Were I not a flexibly inflexible Eclectic, I'd be a Stoic

"This essay will consider the thesis that there is within Stoic philosophy, a distinct and interesting theory of human psychology which entails not only a normative account of human growth and development but also a corresponding theory of psychopathology based on that account. The theory also encompasses a system of therapeutic techniques formulated to expose and correct these pathologies. In sum, there exists what can only be described as, a unique and well-formulated system of Stoic Psychotherapy [1].

In fact, I would assert that Stoicism does not just contain a theory of psychotherapy as part of its larger philosophical theory, but that Stoicism itself is more accurately conceptualized as primarily a psychotherapy, albeit, with an extensive philosophical underpinning."

Read on ...
http://www.ptypes.com/psychotherapy.html

Lady on bike again. Old chap who ran away from the modern world, some lovely barn doors. What do they all have in common?

Just a very cool lady! Where does one find 'em these days? One probably doesn't.

Quotes worth giggle and so on and so forth

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. done.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell

Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson


He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~Robert Brault,

Edith Hamilton:

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.


There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
- Casey Stengel


If you smacked a kid in the face with a bottle of Johnson's No More Tears, would it create beautiful irony?

I still miss my ex-girlfriend, but my aim
is improving.

Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling.

The reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.



Always remember that you are unique; just like everyone else.



This girl rang me up one time, she says "come over, nobody is home", I went over, no one was home!


Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.


King - Please! Please good people! I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
Peasant 1 - No one lives there.
K - Then who is your lord?
P1 - We don't have a lord.
K - What?
Peasant 2 - I told you, we're an anarco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer must be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting; by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs-
K - Be quiet!
P2 - but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more serious-
K - Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
P1 - Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Ha!
K - I am your king!
P1 - Well I didn't vote for you.


acrasial adj ill tempered
nequient adj
not being able

phlyarologist n
one who talks nonsense

plebicolar adj 1626 -1820
courting or appealing to the common people

prandicle n 1656 -1658
small meal

roblet v 1674 -1755
to lead astray

snobographer n 1848 -1966
one who describes or writes about snobs

weequashing n 1888 -1902
spearing of fish or eels by torchlight from canoes

flosculation n 1651 -1651
an embellishment or ornament in speech

historiaster n 1887 -1894
petty or contemptible historian

jobler n 1662 -1662
one who does small jobs
We've found a great jobler who takes care of our repairs quickly and cheaply.


Listen here you acrasial snobographer, you weequashing leporicidal hill-dweller, your unrelenting phlyarologistic flosculations are indeed replete with moil, any one would find it so. You would roblet the poor denizens with such logorrheic effluvium.

Instrumentalism

Instrumentalism
Instrumentalism views scientific method as a means to an end rather than itself able to reveal absolute truth.
The most well-known example is that of Copernicus's theory: the sun is the centre of our solar system and has Instrumental Value in that it is to be seen as a useful method of prediction certain astronomical events but is not in fact true - and therefore not in conflict with the Church.

Magic

To the modern mind-set magic is often associated with an irrational or childish view of the world. Where it once was, like philosophy, the equivalent of science, the way of explaining things and affecting the world, it is now seen as poor science or an inadequate means of working with the world.
Another view is that like religion magic has and does serve as a way of keeping social order. Serving as a symbolic function in society, magic like religion becomes a non-rational practice rather than irrational when compared to the predominant modern western conception of the world.

PHYSIOGNOMY

PHYSIOG'NOMY, n. [Gr. nature, and knowing; to know.]

1. The art or science of discerning the character of the mind from the features of the face; or the art of discovering the predominant temper or other characteristic qualities of the mind by the form of the body, but especially by the external signs of the countenance, or the combination of the features.