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Being able to do FIML

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  • Being able to do FIML means that you have developed a skill or trait that did not exist in you before. The ability to do FIML is a functional “state of mind” that emerges from other states of mind–from consciousness, awareness, self-reflection, self-criticism, communication, language use, emotion, etc.
  • Doing FIML will change the way you communicate, especially with your FIML partner. It will change the way you view language and its uses.
  • Since FIML depends on real data agreed upon by both partners and since FIML can convincingly change how we perceive ourselves and our partners, it can give us new perspectives on psychology and/or any activity that depends on language/communication.
  • The use of a linguistic/semiotic vocabulary in FIML allows us to classify a great deal of human cognition, psychology, and behavior as lying on a spectrum of public—private semiotics.
  • This perspective allows us to broadly define many human behaviors, thoughts, and feelings as mistakes. For example, a private semiotic may be considered a “neurosis” and can be defined simply as a “mistaken interpretation” or an “ongoing mistaken interpretation.” Similarly, any public semiotic that can be shown to be wrong can be clearly identified as a mistake or an “ongoing public neurosis.”
  • What is “normal” in FIML is, thus, that which is not mistaken. Partners have great leeway to decide much of this for themselves.
  • Very often, the least mistaken view is one of doubt or traditional skepticism, the view that we may not be able to be certain about whatever is in question.
  • FIML practice accepts the basic scientific view that a scientific theory must be testable or falsifiable, based on experiments that can be repeated, based on verifiable evidence, internally consistent, consistent with what is external to itself, useful or practical, open to change, and parsimonious in its explanations.
  • New scientific theories should also say something new and interesting, something that explains data in a new way or that provides a new way of understanding old data.
  • FIML differs from a good deal of science in that it relies heavily on the experiences of two (or more) partners. FIML is a kind of subjective science that also relies on the objectivity of a truthful partner.
  • For the most part, partners alone decide what is true for them, though they cannot honestly do this without reference to other fields of science and thought.
  • FIML resembles Buddhist practice, art, or the work of early scientists in that the existential/ experiential data acquired by individuals is of great importance to those individuals and is central to what they are doing.
  • FIML can be scientifically falsified if many people do it and fail to gain any benefit from it.
  • Done properly, at a minimum, FIML practice should clear up most communication mistakes/ problems between partners. FIML also provides the means for partners to continue clearing up new mistakes as they appear.
  • By clearing up mistakes in communication between partners, FIML practice alleviates a great deal of emotional suffering.
  • By clearing up mistakes in communication between partners, FIML practice will also relieve partners of other mistaken ideas and feelings, thus relieving a good deal of more generalized emotional suffering.

first posted March 3, 2012

Jensen Huang caught in another cheating scandal after Chinese spy debacle as Nvidia board looks to oust CEO

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…five people who worked at the chipmaker have now come forward to tell The New York Times that the billionaire also had an extramarital relationship with Kimberly Powell, 48, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare.

Five people who work at the company said Huang was in a relationship with Kimberly Powell, 48, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare

The two were reportedly captured on video being affectionate at a San Jose, California hotel during the Nvidia conference in March, two of the sources said.

They were then both in attendance at the Nvidia GTC Conference in Berlin, Germany at the end of October, sharing a stage together, though Powell was also seen around the same time flaunting her engagement ring.

Both she and Huang are married to other people.

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I continue posting articles on this story because once begun it’s best to continue the tale. Another reason is Huang is an important and very wealthy figure. He also seems to be a genuinely good guy. Another aspect of this case is his wife may not care if he has girlfriends; she may even approve. Extramarital arrangements like that are not uncommon, especially in East Asia. I, personally, see zero reason for Huang to step down as CEO or be ousted for behaviors, which are nobody’s business but those closely involved. If he was seriously compromised like a schoolboy by a Chinese seductress, maybe there is reason to do something, but maybe he has learned his lesson and will be stronger for that. He has been the main energy behind Nvidia for a long time. Why change horses in the middle of the river? ABN

Deception (or truth elision) in communication

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To communicate, we often must ignore the truth or falsity of a statement, our own or someone else’s.

I believe it is an instinct to do this; that it is part of our instinct to communicate at all. Communication requires cooperation, an agreement to be agreeable enough to get the message through.

We might call ignoring truth or falsity in communication “truth elision” or “psychological elision.” Elision means to omit something. Psychological elision would mean omitting or not mentioning psychological truths.

We do a lot of truth elision to save time. In professional or group settings it is hard to communicate any other way because there is not enough time to be perfectly truthful and most people will not care. They just want to socialize and/or get the job done, not search for truth.

Most communication is like that. Most messages are not even superficially analyzed. Semiotics glide through our minds without any thought to their deep origins or interpretations. Truth and falsity are frequently elided.

Like all instincts, our instinct to cooperate by ignoring the truth or falsity of many statements can be misused to consciously deceive.

Indeed, we frequently deceive even ourselves by accepting our own statements as true when analysis would show they are not. One way we succeed in doing this to ourselves is by simply avoiding the analysis—analysis elision.

This is where a simple instinct starts to go bad. A basic need to cooperate on the signs and symbols of communication gets twisted into tricking people, deceiving them, even deceiving ourselves.

The way to see this most clearly and to stop doing it with at least one other person is FIML practice. One of my main goals for this website is to show how and why communication goes bad and how and why it harms us. At the same time, I present a practical way to fix the problem described — FIML.

I think the above sheds light on false confessions and pretty much all self-abnegating lying on the spectrum trending down from a false confession with legal consequences.

Abusers work these ill-defined and difficult to grasp areas to dominate, entrap, and manipulate others. Narcissists and other “strong” or “clever” dark personality types use our fundamental willingness to cooperate against us.

Gas lighting greatly relies on people’s willingness to ignore truths and accept falsities about themselves. If there is more than one gas lighter at work, victims may even accept blame for things they know with certainty are not true.

As with so much in this world, immoral people put time and energy into fooling those who have not put time or energy into the dark arts.

Mass mind-control preys on our mass susceptibility to believe the story that first comes out; the story that is approved by the ‘authorities’ and mass media; the story that is embraced and recited by our friends and family. Mind-control relies on our need to conform and our fear of being ostracized and criticized for straying from the mass instinct to be the same as others.

Buddhists all know about wise compassion. We also need wise understanding of the world and wise cautiousness about the full scope of human motivations.

Our tendencies to go along with falsity can be seen in every part of life, from small corners of our own lives to the great expanses of entire societies.

What is happening in France today is completely insane — Abby

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What is happening in France today is completely insane. Because I am a Christian and I defend the Western family against their moral anarchy, I am being threatened with death at Rennes 2, the most left-wing university in the country. A point of no return has been crossed. I was ordered to keep quiet, keep a low profile and hide my faith, but I refuse to go along with their code of silence. Their campuses are no longer places of learning; they are brainwashing factories where young people are taught to deconstruct themselves and hate their heritage. This is the true face of their revolutionary nihilism: terror the moment you dare to stand up to their madness with reason. I am opening my heart to you. A full video testimony is coming out today on my YouTube channel to reveal everything. https://youtube.com/@cristeraabigail?si=oIYPfoYkg5EhLiuV We will never bow down to the leftists! CHRIST IS KING

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Across the West we are seeing unrelenting soft-terrorism against the West. Lies about who did what, stifled speech, long prison sentences for citizens, short ones for invaders or no sentence at all. In this world, it is especially good when young women have the courage to speak up. One brave young woman will inspire ten young men. Western men have been eating shit for many decades; even our women had been turned against us. Abby, and those like her, are super important for a revival of the West. They gladden and inspire us all. ABN

I have no ties to Israel whatsoever and as someone who often speaks out against Israel, the smear campaign to make me look like an Israeli asset is pathetic — theleahfiles

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I was sent a photo going around me and told that @Villgecrazylady was reposting alleging I was an Israeli asset. Mel, there is a reason I blocked you. Because posting over 50 times about someone in 2 weeks is stalker behavior and your smear campaign is making you look more pathetic by the day. But, people on this app who I care about are asking, so I will address it once.

I was never and have never been signed to any modeling agency. That maternity photo was a private shoot done with a photographer friend of mine and I allowed her to use it on her website for a discount on the shoot. It was my first child, 18 years ago, and it ended up on a stock photo website according to what I was just told.

That website in Hebrew is manufactured. I have never been of part of any sort of Israeli website for modeling.

My husband is not related to Dan Pfeiffer in any way, shape, or form. My husband and his entire family are Catholic. My children were baptized at a Catholic church and we attend Catholic Church. My husband is Irish and I am half Portuguese and half redneck.

I have no ties to Israel whatsoever and as someone who often speaks out against Israel, the smear campaign to make me look like an Israeli asset is pathetic. Grow up.

Hope that clears things up.

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I have no dog in this fight. I respect Leah’s work and like her public persona. I also respect Candace Owens’ work and like her public persona. I am much more familiar with Owens, but do not personally know either of these two people. Culturally, we need more description and conversation and less bickering and point-counter-point; and that is evidently true in this case. I hope this post by Leah ends this scattering altercation for good. ABN

Artur Morański – the hero who fired the shot that brought down the terrorist in Kraków.

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A closer analysis of the footage of the exchange of fire between the heavily armed attacker and two police officers reveals that the shot that first hit and brought down the attacker was fired by police officer Artur Morański. The gunman with the long gun first hit police officer Jakub Kulik, and when Kulik fell to the ground after being hit three times, the attacker turned his attention to police officer Artur Morański. During the exchange of fire, both hit each other almost simultaneously, after which both fell to the ground. The previously wounded police officer Jakub Kulik pulled himself together and, despite his injuries, got up, approached the attacker and fired seven shots, completely neutralizing the terrorist. He was filmed as he fired these finishing shots, and the footage spread around the world in a flash.

Knowing exactly how events unfolded, it becomes clear how crucial a role police officer Artur Morański played. Without his shot, both officers would probably have died, along with more civilians left at the mercy of a deranged murderer. Despite their young age and without support or ballistic protection, two young police officers stopped a fully armed terrorist with a long gun. Glory to the heroes!!!

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Brave acts such as these are examples of the highest morality. This is excellent Buddhist practice, an inspiration to all. Moral courage relies on physical courage. ABN

New treatment boosts brain clearance and opens up new possibilities for preventing neurodegenerative diseases

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“Alzheimer’s disease and many other diseases that cause dementia are characterised by the gradual accumulation of harmful proteins in the brain over decades. Now that we can safely enhance the brain’s own clearance system, which gradually becomes less effective with age, while people are still healthy, it may be possible in future to prevent these diseases, or at least slow their progression,” says Professor Vesa Kiviniemi, head of the Functional Neuroimaging Research Group at the University of Oulu.

Previous studies in mice have shown that temporarily lowering blood pressure can enhance the clearance of cerebrospinal fluid and the large molecules it contains from the brain. These findings provided the basis for a study combining blood pressure-lowering medication with Piezo1-targeted whole-body vibration stimulation.

The effects of the treatment were studied in 29 healthy adult volunteers using multimodal magnetic resonance imaging, physiological measurements and blood-based biomarkers originating in the brain.

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Small study but interesting finding. ABN

The horror of normal human communication

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When you quit a toxic job, HR will ask you to do an “Exit Interview.”

They will tell you to be 100% honest so they can “improve the company culture.”

It is a legal trap. NEVER tell them the truth.

Here is what HR is actually doing behind closed doors:

HR is not your therapist. They are not trying to fix your toxic manager.

The Exit Interview has one single purpose: To assess if you are going to sue the company.

If you complain about unpaid overtime or a hostile environment, HR immediately starts building a legal defense file against YOU.

It gets worse. If you vent your frustrations, HR will quietly mark you as “Not Eligible for Rehire” in their internal system.

When your next employer calls them for a routine background check, that label is a silent career killer.

So, what do you say when HR demands feedback?

Give them absolutely nothing. Smile and play the corporate game.

When they push you for details about your toxic team, use this exact script:

“I’ve learned a lot during my time here, and right now I’m just looking forward to the next step in my career. I wish the company the best.”

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The advice offered is practical and, maddeningly, necessary. The situation described is a perfect example of horrible communication. This example is specific and legalistic but it is also emblematic of the awful shadow that hangs over 99% of all human interpersonal communication. Far too many people use communication as a means to an evil end. Arguably our most beautiful and wondrous human faculty is our capacity for speech and authentic communication. Virtually all psychological and sociological problems are rooted in devious, manipulative, cruel, inauthentic speech. Nearly everyone is so afraid of authentic speech, you almost never hear it. ABN

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The other reason to be freer and more honest with our speech on matters of basic anthropology, demography, economics and self-defense is the entire rest of the world talks like Leonarda all the time. Presently, upper levels of Western cognition are vapid, slavish, brainwashed into timidity and fear of the obvious. Chinese, Japanese, Jews, Muslims — they all talk like Leonarda all the time and often much worse. But worse is better because it’s truer and realer. Nineteenth Century Japan did not rise to the level of the West quicker than any other society in the world because they were babies afraid to speak the truth. China did not rise so rapidly over the past three decades because they are wusses afraid to analyze their real options and act on them. Jews have not succeeded in (probably) conquering the West because they are afraid to talk to each other; that I can guarantee you. It’s not racist to speak the truth and figure out what to do based on what’s really happening in a complex world that cannot be reduced to saccharine ideologies. ABN

The sick and twisted part of what’s coming; the part that is going to gnaw at your gut (and Trump’s); is that simply by timing leftists will now take credit for the stunning economic growth that Trump has seeded for the past several years

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As the speed of the economic system takes off in ’27, Democrats will take credit for it, pointing back to ’25 as terrible and taking advantage of an abundant economic landscape to take credit.

This will annoy the f**k out of Trump, and by extension the intellectually honest who well understand exactly how the policy seeds were planted.

Remember, leftists never create anything. Their skillset is in exploiting the success created by others, and tearing down the policies that make it possible.

Democrats do not create value in anything. They are, by nature, opportunists to extract revenue from the value created by others.

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This is indeed what has been good about Trump, and it’s a significant good. The bad is either he has been bribed and threatened by Bibi and his enormous gang in USA, Israel and the world; or he has been a secret agent within that gang all along and done everything willingly. Some claim Trump is a crypto-Jew, which though not proven is not inconceivable; that is a common role played throughout Jewish history. If Trump has been a clandestine actor working for Bibi’s gang all along, then the possibility that the Butler ear wound was staged is much greater. It’s also possible Trump had foreknowledge of Charlie Kirk’s public assassination as did others in his administration. Kirk’s assassination was an act of terror aimed at the elite. Trump may also be a victim of MKULTRA, controlled surreptitiously by some highly advanced frequency. You can parse Trump’s reality in many ways, but there is no way to know for certain and probably never will be. To me, he did seem scared to death at several points. For many of us, if a gang plausibly threatened our loved ones, we would fold. It is important to understand that top elites are playing a very violent game. And they do get killed or disabled often. ABN

The Crisis In Poland — Craig Murray

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I was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Warsaw 1994-98. While that was a long time ago, I knew personally many of the people at the heart of the current crisis, such as Donald Tusk and Radek Sikorski.

…Ukraine is central to this. Simply put, the nationalist right has had its fill of Zelensky, whereas Tusk is a devotee of the von der Leyen/Kallas/Merz war-hawk line.

For British people, Ukraine is another “far-away country of which we know nothing”. To Poles it is a neighbour, of which they know a very great deal indeed. Poland probably houses more Ukrainian refugees than any other state, both in absolute numbers and per capita. Part of the antipathy from the nationalist right is anti-immigrant resentment.

But Ukraine really is an extremely corrupt state, and the Poles understand this very well. Poles contribute to the vast sums which the EU has poured into the Zelensky regime, and Poles also have a close-up view of Ukrainian regime-aligned figures in supercars buying top-end properties. Ukrainians are the largest foreign buyers of Polish real estate. This is simply true.

Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski ended up on the Civic Coalition side of the equation, because his primary loyalty is, and always was, to NATO, as befits a member of the Bullingdon Club and husband of crazed Russophobe Anne Applebaum.

A combination of events in Ukraine and the advent of President Nawrocki have caused a shift of the nationalist right to a much more sceptical position on Ukraine. Nawrocki is of a younger generation of politician – he is 43 and was only 15 when I left Poland. But his entire professional career prior to becoming President was connected to World War II commemoration.

Zelensky had been given Poland’s highest award. The Order of the White Eagle. Nawrocki cancelled the award and made Zelensky return it, due to Ukrainian official commemoration of Nazi-allied figures and units who had participated in the massacres of Poles during World War II. Other senior Ukrainians also returned their Polish decorations. That is a pretty startling diplomatic split, hugely under-reported in the West.

…What does appear highly probable is that the European Commission had advance notice of the coup, because the speed with which they jumped in to support Tusk and Pietrowska’s takeover of the Constitutional Tribunal was remarkable, given the complexity of the situation. Personally I cannot see any argument whatsoever that Pietrowska’s action was legal.

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This is a reasonable overview from someone with personal experience in Poland and a foreign perspective. It’s worth reading, but for me lacks any sense that Poland today appears to be central to a hardening of the EU and its provocations of Russia. The excerpt I posted is but a small piece of the full essay. ABN

Colombian businesswoman accused of killing two girls with poisoned raspberries ‘tricked them into thinking they were a free gift from delivery firm’, court hears

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A Colombian businesswoman who is accused of killing two girls with poisoned raspberries ‘tricked’ the children into thinking they were a free gift, a court has heard.

Ines de Bedout, 14, and her friend Emilia Forero, 13, died days after eating chocolate-covered raspberries laced with the highly toxic metal thallium, known as the ‘silent killer’, in April last year.

Zulma Guzman Castro, who is wanted in Colombia accused of murdering the two girls, was discovered to be hiding in Britain after she was seen drinking from a Buxton water bottle during a TV interview. 

The 55-year-old is currently battling against extradition back to Colombia at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

Ms de Bedout was the daughter of Guzman’s former lover, Juan de Bedout, and her friend was visiting for a sleepover when the deadly delivery arrived.

She allegedly carried out the poisonings as an ‘act of vengeance’ following a failed affair with Mr de Bedout.

Ines de Bedout, 14, and 13-year-old Emilia Forero (pictured) died days after eating the poisoned raspberries in April last year

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Poison is a common weapon, often used against victims who trust the poisoner. I have myself been poisoned and am highly aware of how easy it is to do and how unsuspecting I was. The purported motive in this case is vengeance for ‘a failed affair’. Poison is also used to disable but not kill. Parasites and social climbers use it that way. For me, imagining the mindset of a poisoner is deeply revolting. ABN