Daniel W.

@danielw

I agree with you. For me the most disturbing part of it is the ritual touching and physical violence to a family members genitals. It’s abusive.

But the second most disturbing thing is what you say:

It takes choice away from the child, is yet another forced social conformity, and has potential for negative outcomes.

The loss of bodily…[Read more]

@danielw I like those.  I’m not very good with rules, so I haven’t compiled a list, but I do have personal projects.  I learned to not get irritated by anyone.  That took a few years, but I’m pretty good compared to how I used to be.

My mum had a favorite mantra.  Never complain, never explain.  I’m working with this one at present.  It’s harder…[Read more]

@danielw – sounds good.

@regthefronkeyfarmer – “Admitting you don’t have all the answers but striving to find them is a better place to be?”

– that’s true.  Why is this?  Why do we always want to know things?  Why is it, “knowledge is a hit”?  Making sense of the world must be a survival skill.  It actually gives us pleasure to know things…[Read more]

@danielw I have a strong tendency to consider a lot of uniquely human qualities in terms of rushed evolution, such that the wide variation of qualities never had enough evolutionary time/history to be honed or fine-tuned or eliminated from us, genetically. E.g. some people are born with a small tail, or even gill parts next to their ears… which…[Read more]

@danielw – “the loudest voice, the most outrage, or the most power.”

– what I observe in the noisy Left is that it is packed full of narcissists – competitive bullies who look out for no.1.  I’m sure the Right is similar.

These two trouble-making factions obscure real debate and ensure that people’s real concerns are ignored by the wider world.

@popebeanie – of course hoarding makes sense as part of a spectrum of “keeping things”, but as a dysfunction, it probably depends on the reasons why people do it, and how easy it is for them to stop.  We probably all collect things.

@DanielW – I’m sure that your “Aspergers collecting” is a separate thing from addiction or hoarding – I’m always…[Read more]

Update. So, @danielw I’ve downloaded Headspace and done Day 1 of the session. I didn’t know it was going to be an English accented voice directing me – living here in the states, I miss English accents and it made it so much easier for me to want to listen.  And I actually achieved following the directions and messing with my concentration – much…[Read more]

I also read about the benefits of meditation – however, I get stuck and impatient with the ’empty your mind’ direction.  @danielw are you saying there are apps and things that make this mind-emptying thing easier?  Or even obsolete?  I’d be very interested in what you’ve found.

@danielw – “Or maybe, the old you died, and you are now a replacement you.”

– lol, that’s a rabbit-hole right there.  If you think about it though, if there’s a spectrum from “life” to “death”, then being under general anaesthetic is somewhere uncomfortably far out in the middle.