maybe, find a new hobby. — Wayfarer
My idealized dream is to live alone in some forest away from people — Posty McPostface
What do you say to the misanthrope, that I am? — Posty McPostface
I have read and indulge in a fair share of philosophical pessimism and Schopenhauer. — Posty McPostface
but, the misanthropy feels like it's getting more and more debilitating or increasing in magnitude in my ability to interact with other people. — Posty McPostface
you do have to understand that philosophical pessimism is also a respectable field of study into human nature. I don't quite get your gripe with it though. — Posty McPostface
I can relate to the hermit thing too, though I'd put it somewhat differently. — Jake
3) Do you spend time in the forest or other nature environments now? Whatever your current relationship with nature is, it would likely be worth your time to focus on enhancing it. This could easily be a thread of it's own, but a good place to start is simply to spend more time in whatever nature is available to you. — Jake
So for instance, this could be the first thing on the chopping block. Way less time with Schopenhauer, and way more time with chipmunks. Way less time with pessimism, way more time falling in love with reality. Way less of reading books, way more of watching clouds. Way less abstraction, way more of the real world. — Jake
We all need to bond with something, but it doesn't have to be people. If bonding with people isn't working out, we can become expert at bonding with something else. — Jake
Is philosophical pessimism working for you? Is it taking you towards the day when you won't bother posting on this topic any more because you've solved the problem and moved on to greener pastures? — Jake
Maybe it doesn't conform to how you view philosophy? — Posty McPostface
I believe it is even the origin of the term 'therapy', although disability might detract the ability to pursue those kinds of practices. — Wayfarer
Even though there are many different voices, it is all mediated through the same format. Whereas philosophy is therapy, in an important sense. — Wayfarer
Great, another idea I want to endlessly post about. — Posty McPostface
It's ok to endlessly post. Just keep in my mind that you're trying to engage readers in a story which has no arc, a strategy which is likely to lead to having no readers. That said, the Internet is a big place. — Jake
Yeah; but, I have you to cheer me up with some Skinnerian behaviorism. — Posty McPostface
Had suicidal panic at the beginning of this year. — Nils Loc
Thought about constructing a Debreather (single chamber carbon dioxide scrubber) as a sort of comfort that I'd have the option of a painless exit. — Nils Loc
Have taken up Yoga and I'm pretty amazed at how effective it is when I'm stressed out. — Nils Loc
Damm. What makes you want to commit suicide? — Posty McPostface
What do you say to the misanthrope, that I am? — Posty McPostface
Heat shock effects are suppose to be great for mood to, so thinking hot yoga is next. — Nils Loc
I'm not sure there is much point to living if one can't sleep or eat enough. — Nils Loc
Volunteer work. It’ll create a cognitive dissonance in your mind and force you to like people. — praxis
We don't really have needs. We just have likes. — Michael Ossipoff
Everyone has a mask that they put on. — Posty McPostface
Schopenhauer has relieved me in my loneliness, to understand that there were other people like me in life, and somehow made it through it. — Posty McPostface
Yeah, I am disabled for having undifferentiated schizophrenia or a psychotic disorder. So, there's that aspect of my being. No fun in Posty's world. — Posty McPostface
My psychologist once told me that the ego is a dominating force that compels us to act on our behalf. Yet, I am not dominant by nature. — Posty McPostface
I don't like people. — Posty McPostface
I tend to be a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. — Bitter Crank
In fiction I have also found that sort of comfort, that there are other people like me in the world. And in life, too, I have found that comforting insight. — Bitter Crank
So, you were dealt a bad hand. Sorry about that. Your diagnosis is explanatory, in part. I can understand better how your immobilization might happen. On the other hand, you are tending to the condition with which you must live. That is no small thing. Tending or not tending will have dramatically different outcomes. So keep up the good work of taking care of yourself. — Bitter Crank
At least the ego dominates the individual. What else could dominate? — Bitter Crank
The king: "The people are revolting."
The Queen: "Yes, I find them very revolting." — Bitter Crank
.”We don't really have needs. We just have likes.” — Michael Ossipoff
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How is that possible?
Difficult question without knowing more about the person or specific circumstances. If you are interested I will give you my perspective on this as it has affected me — tmb
A social mask is necessary, we use clothes for this reason, we deny sexual and bodily functions or wrap them up in acceptable ways. In fact anything we hold private is part of social masking. We use the mechanism of joke making to allow us to address some of these no go areas in a mostly well managed process of comedy, but even here we violate the boundaries on multiple subjects. It reduces to the truth and fictions we create to protect ourselves and others from these truths. Some people are quite comfortable with two or more faces, politicians are used as good examples but anyone who wears clothes is just hiding facts that we all observe for ourselves but not able to tolerate for most others. Since you struggle to put on various social faces, imagine that we also fart in company, but silently so as to conform, and clothes give a semi permanent social face, hiding our bodies, bodily habits, thoughts etc. Even acquiring a language and accent from our early years becomes a social face and identity, while it’s a conforming mechanism its also a social mask that we show to rest of the world. Imagine if we developed personal language expressions? Aside from the communication issues, it would prevent us from forming tribes and groups that are important parts of our social masks. — tmb
Most people want fulfillment, some get it by dominating, or being dominated. Ultimately social interaction requires a tradeoff with our individuality and its needs. Hierarchies in social groups appear universal across all species. Individuals rarely win this with taking a beating at many stages of life or compromising individual needs. — tmb
You did not say what age of children you endow with these attributes. I have four adult daughters and work with kids of various ages. No question they are different in may positive ways to adults but are still selfish and generally thoughtless. Teenagers go through a stage of self centricity, boys differently to girls, and show many negative attributes as well as serious consequences at this stage. I understand their neurons get pruned during puberty to provide resources to sexual maturity, so brains don’t work that well. By 25 the prefrontal cortex is mostly developed and then they realise their parents do know a bit, and they grow up and start learning about life. — tmb
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