empowerment, healing & protection
Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 11:17 am
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'When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is.
When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be
We make him what he should be.' - Goethe
Why to Believe in Others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd-1CjhbYPQ
'If we take man as he is - we make him worse,
but if we take man as he should be,
we make him capable of becoming what he can be.' - Frankl
It is better to empower all,
such that we can be our own leaders -
and the seeds of our ideals,
do not rest in only one garden.
Our community is a forest, an ecosystem -
where within any life,
the truth of our cause is reflected within.
Such that with any death,
the ideal is not at risk.
A reason to continue supporting one's own existence.
It gives life direction, motivation and fulfillment.
It makes life stronger at survival & flourishing.
'He who has a why to live can bear almost any how' - N.
Many moral dilemmas are addressed after the fact -
such that there is no way to avoid harm,
and that questions of right / wrong are asked amidst the disarray of chaos.
If the dilemma is present,
all we can do is find ways to reduce the harm,
than remove it entirely -
the price is already being paid.
However,
we can learn from these dilemmas -
such that we do not repeat them in the future.
We live and we learn.
It's compassion to cut ourselves some slack.
We're all born into ignorance,
into shock waves that crush spirits.
'When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is.
When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be
We make him what he should be.' - Goethe
Why to Believe in Others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd-1CjhbYPQ
'If we take man as he is - we make him worse,
but if we take man as he should be,
we make him capable of becoming what he can be.' - Frankl
It is better to empower all,
such that we can be our own leaders -
and the seeds of our ideals,
do not rest in only one garden.
Our community is a forest, an ecosystem -
where within any life,
the truth of our cause is reflected within.
Such that with any death,
the ideal is not at risk.
Meaning is an answer to why persist in life, when one could stop persisting.GPT wrote:The Will to Meaning: Frankl posits that the desire to find and create meaning in one's life is the primary motivating force. He argues that this search for meaning is what gives life purpose and direction.
A reason to continue supporting one's own existence.
It gives life direction, motivation and fulfillment.
It makes life stronger at survival & flourishing.
'He who has a why to live can bear almost any how' - N.
ben - 2012 wrote:Schopenhauer’s thoughts of what leads to denial of the will:Person O wrote:Do you think an existentialist is prone to label himself as such by reason of finding himself in a reduced circumstance?
- personal experience of an extremely great suffering that leads to loss of the will to live; or
- knowledge of the essential nature of life in the world through observation of the suffering of other people.
If one is exposed to suffering, then one’s attachment to this becomes less appealing.
A step away from attachment, and a step towards detachment. What are we moving between? Life and death / bias and neutrality.
SEP wrote:As an intellectual movement that exploded on the scene in mid-twentieth-century France, “existentialism” is often viewed as a historically situated event that emerged against the backdrop of the Second World War, the Nazi death camps, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which created the circumstances for what has been called “the existentialist moment”, where an entire generation was forced to confront the human condition and the anxiety-provoking givens of death, freedom, and meaninglessness.
It is better to avoid a dilemma emerging, than finding solutions whilst the dilemma is active.GPT - preventive medicine wrote:The philosophy of preventive medicine centers on proactively safeguarding health by addressing risk factors before they lead to illness. This approach emphasizes the importance of early intervention, health promotion, and the ethical considerations surrounding medical practices aimed at preventing disease.
Many moral dilemmas are addressed after the fact -
such that there is no way to avoid harm,
and that questions of right / wrong are asked amidst the disarray of chaos.
If the dilemma is present,
all we can do is find ways to reduce the harm,
than remove it entirely -
the price is already being paid.
However,
we can learn from these dilemmas -
such that we do not repeat them in the future.
We live and we learn.
It's compassion to cut ourselves some slack.
We're all born into ignorance,
into shock waves that crush spirits.
'Monuments' wrote: [...]
We can create meaning from the suffering.
A compass - so we may head true.
An anchor - so we may stand tall against the slings & arrows.
An antidote - so we may cure it next time.
A foundation - so we we may build monuments...
Monuments carved with their names.