“I have two small kids and I took time off to mom.”
I usually just short-handed this as Family Obligations with a somber tone and let them imagine the worst.
@bostonimproper:
Have you considered splitting the difference and joining a Unitarian Universalist congregation? The one in my ...
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- Fri Jun 27, 2025 5:06 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Just Gravy
- Replies: 460
- Views: 180658
- Fri Jun 27, 2025 4:19 am
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: The continued viability of the 4% rule in the US in the 21st century
- Replies: 262
- Views: 56347
Re: The continued viability of the 4% rule in the US in the 21st century
I'm very dubious about this.
Yes, I agree that whether or not AI will take human jobs may already be a question as out-of-date as fretting about the 4% rule or whether New York City will drown in horse manure. If the singularity is going to occur, it will likely occur before humans have time to ...
Yes, I agree that whether or not AI will take human jobs may already be a question as out-of-date as fretting about the 4% rule or whether New York City will drown in horse manure. If the singularity is going to occur, it will likely occur before humans have time to ...
- Thu Jun 26, 2025 11:25 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
- Replies: 150
- Views: 36618
Re: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
For Ni, the goal of categorization is more to get the full range---and see the forest for the trees. The logical details are not as important as having the categorization cover the complete space. The greatest sin for Ni is to miss some aspect of reality e.g. believing it's 2-dimensional when it's ...
- Thu Jun 26, 2025 8:59 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
- Replies: 150
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Re: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
Aristotle was a male eNTJ, so his friendship framework is next to useless for a female eNTP. It stinks of uber adult-masculine-energy decisively-put-all-your-relationships-in-clearly-delineated-boxes type functioning. Only three steps up from a kid leaning against a wall sorting the women walking by ...
- Thu Jun 26, 2025 7:34 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
- Replies: 150
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Re: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
Achieving true differentiation is quite difficult, but eventually one should be able to be fully present with others while not engaging responsibility or authority over their emotional states or behavior that does not directly effect you. IOW, the strongest, most self-aware individual will have the ...
- Thu Jun 26, 2025 7:10 am
- Forum: ERE Community
- Topic: Forum challenge: Lets play the minimalists' game
- Replies: 168
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Re: Forum challenge: Lets play the minimalists' game
Expect there to be some resistance, especially with the "I might need this someday" until they realize that "someday" might never come. Shoppers/hoarders in particular need to "grieve" the loss of their hoard of stuff.
The problem here is a bit different. My mother suffers from bi-polar disease ...
The problem here is a bit different. My mother suffers from bi-polar disease ...
- Thu Jun 26, 2025 5:58 am
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: The continued viability of the 4% rule in the US in the 21st century
- Replies: 262
- Views: 56347
Re: The continued viability of the 4% rule in the US in the 21st century
I would think the trending reality that businesses are having to make hard fork between producing luxury goods or goods for the increasingly immiserated might have some effect. The top 10% of households in the U.S. are now doing more than 50% of current consumer spending on top of whatever they are ...
- Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:38 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
- Replies: 150
- Views: 36618
Re: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
That every human being or complex entity is uniquely valuable in the face of God's everlasting love. See also, "The Hermit" by Maxim Gorky.
- Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:29 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
- Replies: 150
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Re: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
Yes, you have!jacob wrote: if so, I haven't found it.
Just needs to be expanded to etc. etc. etc. etc. etc...Also, note that humans are sufficiently complex that most humans exist on more than one scale. For example, someone might be +1 relative to you on health but a relative -1 on wealth, etc.
- Wed Jun 25, 2025 7:38 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
- Replies: 150
- Views: 36618
Re: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
The problem with simply taking any anti-stance is that you will tend towards shifting/escaping/avoiding/repressing rather than transcending. For example, it seems like a stereotypical social group at the other end of the same level spectrum from your current gang would be something like a group of ...
- Wed Jun 25, 2025 7:00 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
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Re: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Yalom doesn’t suggest coming up with a list of values that can become meaningful to us, but that we immerse ourselves in life to become more aware of which values we already have.
Yes, and this is somewhat akin to Jacob's suggestions that one's outcomes must have been one's goals. Also why I ...
Yes, and this is somewhat akin to Jacob's suggestions that one's outcomes must have been one's goals. Also why I ...
- Wed Jun 25, 2025 6:40 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
- Replies: 792
- Views: 203121
Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
@delay:
Yeah, I think John Adams mostly got it right, and this also obviously somewhat applies to the ERE progression, even though our brave leader is a bit "bah, humbug" on the value of arts/humanities education ;) . Although, at this juncture in history, maybe "meta-crisis" and "systems science ...
Yeah, I think John Adams mostly got it right, and this also obviously somewhat applies to the ERE progression, even though our brave leader is a bit "bah, humbug" on the value of arts/humanities education ;) . Although, at this juncture in history, maybe "meta-crisis" and "systems science ...
- Tue Jun 24, 2025 6:38 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: bookworm's journal
- Replies: 128
- Views: 17131
Re: bookworm's journal
So I'm seeking a second (test) opinion ;)
Why? The ISTP-A : Confident Virtuoso is probably the type most likely to be considered to be "cool." Although this would also be more the type that an INTJ would be moving towards by acquiring a variety of slick skills rather than by stretching in ...
Why? The ISTP-A : Confident Virtuoso is probably the type most likely to be considered to be "cool." Although this would also be more the type that an INTJ would be moving towards by acquiring a variety of slick skills rather than by stretching in ...
- Tue Jun 24, 2025 6:08 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: White Belt's Semi-Retirement
- Replies: 72
- Views: 8615
Re: White Belt's Semi-Retirement
One of many things I haven't quite resolved in my semi-retirement is a way to satisfy my "work hard, play hard" tendencies.
I am definitely not "work hard, play hard" (E..J) type myself, but for some likely-opposites-attract-type* reason this type frequently attempts to date and/or domesticate ...
I am definitely not "work hard, play hard" (E..J) type myself, but for some likely-opposites-attract-type* reason this type frequently attempts to date and/or domesticate ...
- Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:20 pm
- Forum: ERE Community
- Topic: Forum challenge: Lets play the minimalists' game
- Replies: 168
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Re: Forum challenge: Lets play the minimalists' game
I'm still in the game, but I'm dealing more in volume than numbers, because attempting something like Swedish Death Cleaning vs. my mother who is playing at something more like American Consumer Lifestyle Extension. Every day I take some stuff out. Almost every day more stuff comes in. In part, this ...
- Mon Jun 23, 2025 7:23 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
- Replies: 792
- Views: 203121
Re: Smelly Swiss Dilettante
I think with academic families it's not just a matter of favors traded. There's also a great deal of nurture, and likely some nature (IQ is known to be at least somewhat heritable, although also sporty), and don't forget inter-marriage. There's also overlap with arts community and civil service ...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:10 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Journal
- Replies: 92
- Views: 22139
Re: Journal
My description would be that I need a routine to not totally go off the rails, however, I eventually end up resenting whatever routine I come up with or that I am given and then I have to burn it down.
Yes, this runs so deep with me that no matter how much risk/anxiety or heartbreak/guilt I ...
Yes, this runs so deep with me that no matter how much risk/anxiety or heartbreak/guilt I ...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:51 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: White Belt's Semi-Retirement
- Replies: 72
- Views: 8615
Re: White Belt's Semi-Retirement
Single guy living in a dismal, under-furnished space seems to be a timeless meme. Even in this modern/egalitarian era I think the majority of men spend absolutely zero time thinking about their living spaces until they cohabitate with a partner.
And it's also the case that the most successful ...
And it's also the case that the most successful ...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 4:19 am
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: bookworm's journal
- Replies: 128
- Views: 17131
Re: bookworm's journal
@Bicycle7:
I think in many conventional social settings where ENTP is depressed/repressed in Ne, for example PTO meeting, both ENTP and INFJ will exhibit externalized tendency to run from warm to aloof. I didn't realize that I often externalize "aloof" until an ESTJ partner told me that it was my ...
I think in many conventional social settings where ENTP is depressed/repressed in Ne, for example PTO meeting, both ENTP and INFJ will exhibit externalized tendency to run from warm to aloof. I didn't realize that I often externalize "aloof" until an ESTJ partner told me that it was my ...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:01 am
- Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
- Topic: Future of Artificial Intelligence
- Replies: 518
- Views: 164380
Re: Future of Artificial Intelligence
I found this recent take, "There's No Stopping This Train: AI, Power, and the Collapse of Old Systems" by Angelo Robles, author of "The Effective Family Office: Best Practices and Beyond" rather interesting. It almost philosophically intersects with ERE at some junctures:
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