Female Philosopher
@femphilosoper
Female Philosopher
@femphilosoper
Anxiety is the enemy of empathy. Fear makes us egocentric; egocentric makes us blind. An amygdala/prefrontal-cortex two-step that narrows the search parameters of the pattern recognition system. Pretty soon, as anxiety climbs too high, we lose our ability to find one another.
Mirror neurons make us fundamentally social —for better and worse.
Worry Is Sin
The Manifesto
Worry is sin. Worry is blasphemy. It is doubt against reality, against creation. Each anxious thought spits in GOD's face. Your fear is faithlessness. A cancer of the soul that spreads until it paralyzes and kills. Worry is to wage war against the divine order. Against what must be. Every second spent in anxiety is a sin. B
... See moreEverything looks like a conspiracy if you don’t understand how anything works.
– Unknown
That the CIA is quite literally a conspiracy—a secretive organization designed to spy—is something most people can accept as factually true yet still find emotionally hard to express. For most people, it is enough to hear the word “conspiracy” for it to force all further interest to vanish like a magic spell.