FERS Disability: opm disability retirement and the story of human suffering

OPM Medical Retirement Lawyer: Acrylic Acrimonies

November 28, 2014

It usually refers to paints, but is technically an acid used to form polymers, and may be mixed in order to manufacture compound elements for plastic and other synthetic products. The second part of the short alliteration refers to the bitterness which develops when failure, or a perceived failure, begins to gnaw at the edges of sanity. The slow, incremental, eating away at a life of accomplishment and productivity, can come when once the self-discipline of setting insurmountable parameters has been ignored or otherwise untended. Bitterness is a state of regret, reserved for old men and furies left uncontrolled. […]

Postal and Federal Medical Retirement: The Concealment of Emoticons

November 18, 2014

They replace the true face of humanity. Pasted with a quick tap of a computer keyboard, they allegedly represent the state of emotional being of a person, at a given time, within a granted context, in the course of an interplay accomplished in diatribes of virtual reality. […]

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Consciousness and the Linguistic Divide

July 7, 2014

Throughout the wide expanse of Western Philosophical debates, the tension of truth has always been the subtle, often unspoken, surreptitious thread underlying the waging war of words. As the writing of history is left to the victors, so the linguistic divide between truth and falsity belongs to the mastery of words. […]

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Cognitive Dissonance

May 19, 2014

In psychology, it is the state of self-contradiction, of holding onto a belief while simultaneously acting in a manner contrary to that belief. If such a contradiction between belief-and-action impacts upon a core, foundational essence, of one which […]

Postal and Federal Disability Retirement: Pleasure & Pain

February 22, 2014

Other than the obvious alliteration of the two concepts, they are antonyms defined by the reality of sensations. On a spectrum, each can reach differing measures of identification and tolerance: pain can vary in degree of severity and tolerance, based upon an individual’s […]

FERS Medical Disability Retirement: The Shrinking Attention Span

January 30, 2014

Social commentators have noted the prevalence of the decline of genuine empathy, often linked to a greater entanglement with the virtual world, as created by television, movies, media, the internet, and the exponential use of social media. When emotions […]

CSRS & FERS Medical Disability Retirement: Inside/Outside

January 16, 2014

Visiting another institution, community, neighborhood or business often evokes an initial response of envy or dismay; first impressions abound, and floods the channels of opinions based upon a comparison of one’s own life. It is an interesting phenomena to view […]

Medical Retirement Benefits for US Government Employees: The Cold

January 10, 2014

“Cold” is a word with multiple meanings. It can refer to the temperature of one’s environment; an infectious malady of common origins; or the emotional unresponsiveness of someone. It can even be an adverb delineating the complete knowledge or mastery […]

Federal Gov. and USPS Disability Retirement: The Story Genre

November 15, 2013

There is quite obviously a human need to relate the narrative; of one’s community events, tragedies and triumphs; from the days of cave paintings to rote retelling of the group’s identity and character of historical form and content, the telling of one’s story is, and remains, […]

Federal Worker Disability Retirement: Understanding the Other

October 11, 2013

Leo Strauss was a noted philosopher who taught for many years at the University of Chicago. His works have a common thread throughout: to understand the works of others as the “others” understood themselves, and not from a modern perspective. […]