franz Hartmann, M.D.
Epistemological solipsism
Epistemological solipsism, or Strong-agnostic solipsism (meaning "knowledge is impossible"), is the variety of idealism according to which only the directly accessible mental contents of the solipsistic philosopher can be known with certainty. Proponents of this view believe it is possible that either an external world exists or that only the self exists, but that it is actually impossible to prove either way.
Methodological solipsism
Methodological solipsism may be a sort of weak agnostic (meaning "missing knowledge") solipsism. It is a consequence of strict epistemological requirements for "Knowledge" (e.g. the requirement that knowledge must be certain). They still entertain the points that any induction is fallible and that we may be brains in vats.
Importantly, they do not intend to conclude that the stronger forms of solipsism are actually true. Methodological solipsists simply emphasize that justifications of an external world must be founded on indisputable facts about their own consciousness. The Methodological solipsist believes that subjective impressions (Empiricism) or innate knowledge (Rationalism) are the sole possible or proper starting point for philosophical construction (Wood, 295). Often methodological solipsism is not held as a belief system, but rather used as a thought experiment to assist skepticism (e.g. Descartes' cartesian skepticism).
Main issues
Denial of materialistic existence, in itself, does not constitute solipsism.
Possibly the most controversial feature of the solipsistic worldview is the the denial of the existence of other minds. Since qualia, or personal experiences, are private and ineffable, another being's experience can be known only by analogy.
The Law of Analogy in the plan of structure between the trans-Solar systems and the intra-Solar planets, does not necessarily bear upon the finite conditions to which every visible body is subject, in this our plane of being. In Occult Science this law is the first and most important key to Cosmic physics; but it has to be studied in its minutest details and, "to be turned seven times," before one comes to understand it. Occult philosophy is the only science that can teach it.
Everything in the Universe follows analogy. "As above, so below"; Man is the microcosm of the Universe. That which takes place on the spiritual plane repeats itself on the Cosmic plane. Concretion follows the lines of abstraction; corresponding to the highest must be the lowest; the material to the spiritual.
-- The Secret Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Philosophers try to build knowledge on more than an inference or analogy. The failure of Descartes' epistemological enterprise brought to popularity the idea that all certain knowledge may go no further than "I think; therefore I exist" (cogito ergo sum)[1] without providing any real details about the nature of the "I" that has been proven to exist.
The theory of solipsism also merits close examination because it relates to three widely held philosophical presuppositions, which are themselves fundamental and wide-ranging in importance. These are that:
1. My most certain knowledge is the content of my own mind—my thoughts, experiences, affects, etc.;
2. There is no conceptual or logically necessary link between mental and physical—between, say, the occurrence of certain conscious experience or mental states and the 'possession' and behavioral dispositions of a 'body' of a particular kind (see the brain in a vat); and
3. The experience of a given person is necessarily private to that person.
Solipsism is not a single concept but instead refers to several worldviews whose common element is some form of denial of the existence of a universe independent from the mind of the agent.
Each thing is a state of mind, because the whole world is mind. Each thing is a materialised thought (a "star"), and represents the character of the thought expressed in it.
-- The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus and the Substance of his Teachings, by Franz Hartmann, M.D.
Gorgias (of Leontini)
Solipsism is first recorded with the Greek presocratic sophist, Gorgias (c. 483–375 BC) who is quoted by the Roman skeptic Sextus Empiricus as having stated:
• Nothing exists;
• Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and
• Even if something could be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.
Much of the point of the Sophists was to show that "objective" knowledge was a literal impossibility. (See also comments credited to Protagoras of Abdera).
The foundations of solipsism are in turn the foundations of the view that the individual's understanding of any and all psychological concepts (thinking, willing, perceiving, etc.) is accomplished by making analogy with his or her own mental states; i.e., by abstraction from inner experience. And this view, or some variant of it, has been influential in philosophy since Descartes elevated the search for incontrovertible certainty to the status of the primary goal of epistemology, whilst also elevating epistemology to "first philosophy".
Psychology and psychiatry
Philosophical solipsism as pathological
Solipsism is often introduced (for example "Philosophy made simple", by Popkin and Stroll) as a bankrupt philosophy, or at best bizarre and unlikely. Alternatively, the philosophy is introduced in the context of relating it to pathological psychological conditions.
Solipsism syndrome
Solipsism syndrome is a dissociative mental state. It is only incidentally related to philosophical solipsism. Solipsists assert that the lack of ability to prove the existence of other minds does not, in itself, cause the psychiatric condition of detachment from reality. The feeling of detachment from reality is unrelated to the question of whether the common-sense universe exists or not. [citation needed]
Infant solipsism
Developmental psychologists commonly believe that infants are solipsist,[2] and that eventually children infer that others have experiences much like theirs and reject solipsism (see Infant metaphysics).
To discuss consequences clearly, an alternative is required: solipsism as opposed to what? Solipsism is opposed to all forms of realism and many forms of idealism (insofar as they claim that there is something outside the idealist's mind, which is itself another mind, or mental in nature). Realism in a minimal sense, that there is an external universe is most likely not observationally distinct from solipsism. The objections to solipsism therefore have a theoretical rather than an empirical thrust.
Solipsists may view their own pro-social behaviors as having a more solid foundation than the incoherent pro-sociality of other philosophies. Indeed, they may be more pro-social because they view other individuals as actually being a part of themselves. Furthermore, the joy and suffering arising from empathy is just as real as the joy and suffering arising from physical sensation. They view their own existence as human beings to be just as speculative as the existence of anyone else as a human being. Epistimological solipsists may argue that these philosophical distinctions are irrelevant since the professed pro-social knowledge of others is an illusion.
The British philosopher Alan Watts wrote extensively about this subject.
Last surviving person
Would the last person left alive be a solipsist? Not necessarily, because for the solipsist, it is not merely the case that they believe that their thoughts, experiences, and emotions are, as a matter of contingent fact, the only ones that can exist. Rather, the solipsist can attach no meaning to the supposition that there could be thoughts, experiences, and emotions other than their own—that events may occur or objects or people exist independently of the solipsist's own experiences. In short, the metaphysical solipsist understands the word "pain" [i.e., someone else's], for example, to mean "one's own pain"—but this word cannot accordingly be construed to apply in any sense other than this exclusively egocentric, non-empathetic one.
Relation to other ideas
Idealism and materialism
One of the most fundamental debates in philosophy concerns the "true" nature of the world—whether it is some ethereal plane of ideas, or a reality of atoms and energy. Materialism[3] posits a separate 'world out there' that can be touched and felt, with the separate individual's physical and mental experiences reducible to the collisions of atoms and the interactions of firing neurons. The only thing that dreams and hallucinations prove are that some neurons can misfire and malfunction, but there is no fundamental reality behind an idea except as a brain-state. Idealists,[4] on the other hand, believe that the mind and its thoughts are the only true things that exist. This doctrine is often called Platonism[5] after its most famous proponent. The material world is ephemeral, but a perfect triangle or "love" is eternal. Religious thinking tends to be some form of idealism, as God usually becomes the highest ideal (such as Neoplatonism).[3][6][7] On this scale, solipsism can be classed as idealism, specifically subjective idealism. Thoughts and concepts are all that exist, and furthermore, only 'my' thoughts and consciousness exist. The so-called "reality" is nothing more than an idea that the solipsist has (perhaps unconsciously) created.
Cartesian dualism
There is another option: the belief that both ideals and "reality" exist. Dualists commonly argue that the distinction between the mind (or 'ideas') and matter can be proven by employing Leibniz' principle of the identity of indiscernibles, which states that if two things share all the exact same qualities, then they must be identical, as in indistinguishable from each other and therefore one and the same thing. Dualists then attempt to identify attributes of mind that are lacked by matter (such as privacy or intentionality) or vice versa (such as having a certain temperature or electrical charge).[8][9] One notable application of the identity of indiscernibles was by René Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy. Descartes concluded that he could not doubt the existence of himself (the famous cogito ergo sum argument), but that he could doubt the (separate) existence of his body. From this he inferred that the person Descartes must not be identical to the Descartes body, since one possessed a characteristic that the other did not: namely, it could be known to exist. Solipsism agrees with Descartes in this aspect, and goes further: only things that can be known to exist for sure should be considered to exist. The Descartes body could only exist as an idea in the mind of the person Descartes[10][11] Descartes and dualism aim to prove the actual existence of reality as opposed to a phantom existence (as well as the existence of God in Descartes' case), using the realm of ideas merely as a starting point, but solipsism usually finds those further arguments unconvincing. The solipsist instead proposes that his/her own unconscious is the author of all seemingly "external" events from "reality".
Philosophy of Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation is the central work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer saw the human will as our one window to the world behind the representation, the Kantian thing-in-itself. He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.
Radical empiricism
The idealist philosopher George Berkeley argued that physical objects do not exist independently of the mind that perceives them. An item truly exists only so long as it is observed; otherwise, it is not only meaningless, but simply nonexistent. The observer and the observed are one. Berkeley does attempt to show things can and do exist apart from the human mind and our perception, but only because there is an all-encompassing Mind in which all "ideas" are perceived – in other words, God, who observes all. Solipsism agrees that nothing exists outside of perception, but would argue that Berkeley falls prey to the egocentric predicament – he can only make his own observations, and can't be truly sure that this God or other people exist to observe "reality". The solipsist would say it is better to disregard the unreliable observations of alleged other people and rely upon the immediate certainty of one's own perceptions.[12]
Rationalism is the philosophical position that truth is best discovered by the use of reasoning and logic rather than by the use of the senses (see Plato's theory of Forms). Solipsism, which holds a similar distrust for sense-data, is thus related to rationalism, and in fact may be seen as a form of extreme rationalism.
Philosophical zombie
The theory of solipsism crosses over with the theory of the philosophical zombie in that all other seemingly conscious beings actually lack true consciousness, instead they only display traits of consciousness to the observer, who is the only conscious being there is.
Falsifiability and testability
Solipsism is not a falsifiable hypothesis as described by Karl Popper or Imre Lakatos: there does not seem to be an imaginable disproof. Not even the complete death of the solipsist could falsify his belief in solipsism because he could not analyze that observation.
The method of the typical scientist is materialist: they first assume that the external world exists and can be known. But the scientific method, in the sense of a predict-observe-modify loop, does not require the assumption of an external world. A solipsist may perform a psychological test on themselves, to discern the nature of the reality in their mind (David Deutsch uses this fact to counter-argue below). This investigation may not be proper science, however, since it would not include the co-operative and communitarian aspects of scientific inquiry that normally serve to diminish bias.
Solipsism is a form of logical minimalism. Many people are intuitively unconvinced of the nonexistence of the external world from the basic arguments of solipsism, but a solid proof of its existence is not available at present. The central assertion of solipsism rests on the nonexistence of such a proof, and strong solipsism (as opposed to weak solipsism) asserts that no such proof can be made. In this sense, solipsism is logically related to agnosticism in religion: the distinction between believing you do not know, and believing you could not have known.
However, minimality (or parsimony) is not the only logical virtue. A common misapprehension of Occam's Razor has it that the simpler theory is always the best. In fact, the principle is that the simpler of two theories of equal explanatory power is to be preferred. In other words: additional "entities" can pay their way with enhanced explanatory power. So the realist can claim that, while his world view is more complex, it is more satisfying as an explanation.
While solipsism is not generally compatible with traditional views of God, it is somewhat related to Pantheism, the belief that everything is God and part of God. The difference is usually a matter of focus. The pantheist would tend to identify their self as being a part of everything in reality, which is actually all God beneath the surface. For instance, many ancient Indian philosophies advocate the notion that all matter (and thus humans) is subtly interconnected with not only one's immediate surroundings, but with everything in the universe. They claim that the perception of absolutely-independent beings and things is an illusion that leads to confusion and dissatisfaction -- Samsara. The solipsist, however, would be more likely to put him- or herself in the center, as the only item of reality, with all other beings in reality illusions. It could be said to be another naming dispute; "The Universe" / "God" for the pantheist is "My Unconscious Mind" / "Me" for the solipsist.
Eastern philosophies
Some solipsists believe that some tenets of eastern philosophies are similar to solipsism. Taoism and several interpretations of Buddhism, especially Zen, teach that the distinction between self and universe is arbitrary, merely a habit of perception and an artifact of language. This view identifies the unity of self and universe as the ultimate reality. Zen holds that each individual has 'Buddha Mind': an all-pervading awareness that fills their entire existence, including the 'external' world. This need not imply that one's mind is all that exists, as with solipsism, but rather that the external universe is experienced through the mind of the individual.
Advaita Vedanta
Advaita is one of the six most-known Hindu philosophical systems, and literally means "non-duality". Its first great consolidator was Adi Shankaracharya, who continued the work of some of the Upanishadic teachers, and that of his teacher's teacher Gaudapada. By analyzing the three states of experience—waking, dreaming, and deep sleep—he established the singular reality of Brahman, in which Brahman, the universe and Atman, the self are one and the same.
In the Hindu model, Brahman, the god identified with the ultimate all-inclusive reality, plays a game of hide and seek with itself. In this game, called Lila, Brahman plays with individual people, birds, rocks, and other features of the world both separately and together, while forgetting that the game is being played. At the end of each session, Brahman is said to wake up, cease the game, applaud itself, and resume the game all over again. The state of wakefulness and enlightenment is knowing one is simply playing a game; one is simply acting as a human being, having an illusion of being locked within a physical body and separated from the whole of the cosmos.
One who sees everything as nothing but the Self, and the Self in everything one sees, such a seer withdraws from nothing.
For the enlightened, all that exists is nothing but the Self, so how could any suffering or delusion continue for those who know this oneness?
— Ishopanishad: sloka 6, 7
The philosophy of Vedanta, "Aham Brahmasmi" (roughly translated as "I am the Absolute Truth"), could be interpreted as solipsism in one of its primitive senses, as the world is but an illusion in the mind of the observer. However, Advaita Vedanta can be understood to be non-solipsistic when it is recognised that it does not actually deny the existence of a world 'external' to the Self or Atman. Rather, it is asserting that the consciousness and awareness of the individual pervades all of that person's experience, to such an extent that absolute notions of 'inside' and 'outside' are arbitrary. The universe is the same as the self, as the universe can only be experienced through the self and the self is submerged within the universe as an integrated part.
Aham Brahmasmi. Translation: aham = I; Brahmasmi = am Brahman. Meaning: I am Brahman.
It is an expression of "I am ness"....
We can discern at least five different states of "I am ness" in beings (jivas). The fifth one is the state of "I am I am"....This is a pure state of "I am only". This is the indescribable state of Brahman in its absolute aspect....
In Atman every experience is subjective. Atman does not interact with any object or use any external means to know or experience. It exists by itself and knows by itself. In contrast the experience of elemental self is objective....
All is Brahman. There is nothing else other than Brahman. He is the cause of all causes. He is also called Atman. In reality there is no distinction between the two. Atman is another name of Brahman or a mental construct we use to make sense of Brahman as the self of individual beings. There may be many beings in the creation, but there is only one Brahman in all of them. During creation Brahman projects himself out as everything and at the end of creation withdraws everything into himself. The phenomenal world is unreal. It an illusion or an apparition, which disappears when we overcome our ignorance and realize the true state of Brahman.
Aham Brahmasmi, by Jayaram V, Hindu Website,com
However, Advaita is strongly divergent from solipsism in that the former is a system of exploration of one's mind in order to finally understand the nature of the self and attain complete knowledge. The unity of existence is said to be directly experienced and understood at the end as a part of complete knowledge. On the other hand solipsism posits the non-existence of the external void right at the beginning, and says that no further inquiry is possible. [???]
Yogic practices are sometimes seen to align closely with the Sankhya philosophy, which is an Eastern dualistic system (somewhat distinct from Western dualism) postulating only the existence of mind, and of matter. However, one sometimes sees it explained that, while matter exists for us in the world of Maya (illusion), it is ultimately a product of mind, and is encompassed thereby.
The Buddha stated, "Within this fathom long body is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world." Whilst not rejecting the occurrence of external phenomena, the Buddha focused on the illusion created within the mind of the perceiver by the process of ascribing permanence to impermanent phenomena, satisfaction to unsatisfying experiences, and a sense of reality to things that were effectively insubstantial.
Mahayana Buddhism also challenged as illusion the idea that one can experience an 'objective' reality independent of individual perceiving minds.
According to the Sutra Prasangika view, external objects do exist, just not inherently: [LOL!] "Just as objects of mind do not exist [inherently], mind also does not exist [inherently]."[13] In other words, even though a chair may physically exist, individuals can only ever experience it through the medium of each their own mind, with each their own literal point-of-view. Therefore, an independent purely 'objective' reality could never be experienced.
Some later representatives of one Yogacara subschool (Prajnakaragupta, Ratnakirti) were proponents of extreme illusionism and solipsism (as well as of solipsism of this moment). The best example of such extreme ideas was the treatise of Ratnakirti (11th century) "Refutation of the existence of other minds" (Santanantara dusana).
Note: It is important to note that all mentioned Yogacara trends are not purely philosophical but religious–philosophical. All Yogacara discourse takes place within the religious and doctrinal dimension of Buddhism. It is also determined by the fundamental Buddhist problem, that is living being and its liberation from the bondage of Samsara.
There are a number of critiques of, and responses to, solipsism.
The person dies, but the solipsist himself or herself is not dead. If somebody else dies, the supposed being who has supposedly "died" is only a phantom of the solipsist's imagination anyway, and the elimination of that phantom proves nothing. A critic might point out that many (self-proclaimed) solipsists have died in the history of the world, and the universe hasn't disappeared yet. However, the solipsist would respond that he or she has not died, and therefore his or her solipsism is not yet disproved.
For the solipsist, death can only ever be "the death of the other." He/ she never believed in the existence of those other solipsists in the first place. Note however that a sentence reflecting a supposed understanding of the actions of others, such as one that contains a statement like "he or she never believed..." or "those others" is already stepping outside of the solipsist's subjective viewpoint, and so misleading when used to illustrate a solipsistic view of death. For the solipsist, death is like the end of a dream. The dream itself, the setting, and any characters within that dream would not be thought to continue after waking. Ergo, if waking life is like a dream, why should the setting or characters perceived within it continue on after the death of the subject from that dream either?
Some might argue that to exist in complete unity with reality would mean to be unable to learn -- one would have to have awareness of all things. The solipsist would probably not appeal to such knowledge being contained in their subconscious, since the existence of a world of information outside consciousness is exactly what the solipsist disavows. Instead she might suggest that the world that exists is always restricted to her field of vision -- the way no world exists behind the walls of a stage's set, video game environment, or in a dream.
Applicability of the past
The fact that an individual may find a statement such as "I think, therefore I am" applicable to them, yet not originating in their mind indicates that others have had a comparable degree of insight into their own mental processes, and that these are similar enough to the subject's. The metaphysical solipsist would respond that, much like other people are products of his own mind, so, too, is "the past" and its attendant information. Thus, "I think, therefore I am" would indeed have originated in their mind.
Life is imperfect
Why would a solipsist create things such as pain and loss for himself or herself? More generally, it might be asked "If the world is completely in my head, how come I don't live the most fantastic life imaginable?" One response would be to simply plead ignorance and note that there may be some reason which was forgotten on purpose. Perhaps this is all out of a desire to avoid being bored, or perhaps even that the solipsist is in fact living the most perfect life he or she could imagine. Another response is that categories such as 'pain' are perceptions assumed with all of the other socio-cultural human values that the solipsist has created for himself — a package deal, so to speak. A third response is to say that, like a dream, the solipsist's subconscious mind creates a world which the solipsist's conscious mind might not have chosen but has no control over changing.
This issue is somewhat related to theodicy, the "problem of evil", except that the solipsist himself is the all-powerful God who has somehow allowed imperfection into his world. A solipsist may also counter that since he never made himself he never had a choice in the way his mind operates and appears to have only limited control over how his experiences evolve. He could also conclude that the world of his own mind's creation is the exact total of all his desires, conscious and otherwise and that each moment is always perfect in the sense that it would not be other than as his own mind in total had made.[12]
The imperfection of life can also be explained through the belief that only through pain, both physical and emotional, can one move to a higher state of existence. Thus, it could be theorized that the imperfect present for a solipsist is the direct result of his subconscious compulsion to experience perfection.
A variant of this problem questions the existence of other people's skills the solipsists lacks. If the solipsist created a famous poet in his mind, why doesn't the solipsist have the capacity to imitate their skill? Similar to pain, there is some reason that the solipsist has denied himself this ability, but it may not be knowable or explainable.
The solipsist would say it is better to disregard the unreliable observations of alleged other people and rely upon the immediate certainty of one's own perceptions ...Solipsism agrees with Descartes in this aspect, and goes further: only things that can be known to exist for sure should be considered to exist.
-- Solipsism, by Wikipedia
The claim that the solipsist's mind is the only thing with certain existence for him (epistemological solipsism) does not inherently address the question of control over the content of that mind. Outside solipsism, a person may know that a phobia is all in the mind but be completely unable to prevent it ruining their life. (Conversely, it is not illogical for a powerful being—a god, for example—to have complete control over the universe, despite it being external to said powerful being.) Solipsism asserts that the mind of the agent is the only thing with assured existence; it need not assert any specific structure to that mind—any more or less than materialism—in and of itself, and requires a specific cosmology. However, any convincing philosophy needs to cohere with what is observed, and metaphysical solipsism needs to credit certain mental contents with the same stubborn indifference to human wishes that material objects display in other philosophies.
Solipsism undercuts morality
If solipsism is true, then practically all standards for moral behavior would seem to be meaningless. According to this argument there is no "creator", no deity, so that an external, "objective" basis for morality is gone. Other forms of morality that do not rely on the existence of an infallible deity, such as secular humanism, also become meaningless because there are no such things as other humans. Everything and everyone else is just a figment of imagination, so there's no particular reason not to make these figments disappear by, say, mass annihilation. The problem with this argument is that it falls prey to the Appeal to Consequences Fallacy; whether or not solipsism is true does not depend on its implications. This can possibly be countered by people who believe that (a non-solipsist) morality is an inherent part of the universe that can be proven to exist.
A solipsist may also understand that everything being a part of himself would also mean that harming anything would be harming himself with associated negative consequences such as pain (although the solipsist must be harming himself already, since "life is imperfect"). Or an exponent of a weak form of solipsism might say that harming others is imprudent because the solipsist can only be uncertain of their real existence rather than certain of their non-existence. Another expression of this point is in noting the strong feelings that a human can have for a non-existent character in a movie, or for a car or boat which is admitted to be completely non sentient. There is no logical or psychological reason to prevent a solipsist caring for observed people, even if the solipsist is completely convinced of their non-existence.
The solipsist needs a language
The practical solipsist needs a language to formulate his or her thoughts about solipsism. Language is an essential tool to communicate with other minds. Why does a solipsist universe need a language? Indeed, one might even say, solipsism is necessarily incoherent, a self-refuting idea, for to make an appeal to logical rules or empirical evidence the solipsist would implicitly have to affirm the very thing in which he or she purportedly refuses to believe: the 'reality' of intersubjectively valid criteria, and/or of a public, extra-mental world.[14] A possible response would be that to keep from becoming bored, perhaps the solipsist imagines "other" minds, which would actually be only elements of his own mind. He or she has chosen to forget control of these minds for the time being, and the elaborate languages required for interaction with these more isolated segments of his mind are merely part of the creation of "reality." As for the rules of logic, they are probably merely an artifact of the peculiar psychology of the solipsist and only appear to exist in the "real" world. (However, to argue this way is to admit that solipsism needs to be buttressed with additional, ad-hoc hypotheses).
One famous argument along these lines is the private language argument of Wittgenstein. In brief, this states that since language is for communication, and communication requires two participants, the existence of language in the mind of the thinker means the existence of another mind to communicate with. There is a direct fallacy in this: either, language is for communication between two agents, in which case it is still to be proved that what is in the head of the agent is a language; in which case it is yet to be proved that language is for communication between two minds. To complicate the situation, the language in the mind of the agent may be for communication between the agent at this time, and the agent at a future time. However, this is no objection to the original argument, which explicitly mentions a kind of "diary" and therefore communication across time.
Similar to the above objections, the response that the solipsist, even being the only real thing, is not in control of the 'universe' could address this question.
Philosophical poverty
Some philosophers, notably Bertrand Russell, hold the viewpoint that solipsism is entirely empty and without content. Like a 'faith' argument, it seems sterile, i.e., allows no further argument, nor can it be falsified. The world remains absolutely the same — so where could a solipsist go from there? Viewed in this way, solipsism seems only to have found a facile way to avoid the more difficult task of a critical analysis of what is 'real' and what isn't, and what 'reality' means. The solipsist might hold in response that further argument is meaningless. He might explain that, granting only the most basic laws of thought, he has identified the real limits of what can be truly known about 'reality': cogito ergo sum.
Solipsism amounts to realism
An objection, raised by David Deutsch[15] (among others), is that since the solipsist has no control over the "universe" she is creating for herself, there must be some part of her mind, of which she is not conscious, that is doing the creating. If the solipsist makes her unconscious mind the object of scientific study (e.g. by conducting experiments), she will find that it behaves with the same complexity as the universe described by a realist. Thus what realism calls "the universe", solipsism calls "one's unconscious mind." Understood this way, the distinction between realism and solipsism collapses and amounts to different ways of describing the same thing: a massively complex process that causes all of the solipsist's experiences, but is not identical to the solipsist's conscious mind.
Presumably having made the case that the solipsist scientist is actually a realist scientist, Deutsch next argues in favor of the more common understanding of reality. He applies Occam's Razor, and suggests that it prefers the standard external 'reality' over something like a brain in a vat. This is because the standard 'reality' fits all the data available to the scientist, rendering superfluous the other more complicated possibilities.
If seeking to avoid rejecting the laws of thought, the solipsist may appeal to the problem of induction to reiterate that the realist's theory of reality could still, in the end, be an illusion in some way. She could also appeal to some types of idealism.
1. Thornton, Stephen P. (24 October 2004). "Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/solipsis.htm#H1.
2. Flanagan, Owen J. (1991). The Science of the Mind. MIT Press. pp. 144. ISBN 0262560569, 9780262560566.http://books.google.com/?id=80HIwMz3bvw ... +solipsism. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
3. "Materialism". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
4. "Idealism". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
5. "Plato and Platonism". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
6. Loflin, Lewis. "Notes on Neoplatonism and the relation to Christianity and Gnosticism". http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/neoplatonism.htm.
7. "German Idealism". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 16 April 2001. http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/germidea.htm.
8. DePoe, John M. "A Defense of Dualism". New Dualism Archive.http://www.newdualism.org/papers/J.DePoe/dualism.htm.
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11. Thornton, Stephen P. (24 October 2004). "Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.http://www.iep.utm.edu/s/solipsis.htm.
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13. Chandrakirti, Guide to the Middle Way 6:71cd, translation inOcean of Nectar: Wisdom and Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism, London: Tharpa Publications, p. 253.
14. Jacquette, Dale (1994). "Wittgenstein on private language and privat mental objects". Wittgenstein Studies (1).http://sammelpunkt.philo.at:8080/399/.
15. Deutsch, David. "David Deutsch on Solipsism". The Free Woods. http://www.freivald.org/~jake/deutschOnSolipsism.html.
• Carus, Titus Lucretius (c. 50 BC). De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things].
• Khashaba, D.R. (28 July 2002). "Subjectivism and Solipsism". Philosophy Pathways (37).http://www.philosophypathways.com/newsl ... sue37.html.
• Peake, Anthony (2006). Is There Life After Death?. Arcturus–Foulsham (Europe), Chartwell Books (USA). This book presents an intriguing and scientifically-based updating of solipsism involving the latest findings in quantum physics, neurology and consciousness studies.
• Popper, K.R.; Eccles, J.C. (1977). The Self and Its Brain. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
• Russell, Bertrand (1988) [1912]. The Problems of Philosophy. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.
• Russell, Bertrand (1995) [1921]. The Analysis of Mind. London, UK: Routledge.
• von Schubert Soldern, Richard (1982). Über Transcendenz des Objects und Subjects. Leipzig.
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• Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1974). Philosophical Investigations. Blackwell.
• Wood, Ledger (1962). "Solipsism". in Runes. Dictionary of Philosophy. Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams, and Company. p. 295.
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• Mish, Frederick C., ed (1983). Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, MA: Merriam–Webster.


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I have been reading books by Jay Adams since 1987. At that time I was not quite aware of the impact of those books, and the great need for Biblical Counseling to those people in the church, let alone those removed from the church. I knew, however that pastoral counseling had to be purely Biblical if it was to be effective in the healing of people.
Several years ago, my interest in Jay Adam's books was starkly rekindled to the point that I made a conscious attempt to purchase, and study every one of his books, along with all of his journals as an attempt to refine some of my counseling skills.
There is only one kind of Christian counseling. That kind is a counsel that comes exclusively from Scripture without any humanistic integration of any kind whatsoever. It is called "Nouthetic" Counseling.That means that those things that are "admonitions" in Scripture are to be exclusively used to redirect the attitudes and behaviors of the counselees.
For example:
Eph 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Note how there is a particular admonition to put off certain actions and to replace them with the Biblical solution.
Nouthetic counseling is evangelical at its root. It points the counselee back to Scripture. For the unregenerate it sets forth Christ as the only answer to his or her problems. For the saint, it re-establishes the moral Law of God so as to correct certain misconceptions, ideas, attitudes and ultimately behavioral problems.
As I stated before, Nouthetic counseling is not an integrated concept or methodology. It is not Skinnarian behaviorism, nor Freudian, nor Rogerian. It is Christ Centered and Scripture Centered without any perversion whatsoever. It begs the counsel of the Word of God and the Power of the Spirit of God for all solutions.
One might imply that Christian counseling is a professional arena of study and practice. I disagree most vehemently. Nouthetic counseling must be learned by all who claim to be Christians. Since all saints are called to obey the Word, and to encourage one another with, and by the Word, all of God's people must therefore be skilled in the Word. This is especially true for parents that are in the counseling arena daily with their children and with their relationship with one another. God's Word, when applied to any of life's problems, by definition is Nouthetic counsel.
The article below is an article by Jay Adams which appeared recently on his blog site. I encourage you to bookmark that site and begin reading it daily.
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I had been looking for a place for this memory of hearing Charlie Haden with Ornette Coleman. It didn't seem to fit in my weekly music column, so it's here, adjacent to a reprint of the column.
Haden the agitator
Roughly 40 years ago, some time after I got my driver's license and before I finished college, I saw the Ornette Coleman quartet at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase in Chicago.
Coleman was wearing a full-length, bright blue robe covered with silvery stars and moons. Dewey Redman wore a dashiki. This was the mid-'70s — no coat and tie and starchy white shirts. Haden stood out in his ordinary walkaround pants and shirt.
Coleman played long fluid passages punctuated with jarring blasts and shrieks. Dewey Redman on tenor growled, burbled and ululated. Drummer Ed Blackwell held things together, driving the band in lively swing figures with New Orleans flavors.
Eyes squinted shut, the bass player agitated the others, spewing speedy, intricate walking lines, weaving rugged textures of brief repeating patterns that felt almost like strumming, mixing motifs and toggling back and forth.
I had never heard a bass played that way, and I had never heard a group stirring up so much tension. They were not exactly playing together; they were playing against each other. It was thrilling, a little scary, and widely ear-opening.
Haden's post-Coleman work, especially with Quartet West, became decidedly gentler, but I think the overarching quality of his work was to bring to the music whatever he thought it needed.
Haden leaves city a jazz legacy with bright moments
Published in the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader, August 8, 2014
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Charlie Haden, the great bassist who died last month, made an impression in Springfield as part of his family's band back in the 1950's, but his recent contributions to the city's jazz community promise long-lasting rewards.
Randy Hamm, director of the Missouri State University Jazz Studies Program, came to know Haden during the conceptual stages of the MSU program and the first Springfield Jazz Festival, during the end of the last decade. Hamm also had a mind-blowing musical experience playing with Haden at that time.
Planners recruited Haden as guest artist for the inaugural festival and as artist in residence for the first year of the MSU Jazz Studies Program. Haden's presence was crucial to the launch of both efforts, Hamm said.
In Springfield in 2010 for the first festival, Haden said he was impressed with the renovation of the Gillioz Theatre and pleased to have the opportunity to perform there with his band, Quartet West.
In 2009, Haden appeared at an important fundraiser for scholarships and equipment for the new program. MSU jazz ensembles provided entertainment for the event at the Kentwood Ballroom on campus. In addition, Hamm on alto saxophone and faculty member Kyle Aho on piano played as a duo.
Haden wasn't planning on playing. He didn't have his bass, and he was uncomfortable using other people's equipment, Hamm said. However, after a couple of tunes by the duo, Haden stepped forward and joined Hamm and Aho.
"We let him call the tunes he wanted to play," Hamm said. "One of the tunes that he called, which he had recorded several times, was 'Body and Soul.' "
"I tell you, playing with Charlie Haden in that intimate setting, without a drummer — that Steinway in that room, the acoustics — it was one of the most rewarding musical experiences I've ever had."
The three musicians had never played together as a trio. It was a leap of faith. "Just to call a tune, there was immediate, deep trust all around," Hamm said.
He paused for a moment, looking for words:
"Playing with Charlie Haden must be what it feels like to ride on a magic carpet. His time, his intonation, his note choices, his rhythmic feel. It was gorgeous. I didn't want to stop."
The Jazz Studies Program has graduated its first group of musicians. The fifth annual Springfield Jazz Festival is Oct. 3.
Ed Peaco writes about locally grown Ozarks music for the News-Leader. Contact him at 417-413-9029 or email@example.com.


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Acclaimed Australian game developer Halfbrick today announced its official projects for the highly popular Xbox Live Community Games service. The studio also revealed that each game will become part of the new Halfbrick Fridays series, which focuses on smaller, more casual games for a whole range of players.
A total of four Halfbrick Fridays games will be released within the next three months: Halfbrick Blast Off, Halfbrick Echoes, Halfbrick Thrusts and Halfbrick Zombies are coming! That's a lot of Halfbrick, and the team couldn't be happier.
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The regime's August 21 chemical weapons strikes on towns in East and West Ghouta have had repercussions in other parts of the country, with civilians fearing Assad's forces could launch fresh attacks.
In Daraa Province in the south of Syria, fear of chemical weapons attacks — as well as intensified conventional attacks by regime forces in the area — have created a fresh wave of refugees, who have tried to flee to Jordan but were turned back after the authorities closed the border crossings.
An EA correspondent with excellent contacts inside Syria reports that civilians in and around the southern city of Daraa this week began to fear that the regime may be planning a chemical attack against targets in the area, after insurgent scouts spotted what they said was unusual activity around a regime military base around 50 kilometers from Daraa city.
According to the correspondent, civilians in Daraa city are encircled by front lines, as insurgents from the Free Syrian Army move northwards and clash with regime troops and pro-Assad militias. Locals say that many civilians want to escape to Jordan, but cannot because the Jordanian authorities closed the border crossings.
As fears of a potential chemical attack spread this week, civilians in Daraa panicked and tried to flee across the border, a source on the ground said, only to find that the Jordanian authorities have not just closed the official border crossing, but have also blocked unofficial smuggling routes.
As a result, an increasing number of Syrian refugees trying to cross into Jordan are camping at the border.
This short video report from Wednesday shows Syrians stranded near the Jordanian frontier, unable to cross:
Earlier this week, UNHCR representatives in Jordan said that the country has seen a surge of refugees since the August 21 attacks. On September 1, a UNCHR representative in Jordan tweeted that the country had seen the highest rate of arrivals in over a month, some from the Ghouta and Damascus suburbs.
249 #syrian arrivals to #jordan last 24 hrs, highest in over a month. Almost all via east border. Some arriving from Al Ghouta, Raf Damas.
— Andrew Harper (@And_Harper) September 1, 2013
However, Jordan's fears that its already stretched resources can no longer absorb waves of refugees — the country has accepted 520,000 Syrians since the conflict began — have led it to shut the borders.
Aoife McDonnell, a UNCHR representative in Jordan, told reporters on Tuesday that the organization is "very concerned" about reports of thousands of Syrians just across the border, wishing to cross into Jordan.
McDonnell said that the UNHCR was increasingly worried as the situation worsens.
"As UNHCR, we have to be prepared for the worst-case scenario," she added.
The number of Syrians from Daraa Province waiting to cross the Jordanian border — where they are particularly vulnerable to regime airstrikes — is likely to increase, however, as the Assad regime continues its offensive against towns and villages in the province.
Footage from Wednesday shows regime shelling on Daraa city:
Wounded in Jasem, north of Nawa, which has seen heavy regime attacks [WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES]
The regime has also continued to shell Tafas near Nawa. This footage from Thursday, uploaded by Daraa-based media activist Abo Gamal, shows the destruction of houses in Tafas following an overnight strike:
Activists based in Daraa on Thursday report that a hospital in the Mahatta neighborhood of Daraa City have run short of blood supplies, and there are people including two children wounded in attacks that are urgently waiting for transfusions.


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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Life Without Internet
Until two days ago, M and I have had an internet-less home. Surprisingly, we survived! It wasn't as terrible as I expected, but I still feel like we're emerging from the dark ages into the 21st century. There were some maddening moments for sure. We had to rely on spotty 3g service on my phone. My poor husband has spent many frustrating hours trying to pay bills on a small touch screen. I've wanted to throw my phone against the wall while waiting on pages to load. Let's face it, we live in a connected world. Life without internet can be peaceful, but I'm not complaining about finally having affordable options for service in our subdivsion!
One thing I've learned.... it's hard to blog without normal internet. Please, please forgive me.
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Myths are highly adaptable stories that can be made to suit your own story. We talked briefly about how to take a myth / legend and break it down so that it's elements can be re-purposed, and now I have a spin for you, parallel myths as an example!
The tale of Urashima Taro from Japan and the tale of Oisín in Tir na nÓg from Ireland are practically the same story, only with different details for their elements. For us that makes them an existing example of how to adapt a myth to your own story.
Let's look at Urashima Taro first to set our baseline:
The tale of Urashima Taro (浦島 太郎) is an ancient tale from Japan of a young fisherman. One day Urashima Taro is fishing when he notices a group of children harassing a turtle. Taro saves the turtle. As thanks, the turtle magically gives Taro gills and brings him to the Palace of the Dragon God at the bottom of the sea. There he meets the Emperor and the lovely Sea princess.
Taro stays there with her for a few days, but soon wants to go back to his village and see his aging mother, so he asks permission to leave. The princess says she is sorry to see him go, but wishes him well and gives him a mysterious box called tamatebako which she tells him never to open. Taro grabs the box, jumps on the back of the same turtle that had brought him there, and soon is at the seashore.
When he returns home, everything has changed. His home is gone, his mother has vanished, and the people he knew are nowhere to be seen. He asks if anybody knows a man called Urashima Taro. They answer that they had heard someone of that name had vanished at sea long ago. He discovers that 300 years have passed since the day he left for the bottom of the sea. Struck by grief, he absent-mindedly opens the box the princess had given him, from which bursts forth a cloud of white smoke. He is suddenly aged, his beard long and white, and his back bent. From the sea comes the sad, sweet voice of the princess: "I told you not to open that box. In it was your old age …"
Urashima Taro stripped to it's core elements features an everyman hero, magical transportation (in the form of an animal), a magical kingdom, a lovely supernatural princess, time passing differently, and the sudden reckoning of age. In some versions of the tale, there is romance between Urashima Taro and the princess, and sometimes she is the turtle that he saves.
Compare that to the tale of Oisin in Tir na nOg:
The character in Oisín in Tir na nÓg is Oisin, a legendary poet and warrior of Ireland. In this tale, he is visited by a fairy woman called Niamh of the Golden Hair who professes her love and together they ride away to Tir na nÓg on a white horse.
They marry, have children and live for a while in Tir na nÓg. Eventually homesickness sets in and Oisín decides to return to Ireland. Niamh gives him her white horse, Embarr, but warns him not to dismount.
Oisín returns and finds his home abandoned and in disrepair. Oisin soon discovers that 300 years had passed and only stories remain of him and his kin. Later, while Oisín is helping two men move a stone, he falls from the horse and ages in an instant, becoming an old man just as Niamh had forewarned. The horse bolts, returning to Tir na nÓg leaving Oisín behind.
This tale shares almost every core element of Urashima Taro. Both feature magical transportation (in the form of an animal), a magical kingdom, a lovely supernatural princess, time passing differently, and the sudden reckoning of age. Oisin, however is a legendary hero, rather than an everyman and Oisin's tale also features romance with the princess as a core element. Essentially Oisin's tale is a retelling of Urashima Taro with a substituted hero and the relationship brought to the forefront (or Urashima Taro is a retelling of Oisin with a generic hero @_@).
For a game session it would be fun to turn this on it's head!
Instead of using this normally with the heroes as the principle of the tale, let's make the antagonist as the principle of the tale! A warlord from the past slips through a portal into an alien realm (caused inadverdently by our protagonists). There he becomes immersed in a fantastic alien realm with wondrous technology and is showered with adulation (for something he did not do). Despite the wonders and grandeur of this alien realm, he soon longs for his home and the lands he had claimed with his own hands. The benevolent aliens grant him a field generating device with which to return, warning him that to leave the field would be disastrous.
He returns home albeit 300 years later, and does not recognize it as home. His coalition and warband are no more, not even a footnote in history. The world is none he recognizes. He curses the alien trickery and wages a campaign of mayhem intent on carving out an empire to replace what was lost using the alien technology.
Unfortunately for our heroes, he is trying to found an empire in their backyard. The heroes must stop this maniacal warlord with alien power, fighting through the shadows of the warlord's past to discover the secret to overcoming his alien power, disabling his field through technique or trick to set the ravages of time upon him.
Not even the warlord is immune to the march of time!
This sounds like a plot ripe for Gamma World or even Danger Patrol. I will probably just save it for a rainy day adventure with Risus.


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I'll Speak On It...
I say that because as I was sitting here last night wondering what the hell I could possibly blog about, I kept coming up short. I had no idea what to write about, nor how to write about it, but…alas…the Boondocks came to the rescue. Now typically, Boondocks episodes (at least in the past) were all about the humor. With the dawn of the third season, it was pretty evident that Aaron MacGruder had plans to put a message in each of his episodes, even if it was initially masked by humor. In the "Red Ball" episode, it was about how China pretty much owns the U.S. In the "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman" episode, it was pretty much about how everyone expected our President to basically be Jesus without realizing that politics is still a process. In this episode, he tackled a topic that few people talk about, and even fewer are willing to admit about themselves: insecurity.
Ah, the elephant in the room named insecurity. Everybody knows it's there, but no one wants to acknowledge its presence. It's funny to me how in my own life and in the lives of those that I'm privy to be a part of, how much insecurity runs rampant. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the most secure person on the planet, and I would be a liar and a fraud to sit and say that I've always got it together, and I'm always confident in what I do. What I will say is that I've gotten a hell of a lot better at how I approach and handle things. I guess it's coming with maturity, or maybe I'm just tired of doing the same thing to get the same results. Either way...I've made some changes, and eventually, the fruits of my changes will show.
Take the progression of the episode for reference points about insecurity. Grandad had gone through crazy relationship after ridiculous situation all back to back, and had gotten to the point where he was just done. Deleted the Facebook account and had basically given up on women as a whole. Who can really sit here and say that they haven't had that type of a moment? I know for damn sure I have, and I am pretty certain it'll happen to me again. Blame it on my personality. Then…he came across someone new. Completely random encounter, and decided that he wanted to pursue it, even after she completely broke all of the "rules" by asking him out on a date. As he was getting to know her, everyone around him was questioning the situation. Everyone. Huey and Riley were telling him he needed to give it a rest, Uncle Ruckus did everything to try and get them to stop talking…all because of his past. All because of the women he had dealt with before he met the woman (named Ebony Brown). But, Grandad kept going, and kept spending time with Ebony. Once things were really going good, he got scared. Scared that things were about to fall apart. So he consulted his grandkids for advice on what to do, and he decides to make drastic changes to himself in order to see if she'll stick around for the long haul. Once he did that, he got paranoid, got in a fight with a man that wasn't even paying her any attention, and she stopped calling. For 16 hours. Because she went overseas with her company to help aid in the typhoon. During that time period, Grandad called her 137462389437 times, left voicemails and texts, and eventually got on a plane and flew to Malaysia to chase after her. After he did all of that…she told him he was moving too fast and it would just be best that they not speak anymore.
Now I did all of that recap of the episode to make a few points…the main point being don't let your past dictate your future. There is nothing wrong with letting the events of your past influence the choices you make in the future, but please don't let the past run your life. I'm not saying that I have never called the past into my present; hell, if you've ever heard me have a conversation while I'm going through something, the past comes up. But in the same token, I don't and I won't let it completely take over my life. Without getting too personal on this here blog, here within the last 7 months, I completely overhauled the way I approached situations. Before this last situation, I was extra clingy…always wanted to be up under a guy, always wanted to talk to him all day, always had to ask a million and one questions of where we were going and what we were doing. Needless to say, none of those panned out. Now, with this last situation, I did almost the complete opposite. Basically, I fell back. Didn't ask a whole lot of questions, didn't really cling, etc. Needless to say, that didn't pan out either. Does it hurt my feelings? Yep, sure does, cuz I thought this situation would have been something. But…what I refuse to do…is sit and let this situation that I thought was going to go well deter me from situations in the future. No matter how many thoughts I have of how I thought it was going to go different, or how many wishes I had that it didn't end up the way it is now, I can't let this one event keep me from experiencing happiness in the future. Do endings make you doubt the future? Of course they do! I would be a liar to sit here and say that in recent memory I haven't sat here and said that I'm just tired of trying with men and I don't want to be bothered because I said it. Multiple times. But…I can't ever expect to grow if I always hold on to the transgressions of my past…As a friend of mine says, "you get it wrong til you get it right…" Maybe if I really started looking at that for real in the realm of relationships, I'd have a lot more fun dealing with people…
Self-sabotage may be one of the biggest killers of relationships, right up there with a lack of communication and lack of trust. It's one of the biggest demons I face whenever I get into a situation with someone new. To be honest, it's hard to think that something good will happen to you if you've always been surrounded by bad luck. Hope is probably the hardest thing to maintain, because it's so easily dashed, especially when you've just gotten it back. It is my goal for my own life to not sabotage situations before they get a chance to play out. One of the biggest lessons I've learned in 2010 is to let things be as they will. However it's supposed to play out, it will; doubting yourself will only lead to the exact opposite of the result you truly desire.
I never thought I'd be this introspective and reflective due to a cartoon…but that's the power of the Boondocks…
So to all of you reading, let me ask you this: Are you really secure in yourself and in your relational dealings? Or are you just "fakin it til you make it?" How has insecurity played a role in the success or the demise of your relationships? Are you currently in a situation with someone who is insecure/you're insecure about yourself or how things are going? Share, spill, give feedback...
Til next time, folks...
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- SaneN85 said...
I think I'm pretty secure in myself. Then again, I haven't been in a real relationship in quite a while, and have not really met anyone that I would want to pursue something with. This makes me feel insecure in my standards. Like, maybe I'm asking too much. Then I meet a guy and things spiral from okay to "aw, hells naw" and I feel secure in the standards again.
As for in a relationship, I haven't had the opportunity to try out the changes I needed to make in myself after my marriage, so I don't know about that part.
- SaneN85 said...
Wait, did I even respond to the actual post? LOL
Insecurity is a tricky little guy. For the most part, I'm secure in myself. I have a lot more confidence than I used to growing up, but I still battle with insecurities now and again. I've never had insecurities ruin a relationship for me (at least to my knowledge), but I've had them pop up during my recovery period after a breakup. My insecurities seemed to mainly resurface while I was trying to attract new interest from a female. I'd have a brazillion (the area of Brazil x a million = a brazillion) self-critical thoughts rush through my mind while I'd try to "be myself" around a girl I was interested in.
As I've grown, I've come to accept some of my less-than-perfect attributes and learned to strut my stuff, if you will. However, I also try to mask other insecurities that I haven't gotten over with fake confidence. For the most part though, I be who I be and I like it that way. But I only got to this point after years of mistakes, rejection, and constructive reflection.
- James said...
Great post. I know for myself that my insecurities were (and sometimes are) a big problem for me. The crazy thing about insecurities are self-inflicted because we see someone who is obtaining those things in life we want (i.e. a relationship) and use them as a measuring stick instead of using those things God has given us to our advantage.
At this point in life I've come to terms with my insecurities and know that if I am meant to be with someone they will like me despite my insecurities and I the same. Hell one of the things I am insecure of might be the reason why the person will want to be in a relationship with me.
So don't let your insecurities (or any negative thing) be your stumbling block but your stepping stone.


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Vice president denies allegations of mutiny against Trump
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleged Tuesday that Hillary Clinton and two intelligence officials are working to replace President Donald Trump with Vice President Mike Pence.
"Clinton stated privately this month that she is quietly pushing for a Pence takeover," WikiLeaks' editor-in-chief said. "She stated that Pence is predictable hence defeatable."
Another tweet also claimed two intelligence officials "close to Pence" were actively planning the "takeover" – although it was unclear if "Pence agrees."
Assange later added context by stating that the alleged comments specifically concerned attempts to impeach the president.
"It should be noted that both the officials close to Pence and Hillary Clinton spoke of moving towards an 'impeachment' not other action," Assange said.
Pence responded Tuesday by labeling the comments "absurd" and "frankly offensive" during a discussion with radio host Laura Ingraham.
"I would find all of that dialogue to be absurd and frankly offensive," Pence said. "It is the greatest honor of my life to serve shoulder-to-shoulder with the 45th President of the United States."
"To see his leadership every day, to see the compassion that he has for the American people every day. I would dismiss that out of hand and tell you that I'm just, I'm so excited about the progress that we've been made strengthening this country, protecting this country, reviving this country's economy and all credit goes to President Donald Trump."
During an interview with Fox News last week, Pence stated the U.S. government would "use the full force of the law" against WikiLeaks following the publication of more than 8,000 CIA documents.


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VENICE (Reuters) - The Venice film festival opened on Wednesday with big-budget Italian movie "Baaria," a sentimental sweep through 20th century Sicily taking in Fascism, war, Communism and the mafia.
Billed as one of Italy's most expensive movies costing 25 million euros ($36 million), the first home-made film to open Venice for around 20 years kicked off 11 days of screenings, photo shoots, parties and red carpet glamour on the Lido island.
Director Giuseppe Tornatore, whose 1988 movie "Cinema Paradiso" won a foreign film Oscar, said the story of a poor family living through the upheaval of the last century was partly based on his own memories of life in Sicily.
He told reporters ahead of the official evening premiere that he wanted to use his birthplace as a microcosm of what was happening in the wider world.
"It might be any other place," he said, speaking through an interpreter. "The idea was not to tell the story of Sicily. The idea was to tell the story of a number of characters in the microcosm of a small town, hearing the echoes of what was happening around the town and far from that town."
And so Peppino, the central character played by Francesco Scianna, joins the Communist movement, travels to the Soviet Union where he sees first hand what it really means for citizens there and lives briefly in France seeking work.
But Sicily's passionate people also play a prominent part in a sumptuously shot film set amid olive groves, rugged hills and the ever-changing streets of Baaria.
Actress Eva Mendes and director Ang Lee, who is president of the jury in Venice, walked along the opening night red carpet, cheered on by hundreds of fans.
While Venice organizers would welcome an Italian hit after home-grown films generally flopped in recent years, the success of the festival will be judged as much by how many Hollywood stars turn up and the quality of the movies they bring.
The early signs are promising, with Matt Damon, Michael Moore, Nicolas Cage, George Clooney, Oliver Stone, Richard Gere and Sylvester Stallone among those due to walk the red carpet.
The cinema complex on the Lido waterfront is being re-built in a 100-million euro makeover designed to drag the world's oldest film festival into the 21st century and help it compete with other festivals, notably Toronto, with which it overlaps.
On Thursday Viggo Mortensen comes with "The Road," based on author Cormac McCarthy's bleak, post-apocalyptic vision of the world which also stars Charlize Theron.
Damon appears in "The Informant!" as a crooked company whistleblower, and Moore brings "Capitalism: A Love Story," a documentary attacking corporate greed amid the recession.
As well as economic meltdown, dominant themes this year include horror, with George Romero presenting "Survival of the Dead," and animation in the form of a lifetime award for "Toy Story" and "Cars" creator John Lasseter.
Clooney, who has a home in Italy and is a local favorite, appears in "The Men Who Stare at Goats," about a reporter who stumbles across a U.S. military unit in Iraq which employs paranormal powers on its missions.
Cage appears in Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," a remake of the 1992 movie directed by Abel Ferrara, who has publicly criticized the new version.


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Paul A. Shimmel 90, of Littleton died on May 24, 2016 at Life Care Center of Acton. He was born in Lawrence, PA on December 27, 1925 son of the late Willard and Augusta (Knepp) Shimmel. He grew up in Pennsylvania and joined the U.S. Navy during WW2. After the war he was discharged in Boston and met and married Phyllis (Sheehan) Shimmel in 1946. They made their home in Somerville and then moved to Littleton in 1954. Phyllis died in 1977. Paul worked as a truck driver for Local #25 in Somerville until he retired in 1979. He married Betty (Card) Shimmel and she died in 2007. He then worked for the Highway Department for the Town of Littleton for the 10 years. Mr. Shimmel was a Life member of Littleton VFW Post #6556. He enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren and making wooden toys and crafts.
Paul is survived by his children Paula and her husband Rick Ehwa of Littleton, Paul and his wife Jocelyn Shimmel of Leominster, Jack and his wife Alice Shimmel of Littleton, David and his wife Kelly Shimmel of Merrimack, NH. Diane and her husband Michael Crory of Littleton, Donald and his wife Ann Shimmel of Townsend and Gary and his wife Kathleen Shimmel of Littleton. 21 Grandchildren and 13 Great Grandchildren. He was also predeceased by his grandson Brian Crory.
Visiting Hours will be held at the Badger Funeral Home, 347 King Street, Littleton, MA on Tuesday May 31 from 4-8 pm. A Funeral Home service will be held on Wednesday June, 1, 2016 at 10 am. Burial at Westlawn Cemetery Littleton. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in his name to the Town of Littleton/ Veterans, P.O. Box 1305, Littleton, MA 01460.


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@HerdBaseball holds off WKU in Game Two, 10-9
Tommy Lane was a perfect 4-for-4 with three runs scored and a homer
Niggemeyer Throws Complete Game Shutout Win at Florida Atlantic
Herd's first nine inning complete game shutout since 2004
Zban, Valenti Powers @HerdBaseball to Series Win at UAB
Andrew Zban was 2-for-3 with a two-run home run
@HerdBaseball Drops Series Opener against Niagara
Finfer was 2-for-4 with a solo home run
@HerdBaseball Falls in Series Opener at Western Carolina
Wade Martin pitched five scoreless innings
Marshall vs. No. 21 Georgia Tech
Photos from Marshall baseball's game at No. 21 Georgia Tech on Feb. 18, 2017. Photos by Clyde Click.
Iowa Western (2016): Made 13 appearances on the mound with an 11-1 record … had a 2.11 ERA with 54 strikeouts in 68.1 innings pitched.
Ohio State (2015): Started in all seven games he appeared in for the Buckeyes … held a 3.27 ERA with a 4-0 record … pitched 33 innings with 15 strikeouts.
High School: Four-year starter at Olentangy Liberty ... a two-time first team all-state and three-time Ohio Capital Conference selection ... two-time OCC-Central Player of the Year and two-time all-district ... was 9-2 with a 0.53 ERA in 65.2 innings pitched, striking out 88 batters ... also batted .350 with a home run, 30 RBI and 10 doubles and helped guide the team to a regional final in 2014 and went 6-3 with a 1.90 ERA and 62 strikeouts in 57 innings pitched in 2013 and also hit .493 with 10 doubles, four home runs and 35 RBI and drafted in the 28th round of the 2014 MLB Draft by the Chicago Cubs ... also played one year of football for Olentangy Liberty, playing defensive end and quarterback.
Personal: Born on Nov. 30, 1995 … son of James and Betsy Niggemeyer … has a younger sister, Stephanie.


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West End Live is such an amazing event. I truly recommend everybody to go if you like musicals, because it's an unforgettable experience. Everything is great, the atmosphere in Trafalgar Square, the chance to see all the West End stars so close to you, live on the stage, listen to the different songs again and get surprised by the performances… The event means a lot of things but especially it's a celebration of British theatre.
Here you can read a few tips for the West End Live weekend, according to my experience last year (the first time I went there):
- Lots of people:
It's a very popular event, about 500,000 people will be in Trafalgar Square this year. That's a lot, and means lots of queues and lot of people in a small space and somebody can feel burden. If you are looking for a relaxed plan, I think that going to West End Live is not the best option. But if you don't mind, you can enjoy lots of musical performances for free.
- Comfortable clothes and weather:
The festival runs for many hours. On Saturday from 11am to 6pm and Sunday from 12noon to 6pm. This means a lot of hours, so it's better to wear comfortable clothes. It's important to check the weather for that. Last year was extremely hot, I had to buy some sunscreen because the sun was shinning a lot, which was great, and some sunglasses. But in London weather changes everyday. So this year, who knows? It can rain, so it's better to bring the umbrella with you.
- Food and drinks:
Yes, something that I found quite annoying. How is it possible that there wasn't any food store inside the square? You need to go outside to buy something, or take it from home. There is a Tesco Express, some Pret A Manger and a McDonald's just in front of the square, but I recommend not leaving the square while you are inside because you'll need to queue again to get in. So it's better if you carry your own food and drinks before.
- Wake up early:
I know it's hard but it's worth it too. The celebration is in Trafalgar Square, which means it's free and no ticket needed, but that doesn't mean that there aren't queues. There are a lot. The square is closed with fences, so you need to queue to get in. Last year I was queuing at 9 o'clock and I was quite far from the stage. The performances started at 11, so two hours earlier was enough to get inside the square, but people usually go very early.
- Energy:
It's a wonderful event, I'm sure you'll be part of the emotions of the crowd. It's great to share with the people all the love for musicals performance after performance. It's important to know that it's a standing event, so be prepared to enjoy the experience without seating. What I did last year was to stay standing most of the time, watching the shows I liked it, in front of the stage, and the ones I wasn't that excited, seating on the floor next to the crowd, watching from the screens.
- Information:
On the official webpage of the event, you can check all the information you need. Basically, I think that the most important thing to know is the schedule. It hasn't been released yet, but sure will be soon. It's good for you so you can organise the performances you prefer to watch, if you want to stay all day or not… It's up to you!
And the last thing: have fun! All the shows are great and all the songs are fantastic. It's going to be a great weekend, the waiting is also great, waiting for the news of the shows that will perform, the schedule… And it's going to be so sad once it's finished, but with good memories and waiting for the next year! It's a good opportunity to discover new shows in London if you haven't seen anything about it. So, I'll see you in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st.


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Install and Setup
This document will walk you through the installation of the My Pitt Video (Panopto) Mac Recorder for Intel-based Macintosh PCs running at least OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.x.
Mac OSX versions 10.8.x (Mountain Lion), 10.9.x (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.11.x (El Capitan)
Intel-based - Dual core 2.0GHz / 2GB RAM (recommended) FireWire ports for digital cameras
Built-in iSight camera (optional)
USB ports for webcams or other recording devices Disable sleep mode, screen savers and scheduled tasks
Microsoft Silverlight Player Installation
Installation of Microsoft Silverlight player is only required for viewing recordings.
Download from Microsoft by visiting Get Silverlight 5.
Mac Recorder Installation
1. Log into the My Pitt Video environment by:
- Logging into the My Pitt portal with your University Computing Account username and password
- Navigating to the My Pitt Video community under My Resources
- Clicking on the My Pitt Video (powered by Panopto) link in the community
- Clicking the Sign In button to access the sign-in options
- Making sure that "Pitt-CourseWeb" is selected and clicking the ensuing Sign In button
2. This should place you on the My Pitt Video sessions page. You can download the Panopto Recorder by clicking the "Download Panopto" button at the top of the window.
3. Click the Download Installer link for OSX.
4. Run the "Panopto Recorder.pkg" file.
5. Click "Continue".
6. Click "Continue".
7. Click "Install".
8. If prompted, enter credentials for installation, and then click "Install Software".
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VT506WA ADVENTURE Miniature Omni Lavalier
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The VT506WA Adventure is an IPX-7 Certified Waterproof miniature Omni lavalier microphone with an ultra-reinforced cable against sweat, cuts and tearing. The cable is 50% stronger than our standard cable. Also allows for temporary submergence (up to 1 meter) of the microphone without compromise and particularly suitable for demanding applications such as punishing day-to-day productions, sports, rental houses or for environmentally ruthless outdoor shoots.
Physically identical to a VT500WA ADVENTURE, VT506 versions have a capsule with a rising high frequency response for a open, clear sound.
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The December box came to us in a matter of DAYS.
There were some good goodies in this month's box...but i still felt a little...underwhelmed. maybe because i was hoping--because it was december/christmas--that it would be extra special or something. This is Ollie's last box in the 6-month bundle we signed up for. i think we are probably not going to reorder. :( While we were introduced to fun new treats (we especially loved barkworthies!) and we loved getting mail every month, i think ollie is just TOO picky for this.
But without further adieu, his December box included:
1.Bocce's Bakery: natural dog treats...this brand was featured in a previous box but this time these treats are featuring a more "holiday" flavor: chicken, pumpkin, cranberries, & cinnamon. ollie ate a few pieces, but lost interest. biscuit type treats are not his favorites, i have no idea why. he just loves chewy sticks and soft jerky-like treats best. {boccesbakery.com}
2. Fresh Dog: Oatmeal Shampoo i have yet to give this a try. but his bath day is tomorrow so maybe we'll try it tomorrow. :) {freshdog.com}
3. simply fido: reindeer ("holiday moose") toy. ollie does like this guy. ollie likes plush toys. i know a lot of people are probably going to complain that their dog destroyed it in 2.5 seconds, but this is the first "plush" toy we've seen and we're happy campers. {simplyfido.com}
4. puppy cake: red velvet cake mix for dogs! i'm super excited to try this, the only thing is that it makes A LOT...ollie is a little guy, so i'm not too sure when i'll be making this. or...maybe i could freeze it. i think this is such a cute idea :) {puppycake.com}
one thing i do like, is that barkbox has made a barkbox app where you can purchase items that were featured in their boxes...which i think i will do to buy some barkworthies products, since they are not available for sale...
i wonder if i should try a different box subscription....