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Postal & Federal Medical Retirement: Imperfect lives

Posted onOctober 20, 2017January 22, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is it a characteristic trait that must even be pointed out? How, to begin with, did we even come to possess the antonym of that concept? Of course, that is partly the residual argument made by medieval theologians as to further evidence of the existence of God – that in order to have come to possess the concept of “perfection”, there must by logical necessity exist a being of the sort such that we can even comprehend such an idea. Thus may the converse of that argument be made: […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: A Pedigree of Choices

Posted onFebruary 12, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

There are still some parts in the world where line of descent and lineage of genealogy matter; certainly, for spectacles such as the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the origins of breeding, the line of winners, and the genetically pure tree of aristocratic connections matter still. But humans are different; or so we like to think. We are repulsed by the very idea of placing substantive significance upon birth rights, yet we fawn all over royal births and deaths; […] Read More …

Filing for OPM Disability Retirement: The Glare of Another

Posted onOctober 21, 2015March 26, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

What we do in response to outside stimuli; whether we flee, prepare to defend, aggressively pursue, or otherwise stand idle with resignation and do nothing; whither to stand in consternation or to wither without care; throughout, it is the glare of the world, whether by glint of sunlight upon objects surrounding us, or through another’s eyes which magnify the hostility abounding, which requires our tepid psyche to stir in turmoil. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Posted onAugust 18, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The 1956 version of the film (the only one worth watching) was in black & white, and created a sensation among French Existentialists for the greatest horror committed upon a human being: to strip one of all human emotion, and transform the person into a robotic automaton of sorts. Camus’ novel, The Stranger, reveals a similar theme through the titular character, Meursault, where the absurdity of life, the indifference of humanity, all serve to compel him to commit a murder without reason or rationale, in a universe without emotion — until the very end when, faced with the certainty of the guillotine, […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: Predictable Pantomimes

Posted onJuly 14, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Most of life is simply lived. One engages, works, plans, deliberates, initiates, completes chores, gets up in the morning, goes to bed at night, etc. Little reflection or thought is required; much of it, like an automaton on a conveyor belt of cursory convenience, requires but mere human movement. Perhaps in the mythological State of Nature, as described by Rousseau or Locke, the predatory environment creating a necessity of alertness just to survive, required greater cognitive involvement; or, as a corollary, an utopian condition of peace and tranquil coexistence with other forces of nature. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The Soul of a Case

Posted onMay 6, 2015March 3, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

If you ascribe something to everything, then nothingness results. For, to declare that all of X is contained in Y is to delete X into irrelevancy, and leave Y with nothing but X, thereby subsuming everything with nothing. Thus, when we argue for a form of pantheism, the language of “all” tends to diminish the uniqueness of singularity, and the meanings of distinction and difference. […] Read More …