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10/11/26
09/11/26
Playlist: Improving your Irish as an adult — DJP (Ó 2014 i leith)
Chruthaigh mé é seo inné! / I created this yesterday! :
Re/Ml: Improving your Irish as an adult — DJP (Ó 2014 i leith) | Youtube
Campaigners mark World Right to Die Day at Dáil — The Northside People West & Southside People (11.11.26)
The first week of November is an important week in the voluntary assisted dying movement’s calendar.
On 2 November every year since 2008, World Right to Die Day has been marked in many countries, and there are sometimes other events held that week as part of the commemorations in different countries.
The day in Dublin and Ireland this year was marked by a demonstration outside the Dáil organised by End of Life Ireland, followed by a gathering in the Dublin Unitarian Church. Two days later, there was an EU event organised by the S&D Group in Brussels on the issue of voluntary assisted dying, called “My Last Right”, where a petition at EU level was discussed.
Janie Lazar, chair of End of Life Ireland, was again the main organiser of the two events in Dublin on World Right to Die Day, and she was also a panellist at the event in Brussels.
Speaking to Dublin People, Janie said that marking World Right to Die Day every year is “extremely special because what it does is it honours the courage of all advocates who have campaigned for assisted dying, who in many cases have died before legislation was passed. I think it is important to recognise the courage as well for anybody who is living with a terminal and incurable illness. But for people who have campaigned tirelessly around their death, I think it is important to mark their courage.”
Politicians attending the demonstration outside the Dáil included Labour leader Ivana Bacik, Barry Ward TD, Jen Cummins TD and Cllr Gino Kenny. The Dáil and Seanad do not sit on Mondays, so there may have been a larger number of national politicians present if the demonstration had been held on a different day.
No Irish MEPs “sadly” attended the S&D Group event in Brussels, according to Janie.
Asked about the likelihood of voluntary assisted dying being introduced at EU level, Janie explained that the question is not a simple yes-or-no situation.
“I think it is a longer-term initiative. With any EU petition, any major issue that has an impact on each country’s constitution – the legislation for something like assisted dying would be handled according to the constitution of each country.
“But I think it is important for the right, if you like, to assisted dying to be recognised. While it may possibly be established as an international human right, how it would operate in individual countries is down to each country, which develops its own legislation, and it is important for that to be recognised.”
Speaking about politicians in Ireland and Irish MEPs, Janie went further:
“Our politicians need to recognise that people are still travelling from Ireland to have an assisted death elsewhere, and everyone’s wish is to die at home in Ireland. Nobody should be forced to travel abroad like a criminal and not be able to die at home here at a time of their choosing.
“Is it unlikely that it will be picked up by our politicians? Well, I would ask the question – is it only when something directly impacts a politician that that issue becomes acutely relevant to them? Because this shouldn’t be a party issue. This is a very human issue, and at the moment, the way the issue is being disregarded by, if you like, our leading two parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, I think it is inhumane and cruel,” Janie added.
08/11/26
07/11/26
The ego — Carl Jung (109) / Echkart Tolle (195) — DJP
There is some debate about what the ego actually is. But I believe it is accepted in psychology that we all have egos and that mental ill-health often occurs in people who do not have a strongly developed ego. It is, I think, primarily to do with the nervous system/brain.
For those of you who like Eckhart Tolle, as I do, it should be acknowledged that he uses the word "ego" to mean our "false self", and he may, like many others in spirituality, have done some damage to the perception of the psychological notion of the ego through much of what he has spoken and written about.
If we want to have good lives, we should have healthy egos.
Alas, our egos are, I think, formed largely, maybe mostly, in childhood and perhaps even more so in adolescence. Drug use can change our brains and egos while they are developing in youth, and if we use drugs during this period, we may end up with a somewhat retarded ego although this may not be evident until later years. These people can still be highly developed in other ways, though, and often have an aspect or part of their ego that is strong.
What I am trying to say is that I, for one, agree with Eckhart and Carl (below) on transcending or evolving beyond the ego, but I don't think we should "destroy" our egos. Although it can often feel like that when we have humility I find.
Shyness is another thing too – I don't know if the topic has been analysed much, but I recall reading a journalist writing about single Irish men who had alcohol problems and were living in England and them being extremely shy. This may be the same thing. But a lot of people who are shy do not have addiction issues!
06/11/26
05/11/26
Important week in Assisted Dying Movement's calendar — End of Life Ireland — Near FM (November 2026)
🔊 My Last Right – EU Human Rights at End of Life
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Irish and EU Elections 2029
(Near FM 2026)
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03/11/26
01/11/26
Gaeilgeoirí and some Irish-language policies (DJP 2026)
Uasdátú/Update: Three days later Nuacht RTÉ/TG4 had a report about the 20% policy in An Garda Síochána
31/10/26
Constantin Gurdgiev (2026)
I am tagging this post under my Cults tag as a lot of the cult members I know (and I haven't known a very
large number of them) cause me depression at times when I look at them (or think much about them). 😊
30/10/26
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27/10/26
Arrested development
To follow on I would say that not only are a lot of drug addicts more humane but some / a lot of them
are more intelligent as well.
And maybe the repression usually extends beyond youth.
I for one have had a couple of (off the top of my head) repressive experiences but I have never been a
repressed person, repressing my emotions. I express them somehow usually positively. 😊
I don't know how some / many people even adults can automatically repress their feelings so much.
Doing so messes up your health, even if you can apparently cope or function in the regular world.
26/10/26
25/10/26
Book — Your Soul Has a Plan: Awaken to Your Life Purpose through Your Akashic Records — Lisa Barnett (DJP 2026)
I finished this book tonight after starting it a month or so ago. Most of the book is about past lives and about our soul plan. I learned more about past lives (which I am inclined to believe we all have) in this book of only 130 pages than I had ever learned combined about them before I read it. The book finishes up by talking about our current soul plans of which we often have a couple or few.
Combined with me doing the online video mini-course on shamanism in the last week – the last few weeks have been the most transformative in terms of spirituality education to me in a long time — years.
24/10/26
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