Delightful Might

"Karraaazzeee" amazing. Thanks for posting, and sorry I've been a stranger!

I love this!! I've heard in old Scandinavia, parents would teach their children the alphabet by having then do body positions that match the letters (so smart, any time children are expending more calories than the grown ups it is good!) Wouldn't it be fun to come up with positions that represented the virtues? Then of course, there's all the research around upping levels of health-supporting hormones with certain power posing: http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are?language=en

It is making me so ill, as well. The violence on children in B'more is horrible justified from history or no. It changes gray matter. It's super intense cruelty. Stefan posted an awesome video on the situation here: Hurray! Thanks!!

Yes! Yes! You see regular, gigantic punishment of children, openly, on the streets, at the post office, here. Vicious, terrifying. Definitely of the sort that changes gray matter!!!!!! On my street at night there are people that walk up and down beating on things, screaming at each other, fighting with each other, usually. This isn't even during the protests. There is a horrible problem here with hardcore, toxic cruel violence in the families. Thanks, Shirgall. I think it is a weird symbiosis that feeds on itself, Percentient, in that we have American-Irish mafia with strong ties to the police (the white belonging to white-only clubs) that have their own agenda, and the two forces have this incendiary effect. Exactly the sort of problem that arises out of statist forces. J.D. - I have already seen many (they're easy to recognize) "professional" protesters, definitely out-of-staters.

We just climbed on the roof to watch a really big fire just North of Johns Hopkins. There are so many helipcopters. Thanks, jzd, yes I agree. I feel really sad. I have to sleep with one ear open tonight in case the store downstairs gets looted and set on fire. This is all crazy. -D

I am six blocks from where shops have been smashed, we are on lockdown. My street is eerily quiet. All the video feed is rolling in at #baltimore. I am new to anarchy. What is a view as to how this happened? This place is a powder keg. Help me understand what is happening to my city!!

I was just recommended an IFS therapist who is in the US. The person recommending is Swedish (and on Freedomain) and had a terrific experience using Skype. Let me know if you would like contact info and I will PM you. -D

I like reading it, but not so much doing it! I'm with Leevan. Like when you think one of those rope-y trapeze things will be so sexy--I was everywhere, like a scrambling cat on a skating rink!! Haa haa

Hallo Kaki, I will PM you. I am working with an amazing life coach right now who is IFS-centered, and a frequenter of this site. It will be good to have a therapist's name as well. I keep calling it Internal Family Voices, though, ha haaa because that's what it feels like. Thanks for your post. -D

140, but I like unicorns. Does that give me a knock?

Maybe some women will say not all women are like that, but I certainly am like "that." I have always made out the person I was with to be a parent or god who was in charge of what was right. And when he didn't agree with what I thought I would panic and talk to him for hours and tell him he wasn't honoring my feelings. And then I would call him back and tell him some more. It was horrible. Even after I read Atlas Shrugged 15 times, I was still not independent in my judgment. It was so entrenched, even though I was trying hard to change. I'm not with anyone now so I can straighten this out. I am so sorry that all this happened to you, Utopian. I think good people are rare enough that, after getting our acts together, we may not find a mate that matches us. If you are hitting your "bottom lines" (i.e. have great fitness, well-thought through, expert in your field), then that is all you can do. It will be a good life I think! -D

I read Joe Rowlands, "Morality Needs No God" fairly recently - excellent!

Hi Sean! I hope you find like-minded people. Regarding weird physiology, I've had a great time with kettle bells and hot yoga. I'm fighting fire with fire. If my body wants to send me bizarre thoughts that don't match reality, I will do the things that make it send happy/peaceful thoughts, like getting 150 bpm for half an hour!!!!! That, and good sleep, and no wheat. Hope this helps! Best to you, and look forward to seeing you in the Chatroom. -D

(in law school to be an international tax attorney) Hi, it would help to know what the need is for: Scholarship? Optimizing a new company structure? I can make resource recommendations if you let me know your target. D

Georgia, where the swamps are honey and tree roots turn into alligators. Hi Logan! There's a lot to do here. Come to the chat room and talk to us sometime! I have been treated very well down your way, nice people bought me pretty dresses!! Enjoy all the cool things on FDR. D

Hi Matt, your website is excellent! Thanks for the commentary. It is extremely attractive to think that someone else has the answer, but I liked what you said about each of us has our own Morpheous voice, and that we can each be our own "One." I heart my inner compass. Habit or discomfort can translate into seemingly credible thoughts. Me: "I think that's enough for one night, anymore and I could break into pieces." Yoga Teacher: "And three more breaths, hold it . . . 3 . . . . 3 (ha ha) . . . 2 . . . 1, okay now release." Me: (thinking) Wow, I was stronger than I thought, but my thoughts were very persuasive. I could have broken into half. Really. A very small example, but I've discovered my body can speak to me credibly, and in English. Sorting through when I am in my pre-frontal cortex vs. when it's my parent's voice vs. when it is habit, or alcohol!! LOL! Has helped me a lot. Your Matrix analogy helps me to understand all this even more. D PS Nathan - I liked what you said about what is on the inside must be on the outside!

A poetic display of freedom would be crying against a glass wall after days of awkward effort, and struggle and losing contest, utterly spent by the stillness of inadequacy where moments stick to moments, viewing a city that sits in smooth darkness, and drawing the next immutable breath, so, so, so proud.

I will miss being there very much! I have two papers and a giant assignment due over the next three days. Have a great time!!

The mock-up looks great! On content: "The Story" can be really compelling. What shows Stefan as a teen to be interested in philosophy? Did he miss class cramming Aldous Huxley in the library? Were his philosophy books so over-read they looked like they came from the Western Front? I bet he spoke without asking, argued with professors, and debated his friends into paralysis. He'll have to give you 40 details and you'll pick one. Or two. But it will be the one that draws a user in. Leaving a lucrative job that was built with passion in favor of the empty space and free-fall that is the every waking moment for the entrepreneur is a great story. People ask, "what happens if you make a mistake?" Answer, "You make a mistake every three minutes." It's not for the weak. Writing this sort of content seems to require a bit of the artist - candid but not gratuitous, engaging but authentic, intimate but not boring. Thanks for Free-domain, it's awesome!!! I visit every day.

Thanks Hannah Banana, I love your face art. KOB - there's so great writing and videos here, it's like I won the lottery!

Yes, yes! It's so amazing what is going on here. This is phenomenal. I am inspired to triple my focus and work even harder and more happily towards my own happiness!!! I came from such a liberal background that i had to read Atlas Shrugged probably 15 times before things really began to sink in. Even the first time I read it though, I knew it was over the top brilliant. The only time I've ever had a similar reaction to a work was a few days ago, when I came here. Thanks, thanks, thanks!!!

Aha! So I'm law school, and at the end of first year I had just done a moot appellate argument before a panel of professors. The whole semester hadn't gone how I would have liked, and I thought my argument was horrible. I stood on the 9th floor of our library in front of a wall of glass that shows the city - our whole school is glass, like a giant cube of Austrian crystal. I was mad at my performance, I iterated everything I did wrong, I was incompetent, I didn't like the suit I was wearing, and suddenly I leaned against the wall, sobbed, and sank to the ground saying over and over - "I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you." I always wondered what happened - why this deep, clear voice came out of me in the midst of a really awful negative tirade and spoke with a compassion and deep love that I had never seen before. I wasn't in IFS, but I looked it up after reading this post, and I think was my guiding self. I will have to pursue this, thank you for the postings.

Hi, I'm new, too. It's encouraging to see someone quickly acting on a new found principle. Hopefully an encouraging thought: just hearing the phrase for the first time "non-agression principle" a few days ago, and hearing SM state his position has been SO freeing. I think what messes us up isn't so much the pain of abuse but that we think we deserve it, and are somehow bad. I dance, and believe me, dance practice can hurt much more than anything mom did! but the mental violence is what did me in. It's amazing how much better I feel when my reality is corrected. Hopefully that will happen for your girls, especially the oldest. I'm sorry your mother was a coward and didn't stand up for you and for her own happiness. The thought of looking to third graders for leadership, counsel, and grown-up advice is repelling. Isn't the work of SM fantastic, I didn't know about him at all! - D