Studying the humanities is the road to intellectualism. Science as such does not explain the human realm. I am saying this as a historian of science with a background in computer science.
The transition to the humanities was very difficult, at least in my case
I’m seeing Asamoah Gyan revisionism happen before my eyes, and my heart is happy.
He was feeding off scraps and crumbs but still got his numbers. Proper gunman. https://t.co/p36NoFsPeQ
Things the recovery industry will not tell you:
1. The drug worked. That is why people use it. Not weakness. Not moral failure.
A neurological event so complete and persuasive that any honest account of addiction has to start there.
The problem is not that the drug fails. The problem is that what it does is unrepeatable, and you will burn your entire life to the ground trying to get back to a place that no longer exists.
2. Shame is not guilt. Guilt says I did something bad. Shame says I am something bad. Guilt is appropriate. Shame is a cell with no windows. Most people use the words interchangeably. That mistake is lethal.
3. You cannot shame someone who has already named the thing you are holding over them. Say it first. Say it in plain light. The weapon drops.
4. Guilt can coexist with self-respect. Shame cannot. You can hold the damage and the dignity at the same time. I know because I live there.
5. Radical honesty does not give you back who you were. It hands you the clean slate of who you always wanted to be. The mask comes off. The cartoon other people drew of you stays on the page.
6. Nobody gets clean on a winning streak.
7. You have to be almost self-delusional in your forgiveness of yourself. (Go watch Chase Hughes)
8. The greatest sin was not the chaos. It was the absence. Being unavailable to the people who needed you.
9. Sustainable recovery starts with one thing: honesty with yourself. If you love an addict and want to help, that is the only door in.
10. I am only an expert on my recovery. Nobody is an expert on anyone else’s.
well tiny desk said no to me a couple times so I exercised free will and built my own! 'giant desk' out June 10th. 6 songs live from an office with these cool cats.
Ghana still haven’t replaced (& indeed most teams around the world are now looking for) a 9 who can conjure a goal threat from nothing like Gyan…
Arguably one of the perfect 9s for the more unstructured aspects of international football.
I don't know why any of you haters are surprised I'm the one actually engaging here.
You're the ones who've obsessively pored over the 10,000 photos, the 30,000 text messages, and the 128,000 emails from my hacked iCloud and stolen devices.
If I am anything, I am prolific.
You know what you won't find? Any of the most heinous, hateful things you keep posting about me.
What you'll find from me here is the same thing you found there.
Total transparency. Finally on my terms. Not yours.
This is not a natural disaster
This is a human engineered problem and our leaders must be held accountable for allowing this nonsense to be normalised.
"I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes."
-Ferdinand De Saussure