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- Wed May 08, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 552
- Views: 149508
Re: The ERE Wheaton Scale
One towards unitive thought I had after reading one of Toby Hemenway’s last essays was “Oh, the planet is already a permaculture project.” Still, I can’t quite shake the illusion of agency. It’s also the case with permaculture that there is a rule of thumb that a project will “pop” around year7. Obv...
- Wed May 08, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Just Gravy
- Replies: 311
- Views: 91892
Re: Just Gravy
perfectly coifed hair and flawless makeup Well, those whom I refer to as the "Ballet Moms" because most frequently encountered when taking my daughter to ballet class, often also possessed the skill of terrifying those around them into abject submission. Or there is also the sort of typic...
- Wed May 08, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 10
- Views: 714
Re: Sexuality WL Table
@chenda: Well, I suppose it would depend to some extent on whether the asexual or "voluntarily celibate" human was interested in romance or pair-bonding or dyadic domestic companionship, and whether they were open/interested in the possibility of having relationships with other humans who ...
- Wed May 08, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Just Gravy
- Replies: 311
- Views: 91892
Re: Just Gravy
I don't know if this will be helpful, but my note would be that you will likely never again find yourself in a phase of life that is more overwhelming than the one you are in now, unless you someday choose to martyr yourself without boundary to a full-time career that also requires "Mom" s...
- Wed May 08, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 646
- Views: 177596
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Jacob is more specialty project focused, he isn't looking to keep people occupied/entertained while also engaging their talents. His focus is on pushing the edges of the noosphere, a place few people have enough skill/knowledge/talent to approach, with far fewer still being able to push hard enough...
- Wed May 08, 2024 1:35 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2174
Re: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
WL5 - MHC 11 (optimization is the peak of analytical thought) WL6 - MHC 11.5 WL7 - MHC 12 WL8 - MHC 12.5 WL9 - MHC 13 Yes, I grok the MHC. I have something like an abbreviated form of it clipped to my math tutoring clipboard. I got an A+ in Abstract Algebra, so likely I could touch Level 12 on a go...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:52 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 10
- Views: 714
Re: Sexuality WL Table
@chenda:
I am 59 not 84, I really shouldn't be going there yet. It's just that my current low level of health is keeping me stuck in Si (memory) loop. If I had the energy to write without reticence about my fantastic plans for my sexual future, that would be different.
I am 59 not 84, I really shouldn't be going there yet. It's just that my current low level of health is keeping me stuck in Si (memory) loop. If I had the energy to write without reticence about my fantastic plans for my sexual future, that would be different.
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 10
- Views: 714
Re: Sexuality WL Table
I deleted my last post due to too much personal memoir. I will save that for my stitch n bitch peer group. :lol: Skeletal Sexuality WL Table with Suggested Books (Very much work in progress. I am debating some of my picks and level descriptions ) Level 1: Pre-Sexual: "Teen Beat" magazine o...
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Physics experiments for 4-8 yo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 503
Re: Physics experiments for 4-8 yo
From age 4 to 8 is a pretty huge jump in cognitive development. Pretty much all you are going to teach a mostly 4 year old crowd with such a demonstration is that Physics is another name for Magic! So, I recommend just making it fun and engaging. Incorporating music and movement is always a good tac...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:11 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2174
Re: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
@jacob: I think maybe you're pushing the university model a bit hard. For example, I just completed my first semi-independent project in data analysis on the topic of the relative long term financial value of choice of college major. Because I also know a little bit of math and a little bit of finan...
- Mon May 06, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 10
- Views: 714
Re: Sexuality WL Table
Okay, a couple examples: The kind of garden variety* bad sex that might occur at the intersection of Level 3: Masturbation and Level 4: Dependent Sex would be one partner up in their head thinking about a personal fantasy/something they watched on PornHub and the other partner just willing/consentin...
- Mon May 06, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2174
Re: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
It's going to be difficult for me to do that and that's also not quite what I meant. The insights I've gained from non-monogamy have changed my sexuality* less than my relationship perspective. Although for both it was more like gaining language and an ethical framework for how I felt rather than s...
- Mon May 06, 2024 6:30 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: How to be a Cheap Date: Ideas For Free, Creative and Frugal Dates
- Replies: 40
- Views: 3735
Re: How to be a Cheap Date: Ideas For Free, Creative and Frugal Dates
I think thefox offered some very good suggestions. I would add that one potential problem with personalized frugal dating is that it can be easy to veer too "domestic." Maybe this is just me, but if I'm on a second or third date with a guy, and he's going to cook me dinner at his place, an...
- Sun May 05, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 10
- Views: 714
Re: Sexuality WL Table
@ertyu: Good question. My first note would be that much of the vocabulary that will be necessary to further this discussion was emergent of either the LGBTQIA community and/or the Kink community. In our culture a high-functioning, vanilla, heterosexual couple could potentially arrive at Level 6 toge...
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 10
- Views: 714
Sexuality WL Table
Purpose of thread being the collaborative creation of WL Table relevant to the realm of sexuality (as opposed to permaculture/ecology or personal finance/ERE.) I also hope that the creation of a third such table may be towards the purpose of better enabling the application of the model to other real...
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:45 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2174
Re: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
maybe you've falling off of the great chain of change. Or perhaps the great change of being. Yes, that's it. Like a Teletubby who DIY'd herself a pair of wax wings out of crayon nubbins and popsicle sticks and then had to release all 3 of her cellophane candy wrapper parachutes before landing "...
- Sat May 04, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2174
Re: Actualization!- Level 7 towards level 8
Believing in a task that is greater than the ego or personally fun fulfillment. They have a purpose greater than themselves. Gotcha. So, for example, creating a model of a frugal lifestyle that other humans might actually copy because it seems like it might actually be fun could be towards fulfilli...
- Sat May 04, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2064
- Views: 354540
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
No, for most creative people, it really is money. This is why artists, scientists, or anyone whose contributions can't easily be commercialized tend to end up "serving fries with that" or spend much of their lifetime trying to source it from rich people asking for grants, etc. Sorry. I wa...
- Sat May 04, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: ERE as a couple: getting things or services?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 436
Re: ERE as a couple: getting things or services?
Sexual Wheaton Levels discussion moved to its own thread.
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:25 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2064
- Views: 354540
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
To go from a low cost of living to a very low cost of living, ~10k, you have to think about money a lot less than normies do. Yes, this is because thinking about and developing any other form of capital will more than likely lead to decreased expenses or osmotic cash flow as secondary effect. HOWEV...