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- Thu May 16, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2082
- Views: 357194
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
@Frita: Yes, and I also think that as ENTP there is a tendency to sometimes put on social roles or costumes simply as a means to gain access to different social environments towards core drive of exploration. Following the dictum of "When in Rome..." is actually the opposite of blind confo...
- Thu May 16, 2024 7:42 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: CalamityJane's Journal
- Replies: 81
- Views: 11663
Re: CalamityJane's Journal
What fun! The great thing about a piece of property like that is that you can do absolutely nothing, or whatever you like, at your own pace. One thing you might want to do, if you haven't already, is verify the legal identity and boundaries of your land. On my second permaculture project, which was ...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:26 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Western Red Cedar's Journal
- Replies: 550
- Views: 167314
Re: Western Red Cedar's Journal
I think this cross-over is mostly an effect of the SalaryMan vs. PassiveInvestor dichotomy. It wouldn't look quite the same from the perspective of a WorkingMan starting out applying his own Human Capital with his own small set of Tools as he ratchets his tools and skills up towards BusinessMan. One...
- Tue May 14, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Polyamory Support Group
- Replies: 365
- Views: 97602
Re: Polyamory Support Group
@Jean: Yeah, I can see how it might seem like that. One reason for that might be that I'm not a terribly romantic human, and time goes by differently when you get old, so I haven't been "in love" with anybody for around 6 or 7 years now, but that doesn't seem like that long ago when you're...
- Tue May 14, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
- Replies: 2082
- Views: 357194
Re: The Education of Axel Heyst
My scores were: Total 56, Compensation 24, Masking 16, Assimilation 16. I would note that some of the questions might apply to somebody who is shy or socially submissive as much as somebody who is on the autism spectrum. Also, many humans who are not on the spectrum have "practiced" being/...
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:48 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Polyamory Support Group
- Replies: 365
- Views: 97602
Re: Polyamory Support Group
Since you asked this question on the Polyamory Support thread, my first question would be what do you mean by saying you are "single again" within the context of polyamory? The reason why I ask is that I think there was only maybe one 2 week period in the almost 10 years since I declared m...
- Mon May 13, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 685
- Views: 180696
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Due to my adult ADHD, or mild cyclothymia, or absent-mindedness, or just being an eNTP with almost no S vs. N in my makeup, I have had to train myself with various organizational and minimilization practices over the years. One tendency that will cause an eNTP to quickly accumulate too much stuff is...
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:44 am
- Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
- Topic: Social capital
- Replies: 3
- Views: 361
Re: Social capital
@Jin+Guice: Great post! I think taking money = financial capital as the baseline capital which all other capitals are compared to is a mistake. Yes, but even in our choice of the term "capital" we are already there. The field of economics in the modern era was molded towards resembling phy...
- Sun May 12, 2024 7:05 am
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: NYT article on fatFIRE
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1545
Re: NYT article on fatFIRE
I guess I am really out of the center FIRE loop, because I found it odd that there was no mention of how reducing spending is related to ecological issues. I suppose the FatFIRE positivity angle precluded that. There was almost a directly anti-ecological take in a popular book I skimmed recently, &q...
- Sat May 11, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 685
- Views: 180696
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
now middle-aged white dude, which is pretty much the worst or least cute, as you might put it, category on the planet in this day and age I think of "cute" as being the functional (as opposed to dysfunctional) combination of juvenile feminine and juvenile masculine energy. The functional ...
- Sat May 11, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 685
- Views: 180696
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Or if you want it in MHC terms: Each higher stage basically controls what is possible to think or imagine (or even feel) at the lower stage. The principled Fi-artist makes it possible to think that one could hang a dead baby seal on the wall---presumably seeing it evokes a certain feeling in others...
- Fri May 10, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 685
- Views: 180696
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
I was going to share a sad story about how the other nerds never invited me to play Dungeons & Dragons, because I superficially resembled a 22 year old dumb blonde when I was in high school, but... I also believe that resolving the metacrisis is the most important problem facing humanity. Part o...
- Fri May 10, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1241
Re: Sexuality WL Table
IOW, I think a difference in stage is more complicated than the lazy/crazy explanation of the traditional Wheaton/Overton window. I actually don't think it is much more complicated. "Passionate Marriage", the book I placed at Level 6, is very much in alignment with the transition to syste...
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1241
Re: Sexuality WL Table
@shelob: Oh, I definitely didn't mean to imply that you should post elsewhere. More that I was trying to offer disclaimer that I'm not a real sexologist, I am just playing a bit at being one on this forum. Also, you are very young and actually seem quite self-aware for your age. As with the ERE Whea...
- Thu May 09, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
- Replies: 685
- Views: 180696
Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
I don't think you understand just how much trauma is involved when the fastest kid in school to be routinely chained to the "stump" for every three legged race. One learns to associate teamwork with frustration, failure, pain and humiliation at a very deep emotional level. I absolutely do...
- Thu May 09, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sexuality WL Table
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1241
Re: Sexuality WL Table
I feel like I just received an emergency call on the strictly-amateur-sexologist hotline. I’m thinking about deliberately getting above the partner threshold where sex makes women fall in love easily, mostly to avoid the falling in love with someone not very compatible failure mode/local optimum tra...
- Wed May 08, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: The ERE Wheaton Scale
- Replies: 553
- Views: 150494
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: 324
- Views: 93155
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: 18
- Views: 1241
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: 324
- Views: 93155
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...