This Qurʾānist assumption is completely misguided due to their ignorance or avoidance of context of historicity of preservation of the Qurʾān and Sunnah (a topic for another day).

God love Walmart shoppers, but they choose to shop there for the exact reason why their employees can’t afford to pay their bills Our Training Room at work was the site of a meeting with Managers from across our network in attendance Thanks to the TV they installed at work that welcomed visitors, we saw ‘Morgan, Lewis & Bockius’ (now @MorganLewisLaw ) was present A quick Google search showed they dabbled in Union Avoidance & they had successfully convinced a small number of Amazon Machinists to vote ‘no‘ on becoming Union Our company had obviously brought them in to coach-up the bosses at other facilities, because we had already joined the Dark Side Quit being helpless Kittens, saying you can’t afford to pay your bills, but are too scared to stand up for yourselves, as if some benevolent force is going to do for you, what you’re too lame to do for yourselves Mew 😿

This will not only make the country an impossible place to invest, it will also force whatever capital and wealth is left to adopt nefarious tactics to avoid the taxman. Tax avoidance, tax fraud, capital flight and asset crashes will be rampant in the Netherlands if this passes.

Scared of what? Your avoidance of the fact Mohammed raped a 9 year old? No I'm just asking you if you'd do the same?

RT @PompeySteph: For the avoidance of doubt, the 30 or so members of @LabourLGB are also known as Sex Matters, LGB Alliance, Labour Womens…

1244 On the Spirit of Natality, the Integration of the Unconscious, and What Somalia Must Learn from Both: Part I Liban began the day with what Hannah Arendt (1958) called the spirit of natality — the human capacity to initiate something radically new, to introduce a rupture into the causal chains of the past. As Arendt observed, “the new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws… the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle” (p. 178). It was in this spirit that Liban resolved to start fresh. Yet almost immediately upon that resolution, a counterforce seized him — not from without, but from within. A prevailing null hypothesis descended: that nothing interesting would begin, that nothing worth writing about would emerge, that the banality of life would persist with characteristic stubbornness. Liban’s instinct, refined through practice, was neither to resist this thought nor to be governed by it. Drawing on the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), he accepted the intrusive cognition as it was — a psychological event, not a verdict on reality (Hayes et al., 2006). Empirical research supports this posture: acceptance-based approaches are demonstrably more effective than suppression or avoidance in reducing the grip of intrusive thought. By neither fighting the thought nor submitting to it, Liban enacted what ACT researchers describe as cognitive defusion — changing one’s relationship to a thought rather than its content (Hayes et al., 2006). What followed was theoretically significant. The moment Liban gave the nihilist hypothesis full acknowledgment — articulating it aloud, letting it exist in cognitive and bodily space — it ceased to hold power. Evidence of new beginning emerged not abstractly but experientially. He noticed, first and foremost, that his sleep had restored a quality often depleted by the demands of executive function and deliberate self-regulation: patience. He was present with his children — teaching without demanding immediate learning, guiding without expecting instant compliance. This behavioral shift reflects what the literature on mindful parenting describes as nonjudgmental, present-moment awareness in the parent-child relationship (Kabat-Zinn & Kabat-Zinn, 1997; Ahemaitijiang et al., 2021). Research consistently demonstrates that parental dispositional mindfulness is associated with improved parent-child interaction quality and reduced behavioral difficulties in children across developmental stages. Liban then arrived at a deeper theoretical recognition. He understood that when he declared the intention to “start fresh,” he had been relying exclusively on what Kahneman (2011) termed System 2 — the slow, deliberate, analytically governed mode of processing. His unconscious mind — System 1, the fast, automatic, pattern-recognizing substrate of thought — had not been consulted, let alone enlisted. Its response was predictable: resistance, expressed as the very nihilist intrusion he had experienced. System 1 was not wrong. It was communicating. As dual process theorists have noted, cognitive fluency and behavioral change require alignment across both systems; deliberate intentions that bypass System 1 often collapse under the weight of automatic counter-responses. The moment Liban recognized this — the moment he allowed System 1’s objection to be heard and metabolized rather than overridden — the two systems arrived at integration. New beginning was no longer a declaration. It was a lived condition.

Willful ignorance: deliberate avoidance of relevant info/knowledge because the truth would be uncomfortable or create pressure to act in ways person would rather avoid. Also, legal strategy where person intentionally remains unaware of facts to avoid liability for wrongful acts

I think basically every psychological trait people vilify has a healthy integrated expression but it’s easier to throw the baby out with the bath water or fall into toxic expression. What does healthy shame, hatred, kink, jealousy, narcissism, avoidance, etc look like?

📖 Juno and the Long Marriage: The Asteroid That Knows What You Settle For There is a moment in many old marriages when a younger person asks a question that has no good answer. Why did you stay? The asker means it kindly, or curiously, or a little defiantly. The married person looks somewhere over the asker's shoulder for a while before answering. What comes out is rarely a single reason. It is a sediment. Layers of years compressed into a sentence that does not really explain anything to anyone who has not lived inside it. Astrology has a small celestial body that knows how to ask that question without flinching. Her name is Juno. Juno is an asteroid, the third one discovered, found in 1804 between Mars and Jupiter. She does not have the gravitational weight of a planet. In a chart she behaves more like a tone, or a muscle memory, than a force. But once you start watching her, she is everywhere the long story of partnership lives. She is the part of the chart that knows about staying. In Roman myth, she is the queen of the gods. The Greeks called her Hera. Both cultures gave her marriage and women's lives, and both cultures had her married to a husband who could not be faithful for a single afternoon. Zeus pursued every nymph, every mortal woman, every river goddess he could approach in disguise. Juno watched. Sometimes she retaliated. She turned Io into a heifer. She drove Heracles into madness. She hounded Callisto into the night sky as a bear. She did not always behave well. But she also stayed. This is the part of her myth most modern readings miss. The Greeks and Romans did not write Hera as a victim, and they did not write her as a fool. They wrote her as a queen who had taken a vow, in a cosmos where vows were the architecture of the world, and they wrote her as someone who understood that the long oath outlives the moods of the person who took it. Her sacred bird, the peacock, has hundreds of eyes in its tail. She sees everything. She still stays. She is the goddess of what you carry knowingly. The Romans named the month of June after her, the traditional marriage month. Coins were minted at her temple on the Capitoline Hill, where she was called Juno Moneta, the warner, and that is where the word money comes from. There is a quiet astrological joke in this. The asteroid of marriage is also, etymologically, the goddess of currency. Of what we exchange. Of what we agree to count as fair. In a chart, Juno describes how a person commits and what they tolerate to keep the commitment. She is not Venus. Venus is desire. She is not the Moon. The Moon is the need that comes from childhood. Juno is what you sign your name to after the first three loves have ended. She is the contract you actually keep, and the small daily compromises you make to keep it. She is also, in her shadow, what you cannot bear, the thing whose presence breaks the contract or whose absence breaks you. Carl Jung wrote one of the most honest essays ever written about long partnership, called Marriage as a Psychological Relationship. He proposed that in any sustained union, one person is the container and one is the contained. The container holds the structure, the routines, the visible life. The contained holds the depth, the unpredictability, the emotional weather. Neither role is better. Both are usually exhausting. Over a long marriage the roles swap, sometimes within a single afternoon. What survives is not the romance, which is too unstable to carry the weight. What survives is the vessel itself, which both partners have been quietly rebuilding the whole time without telling each other they were doing it. The phrase what you settle for has two meanings, and the long marriage lives between them. In one reading, settling is a kind of giving up, the moment we agree to less than we hoped. In the other, settling is what sediment does. It comes to rest. It thickens. It holds. The same word describes the failure of the dream and the slow construction of a foundation. Juno knows both meanings. She does not pretend they are different problems. She watches as you discover, year by year, which one you are doing. Every covenant carries an element of cutting away. To commit yourself to another is also to relinquish countless other possibilities. Some portion of your potential life is sacrificed so that this chosen life may take shape. Brides and grooms in many traditions wept at their weddings for exactly this reason. A vow is both a gift and a loss. Juno is the place in the chart where you keep the receipt. Specific contacts in synastry tell you something about what kind of vow is on the table. When one person's Juno meets the other's Sun, the relationship becomes part of identity itself. Other people start to refer to you as a unit. You yourself begin to use the word we without thinking about it. This is often the marriage, not the romance. People with this contact do not always recognize it as the deepest love they have known, because it does not feel like fire. It feels like architecture. Juno on the Moon is the contact that ties the gut. Their presence settles a part of you that no other person has been able to settle. Their absence makes you irritable in ways that surprise you. This is often the contact that decides who you marry, even when other charts in your life look more glamorous on paper. The body chooses Juno on the Moon. The mind catches up later. Juno on Venus is the classic marriage signature. Desire and contract are pointing at the same person. There is an old astrologers' joke that Venus contacts make for affairs and Juno contacts make for marriages, and that the rare couples who have both can survive almost anything. The truth behind the joke is that Juno gives Venus a place to live for a long time without losing its name. Juno on the Descendant, or sitting in the seventh house in synastry, makes the relationship itself feel like a public role. You become someone's spouse in the eyes of the village, even when there is no village anymore and no formal vow. The relationship has a shape that other people recognize. This is also the contact most likely to produce the marriage that everyone except the two of you was certain would happen. Juno square contacts are the friction inside the vow. The same person who is undeniably your partner is also the person who chafes against the parts of you that will not be reshaped. Many of the longest marriages live here. The chafing is the marriage. It is also, occasionally, what eventually wears the marriage thin. Juno opposite is the mirror partner. They show you, sometimes brutally, what your loyalty looks like from the outside. They reveal what you have been calling devotion that may also have been fear, and what you have been calling freedom that may also have been avoidance. These relationships often become the marriages that change the partners more than any other. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt are a Juno marriage in the textbook sense. He was unfaithful early. She found out. She did not leave. She also did not pretend the betrayal had not happened. Instead she rearranged the architecture of the marriage entirely, became politically powerful in her own right, built a separate emotional life with women who loved her, and remained his most consequential ally until the day he died. The marriage was not happy in the romantic sense. It was, in the Juno sense, complete. They built something neither could have built alone, and both of them were transformed by the building. Jung and his wife Emma sat on the same axis. He had affairs, including the famous one with Sabina Spielrein. Emma, herself a serious analyst, neither dissolved into resentment nor pretended the affairs had not occurred. She wrote her own work on the Grail and the animus. She raised five children. She remained the central woman of his life until her death. He grieved her with a depth that surprised even him. I was never able to agree with Freud, he once said, that love is only a function of sex. She was, in his own words, the foundation of his house. That is Juno talking through a man who had spent forty years circling around her without using her name. Astrology does not tell anyone whether to stay in a marriage. It cannot. The decision belongs to the people inside it, and they know things about each other that no chart will ever record. What Juno does is more modest and more useful. She lets you see what you are actually exchanging. She shows you the shape of the vessel you have been building. She lets you ask, honestly, whether the thing you have settled for is also the thing you are settling into. Those two answers, together, decide the rest. The long marriage, the kind Juno governs, has been one of the great spiritual disciplines of human history, in every tradition that takes love seriously. Not because it is romantic, and not because it is easy. Because it is the closest most people will ever come to being known across decades by another conscious adult, and being chosen, again, in the morning, even after the choosing has stopped being exciting. Juno is the asteroid that knows the cost of that, and the gift of it, and how often the cost and the gift have been the same thing the whole time. 🔮 12andus.com/blog/view/150706…

🚨 BREAKING: THE U.S.-IRAN STORY JUST TOOK ANOTHER TWIST. TRUMP SAYS A WAR-AVOIDANCE DEAL COULD BE SIGNED TODAY.

Many unemployed folks are neurodivergent individuals who struggle with demand avoidance, sensory overload, & fatigue from masking

I pledge to be faithful and earnest 18 billion. Every year. Lost to multinational corporate tax avoidance and profit-shifting in Nigeria. That is the FIRS Executive Chairman s own figure. The companies making billions in Nigeria are legally shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions before Nigerian tax applies. The FIRS knows the companies. The mechanism is documented. The enforcement gap is the political decision not to confront the multinationals whose executives attend the same dinners as the officials who should be taxing them.

Ok calling you out for habitual conflict avoidance and fearing the mob. Your testies must be studied by science to determine how they got smaller as you aged! See how that works? You can't win. Because centrists are hated by everyone we are immune. Stop caring about idiots.

I pledge to be faithful and earnest 18 billion. Every year. Lost to multinational corporate tax avoidance and profit-shifting in Nigeria. That is the FIRS Executive Chairman s own figure. The companies making billions in Nigeria are legally shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions before Nigerian tax applies. The FIRS knows the companies. The mechanism is documented. The enforcement gap is the political decision not to confront the multinationals whose executives attend the same dinners as the officials who should be taxing them.

The Quarterly Review Effect: Real Data on Impact Real data from wealth tracking studies. Group A: No Quarterly Reviews - Annual rebalancing only - Reactive decisions when needed - Average annual return: 5.8% - 30-year outcome: £50K → £274K Group B: Quarterly Reviews - Systematic reviews (4× annually) - Proactive optimization - Early drift correction - Average annual return: 6.5% - 30-year outcome: £50K → £385K The gap: £111,000 (40% more wealth) Why? - Better allocation maintenance ( 0.3% annually) - Fewer reactive mistakes ( 0.4% annually) - Early optimization catches ( 0.1% annually) Real breakdown of difference: Allocation optimization: £40K gained Mistake avoidance: £50K gained Early catch opportunities: £20K gained Total: £110K difference from doing quarterly reviews. But here's the deeper insight: The monetary gain is real. But behavioral gain is bigger. Group B people: - Felt more in control (psychological safety) - Made better decisions (calm, not reactive) - Built wealth predictably (not gambling) - Slept better (less anxiety) Group A people: - Felt out of control (anxiety high) - Made reactive decisions (worst time) - Wealth building felt random (because it was) - Sleeping poorly (constant worry) Real diaspora scenario: Person doing quarterly reviews: - Catches a new job opportunity mid-year (asks for promotion) - Updates emergency fund if health changes - Rebalances if allocation drifted - Plans for family needs (remittances, eldercare) - Makes calm decisions Person not reviewing: - Discovers missed opportunity at year-end (too late) - Doesn't know if the emergency fund is still adequate - Portfolio drifts without notice - Surprised by family financial needs - Makes reactive panic decisions when a crisis hits Key insight: Quarterly reviews cost 2 hours × 4 = 8 hours per year. But save £100K over lifetime. That's £12,500 per hour of review time. Best ROI investment you can make. CoachMO | 30 Years of Financial Intelligence. Simplified for You.

A lot of emotionally unavailable people believe distancing themselves makes them rational, mature or safe. In reality many of them are simply deeply dysregulated underneath the surface. Avoidance is often fear wearing the costume of control. I think one of the saddest things is watching people sabotage the exact emotional connection they spent years searching for. Not because the connection was wrong, but because their nervous system never learned how to safely receive it. #headshave #tattoo #bikini #asmr #shavedhead #buzzcut

I pledge to be faithful and earnest 18 billion. Every year. Lost to multinational corporate tax avoidance and profit-shifting in Nigeria. That is the FIRS Executive Chairman s own figure. The companies making billions in Nigeria are legally shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions before Nigerian tax applies. The FIRS knows the companies. The mechanism is documented. The enforcement gap is the political decision not to confront the multinationals whose executives attend the same dinners as the officials who should be taxing them.

I pledge to be faithful and earnest 18 billion. Every year. Lost to multinational corporate tax avoidance and profit-shifting in Nigeria. That is the FIRS Executive Chairman s own figure. The companies making billions in Nigeria are legally shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions before Nigerian tax applies. The FIRS knows the companies. The mechanism is documented. The enforcement gap is the political decision not to confront the multinationals whose executives attend the same dinners as the officials who should be taxing them.