Attention Deficit Disorder

End of the line. … Next stop?

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I understand cognition. I understand the essence of ‘biological process’.  I understand subjectivity. I understand ADD and other cognitive proclivities.   I understand a lot of things. The Wizard of Oz Paradox. What is it? Just follow the "yellow brick road". WOW, even Google can find the yellow brick road! :-O That may be the sequel, the Wonderful Wizkids of Oz, googling for the yellow brick road and taking their AD(H)D meds to keep focussed… http://www.turnmeondeadman.net/OZ/SpiritualJourney.html <!– frenzy —

The ‘Wizard of Oz Paradox’ …  Sigh. … Waiting to stoke up the bile.  A bit early in the day for some ‘Dutch Courage’, regrettably. Cordially, RL

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Yeah. … It would sure seem that most everyone has abandoned me. No surprise there, really. Of those that know me … One after another has gone terminally ’stupid’ on me. It is sort of like what has happened here, too. It is the end of the line. Either I do something or I don’t do something.         So where is my next stop?    ~ S O L U T I O N ~ 1) I should recognize how it is that I came to find myself in this mess.  Easy.  It was my ability which betrayed me. I wonder if I come across as being a "sicko" when I claim this? An ability which betrays a person. Hm … ~~~  Pure, ‘Wizard of Oz’. That is always the problem, ain’t it?  Breaking out of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ paradox.  Easy to say. … Easy to do.    … Nastier than shit to figure out what needs to be done. Luckily, I know a generic solution, here. I understand cognition. I understand the essence of ‘biological process’.  I understand subjectivity. I understand ADD and other cognitive proclivities.   I understand a lot of things. The Wizard of Oz Paradox. What is it? The lion who defines courage but is fearful that it has none. The scarecrow who is all cerebral but lacks a brain and thinks itself to be stupid. The tin man who is all emotion and feeling … fluid, oil and hydraulics yet lacks a heart.  ~~~ The possessing of an ability YET being totally useless, ineffective and insecure in that ability. How does one resolve the Wizard of Oz paradox? … Does one click one’s heels together 3 times so as to be deported back to Kansas in an instant? Well yeah, dudes and dudettes and dudekins; believe it or not; ti’s about that SIMPLE & EASY …      …  *providing* one knows what to do. ( And does it … )

As children we build up a map of interconnected memories; experiences and ‘manner by which they relate to each other’.  This building process is mostly completed by the time a person becomes an adult.  Full stop. That is all that one needs to realize. … At least; one just needs to realize that and appreciate the implications of ’such’. The overwhelming bulk of a person’s intelligence and ability does NOT reside at the attentional focus.  … It does NOT reside at that moment-by-moment experience of reality.  As I have pointed out elsewhere; the moment-by-moment local appreciation of things is very limited and localized.  It is appropriately and necessarily so. How come?  … It means that most of our smarts; our understanding of things has been preprocessed.  It is out of sight; out of mind; perhaps never even realized …   .. precisely BECAUSE it can be taken as granted  … precisely because it can be implicitly ASSUMED. When people grow into adulthood; for the most part they cease learning. The emphasis is moved onto the appreciations, sensibilities and skills that have already been explored and integrated. Being impulsive … Blurting it out …  Winging it. …  Being careless and unthinking are apt to be much more reliable; intelligent and responsible acts than rationality would otherwise suppose. Example: Some idiots came up with the notion of "Attention Deficit Disorder" … Yes, we all know that there is a cluster of characteristics which warrant "lumping together" with the common tag (label) of ADD. Yet, when one looks at the very name, itself … A T T E N T I O N    D E F I C I T   D I S O R D E R … The ‘implicit’ suggestion is made that a ‘lack of concern for the focus’ ( a.k.a. attention) is <somehow defective. Hello? The vast bulk of a persons inteligence and ability does NOT reside at the attentional focus.  It is hidden from the attentional focus intentionally and deliberately.  Adults hide the background more than children.  .. Adults concentrate more on the attentional focus because they have spent their childhood constructing that distilled map. Those with ADD come across as being childlike. There is much more to cognition than just ATTENTION  .. focus  .. and holding it. The ADD way is to "Find focus"  .. to "Discover focus"  … to "Create Focus"  … to "Change Focus". The attention is not a static commodity.   .. It is always changing. … it is always being discarded.  … it is always being acquired   .. it is always being reacquired ( displaced elsewhere) Those with ADD have cognitive habits which emphasize the dynamic and hidden qualities of attentional awareness. Duh … Does or doesn’t Clinton deserve to be president for his philandering with Lewinsky?    … {{{ B O I N G }}}  .. Your attention has just been hijacked. Are you aware of it?  Thank God for ADD.

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sorry for hijacking your Oz metaphor. I understand you were just referring to the unusable potential (impotential?) and how it makes you feel powerless. Pitty that your own theory of ADD does not prevent you from falling back into your turd. greetz

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(impotential?) and how it makes you feel powerless. …

You need to ask?    Somewhat "self-defining", eh.         …Viagra Falls.  "Honeymoon Capital" of the world.                   :- Pitty that your own theory of ADD does not prevent you from falling back into your turd.

Aha.  … You are referring to the curse of ADD; the inability to get one’s shit together.       ( See http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/g.htm if required ) The whole thing is that …   Shit happens. It comes together of it’s own accord.         And the line of reasoning ( thought ) stops dead.

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I understand cognition. I understand the essence of ‘biological process’.  I understand subjectivity. I understand ADD and other cognitive proclivities.   I understand a lot of things. The Wizard of Oz Paradox. What is it?

Just follow the "yellow brick road". WOW, even Google can find the yellow brick road! :-O http://www.turnmeondeadman.net/OZ/SpiritualJourney.html <!– frenzy —

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I understand cognition. I understand the essence of ‘biological process’.  I understand subjectivity. I understand ADD and other cognitive proclivities.   I understand a lot of things. The Wizard of Oz Paradox. What is it? Just follow the "yellow brick road". WOW, even Google can find the yellow brick road! :-O

That may be the sequel, the Wonderful Wizkids of Oz, googling for the yellow brick road and taking their AD(H)D meds to keep focussed… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – http://www.turnmeondeadman.net/OZ/SpiritualJourney.html <!– frenzy —

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Yeah. … It would sure seem that most everyone has abandoned me. No surprise there, really. Of those that know me … One after another has gone terminally ’stupid’ on me. It is sort of like what has happened here, too. It is the end of the line. Either I do something or I don’t do something.         So where is my next stop?    ~ S O L U T I O N ~ 1) I should recognize how it is that I came to find myself in this mess.  Easy.  It was my ability which betrayed me. I wonder if I come across as being a "sicko" when I claim this? An ability which betrays a person. Hm … ~~~  Pure, ‘Wizard of Oz’. That is always the problem, ain’t it?  Breaking out of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ paradox.  Easy to say. … Easy to do.    … Nastier than shit to figure out what needs to be done. Luckily, I know a generic solution, here. I understand cognition. I understand the essence of ‘biological process’.  I understand subjectivity. I understand ADD and other cognitive proclivities.   I understand a lot of things.

The Wizard of Oz Paradox. What is it? The lion who defines courage but is fearful that it has none. The scarecrow who is all cerebral but lacks a brain and thinks itself to be stupid. The tin man who is all emotion and feeling … fluid, oil and hydraulics yet lacks a heart.  ~~~ The possessing of an ability YET being totally useless, ineffective and insecure in that ability. How does one resolve the Wizard of Oz paradox? … Does one click one’s heels together 3 times so as to be deported back to Kansas in an instant? Well yeah, dudes and dudettes and dudekins; believe it or not; ti’s about that SIMPLE & EASY …      …  *providing* one knows what to do. ( And does it … ) (To be Continued … )

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Yeah. … It would sure seem that most everyone has abandoned me. No surprise there, really. Of those that know me … One after another has gone terminally ’stupid’ on me. It is sort of like what has happened here, too. It is the end of the line. Either I do something or I don’t do something.         So where is my next stop?    ~ S O L U T I O N ~ 1) I should recognize how it is that I came to find myself in this mess.  Easy.  It was my ability which betrayed me. I wonder if I come across as being a "sicko" when I claim this? An ability which betrays a person. Hm … ~~~  Pure, ‘Wizard of Oz’. That is always the problem, ain’t it?  Breaking out of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ paradox.  Easy to say. … Easy to do.    … Nastier than shit to figure out what needs to be done. Luckily, I know a generic solution, here. I understand cognition. I understand the essence of ‘biological process’.  I understand subjectivity. I understand ADD and other cognitive proclivities.   I understand a lot of things. Cordially, RL (To be Continued … )

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