I don't have the ability to read minds. If you want me to do or not do something you need to tell me. What complicates things in this regard is some people are hurt by bluntness while others are helped. My best friends tend to be blunt. Sarah did a good write up on...
Proponents of modern psychology are remiss as to why I'm not in touch with my emotions. There are several reasons: I'm bipolar 1 and the illness itself as well as the medication stunts emotion. Before I was bipolar I didn't have as much of a flat affect, I felt things...
Modern society has made it that much more confusing to navigate with the fact that some asks are really tells. In the olden days there were more tells, in traditional culture there were right and wrong things, for example the Ten Commandments. Nowadays modern...
Show values permeate our existence to such a degree that it's easy to start believing they are actually true. Obama comes to mind, persisting to believe in the better angels of our nature even after being given evidence otherwise over and over again. The other side of...
I think one of the best arguments against the existence of a personal god is the fact that suffering is so isolating. God's people dropping out of your life like flies. Me and many others on the bottom experience is that the people who claim to be closest to God are...
I've been over exposed to religion my entire life and I try to believe in all that stuff but it's like an algebra problem you suspect you got wrong but you don't know why you got it wrong or have the intelligence to derive the correct answer. Materialism is the idea...
Verbal abuse hurts the most when it is accurate. People fed a diet of modern psychology wish to write off all abusive communications because the ill will of the person dishing out said abuse. But the more wrong you have with you the more likely verbal abuse flung at...
I have long argued that socialization was a a series of feedback loops and if it started out negative you were screwed. Now a study of autistic individuals interacting with the wider world agrees with me. Challenges can be constructive but people who always had to...
Sarah did a great post on shopping sound sensitivity at Meijer. I am very sound sensitive as I was born blind so have had to use my ears to make up for my poorer vision. Plus I'm likely on the spectrum so have sound sensitivity due to that. Here are some tips on...
One of the things I dislike the most about Christianity is that it says the pleasantry delusions are actually real. Everybody knows pleasantry delusions are just delusions or noble lies, nothing more. For example people don't have innate worth (as those of us on the...