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The Four Pillars Of Self-Confidence

Submitted by: aka.attrition

Source: Quintus Curtius – https://qcurtius.com/2022/10/22/the-four-pillars-of-self-confidence/

Abstracts:

It seems to me that self-confidence rests on four pillars: (1) one must accurately and honestly assess one’s value; (2) self-confidence should never veer into the territory of arrogance or insolence; (3) self-confidence must be buttressed by demonstrated experience; and (4) while all can improve in self-confidence, it is essentially a character trait that comes easier to some than to others.

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It is not true that all men are of equal value in all things. Some men, by virtue of their training, experience, and inclinations, will perform more successfully in certain areas. But honest appraisals are often difficult, because pride and sensitivity are offended by blunt truths. Those who are able to step outside themselves and engage in critical self-examination will improve. Those who cannot, will never advance.

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Integrity. Dignity. Community.

Guest post by Dr. Robert Malone

In March of 1963, a great man came to Washington, stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and changed the world by speaking from his heart about his dream. Simple words that continue to resonate through time.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. The simple truths are what matter most. Honest words, spoken from the heart, can change the world.

I am a physician and a scientist, highly trained and experienced in developing vaccines and other medicines, but I have also been a carpenter and a farm hand. In my life, my wife, my family, my friends and my treasured horses have provided all that I could hope for.

It has not been an easy life, and I have seen hard times. In walking my path, I have traveled from the arrogance and hubris of youth to arriving at awareness that peace and happiness flows like a fountain from a commitment to kindness, good works, and striving to help others.

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NO WAY OUT

I know there are many people out there who don’t watch the daily drivel emanating from their 72 inch HD boob tubes. I don’t blame them. Most of the shows on TV are dumbed down to the level of their audience of government educated zombies. The facebooking, twittering, texting, instagraming generation is too shallow, too self-consumed, and too intellectually lazy to connect the dots, understand symbolism or learn moral lessons from well written thought-provoking TV shows. But there have been a few exceptions over the last few years. Breaking Bad, House of Cards, and Walking Dead are intelligent, brilliantly scripted, morally ambiguous, psychologically stimulating TV shows challenging your understanding of how the world really works.

The Walking Dead is much more than a gory, mindless, teenage zombie flick. Personally, I find myself interpreting the imagery, metaphorical storylines, and morality lessons of Walking Dead within the larger context of cultural, political, and social decay rapidly consuming our society today. I don’t pretend to know the thought process or intent of the writers, but I see plot parallels symbolizing current day issues plaguing our empire of debt. Their mid-season opener was one of the most intense shocking episodes of the entire series. It was titled No Way Out, as the main characters appeared to be trapped in a no win situation with long odds and little hope of surviving.

From my vantage point I see four explicit types of characters inhabiting the world of the Walking Dead. There are the infected mindless zombies roaming the countryside in search of flesh to consume. They are oblivious to the world around them, unable to think, feel, or act human. They can be distracted and led in different directions by loud noises or other diversions. Then there are the still human zombies inhabiting the walled city of Alexandria who are sentient, thinking, frightened men and women, not prepared to face the harsh reality of an unfair brutal world and the consequences of not fighting the forces of evil. They cower behind their walls and hope for the best.

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I LIVE IN A STATE WITH AN ENTRENCHED CULTURE OF MALFEASANCE

The slimy lowlife politicians slithering around the halls of the State capital in Harrisburg wouldn’t know integrity if it fell on their fucking heads. Pennsylvania politicians and government bureaucrats are nothing by snakes screwing the citizens of the state by lining their pockets with bribes in the putrid cesspool of PA politics. They proved their integrity this week by screwing the people again. The ultra-liberal Democrat governor and the traitorous pussified Republican legislature “compromised” after 5 months of budget impasse to raise our sales tax by 21% to the second highest in the nation at 7.25%. Only the communist state of California has a higher rate at 7.5%.

Politicians never cut wasteful spending. They never cut a program. They never cut a subsidy. They just treat us like milking cows to be sucked dry. This massive increase in sales taxes hurts the middle class and poor far worse than the rich. But it gets the slimy politicians more money to waste on our horrific public schools and the pensions of the government drone teachers.

The last governor wanted to privatize the state owned liquor stores. It would have raised over $1 billion, but the union government drones blocked this perfectly good idea. Why get rid of an antiquated, bloated, inefficient, expensive, union controlled system, that keeps liquor prices 30% higher than nearby states, when you can raise taxes on the very same people who have to pay 30% too much for their booze?

Both parties suck. The politicians are scum. There is no integrity in government at all. That is why I will never vote again.

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