you wouldn't need papers." - Zobo the Clown
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William Schaeffer
Saturday, July 8, 2017
Friday, July 7, 2017
Joy of Life
Life is its own reward -- with all the suffering and pain and disappointment and loss, it is still beautiful and the smallest event is a Universal miracle.
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William Schaeffer
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Working on the 4th
Bill Schaeffer
Yeah, life is short. I need to work and without work, life itself isn't very enjoyable. The people I work with are generally interesting and cool and working with the general public is always an adventure and a "sociological research study"
Chris
I, on the other hand, despise my coworkers. They are two faced, backstabbers who always try to get each other fired. The job itself is great. But the co-workers make it harder and harder to go in everyday.
Bill Schaeffer
I think the problem is "architectural" and not personal. If you work every day at the same time, in the same chair, in an office, you eventually absolutely hate everyone you work with even if they (and you) are basically decent people. If you work outside, or in different locations with a different crew members each day, you tend to tolerate their existence much more and find kind things to say about them even if they may not really deserve it.
For example -- for 15 years, I worked elbow to elbow 10 - 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, on VFX projects from 1996 - 2011. I worked with one thousand people in teams of up to 100 - 150 big. I worked on 39 features. Today few of those people stay in touch and I NEVER talk to any of them on the phone. They just don't exist. I don't exist. We shared almost nothing really, even though we sat elbow to elbow and listened to each other's phone conversations and smelled each other's food... The past doesn't even exist...The past never existed... just the credit card payments continue.
"We always hate the people closest to us the most." - Dr. Tony Bravado
Seriously, the human mind tends to give greater weight to negative information than it does to positive information. This is a life saving optimization. Unfortunately, if you have ten interactions with someone and five are positive, but two are negative, we unconsciously remember the negative information more. Over time we grow to hate those closest to us, even though we may recognize intellectually their good and admirable qualities. This is why the practice of "Being Thankful" or "Remembering the positive" is so important -- it helps to balance the equation.
"Nobody kills the stranger across town, they kill the backdoor neighbor who owes them money and is "too friendly" with other people's good company." - Zobo the Clown
Yeah, life is short. I need to work and without work, life itself isn't very enjoyable. The people I work with are generally interesting and cool and working with the general public is always an adventure and a "sociological research study"
Chris
I, on the other hand, despise my coworkers. They are two faced, backstabbers who always try to get each other fired. The job itself is great. But the co-workers make it harder and harder to go in everyday.
Bill Schaeffer
I think the problem is "architectural" and not personal. If you work every day at the same time, in the same chair, in an office, you eventually absolutely hate everyone you work with even if they (and you) are basically decent people. If you work outside, or in different locations with a different crew members each day, you tend to tolerate their existence much more and find kind things to say about them even if they may not really deserve it.
For example -- for 15 years, I worked elbow to elbow 10 - 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, on VFX projects from 1996 - 2011. I worked with one thousand people in teams of up to 100 - 150 big. I worked on 39 features. Today few of those people stay in touch and I NEVER talk to any of them on the phone. They just don't exist. I don't exist. We shared almost nothing really, even though we sat elbow to elbow and listened to each other's phone conversations and smelled each other's food... The past doesn't even exist...The past never existed... just the credit card payments continue.
"We always hate the people closest to us the most." - Dr. Tony Bravado
Seriously, the human mind tends to give greater weight to negative information than it does to positive information. This is a life saving optimization. Unfortunately, if you have ten interactions with someone and five are positive, but two are negative, we unconsciously remember the negative information more. Over time we grow to hate those closest to us, even though we may recognize intellectually their good and admirable qualities. This is why the practice of "Being Thankful" or "Remembering the positive" is so important -- it helps to balance the equation.
"Nobody kills the stranger across town, they kill the backdoor neighbor who owes them money and is "too friendly" with other people's good company." - Zobo the Clown
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William Schaeffer
Monday, July 3, 2017
Clinical Depression
in response to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drv3BP0Fdi8&lc=z130zz15yo3usdq5404ccjhziovxgrpi0vo0k.1499113530242143
It is the structure of our society itself that causes Clinical Depression. We cannot cure Clinical Depression in America WITHOUT totally restructuring American society. This cannot be accomplished without totally dismantling the society, and THEN reassembling the social organization in a NEW and healthy configuration.
Clinical Depression does not exist in pre-literate societies. The current medications are NOT cures, they are "treatments." This means that they are used to treat the symptoms but not the cause of those symptoms.
Listening Exercise: "Burning Down the House" - by Talking Heads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drv3BP0Fdi8&lc=z130zz15yo3usdq5404ccjhziovxgrpi0vo0k.1499113530242143
It is the structure of our society itself that causes Clinical Depression. We cannot cure Clinical Depression in America WITHOUT totally restructuring American society. This cannot be accomplished without totally dismantling the society, and THEN reassembling the social organization in a NEW and healthy configuration.
Clinical Depression does not exist in pre-literate societies. The current medications are NOT cures, they are "treatments." This means that they are used to treat the symptoms but not the cause of those symptoms.
Listening Exercise: "Burning Down the House" - by Talking Heads
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William Schaeffer
Thoughts on Iraq
Comments on "The Shock doctrine" by Naomi Klein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3B5qt6gsxY&t=9s
The torture that was used by the USA America in Iraq and Guantanamo against mostly innocent civilians will not be forgotten. It will be used as justification for the goal of absolute and utter destruction of USA America in the next world war. USA America has 6% of the World's population. Imagine playing a football game where you are playing by yourself against a team of nineteen opponents. You have padding and equipment and they have nothing. Who will win?
The response of ISIS to destroy historical monuments is a perfectly rational response to the torture that was inflicted on them by the USA in the prisons in Iraq. The vast majority of young Iraqi men were arrested without charges, imprisoned and tortured by the USA American forces. What better way to express your rage at this injustice than to attempt to destroy the memory of the culture that attempted to destroy you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3B5qt6gsxY&t=9s
The torture that was used by the USA America in Iraq and Guantanamo against mostly innocent civilians will not be forgotten. It will be used as justification for the goal of absolute and utter destruction of USA America in the next world war. USA America has 6% of the World's population. Imagine playing a football game where you are playing by yourself against a team of nineteen opponents. You have padding and equipment and they have nothing. Who will win?
The response of ISIS to destroy historical monuments is a perfectly rational response to the torture that was inflicted on them by the USA in the prisons in Iraq. The vast majority of young Iraqi men were arrested without charges, imprisoned and tortured by the USA American forces. What better way to express your rage at this injustice than to attempt to destroy the memory of the culture that attempted to destroy you?
copyright (c) 2017
William Schaeffer
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Raising the minimum wage
There is a murderous and hateful type of thought that is infecting the social dialog in this country. No longer is there any concern for the common good, but only talk of guarantees that "I get mine." There is no longer any talk of tolerating peoples weakness and inefficiencies but only talk of eliminating the problem from the equation. There is no talk of uplifting the rest of the world with our domestic philosophy, but just discussion about better ways to subjugate the rest of the world to better steal their natural resources. There is no concern for the healthy life in mind and body, and just a discussion of good financial investments and job security. I grew up in a country that promised "liberty and justice for all" and now I realize -- even THAT was just another "con job" to keep us off our guard until it was too late for us to realize that our entire lives had already been stolen.
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William A. Schaeffer
Toilet paper
Did you know that toilet paper is an American invention that dates to the first part of the 1800's?
In 1850, it was sold in huge industrial size rolls. Prior to the invention of toilet paper people used old catalogs and papers, cloth rags, left hand, smooth stone, leaves, or just water. The invention of toilet paper is less than two hundred years old. Perhaps a greater advance for civilization than electricity, internal combustion, movie film, radio and television, or computer networking.
And we rarely talk about it.
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William Schaeffer
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