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OPM Disability Retirement: Cycles of reality & unreality

Posted onSeptember 12, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The linear model of life is the preferred perspective for the Western world; the cyclical, for the traditional Eastern sector, as well as the indigenous cultures of the Americas; whether such an outlook alters the way in which we live is debatable. In either or for both, however, it is the passing through of various realities and “unrealities” that is often overlooked, and not whether or not there is a straight and linear road as opposed to a cycle of returns and reenactments. Reality is the being we encounter; unreality, the life within […] Read More …

Early Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: Diaphanous characters

Posted onJune 25, 2016July 4, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Like garments left little for the imagination, the thin veil we wear rarely conceals the warts and freckles which spread throughout the malignancy of our souls. People often mistake and confuse Christendom’s barring of an impure taint from entering the gates of its exclusive club; it is not what you did, but that you did it, and refused to take the steps to expiate the uncleanliness. […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: Of possessions and possessives

Posted onApril 14, 2016December 25, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Does a noun transformed into a possessive form transfer deed of title, or is it merely a declarative mechanism of grammatical ascription, de-linked from any fact in reality? If a person points to an individual in a photograph and states with certainty, “That is Edna’s sister in-law, the fourth cousin of King James III” — and thus implying some relationship with royalty and a connection to a very narrow uniqueness of historical lineage — does actual possession occur… ? […] Read More …

OPM Retirement Benefits for Disabled Employees: Discovering the natural teleology

Posted onMarch 5, 2016March 29, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is for that function or use in society that we strive in our early years; while some may argue that the extrinsic relationship between career and one’s natural abilities make for an artificial coalescence of man-to-meaning, nevertheless, the adaptation to societal needs results in the correspondence between man’s inherent want and the contribution to a greater good. But what happens when, later in life, the fusion of ability with societal need is abandoned? […] Read More …