[Would you pay $0.99 for a Dream journaling app?]

There are 3 tabs.

 

1.) The first tab is to add, read , delete, and edit your dreams.

(organized by date of creation) 

 

2.) The second tab is to log recurrences. Example: Choose from a category person, place, or thing. If Bob keeps appearing in your dreams, you could fill out a person category (relationship, personality, values, history, etc..) .

 

3.) The last tab will basically have information on dream analysis theory and tips. Links to resources and quotes that I think are the best at helping you understand dreams. 

 

 

 

 

Im currently recording my dreams on my iPad. I have an extremely long document with titled dreams indented and organized by dates. I thought there would be a better way to organize dreams. I looked at other apps most of them give you Chinese fortune cookie answer to try and help you understand your dreams. Frankly they seem childish. 

[Who wants to meet up? (Southern California)]

Hey guys, thanks for responding we have a good amount of people here. 

I was thinking that we could go somewhere to eat and talk, or go to a park, or beach. 

 

Does anyone have a cool location in mind ? 

 

 

Im not too far from orange county. 

 

Add me on Skype ill start a group tiled FDR southern California. 

[Child Abuse Intervention at Kroger]

I thought I'd stop by Kroger before I go to work for breakfast. Bananas are always an excellent choice since they are so cheap, nutritious, and tasty. Anyways, that's not the point and I am feeling ambivalent about this intervention. I encountered a lot of resistance, hesitance, and stalling. I could have done so much more here. I'm experienced self attack afterwards and even now.

 

I remember feeling really raw and sensitive walking in the store. After I grabbed my Bananas and proceeded to walk towards the register, an older african american woman was holding the hands of a child who looked around the age of three who was crying very heavily. They were on there way out and after a few seconds I realized the old lady was giving her the silent treatment.

 

This infuriated, me and I wanted to go demand that she pay attention to the child. I turned around walked towards them and then, it was as if I hit an invisible wall. I stopped and a part of me, I'm ashamed to admit, thought "oh, well. maybe todays not the right day. what if she yells at you.?"

 

"It's not about me, think of how the girl feels!", I replied and started walking faster to keep up with them. They were out side at this point.

 

As I was in the parking lot following them to say something, I saw two african americans walk by the lady I was following. Immediately, a disaster  scenario occurred where those two ladys would over hear the conversation I would have with the grandmother and then gang up on me. I was scared. And again, I stalled. I froze and couldn't believe what I was doing, or rather not doing. "So, what if they do attack you, what about the girl?"

 

So, I turned around again and walked quickly towards the lady's car. They were literally in the car at this point, the child still crying as loudly as she was in the store.

 

Luckily, the window was rolled down and I walked up to the car which stopped her from backing out of the lot and asked, "miss, is everything okay. I noticed she was upset and was concerned." I looked in the back seat and mad eye contact with the girl who was still crying.

 

"oh, she just throws a fit when she doesn't get what she wants and granny isn't going to get what she wants", she replied with a "sweet old lady" facade in her voice. Again, I'm ashamed to admit that I felt so blocked. I wanted to say, you should pay attention to your child" But, I didn't want to get in a heated argument.

Instead, I looked at the girl reached my hand out to her(without putting my arm in the car) and said "it's okay to be upset".what i'd like to do is figure out what was making me stall and hesitate so much, so I can just jump to do this in the future. or maybe there was a good reason for my fear. any suggestions?

 

I think that was brave Joel, even if you stalled that takes courage. 

 

As for the reason for stalling.

Those reasons you brought up are real concerns, I would be worried also. 

Its dangerous to stand up to child abuse. 

 

Maybe we could talk about it sometime and explore it. 

[Who wants to meet up? (Southern California)]

Let me know on here. 

 

Or add me on Skype my user name is on my profile. 

[So we did a Sydney Meetup Group!]

I'm so jelly ! 

 

How did you organize this ? 

[I don't know how to spell.]

Do you read a lot? I think that reading has played a major role in my spelling abilities, because I am able to sort of learn through observation; seeing words being used commonly in books helps ingrain the image of the word in my mind, so I can "see" the correct way to spell it when I am using the word myself. Then, it eventually becomes habit. Does that make sense?

 

 

Yes that makes sense, I don't read allot. I listen to books instead of reading them, the reading that I do is non-fiction and the forums. So i do little reading, that defiantly adds to my problem. I just bought a spelling book for kids so I'm going to be reading that lol 

 

I don't personally regard it as a big issue I can spell fairly well mostly as a result of reading a lot when I was younger.

 

I think being very good at spelling is a useless skill. Now it is useful to be vaguely serviceable at spelling because otherwise spell check won't know what word you want.

 

But I think that anything that a computer can do vastly better than you is best left to the computer. I don't spend my time memorizing Wikipedia or a dictionary because I've got a computer to do that. Or a phone in my pocket.

 

I live in China and honestly most of the Chinese people I know are forgetting how to write Chinese characters well because they just use the computer.

 

The great thing about English is that spelling makes no sense so there aren't very many rules and what rules there are don't do you any good because you can probably remember how to spell the words that follow the rules, and the words that don't follow the rules don't follow the rules… So learning the rules will help you to spell those words.

 

If you really want to learn to spell well you will need to read a lots or spend a lot of time with lists of words practicing to spell them. I'd rather spend a lot of time reading, at least that way at the end of this process you would have done something useful.

 

 

 

thanks for your response, I agree with you. Im not saying i want to be a master speller but there are times i can't spell words good enough for my spell check to correct them. 

The thing that made me want to spell better is the fact that filling out forums with misspelling is a little embarrassing.

[I draw porn for pleasure...is this a moral quandary?]

It's not immoral at all according to the non aggression principle .

 

But I still want to call it a fetish becuae you said you get plesure from it . You can have fetishes that are not extreme like a ballon fetish . I would urge you to look into that because your repost sounded defensive and you missed my point.

 

Only because you don't draw crazy things that doesn't mean it's not a fetish . And kids don't draw naked people I have personally never seen that before . I would not expose my kids to any nudity at a young age , it's somthing you need to look into .

[Purpose of life / Meaning of life]

thanks guys, Im glad it helped

[I draw porn for pleasure...is this a moral quandary?]

Hey have you listened to a recent call in show. I forgot the exact name of it but a guy called in asking where fetishes come from. I think that podcast will help you allot. 

 

 

MY basic amateur summary is that if we have sexual experience when we are young or even toddlers. That is imprinted in our brain, we correlate that with pleasure because it was our first sexual experience. 

The guy called because he was turned on when he saw people being swallowed alive. 

they talked about his childhood and apparently his parents let some molesters baby sit him as a toddler or very young baby. 

Stef said if they sucked on your penis as a baby that might have been imprinted in you. That was your first sexual experience. 

So when you see people being swallowed alive by snakes and monsters it turns you on because as a baby those adults looked like monster or giants to you. 

And that was your first sexual experience. 

 

 

So i would apply this to you, was your first sexual experience seeing someone draw a pornographic picture. You might not even remember because you might have been a toddler. 

 

 

Sorry for my misspelling. 

[Purpose of life / Meaning of life]

 

 

I was thinking about 'What is the purpose of life' and seeing and hearing all the material Stefan Molyneux has provide to me through his Youtube channel

 

 

Hi have you watched stefs video on the meaning of life ? 

 

 

i would say the biological meaning of life is to have an offspring, but life has no meaning. 

watch the video its very well explained. 

 

I hope this helped, if not I'm sorry. 

[I don't know how to spell.]

Right, i agree its looked down on. 

If teachers and parents failed me I have to take matters into my own hands 

[I don't know how to spell.]

Ok yeah I think that is where I have the problem , I don't remember the words after they are auto corrected . I think I got in a habit of ignoring the correct spelling

[I don't know how to spell.]

I detected not spelling errors in your post. So the problem is?

This is because Im typing through a computer , if I fill out an application or check I misspell things . Does that make sense ? I want to be a good speller

[I don't know how to spell.]

This might sound stupid but I never learned to spell. 

I never payed attention in school I was daydreaming, and it didn't help that my mother was teaching me to write in spanish while I was in school "learning" to read and write.  

 

Where do I approach this, are there a set of rules that I need to learn to become a good speller ? Please lay it out for me, imagine if you where teaching an alien to spell , what do i need to learn. 

[The cycle of abuse: Your Grandmamay is a fucken monster]

Thanks for reading Rachel & Sean , thank you for your understanding. : )

 

 

 I hope you realize that you're not alone and that the evil people in the world do not possess any power except that which we allow them to hold over us.

 

Yes, I do realize that. 

[The cycle of abuse: Your Grandmamay is a fucken monster]

Thanks for reading, yeah it was hard for me to see this in the beginning. 

[The cycle of abuse: Your Grandmamay is a fucken monster]

      I’m going to write about how abuse is transferred and maintained through the family. I will use

 

a personal example by explaining the root of my feelings of worthlessness and shame.

 

 

     I recently have made big life decisions, one of those decisions was to drop out and start

 

working to eventually move out. In my quest to find a job I came across my shame and feelings of

 

worthlessness. I have realized that my mother put these feelings in me as a child. She treats

 

everyone including strangers better than me. This imprinted in my head that I'm worthless. I

 

realized that asking for something like a job application is extremely hard for me. I faced my fear a

 

couple of days ago but soon realized that I was mentally torturing myself. I say this because I still

 

live with my parents and everyday they reenforce my feelings of worthlessness. This is the same

 

as a rape victim who is still continually being raped, forcing herself to talk to a bunch of shady

 

looking men and expecting for her fear to go away. I realized the first step is not to face my fears

 

but to move out of an environment in which I'm being constantly abused. Only after that will I

 

consider facing my fears. I couldn't figure out why I forced myself to do this, because most

 

businesses have online applications. Showing up feeling worthless to talk to a manager will not

 

accomplish much. I don't have this feeling when I go to interviews because I'm not asking for

 

anything and the manager is doing his job but when I show up to a busy store and "bother" the

 

manager the feelings come up. There is a pattern, as a kid I was shamed for asking for things and

 

was made to feel like I'm not equal with everyone else. As an adult I still experience this in my

 

environment. 

 

     

     This made me remember a conversation I had with my grandmother a couple of months ago. I

 

was talking about all the neglect me and my siblings received from my mother. She agreed that it

 

was wrong she even gave me and interesting quote. She said "a kid needs more than a provider,

 

a kid also needs a teacher and a companion". Exactly! As soon as I said you can do something

 

about this, my younger brother is suffering from my parents neglect. You can talk to my parents

 

since they respect you. All of a sudden she started talking about forgiveness and how she

 

forgave her parents for their neglect. What a fucken cop out. As soon as she was given moral

 

responsibility she dodged it like a fucken slimy demonic rat. I put myself in her head a couple of

 

days ago and I realized how evil she is. If she would stand up for my younger brothers life, her

 

abuse would also be uncovered. My mother would have said "didn't you treat us worst?". So

 

instead of standing up for a kid she puts his body in front of her to shield her from her sins, no

 

wonder she is so religious. Religion alleviates her guilt, she is truly evil.

 

     After Listening to many podcast where listeners defend their "nice" grandparents. I came up

 

with the idea to write about my experience. I want to propose a rule of thumb. If your

 

grandparents raised your abusive parents your grandparents are fucken evil and are only acting

 

nice because they are not in a position to rock the boat. This is why grandparents might seem

 

nice and sweet most of the time. 

[What sates in the US have a high standard of living ?]

Lots of manual labor jobs to be had in the oilfields in California. The conditions suck, but the pay is pretty decent. You may want to look into that.

 

Thanks Ill look into that. 

[What sates in the US have a high standard of living ?]

I don't think you can live on minimum wage anywhere in US.  Try getting a job working on Bakken oil field.  I heard even Walmart employees make $17 an hour in that area due to labor shortages.  http://www.bakkenoilcareers.com/

 

 

Thanks I heard stef mention this before. What type of job do you recommend for a non skilled person ? 

[What sates in the US have a high standard of living ?]

I realized that California has a pretty crappy standard of living.

 

 

What is a State in which you can rent a studio apartment with a minimum wage job?

 

 

 

I don't have a job yet but I'm searching, my plans are to find roommates for now and eventually move to a better place. (cheaper)

[Hello from Long Beach, CA]

Hello everybody, introducing myself and saying hello.  "Higherself" isn't eluding to me being high, it is about being in the moment and more toward meditation.  

 

 

Hi my name is Ivan, I use to live in Long Beach. 

I actually live very close to long beach .

 

Welcome, how did you find the show ? 

[Can everyone be rich?]

I would say by definition no.

If being rich means having more than the average person.

Then if everyone is rich it means everyone has more than the average person ? 

Which is impossible because then the average standard of living would go up.... And to be rich you would have to make more than that 

 

 

Also in Africa the majority of people are poor but there are rich people who control the mines and resources. 

 

    I have a question; is it possible for everyone to be rich?  This came about when I was thinking about Africa and how everyone is pretty much poor and then I wondered if the opposite is possible.  I know that laissez faire capitalism is extraordinarily good, but is it up to the task?  (I want the best scenario to be assumed, i.e. that everyone is as smart, skilled, & motivated as Bill Gates)

[Finding a Luge partner]

Thanks, that's something ill consider

[What would art look like in the future?]

Another thing to add is that Hollywood would be gone that would change everything. 

 

Some things that I imagine that would happen are movies not catering to the lowest common denominator. 

If you look at philosophical movies like the matrix it has violence and sex why ? 

because sex and violence sells. 

 

In the future i doubt that sex and violence are going to be the thing that sells. 

[Finding a Luge partner]

Yeeeaah !