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Wow, I can't imagine being raised by a mother like this.

This poster, who's only been a member of this board for eight days, gets it!

FDR Podcast 2798 is entitled Living For The Future - Saturday Call-In Show, September 17th 2014. But September 17th, 2014 was a Wednesday.

Normally, I would answer. But I think dsayers and Kevin Beal did such a good job of both explaining your situation and providing you with actionable advice that I'll keep silent for now.

Without self-knowledge, you have no automony. When you're happy, you don't know why. When you're sad, you don't know why. When you're angry, you don't know why. I haven't started therapy yet, but will do so when I'm more financially established. For now, I meditate on both Stef's podcasts and on the more consistent observations of the Manosphere. (The following authors are arranged from most important to least important: Rollo Tomassi, Krauser PUA, Mike Cernovich, Captain Capitalism.) When I've blended those authors into a coherent philosophy, I'll have a unique position on what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, and what choices every man must freely make.

Why self-knowledge? Because I don't want to live a shitty life. So how do you define a shitty life? Xavier, please answer here.

Your entire post is awesome, but I wanted to highlight this part to suggest that Hannah is so emotionally involved with strangers that she is anxious over what she tells them even before they've indicated any offense. (Hannah, if you think this statement is wrong, tell me and I'll edit it out.)

This seems like a completely unrelated question, but I swear I'll tie it together after you answer: Do you think the color red is objectively real or subjectively experienced?

Seconding everything Tyler Durden said, why not volunteer for a local animal shelter? You'll see first-hand just how cruel other people have been to animals, but this time you'll be in a position to help.

It's impossible to know, before conception, that a fetus will have Down's Syndrome. That's literally impossible, unless time travel is ever developed.

Billy Chubbs, returnofkings author, is really cynical about Women Against Feminism... http://www.returnofkings.com/41607/womenagainstfeminism-is-typical-female-attention-whoring

I could use this example, but it's boring. One person has to take the lead and say, "Okay, we misunderstood each other. Let's create a white-board to write down who needs to do which chores, on which days."

I think Lars nailed it by pointing out that there are no positive obligations. So the only way you can frame this is by suggesting that Down's Syndrome babies are stealing something from someone, or that their parents are.

I think I get what you're saying and I totally agree with it. I'm a very big fan of scientific knowledge, but I get this intuitive "shudder" when imagining mothers being forced to abort Down's Syndrome fetuses. There's no way in hell I'd want any government to be in control of that. There's also no way in hell I'd want to expose mothers who give birth to Down's Syndrome babies to ridicule in a free society. I would support insurance incentives in a free society to abort such a fetus. But I don't know what financial incentives in a DRO ought to exist in a free society.

I'm a private SAT tutor, and I've tutored two siblings-of-mentally-disabled people. One was a boy whom I felt was defeated by the constant attention his disabled brother got. He was certainly soft-spoken and always sad. The other was a girl whom I liked a lot. I felt her optimism and social skills were a direct result of having her brother. She knew how to be caring without being impatient, and I admired her lack of impatience (if that's even a term). I get what you're saying, though, about needing to consider the happiness of others.

I'm 38 now and I never thought I'd say this to a 22 year old woman, but I'm glad I made you cry. The shedding of emotions is the clearest path to personal progress and healing. What struck me most about your post was the realizing, "I loved her and still do, but she wasn't a very good mother." You're allowed to feel complicated feelings about your parents, no matter how much they try to enforce simplicity-of-feeling upon you. Only my feelings toward my father are simple: I don't love him, don't respect him, don't admire him, don't wish to emulate any part of him. My feelings towards my mother are complicated: I only somewhat love her. I admire certain parts of her, while realizing that many of those parts were destructive towards her. I respect her a lot, but she doesn't have any moral authority over any of my actions. I don't seek her advice on anything. A couple of days ago I cried about my mother. I looked back at her life and realized that she only taught me two skills: (1) work really hard - which she taught me by emulating and expecting me to follow, and (2) suppress my emotions - which she taught me by emulation-alone. I'm struggling just a bit to find a job in my new location: have been running into obstacles that ought not slow me down, but have. And I realized that if I only "worked hard and suppressed my emotions, (loss of confidence in the face of obstacles)" then I'd maximize my chance to both establish roots here and have a life that I can be proud of. But the instant I told myself that, my eyes teared up, and I said, "Damn, mom. All that heartache, all that pain, and all that heartache that we both suffered - (you, obviously more than me) - and it just might turn out that the only skills you taught me are going to be enough. Not enough to make me happy, but enough to get me started on the road to happiness. And if we accept that this is really all that a parent wants, then in your eyes you really did do a good job. Your pain was worth it..."

From what I recall in high school biology, the Down's Syndrome test is easy to do and not very prone to error. (All you have to do is detect a third copy of a specific chromosome in a fetus' genotype.)

Have you ever had days where your behavior matched five-out-of-the-nine descriptions above? Have you ever had days when your behavior matched seven-out-of-the-nine descriptions above? Have you ever had days when your behavior matched all nine of the descriptions above? =================== How about the same three questions, substituting the word "weeks" for "days"? ---------------------------------- Now the most important question of all: Do you honestly think that LITERALLY 100% of the people you know can honestly say, "No psychiatrist guy, I've never had days or weeks that match at least five of the descriptors."? If not, then this psychiatric disorder describes literally everyone.

I also can see his argument. Naturally, I differentiate between a governmental system that forces all Down's syndrome babies to be aborted (BAD!) and a free society which strongly encourages (with financial penalties, if necessary) all Down's syndrome babies to be aborted (reasonable). But I'm open to the concept.

The timestamp is 10:37, but the point begins maybe a minute before that. Right, so if ONE piece of advice doesn't work, does this mean: (1) the process of losing weight is friggin impossible, or (2) that other pieces of advice may work?

The Bernie Fedorowicz example was in the video. Look in the last 20% of it. And I know what types of guys those women DON'T date, because they're never photographed with those types of guys in tow.

Your protest here was invalided by the Bernie Fedorowicz example from the video. Yes, "Genetics and the environment in the womb and early childhood play a huge role in how a person looks." BUT you can also extend that to "how hard working a person is", "how much money they currently possess", and "how responsible they are". So until the women who preach fat acceptance are willing to date fat, ugly, loser, irresponsible, poor men and raise them into hunks-of-masculine-responsibility, their advocacy of fat acceptance becomes hypocritical.

If you truly believed that, then you wouldn't complain if I were to (through magic or technology) convince 100% of people that your shirt isn't your shirt. You'd surrender to their collective demand for your shirt, merely because it's a collective demand for your shirt. You could've at least said, "JSDev ought to stop the discussion with me, labmath, because I believe that property rights are non-natural and socially-defined. Hence no naturalistic argument in favor of property rights will convince me that property rights aren't socially-defined."

I haven't seen the movie, but I did watch the trailer. I'm cynically amused by the whole premise, because it aligns so perfectly with what I know about men and women based on Rollo Tomassi's "Best of Year One" and "Best of Year Two" collections. I don't want to write a million words here, but the movie is so catered towards women's "replace a beta with an alpha who possesses a side of beta" fantasies. And there's nothing you can do to prevent women from thinking that way. -------------------- Does this article help clarify your horror at the movie? Or does it miss the mark entirely? http://www.returnofkings.com/41715/how-a-computer-simulation-showed-me-the-cost-of-female-sexual-freedom

I wanted to add a second perspective: the way gender-equality produces projection. If the genders are equal and men like sensitive, caring women, then men presume they should be caring and sensitive. If the genders are equal and women like confident, assertive men, then women presume they should be confident and assertive.