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by suomalainen
Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:02 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Is dissatisfaction necessary to change?
Replies: 13
Views: 782

Re: Is dissatisfaction necessary to change?

@jp, maybe to put a finer point on it: To me, "change" is a big or drastic change (difference in kind?) while perhaps we could use "adjustment" or "growth" to be a small, incremental change (difference in degree?). I change from being an atheist to being theistic. I gro...
by suomalainen
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:40 am
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Is dissatisfaction necessary to change?
Replies: 13
Views: 782

Re: Is dissatisfaction necessary to change?

I used to focus on the negative stuff too (preppers excel at that lol), but now I find I make the greatest strides/leaps forward when building upon previous successes. I draw the most energy from my wins as it were; negative energy only gets me so far. I don't need to feel dissatisfied to have the ...
by suomalainen
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:20 pm
Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
Topic: "How to Drop Out"
Replies: 125
Views: 12704

Re: "How to Drop Out"

Sorry. Catching up here, so this is not responsive to the latest. I've always thought of "FI leading to SI" or "dropping out" as a first world privilege. You can see it in the data of household density (poor = higher, probably multi-generational; rich = low, probably limited to o...
by suomalainen
Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:55 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Just Gravy
Replies: 289
Views: 85640

Re: Just Gravy

We got this, babe.
by suomalainen
Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:50 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Nomadic-ERE Year 5 - Wanderlust Prevails
Replies: 1172
Views: 273694

Re: Nomadic-ERE Year 5 - Wanderlust Prevails

Hey, delay. Thanks for popping in, it's nice to know someone's reading these sporadic updates. Sometimes I feel like I don't have too much to contribute here with my current trajectory. Here I must vehemently (vehemently) disagree. So many people treat FIRE as the end, when in reality it is the beg...
by suomalainen
Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
Replies: 122
Views: 6004

Re: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65

@candide - The insurers have modeled the boomers, I'm sure. Entire consulting practices specialize in analyzing scenarios like these, which then become standard products licensed by all the major insurers. If there is a mistake, it's likely impacting the full industry. This is when regulatory captu...
by suomalainen
Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
Replies: 122
Views: 6004

Re: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65

7Wannabe5 wrote:
Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:45 pm
in pursuit of Transcendent Eco-Sexuality
I mean, that's iDave, right there. It's staring you in the face! :lol:
by suomalainen
Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:25 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
Replies: 122
Views: 6004

Re: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65

Yeah. I fully support social capital for picking up someone’s mail or cooking them dinner if they broke a hip. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about when someone’s needs outpace their loved ones’ capabilities. See, e.g., @hristo’s experience with hristo’s father trying to care for his wife. ...
by suomalainen
Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:35 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
Replies: 122
Views: 6004

Re: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65

I thought about this more and I think for me, ending up in a LTC facility would be a personal failure. I think it's a mistake to rely only on monetary capital and not social or other forms of capital. I also think that having no financial plan or wishing this part of life and our modern solution to...
by suomalainen
Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:58 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65
Replies: 122
Views: 6004

Re: ERE or Semi-ERE past Age 65

I am neither ERE/semi-ERE nor past the age of 65, but I have begun thinking of this topic, in some part due to my parents' advancing age, and so I offer some thoughts from observing them: 1) My parents are frugal. They have a 7-figure kitty, but they live off of social security alone and have for ab...
by suomalainen
Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:25 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: What I Spend
Replies: 903
Views: 196092

Re: What I Spend

Scott 2 wrote:
Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:35 pm
Big brother won.
Ditto big oil/plastic if you try to remove plastic from your environment.
by suomalainen
Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:55 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja
Replies: 735
Views: 177301

Slow Down and Degrow

https://grist.org/economics/slow-down-do-less-a-qa-with-the-author-who-introduced-degrowth-to-a-mass-audience/?ref=thebrowser.com Degrowth is about abandoning GDP [gross domestic product] as the single measure of our progress. Degrowth is also about reducing what is unnecessary. GDP can be increased...
by suomalainen
Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:55 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja
Replies: 735
Views: 177301

Re: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja

@aspirant will pm you. Went out to celebrate a friend's end of dry January on Friday night. After the bar, we were driving past another friend's house and decided to see if he was home. Turns out he was drinking with some neighbors in the basement, so after round 2 ... I had a shitty hangover on Sat...
by suomalainen
Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:49 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja
Replies: 735
Views: 177301

Re: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja

@7 cranky and man seem to go hand in hand, particularly where children (regardless of whose) are involved. Perhaps it has something to do with physiological changes not being too prominent in men as you speculated above. I did read something about baby pheromones impacting new fathers. Maybe it was ...
by suomalainen
Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:22 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: How to Be More Agentic
Replies: 18
Views: 1370

Re: How to Be More Agentic

7Wannabe5 wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:24 pm
like other articles with titles such as "How to Be More Blessed."
I think you're talking about The Secret
by suomalainen
Tue Jan 30, 2024 3:57 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Suomalaisen Päiväkirja
Replies: 735
Views: 177301

On Zen Gardens

The other day, @gravy and I went to her mom's house to help move some plants around after the recent freeze receded. She lives in a townhome(?) I guess it's called in America (rivitalo in Finland), where you have like a row of homes that share side walls or at least it looks like from the front that...
by suomalainen
Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:03 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: ffj's Early Retirement (round 2)
Replies: 227
Views: 59959

Re: ffj's Early Retirement (round 2)

I don't need the money but I need purpose in life and a reason to leave my house and mingle with other people. Has this caused you to reflect on your early retirement? Any lessons learned or "what I wish I'd known" or anything like that? Or would you still do things when and how you did t...
by suomalainen
Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:11 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
Replies: 1345
Views: 291772

Re: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.

7Wannabe5 wrote:
Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:27 pm
I am imagining that my next partner will either be an illiterate woodsman in his 60s
I mean, that's iDave, yeah? :lol:
by suomalainen
Sun Jan 28, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.
Replies: 1345
Views: 291772

Re: A Journey of Mindfulness--the Remaking of Life in Midstream.

Haha. All these dating books seem to miss the point that it's not about being a certain way to the breadth of the opposite (or same) sex. It's about being a certain way to a certain person and vice versa. You can't "game" it or any of that dumb shit. You can only roulette wheel it until yo...