In my back yard, I am a vengeful god, raining down terror and armageddon on the slugs and greenfly, fighting the cats and seagulls to protect my patch...
No they fucking don't, people who talk shite have the right to be ignored and sidelined by sensible folks. - just my opinion. There are lots of issues...
And the sequel. Disbarred therapist relates the story of how he was trapped by a sociopathic female client under the rubric #notmetoo. To cries of "fa...
It reads to me like one of those stories told to a therapist to avoid confronting the real issues. Here's a reframing alternative ending: "So Margot, ...
Well aside from the explicit denial in my last sentence, hardly at all. I am inauthentic, because I am fragmented. So on the one hand I am irritated t...
No, we're not on the same page at all. We are radically at odds, which might explain why you find me cryptic. Variously attributed. Here is a Gordian ...
I don't think the name of the experience matters, and no one is in the business of issuing certificates of authenticity. What happened was clearly pos...
I don't think I'm being particularly cryptic, so probably, I don't know what I'm talking about. Nevertheless, I am fairly clear that authenticity is a...
Manipulate as in handle, not necessarily unpleasant. It is how most people go on most of the time, giving each other little strokes - 'good boy', 'who...
It's not how I usually use conversation, except when I want to be manipulative. But you bring us neatly back to transactional analysis - I'm ok, you'r...
I wouldn't dignify it with the term 'argument', and what the fuck 'transcendental apperception' is when it's abroad I have no idea. But it is a mere o...
Hello Sad, I'm Frightened. Two classic masks of that theatre for which 'all the world's a stage'. Hello Alone, I'm Frightened. Ever been to a Quaker M...
Yes, I thought the moderation was a little hasty. Your proposal was no worse than antinatalism, which seems perfectly acceptable here. If there was a ...
I want to have a truth telling rule - "tell the truth". But here in the psycho-web, there is only telling, and never showing; nobody has to put their ...
All ladies are forever young, and the details of their toilette are not a suitable topic of conversation unless like Hanover, it is the sincere expres...
Yes, almost always it is a game. I agree with your criterion of sincerity; if I buy a card to please, it is a manipulation, and therefore a game. Hall...
How universal do you want to get? If every interaction is a game, then 'game' is just another word for 'interaction'. If one can never unmask, then a ...
Davidson is very congenial, isn't he? It might be worth considering how the appropriate description can change through time. A car crash that is my ow...
Alas, in my dotage I have confused you with the perfidious @"frank", and you have become innocently swept up in my hostile environment. My humblest ap...
Why is it perplexing? You ask a fairly personal intimate and specific question, and then are bored with the answer. Let's talk honestly - well actuall...
Well this is what I'm talking about. You ask an intimate question, seem to want an honest relationship, and when you get a response, walk out. It's a ...
Well, I am nearly invulnerable on this site, but still I can be hurt by those whose opinions I respect, to just that extent that I am committed to my ...
Yes. And as you didn't ask, I am also afraid of her. It's part of the electricity of life; we can hurt each other, and we sometimes do. I call it vuln...
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Shall we say then, that a relationship without fear is a relationship without investment or commitment - a compl...
One of my mother's wedding presents was to have all her teeth extracted and replaced by lovely new rot-proof dentures. This was quite common at the ti...
Yes indeed. It is like clutter in the house; it takes over. But then cleaning and tidying can also take over. I don't think there is a rational answer...
I was thinking of my own fear of dentists. I go, stressed and fearful, because I have rationalised that the discomfort of wild toothache is far worse ...
I think this is just a dispute about terminology. And this may be too, but it seems to me that you are defining will power as doing what is right and ...
In this example, I think it makes more sense to talk about evening and morning than mind and body, because the conflict is more clearly delineated. Th...
Sure you are, and sure the ant is the grasshopper, and the morning person is the evening person. And also not the the same. People are conflicted, and...
Well it becomes necessary to assume the division of your second sentence when you have assumed the unity of your first sentence. The former is an act ...
I see it differently. I can decide in the evening not to have coffee in the morning because the decision is theoretical and so, cheap - it requires no...
Great image! But also using your towel, and demanding to know what the fuck you are doing barging into his bathroom. And then... https://www.youtube.c...
Ok, then just as I say I cannot choose to walk because I lack legs, X says he cannot choose to refrain from his rituals because he lacks something or ...
Call the game 'analysis', or 'theorising', or 'psychology'. It's a game people play of theorising the games people play, that involves the analysis of...
Consider anorexia. It's the most dangerous form of obsession to the individual, and it's obsessive self-control. No one is an ant or a grasshopper, ev...
As usual, it's a question of identity; who is X? We philosopher-therapists identify X as a being extended through time that has short-term and long-te...
What is required, I would say, is that the passion to overcome fear is stronger than the fear. Reason will serve both. So again there is no sense in t...
You just described the situation that heis right about that, so why do you ask - it seems irrational of you. It is very similar to a phobia, X is frig...
More triples. Man, Nature, God <=> Philosophy, Psychology, Religion <=> mind, body, spirit <=>Good, evil, Judgement. You may not like this much, but I...
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