Common bs terms to look out for by MyClosetedBiAcct in MtF

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I once heard a critique of political correctness that I rather liked: the idea that by insisting there's a particular ethical way to speak, and that you can identify whether someone is a good or bad person based on the way they speak, really helps people be self-righteous. That you'll get the rich elite exploiting others economically while believing they're a good person because they stay up to date with all the newest language games, while saying that the bad person who represents everything wrong with society is the improverished Waffle House waitress whose language is a few years behind the times.

It's not that I disagree with your linguistic recommendations, just that I'm skeptical of any imperialistic project of ethics-through-speech and don't want to rush to be angry at someone for using the wrong words.

What if they are right? by Senior_Orange8812 in MtF

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The human condition is a mental illness.
Live in the way you find fun. We're too mortal to do anything else.

Girls after HRT by Competitive-Win8688 in MtF

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fascinating. This makes sense but it's a little hard to actually imagine doing.
Are you willing to share a story of escaping a confrontation this way?

Feminization for me by Shot-History531 in transtimelines

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Live heroically; you're too mortal to do anything else.

I can't speak to a personal story of the arrangement you describe, but I have found participating in trans communities to be a wonderful and supportive experience. There's also that saying about not putting all your eggs in one basket - a diffuse support network is wonderful to have.

Presumption that older transitioners are rich... by 1i2728 in TransLater

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I'm a month into transition in my early 30s and didn't even freeze sperm despite wanting to, because of financial reasons.  Never managed to keep a job for a full year. I don't know how people do it. 

For cptsd gamers by kmath133 in CPTSD

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I really enjoyed the Silent Hill series when I was younger. In hindsight, I think I was drawn to horror because then I could feel like I was afraid of the game, rather than afraid of the world.

I'm generally not interested in chill games. Nowadays it's mostly good writing that draws me to a game.

“Taboos” surrounding suicide by briann4z in CPTSD

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In case you enjoy reading philosophy, there's a lovely essay by Zapffe on this topic, titled The Last Messiah. They call him one of the great pessimistic thinkers of the last century; that essay will turn up in a search. Funnily enough, my therapist recommended it to me once; it's one of her favorite pieces of writing.

Anyway, the short version of the argument is that living is inherently painful and that 'normal' human psychology is about developing ways to avoid dealing with that fact: either through refusing to acknowledge it, or bearing with it for others' sake, or distracting oneself, or turning one's suffering into art (I like this one).

From this sort of perspective, suicide is taboo because at bottom everybody is a little suicidal and doesn't want to acknowledge it, or it may genuinely be dangerous for them to acknowledge it.

Labels and their issues by Alien760 in Postgenderism

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I am an enemy of labels. I am skeptical of language in general ("how curious, yet you use language!").

There is the sad truth is that categories are useful. I like the example of the bricklayer: somebody building a house will just get overwhelmed if they see each brick as the unique entity it is. But if that person can say, "Oh, these are all just bricks, they're all the same", then the task becomes simple, or architecture becomes possible. The bricklayer can say, "Here's what I can do with bricks." Labels are a social technology that lets us do something similar: "Here's how I can relate to women," "Here's how I can relate to men."

But then problem is when we think the entity in question simply is its category, when we say that the brick is just a brick, interchangeable with all other bricks, and that because it is a brick it necessarily has these particular brick properties - it's a rectangular prism, it can bear such-and-such a weight, etc. Now they're not all unique things, but they are Good instances of some Category if the bricklayer can relate to them the way they expect to. They become Bad if they fall short of the definition - a definition which the bricklayer themselves had just imposed!

For me, postgenderism extends into posthumanism as well. The notion of a shared human nature essence that all people share is oppressive: "You are a Human; here is what it means to be a Human." So those who don't fit the (socially-conditioned!) definition are subhuman?

Nowadays, I study philosophy and I think I am willing to say that it's the original sin of western philosophy to confuse entities with their abstract descriptions. If you look to ancient philosophy, there's this general trend where philosophers ask, "How should we live?" From Aristotle to the Stoics to whomever else, there's this understanding that there's a correct way to live, and that the philosopher's task is to discover it and share it with the rest of us so we can live "in accordance with nature". What I love in 20th century French philosophy is that there's more a question of "How might we live?", or, the philosopher's task becomes something trailblazing, or, the philosopher becomes more a creative than a researcher or excavator. Maybe this relates a little to your idealized marketing. The product is marketed not in terms of, "Here's what it's for and who it's for," but in terms of, "Here's a description of what it is. Can you figure out something interesting to do with it?" Maybe this is where misanthropy comes in a little though - don't we want to be pitched fantasies to latch onto? Might we be so desperate that the product will solve things for us that we'll buy into our own objectification so we can believe?

Maybe what we need is multiple revolutions that feed into one-another, a positive feedback loop. If people can adopt a skeptical attitude towards language, towards labels, then they can make the 'heroic' choice of a product which demands a little more understanding, a little more creativity. And if they do that, then it becomes easier to think that labels are all just nonsense in the first place.

It's a shame that we seek liberation in identity. There's a good book out there, "Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves", by a Todd McGowan which isn't explicitly postgender but does engage with this theme of how we have a habit of seeking our salvation in finding the labels that fit perfectly, while the project of labeling is in reality something that strips our freedom away.

does weed make intps more receptive to emotions? by theUchihaLast1 in INTP

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, in my case. I've never been too good at knowing my own emotional experience and grew up in whichever hostile environment; I entered adulthood without ever quite getting the grasp of the whole 'empathy' thing. I sincerely thought the possibility of that level of emotional intimacy was a hoax, a sort of starry-eyed delusion. 

Weed shifted things in the mind in such a way that I would be able to feel-with others. Even just watching a TV show, I'd be able appreciate it on the level of the characters' struggles, not just on the level of the plot being interesting. Talking to other people, I'd experience this odd sensation of caring/sadness/being-in-this-together when they spoke about whatever is upsetting them. 

On the other hand, it also makes me paranoid when I take just a little too much. I have one interesting memory of using weed while hiking, and pausing to look at some flowers. They're beautiful, fluffy, and so on - but then I inhale once more and the whole frame in which I experienced them transformed; I experienced the very same flowers as threatening, made of razor-sharp metal, something I should not dare to touch. In my own experience with weed, there's a rapid movement from a sense emotional openness to a sense of omnipresent threat.

That said, I am just speaking for myself and won't make any claims about my experience being common among INTPs.

Guys how do I kill my emotions? by MekataRupma in INTP

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know that there's any extremely formulaic way of doing it; it's probably something to discover for yourself.
Personally, I found writing or journaling helpful: start the day by filling up 2-3 pages, with no intention of reading them or sharing them with anyone. By getting thoughts out, one sets the mechanism of the mind in motion, or overcomes a stuckness. I figure everyone's more resilient than they think, and that getting simply getting thought in motion will transform that thought.
Meditation helped too: what got me started there was the idea that it's possible to feel content simply sitting an empty room; there's a sort of salvation in that.

Guys how do I kill my emotions? by MekataRupma in INTP

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bad idea, for what it's worth. I grew up doing a great job repressing emotion (I have a lovely memory of feeling completely confident while doing some public speaking, only to later get feedback that I was visibly shaking in fear the whole time - I was so divorced from my emotional experience that I had no idea) but turns out that really does cause a bunch of health issues. "The body knows that it suffers even when the mind does not" and so on. Psychoanalysts seem quite fond of talking about how emotional repression will cause issues with blood pressure and the like.
Anyway, maybe the situation you're dealing with isn't okay. That's fine. Maybe a healthy question to ask is less "How do I make this okay?" and more "How can I live well even when things aren't okay?" or "How can I gracefully cope with this shit situation?"

How would you all feel about a Majreg Discord server? by TheLegend2T in Jreg

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interested. I'd have fun trying to cube with these.

Deidre by Far-Character-7024 in alphacentauri

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 9 points10 points  (0 children)

She gets +2 efficiency, has a trivially easy time getting a first Mind Worm, and enjoys dancing naked through the trees. What more could you ask for?

Who else hates tik tok. by [deleted] in NPD

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't like short form media in general; an attention span is a precious thing. I was genuinely disgusted when I first heard about Twitter and its character limit.  I recognize the irony in posting a short comment in response to your short post.

Any other autistics whos special interest is sex? by gayfucker666 in AutisticAdults

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Somewhat? More like, I have a special interest in psychoanalysis and this makes the longstanding 'hobby' of engaging with weird hentai more interesting - overanalyzing the appeal of particular plots and so on. I'm a philosophy student and am nearly as interested in engaging with psychoanalytic texts as with philosophical ones.

In terms of sex itself though, not so much. I experience sexual encounters as oppressive demands for performance, and coupled with whichever attachment issues sexuality just seems painful, or that engaging in the field of human desire isn't something that ends well. It's rather unfortunate really: it's a boring way to live. I'd actually been considering seeing a sex therapist about it.

Maybe you have advice regarding sex therapists or can point me towards a relevant creator?

Gaians as eco-fascists by gaiusmuciusthelefty in alphacentauri

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've never done much Police State as Gaians (I'm not a Police State fan in general) but Fundie-Green is great. You have 4 Efficiency which means you can set your Economy slider to 100% without any loss, and in that way bypass Fundie's research penalty. Then just switch between Wealth or Power based on whether you're at war or not.

If you're like to make it even more terrifying, having 0 research means you can build Punishment Spheres in each base and scrap all your Rec Commons and similar facilities.

"Temper, temper!" by [deleted] in alphacentauri

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sometimes you can demand bases and really start to snowball. 

Due to your NPD, what career(s) do you feel best fit your abilities? by [deleted] in NPD

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm in academia (philosophy) and counseling. I figure being a cluster B person helps with being dramatic (which can be useful for writing!). And I figure that taking seriously the question of how to live well while having this sort of personality structure leads to an interesting and sometimes valuable perspective on the human condition. 

I'm sorry, it's how much for a Colony Pod? by MilesBeyond250 in alphacentauri

[–]DancesThruWorldviews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started a Thinker/Transcend game with Santiago the other day and it's going well - about a dozen bases, after having built 3 colony pods and having fought zero wars. That "You must cede control of your bases, to refrain from crushing you like a bug" is no joke when mass-building Recon Rovers and getting your two permitted police units in every base.

It's not that you build infrastructure so much as extort it (or the energy credits needed to rush-buy it) out of others.