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  1. A quotation from Terence

    DEMEA: No one has ever plotted out his life’s plan so successfully that he never faces
       New challenges and discoveries brought about by circumstances, the passing of time,
       Or experience itself. Inevitably, you discover you don’t know what you thought you did,
       And the principles we first formed don’t hold up in the face of everyday practice.
     
    [Nunquam ita quisquam bene subducta ratione ad vitam fuit
    Quia res, Ætas usus semper aliquid apportet novi
    Aliquid moneat, ut illa, quæ te scire credas, nescias
    Et, quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo ut repudies.]

    Terence (186?-159 BC) African-Roman dramatist [Publius Terentius Afer]
    Adelphoe [Adelphoi; Adelphi; The Brothers], Act 5, sc. 4, l. 855ff (160 BC) [tr. Christenson (2010), Sc. 22]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/terence/85152/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terence #challenge #challenges #change #changeofmind #circumstance #conduct #control #experience #growingup #ignorance #illumination #maturity #passageoftime #presuppositions #principles #reallife #realitycheck #theories #theory

  2. It’s a #difficult time this #holiday #season. Not just for us but I see it in others.

    My cousins are starting to experience more on our mutual side of the family of the degree of fucked up
    #conspiracy #theories, #Trumpsters, #MAGAts. It’s sad but it’s also something you have to move to a safe distance to mourn.

    More directly for me, I have a
    #parent who is getting absorbed into a new role, quickly, as a parent and a #matriarch of a #family that she’s always wanted and no idea if it’s a good idea or good fit for her. I pray that she is happy and not setting herself or those other participants up for #heartbreak later or even further #physchological and #spiritial #damage.

    #undealt with old family #wrongs. This people refuse to #acknowledge or #apologize for. It’s #difficult. It’s #messy. It’s downright fucking #insane sometimes and #catastrophically #costly to #mental #health and #wellbeing.

    Find someone around you that you can
    #unpack with. Go only if you feel you’re confident you can #endure or have a solid #escape #route or #disengagement #strategy.

    Find your
    #allies.

    Merry
    #Xmas and #holiday tide people.

  3. Aspernäs, J., Erlandsson, A., & Nilsson, A. (2023). Misperceptions in a post-truth world: Effects of subjectivism and cultural relativism on bullshit receptivity and conspiracist ideation. Journal of Research in Personality, 104394. doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #BehaviouralSciences #Learning #Education #Truth #Culture #Misinformation #Conspiracy #ConspiracyTheories #Theories
    #Bullshit #Subjectivism #PostTruth #Relativism #Thinking #Academia #Academic #Academics