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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Human: Well-being

A broad definition from Matthews and Iziquerdo (2009, 5) Pursuits of Happiness (emphasis mine):

"Well-being is an optimal state for an individual, community, society, and the world as a whole. It is conceived of, expressed, and experienced in different ways by different individuals and within the cultural contexts of different societies: different societies may have distinctly different culturally shaped visions of well-being. Nonetheless, well-being bears a degree of commonality due to our common humanity and interrelatedness over space and time. Well-being is experienced by individuals - its essential locus lies within individual subjectivity - but it may be considered and compared interpersonally and interculturally, since all individuals live within particular worlds of others, and all societies live in a common world at large."

Please remember these two bits:

1) The individual/s is/are the only measure of well-being.

2) There is no way of knowing/measuring how an individual is truly feeling/being.

Onwards Rocinante, to glory, to defeat the windmills of ill-being.

Sheep: Know Belief

The knowledgeable sheep are striped for easier discrimination.

Sheep: Relactivity

I ran out of space with the y. Just goes to show, 'y' is often an irrelevant question. To wonder 'y' is to run circles of 'because'.

Sheep: Lies

Our perceptions are locked away from reality. Thus it is not the case that they are sometimes lies. They are always lies, and never, for there is no way we can measure our own perceptions. We are our measure and thus we are no measure. Truth and lie collapse and we are left with guesswork, approximation and falsification. The language of reality leads to error. The language of truth even more so. Whoever claims to apprehend how things truly are is the victim of delusion or stupidity.