u/After-Cell

This theory is like an earworm. Too addictive. Can't stop thinking about it.

The worst is its externalisation. The kingdom of heaven is within? The golden egg reflecting in yourself. Nope. According to this theory, it's all _out there_. That's negative.

I meet a pretty girl. She must be an incubus. I stub my toe? It must be an archon. And it's all day long.

What makes it so addictive? It seems to adapt to beliefs. "Every cloud has a silver lining." Yin/Yang, karma, Christianity etc. Now we're imprinting archons onto that system and it fits pretty well. It's hard to decrypt that way because once it's embedded you'd then need to lift out the whole original belief system.

I think the way out is to notice that it's quite materialist, and that taking ownership for problems is more productive, with a better track record. Seeing problems as coming from within isn't victim blaming if you're saying that to yourself.

I have a friend who's divorcing his wife.

I know he's had a difficult time for many years, so I was shocked when he told me. So I asked him what he thinks the matter is with his wife.

He told me that he thinks she's basically sick and will never change. He also told me that he needs sex.

I said that this doesn't sound very Christian to me. Leaving your wife because she's sick and doesn't want to have sex with you doesn't sound like the right thing to do.

That's when he defers to scripture again.

He tells me that he has a duty to have children and that if he's not getting sex toward that goal, then the bible says it's OK to divorce his wife.

I notice that whenever I challenge him on something, he'll find a way to use his religion to justify his actions. He seems to defer out his moral judgements whenever it's convenient. It's quite... disgusting to be honest.

So he's leaving his wife, but he still wants to see his kids. He tell me his faith in god will see him through.

Actually, I do think that belief and actions can help this pathway. To my world beliefs, I think what he can do can make sense. I do think he'll be able to get this to work in some way. But that's not supposed to be his belief system!?

I can't stand this idea that he's basically meeting women, treating them as baby machines and dumping them, and the children when nature runs its course. It's heinous to me because I still have those morals from post-Christian culture, but, much like a soldier that refuses to fight a war he doesn't understand, I refuse to defer my morals to a book like this.

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I've found that communicating with people is a bit like communicating with AI. The same guides for AI help for people. For example, establishing a role, providing context, example output format etc

It does seem to go a bit too far sometimes though. Children are starting to look a bit like dog+cheap model.

A lot of theory, then thrown in at the deep end.

That was how it was for me.

I've never stood in a classroom and had the chance to see another teacher work for more than an hour a month. There are precious few videos online where I can see how it's done.

Now I'm watching my wife go through the same thing as an Occupational Therapist. She didn't even realise it would be so much teaching and nor did I. Every day she goes to work at 7am and comes home at 8pm. Then works until midnight planning lessons. But that's not the worst part.

The worst part is getting so slammed with work, you've got no space to grow or learn.

Lessons are half baked. When something goes wrong, there's no one there to give you any advice. You just have to somehow scribble some notes or wait a few weeks for that situation to come around again to try the next thing you've scrambled from social media or pulled out of a book, or even just brute force trying anything to get past a problem.

For example, separation anxiety. First time, distraction seemed to work. Next time, not really. Then you see how it's really done.

There's just this massive gap in many teaching positions between qualification and work. It shouldn't be this separate.

Everything is like this. Well, not _everything_; doctors do get some time to shadow and take notes. But everything seems to be setup to have education about getting bits of paper... where the paper is only there to serve as an impediment to stop people flooding the market. Qualification is a paper moat to the market.

The work should be happening at the same time as study and everything should be focused on getting the job done well, with optional extra study if you want.

There is so much waste and inefficiency in every field now. And everyone lies about it. Why? Because when you're on the safe side of that moat, you don't want to admit that actually, you could train anyone to do the core of your job.

The only real jobs these days are the impossible ones. No one human should be a general doctor. It is simply too big a task. No one person should be a teacher; it is a constantly evolving skill that is never complete. These jobs shouldn't exist. They are beaucratic legacies that survive as monolithic consolidations that a team of experts should be handling. In the future we will look back on this time as utterly incompetent. Seeing a general practitioner will seem like Galen hacking people open or like drinking mercury to cure ills. To put a single person in charge of 30 children and develop the whole society will be as laughable as it is now for teachers as it will be in the future for everyone.

I understand this has gone into a bit of a rant and it might seem offbase to some. If that's you, then I really think you're the fish in the water that knows no better. Part of this is culture. Part of this is a failure of imagination.

Can you imagine a society where education is handled by the group?Grandparents are in the educational setting helping out. Young people do their civic duty national service helping out at schools. Everyone knows it's important and rallies around this like a bird tending to its nest. It could be serious too: each child needs to establish competency (including behaviour) to get through to another class; you have to both earn and prove that you're ready, not one size fits all.

/rant /soapbox ugh Thank you for comingh to my ted-talk

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