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Liberals in these studies, on average, rank fairness— here meaning whether everyone is treated in the same way—above loyalty.
And keep in mind that at this point in my life I had been a chaplain for over 20 years, and issues like dying and death and the meaning of life, these are all things I'd been yakking about forever.
We all know that the way to cope with trauma, with loss, with any life-changing experience, is to find meaning.
And it doesn't have to be some gigantic, extroverted meaning.
Meaning can be quiet and introverted.
He decided that the meaning of his experience was to know the joy of friendship, and then learn to make friends.
How are you going to find meaning in your crappy experience?
It's never too late to change what it means, because meaning is dynamic.
What if there were no survivors, meaning, what if people decided to just claim their trauma as an experience instead of taking it on as an identity?
In the best possible scenario, meaning you don't have problems with partners, providers, clients, employees, in the best possible scenario, officially closing a business will cost you 2,000 dollars.
This happened because the meaning of effort and difficulty were transformed.
You should make words because every word is a chance to express your idea and get your meaning across.
They get people to focus on what you're saying and that gives you a better chance to get your meaning across.
When John Chapin and I, 15 years ago, proposed in a paper that we would build something that we called a brain-machine interface, meaning connecting a brain to devices so that animals and humans could just move these devices, no matter how far they are from their own bodies, just by imagining what they want to do, our colleagues told us that we actually needed professional help, of the psychiatry variety.
If you toss a coin, a streak of heads or tails is going to come out somewhere in the randomness, and because the brain likes to see patterns where there are none, we look at these streaks and attribute meaning to them and say, "Yeah he's really on form today," whereas actually you would get the same pattern if you were just getting hits and misses at random.
But some of the monarchs were sick, and what I found is that some of these milkweeds are medicinal, meaning they reduce the disease symptoms in the monarch butterflies, meaning these monarchs can live longer when they are infected when feeding on these medicinal plants.
But in this post-human world, “local” has a new meaning.
So we keep going down this road, 20 years from now, the word 'privacy' is going to have a completely different meaning from what it means to you and I. So, it's time for us to take a moment and think, is there anything we can do about this?
Now, that's a term that's commonly used on Rikers Island meaning that you're not going to say anything to anybody, and you're not going to report it.
They live in me somehow, their memories giving me meaning every day.
Now, amazingly, the brain is really good at taking in these signals and extracting patterns and assigning meaning, so that it takes this inner cosmos and puts together a story of this, your subjective world.
They do not carry meaning in themselves.
They used to call me Softy, meaning the soft, harmless boy.
You have to put humor to one side and think about the social meaning of laughter because that's where its origins lie.
But for Heather, or deceived partners, it is essential to do things that bring back a sense of self-worth, to surround oneself with love and with friends and activities that give back joy and meaning and identity.
Design-wise, it manages to both be too crude and have too many details at the same time, which if you were trying for that, you wouldn't be able to do it, and it just looks bad at a distance, but having deep meaning puts that element in the plus column.
And I had come to realize that to write about it with any meaning, or to understand the place beyond the regime's propaganda, the only option was total immersion.
I would have said just to be a good pastor, to be able to be with people through all the passages of life, to preach messages that would have an everyday meaning for folks, and in the African-American tradition, to be able to represent the community that I serve.
So there was a lot of meaning in my life because I was performing this type of research during the day, but then in the evenings and on the weekends, I traveled as an advocate for NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
If we could find patterns and meaning and insight in it.
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