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by 7Wannabe5
Fri Jun 27, 2025 5:06 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Just Gravy
Replies: 460
Views: 180658

Re: Just Gravy

“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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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Yes, I agree that whether or not AI will take human jobs may already be a question as out-of-date as fretting about the 4% rule or whether New York City will drown in horse manure.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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
Thu Jun 26, 2025 8:59 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

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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
Thu Jun 26, 2025 7:34 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

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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
Thu Jun 26, 2025 7:10 am
Forum: ERE Community
Topic: Forum challenge: Lets play the minimalists' game
Replies: 168
Views: 17296

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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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.
by 7Wannabe5
Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:29 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

jacob wrote: if so, I haven't found it.
Yes, you have!
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.
Just needs to be expanded to etc. etc. etc. etc. etc...
by 7Wannabe5
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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
Wed Jun 25, 2025 7:00 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta
Replies: 1038
Views: 396446

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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:20 pm
Forum: ERE Community
Topic: Forum challenge: Lets play the minimalists' game
Replies: 168
Views: 17296

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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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 ...
by 7Wannabe5
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:

https://www.youtube.com ...