We "externalized" our minds so that we now depend on our brains + the myriad of other parts and tools to help us think and do stuff.
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Someone once said that if you want to measure somebody's resilience and psychological strength, you ask them what they're responsible for?
مِن الأشياء ما هو في قدرتنا وطَوقِنا، ومنها ما ليسَ في قدرتنا وليس لنا به يد؛ فمما يتعلق بقدرتنا: أفكارُنا ونوازعنا ورغبتُنا ونفورُنا، وبالجملة كل ما هو من عملنا وصنيعنا، ومما لا يتعلق بقدرتنا: أبدانُنا وأملاكُنا وسُمعتنا ومناصبنا، وبالجملة كلُّ ما ليس من عملنا وصنيعنا.
- المختصَر، إبكتيتوس
- المختصَر، إبكتيتوس
كلُّ من جعلَ سعادته وهناءه في يد غيرِه أو في يد الظروف والأشياء الخارجية فهو عبدٌ ولو كان يرتدي الأُرجوان الملَكي.
- المحادثات، إبكتيتوس
- المحادثات، إبكتيتوس
تذكّر أنّك ممثل في مسرحيةٍ تمضي مثلما يشاءُ لها المؤلف؛ قصيرةٌ إذا شاء لها القِصَر، وطويلةٌ إذا شاء لها أنْ تطول. إذا راقَه أنْ تلعب فيها دور شحاذ فإنّ عليك أنْ تؤديه أداءً طبيعيًا. وقد يريدُك أنْ تؤدي دور أعرج أو مسؤولٍ حكومي أو صاحب عملٍ خاص. أيًّا ما كان دورك، فهذه مهمتك: أنْ تجيدَ أداءَ الشخصية المُقيَّضةِ لك. أما ختيارُ الشخصية فهذا ليس من شأنِك.
- المختصَر، إبكتيتوس
- المختصَر، إبكتيتوس
“You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite invisible to me,” says Watson.
Holmes corrects him: “Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”
Holmes corrects him: “Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.”
لا يكونُ الذنبُ ذنبًا إلا إذا تبرَّأَ منه مرتكبُه، فإن أحبّه واعتقده صار قولًا له ورسالةً منه. وما نبيُّ قَومٍ ورسولُهم إلا مجرمًا عندهم. كانوا مؤمنين قبل أنْ يَتَنَبَّأْ، فلمَّا جاءَه الوحيُ انقلبوا في التاريخ كُفَّارًا. ألا تَراه أوجعهم بها؟ ألا تراهم جرَّمُوه عليها؟
لكنه أحبَّ جريمته تلك. حُبُّهُ لهم جَرِيمَتُهُ في حقهم وإنْ أهداههم خَيْرَ الدارين، وجَرِيمَتُهُ في حقهم حُبُّهُ لهم وإن سفك دماءهم. أَحْبِبْ جريمتَكَ يا أخي تَفُزْ بها والحقُّ حقٌّ على الوَجْهَيْنْ.
- تميم البرغوثي
لكنه أحبَّ جريمته تلك. حُبُّهُ لهم جَرِيمَتُهُ في حقهم وإنْ أهداههم خَيْرَ الدارين، وجَرِيمَتُهُ في حقهم حُبُّهُ لهم وإن سفك دماءهم. أَحْبِبْ جريمتَكَ يا أخي تَفُزْ بها والحقُّ حقٌّ على الوَجْهَيْنْ.
- تميم البرغوثي
Forwarded from 0/0 (Haidar A. Fahad)
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For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? [Mark 16:26]
He who that was lost to the world, gaineth his own world
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A vanishing art
In the early 20th century, the physician was equipped primarily with a keen sense of observation and a compassionate heart; effective medications, and diagnostic laboratory tests; reliable imaging techniques were still to come. During house calls, the physician used his observational skills to evaluate both the surroundings and family members with respect to their limitations and benefits in regard to the patient. The observational skills of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste were well developed in most doctors. These skills were honed to razor-sharpness in the “diagnostician,” a term of honor applied to any physician, specialist, or nonspecialist, who was able to decipher complex clinical problems.
With the development of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as well as more sensitive and reliable laboratory tests in the late 1970s, the learned observational skills of physicians began to decline from disuse as reliance on these modalities for establishing diagnoses increased. Clinical medical decision making became unduly influenced by the tyranny of the tests, even though for many medical conditions—endocrine, infectious, malignant, and rheumatic, among others—the use of the eye and ear was sufficient to make the correct diagnosis or arrive at a limited group of diagnoses more rapidly and at much less cost.
With the development of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as well as more sensitive and reliable laboratory tests in the late 1970s, the learned observational skills of physicians began to decline from disuse as reliance on these modalities for establishing diagnoses increased. Clinical medical decision making became unduly influenced by the tyranny of the tests, even though for many medical conditions—endocrine, infectious, malignant, and rheumatic, among others—the use of the eye and ear was sufficient to make the correct diagnosis or arrive at a limited group of diagnoses more rapidly and at much less cost.