Tony

Hi All, I would like to share once again my personal project, http://reparent.methat helps clients find therapists online. If you have ever wanted to filter out therapists who don't meet your philosophical baseline, you can finally do so. There are currently, 3 providers on the site from FDR. See if you can spot them With the most recent update you can see the following: I have added on a matching algorithm that matches you with therapists based on a questionnaire. Matching on important factors like religious and political affiliation We now have 17 providers (therapists, counsellors, life coaches etc.), most of whom work within the IFS methodology. Added SSL protection to protect your security while posting a request for therapy 100% free service for both clients and therapists If you or anyone you know is looking for an online (skype/facetime etc.) therapist, please share this with them. Also, if you know of any therapists who might want to join please direct them to write to me @ [email protected] Best wishes, Tony

Hi Everyone, I'm looking for FDR members who are interested in practicing online, skype based therapy or recommendations of therapists who would be ideal for this project. I would like to​ invite you to become a partner in my new venture: http://reparent.me This software has been a labor of my love. It has taken me 5 years from the inception of the idea, thousands of dollars of my personal savings, hundreds of days of coding and testing. And this is a project that would not exist if I hadn't found FDR. I quit my full time job to work on this. Please help me make it succeed. What is it? It is a web based application to connect freelance online therapists with clients seeking therapy. It presently functions as a directory and​ an anonymous​therapy-request board but will grow to become an automated online assistant to people in the therapy profession. Why did I create this? On one side of the market spectrum you have clients desperately seeking help but unable to find it either due to a poor offering or due to the providers being out of their price range. On the other hand you have skilled adults eager to offer advice to the wounded masses but going through lengthy and unnecessary industry barriers-to-entry to reach economies of scale and justify their careers. I knew good counselors offering great prices, way below the market price for an average licensed therapist, but unable to get enough clients to make a sustained living. Not one of them was trying to undercut the market, they were only trying to reach the underprivileged, psychologically wounded members of society. There are 10 bad therapists for every 1 good therapist. I intend to fill this site with providers from the latter camp and thus make this offer on this platform. Join me and help make this world a little better. The site currently has two main features: A directory of therapists and counselors offering online therapy. An anonymous board where users can come and describe their needs, where therapists can make their offers and then the user can select one that suits him best. Also, I am working on the following features for the next release: Scheduling: Let clients see exactly when you are available and when you are off work. No need to worry about time zones. Get automatic email reminders before sessions Integrate with Google, Outlook calendars. Payments and invoicing: No more worrying about invoicing and charging clients. Set up automatic recurring payments Let invoices follow your calendar events (therapy sessions) In built cancellation billing procedure Payment provider integration: PayPal Bitcoin The site will continue to grow, but needs your loyalty and support. I have great new features on the way but it will take time and persistence. I request a 2% donation from the providers for all future business earned through or due to the site. This commitment will not be enforced for now but if you keep this agreement, I can avoid incorporation and thus avoid charging a fee, which would have to be more than 2% when including payment providers fees, taxes etc. How do I join? Check out the terms of service here: http://reparent.me/terms To get access to the site as a provider you need to register as a regular user (http://reparent.me/auth/register) and click on your profile icon, you will be presented with an option to "Become a provider". Your application will be sent to me, once approved your profile will be publicly visible. While I do make your provided email visible on the site, I've gone through great lengths to obfuscate it under the hood. This prevents spammers and other malicious users from having easy access to your email address. I also recommend you set up a gravatar (http://gravatar.com) account, this will be used to get your profile image on the site. The app is in the early stages and I'm looking for good therapists and counselors with a proven track record in talk-therapy. I will not accept providers who intend to recommend any form of medication. If you know people who fit the bill, please feel free to forward this message to them or let me know and I will approach them. Thanks for reading! You can learn more about me by adding me on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anthony.ebin.3 and join the group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1024759567574157/ ​

https://youtu.be/H_hjO6LIWgI

Something that resonates with my behaviour in the past: http://youtu.be/6BcFLwdhC3E?list=UUPQxkq2d4oS9D6iZaY1cLEQ

It's a meme re-linking here: http://imgur.com/VvJpX7Y

Just wanted to share: http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/2hv44j/this_just_happened_at_the_grocery_store_the/ It's wonderful to see how drastically different the tide of sentiment is today regarding spanking as child abuse. I didn't have to scroll down much to find powerful and popular arguments against spanking. I wonder how much of this sentiment shift is because of FDR

I love you guys Nathan that pic made me chuckle. Part of me wants to use it as the logo just to stir the pot further. Mr. Capitalism I love your title suggestions but since I want to keep "grammar" in the title I would like to go with "Grammar Guesser" I do plan to monetize by adding an epub import feature in the future so I feel like following the Gail Wynand path and pander to the trolls. This may not be a battle worth fighting for. However, I will take all these wonderful suggestions and discuss them with my therapist today before making a final decision.

Wow! lot of responses. I love the feedback. I'm going to listen to the market and am going to change the name. I just need a catchier title... This app was my trial run in a very free market. I learned that marketing and design are very important. I created the logo myself using some online tools, it shows an eraser rubbing off words from a novel. I like the logo but I hate the design of the app myself, I didn't give the design much thought and focused on the functionality. That said, I don't have the time right now to change the design as I am working on a much larger project. If I get the time I will change it. Both the emails I received came from Hebrew/Jewish websites, so I thought that was a reasonable assumption. Thanks again for the time you guys took to respond. I really appreciate it. If there are some catchier title ideas, I'm listening.

Another great Philosopher Therapist is Steven Summerstone http://www.nurturingtruth.com Found him through FDR, and started working with him. Best decision of my life!

Hi Everyone, Looking for some general advice here. I made a game to help people improve their grammar, it's free on the Google play store. After a few months of release it now has more than a thousand downloads and a largely positive response. However, I got two emails today from two different people asking me to change the name as it is offensive. The game is called "Grammar Nazi Book Worm" From Urban dictionary: Grammar Nazi:Someone who believes it's their duty to attempt to correct any grammar and/or spelling mistakes they observe. Usually found hanging around Irc chatrooms hounding "n00bs". This is a sample from on of the emails: "Without going into the quality of your app, I suggest that you reconsider its name. I don’t know how old you are, or what kind of education you received, but the term “Nazi” generally has a negative connotation for most people, unless you are a skinhead neo- fascist type. I’m not sure you want your app identified with a system that roasted people wholesale in ovens and that was responsible for the death of millions of innocent men, women, and children." Also, I don't know if I should use the word "Jews" as it might offend someone... Reminds me of that episode of Always Sunny... I am inclined to laugh it off and ignore them (my second favorite role model is Jewish Ms. Ayn Rand), but then again I want to give the market what it wants... The game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joanthony.gnbw

Great analysis friend, short and sweet; what do you think the captain of Icarus II represented?

Can't believe no one has mentioned "Memories of Murder"

I've made the app free based on feedback on reddit

Hi Guys, I'm plugging an app I created in my free time. I'm not a programmer by trade but I have always wanted to do this kind of work full time. The premise is simple, you read your favorite book with grammatical errors mixed in with the goal of correcting them as you go along. After every page you are given a score which compares your answers to the original words in the book. This helps you identify which part of English grammar you are having trouble with and motivates you to work on them. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joanthony.gnbw If anyone wants to copy this for the iPhone please let me know. I hope I didn't make any grammatical errors in this post Also, if anyone can't afford the game but would still like to try it please pm me and I will send it to you for free

I have an Indian passport, I guess that makes me Indian. Lived there for the first 7 years of my life. I now live in a country with a majority of the population being expat Indians. I know a lot about the mentality. Very briefly as I need to run, · What’s interesting? New farmer seems to be business friendly, i.e. big business friendly · Impressions Would love to do business there if I could open a company in less than 6 months and without bribing anyone. · Stereotypes Very similar psycho class as Russia (Mother India) · Weaknesses One of the worst places in the world to be a child. Kids are openly beaten, threatened abused in public. Hitting your kids is not looked down on at all. This alone tells me that India is at least two generations away from being where the US is today (psycho class wise). · Strengths Moving away from its socialist/communist upbringing, one step at a time, slowly. The economic reforms that sparked the livability of India today was masked in socialist propoganda terms called "Liberalization" in the 90s. Milton Friedman did an episode on India in his series Free To Choose, it would be very useful for your research even though it is quite old.

Sorry I'm late to the party, I will quote from another post of mine "I know just the guy: Darius Cikanavičius - http://blog.selfarcheology.com/ He is my wife's therapist. I wanted to work with him too but he declined because it may detract from his work with my wife. He's really good :)" I found him through FDR and can't recommend him enough.

That is how I found him actually... https://board.freedomainradio.com/user/11331-darius/

He charges from $50 to $150 per hour which is reasonable in my mind. It's very difficult to find this subset of people; how many therapists are there in this world? How many philosophers? naturally the number of philosopher therapists would be far fewer. My estimate is 1 in 10 million; that is approx. 700 people like Darius in the world. I only know him through my wife but I say we are very very lucky to have men like him in this world...

checkout blahtherapy.com I am working on my own version of this kind of project. Also, I just recommended Darius Cikanavičius - http://blog.selfarcheology.com/ on a similar post

I know just the guy: Darius Cikanavičius - http://blog.selfarcheology.com/ He is my wife's therapist. I wanted to work with him too but he declined because it may detract from his work with my wife. He's really good

Stef...... we have spoken to each other for a grand total of 30 mins.. and yet I cried while listening to this update.... cried harder than I have ever cried even in the face of worse news about people I have known for much longer... Over the course of the last 5 years you took a very important role in my life... You have even become a character within my Mecosystem...You are and always will be the single biggest influence in my life. Even though we may never know each other on a personal level, and the fact that I have graduated from FDR, I assure you that I will continue to support you and this endeavor that you started for as long as I have an income... I have gained much more from you than I can ever give back.

I think I would feel the same in your position Stef. Correct me if I'm wrong but this is what I thought of after going through the various possibilities that you listed in your post; You felt sad because you had an internal premise that the low donation reflected in some way the state of the world as it is. i.e. What kind of world am I living in when billions go into the coffers of lying priests daily and so little into spreading philosophy? Maybe this will reassure you, your work has an exponential effect. I found you on my own, but all my current friends found you through me. And they love it. Just keep doing what you're doing.