Carl-Richard

Diagnoses are not fundamentally permanent. Statistically, some diagnoses are very stable. But no, psychiatrists aren't a bunch of evil simpletons who just want to paint you under one brush for the rest of your life and medicate you until you die. That is an inaccurate stereotype. For some diagnoses, you need to fit say 7 out of 10 symptoms to be diagnosed, and especially if you're an edge case, it's likely that a diagnosis may change over time given a re-assessment.

Everybody has had the thought of correlating MBTI with SD, but only you took it seriously.

Nobody says psychiatric diagnoses are permanent entities ? "Only incurable diseases are real" – Razard86 ?

I just re-watched this gem: the debate that made Mr. Girl famous. It's probably the best example I've ever seen of Tier 2, because it's distilled to its essence without the highfalutin hyper-intellectualism of the Game B crowd, and you also get to see it interact with a Tier 1 perspective in an organic environment, which creates a great contrast. Mr. Girl: "empathize with everybody." Vaush: "SLAY NAZIS!"

STOP ?

As for specific actions that always step over the line unless we've made some previous agreements, I would treat an onlyfans subscription as a porn membership, because the chance of being dumped is the same, including exclusive nudes/videos, unless they have very few subs and live nearby or know each other personally. As for strip clubs and lap dances, it mostly depends on context. If she went one time for fun with her friends, I wouldn't think much of it. If she went to the strip club regularly, I would be suspicious. Strippers need to hook up too, you know? For hiring hookers, it's more problematic, because the hooker is incentivized to cultivate a relationship which is similar to a partner relationship. Besides, I would just generally not be ok with it. There are other reasons why I personally wouldn't hire a hooker.

What you really should be asking is if I would be ok if she watched porn as well, which I would say yes to. There are some girls who watch a lot of porn.

Hmm yeah, maybe I mostly appreciate them from afar. I don't think I particularly want to be dominated. Maybe it's just an awe response that comes in addition to the sexual arousal, like "man, what a majestic creature", kinda like when you look up to a male figure that you respect.

I like dominant women too. Maybe because my mom is one If you think about how females are mostly attracted to masculine behavior and males mostly to feminine physical appearance, I think I appreciate a certain mix of that. It's like a black panther; beautiful, seductive and dangerous.

There are like 3 pop songs that come to mind that my gym plays regularly that I kinda like, but I don't know what they're called

Do you think the traits hyperactivity and attention deficiency exist?

Spiral Dynamics is related to other stage theories in developmental psychology like Piaget, Kohlberg, Erikson, Loevinger etc.

Different words, similar concept, just like nirvana vs. moksha.

Stagnation.

They're certain regularities of perception that you tell yourself stories about cognitively in the form of symbols, in order to construct a generalized and higher-order understanding which is pertinent to your survival.

@Danioover9000 What did you eat? ?

Ok, so you posit nothingness as your reduction base. When you do that, then by default, you no longer require an explanation for nothingness, but also in a similar vein, nothingness cannot explain anything by itself, or it's at least not a very useful explanation (e.g. "why can I not read your thoughts?" – "nothingness"). If you want your metaphysics to be able to make useful explanations for different stuff (maybe you don't), then where do you go from here?

A pragmatic post-Kuhnian understanding of science and epistemology, a biopsychosocial understanding of health, a systems understanding of physiology and neuropharmacology, a pluralistic understanding of spirituality and religion, a meta-theoretical understanding of psychology and society, and an understanding of deep ecology and holism.

You always need to start with something that cannot be explained, that cannot be reduced to something else. That applies to all metaphysics (unless you want a metaphysics that cannot explain anything).

@Raptorsin7 I guess I'm pointing out how such a task can look very ugly if you're not principled, because you'll easily adopt a hyper-idealized and dogmatic worldview which goes straight against your former self, which is how you'll end up pushing people away etc. On my path of integrating Red, I'm not going to go full "wife at home, me at work" like Greek over here. I'm fine with the modern project. For me, it's mainly about tapping into a certain energy. Maybe it will have some impact on my temperament, but I'm not going to let myself be swallowed by a completely different value system.

Meditate more.

I talked about in the other Tate thread how integrating the shadow is a tricky thing. Greekgodx is a perfect example of how when the Red shadow starts getting explored, the more repressed it is, the more violent it is.

What about doing things that are hard?

Whatever you do to act on your desires and ultimately survive, has a structure, be it going to the fridge, going to work, or having sex. When you do these things, you feel inherently fulfilled. Merely achieving the desire is just a small part of the equation, and that experience is extremely short-lived. You won't just sit and bask in it for the rest of time. You'll always return to performing actions. Ok, so that structure can be emulated symbolically in rituals (physically), or stories (metaphorically), or philosophy (theoretically), and merely engaging in these meaning-making behaviors is inherently healthy. It's because they're in fact the symbolic representation of health itself. Health is that which sustains you as an organism, and the structure of that, distilled to its essence, is what you experience as meaning.

Hahaha I'm sure all women can feel it. They just don't tell you about it ;D