Greta Thunberg in 2023: If we don't end fossil fuels, it will be a "death sentence." in 2026: President Trump must allow oil imports to Cuba.

[ColonelAngus]

My RIGHT GUARD is NOT GOING TO PUT OBAMAS OCEANFRONT HOME UNDERWATER.

I EFFING PROMISE YOU.

 

[Hafar1014]

So meaning is not subjective? That's news to me. I thought we all decide for ourselves what makes our lives meaningful. But apparently the decision was always yours. Lol

Subjective is the wrong term. The right term is value.
While Frankl rarely touches on the topic of the pursuit of happiness, he is very concerned with satisfaction and fulfillment in life. We can see this in his preoccupation with addressing depression, anxiety and meaninglessness. (Frankl 1992, p. 143).

In the pursuit of meaning, Frankl recommends three different kinds of experience: through deeds, the experience of values through some kind of medium (beauty through art, love through a relationship, etc.) or suffering. While the third is not necessarily in the absence of the first two, within Frankl’s frame of thought, suffering became an option through which to find meaning and experience values in life in the absence of the other two opportunities (Frankl 1992, p. 118).

Frankl famously stated that: “Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.” Though for Frankl, joy could never be an end to itself, it was an important byproduct of finding meaning in life. He points to studies where there is marked difference in life spans between “trained, tasked animals,” i.e., animals with a purpose, than “taskless, jobless animals.” And yet it is not enough simply to have something to do, rather what counts is the “manner in which one does the work” (Frankl 1986, p. 125)
Striving to find meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man ~Viktor Frankl ~

Frankl’s Background​

Victor Emil Frankl (1905 – 1997), Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, devoted his life to studying, understanding and promoting “meaning.”



His famous book, Man’s Search for Meaning, tells the story of how he survived the Holocaust by finding personal meaning in the experience, which gave him the will to live through it. He went on to later establish a new school of existential therapy called logotherapy, based in the premise that man’s underlying motivator in life is a “will to meaning,” even in the most difficult of circumstances.

Frankl pointed to research indicating a strong relationship between “meaninglessness” and criminal behaviors, addictions and depression. Without meaning, people fill the void with hedonistic pleasures, power, materialism, hatred, boredom, or neurotic obsessions and compulsions. Some may also strive for Suprameaning, the ultimate meaning in life, a spiritual kind of meaning that depends solely on a greater power outside of personal or external control.

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychologist who founded what he called the field of “Logotherapy”, which has been dubbed the “Third Viennese School of Psychology” (following Freud and Alder). Logotherapy developed in and through Frankl’s personal experience in the Theresienstadt Nazi concentration camp. The years spent there deeply affected his understanding of reality and the meaning of human life. His most popular book, Man’s Search for Meaning, chronicles his experience in the camp as well as the development of logotherapy. During his time there, he found that those around him who did not lose their sense of purpose and meaning in life were able to survive much longer than those who had lost their way. William James would have considered this life changing event to be a “crisis of meaning.”

Logotherapy​

In The Will to Meaning, Frankl notes that “logotherapy aims to unlock the will to meaning in life.” More often than not, he found that people would ponder the meaning of life when for Frankl, it is very clear that, “it is life itself that asks questions of man.” Paradoxically, by abandoning the desire to have “freedom from” we take the “freedom to” make the “decision for” one’s unique and singular life task (Frankl 1988, p. 16).

Logotherapy developed in a context of extreme suffering, depression and sadness and so it is not surprising that Frankl focuses on a way out of these things. His experience showed him that life can be meaningful and fulfilling even in spite of the harshest circumstances. On the other hand, he also warns against the pursuit of hedonistic pleasures because of its tendency to distract people from their search for meaning in life.

Meaning​

Only when the emotions work in terms of values can the individual feel pure joy (Frankl 1986, p. 40).

In the pursuit of meaning, Frankl recommends three different kinds of experience: through deeds, the experience of values through some kind of medium (beauty through art, love through a relationship, etc.) or suffering. While the third is not necessarily in the absence of the first two, within Frankl’s frame of thought, suffering became an option through which to find meaning and experience values in life in the absence of the other two opportunities (Frankl 1992, p. 118).

Though for Frankl, joy could never be an end to itself, it was an important byproduct of finding meaning in life. He points to studies where there is marked difference in life spans between “trained, tasked animals,” i.e., animals with a purpose, than “taskless, jobless animals.” And yet it is not enough simply to have something to do, rather what counts is the “manner in which one does the work” (Frankl 1986, p. 125)

Responsibility​

Human freedom is not a freedom from but freedom to (Frankl 1988, p. 16).

As mentioned above, Frankl sees our ability to respond to life and to be responsible to life as a major factor in finding meaning and therefore, fulfillment in life. In fact, he viewed responsibility to be the “essence of existence” (Frankl 1992, 114). He believed that humans were not simply the product of heredity and environment and that they had the ability to make decisions and take responsibility for their own lives. This “third element” of decision is what Frankl believed made education so important; he felt that education must be education towards the ability to make decisions, take responsibility and then become free to be the person you decide to be (Frankl 1986, p. xxv).

Individuality​

Frankl is careful to state that he does not have a one-size-fits all answer to the meaning of life. His respect for human individuality and each person’s unique identity, purpose and passions does not allow him to do otherwise. And so he encourages people to answer life and find one’s own unique meaning in life. When posed the question of how this might be done, he quotes from Goethe: “How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection but by action. Try to do your duty and you will soon find out what you are. But what is your duty? The demands of each day.” In quoting this, he points to the importance attached to the individual doing the work and the manner in which the job is done rather than the job or task itself (Frankl 1986, p. 56).

Techniques​

Frankl’s logotherapy utilizes several techniques to enhance the quality of one’s life. First is the concept of paradoxical Intention, wherethe therapist encourages the patient to intend or wish for, even if only for a second, precisely what they fear. This is especially useful for obsessive, compulsive and phobic conditions, as well as cases of underlying anticipatory anxiety.

 

[Anomalism]

neurotic obsessions and compulsions

Sounds like most people that post on political forums. Lol

 

[BlindBoo]

When is oil going to kill us all?

I am not clear on the APOCALYPSE CLOCK.

Is it before Yellowstone destroys North America?

Second Tuesday of next week!

 

[Dorian Mode]

The ***** is one of the biggest morons who has ever lived. She's really nothing but a liberal activist. If one form of activism doesn't work, she just switches to another one.

I'm pretty sure she is braindead, but her parents found a way to cash in on her disability. Great was never about causes, she was about cashing in on liberal stupidity.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Miami, NYC, AND SHANGHAI ARE NOT UNDERWATER.

Gore said they would be.

WHY ARE CLIMATE ALARMISTS BUYING OCEANFRONT PROPERTY?!

THE GRIFT IS SO EFFING OBVIOUS.

 

[ColonelAngus]

No we see people who have no meaning in their lives grasping on to these hoaxes like climate change, or anti ICE, gender absurdity and they take up the cause to give their lives meaning. But since they are embracing false ideas they get frustrated and even violent. We have a generation of people with anxiety and depression. Left wing ideology is magnet for them. They play the victim, are outraged on behalf of others, have the need for attention and to virtue signal. They often have meaningless jobs and no real direction in their lives.

This is a great point.

Many of these dumbasses are people with no purpose and this grift gives them pupose and fellowship with others who have fallen for the grift….no matter how misguided.

 

[BlindBoo]

Miami, NYC, AND SHANGHAI ARE NOT UNDERWATER.

Gore said they would be.

WHY ARE CLIMATE ALARMISTS BUYING OCEANFRONT PROPERTY?!

THE GRIFT IS SO EFFING OBVIOUS.

Gore is not a scientist.

If, is the most powerful word for propagandists.

If Greenland melts......except it's going to take up to 500 years for half of that Ice Cap to melt.

 

[Hafar1014]

Gore is not a scientist.

If, is the most powerful word for propagandists.

If Greenland melts......except it's going to take up to 500 years for half of that Ice Cap to melt.

Gore is a fraud

 

[ColonelAngus]

Anyone with 2 focking brain cells that ocassionally bump into each other.

WHY ARE CLIMATE ALARMISTS BUYING OCEANFRONT PROPERTY AND FLYING IN PRIVATE JETS IF THEY BELIEVE THIS STUFF?

It is because THEY DO NOT. IT IS A GRIFT.

Like Newsom eating at French Laundry while YOU were locked down.

 

[rightwinger]

Gore is a fraud

Gore invented the Internet

 

[ColonelAngus]

If you give ALL OF YOUR MONEY TO CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISTS, THEY WILL STOP THE EARTH FROM CHANGING.



No more volcanos, earthquakes, mountains rising and falling.

JUST GIVE GRETA ALL YOUR MONEY AND THE PLANET WILL STAY EXACTLY HOW IT IS TODAY.

 

[BluesLegend]

Greta Thunberg in 2023: If we don't end fossil fuels, it will be a "death sentence." in 2026: President Trump must allow oil imports to Cuba.​

LMAO

Democrats: We will die on a hill to END FOSSIL FUELS

Democrats: We will die on a hill to defend your right to FOSSIL FUELS

 

[BluesLegend]

When is oil going to kill us all?

I am not clear on the APOCALYPSE CLOCK.

Is it before Yellowstone destroys North America?

It's all FAKE Democrat money scams...

Democrats: We need to raise taxes because (fill in the blank) or the earth dies!!!

 

[ColonelAngus]

It's all FAKE Democrat money scams...

Democrats: We need to raise taxes because (fill in the blank) or the earth dies!!!

Just give the Dems all your money and the planet will never change.

For REALS!

 

[Mac-7]

The GLOBAL COOLING then GLOBAL WARMING then CLIMATE CHANGE grift is so blatant.

One can blow it out of the NOT rising water so easily.

Why are the wealthy still buying oceanfront property if it is going to be underwater by 2012 like Al Gore told us?
Why are the grifters not going after China, that accounts for 35% of the worlds greenhouse gas emissions?
Why did electric cars become evil?
Why did nuclear energy become evil?
Why do wealthy leftists still fly private jets that run on fossil fuels?

My spray deodorant is NOT going to put Barack Obama’s $30 million estate in Hawaii UNDERWATER. IT IS NOT A THING THAT IS REAL.

This grift is about money and power for the grifters.

How are they going to stop the Yellowstone Super Volcano from erupting and destroying all of North America?

Greta thunberg is a whack job

Totally nuts

 

[BluesLegend]

Just give the Dems all your money and the planet will never change.

For REALS!

With $250 BILLION in FRAUD California Democrats are doing a pretty good job of just stealing the money outright. Why fabricate some elaborate 'climate' scam when you can just steal the money.

 

[drudge X]

The ***** is one of the biggest morons who has ever lived. She's really nothing but a liberal activist. If one form of activism doesn't work, she just switches to another one.

The ones who propped her up and defending her are the bigger morons. I will heed the words of these climate activists when they walk the talk.

 

[ColonelAngus]

With $250 BILLION in FRAUD California Democrats are doing a pretty good job of just stealing the money outright. Why fabricate some elaborate 'climate' scam when you can just steal the money.

I read an estimate that $14 trillion has been wasted on the climate change hoax,

 

[drudge X]

According to Occasional Cortex, the planet is going to die in seven years?