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Tenet’s to Live by

Pretentious as a title can be there’s a few concepts that can guide, not tell one how to navigate life. There’s some universal experiences we all have but don’t take away whatever unique experience one is living through. This can also just be an attempt to define those shared experience by defining what’s important.

Tenets are defined as a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true. It would be despite how disagreeable on a position people are we should still be able to agree that eating regularly to avoid malnutrition is something everyone would agree is good a thing. From thinking about what’s important to everyone, here’s the five most prevalent that can help expand how you think.

  1. Time, it only goes one way
  2. Family, chosen or given
  3. Acceptance of your environment
  4. Kind w/ self and others
  5. Doing your part/purpose

Why are these five tenets so important?

  1. Time: Most people want more of it.
  2. Family: A place anyone can feel accepted, appreciated and loved is essential.
  3. Acceptance: A comfy seat is better than an uncomfortable one.
  4. Kindness: Be ruthless with institutions and systems for yourself and neighbors.
  5. Doing your part: Nothing can be something, sometimes.

How can you begin to implement or add a more thoughtfulness to your actions?

  1. Be concise and have brevity.
  2. Recognition that criticism is neither always constructive or hurtful despite which end you may be on.
  3. If you want to change anyone, it’s always best to try and understand their grievances, expressed or not.
  4. People in a broken system aren’t broken or share in the blame of the wrongs of said systems.
  5. Observation is far from nothing but equally far from learning.

What do you think you’ll walk away with?

Share in the comments or post but I hope some of what was learned was, with a final list, is:

  1. Be respectful with time.
  2. Family you choose in life or are given at birth, and hopefully both, will give you the space to be yourself. It’s absence is fairly detrimental, not deadly, but a “family” will add a real value and support system in life’s ups and downs.
  3. Accept the journey of life is filled with never-ending paths to similar places.
  4. Our responsibility for our conditions matches the agency we had in said conditioned outcomes.
  5. Sometimes doing your part is waiting for the most impactful moment to do whatever it is you need to do. Others times doing your part is simply doing what must be done immediately. Distinguishing what is priority in any given moment is a responsibility we all share; however, that responsibility is best learned through experience.

    What’s important to me and you will differ, but hopefully these five tenets and the levels of rationale baked into them can help guide anyone in their lives.
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Allow me to indulge in some gratitude…

As someone who’s always felt a bit out of place both in the physical social spaces and at times in my own mental space, it means a lot to have a following here. I’m a mess of contradictions trying to rid myself of those flaws as I grow. Whether you’re here for the politics, the sports, or just the random incomplete thoughts or pictures, I hope to continue to provide that content. I also hope we can grow to appreciate all of these different aspects of interest, but most of all, I hope to foster the idea it’s okay to share what you think. Starting off was the hardest part but sharing our thoughts and being inclusive is how we get to a place of social empathy. Also, don’t be afraid to comment, shoot me an email on anything with Knicks, pics, or politics and I’ll look into and maybe you can see how your voices matter to me. We’re at the start of a journey I hope to continue along with all of you readers on a path towards a more accepting and honest world.

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COVID-19 Factors for Pause

COVID-19 cases per Month
COVID-19 deaths per Month

Let’s ignore the possibility of weather making the virus weaker or stronger because the biggest danger, I pose, is within our control. First lets look at the cases which are seemingly beginning their launch into the imaginary atmosphere. March was our discover, and April brought a temporary understanding but there’s a large degree of change that begins as a simmer in June, coming to boil in July. Another similar trend occurred from October to November where cases more than double month to month. My fear is that the recipe for this kind of situation is preparation for, and subsequent celebration of America’s most participated traditions. July 4th and Halloween would fit those bills and that’s where the feeling of dread seeps in.
We’ve entered a season of mass habitual celebration that our society has already shown are more important than the greater social empathy needed to combat the unimaginable death coming.

The lack of a basic understanding the Coronavirus will be the largest damnation on American culture since the shame brought to the forefront of civil rights movement. To define more clearly, the wrongs done to black people in a “just” nation points to the abject failure to identify our inner bigotries. In its most compact definition as we understand COVID-19, limiting your exposure to other people, wearing masks and maintain social distance when in public places are the best ways to combat the spread of this virus. This is more a measure of expectations because the time to prepare for this has past with Thanksgiving behind us.
We’ve hit the highest deaths since April just in November, which may be surpassed overall in the coming Winter months. The point to take away is that deaths are a lagging indicator of at least a month. Deaths were falling until July, when they begun feel the effects from July 4th, surging in the following Month. August shows how after an event of high participation that the ability to fight the drug of normalcy is harder to resist. You crave that attention after being socially deprived for so long. From some unaffected individuals and families, they’re experience makes them feel suppressed instead of protected. It isn’t just the day itself but the few weeks prior and the weekend through the event.

I’ll end it with a few things on my mind, all in the form of questions, some with general answers. Some may have no answer and a few will be my opinion and the context for that opinion.
1. What’s the percentage of people who have COVID-19 without symptoms?
Over 40%
2. Why should we worry about deaths when the death rate is falling?
The death rate is falling because we have a better understanding of the virus on one level; however, the more responsible factor for the drop is now over 40% of all COVID-19 cases are outstanding which is only growing. The larger that percentage grows, the more active demand is on the medical system already taking on water in certain states. The more those are strained and some begin to break, localized death hotspots are a likely phenomena to follow.
3. How would you rank event’s by the great participation in American culture?
4 Fourth of July
5 Halloween
3 Thanksgiving
2 Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa
1 New Years
My thought’s aren’t an overall ranking or personal preference, but on how many people celebrate these events with gatherings of people for extended periods of time. Those gatherings can have different adjectives and obligations to attend but these events are still effecting you indirectly by the sheer participation by society at large in these events. Certain eateries and stores close or have shorter hours, some jobs are offering timely bonus, or more likely, having workers ask for advances on their pay. I hope that while it is rough to look at our failings of society, ignoring them allows those to fester and debilitate other functions of society indirectly. Lets look into the adversity people are stuck in and achieve solutions with people, not profit, at the center of our problem solving logos.

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What is the value of life?

What is the monetary value you would pay to achieve just an elevation of an anxiety? What is the value anyone can evaluate that would ever justify the loss of life. Those outcomes to where there is a loss of life are the worst possible outcomes. On the most basic level, survival is based on how well you do in having outcomes that minimize the loss of life. We label it humanity but there’s a profound arrogance with that notion, that we are somehow connected to the engineers of the world around us. Whether its some random chaos or the shared basic values most religions or organizations of thought have, we are only grasping at the straws for understanding how life and nature are. Attempting to solve those mysteries shouldn’t be demonized but framed as what they really are, an attempt to understand, to learn. I think we should always be centering our thoughts about society to minimize the pain of the suffering at the expense of those whose crimes bare sentencing.

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A pet peeve of mine is discussions about any kind of outcome without validity tied to it. Relating that to Basketball, as the post season has developed along with the continuous inflammatory situations with non-basketball related things with police and black people, how can we begin to think of what’s to come? Remember that all these players are people and in times of crisis, we’re wired to crave certain things when the world around us doesn’t make sense. To be emotionally and mentally alone without your family, especially if you have children must be difficult. These men and women have a lot of free time to think and figure out what they want for these costs in the future, and what makes the decision to play in these isolated conditions. With the news about D. Mitchell and signing a max extension with UTA, and with the Bucks floundering, there’s a world where Antetokounmpo is in TOR and Siakam is left feeling like DeMar DeRozan on the Bucks. A coach Giannis could trust since he won’t question the coaches decisions in game and he developed that trust and respect for Bud. I would say for those reasons that how he expressed himself at the end of the loss against the Butler-led Heat should be troubling.

He seemed to express a feeling of helplessness because the problem is the supporting cast he’s been raising haven’t recognized how much he’s been burdening. In the most recent game he had 3 assists so he didn’t pass well is maybe something you’d think but it couldn’t be further from the truth. Every moment is a playoff game matters, there’s a weight to it and even if it results in a worse loss, if Giannis is passing the ball when three collapse, you need to shoot and with confidence. Even if every shoot is missed, your teammate needs to see that so he can continue to face the wall in front of him. It’s not to say you MUST shoot, but there was too much second guessing and scared passing away from the moment. How’s you’re super star going to feel when he’s going all out, his teammates can’t support him. That’s going to factor into how happy he feels about his team when they face serious contention. If that’s a reality, wouldn’t it make Fred VanVleet more of an complement to help Giannis play with some more space and the ability to punish the way defenses play a “wall” against him. In this world, if FVV not a free agent for NY any longer to pursue, how can you empower your current players?