Thus_Spake_the_Nightspirit

Great plan, especially the rock band. ;-) Do you know yet what part of the city you'll be moving to?

For those who have so far enjoyed my cat's antics, in my latest video, he does a trick! The catch is, you have to suffer through 9 minutes of me talking "tolerance propaganda" on university campuses before you get to see his performance, but it is totally worth it, I promise! https://youtu.be/bL2a7zZ6avQ

Sorry to hear you are struggling. I can recommend someone who does Skype sessions and does not charge too much (if it is still too much for you, just email him and let him know- he will work with you on payment options). He's also a fan of the FDR show, very empathetic, and knowledgeable in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Email Jason at: [email protected] His website is: https://philosophicaltherapist.com/ Good luck, Anuojat!

I have put up a couple new videos and the latest one is an updated version of a presentation given for a workshop I ran last year under the title, "Countering Leftist Memes." Anyone wishing to run a similar workshop is free to use my video, steal my concept, or ask me for help on how to set up such a workshop. It was a two hour workshop, so obviously the speech is only a small part of it, but hopefully some people find it helpful or interesting. https://youtu.be/LijnzGq8q54

Man, some people are easily entertained... I will never understand some of these things. I am totally new to YouTube in general, so I have no idea what is cool or not. Today, the kid I look after showed me some weird video of an Asian guy singing a weird song about apples and pens and it had millions of views. How do things like that get so popular???

I'm sorry for your traumatic experiences with schooling. However, you sound like you have a defeatist attitude and a belief that because you do not have a degree, you cannot work. There are many jobs that do not require a degree. You don't say what it is you would like to do, but not having your dream job surely doesn't preclude you from working at all. It would probably do wonders for your self esteem to be working and earning a paycheck, no matter what the job was. You seem reasonably intelligent. Is starting a business out of the question? Correct me if I have misinterpreted your post, but it sounds like you've created a false dichotomy for yourself where you either go to college and get a degree or you don't work at all and can't have a family. I think there must be several other options in between these extremes.

I looked up a few unboxing videos and I do not understand why they are such a big thing. The boy I work with assures me they are all the rage at his school and he says he watches them all the time. He showed me a few and I was just like, why is this cool? (I was informed that I was uncool for not liking them!) So the title was not intentionally a play on that, but I'm a bit chuffed that it worked out like that, lol!

Unboxing videos? What's that?

Heh, he was uncooperative! He was supposed to be sitting with me the whole time, but only decided to participate at the end, although I thought he did pretty well. He's a really high maintenance cat and doesn't usually agree to do anything that isn't his idea. :-p I agree with you about "Danes". I would have preferred to do that and I regret my attempt at "working with the narrative", but I decided it wasn't worth the extra hassle to re-shoot that segment. I'll try to avoid that kind of thing in future videos. It sends the wrong message. I've made a Facebook page for the channel in case anyone wants to follow it there: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosophiCat-219355078471946/

Thanks, guys! :-) That "friend" actually unfriended me and blocked me immediately after posting her comment, so unfortunately I can't share with her the video that she inspired. Her comment was extreme enough, but then she went and threw a tantrum about it, too! Some people are sooooo averse to being asked to think!

How old of a boy are we talking about here? A lot of the stuff being recommended isn't really suitable for primary school boys, for example, but rather high school or young adult. I'll second a lot of what has been listed for the older crowd and for upper primary, I would say: Hatchet Call of the Wild Where the Red Fern Grows Red Badge of Courage Encyclopedia Brown The Hardy Boys The Secret of NIMH I'll probably think of more later.

I really struggle to make female friends. I've had maybe two good female friends in my whole life. I currently don't have any. Around other women, I, too, feel like the "odd one out". I just don't ever seem to click with them. And strangely, even with other women who have the same problem, we still struggle to connect with each other in any meaningful way. I don't know if you're doing your daughter a disservice. This is just the way you are and that's okay. As long as you're not trying to push her into being a certain way, I don't see why there is a problem. If you feel fulfilled and happy, I wonder why you think this might be a problem?

Actually, I made it and I let him help, but being a cat, he wants all the credit. Anyway, feedback is appreciated. :-) https://youtu.be/Pul2sUM-iO8

Welcome, Peter! What state are you in?

He has been physically threatening on only two occasions, where he shoved me and then claimed he didn't. I think he felt embarrassed that he did that, hence the denial of it happening. But he makes snarly faces and balls up his fists and gets all red and raises his voice and starts verbally attacking me. At that point, I usually refuse to continue the conversation. When he is angry, he does not take personal responsibility for his words, behaviour, feelings, etc. He gets very defensive and says incredibly cruel things. So in my mind, it's not a conversation anymore and I refuse to just stand there and be abused. He's sort of trying to do better; if I can catch it early enough in the conversation before he gets furious and point out how he is not taking responsibility for himself, then he will sometimes pause and consider it. The other night, he did something that I used to nag him for all the time and I noticed it and let him know that I noticed it and appreciated it and he became enraged and said I was mocking him. His anger was totally out of proportion to the situation and why would your default position be to assume that your own wife is out to get you? But that is what he does often. And I said maybe instead of focusing on how he thinks I was mocking him (I wasn't and said so), he should go reflect on why he assumed that instead of some more benign interpretation. And he did stop at that point and went away for a few minutes and came back with an "I'm sorry, but" statement, which wasn't very helpful, but it did at least de-escalate things somewhat. Conversations used to end with one of us storming off and then never talking about it again. The storming off will sometimes still happen (usually me when I decide the conversation has just turned into abuse) but then we will try to talk about it later. A lot of times we end up having to conclude major arguments in the therapist's office.