Gnwmythr's Glossary

Monday, 18 January 2021

dimension(s)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dimension&oldid=1000564898

Wednesday, 23 December 2020

[Content Warning] Toxic positivity

See https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2020/03/post-no-1507-toxic-positivity.html and here and here.

Subsequent to the original posting of this, see also:

https://open.substack.com/pub/jessicawildfire/p/it-feels-good-to-feel-bad-and-your?r=1onbpq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email;

“Toxic Positivity—Why It's Harmful and What to Say Instead” https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-toxic-positivity-5093958

“Gratitude vs. Toxic Positivity: How to Balance Emotional Authenticity for Well-being — Wave Life” https://www.wavelife.io/blog/gratitude-vs-toxic-positivity-emotional-wellbeing

“Toxic Positivity and the Search for Real Well-being: A Balanced Perspective | Applied Social Psychology (ASP)” https://sites.psu.edu/aspsy/2024/04/08/toxic-positivity-and-the-search-for-real-well-being-a-balanced-perspective/

“The Art of Balanced Positivity - Goodnet” https://www.goodnet.org/articles/art-balanced-positivity

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Sunday, 15 November 2020

Know Thyself

If one is self-aware, or seeking to be self-aware, it is quite possible to become aware of one’s flaws, and then doing something about them – whether that is contain the damage they do, or actually change oneself so the problems have been either transformed or resolved.

As an example of that, when I was a kid I became aware that I have a bad temper, largely because of my involvement in personal growth / spiritual development/evolution, including – as a teenager - Buddhism. Knowing, because of that personal growth work, that I am a “work in progress”, I was able to make the decision to use my anger, rather than being a tool for that anger (or, more accurately, whatever was behind it) to express itself.

If I’d been caught up in some sections of the New Age movement, I would have been focused on the “accept and love oneself as one is” view, and thus failed to acknowledge the value of, and need for, transforming and integrating that aspect of oneself so one becomes a better, more effective person.

The process for doing that is often referred to as shadow work.

This concept and terminology has, however, a much older lineage – one which goes back to the Temple of Delphi in ancient Greece, where it was the first of three sayings.

For more on that, see :

· https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Know_thyself&oldid=1088998966, which includes the various attributions and historic usages;

· https://exploringyourmind.com/the-origin-of-the-famous-saying-know-thyself/;

· https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/201403/know-thyself; and

· https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Know+thyself.

I have also written about this at :

· Post No. 873 – The Importance of Knowing Thyself … and Doing Something About It.

· Post No. 2,130 - Burned bridges and other changes;

· Post No. 2,106 - the puppets of social conditioning;

· Post No. 1,214 - Courage in the Workplace;

· Post No. 1,208 - Some Thoughts on Living;

· Post No. 1,181 - Trauma;

· Post No. 718 - Intellectual Cowardice (and conspiracy theories);

· The brutality and sometimes sadism of engineering;

· Post No. 2,357 - What is the term for the opposite of wisdom?.

Related to this is also :

“The unexamined life is not worth living”

For more on that, see :

· https://www.socratic-method.com/philosophy-quote-meanings/socrates-the-unexamined-life-is-not-worth-living;

· https://echoesofquotes.com/the-meaning-behind-the-unexamined-life-is-not-worth-living-what-socrates-really-meant/;

· https://thinkpeakstudio.com/blog/quote-explained-socrates-july-2026/; and

· https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_unexamined_life_is_not_worth_living&oldid=1369756590.

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Saturday, 14 November 2020

Survival after death

See death - and especially the link to https://www.victorzammit.com/, and https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search/label/survival%20after%20death and https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search?q=%22Survival+after+death%22

Also see:

The Afterlife Revolution;

“An Uncontaminated Witness - The Children NDE Research Left Behind” https://troubledminds.substack.com/p/an-uncontaminated-witness-the-children These experiences confirmed key aspects, but without the cultural religious baggage

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Friday, 14 August 2020

GeSRTH - now F.A.R.T., in lieu of the misleading TERF

After I wrote this, years ago, a term has come into use to replace the appalling inaccurate term TERF: F.A.R.T. - feminism appropriating reactionary transphobes (see here).

In lieu of TERF, as they are neither radical nor feminist, GeSRTH - Gender Stereotype Reinforcing Trans Haters- and whatever the label, IMO in a few years they are going to be as thoroughly discredited and viewed with contempt as eugenicists and other racists who tried to "prove" racial stereotypes that don't exist.