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Next time you're frustrated by someone who's projecting wild accusations onto you, realize that narcissists cannot interact with you, only your introject, your stereotype; the internal map of you they created.
And because they feel bad inside--they have a bad "internal object"--they must project this bad object outside, onto you.
This is also why the interactions are shallow and emotional.
It has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them and their stunted childhoods. Possibly their current addictions.
Don't take it personally, and don't defend yourself. Be chill.
Your reaction is their fuel.
Your frustration, your insults, your defensiveness, your scrambling to provide evidence for your case, your attention, attention, attention, good or bad: they'll take it.
They need it to survive--at least, survive in their disordered state.
The threat is to their fantasy, not to them.
But because they have no core identity, only a void draped in fantasy, exposing the fantasy exposes their emptiness. And that, to them, is death.
Reputation is everything, because inside is nothing.
Cockatoo gets the beat.
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John Bockmann retweeted
There's no objective measure of pain, and consciousness can hardly be defined,
but they can both be ruled out in living, prenatal human beings who respond in every way as if they feel pain.
That right?
John Bockmann retweeted
"Abortion is healthcare...that we don't have to report, unlike actual medical procedures...and a human right to kill innocent humans...and just happens to help us avoid responsibility for our choices while making us rich"
Either-or is sometimes just a fact. We can't always have it all. Good vs evil is a real thing, especially at the margins.
But in between, this paradigm is an adversarial, zero-sum, false worldview that only one can matter; only one can be true:
- saint vs sinner
- God vs man
- mother vs baby
- truth vs grace
- faith vs science
- forgiveness vs boundaries
- individual vs community
- freedom vs responsibility
- fetal pain vs right to life
This adversarial paradigm accords with the Theory of Evolution (survival of the fittest) and Marxism (class struggle).
But it does not fit with Christianity, which is abundance, both-and:
- saint AND sinner
- God AND man
- mother AND baby
- truth AND grace
- faith AND science
- forgiveness AND boundaries
- individual AND community
- freedom AND responsibility
- fetal pain AND right to life
Each one matters maximally.
Zero-sum, either-or only applies at the margins.
It's the exception that the "vs" advocates would generalize into a rule. the abortion edge cases--pregnant 12-year-olds, etc.
"Hard cases make bad law."
it's almost always both-and, not either-or
what does @jordanbpeterson say--"when all the options are bad, the solutions are upstream."
that's where we should put our energy for those edge cases.
You can and must, actually. To support abortion, you can and must insist on at least two contradictory things at once. Every lie, every injustice requires this dissociation.
Anti-intelligent design arguments concede the basis of ID arguments.
Namely, that intelligent design can be recognized. Their arguments are expressly theological, not scientific. "God wouldn't have done it that way."
But ID simply recognizes the scientific hallmarks of intelligence and leaves theology to theologians.
"Is pregnancy irreducibly complex? case for and against."
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If you can endure an absurd, violent world without hope, then you can thrive in that world with hope.
Jesus.
I've heard that "A woman's work is never done," but the burden of carrying a dead fetus to term is...interminable.
