Is depression truly helped by drugs that merely squash feelings and memories? Is it so reprehensible to live with negativity? Do we always have to be positive?
A population fed with drugs is one that does not rebel. The triumvirate of drug-companies, medical profession and government is benefiting from this smothering of thought and action.
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Monday, 7 October 2013
Ying Cao
When the sun falls and night appears
light is not lost, but renewed;
the day's warmth is paused
not removed. Goodness revolves,
and the light returns.
light is not lost, but renewed;
the day's warmth is paused
not removed. Goodness revolves,
and the light returns.
Yin Cao 10
In my garden, by the wall,
the dog peed.
The urine stain spread and
cleansed the age-stained brick
leaving it fresh and new.
Yin Cao
the dog peed.
The urine stain spread and
cleansed the age-stained brick
leaving it fresh and new.
Yin Cao
Friday, 4 October 2013
FAMILY COURT 2
Any discussion of the Family Court is illegal. A preposterous regulation.
After the breakup of my relationship with my son's mother, because of her manipulative tendencies , and her resorting to lies when faced with difficult situations, I chose not to talk with her but to concentrate solely on my son. Nevertheless, the court said that she had to confer with me as to any decisions related to my son. When I attempted to enforce this, she used an admiral, successful strategy. She would arrive at court an hour before the case came up and approach all senior people sobbing, wringing her hands and telling god knows what stories. She did this every time. Once outside the court all tears miraculously dried and her drama subsided.
When he was eleven she put my son into one of the worst local schools. My son is very intelligent and then was very frail. I was mortified and began court proceedings. I arranged for my son to have an interview with the top school in London. She arrived in court an hour early as usual and began, as far as I'm aware, her little games. When I arrived my name was mud and my intentions suspect. I found myself in a room with seven or eight women officers and a security guard. My son was hardly spoken of and, when the matter of my son's schooling was brought up, the women officers sided with his mother. Another meeting was arranged.
Angry, I wrote a letter to head of court telling what the women officers had done and predicting how my ex would act in court immediately before the next meeting. She did exactly as I described. I went to the court with a local councillor as a witness. She recorded my ex's activity.
Unfortunately, as a consequence of the court my son lost his chance at the school and stayed at the awful one. I became involved with the school to ensure he thrived. He is now studying law at university but he should be studying at a topmost university and not the one he is at.
The court acted upon anecdotal evidence, and from what I saw, usually does. It checks nothing out. It doesn't have to because it is secret and no other body can review its activities. The court acted with discrimination and prejudice and harmed my son. They certainly did not put his needs first.
After the breakup of my relationship with my son's mother, because of her manipulative tendencies , and her resorting to lies when faced with difficult situations, I chose not to talk with her but to concentrate solely on my son. Nevertheless, the court said that she had to confer with me as to any decisions related to my son. When I attempted to enforce this, she used an admiral, successful strategy. She would arrive at court an hour before the case came up and approach all senior people sobbing, wringing her hands and telling god knows what stories. She did this every time. Once outside the court all tears miraculously dried and her drama subsided.
When he was eleven she put my son into one of the worst local schools. My son is very intelligent and then was very frail. I was mortified and began court proceedings. I arranged for my son to have an interview with the top school in London. She arrived in court an hour early as usual and began, as far as I'm aware, her little games. When I arrived my name was mud and my intentions suspect. I found myself in a room with seven or eight women officers and a security guard. My son was hardly spoken of and, when the matter of my son's schooling was brought up, the women officers sided with his mother. Another meeting was arranged.
Angry, I wrote a letter to head of court telling what the women officers had done and predicting how my ex would act in court immediately before the next meeting. She did exactly as I described. I went to the court with a local councillor as a witness. She recorded my ex's activity.
Unfortunately, as a consequence of the court my son lost his chance at the school and stayed at the awful one. I became involved with the school to ensure he thrived. He is now studying law at university but he should be studying at a topmost university and not the one he is at.
The court acted upon anecdotal evidence, and from what I saw, usually does. It checks nothing out. It doesn't have to because it is secret and no other body can review its activities. The court acted with discrimination and prejudice and harmed my son. They certainly did not put his needs first.
FAMILY COURT
The Family Court is the only court within Britain in which all matters are done in secret. While the rationale behind this unusual practice in a country that prides itself on openness is the protection of children it merely protects the discriminatory practices of the court and gives its members immense power.
Originally the Parliamentary Act that formed these courts ensured that the children's needs were paramount, court precedent afterwards reconstructed the Act's intentions by connecting children's needs with mother's needs. The court is often a place therefore manipulated by mothers, with the collusion of court members.
Originally the Parliamentary Act that formed these courts ensured that the children's needs were paramount, court precedent afterwards reconstructed the Act's intentions by connecting children's needs with mother's needs. The court is often a place therefore manipulated by mothers, with the collusion of court members.
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Education 10
Concepts of intelligence were previously fashioned by the elite. Two centuries ago those who went to university were from the landed rich and invariably took over the running of the country. They became politicians, and since their deaths have passed into the obscurity they deserved. Those who offered ideas and innovation usually did not receive a university education.
Of the poets, Shelly and Byron went to university, Keats did not. Of writers of the period, the majority did not attend university.
Since Thatcher and Blair, higher education has become democratised but does that mean lower standards? When I went to university, one of the highest ranked, as a mature student I quickly noticed sanobbish and tribal behaviour coming from both students and staff, especially the staff who strongly believed themselves to be members of a, largely self-selected, elite who represented the finest minds of their time. Limited in intellectual scope with little knowledge outside their chosen fields, I doubted that.
Of the poets, Shelly and Byron went to university, Keats did not. Of writers of the period, the majority did not attend university.
Since Thatcher and Blair, higher education has become democratised but does that mean lower standards? When I went to university, one of the highest ranked, as a mature student I quickly noticed sanobbish and tribal behaviour coming from both students and staff, especially the staff who strongly believed themselves to be members of a, largely self-selected, elite who represented the finest minds of their time. Limited in intellectual scope with little knowledge outside their chosen fields, I doubted that.
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
TONY BLAIR
His first education reforms in higher education resulted in increased funding for universities and a comparatively large increase in access to university education. This was controversial. Critics on the left objected to the introduction for the first time of student fees to pay part of the cost of higher education. Critics on the right argued that the increase in student numbers implied a lowering of educational standards. In 1998, one of Mr Blair’s first and most radical education reforms came in the form of means testing, and many university students in the U.K. paid tuition fees for the first time.
My concern here is with the increase in student numbers, facilitated by colleges becoming universities. Did this actually lower standards in order that more people should acquire higher qualifications?
A Continuing debate:
His first education reforms in higher education resulted in increased funding for universities and a comparatively large increase in access to university education. This was controversial. Critics on the left objected to the introduction for the first time of student fees to pay part of the cost of higher education. Critics on the right argued that the increase in student numbers implied a lowering of educational standards. In 1998, one of Mr Blair’s first and most radical education reforms came in the form of means testing, and many university students in the U.K. paid tuition fees for the first time.
My concern here is with the increase in student numbers, facilitated by colleges becoming universities. Did this actually lower standards in order that more people should acquire higher qualifications?
A Continuing debate:
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