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As part of The Bisset Collection we offer unique License Disk Stickers, from the very same photos we make into Jigsaw Puzzles.
Still one of the best promotional tools!
Self-adhesive
90-mm diameter
Full Colour Eco-Solvent Print
Supplied individually, just peel and stick
Fast turnaround
Pricing and Delivery
100 stickers at R1000.00
20 to 50 at R500.00
Suggested Retail R20 or R25
Including delivery to your door.
Please contact Wayne for further information.
Cell or WhatsApp 082 548 2328
The first jigsaw puzzle was created by a map engraver called John Spilsbury, in 1762. He mounted one of his master maps onto wood and then cut around the countries. He gave it to children in the local school to help them with their geography education. And in that act jigsaw puzzles were invented. It was an instant hit and the concept was soon copied by others and expanded into other educational images other than just maps, such as farms and religious scenes. At this time all jigsaw puzzles were created from wood, but also at this time they weren’t called jigsaw puzzles, they were called dissected puzzles. The term jigsaw comes from the special saw called a jigsaw that was used to cut the puzzles, but not until the saw was invented in the 1880’s.
By the end of the 1800’s jigsaws went through rapid growth. This was mainly due to 3 reasons:
The Bisset Collection
To date we have two Sizes of Jigsaw Puzzles available.
The 1000 pieces is a “Made to Frame ” Limited Edition of chosen photographs. ( Chosen by you the client!) The second is a large piece, 24 pieces, of the unusual little animals I photograph, in order to educate children that ALL animals, even the creepy ones are a VITAL part of the ecosystem and the planets very survival.
Here are the links to the two sets of puzzles in production so far.
Let go of people who are not right or ready to adore you.
It is not an attitude of pride or selfishness, but of congruence.
You will continue to love them but with another perspective, from another level of understanding, comprehension and awareness.
It is the most difficult thing you will have to do in your life, and it will also be the most important: stop being linked to those who are not ready to love you.
Stop having difficult conversations with people who don’t want to change. Stop appearing for people who are indifferent to your presence. Stop giving your love and energy to people who are not ready to love you.
I know that your instinct is to do everything you can to earn the good graces of everyone you can, but it is also the impulse that will steal your time, your energy and your sanity.
When you begin to be in your life completely, with joy, interest and commitment, not everyone will be ready to meet you there.
That does not mean you have to change who you are. It means you have to get away from people who are not prepared to be with you.
If you are excluded, subtly insulted, forgotten or easily ignored by the people you spend most of your time with, you are not doing yourself a favor by continuing to offer them your energy and your life.
The truth is that you are not for everyone, and they are not all for you. That is what makes it so special when you find the few people with whom you have a genuine friendship, love or relationship: you will know how precious it is because you have experienced what is not.
But the more time you spend trying to force someone to be with you when they are not able, the more time you will be depriving yourself of that same connection.
It’s waiting for you.
There are billions of people on this planet, and many of them will meet you at their level, with the vibration of where they are, connect with where they are going.
The longer you stay involved in the familiarity of people who use you as a cushion, a background option, a therapist and a strategist for their emotional work, the longer you stay out of the community you crave.
Maybe if you stop showing up, you’ll be less loved.
Maybe they forget you completely.
Maybe if you stop trying, the relationship will end.
Maybe if you stop sending text messages, your phone will remain dark for days and weeks.
Maybe if you stop loving someone, the love between you will dissolve.
That doesn’t mean you ruined a relationship. It means that the only thing that sustained a relationship was the energy that you and only you put into it.
That’s not love. That is attachment.
The most precious and important thing you have in your life is your energy. It is not your time that is limited, it is your energy.
What you give to each day is what will create more and more in your life. What you give your time to, is what will define your existence.
When you realize this, you will begin to understand why you are so anxious when you spend your time with people who do not contribute to you, and in jobs or places or cities that do not suit you.
You will begin to realize that the most important thing you can do for your life, for yourself and for everyone you know is to protect your energy more fiercely than anything else.
Make your life a safe haven where only people who can care, listen and connect are allowed.
You are not responsible for saving people.
You are not responsible for convincing them that they want to be saved.
It is not your job to appear for people and give them your life, little by little, moment by moment, because you feel sorry for them, because you feel bad, because you “should”, because you are obligated, because, at the root of all this, you are afraid that they will not return the favor and that is not to love as love is to release those you love and are not ready to be with you so they live what they have to live while you move on to find someone with whom you’ll be able to share the reciprocity of healthy love.
It is another level of consciousness.
It is your job to realize that you are the master and lover of your destiny, and that you are accepting the love that you think you deserve.
Decide that you deserve a real friendship, a true commitment and a complete love with people who are healthy and prosperous.
Then wait in the dark, just for a moment, and look how quickly everything starts to change. 🌷
copyright Dr Lynne McCarthy
The Bisset Collection – Unique Jigsaw Puzzles
Decided not to go the cheap Chinese route and will use a local company. These will not be your “run of the mill” jigsaw puzzles. Firstly each photo is unique already; and then I shall only print ten of any given photograph. The idea is for the client to frame the puzzle when done. In order to do this correctly , and locally has one big drawback, the cost. But as you will see I took the time to make sure the end product will be of a very high quality.
“Made to Frame” unique Jigsaw Puzzles
Limited Edition , only 10 of each unique photograph will be made, signed by the artist.
Made from high-quality plywood , 2mm thick with a white cardboard lamination
Remains in tacked when picked up, due to innovative design
The reverse has a “cheat” system to assist if you need help assembling
Printed in High Definition using the latest UV printing technology (fade and scratch resistant)
1000 Piece approximately 750mm x 500mm
Completely , from start to finish, – Made in South Africa
Price excluding courier costs. R750.00
Optional Extras;
Premium White Gift box with the photograph printed on the lid + R150.00
Premium White Gift Box – with a Personalize Message printed on lid & Photo on card inside box + R250.00
Photographs available:
To this end I opened up a Picfair Account this serves the purpose of not only putting a copy right on my photos but also provides a Photo Library from which clients can choose any of the 10 000+ photographs in the “store”. The idea is if a client sees a photo that they would like as a Jigsaw Puzzle, they can just sent me a screenshot of the desired photo.
As we live in a wicked world, here are some references and a link to my Google Business Account.
The nicest thing about doing business with Section Eight is the owner who is a man of integrity and his word.
His skills are impressive too!
Brilliant photo journalism, with an eye for the truth in each photo. Love the content.
I love the pictures but more importantly the content. Always well written and insightful. The photographs taken are brilliantly taken. Top quality.
Fantastic photo journalism by someone who knows and loves nature and conveys that with unusual and interesting perspectives. Also showing daily life in SA.
As you may notice, just maybe, I am very involved with nature and nature conservation, but also live in the real world where without modern technology I would not be able to take the photographs I do. I have written a few article on the lie about Green Energy recently and have first hand experience of what Solar Power IS, and what it ISN’T……….
“To prove that there is no such thing as “Green Energy” is ridiculously easy! Now any company that exploits this lie, for advertising is basically dishonest and boy do I let my family know this! As they have a Solar Energy Installation company…… If by chance you are coming to the conclusion that there is no real alternative to having reliable electricity here in South Africa and solar , so far is the best of a bad bunch; you can contact Rochelle the Ops Director on: +27 82 958 8247 or get a free quote by emailing: info@nupowergroup.com Visit the site: Nu Power Group“
If you know me at all you will know that the making of money is just an evil necessity for me in this world I live in, and my passions lie elsewhere. One of the things I am passionate about is Nature Conservation. As I said in a previous article: I am extremely fortunate to find myself living about 600m from this area! As the boards say it all, I will not bother to write anything about the goings on. But must say, this is nature conservation at its very best.
The Bisset Collection – Unique Jigsaw Puzzles
Decided not to go the cheap Chinese route and will use a local company. These will not be your “run of the mill” jigsaw puzzles. Firstly each photo is unique already; and then I shall only print ten of any given photograph. The idea is for the client to frame the puzzle when done. In order to do this correctly , and locally has one big drawback, the cost. But as you will see I took the time to make sure the end product will be of a very high quality.
“Made to Frame” unique Jigsaw Puzzles
Limited Edition , only 10 of each unique photograph will be made, signed by the artist.
Made from high-quality plywood , 2mm thick with a white cardboard lamination
Remains in tacked when picked up, due to innovative design
The reverse has a “cheat” system to assist if you need help assembling
Printed in High Definition using the latest UV printing technology (fade and scratch resistant)
1000 Piece approximately 750mm x 500mm
Completely , from start to finish, – Made in South Africa
Price excluding courier costs. R750.00
Optional Extras;
Premium White Gift box with the photograph printed on the lid + R150.00
Premium White Gift Box – with a Personalize Message printed on lid & Photo on card inside box + R250.00
Photographs available:
To this end I opened up a Picfair Account this serves the purpose of not only putting a copy right on my photos but also provides a Photo Library from which clients can choose any of the 10 000+ photographs in the “store”. The idea is if a client sees a photo that they would like as a Jigsaw Puzzle, they can just sent me a screenshot of the desired photo.
As we live in a wicked world, here are some references and a link to my Google Business Account.
The nicest thing about doing business with Section Eight is the owner who is a man of integrity and his word.
His skills are impressive too!
Brilliant photo journalism, with an eye for the truth in each photo. Love the content.
I love the pictures but more importantly the content. Always well written and insightful. The photographs taken are brilliantly taken. Top quality.
Fantastic photo journalism by someone who knows and loves nature and conveys that with unusual and interesting perspectives. Also showing daily life in SA.
As you may notice, just maybe, I am very involved with nature and nature conservation, but also live in the real world where without modern technology I would not be able to take the photographs I do. I have written a few article on the lie about Green Energy recently and have first hand experience of what Solar Power IS, and what it ISN’T……….
“To prove that there is no such thing as “Green Energy” is ridiculously easy! Now any company that exploits this lie, for advertising is basically dishonest and boy do I let my family know this! As they have a Solar Energy Installation company…… If by chance you are coming to the conclusion that there is no real alternative to having reliable electricity here in South Africa and solar , so far is the best of a bad bunch; you can contact Rochelle the Ops Director on: +27 82 958 8247 or get a free quote by emailing: info@nupowergroup.com Visit the site: Nu Power Group“
Well as right as it can with all the “development” the one species on earth {Homosapien erectus} seems to demand. As I followed the abortive attempts of the so called Nature Conservationists in St Lucia, then watched how people with the same title are doing a wonderful job in St Francis; the big machines at this little estuary caught my attention. Looked it up and was pleasantly surprised at the forethought and intelligence of the Nature Conservationist here.
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The Silvermine River has its source at several seeps above the dam in the Silvermine Nature Area and from seeps on the back of Kalk Bay Mountain – you can see the waterfall in winter from Ou
Kaapse Weg. It is one of three pristine rivers in the Western Cape – the other 2 being the Lourens River and the Els River. You can get from source to sea on the Silvermine. It used to wander all
over the lower Valley. When the railway bridge was built it became necessary to build dykes to stop the flooding in what is now the Silvermine Wetlands and to keep the river from wandering
down as far as where the lighthouse is now. In 1969 there was a plan to build a Fish Hoek by-pass road, and the plan included canalising the river. Because of increasing development and the
proposed canalisation of the river, The Silvermine River Society was formed in 1985. The group worked hard to remove and control alien vegetation along the banks of the river. In 1987 they
produced a document showing how the river, rather than being canalised, could be preserved by formatting a flood control measure and maintaining a wetland aspect to the area. Preliminary
work commenced in 1998 and major construction in 2000. Here are some before and after photos. Routine maintenance is now carried out by the Riverine Rovers.
I have the privilege of watching and taking photos of the latest work they are doing. As this is the largest if not only, breeding ground of the critically endangered Western Leopard Toad it is vitally important to do this right, and it looks like they are! Checked to see when these toads breed, as all this work would be a disaster if done in the toads breeding season. They are on the ball, as the Leopard Toad breeds from late July and August, which is weird for me as I spent most of my life far north of here, where frogs and toads SLEEP in winter.
Here are my photos so far I can already see the plan taking shape!
Wayne Bisset 082 548 2328 for Photographs taken From a Different Angle. Cybershop at PICFAIR for Advertising License on work done, and printed copies.
The nicest thing about doing business with Section Eight is the owner who is a man of integrity and his word.
His skills are impressive too!
Brilliant photo journalism, with an eye for the truth in each photo. Love the content.
I love the pictures but more importantly the content. Always well written and insightful. The photographs taken are brilliantly taken. Top quality.
Fantastic photo journalism by someone who knows and loves nature and conveys that with unusual and interesting perspectives. Also showing daily life in SA.
To prove that there is no such thing as “Green Energy” is ridiculously easy! Now any company that exploits this lie, for advertising is basically dishonest and boy do I let my family know this! As they have a Solar Energy Installation company…… If by chance you are coming to the conclusion that there is no real alternative to having reliable electricity here in South Africa and solar , so far is the best of a bad bunch; you can contact Rochelle the Ops Director on: +27 82 958 8247 or get a free quote by emailing: info@nupowergroup.com Visit the site: Nu Power Group
As of this minute all I know about this item is, that you really should have one, as if not your batteries will be ruined. I THINK that if you don’t have one your whole system could be a fire hazard. Let’s see if I am right.
At high rates of overcharge a battery will progressively heat up. As it gets hotter it will accept more current, heating up even further. This is called thermal runaway and it can destroy a battery in as little as a few hours.A charge controller or charge regulator is basically a voltage and/or current regulator to keep batteries from overcharging. It regulates the voltage and current coming from the solar panels going to the battery. Most “12 volt” panels put out about 16 to 20 volts, so if there is no regulation the batteries will be damaged from overcharging. Most batteries need around 14 to 14.5 volts to get fully charged.
When overcharged, lithium ion batteries may overheat, explode and cause fires.
Ok, confirmed that and learned a new trick, in case of emergencies and no fertilizer is available.
To prove that there is no such thing as “Green Energy” is ridiculously easy! Now any company that exploits this lie, for advertising is basically dishonest and boy do I let my family know this! As they have a Solar Energy Installation company…… If by chance you are coming to the conclusion that there is no real alternative to having reliable electricity here in South Africa and solar , so far is the best of a bad bunch; you can contact Rochelle the Ops Director on: +27 82 958 8247 or get a free quote by emailing: info@nupowergroup.com Visit the site: Nu Power Group
Wayne Bisset 082 548 2328 for Photographs taken From a Different Angle. Cybershop at PICFAIR for Advertising License on work done, and printed copies.
The nicest thing about doing business with Section Eight is the owner who is a man of integrity and his word.
His skills are impressive too!
Brilliant photo journalism, with an eye for the truth in each photo. Love the content.
I love the pictures but more importantly the content. Always well written and insightful. The photographs taken are brilliantly taken. Top quality.
Fantastic photo journalism by someone who knows and loves nature and conveys that with unusual and interesting perspectives. Also showing daily life in SA.
I have been meaning to look into this, properly, for years, but for certain reasons of my own I have procrastinated greatly. A recent post on my Friends of Executive Outcomes just gave me a kick in the butt… so here goes. Firstly what is PTSD?
A disorder characterised by failure to recover after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
The condition may last months or years, with triggers that can bring back memories of the trauma accompanied by intense emotional and physical reactions.
Symptoms may include nightmares or flashbacks, avoidance of situations that bring back the trauma, heightened reactivity to stimuli, anxiety or depressed mood.
Treatment includes different types of psychotherapy as well as medications to manage symptoms.
Now that immediately gives us something to work on. Firstly when thinking of PTSD long ago I only thought of it in the context of soldiers but post 1994 in South Africa to date, I have not got one friend or even acquaintance that has not suffered the trauma of a violent robbery! And thinking of the time I was involved in one while working at Sound & Light City, shit! It sticks in my mind as one of the f-ing worst things that happened to me. But as I am, right now concerned predominantly with the people I call my Brothers, and a few Sisters too, I think we shall look into this from a soldier’s perspective.
The very first things I see problems with is in the treatment mentioned in the definition above. I know that most of my soldier friends will recoil away from this thing called psychotherapy. Me too! I don’t trust doctors in general, period. But there is hope. Group therapy was NOT invented by a psychologist or a psychiatrist. It was invented by few bloody drunks. Bill W, Dr Bob and the original Alcoholics Anonymous founders. They so impressed the famous Dr Carl Jung, that he hijacked the idea. The concept is only a drunk can help another drunk recover. Well, I do believe that this is not only acceptable but is already happening on our site, FOEO. As for using drugs, legal drugs to “fix” us, I cannot discuss this without extreme bias, so it would not do anyone any good if I state what I know about legal drugs.
The subject of why the real “old timer” soldiers did not seem to suffer so badly from this came up in that post, so let’s go see if that is , firstly even true, and then try find out why, if it is.The term post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a household name since its first appearance in 1980 in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association. But that does not help us at all. I read about “shell shock”, first in stories of World War I. Seems a good place to start.
This is the definition of Shell Shock:
The term “shell shock” was coined by the soldiers themselves. Symptoms included fatigue, tremor, confusion, nightmares and impaired sight and hearing. It was often diagnosed when a soldier was unable to function and no obvious cause could be identified.
Told you we cannot trust Doctors. It seems that the words that our Brothers used were not good enough AND it took the buggers 65 years to get a paper out with their name , PTSD, to basically describe Shell Shock.
We have an immediate answer as to why our Brothers would rather kill themselves that talk about there problems!
“Shell shock was also viewed with scepticism. Many at the time and since have speculated that those affected by it were faking the condition to get out of having to fight. Royal Fusilier William Holbrook summed up his thoughts on this.
Some of them were terrible they were really, to see them crying. It would make you feel ill yourself to see fellows crying, calling out for their mother and all the things like that. Especially if there had been a terrific burst, shellfire, near them. Oh yes we saw, that was not uncommon. Not so much the screaming out crying, you know, it was beginning to get their nerves and they couldn’t keep themselves. Oh they were shaking all the time and wild looking, you know, that type. These people say that – I was reading some time ago where some general said, ‘There’s no such thing as shell shock.’ He ought to have, he should have been there. I mean it’s ridiculous to say things like that. You get a man, even if he was a strong man, you get a terrific burst from a shell within say three or four yards of you, you know. It does, it does upset them. Shell shock, oh my god yes.
It was also said that those suffering from shell shock were in fact cowards. British private Walter Grover didn’t believe this – but also didn’t want to be accused of cowardice himself.”
voices-of-the-first-world-war-shell-shock
Preconditioning that has had a hold over brave men for years and years. I doubt if I will be able to find much on what these old soldiers did in order to survive PTSD. The wall of silence is made of very strong (emotional) material. No man wants to be even THOUGHT of as a coward so would not risk even mentioning a slight problem, never mind cry about the huge one.
Got a surprise and did find something. Here is an extract and a link, worthwhile to take a look Gentleman, and Ladies of course.
Probably over 250,000 men suffered from ‘shell shock’ as result of the First World War. The term was coined in 1915 by medical officer Charles Myers. At the time it was believed to result from a physical injury to the nervous system during a heavy bombardment or shell attack, later it became evident that men who had not been exposed directly to such fire were just as traumatised. This was a new illness that had never been seen before on this scale. The condition was poorly understood medically and psychologically. Take a look at the War Committee Report (WO 32/4748) on the condition to find out more about attitudes towards it just after the war. Today, the condition is known as post-traumatic stress disorder and the treatment and attitude to it are very different.
Extract of a medical case sheet for a soldier suffering from ‘shell shock’. This man was finally invalided out of the army by decision of the Medical Board, 23 July 1916, (Catalogue ref: MH106/2102)
That’s enough for one day! I keep myself more or less sane by doing photography…..
Wayne Bisset 082 548 2328 for Photographs taken From a Different Angle. Cybershop at PICFAIR for Advertising License on work done, and printed copies.
The nicest thing about doing business with Section Eight is the owner who is a man of integrity and his word.
His skills are impressive too!
Brilliant photo journalism, with an eye for the truth in each photo. Love the content.
I love the pictures but more importantly the content. Always well written and insightful. The photographs taken are brilliantly taken. Top quality.
Fantastic photo journalism by someone who knows and loves nature and conveys that with unusual and interesting perspectives. Also showing daily life in SA.
And my other business stuff….
To prove that there is no such thing as “Green Energy” is ridiculously easy! Now any company that exploits this lie, for advertising is basically dishonest and boy do I let my family know this! As they have a Solar Energy Installation company…… If by chance you are coming to the conclusion that there is no real alternative to having reliable electricity here in South Africa and solar , so far is the best of a bad bunch; you can contact Rochelle the Ops Director on: +27 82 958 8247 or get a free quote by emailing: info@nupowergroup.com Visit the site: Nu Power Group
So. We have checked out the solar panels, and know more or less what they do, and exactly what damage they cause to the environment in their manufacturer. In a few years I believe they will be a HUGE problem to dispose of in years to come as they either break or get replaced with newer technologically efficient panels, already I see development that may replace panels eventually: Roof tiles that have photo-whatsit? cells built into them! The next thing I would like to look at is the inverters. This is the description given by ForbesHome
Solar inverters’ main function is to accept DC power input and turn it into AC power. They also act as the primary connection between the panels and the electrical distribution panel in the house. Modern inverters contain switches that can connect or isolate your solar energy system from the power grid and provide detailed information to your system’s monitoring equipment.
Early household electric appliances ran on DC instead of AC. Up-and-coming large power generators were starting to produce AC energy more efficiently than DC. A converter was necessary to change the AC power from the power plant to usable DC energy.
As time passed, appliances gradually switched from using DC to AC. It was discovered that the device would produce the opposite effect and change DC power to AC by inverting the wire connections on a converter. Thus, the inverter was born. Modern inverter versions are used today in solar energy production.
I looked up what is inside an inverter, way to complicated for my non-technical brain! But it has circuit boards and they are apparently made up of:
What is a circuit board made of?
In theory, the simplest printed circuit board has three layers. A conductive layer, generally made out of copper, is encased in two layers of strong, insulating dielectric materials like fiberglass. That outer layer is called the mechanical layer. Printed circuit boards start with a fiberglass sheet.
No need to look any further about this MYTHICAL “Green Energy” as the first “ingredient” mentioned is copper. Here is an article on the subject for your perusal.
How the rise of copper reveals clean energy’s dark side.
To prove that there is no such thing as “Green Energy” is ridiculously easy! Now any company that exploits this lie, for advertising is basically dishonest and boy do I let my family know this! As they have a Solar Energy Installation company…… If by chance you are coming to the conclusion that there is no real alternative to having reliable electricity here in South Africa and solar , so far is the best of a bad bunch; you can contact Rochelle the Ops Director on: +27 82 958 8247 or get a free quote by emailing: info@nupowergroup.com Visit the site: Nu Power Group
Meanwhile I continue to do what I do best.
Wayne Bisset 082 548 2328 for Photographs taken From a Different Angle. Cybershop at PICFAIR for Advertising License on work done, and printed copies.
The nicest thing about doing business with Section Eight is the owner who is a man of integrity and his word.
His skills are impressive too!
Brilliant photo journalism, with an eye for the truth in each photo. Love the content.
I love the pictures but more importantly the content. Always well written and insightful. The photographs taken are brilliantly taken. Top quality.
Fantastic photo journalism by someone who knows and loves nature and conveys that with unusual and interesting perspectives. Also showing daily life in SA.
There seems to be moral imperative to forgive and with my stanch Christian upbringing I never heard the end of it. The whole 7 x 77 nonsense for instance. Matthew 18: 21-22 reads, Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. Talk about setting yourself up for a fall! Then what did interest me was the whole sinning against the Holy Spirit is totally unforgivable.
All sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin” (Mark 3:28-29)
Well considering I saw the whole Christianity thing for exactly what it is by the age of 12, this all means nothing to me. Then I tried to get sober in the AA. They too talk a lot about forgiveness and back it up, not with Scripture but psychology. Much more logical thinking in this arena, BUT, it would seem that the most popular is in tune with modern Religious beliefs, therefore we read mainly on the positive things and the “all forgiveness” stuff. That is clear that forgiveness can be a powerful force of healing and reconciliation. That said, there is no denying that forgiveness can be a very powerful force of healing and reconciliation.
However, when the advice from blogs, articles, books, and spiritual one-liners treats forgiveness as a panacea , { perhaps Snake Oil would be a better name for this }, for hurt, pain, and “moving on” to a happier life—with not a thought given to the many situations, people, and stages of injury where this advice is not helpful. Worse, a lot of the counsel is downright offensive, suggesting that if we can’t forgive we are dwelling on the past, focusing on negative emotions, holding on to grudges, filled with retribution and revenge, addicted to adrenaline, marrying our victim-hood, recoiling in self-protection rather than mercy, or poisoning ourselves with non-forgiveness.
These assumptions and judgments not only dismiss the real pain many people suffer; they discourage intelligent analysis of the traumas many people and groups experience. Further, the attitude behind these statements can shame people, making them think that something is wrong with going through a natural process of healing after injury or betrayal where forgiveness may not be the first (or second or third) step. The truth is that many people don’t forgive because it is not time to forgive—and taking the time to proceed at their own pace can be empowering, intelligent, and worthy. Simply put, it is alarming how un-psychological many psychologists can be; forgiveness is not the best medicine for all people all the time.
In fact, it may even make a person sick.
Let’s take a look at this forgiveness From a Different Angle, and discover a few Uncomfortable Truths. Here is what Psychology Today says about NOT forgiving some assholes.
Six Reasons Not to Forgive
Despite popular misconceptions, anger has a raw power in it that can be integrated—a power that can help a person stand up for themselves, make future injury less likely, and build a sense of empowerment and self-confidence. In fact, research shows that forgiving too readily can erode self-respect and lead to greater relationship problems and partners that are more disagreeable. The point is that claiming some of our anger can be healing and productive.
Oh, here I can relate fully! My driving force as a small boy, in order to break away from a Cult I was born into was anger…. no make that RAGE. Which was like an atomic bomb and I lost control of it, hence the joining of the AA, in which I heavily over corrected a lot of things. Nevermind.
When anger or revenge is suppressed, it gets internalized. What’s so bad about that? Internalized anger often shows up as powerful, painful, even crippling inner-criticism adding salt to the very wound we hope to heal. Additionally, suppressed anger can lead to depression, relationship difficulties, and a myriad of health problems including high blood pressure, heart problems, headaches, digestive problems, and more.
It may seem obvious that telling a person to forgive too quickly can be insensitive. However, not everyone gets it. I have worked with many people injured by a spouse or as a child who are told just that. The truth is, people have their own way of dealing with being hurt or betrayed and their timing differs depending upon the severity of the injury, their natural process, and the reactions of others with whom they share their pain. Promoting forgiveness without sensitivity to these details is not helpful; in fact, it can be hurtful and shaming. When is an injury “still recent?” Sometimes days, sometimes months, sometimes years.
What if I told you that forgiving too readily makes it more likely that those who hurt you will hurt you again? This is exactly what professor James K. McNulty found—that partners who forgave their partners easily were almost twice as likely to be mistreated soon afterwards.
Further, confronting your offender may not only make your life better, it can also make the world safer for others. Simply put, bullying, abuse, assault, and discrimination can be abated, although not eliminated, by confrontation.
One person I spoke with said: “Even at a very basic level, calling someone out on what they did to hurt others, is one way to make those changes. So many injustices happen because no one says anything about them.”
I particularly like this one! My Lab Rat is a perfect example.
Here’s a no-brainer: An abuser who tells a victim to forgive and let go may not have the victim’s best interest at heart. But this is exactly what happens in many cases. Going further, if the person counseling forgiveness has an emotional, financial, or sympathetic connection with the one who injured you, then there is good reason to hesitate before trusting this counsel. This could be one parent suggesting you forgive the other, a religious institution suggesting you forgive the clergy, a politician who would like to “move on,” a friend who fails to make real amends or redress, or simply a person who can relate more to the injurer than to you. Essentially, where conflicts of interest are present, beware and slow down before trying to forgive.
Like this too. I have NOT got “Trust Issues” as manipulating people would have me believe, I am just observant and processing the information I see, I would be a fool to trust MOST people.
Post after post and article after article preaches forgiveness while failing to address the injuries created by sustained social prejudice and marginalization. Instead of addressing these ills, forgiveness is discussed as if it were only an individual process—one person forgiving another. In a way, conventional thinking about forgiveness ignores some of the most profound injuries of our time, rendering this advice ignorant and even complicit with regard to the history of race, gender, and other issues of diversity: I left the rest out as this little psychologist is very political and goes off on a tangent here, about race mainly.
To keep myself more or less sane I do my photography …….
Wayne Bisset 082 548 2328 for Photographs taken From a Different Angle. Cybershop at PICFAIR for Advertising License on work done, and printed copies.
The nicest thing about doing business with Section Eight is the owner who is a man of integrity and his word.
His skills are impressive too!
Brilliant photo journalism, with an eye for the truth in each photo. Love the content.
I love the pictures but more importantly the content. Always well written and insightful. The photographs taken are brilliantly taken. Top quality.
Fantastic photo journalism by someone who knows and loves nature and conveys that with unusual and interesting perspectives. Also showing daily life in SA.
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To prove that there is no such thing as “Green Energy” is ridiculously easy! Now any company that exploits this lie, for advertising is basically dishonest and boy do I let my family know this! As they have a Solar Energy Installation company…… If by chance you are coming to the conclusion that there is no real alternative to having reliable electricity here in South Africa and solar , so far is the best of a bad bunch; you can contact Rochelle the Ops Director on: +27 82 958 8247or get a free quote by emailing: info@nupowergroup.com Visit the site: Nu Power Group
“There is no such thing as “Green Power”, but as long as we have Homosapien erectus moderni running about on this planet we are going to have to find a source of electricity. I believe that Solar Power is the best option available at present. I also believe that the people that backed the development of the oil industry have severely hampered the development of Solar Power for their own gain. Let’s take a look at what I can find………” 1 June 2023
In 1839 and at the age of just 19, French physicist Edmond Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic (PV) effect while experimenting with a cell made of metal electrodes in a conducting solution. He noted that the cell produced more electricity when it was exposed to light – it was a photovoltaic cell.
In 1954 PV technology was born when Daryl Chaplin, Calvin Fuller and Gerald Pearson developed the silicon PV cell at Bell Labs in 1954 – the first solar cell capable of absorbing and converting enough of the sun’s energy into power to run everyday electrical equipment.
It is interesting to note that The Consortium Agreement of 1954 provided Western oil companies with 50% ownership of Iranian oil production after its ratification in 1954 . But let me not go off on a tangent here! The oil industry and their shenanigans are not my main focus,…. right now. First I would like to see if Solar is provably the “Greenest” solution to this problem. Now would be a good time to find out how it actually works!
Solar panels are usually made from silicon, or another semiconductor material installed in a metal panel frame with a glass casing. When this material is exposed to photons of sunlight (very small packets of energy) it releases electrons and produces an electric charge.
The moment you see silicon is involved the whole concept of ” Green Energy” becomes null and void. Firstly because it is mined. But I do believe that may be the least of the “Green” problem. Let’s take a closer look.
Silica is a chemical compound that comes in various forms like sand, soil, quartz, and cristobalite (crystalline silica form of SiO2). It is used as an ingredient in many industries. And sometimes it is also found in the human body, some people have less, some have a more.
Silica, the Killer
Silica is a known carcinogen. The most common disease resulting from overexposure to silica is silicosis. Silicosis is a disease that scars the tissue of the lung, making breathing a burden because the lung’s ability to extract oxygen from the air is impeded. The scarring occurs as a result of the body’s continual and unsuccessful fight to rid the silica particles. This can eventually lead to other diseases and death. As a matter of fact, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) estimates that 300 people die each year from silica-related disease.
Symptoms are fairly well known. The most common is shortness of breath, even with simple activities, and related coughing or wheezing. Others include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, and occasional bluish coloring of the skin at the ear lobes or lips. Subsequently, silicosis makes the sufferer more susceptible to other diseases and infections such as tuberculosis and lung cancer.
There are three major forms of crystalline silica that are most common in the workplace. They are quartz, tridymite, and crystobailite. The most common we can probably all relate to is quartz. Quartz can be found in virtually all soil in nearly every part of the country. The “rock” sandstone is composed of quartz and can be found in many areas throughout the country except for southern coastal areas where most beaches are made up of limestone.
Tridymite and crystobalite are simply polymorphs of quartz. In other words, they are composed of the same elements but have different chemical structures. An easy example to help understand what is meant by polymorph would be tridymite. Tridymite, while somewhat rare, can be found in many volcanic rocks. In this example, the heat associated with volcanoes acts as the catalyst that “morphs” or changes the chemical structure of the quartz into rocks containing tridymite. Crystobalite is not too different than tridymite.
To put this into some type of context and to bring some vision to this issue, consider the eruption of Mount St. Helens back in the 1980s. Those people that may have been exposed to silica and contracted silica-related respiratory injuries would most likely have been inhaling tridymite or crystobalite in the dust after the explosions. Those people in and around the collapse of the World Trade Centers in 2001 would mostly be inhaling quartz coming from the concrete dust. The point is simple.
Although all are different in chemical structure, all forms of crystalline silica can eventually be deadly. 
As I am not particularly bothered by how the Homosapien erectus is affected but thought I would add the above information for your perusal. Since silicon falls loosely under “sand” , this is the ecological price for mining it.
Environmental Cost of Sand Mining
Steel is refined from ore, lumber milled from trees and oil pumped from underground wells, but nature does most of the work and refining for sand. “With a little washing and size sorting, sand is ready to use in its natural state,” says Sickmann. “The monetary cost of extraction is very low. The real cost of sand is in the environmental and social negative externalities that are generally not priced into the commodity.”
Sand generally forms when erosion breaks down surface rocks, then rain washes away the sediment into rivers and streams that will carry it out to the coast. Think of the sediment dispersal system as a conveyor belt of sorts, explains Sickmann. Along the way, some of the sediment will spill out of the conveyor belt, while some actively remain in the transport phase on their way to the coast, like river sandbars or beaches.
Mining the sand that’s still on the conveyor belt certainly has its benefits. “The sand is right at the surface, it’s often un-vegetated, it’s pre-washed, and [it] usually has a good grain size distribution for use in concrete,” says Sickmann. “From the perspective of a single mining site, it can replenish every year and seem limitless.”
However, this may eventually disrupt the whole dispersal system. Mining sand at point A means there is less sand carried to points B and C downstream, and if other points are also mined, there will eventually come a time when there’s no more sand to supply points X, Y, and Z. Here is where the problem lies.
“It’s a simple mass balance equation,” says Sickmann. “Flowing water in the river has the energy to carry some mass of sand. If that mass of sand is not naturally resupplied from sources upstream, the river will erode what is around it to make up the difference until there is nothing left to erode.” Mining extractions may then result in channel degradation and land erosion where existing infrastructure or natural habitats are disrupted, even those that are far from the mining points themselves.
For instance, sand mining in the Pearl River in China lowers water tables and increases the riverbed scour, which makes it harder to extract drinking water and damages infrastructure like bridges and embankments along the river, says Bendixen. In Vietnam, almost half a million people have to be relocated as homes and rice farms collapse into the Mekong River.
Removing sand from riverbeds and coastlines can also threaten biodiversity by destroying nesting and breeding habitats and reducing protection from extreme weather events such as floods or storm surges. Evidently, the negative impact of sand extraction on the environment extends to human health and ecosystems, bringing great social and economic harm.
To prove that there is no such thing as “Green Energy” is ridiculously easy! Now any company that exploits this lie, for advertising is basically dishonest and boy do I let my family know this! As they have a Solar Energy Installation company…… If by chance you are coming to the conclusion that there is no real alternative to having reliable electricity here in South Africa and solar , so far is the best of a bad bunch; you can contact Rochelle the Ops Director on: +27 82 958 8247 or get a free quote by emailing: info@nupowergroup.com Visit the site: Nu Power Group 
Meanwhile I continue to do what I do best.
Wayne Bisset 082 548 2328 for Photographs taken From a Different Angle. Cybershop at PICFAIR for Advertising License on work done, and printed copies.
The nicest thing about doing business with Section Eight is the owner who is a man of integrity and his word.
His skills are impressive too!
Brilliant photo journalism, with an eye for the truth in each photo. Love the content.
I love the pictures but more importantly the content. Always well written and insightful. The photographs taken are brilliantly taken. Top quality.
Fantastic photo journalism by someone who knows and loves nature and conveys that with unusual and interesting perspectives. Also showing daily life in SA.
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