It’s too late. (To make my life as I would like it.)

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I need it to be witnessed. (My experience and what is going on for me.)

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They should be more realistic. (Sports commentators and “experts” expecting the Norwegian athletes to perform optimally at each event and win. If the athletes do well, they just get what they expected. And if they don’t - which is equally or more likely - they get disappointed. It also puts extra pressure on the athletes which they don’t need. It seems a poor strategy all around. Much better to take a level-headed approach, show some sportsmanship, and get pleasantly surprised.)

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I am an object in the world.

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I need to make a good impression.

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He should approach with curiosity, not cynicism. (Harald Eia who has made a TV series about nature & nurture which I find skewed, one-sided, cynical, polarizing, and more destructive than constructive.)

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Norge går feil vei.

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Jeg er norsk.

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I should have a legacy. (I saw the title of the last America’s Evolutionary Evangelists podcast - Evolutionary Legacy - and that thought came up.)

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They are making themselves more stupid than they are. (And that is not OK.)

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He shouldn’t overgeneralize. (Harald Eia who made a documentary on how the social sciences ignore biology, just because that was his experience when he was a student.)

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I need it to be resolved.

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It is better to question assumptions. (It is better to question underlying assumptions - ones own and those of others - than to not do it).

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All here is tremendously silly. (All here in this journal.)

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They should give a medal, not prosecute. (Regarding the Greenpeace activists who crashed a climate-conference party, and others - such as hobby-hackers - who do no harm but expose weaknesses in the system.)

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There is a pitifully small band of wolves in Norway, and still some folks are afraid and want them killed.

It seems so thoroughly idiotic. No human has been killed by wolves in recorded history. The few sheep that are killed are generously compensated for by the government.

And we chose and accept far greater risks all the time, for instance every time we use a car, or use toxic chemicals in our homes or in the yard, or allow bees and wasps in nature (a significant number dies each year from stings). Most obviously, we chose and accept far greater risks through how we organize ourselves as a society, in ways that are not aligned with ecological realities (ecological footprints way over what the Earth can support, economical models and policies that ignore embeddedness in ecosystems, huge gaps between rich and poor, and so on).

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Their priorities are wrong. (When governments around the world are using immense resources on vaccines for the piggy flu, which is many times less harmful than the regular seasonal flus - perhaps 50 times less harmful according to current numbers. Those resources could have been spent on different areas, and with far higher impact.)

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They create a tempest in a teapot. (Those who make the piggy flu into something more than it is. WHO made a big thing out of the piggy flu and call it a pandemic, even if it has a lower mortality rate than the regular seasonal flu. Governments do the same and buy huge amounts of piggy flu vaccine, even if it is less harmful than the regular yearly flu. The media blows it all up even further, making it appear as something dangerous while the numbers show something entirely different. People buy into it.)

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They should question their own opinions.

Those who support policies not in their own interest: The poor in the US who favor policies (republican) that give more to the rich and less to themselves. Those in Norway who support FrP, a libertarian party hoping to destroy that which those very same people benefit from (social safety net, public ownership of certain industries etc.). The ones, mainly in the US, who oppose vaccinations even if they benefit hugely from living in a society where major diseases are eliminated or reduced because of vaccinations.

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Trying to change it (the situation) is better than leaving.

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It is better to produce than to enjoy. (Producing literature, music, performances, inventions and more.)

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They are too caught up in ideology. (Conservatives in the US when they support approaches that research shows are not working, and don’t support approaches that research and examples from other countries shows are working. It is not only stupid, it shows dishonesty and a lack of compassion and alignment with reality.)

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I need it to happen. (A thought that can come up in any situation, any area of life.)

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Something is wrong if I lose what is important to me.

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They lack good judgment. (The Nobel Peace Prize committee, giving the 2009 prize to Obama!)

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They are irresponsible. (And misinformed. Not receptive to research. Not receptive to reality. Caught up in irrational dynamics they are not aware of. Living out their hangups. Acting in ways that can harm their children and others in the community. They live out immature views, putting themselves and others at risk.)

The anti-vaccination folks.

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Finding what is more honest for me is better than belief. (Finding what is more honest for me than the belief is better than the belief. Recognizing I don’t know is better than belief. Clarity is better than belief.)

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Clarity is better than confusion.

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He is out of touch with reality. (And that is not OK.)

Harald Eia, a Norwegian sociologist, apparently recently had a personal revelation on how natural sciences contribute to our understanding of human behavior (!), and now is making a documentary pitting social scientists against natural scientists. He projects his own process onto a whole field. A field where the interplay of evolution/biology and psychology/sociology is already taken for granted, and they focus more on the specifics of that interplay.

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When I take a story as true, I automatically fear truth.

Among other things, I fear what is more true for me than the story. I fear taking the consequences of it.

If I am honest, I know that I don’t know for sure if any story is really true. And there is a fear of seeing that, and especially of living free from a belief.

I fear that without taking the story as true, something terrible would happen.

So I can ask myself what do I fear would happen if I didn’t have that belief? (One of the subquestions in The Work.)

How likely is that?

What is more likely?

I can also investigate the story more thoroughly, for instance by doing a full The Work inquiry on it and its assumptions.

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