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OPM Disability Retirement: Confirmation of Worth

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Diamonds demand it and markets survive by it; investments grow or shrink according to assessed worth, and relationships are maintained by the relative perspective of individuals entangled. Worth, or the value of a thing, is determined in a capitalist society as a result of increase in demand, and scarcity of supply. But what of the worth of an individual, as opposed to an inanimate object? Do we treat it in the same manner? Should it be? […]

 
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Disability Retirement for Federal Workers: For What Do We Expend Our Lives?

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Expenditures can be extracted in a monetary sense; but one can also expend effort, emotions and cognitive exertion, too. We think too narrowly in terms of financial gain or loss, but in every transaction, there is a cost to be paid in terms of human extraction. […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: To File or Not to File

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The famous Shakespearean refrain is from Hamlet’s soliloquy, and concerns the choices of one’s life, of comparative analysis of meaning, value and purpose; but ultimately it is a question of choices — akin to Camus’ evocative essay in The Myth of Sisyphus. […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Existence and Being

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There is a distinction between existence and Being; for the former is something which merely “is”, and over which one has no control over, or the capacity of which to have any input; while the latter is the composite of the essence of who we are — the coalescence of one’s past, […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Heidegger, Being, Essence and Value

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Heidegger represents a culmination of sorts — of a philosopher caught in the historicity of his own time and making (with allegations of collaborating with the Nazi party), while proposing a […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: The Easter Paradigm

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Paradigms which are based upon traditional, historical or religious foundations which have had their efficacy tested by time, have a clear advantage over untested social engineering […] Read More …

Waiting to Get your Federal Disability Retirement Benefits?: Well Worth It

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There are many stories out there. Indeed, as many Federal and Postal Workers who live and work throughout the United States and in Europe, Japan, and across the spectrum of the […] Read More …

CSRS & FERS Disability Retirement: Indicators

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If your weekends are spent for the purpose of recuperating just so that you can have the energy, strength, mental acuity, and sustained focus and attention to go back to work on Monday, […] Read More …