Joseph Maynor

You seem to value self-help more than most people on here interestingly.

Are you saying this to you or to others?

You can definitely work on your motivation! I don't care who you are. This is creation. Yes, true not everyone wants to even attempt to do this, but that's different.

This is true. But how does one develop this consistency? -- which requires a change -- or else there would be no problem.

It's actually a little tricker than you're suggesting, but you make some good points. Self-help is a subject that can be learned like any subject, and no, you don't need to beat yourself up or be a glutton for punishment to change what you work on.

I like how you put this into practice here. This takes work to get in the habit of doing.

This seems to be the primary concern.

What is so special about Peter Ralston?

If it's directly experienced is it material to some degree -- in the sense that it is sensed? I feel like we're quibbling over words.

But why is this guy seen to be popular or an expert in this area?

It should be said that I'm watching these recent movies I suggest in the theater, so format matters.

This begs the question as to where is your information coming from. Do you have a degree in psychology or work in the mental health profession?

Yes, but you're generalizing from an unknown variable unless you have more information. You're operating at the level of pattern assessment alone via what words are used. That is a very limited set of information to be drawing the conclusions you're drawing.

Yes, but this is still all at the level of abstraction and inference. Instead of zooming into the mind, you meet people as people and get to know them that way. Then you can still generalize, but it will have the right relation between cart and horse.

The Long Walk

Movie rankings. Many popular movies I find mediocre at best including One Battle After Another. Is it good? Yes. Is it as good as it's made out to be, no IMO.

But if you hung out with each of us, your assessment would be more accurate, no? How much can you know about someone without this crucial context? Most people on here you don't even know what they look like.

How did you acquire this information with such depth and why? Curious.

Unless I've hung out with someone usually more than a few times, I really don't know much about their true personality.

When I had this experience it wasn't horrifying or scary, it was puzzling and actually quite liberating. It was just being as Consciousness, like noticing a Deeper Truth that is ordinarily veiled. It was more like -- wow I gotta write this down, I can't believe it!

Mercy