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The nature of the borderline world
The borderline philosophy, which is drawing the line between economics and psychology and bridging the gap between those two fields of knowledge at the same time, adheres to the Austrian tradition, the Viennese school of economics to be exact. All the thoughts and endeavors are directed towards the marginal social benefit by surmounting black and white thinking and tracing a satisfactory middle way. Not so much the drab monotony of economic everyday life as the outlandish occurence is here of peculiar interest to borderline economists. In other words, Fortean phenomena turning everything upside down in the business world matter to them.
Due to his innate chaotic behavior, his non-linearity so to speak, man is by no means short of freakishness. At least, human body is, alluding to the American philosopher Mark Rowlands, by nature home to two rivaling spirits: Paris Hilton and Osama bin Laden. While, however, there can never be enough Paris Hiltons in the world, man may suffer hell on earth with just one Osama bin Laden. The trouble is that the invariable elements of a person, regardless of which kind, are easy to detect but how they are going to take effect is not known to scientists as yet. Thus, what matters is that Paris Hilton gets the edge on Osama bin Laden or, to put it another way, the creep doesn’t come to power.
Well, the soul is, mind you, that insubstantial as well as incorporeal part of the human body which is, in terms of religious practice, not exposed to decay. And there lies the rub. As long as nobody knows where to watch out for the soul, it is certainly impossible to get hold of it. As a result, evil cannot be defied as easily as that. The scientist has no choice but to stand on the sidelines instead how evil lives on in the children and children’s children. Along with good, of course. But that is certainly not subject to change.
Sure! It might be utterly tempting for people to coquet with splitting. Resorting to the defence mechanism by taking up extreme positions enables the person to immediately separate the wheat from the chaff. Unfortunately, life is not black and white at all, but gray. So those who reckon that black and white thinking will soon be a fixture of everyday life are definitely in the wrong box. To put it plainly, if man puts the case for progress, he can’t help leaving the well-trodden tracks and conquering new frontiers. In short: People have to be on the lookout for the borderline world in order to find the right balance. And that’s quite possible. Struggling to his feet is no disgrace to man, after all.
The significance of the borderline world
Sunyata has absolutely nothing to do with nihilistic emptiness. After all, Sunyata denotes something, meaning the interdependence of things, rather than merely nothing. Or to be quite clear: Buddhist emptiness denies the independent and by association own identity of things. And that is by no means devoid of logic given that everything is part of nature. Even or in particular human beings are no solitary figures. And if, on closer consideration, the leaf that has fallen from the tree reflects the four seasons, it follows from this that the interdependence of things is way beyond the limits of time and space.
The unchangeable dependence on everything and everyone, however, happens to be just that Middle Way, also known as Madhyamaka, which balances the whole world. Hence, Buddhists are, whether they like it or not, in tune with borderline economists since they are beating the big drum for the ultimate, universal truth of emptiness by surmounting black and white thinking.
It’s anything but an easy matter for Joe Schmo to figure out which impact the behavior of individual personalities and of the mass actually has on the reliability at the stock exchange. Sure, if stock prices are going down the tubes and a crash may drop in suddenly, it goes without saying that the reliability leaves much to be desired. At the same time, stockholders leap almost like vultures at the stocks the moment prices are rising and stocks are seemingly skyrocketing in an unprecedented manner anytime soon. This certainly doesn’t imply, as long as individual personalities don’t follow the herd, of necessity that the stock price, meaning the behavior of the mass, clears things up and elucidates the reliablity at the stock exchange.
Yet, as chance will have it, market confidence is accounted for by just that distinctness of those who listen to reason and those who fly by the seat of their pants. In other words: Mathematically speaking, the whole thing boils down to differences in integrated behavioral equations of solitary and gregarious people. To be exact, the enclosed areas of the behavioral equations indicate whether there is trouble brewing and stockholders might turn their back on the stock exchange before long, or everything is okay and stockholders have confidence in the market development.
Furthermore, the circumstances which have the most favorable effect on market confidence might be of great interest. This, of course, begs the question how individual personalities play a part in contributing to a higher reliability at the stock exchange. To put it crudely, it is the crucial vibration that shows whether individual personalities feel confident or are in distress as to stock market.
There can be no argument about that. As compared with popular sports, fringe sports are a hard way to earn one’s living. And if the market doesn’t radiate understanding and is unwilling to appreciate the egregious performance that fringe sports such as artistic gymnastics tender and usually comes along with distress and suffering, it makes borderline economists sit up and take notice, not to say it inevitably makes any economist in the world wonder.
It is almost as if the full economic rules cease to be in force and artistic gymnasts are working their ass off for next to nothing although they are in no way inferior to athletes of popular sports such as soccer. And yet, nobody denies that top-ranking gymnasts are undoubtably able to line their pockets and don’t have to count every penny at all. Not by chance, since over the past 20 years revolutionary new forms of circus arts have found adherents and have gained currency. As a result, sublime artistic gymnasts are in great demand nowadays. In particular those who are hired by the Canadian Cirque du Soleil naturally feel blessed. It goes without saying, though, that the main body of gymnasts doesn’t get anything out of exceptional cases. This is why economists are leaving the well-trodden tracks just in case they are enhancing the prestige of fringe sports without discriminating unreasonably against popular sports.
It is beyond dispute that a handicap doesn’t bar a person from starting a romance and finally tying the knot. But it actually does matter whether freak accidents or severe illnesses cause bodily defects, and whether the partners strike up a relationship prior to the tragic occurence. Well, actually decency demands that a person of stature takes his exams when facing such challenges, remains faithful und stands by his partner. After all, it’s not an easy matter for the physically sound partner to come to grips with an ideal changed out of recognition, not to go down the chute when finding himself in the centre of a role conflict between relationship and care, not to bother about what people say, and to brave the storm with his head raised instead by tackling the problems of everyday life as nonchalantly as ever. This certainly shows how important it is to ensure that the instability of personal development and change becomes kind of second nature to the partners.
Thus, it’s anything but inappropriate to make the partner discharge his duties. Only when coquetting with a complete change of the partner, the relationship is on the rocks. So those who are filled with the desire to turn everything upside down and are unable to cope with the imperfectness of the partner will go belly-up and break it off. With that said, Sylvester Stallone’s approach to the subject is absolutely of use although not exactly brilliant. If he, loosely speaking, argues that a relationship is doomed to failure any time the partners have to refine themselves, he is right on the one hand and wrong on the other hand. The point simply is this that the unchangeability of partner A often requires the changeability of partner B. And if partner B is unwilling to acquiesce in the demands and to comply with the wishes of partner A, partner A is bound to rise to the occasion and to change his behavior.
Based on twelve equations and four restrictions, a Monte Carlo simulation clarifies the likelihood that reproduction or adoption will not contribute to a child's identity crisis.
In the light of the fact that the desire for a child all too often gets out of control and leaves test-tube babies and adopted children in the dark about their biographical background, it is high time to address this problem by social, medical, political and legal changes.
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