I’ve got nobody ‘cept you, and I’m lonely
Theme of loneliness once again. Mommy has daddy, another human, and still she feels lonely. David has a teddy.
I’ve got nobody ‘cept you, and I’m lonely
Theme of loneliness once again. Mommy has daddy, another human, and still she feels lonely. David has a teddy.
many millions of people suffer from increasingloneliness and isolation. Our serving-man will be a boon to them: he will always answer, and themost vapid conversation cannot bore him.
they present an artificial being as a solution to loneliness.
Because of the man's conflicting feelings, because of his sullen and weak inner emotions, his insufficiency in himself, he causes chaos and ruins the lives of women in very real ways. Such as in creating the conditions of Gilead and tempting Offred with a sense of false hope before she eventually is taken away. His loneliness has caused everything. Even the handmaid before who hung herself.
Clark E. Moustakas in his delightful and seminal book Loneliness
follow up - book - Loneliness - author - Clark E. Moustakas
for - existential isolation - existential loneliness - existential isolation - Heidegger - Deep Humanity
from - Science and Nonduality article - https://scienceandnonduality.com/article/embracing-existential-loneliness-and-waking-up-to-non-dual-aloneness/
The True Cost of the Churchgoing Bust by [[Derek Thompson]]
Guts is a mentally broken character affected by the isolation and loneliness that he has both been cursed with and brought on himself. Despite this, he always finds a way to keep on going throughout the manga.
Guts is broken and lonely. Despite this, he finds a way to keep going.
An article about contemporary philosopher Agnes Callard
மனிதவாழ்க்கையின் மீட்பற்ற பிரம்மாண்டமான தனிமையையும் அதன் கையறுநிலயையும் நான் சட்டென்று உணர்ந்தேன் என்று சொல்லலாம். அந்த நிகழ்ச்சியை வைத்து என்னை நெடுங்காலம் நண்பர்கள் கிண்டல்செய்வார்கள்.
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What you Need to Know about Loneliness
18:03 Loneliness leads to microarousals. Could this be a potential root cause of ME/CFS.
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All of us, but especially children, need … confidence that others will know, affirm, and cherish us. Without that we can’t develop a sense of agency that will enable us to assert: “This is what I believe in; this is what I stand for; this is what I will devote myself to.” As long as we feel safely held in the hearts and minds of the people who love us, we will climb mountains and cross deserts and stay up all night to finish projects. Children and adults will do anything for people they trust and whose opinion they value. But if we feel abandoned, worthless, or invisible, nothing seems to matter. Fear destroys curiosity and playfulness. In order to have a healthy society we must raise children who can safely play and learn. There can be no growth without curiosity and no adaptability without being able to explore, through trial and error, who you are and what matters to you.
Finding Our Metaphors
The visual metaphor is quite intriguing. For some weird reason, it reminds me of La Jetée.
God works mysteriously. God is like a great attraction without a marquee or a billboard. God is pulling you along incessantly. Hopefully, the excess baggage in your life will be left aside sufficiently so that you can begin to experience the attraction itself, for this is the call of love to the lover. This is what you try to recreate with one another, this profound love and attraction.
God, the Great Strange Attractor
In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of numerical values toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system. System values that get close enough to the attractor values remain close even if slightly disturbed... An attractor is called strange if it has a fractal structure. This is often the case when the dynamics on it are chaotic, but strange nonchaotic attractors also exist. If a strange attractor is chaotic, exhibiting sensitive dependence on initial conditions, then any two arbitrarily close alternative initial points on the attractor, after any of various numbers of iterations, will lead to points that are arbitrarily far apart (subject to the confines of the attractor), and after any of various other numbers of iterations will lead to points that are arbitrarily close together. Thus a dynamic system with a chaotic attractor is locally unstable yet globally stable: once some sequences have entered the attractor, nearby points diverge from one another but never depart from the attractor.
“Speak to me.
This line gives me a sense of loneliness and despair. She's seeking for comfort of some sort from somewhere. Maybe she's waiting for someone to come to her. Again hard to follow
suggest that lonely people have significantly more trouble bouncing back from life’s stresses and strains. For instance, lonely and non-lonely college students in their study reported similar daily activities, but lonely college students experienced more stress in those activities. Among older adults, lonely individuals said they felt more helpless and threatened than did non-lonely people. What’s more, higher stress levels were associated with worse health: Lonely college students had higher blood pressure than non-lonely ones, putting them at greater risk for heart disease, and this health disparity was even greater between lonely and non-lonely older adults. Plus, Hawkley and Cacioppo found that these lonely older adults had higher levels of stress-related hormones, such as cortisol and epinephrine, which may weaken the immune system over time.
over the past two decades, Americans have become much more socially isolated from one another: More Americans live alone or with just one other person; on average, they have one-third fewer close friends; and 25 percent of Americans now say they have no close friends at all—more than double the figure from two decades ago.
What’s more, when we give to others, we don’t only make them feel closer to us; we also feel closer to them. “Being kind and generous leads you to perceive others more positively and more charitably,” writes Lyubomirsky in her book The How of Happiness, and this “fosters a heightened sense of interdependence and cooperation in your social community.”