It is OK to choose Door 3 when Door 3 is the right choice for you.
Your personality may be such that Door 3 is usually the right choice for you. Or it may be that it is your usual choice, but not in all circumstances the best one for you. Or it may be that you tend too much towards conservatism, and occasionally need to force yourself to embrace a Door 3 choice to break out of a rut.
Any over-arching philosophy that tends to limit you in your choice should be rejected. If the 'middle way' and the 'golden mean' dictate that you should always choose Door 2, then they are of no use in Three Doors Therapy. Every choice is specific to the individual and his or her circumstances at that moment. Every choice is unique to that individual.
A leading presenter on China Central Television's English-language channel has revealed himself to be a xenophobic hate-monger. WHY does he still have a job? Lobby for his dismissal - by any and all means.
Days Ai Weiwei was detained
80
With ironic, sinister symmetry, the celebrity artist/activist was incarcerated on the same day that my friend Wu Yuren was finally released from 10 months' detention.
Now, like Wu, he's been released on extremely restrictive 'bail' terms - but could face re-arrest at any moment. He was detained incommunicado from April 3rd to June 22nd 2011.
Days Wu Yuren was in prison
307
"Released on parole" after 10 months; "parole" lifted another year later. The original charges against him were apparently dropped without his trial ever being formally concluded.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
2 comments:
based on earlier posts/comments, I feel like you mean for the third door to be quite the extreme/radical choice...
since most philosophies advocated a balanced approach, or middle ground, in your fledgling philosophy, when would it be okay to choose door three?
It is OK to choose Door 3 when Door 3 is the right choice for you.
Your personality may be such that Door 3 is usually the right choice for you. Or it may be that it is your usual choice, but not in all circumstances the best one for you. Or it may be that you tend too much towards conservatism, and occasionally need to force yourself to embrace a Door 3 choice to break out of a rut.
Any over-arching philosophy that tends to limit you in your choice should be rejected. If the 'middle way' and the 'golden mean' dictate that you should always choose Door 2, then they are of no use in Three Doors Therapy. Every choice is specific to the individual and his or her circumstances at that moment. Every choice is unique to that individual.
No rules.
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