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Federal Disability Retirement: Chaldean and Pythagorean Numerology

Posted onJune 3, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is it a submission to determinism, or is there some hint of validity other than a self-fulfilling prophesy? Can names, dates and events be translated into a numerical construct such that predictability of one’s future can be ascertained? The differences between the two are apparently substantive; the algorithms and numbered “personalities” are altered when the spectrum of equations (1 through 8 under the Chaldean system, and the addition of the next number in sequence under the Pythagorean methodology); […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Survival

Posted onMay 29, 2015November 25, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney4 Comments

The struggle to get through a given day can be overwhelming. The complexity of the human phenomenon is beyond mere comprehension; and, as some mysteries are simply unsolvable, so the accepted view of evolutionary will for survivability is defied daily. Can it really be explained by a language game encapsulating “instinct”, “genetic determinism” and “innate desire to propagate one’s species“? […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: Anonymity of the Routine

Posted onMay 21, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

Most people prefer anonymity; although, in more recent years, the hunt for one’s five minutes of fame by “hook or by crook”, whether to impose, intrude, push through, etc., and wave in front of a camera, or to perform some demeaning act to attract a byline in the Guinness Book of Records, has become a prevalence beyond mere happenstance exception. Perhaps it is the age of Youtube, of selfie images and the need to see one’s portrait, name or reference reflected in the public domain, which belies the common quest for the mundane. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement Law: Causality

Posted onMay 14, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Worker’s Comp requires it; Social Security disregards it; and OPM Disability Retirement shifts the issue into a different arena. “Causality” encapsulates the relationship between two or more events, where one is thought to result from another, or put a different way, where “responsibility” for a given effect is attributed to a prior conditional occurrence fulfilled as sufficient to warrant as being the “cause” of that event. […] Read More …