AndyTheAnarchist

I'm from Manteca, CA. If you have any meetup around this general area - Sacramento or the like - please do inform us!

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So I am contemplating on possible upcoming projects that I will launch to have some income and promote myself in the market and liberty movement. I want to do something productive while I still have youth and complete freedom... (I'm a 16 year old unschooler) ... A big passion I have is writing, and I have been pondering the possibility of writing - and in hopes eventually publishing - my own book on a topic relevant to my daily life. We live in an age of uncertainty, but one thing is for sure and that is freedom related philosophies like anarchism/voluntarynism and unschooling are blossoming in astonishing feats that have no yet been recorded. What a joy it is to live in this time. After hours of past research and more to come, I have a very vague conceptualization and a foggy idea of what I might want to write about that would possibly empower the freedom movement in education. I figured it would be great if I wrote a book on unschooling one day soon, if I focus on what i'm doing right now, read more on it, gathered lots of facts, and finally package it all into a book. But I of course want it to be more philosophical and not like a guidebook or something. Though those are very practical, I want something more in-depth and brain stimulating and enriching for couch sitters like myself who have the willingness to sit down and for a moment live inside there mind, before snapping back into physical reality to find that they had their regular dose of brain food for the day. An idea of what the book might be entitled is "The Anatomy of Unschooling: a philosophical approach to education." ... But I have a problem, and that is a general shortage of ideas enlisted in the book. My question to my fellow Freedomain Radio philosophers alike is what would you like to see come out of this book? What questions should I answer, and what are some ideas that should be listed alongside this book? What should absolutely be included if I really want to make a philosophically related book? Thanks for the answers if you happen to leave a comments below!

In regards to those questions, I can trust someone 100% - even in the case of a death fall dilemma. Leaving details aside, I'll let that answer becomes yours to read, since you're probably trying to convey a meaningful answer from asking those. Also, I went on Stefan Molyneux's revealed websites like you suggested, and I was scared in the beginning, but after a while reading what they had to say, I just had an immediate distaste to everything on the site, since I didn't find a shred of evidence corollary to their claims about Stefan. (If they did, it was really weak, and didn't effect me much) .. It then didn't become as threatening or scary to me, but rather just lame. I see they have a problem with Stefan's coined term "Defooing." which is of no surprise. Departing from old abusive friends, and disbanding from abusive family is fully acceptable, and I encourage it for the well-being of oneself, but it seems that these people think Stefan is some guy trying to fuck up peoples lives or something. Which is counter to what he's ever said. I fully acknowledge Stefan is fallible, and I have seen him admit to his faults in a humble manner. I don't think cult leaders do that, but I'm sure they can scramble up some peculiar reason to think otherwise. Very well said. This actually helped me a lot, and I have applied the same approach when these thoughts arise. Always going back to the basics; logical consistency and empiricism. But yes, I think from reading this, and the other comments below, that It is wrong of me to consider all these thoughts to be irrational. But rather, that they are rational, have a causal root that is worth exploring, and are there for a particular reason. Given the examples you said - of which are by the way a few thoughts I get - which is that this random Canadian on Youtube knows the truth which happens to be counter to everything society generally says is false. It's a stressful burden to carry, although I feel a sense of solidarity that I'm not alone in feeling that way about those thoughts. I am not afraid to be wrong, will always bow to reason and evidence, and will not adhere to anything that says otherwise.

Interesting, thanks for sharing! That was large dose of horrific imagination whilst reading the dream illustration, but the correlation between the interpretation and the dream seems to be accurate if you've thought of it to be obvious. Be sure to post more dream interpretations - you're really good at articulating your interpretations into a readable format.

So recently I have been obsessed over my thoughts in an extremely detrimental and completely self-destructive manner. This continual obsession has been a reacurring phenomenon that strikes at random times, that has nearly psychologically paralyzed me - wherein articulation becomes almost impossible due to an immediate withdrawal or a "blocked" mental feeling. These irrational thoughts that perpetuate themselves on near autopilot, not only inhibit me from general thinking, but it both deteriorates my confidence in mindset, and serves as a blockade from further learning and self-knowledge. I can almost never be sure of anything, and reside into a paralyzed state of mind - inhabited by a constant reoccurring pattern of analyzing my thoughts as they perpatuate, while I'm left feeling miserable; drowning in irrational thoughts and unwanted obsession. These can be one of many closely similar or related thoughts that induce such phenomena. Some of which are: Are these thoughts normal? What if I am wrong? What if my perception is far from conforming to reality or the truth? What if everything I'm choosing to learn is falsehood? Skepticism and doubts to a degree are healthy - but the degree to which I endlessly doubt is self-destructive. These thoughts can be correspondent to the ways in which I think of; either about Anarchy, perceptions of people, an abstract idea, or some other miscellaneous subject that isn't of my current recollection etc.. At one point I worried about Freedomain Radio being a cult because someone via YouTube said I was a cultist, and I did some minimal research and came to find there's an entire communities dedicated to "exposing" Stefan! *sigh*.. I had obsessed over that thought for a couple days until it slowly faded away, then I began my normal more so healthy thought process. Freedomain Radio, anarchism, atheism, psychology, and peaceful parenting are all topics I have invested quite some time in, and am very keen of. So the thought of what I believe and what I've worked enormously hard at, are to be false in the end, is completely devastating to me, and thus obsessions and worrisome thoughts lurk around the corner. My world begins to fall apart, and I only wish for them to cease soon - so that I have some sense of confidence in my fundamental beliefs and thoughts, and can be comfortable in my own mind. It's like an attack on my mind; initiated by myself. self-sabotage, if you will. These are some of the few topics that are easily articulated in the utterance that I can explicitly mention, but my thought processes after a duration of obsessive thinking, then subsequentally expands into a broader obsession into little inconsequential details existing in the abstract. I find it really difficult to conceptualize or elaborate on this, and this may not be the same for everyone - since I don't know what it's like to be inside another persons mind - but the contents of certain abstractions derived from thoughts just strike me to sometimes be weird. They're not really feelings, but just the contents within the abstract subjected to scrutiny. A thought related to that would be "Are thinking these normal?" etc. Thanks for reading.

Though I have never visted any other countries outside the borders surronding The United States of America, I have a fair amount of general Western culture knowledge within my native homeland of predominent Christian lineage & upbringings; including myself from the past for years as an adolencent. Obviously, I think this amasses a great concern of childhood trauma embedded within the individual to lash out in response to being challenged. Perhaps it's a defense mechanism or a fight or flight response in atttempts to preserve their own beliefs as being untouched or unaffected in some way because they fear what may happen if their beliefs are proven to be wrong. One of many of which I remember being a Christian was a sense of fear of punishment if I thought otherwise outside the realm of faith, or lack thereof, I thus I had to protect myself from anything that I encountered which evoked that same feeling. So indeed it is seen as an invasive threat to onself, rather than simple dialogue or debate. Of course these people are.. well.. worthless to talk to in any normal fashion. Moreover, the question remains why is it that there a distinction between Christians of American culture, compared to other Christians living elsewhere. I'm not sure if I can entirely describe that completely accuratly, but I would presume it's because Christianity is more prevalent amongst society here, more than anywhere else. I remember talking to a European once, and said something similar. That the Christians there are far more apathetic if you're gay, atheist, etc.. So clearly the burden of religious extremism is vehemently rampant in the United States of America; which of course subsequently results in the latter; more insecure and defensive traumatized children and later adults that block you on their website for simply challenging them. *haha*

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