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@Raptorsin7 Thanks dude. I like the idea. I'll look into that.

Am on a year off of university, and I need a full time job. I want it to be aligned with my future career. My interests are related to philosophy, psychotherapy, sociology and teaching. I've worked quite a lot with kids in the past too. Pls feel free to just throw ideas at me (Am prepared to go outside the box)

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When i was younger I used to think philosophy was the be all end all. Nowadays, I think most of its a joke. It is akin to the telling of elaborate bedtime stories. I think its better to study sociology instead. And, namely the sociology of discourse. The academy has a certain structure to it, and takes place within a certain context and various systems operate to produce the set of knowledge that it does. To my mind, it is not that thinkers produce theories. Instead, those theories are imparted on them through systems external to their free choice. Be they systems at the level of mind, society or elsewhere.

Probably tea, journalling or medication

@Raptorsin7 Sounds great dude. Glad that you were able to connect with your parts there. And ye im right aligned with your thinking. I think if you're psychic system allows for it, do nothing meditation can be real useful. As it lets the parts flow. However, it might be that some protectors need talking to. But that's just me brainstorming

You are enough dude. Sounds like some childhood stuff around needing to earn attention. Short term, just don't go to places that overtly suck. Maybe see it as an exploratory thing. Where would you like to explore that you haven't explored before? What would you like to do? What's a place that suits both your interests.

Sounds good dude.

There are quite a few jobs that would be suitable for this tbf, i.e. being a lawyer.

@Someone here I'd take a mixed approach. Do both, even if your journaling isn't v much at first. And, I'd say look for a career/ job that is good enough, atm. Take the pressure off yourself. Baby step this part of your life if you want. And if you make mistakes its cool. And you've already been courageous in following your own path into philosophy. I.e. go and spend a night in a hotel and see how that is. Then maybe work a part time job you are somewhat interested in once per week. But, I'm in early 20s, so haven't got that much direct experience out in the proverbial real world yet myself.

I'd search around for a mentor/ set of mentors, be that in person or the internet. You can get multiple for different parts of your life. I.e. for personal psychology mine qre Richard Schwartz, Leo Gura, and newly Jay Earley, plus my psychotherapists I'm quite heaving on doing internal work, as I think once you work on your psyche enough the barriers to living in alignment kinda tumble down and the road ahead becomes much more clear. You naturally resonate in a creator territory more than a reactor one. But, that's more just something I have faith in, than something I've directly experienced.

The way i see it, all language is delusion. So any attachment to belief, which comprises language, is deluded. So, its pretty hard not to be deluded lol.

From an IFS perspective, you want to treat all parts of you with compassion, and unburden them from extreme roles, whilst developing connection with them. However, also you want to become increasingly self-led. I suppose that is a similar idea of transcendence to traditional spirituality. The IFS defined self can be compared to God to my opinion. So you can also see it as being increasingly god led. So, there is an integration of transcendence, acceptance, connection and liberation.

Long term treatment wise: IFS therapy with an IFS institute practioner

@ZenAlex nice point

Haha my man. you literally recommend the same shit as me. was thinking of dropping some david tian ifs stuff how'd you come across his stuff? ---------------------------------------- OP i second the ifs stuff dude

If you want to get serious about it, try IFS w/ an ifs institute practioner if you have money. theres a way you can do a lot of work yourself, too w/ it. Be careful which advice you take too pm me if u want

@Carl-Richard Fairs dude. I looked it up and you're right. Wild

@Carl-Richard What do you mean by pre-modern?

@BuddhistLover Haha classic

1. Fifa. used to be skyrim. 2. Call of duty 3. One of the GTAs. Myb san andreas or one of the old need for speeds 4. MW3

Cos generally, when we lived in a state of nature, as Hobbes said, Life was nasty, brutish and short. Sure. There are some good parts to nature, a lot we can get in touch with. Like @Carl-Richard says above, its about filtering through nature and finding what works and what doesn't. You get a cut on your leg a few thousand years ago, and you can't trust nature. Nature will fuck you. I also think 40 is too high an age range, I'd put it in the 20s. In a large sense, generally everything that exists today exists as a means of surviving and adapting to nature. Good question tho

Yes. Not from direct experience. But there are quite a few successful puas who swear by it. Its also v good for the fundamental of, 'Assume the positive'

Haha been there. My favourite one is, The Ship of Theseus. Is the ship with all replaced planks still the Ship of Theseus or is it a new ship? I think it comes down to the fact that there is no essence to anything. There is no ship, apart from what we hold to be a ship. It may be that we are able to gain consensus within a particularly community by arguing for one point of view in a certain type of way, but in an objective sense, there is no better or worse categorisation. That is because the notion of there being an objective sense is arbitrary. And, with that being the case, combined with a deterministic view, I think the question becomes a sociological, rather than philosophical one. I.e. why did we come to hold that it is a ship. That too though can be refuted from a postmodernist angle lol. Shits wild out here haha. Nice post OP

@mostly harmless lol