yupamiralda

Utter submission to the authorities running the mental health system, from doctors to orderlies. If I, as a mental health patient, have a problem with...

It's been a while since I've questioned my treatment....I've found that what they want is basically utter submission. Basically every decision I make ...

I've just seen a lot of folks in the mental health field hide behind their credentials when they can't answer a question.

The "act" of philosophy was something I tried to touch on in another thread. It's all well and good to have a "truth", but how does one live with it? ...

I grew up on a farm that did conventional agriculture. I don't want to go into farming, although money considerations might compel me to do so. Small ...

"ain't no mercy, got that purple lambourghini lurkin'/don't you know that p***y worth it?" --Rick Ross

I feel a fundamental irony towards everybody who wants to "change the world" or thinks "if we got rid of X, the world would be paradise". Very univers...

So, you're saying you paid a lot of money so that you can claim you are an "expert"?

I used to be, like, completely insane. Don't make excuses for yourself. Tyrannize your brain and only allow it to entertain what a psychiatrist would ...

"But it certainly is Libertarian heaven." Oh, "certainly", is it?

joke's on you: I am a barbarian who hates civilization! Look I mean seriously dude, a lot of people are already doing "condescending evangelizing athe...

I don't understand why people hate the elite instead of wanting to become elite.

I have similar problems with the sort of thinking you talk about. Absolute freedom is a ridiculous idea. Unquestionably Existentialism has Christian a...

What makes you different from a crusader?

I once met a kid who was training to be a nurse in america. He spent years 0-16 in somalia at the height of the 90s chaos. I mentioned I had been to p...

lol that attitude is exactly why people hate supposed intellectuals Why do you feel compelled to "save the masses", as it were?

I think you used poor judgement in both situations, compared to the example I gave.

No, no, that's just it: it is very possible to control yourself if you've been trained; in fact if you're doing well, you feel the ultimate, non-think...

I'm not denying that discretion is often the better part of valor. I also would rather have sex than fight. But really, I have to take the fact that I...

I've been psychotic, and I've been (am, pretty much) institutionalized. I had a lot of bizarre perceptions but I don't think there was any "reality" t...

How many of you have acted under the influence of adrenaline when there was a threat to your life? And used violence to neutralize the situation? How ...

I define "power" as basically influence over another's decisions--and it's a matter of degree with each person. I don't think a great deal of rational...

This is sort of a joke. But I'd say communism is the idea that you are always morally obligated to side with the loser. What shocks me about Mao is th...

The thing is, if you follow skepticism to the depths, you realize what shaky ground you're on. I look at what people think about the stock market and ...

T Clark: For most of my life I wanted to be a videogame designer. So that's how I think of it. Yes, I'm putting myself at the top because I'm doing it...

Well, I appreciate the responses. My life circumstances are very unusual. I don't have much internet access. I had enough to post this, check on how i...

All political arguments are aesthetic arguments are moral arguments are religious arguments. Different moralities promote different strategies for cul...