Greetings

[ivamara]

Gosh, I've been listening to Stef since he had a ponytail. Then I kind of stopped, and now for 2 years I've been catching up with podcasts. His voice is usually what I hear before I fall to sleep, and interestingly enough I never had a dream about it. I mean, he never appeared

 

I see people tell a little bit about their childhoods in these. I had a pretty good one. Happy childhood, even though I was through war, literally. I'm from Croatia. It definitely left some trauma, but while we were going through it I was a kid, following my mom everywhere. My apartment was the safest so neighbors were here, kids played commodore 64, adults tried their best to make us have a feeling of some sort of normalcy.

 

Aside from that I was spanked a few times, I know people say sometimes I've deserved it, but one time I definitely did. I kicked my dad in the balls as hard as I could because I've seen Jean-Claude Van Damme do it in the movies, so my dad's reacted in the moment. I really couldn't blame him But immediately he apologized and showed genuine sadness and anger at himself that he did it.

Now my parents say that if they knew what they know now would never do it. So their acknowledgment of their sometimes lazy parenting means a lot to me.

 

My dad is a interesting guy. Catholic who likes Nostradamus, Sai Baba, and this new lady who writes about angels in her hair he accepts my views and we have interesting and at times, frustrating conversations. He really doesn't live his weird conservative philosophy, he's acting more like libertarian. Like I said, interesting and weird guy who makes me feel loved every time I'm around him.

Mom is more rational one. She has best people skills I've seen ever in anyone. She accepts new things, good arguments, I love to see joy and excitement in her eyes when she hears something true that she knew all the time being articulated to her for the first time. That's as good as it gets when you talk to someone. the feeling I get when I hear something from the first time is a real mindgasm, and to see it in other is almost as good when you feel it yourself.

 

Anyway, to see people in their 50s and 60s who had pretty rough childhoods, open their hearts and minds to new things is pretty amazing. And that's why I really love my parents. I love my mom bit more

 

I have 2 dogs, I love animals(vegetarian), movies(huge geek), documentaries, TV shows, books, music and of course philosophy. I have amazing 2 very close(best) friends. One is anarcho communist, but I have his soul, I only need to give it one final hug and he will be free

 

If you need good(the best ) movie recommendations, or you want to discuss about movie you saw, I'm here. I love to change my mind about movies sometimes when I hear someone else's perspective which is also huge mindgasm (I never use this word, I used it twice here already).

 

I have a lot of issues too So I look forward reading stuff I can relate to so it can help me, and hopefully we can help each other.

 

Anyway, it's so good to finally be here.

 

 

oh, only thing I disagree with Stef is mixed martial arts And also him not talking about vegetarianism.

And I'm a determinist. I became determinist not too long ago, and was frustrated every time when I would hear one, now it's the other way around. Extremely frustrating topic which I try to avoid as much as possible

 

Here's to new friendships!