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Federal Disability Retirement: Vows and Contracts

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People take vows for various reasons: vows of silence, as a satisfaction of a prerequisite for initiation into a religious order; vows of marriage, for the union intended for a lifetime of commitment and self-sacrifice; vows of revenge, for a personal vendetta in retribution for actions suffered against one’s self or on behalf of another; and similar vows of unremitting focus until the satisfaction of such enduring commitment is accomplished. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Employees: The Sound of Tired

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Sounds have a distinctive revelatory characteristic; but because ours is primarily a visually-centered society, the other senses are less relied upon, and therefore only secondarily validated in our everyday considerations. One can see the limping woman; […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Consciousness and the Linguistic Divide

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Throughout the wide expanse of Western Philosophical debates, the tension of truth has always been the subtle, often unspoken, surreptitious thread underlying the waging war of words. As the writing of history is left to the victors, so the linguistic divide between truth and falsity belongs to the mastery of words. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Cognitive Dualism & the Two Incommensurable Paths

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Cognitive dualism is the concept that one cannot hold onto two competing and contradictory beliefs while maintaining a life of integrity and consistency. It is tantamount to suffering from a form of intellectual schizophrenia, potentially resulting in dire consequences […] Read More …

Federal Gov. and USPS Disability Retirement: Causes

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They can involve actions which result in intended results, or otherwise unintended consequences; or, used in a different way, it may involve a belief or principle, deeply held and fervently committed to, as the impetus and foundation for social or political action. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement for Federal and USPS Workers: The Old Barn

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It sits like an eyesore and can be seen from the main road; dilapidated to some, while bringing warm remembrances of bygone days from real or imagined childhoods. The edges of the roof have curled upwards, revealing rotting slats and welcoming sunlight, rain and […] Read More …

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: Precipices, Edges and Flat Earths

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When the earth was believed to be flat, to venture out beyond the known and navigable waters was deemed to foolishly challenge an inevitable fate; and to reach the precipice and totter carelessly at the edge is to defy and challenge the gods of fate, as Macbeth does […] Read More …

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Erasers

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Erasers have been replaced by the ‘delete’ button; that concept alone is a peculiarity: of the mechanism used to expunge is itself made obsolete and disappears. It is a tribute to the human imagination that we can project scenarios in which individuals, including […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: This Side, or the Other, of Paradise

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It represents that mythical existence — whether in a physical sense, or a metaphysical state of being — where harmony, the absence of pain and a continuum of pleasure and contentment are experienced daily and in sustained fashion. Perhaps it is a fictional […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: When Once Sleep is No Longer Restorative

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Sleep is more than the cessation of activities; it is a state of slumber and dormancy, when one can effectively escape from the daily stimuli of variegated bombardments; as an escape, it allows for the mind to suspend the frantic functioning of […] Read More …