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Who’s the fool?

Posted on by philipdodson

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Foolishness is all a question of opinion and perspective. What seems silly to one set of people, may well seem quite OK with another group.

The fact is intelligence or what is normal or mad, is an arbitrary measure. Who is to say what is foolish or which person is a fool?

Sanity, normality, intelligence, all these things that societies use to ensure compliance and mass conformity are just a question of which side of the fence you sit on.

The fool is perhaps the person who never questions this and accepts the rules of what defines the fool.

Maybe try foolish sometimes and see what the world looks like from the other end of the telescope.

Angry

Posted on by philipdodson

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Anger often is caused by our frustrations with ourselves. This then gets expressed outwardly towards others and anything that we can latch onto.

Unfortunately, the society we have encourages hate, judgement and fear. As a consequence, it is easy to find things or people to vent our anger on.

Anger is a complete waste of time, it never makes us feel good, even after venting it, and the recipient, often ourselves, never feels good either.

It is all to do with our sense of worthiness. If we could only tell ourselves that we are already worthy, no matter what we have achieved, no matter what others think and no matter what we have or don’t have.

This where it starts. Loving ourselves, instead of being angry or frustrated. We have to be our own No1 fan, our own cheerleader, we have to accept ourselves and say we are already good enough.

If we love ourselves, feel worthy and accept ourselves, then there is no room for anger and the pedlars of hate, fear, judgement in society will have one less recruit for their cause.