Ady Sheerer

I am looking for someone to help me with some finishing touch-ups on my website. I had some bad experiences with the person that built my website and I thought I should find someone from inside this community to help me finish the project. If you want to make a quick buck while helping out a fellow FDR listener please message me.

Hey guys, if you are hungry for a good conversation and for connection come join us at The Oasis - a place where FDR listeners and anarchists from all corners of the world come together once a week to hang out together and exchange ideas. Here are a few highlights from one of our weekly meetings where we got together to chat about Trump. You can find the link for joining the group in the description of the video. I hope you'll enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed producing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3EhfTpWAsw

We booked a fantastic cabin for this meetup where our group can enjoy the whole day in privacy and comfort. Come join us for a late Philosophical Thanksgiving.

The 8th S. Missouri FDR Meetup. Lots of fun!!! Come join us this upcoming weekend! If you have a Facebook and are interested in more updates then please join our group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FDRMissouri/

Our last meetup was a so much fun! Ready for the next one? The boat ride last month was a lot of fun so I thought that we should keep the fun theme going while the summer months are quickly passing by. We will meet at 12pm in Branson at The Track Family Fun Parks (3345 W 76 Country Blvd, Branson) and after some fun rides we will be gathering for a BBQ and some captivating conversation at a vacation home in Branson. Minimum cost for the rides is $40. The vacation home & BBQ are free (courtesy of Ady & Larry Sheerer). Please message or call Ady for more info.

You will be able to listen live to our conversation about the last season of GOT in about 15 minutes. Here's the link to the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jwC3-ygK5M&feature=youtu.be If you would like to join the Hangout here's the access link to the call: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/117472908323246912161/events/cjldonpcsv438l94r83bders9es Please mute your microphone when you join so we can insure the best audio quality. Hope to see you guys there.

I tried to message you here but it says "The member cannot use the messaging system." Please e-mail me @ [email protected] and I can update you by e-mail about our future meetups.

I tried to message you here but it says "The member cannot use the messaging system." Please e-mail me @ [email protected] and I can update you by e-mail about our future meetups.

Hey Gilbert, I am the FDR organizer for the meetups in Southern Missouri. We are a group of FDR listeners from different parts of the state and from Northern Arkansas. As you probably already know, it is really hard to find people that share our values in this part of the country. This is why, once a month we get in our cars and we drive to Springfield where we can enjoy a day in good company and from the kind of relationships that we are all starving for. I don't know where you are located in Missouri but if you don't mind the drive we would be glad to have you. Here are a few articles and pictures of some of our past meetups: http://www.freedomainradiomeetup.com/recent-meetups/category/southern-missouri Let me know if you are interested in attending a future meeting.

Hey guys, Thank you so much for your interest and for responding to my call. I had several responses here and on Facebook and I am afraid that I already got two people on board for my coaching initiative. However, I will definitely keep you in mind and let you know if in the future we will need more people. I apologize if I came to a decision too fast but I was extremely happy with two of the several people that responded and I didn't think that anyone else will be interested because two days after I posted the call for collaborators the requests stopped.

http://realtimelifecoaching.com is looking for collaborators. If you are interested in becoming a life-coach please message me for more information.

If you happen to live in Southern Missouri, Northern Arkansas, NE Oklahoma or SE Kansas and you would like to meet other FDR members please join our Facebook group to keep track of future events. If you don't have a Facebook account you can PM me and I'll make sure to notify you before every meetup. https://www.facebook.com/groups/365176386966594/ We usually meet in Springfield MO once a month. For more information and pictures from our past meetups please visit the link below: http://freedomainradiomeetup.weebly.com/recent-meetups/category/ozark

We extended the conversation beyond our monthly Hangouts. Come join the Philosophy Film Club Facebook group where you can share your thoughts, debate or make suggestions for future movies that you would like us to discuss. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1486805188250291/

Hey Patrick, Thank you so much for starting this club. I really enjoyed the first hangout and I am looking forward to the next ones. You put together a great group of people and your first pick for the movie was fantastic! It was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon in good company.

Count me in.

This article might be helpful:http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201110/why-young-children-protest-bedtime-evolutionary-mismatch

If Atheism is a religion then it should follow that there is a religion for every non existent thing that one person can imagine but cannot prove. I'm not good at math... how many do you think that is?

A witty and interesting approach to spanking. What would it look like if we were to apply these "moral" principles universally? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmKHpyo8j1Y

Hey Yams. I am the organizer for the FDR meetups in the Ozarks. We are going to have our next meeting 3 weeks from now. Since many of us are coming from different parts of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas we usually meet in Springfield which is about 2h away from Bentonville. Please message me here if you are interested in coming. Also, join the meetup group for updates about our meetings here:http://www.meetup.com/Freedomain-Radio/Ozark-MO/

That is a fantastic question! Thank you so much for asking and for your interest. Starting at the beginning:I thought you had a point about me not explaining what the call will be about. It would have been much easier to answer my question if I would have disclosed the subject. The truth is I don't really know for sure. When I set the call I had a topic in mind and a question. However, since then I experienced a lot of positive change in my life. I got really motivated to work through some of my problems while waiting for the call and it didn't take me too long to realize that my initial question to Stef was something that I could very well solve on my own since he has countless of podcasts that answered it in any possible way. The only thing that I really needed to do was to get off my ass and actually start doing the things that I already knew I should do. Booking this call put a lot of fire under my ass and gave me the motivation that I was lacking before.Since then, there have been many questions and topics that have popped in my mind but I didn't really settle on a specific one yet. I will let the remaining time pass and see which one is the most important to me at the time of the call. I apologize for not giving you guys more information to work with but I do not really have it myself. Also, I think this could be a good thread for other people to read if we keep it focused on general preparations for the calls. Next, I thought that your question about me having reached an impass and creating a need for help was pretty loaded. Wanting to bounce ideas, to connect and to exchange experiences with the FDR community is not an unusual thing here. Isn't this the actual purpose of it? I asked this question not because I need help with an impass but because I desired to hear other people's stories and I hoped to connect with them. I asked this question because I was trying to work on and practice being connected with others which is part of my preparation process for this call. How could this be viewed as an impass? I actually feel more positive about this call with every day that passes. The good part is that I actually connected deeply with one of the people that responded here, befriended him and we already exchanged a few private messages. Reading further your reply I can tell you that your assumption about me being unclear about how to proceed made me feel very disconnected from you and made me think that maybe you won't have anything positive to offer that could actually help or benefit me in any way. I did not call for assistance just for some pointers. I asked my question hoping to start a conversation where people could exchange ideas and share their own experiences with me and with each other. I also thought that you were completely disregarding many shows in which listeners have taken a long time contradicting themselves on the number of times they were spanked in order to stick to your point. Calculating on air how many times a caller was spanked rarely takes seconds if the caller does not have that info prepared. Reading this I felt disconnected again thinking that you desperately needed to convince me not to pursue any form of preparation for this call and I wondered why did you feel that strong about it. I completely agreed with you when you said that this call is going to go in an unexpected direction. In fact I hope it will, otherwise there would be no reason to waste Stef's time with a conversation that I can draft myself at home... on my charts... and on my pie graphs. However, Stef has a few questions that he usually asks most of the listeners and although I do not wish to control the conversation, I would like to be prepared to deliver that information in a concise manner.I also felt bad for thinking that you won't have anything of value to offer when I got to read your suggestion for how to best prepare for this call. Although you reiterated several times your stand against making any preparations I do thank you for going back on it and sharing with me some really useful insights. I think your advice about asking my question outright and being precise about it is really helpful and exactly the kind of thing that I was looking for. Although this was something that I already thought about, I think it will benefit other people that might be interested in reading this thread. Thank you for adding that value. Your advice made me feel a little bit more connected to you. But that was a short lived feeling since immediately after those good insights, you very wittingly implied that I was planning on drafting pie charts, detailed timelines, data sheets and... (wait for it) even budgets. I felt sad thinking that you were trying a bit too hard to portray me in a certain image that you created in your own mind of me. I seemed to me that you were trying to denigrate me and I suspected that maybe your strong opinion about me not preparing for this call trumped your capacity for empathy and connection in that moment.But then you came back around again. I felt good about your advice about inquiring myself about the things that I might be holding back from and about the reason why I want to call was really good. I thank you for it and I appreciate you sharing this with me. Also the podcast suggestion was fantastic! I will definitely check it out.I felt very sad when, at the end of you message, you chose not to address the fact that you payed very little attention to my initial question but somehow felt connected enough to post three replies to it. But then... I felt exhilarated when you asked about my feelings. I really wanted to share with you my experience of reading your post since it was such a roller-coaster. I just wasn't sure if you wanted to hear about it. I hope this satisfies your curiosity my friend and that it will also help you in your own pursuit of self knowledge. Now, if you would be so kind to indulge me with a question, I am also extremely curious about something.You posted twice the same opinion regarding my question, slowly escalating the tone of the conversation to a more and more passionate one. You also seem to have some preconceived idea of me sitting at my desk and drafting some sort of plan and complicated graphs in order to sabotage myself. I do not think that anything that I've said or done could ever bring you to this conclusion. So here's my question:Why is it so important to you that I do not prepare for this call?

Thank you for sharing this with me but as I specifically said in my initial question I am not planning on preparing a narrative. Being open, honest and having a real time conversation is pretty much a given.However there is math to be done like for example how many times one was spanked. I do not want to waste the precious time of this call trying to count and add up when I could just do the math before hand. Journaling also helps with organizing one's thoughts in general so I think that is also a good thing to do. My question was pertaining to these sorts of things that one could prepare for in order to help the conversation move along more smoothly and save precious time. If you can think of anything that might help me, please let me know. This kind of information would be very much appreciated and rest assured that I will not dare prepare a narrative. I completely agree that it would be extremely counter productive.

I have a private call with Stefan coming up in about a month and I was wondering if you could give me some pointers on how to best prepare for it (not talking about preparing a narrative of course). If you already called in the show please share your experience with me. What did you wish you would have done before hand and what did you do wrong during the call? If you did not call in the show you could still share your thoughts with me. What do you think a caller should do in order to insure the best experience possible for him or herself? Thank you.

I went through 30 years of my life without experimenting with any drugs (except alcohol, caffeine and nicotine). At 30 I got curious and since I felt like I was mature enough to handle these experiences in a responsible manner I started what you might call an investigation.I began with THC, which I still indulge in once every couple of months, but it took me a long time to get completely comfortable in that state of mind.Next on my list was psilocybin. Before I took it I read a lot about it, watched as many videos as I could and talked to a bunch of people that have tried it. 5 years later I felt ready for that trip. It was an absolutely wonderful experience but I am sure that if I wouldn't have prepared for it or if I would have been in my teens, it would have probably scarred me for life. I carefully picked the place, the music and the company to ensure the perfect trip. I also videotaped myself for later study. I narrated my whole experience for almost 4 hours, not because there was a camera there (I forgot about it actually) but because explaining an sharing what was happening to me gave me so much joy. It was an interesting video which I reviewed many times. Next on my list was DMT. It was about a year after the psilocybin that I felt ready. A lot of reading and watching videos of other people's experiences during that year... Unfortunately, nobody that I personally knew had tried it. Again, I prepared carefully the place, the music, the camera and the company. Although I thought I was ready I got a little anxious right before the three hits that you are supposed to take. I also didn't have a vaporizer so I did it out of a pipe. I don't think I got the full DMT trip but I got enough to get a pretty good idea. Except for the initial anxiety right before the take-off, the trip was pure bliss. What benefits did I get out of these experiences? I can't say that my mind was able to produce anything that I could use or even understand later when I got back to normal. I do know that while I was under I totally figured out the mysteries of the whole universe though. But there was one thing that especially psilocybin did for me. It helped me develop an observing ego which I was completely lacking before. During that mushroom trip I was able to step out of the fluid reality and see myself in a clear way from the outside for the very first time. I grew my observing ego in the following years without the use of drugs and today I am able to access it anytime while completely sober. This helped me a lot on my path of self exploration.Psilocybin also carved one important question in my mind which stayed with me and helped me become a much more rational person. As weird as it might sound that question was "What is your purpose?". Although I asked myself that question before, I never really gave myself an honest answer. I did manage to honestly answer that question while on that trip and later on I was able to see the difference between being honest with myself or just making excuses. (I hope this makes some sense to you )DMT did not bring many revelations, only very powerful feelings from which I couldn't seem to draw any rational understanding later. I plan on trying it again with a vaporizer and get the full experience but I don't really feel ready to do it anytime in the near future.THC helps me be more creative and I often get some really good ideas while on it. I rarely use it but when I do, I usually like to combine it with various activities. 3D movies, float trips on the river or even ice skating (oh, yeah, you read that right ). I consider all these experiences extremely beneficial to me. I think the preparation, but most importantly the intention behind taking these substances played a huge role in the outcome of my experiences. The age was also an important factor I think. I went on these trips looking for something specific, not just for fun. That something was self knowledge and I feel that the trips were worth it. Also videotaping yourself helps a lot. I plan to try psilocybin and DMT only once more before I die but I would like to be in a different stage of my life when I'll do it.