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AnOddBox – What does it say…?

By Ronald Crampton Unpublished

  

AnOddBox – What does it say…?

So yes, I sometimes watch the television series the Walking Dead. I have my reasons for watching, but I am not exactly a fan. I can almost read the script that if a character exhibits as progressive good, that character may as well be wearing a Star Trek red shirt. My understanding is that the Walk Dead does not refer to the zombies, but rather the Walking Dead is the party of survivors. As an odd duck I am intrigued by the paradigm. Is this an admirable script of the human spirit…? Or is it a sublimation script of using an admirable script to seek a self-destructive end…? Curious… Is it the writers writing their story and we are just following…? Or are the writers just feeding us what we want…?

What does it say…?

A skinny little runt with dyslexia: Weak and dumb, as a youth I was an easy target to be bullied… Thus I learned to fight; became a Marine; and now I am not weak… There is no situation, in which I will be bullied again… Physically… I still however, wear the brand of dumb… Why…? I have three higher education degrees, two professional licenses, and a professional practice… Could I rationally say I am dumb…? Truthfully no…, but I still do because I have been intimidated for a long time by people I believed were the representatives of smart… The experts…! What does it say when the experts (clergy/teachers/professors/doctors/professionals, etc…) can subjectively dictate the rules of the doctrine, but cannot explain the whys of the rules that make up the doctrine…? What does it say when we give them the power to intimidate…?

What does it say…?

I do not have a PhD as a matter of principle. I took a test known as the GRE to show that I was standardized to fulfill a graduate program. I graduated as a Master with a 3.6 GPA and I have been in the professional field for approximately four year. Unfortunately my GRE scores have expired and thus as I tried to go for a PhD I would have to retake the GRE to prove that I am capable of fulfilling what I have already proven I could fulfill. As I said, it is a matter of principle… The GRE is a speed test, not a power test… Dyslexia does not bode well for speed tests… The GRE is a standardized test designed in a way that it is not a matter of knowing the right answer, rather it is knowing the right GRE answer… One could actually take classes to learn the tricks of taking the GRE… What does it say when one could answer a standardized question just by looking at the format of the answers…? Hell, what does it say when our standardized progress is based on tricks rather than knowledge…?

What does it say…?

A person calls another person stupid, but the 1st person does not know the meaning of the word stupid, thus is inappropriately using knowledge, which is the meaning of the word stupid. What does it say when a significant amount of people do this same thing…? A significant amount of people cry foul against race… So the people have an issue with biology…? Biology…? Really…? Or is this just another case of that word stupid…?

What does it say…?

I am reading a book I thought would give me further insight to the four behaviors. What I am discovering through this reading is more about techniques to get people to like me… What does it say that we need to learn techniques to make someone like us…? What does it say when this is a socially acceptable endeavor…?

Do we just follow after the stories of another’s life…? Do we just feed off a story of what other know we want…? Are we so terribly afraid of living that we are truly the Walking Dead…?

AnOddBox Topic: Vitality is essentially life energy… The character strength of Vitality is when it becomes your life energy… Can you claim Vitality as your character…? Can you claim your life…?

I encourage you to reply…

Thank you,

Ronald E. Crampton, MA, LAC, LPC

AV Treatment Services, LLC dba

AnOddBox,

PO Box 470396

Aurora, CO 80047

(720) 250-8432

Email: recrampton@avtreatment.com

Website: http://avtreatment.com
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