Every once in a while it happens to the best of us, or the best of them.
Pertinently and keeping conversationally simple, let's refer to what can be described as people's dad's that were once legendary, falling ill.
It seemed this past weekend, I had ho deal with it, and so to did a number of others, in similar generation boat with me, the previous generation the baby boomers, whose previous generation were WWII fighters.
While I was dealing with the ordeal, in the wait times came access to a bunch of books and reading material I either had not seen for a while, discovered, or finally got a chance to go through.
So it started. Panzer tanks, by German generals, reference Stormin Norman's collection, books on Roma, books on Sufism, books on history, Goodby Uncle Tom, just a out every genre you can't find at the library or your college's bookshelf, kept hidden from your school, but you should've read, there they were.
I'm sure there's others that experience this situation.
And my conscience also tells me to tread the sensitive line, as authors, legendary athletes, actors, and others of the renown ilk, still have families and there should be an amount of sensitive paid to them.
Albeit, if I never get the chance again or I forget to jot this down, what might be towards a panacea of healing, might not be spoken to (of).
So I'm going to quick hint at some of this stuff, it's still Sunday night in a way, although it might technically be Monday morning.
----will have to come back to filling in the gap here at another time. ----
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What are the 3 books or book areas?
First all, if you've already read them, or authored them, then there's the obvious if the shoe fits wear it.
Book 1, Roots of Hate.
Book 2, Payton's Proper Names
Book 3, a book or books that explain the differences and/or similarities between the Romans and the Roma.
This includes knowing what goes in, to these definitions, before knowing discernment.
I'm not going to name a specific title, as that'll sort of give away the panacea pill. But up around this area.
Look, I'm not a centenarian, or professional reader, my bio already explained what when on in the backdrop, I was sort of born into the den of books, and been at cracking the whip on getting through as much reading material with worthwhile reading content as possible.
Still, there's a calling, there's different kinds of 'voices', not of the psychiatric, psychological ill sort, but the sort that says, when you add 2 plus 2 together, you get 4, so if you see 2 pieces of fruit on the table, and 2 others are on the counter, and your guest says they want 4 pieces of fruit, when you arrive that you have 4 available from seeing the table + counter, that doesn't mean 'you're hearing 'voices' and need to be in the psyche ward.
Reading the Roots of Hate and Payton's, and reviewing them intermittently, it is apparent that what can be referred to as the brain stuff, that can result from knowing what's in these books, distinguished from not knowing the content of these books and others that offer the same, -the brain, mind, etc, is can be better equipped to make better decisions.
There might also be a large moving part and piece that goes with making it all work, which is you're up on your reading, history, language, medical, daily news etc. minimal expectations that you can function at a respectable standard as an adult and carry on a decent conversation with anyone you run into, at least in English in America.
It's not just the books, but the books as a template to study each of the topic areas and know what the expounded definitions of each the concepts are.
Just reading the passages, not good enough.
If course Quran, Torah and books of that ilk have answers, the discussion is about the same, what is it that is being talked about when you are reading the material?
Circling back to the dilemma, perhaps an outgrowth of or in the history of the societal and other developments of America, when someone older that's been well trained in the martial arts, or health guru, scholar, top athlete, top doctor, has to get taken into the hospital, and the doctors can't figure out what's wrong with them.
For starters, the patient, let's say between 65 and 85 years old, is or was the top doctor, and surpassed all the skill sets any doctors in the hospital can do to reach them, nevermind fix them. So now what?
Well a start is, the process of education isn't just getting that degree to get that credential to get that dollar figure rolling in, it's study to bump up the whole educational, research, medical field, and any and all other areas that constitute upward development.
Seniors that were once star athletes, war vets once invincible, shouldn't have to seek doctors from outside the United States to get help, that help should be available through the younger generation.
As far as who some the star athletes are, ... well there's Kenpo Karate in the backdrop, I decided to allow that to be a bit more public even though I'm barely exposed to the system.
For those that study these systems, it's more than just one system. I studied under the Ed Parker system with just about all my instructors when studying Kenpo.
If you know who Ed Parker is, then you know who the folks are that he kept around him.
Without going into details, there were at least 2 martial artists either legendary on some scales or tracking to be legendary that departed this world, in about a 6 or 7 months span of time (1973) slightly before I got here.
(Although I've 'known' this for years, I didn't 'see it' through that lense until recent weeks.)
(By the way, Wikipedia might need to have or could stand to have some fact checking, since they persist and insist on discussing worthy matters, while discussing unworthy matters, (another serious issue).)
Even today, over 5 decades later, people still are trying to figure out, what happened?, how far along were they physically?, physiologically?, how can I accomplish getting up there, so on and so forth, moreover, get to certain referent stages mentally.
It can start with study.
Once again, seek knowledge.
*No one can complain about that.
Those 3 reading areas discussed can be a start.
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