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OPM Disability Retirement Legal Representation: Argumentation

Posted onOctober 2, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

What makes for a “good” argument? Is it when voices are raised, or can a quietude of mere whispers that nevertheless persuades become the greater efficacy for effectiveness? Does it matter “who” the person arguing is, as opposed the position taken, the logical connections made and the avoidance of fallacies left unstated? Take the following hypothetical: A debate challenge is set between a champion debater, known throughout the country […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Medical Disability Retirement: Judgment

Posted onNovember 21, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

How does it develop? Does youth necessarily, by definition, undermine the existence of it, and if so, why does such a “rule” become obviated by the old fool who rests his arms (and other elements of the anatomy) upon the shoulders of one who could be one’s grandchild, only not by birth? Is life not linear, but circular, and thus do we all revert back to childish ways when old age and decrepit bodies reveal the sanctity of our fragile mortality? When Darwinism prevailed upon the civilization of discontent, did we not recognize that ultimate reductionism to pure materialism would trickle down into a singular desire to discover the fountain of youth? […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: Artistic precision and the caravan of words

Posted onJune 30, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The two words in the initial linguistic compound are rarely combined; for, as the former denotes a free-wheeling flow of undisciplined handiwork, it resists against the latter for its constraining methodology of instrumental pragmatism. Thus, an “artist” by definition belies the very definition of precision, and “precision” connotes too rational an approach within the contextual themes of scientism and material fortitude. Are they oxymorons? Not quite. Inconsistent in an aggregation of conceptual constructs? Perhaps, to a degree of some incommensurability. […] Read More …

Experience and Federal Disability Retirement

Posted onSeptember 25, 2014November 26, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The vicious circularity of having or not having “experience” is comprised of the following: If too much weight is placed upon it and one is passed over because of its lack, then one will never be able to attain the experience needed in order to qualify; in order to attain experience, one must be given the opportunity to grow by trial and error; but such trial and error only reveals the lack thereof. […] Read More …