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Today I had the opportunity to intervene in child abuse. A 3-4 year old girl was being slapped 'mildly' on the hands while she was sitting at a table from probably her father, a restaurant owner. I felt my anger and disgust building up. I said to myself that if anything more serious happens, I will do something. Then the girl, as all children, explored around, and found a washing broom. The father immediately stopped her and slapped her on the shoulder. Harder this time. My head was spinning around trying to decide what to do. But I am a coward. Either that or my niceness was holding me down. One of my (irrational) plans was to just get up and go push him over if he did something more. I was also contemplating staging a fall onto him to just hurt him back in some way. Or give him the finger in a discreet manner when it came time to pay. In hindsight I think I should have at least told him that his child will suffer psychologically in the future. But all I managed to do was not saying anything and leaving in disgust. Never to return. But this has ruined my day and probably days to come. I feel like SHlT for not doing anything, and my mind is repeatedly trying to get me to go back and do something. If I had done something, then I am pretty sure I would feel better now. Also because I only got to see the surface of the abuse I am sure. Very disgusting to see it in public, even if it is not in my home country. So my advice is when the opportunity appear, don't be a coward like me. You will regret it! I am very disappointed and angry at myself for not doing anything...

No, but that is interesting. Did not really think about that before. Am wondering how it would be.

I have made abstract animations to freely distributable music for years, mainly for my own selfish enjoyment. But now I got very curious about what your expert opinion on them would be. If you are interested. Most recent video HD. Another HD video. Older video.

If it is a public debate that other people can see, then it is worth having. If it is a private debate, then perhaps your time is better spent trying to figure out a more public way to get your word out. Also it will feel like a heavy burden on an old friend if you put all the new things you have learned from here onto their shoulders. I would say you could take a break from discussing this with your friend, and rather slowly touch on the subject at a later time when you think Jane Doe would feel more comfortable talking about it.

As a teenager, I was wondering if I would ever see on TV, a 1-2 hour shouting match between parents, bringing in all of negative family history on both sides that could possibly culminate in violence or object throwing, some random days of the week, originating from such important matters... as molded bread... or... potato that had been boiled too much. I thought this was something normal that some or most parents did, so I was expecting television to reflect that at some point. It dawned on me later that I had drawn one of the short ended straws when it came to parents around in my society. THANKFULLY though, I immersed, no that is too weak a word... I bathed in videogames, which taught me much more and built and trained most of my brain for the future. Had almost no connection to my parents throughout my childhood. Had a lot of connection to my cat. It was mind boggling to me that animals who were supposed to be lower lifeforms were not insane and I could relate to them.

I noticed that the video currently has 8000 likes and 1700 dislikes. Which might be representative of the percentage of people who are thankful for facts and truth, and who still believe the official story.

Having a problem with you, and giving you a hard time, because you want to have something to protect your life and family with, and even be able to intervene if one of your neighbors are home invaded, and their life is in danger. That... is messed up. In Norway we are not allowed to have any powerful weapon like a gun if it is going to be used to defend ourselves. But we can have a gun for serious sports, or genuine hunting, so long as it is locked inside a regulated weapon cabinet with ammunition separate, so that it is not available if your life is in danger. Sorry for sidetrack.

Not really, but I think it is important to give the opportunity. She can not later then be shocked and play the victim as much when the consequences barge inn. I suspect the standard answer will be "Do you have children?", that is why a response like "Abuse is wrong in every situation" or "Abuse is still abuse no matter the circumstances", should deflect most snarkiness, and get to the point quickly. She can mumble to herself about when you get your own children, while you make a variant of Dsayers post clear. The threat alone could be enough to change her and the child's life.

Perhaps I would go knock on the door until she opens, say "I hear that your child is in pain", and ask her if she needs help becoming a good person and have a good relationship with her child, if she says yes, then follow up with all the good stuff because she has agreed to letting you help her become a better person. If she says no, or a variant thereof, like, "I am a decent person already, but my child just needs to respect me", or denies that anything is going on, tell her "abusing another person is wrong in every situation" and let her know that you will follow up with something like Dsayers post, so that she knows that her actions can have consequences. Just like her actions would possibly have consequences in public. If she says something like no, and you in the end get no response from police or anything like that, then you could try to rally all the neighbors that you know are sure to hear the abuse, and find a solution that way. That would also add the benefit of not standing alone against her, and in the process conveying to you neighbors that abuse is not acceptable.

Internet.

Did you ever have a cat or a dog? Even any animal? (small or big), I honestly believe that could be a good new start for you. An animal is guaranteed to not be interested in your bank account, and is just as much capable of love. I know that my cat relationship in my childhood to early adulthood was a very comforting beacon of hope in the every day insanity.

That is an intense post. I had a thought while reading the link, that if it is genetical and frequent in the human population, then I would argue that it is not a disorder. Hmm I guess I have to put that opinion on hold, since a disorder can be defined wildly. Here is the wiki page. What I ment was that it would be normal throughout the human population.

I have not read any philosophy books, only read about philosophy some places and a few things about philosophers, and been fed slightly irrelevant stuff about the philosophers at college many years ago. But a lot of videos and podcasts from Stefan have gone through my neurons. And I am pretty sure I am getting more philosophical value in less time and in a more understandable way, when it has been compressed and conveyed by someone of our time. So you are not alone on the book field. And you write that you have already read some of a book, so that is more than me and probably others here. You have no need to be assertive in a forum. You can just ask a question about something you are wondering about for example, Like many others do, and myself.

I used to absolutely HATE when I am about to do something, or will do it in 5-15 minutes, and someone tells me to do it, or tells me that I should do it. Because then I would torture myself with, that if I do it now, it will look like I am too retarded to not think about doing it myself, AND that I am their slave. It was really painful, and could last for half an hour if I remember correctly, and could make me postpone the thing so as to not make it seem like I am their slave. Now I just say "yes, I am going to." or something like that. I don't think I self torture about it anymore. I believe the reason that I did not say anything before in my life, was that I thought it would look like I was lying to try to make it look like I had the same plan. See how screwed up that is? I guess I was much more of a mess before than I was aware. (I was still eating a pharmaceutical though) How are you able to just ignore it when people tell you to do something if it happens to correlate with your plan? I find that hard to believe, considering what I went through when it happened to me.

Yes, offline I have, and online here for example. I have my irrationality proof vest on so all irrationality has minimal to no impact. Also I don't spend time with psychos anymore because I know now that is not good for my own psychological health.

Link to videos on the teaching. Quite amazing! No sitting still and shutting up like in 99.9999 % of all schools.

I would write "PURPLE LIVES MATTER" on a piece of paper and hold it up. Or "EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIVES MATTER". Might cause a short circuit in some.

Also, wouldn't raising the minimum wage result in some/most students losing their job? After being taught what disaster raising the minimum wage can be, It is weird for me seeing someone advocate it.

Then it looks to me that you can calmly state what it is that is bothering you to them. Note that yelling/shouting/barking/raging is not something you want other people to do to you either. Just be curious, and ask questions. If it looks like the situation might escalate, then that is dangerous, and so you should concede the matter and not let it get to you. If they are unwilling to reveal anything, then you have your answer. They are keeping it secret on purpose, and then there is also no reason to rage or escalate, and so you can let it go.

In the past yes.

Have they proven themselves to be liars?

Great and very positive post. This forum is like what heaven is supposed to be. Getting to meet all the good people.

Interesting and complex. I think I have become much better at separating my own feelings from feelings not of my own after continued exposure to Stefan. And identifying irrational and misplaced feelings coming from family has become a chore, and those irrationalities do not bother me anymore. It is akin to me living in the renaissance, while they are hurling rocks at each other in the stone age. I am showing them that wheels can be put on a cart to move it forward and transport goods with domesticated animals. They glance and eye roll at it, or pretend to understand, and then just continue storing up rocks for the next stone throwing family event. I still think I have a problem with letting other people invade my mind and decision making though. I don't think I can help you with your problem directly, because I don't know how I made the transition myself, except that it was because of Stefan. You should definitely respect your feelings, but when you are not sure what feelings are yours in origin, I understand the issue, and I had it same.

Some ants have their convictions. Just like some people:

It would be better for all species on the planet, and cheaper for us, if everyone watered their plants less now, and helped limiting rain water on plants and trees now. And if everyone defecated less now, (deposits of manure away from plants are ok). And if everyone let plants have less sun now by helping to build man made shadows, so that plants and trees don't get as much sunlight. We need to do this in order to save our planet. Either you are with us, or you are with the plants - animals - humans - ecosystem. It has become a blatant attack on prosperity through taxation funded deceptive propaganda. Another religion to put you down in your illusory place, and you who believe it are falling for it at your own peril.