Nicolas Ouellette

Sure! I'm happy that someone else is interested! How is your French?

Hello everybody! I've recently started re-reading some of Stef's books because I thought a second reading would be useful to me. While re-reading On Truth, a thought came to my mind about translating it to French. I've seen on the forums some threads about tranlation to Hebrew for video subs and Spanish for a book but I don't think anything has been done into French at all. I would like to translate all the books Stef has written to contribute to the community and give it exposure to French-only speakers. I always loved reading and redacting and it seems like a fun and useful challenge to take on. If anyone wants to join in, I'll be glad to have teamates on this project! (Although, it would be very useful to be bilingual in French and English, obviously). I thought of using Google Drive to share our files but if you have any idea of a better alternative, feel free to talk about it. I will be starting with On Truth and after that moving on to the two existing volumes on Anarchy; Everyday Anarchy and Practical Anarchy. Once these are done, i'll see what other book i'll do. If you want to do a book, just tell me and i'll add it to the project. I'll keep the thread updated to match the progress of the work done.

Hello, my name is Nicolas, and i'm new in the forums. I have a lot i want to talk about but i'll try to focus on my feelings for this post. I was introduced to philosophy and RTR by a very good friend of mine about half a year ago and i'm not afraid to say my life is not the same at all since then. I've read books on psychotherapy, childhood traumas, self-esteem and a whole lot of Stefan's books too, and i've put a lot of what i've read into practice in my life and i've changed my ways of thinking, i see things more critically, i require myself to analyze situations - be they emotional or physical - empirically and logically and i'm really seeing the fruits of my labor (and the book's authors labor) coming to being . But when i look in my past, i can remember lots about my childhood, mostly moments where i felt total anguish and sadness where i was abused by my parents and i have a REAL hard time processing this today, i see my friends grieving for their past losses and feeling the repressed feelings, but i can't seem to get to it. I can understand totally what has happened to me and them, i just have difficulty feeling what has long been repressed. I remember being right out yelled at or spanked for things i've done that sure, were irritating my parents and i understand that under NO reason should a child ever be hit or abused in any way but if i think about talking about that to them in the present day, i feel that they will still deny me and my feelings by assembling excuses to their actions, and then something in my head tells me i shouldn't worry about that kind of stuff or that i'm just over thinking it all. Sometimes i also feel guilt for things rather simple i've done or said as a child or to other people recently... I also remember being a total asshole to my brother my whole youth, and today i feel like i was trying to do him all that was done to me by my parents, or all what i felt by my parents, i forced myself to make him feel... At this point, i'd just like to talk this out with my parents and brother, i think my sibling would understand because he is following the same new path as i am, but for my parents... i can't be sure and i really don't want to feel anymore of those past wicked feelings... I am going to talk about this to my closest friends, as i know they are the most honest people i know and i will also listen and look on the forum for help on processing all of this and understanding it. I am deeply open to all past experiences from other members and how they dealt with it, it might bring me some insight on my situation which i would love, but i don't know what to do and really, i'd love it if someone would talk to me...

I'm sorry to hear this, it also reminds me that my neighbor owns a dog that has a very similar attitude, he barks a lot and for no apparent reason, i would also like to try to talk to her in a peaceful situation as Carl proposed since she shouldn't be in a tense mood at that moment. Thank you for posting your ideas on this, if you have anything more to say i'm still listening and i always will.

So it's been a while since I've got a new neighbor living in the other house by mine (i live in a duplex so the two houses are side by side) and some time ago, i heard her screaming at her kid through the walls. But it hasn't been an isolated event, it happened multiple times, but just recently, i decided that i couldn't just sit there and listen to the kid cry and her relentlessly tormenting him this way. So i put my shoes on, when to her side of the house and rang the bell. When she opened the door, i saw her kid with red soaked eyes behind her and i told her that i heard the screaming and i was concerned about what was happening. But i expected her to get out a wonky answer to excuse that because she was being confronted; she told me that it was discipline, that he wasn't putting his clothes on and so on... I was a bit stressed because i am feeling that i'm going to get told that this is none of my concern but then i think that i had a similar childhood, but that no one stood for me when all that bullshit happened, and now i have a chance to change that for this kid, but i'm really not sure what to do or how to do it, because i also don't want to start more trouble than there already is... If anyone has ideas or suggestions about this, i would welcome them openly because i'm trying to change my life and apply RTR the best i can to myself and those around me.