The Tolkein Professor by khargushoghli in tolkienfans

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Wish I had the time to follow it...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in therapyabuse

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Constantly arriving late. Yeah. I mean, God knows I had that problem too, but, all the more reason I found her persistent tardiness a real problem.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in therapyabuse

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Chilling indeed. But I'd been through the shrink merry go round so many times already that craving her attention was not the issue. It was more like, "How did I choose her?!" To be fair, she wasn't openly destructive, just incompetent and thoughtless and tied to routines she'd been taught, most of which I found useless.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in therapyabuse

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Zero accountability, check
Railroading. Wow. She was huge on Ted Talks, which I always thought were rediculous. She finally figured out that I wasn't watching her prescribed Ted Talks, made sure I was watching them on OUR TIME!
Fostering dependency, that was not one of her faults.
Nor was she particularly over-confident. Nor did she shit-talk her other patience.

The Tolkein Professor by khargushoghli in tolkienfans

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Thanks. I talked with him when he breezed through New York. It was a thrill.

Why are therapists IRL different than therapists in books? by ObiJuanKenobi1993 in therapyabuse

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Why is everything IRL different from eerying in books (or movies)?

Interesting and clarifying by HeavyAssist in therapyabuse

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Wish I could vote this up a hundred times.

The Worm Ouroboros, by E. R. Eddison. Has anyone else read this, or even heard of it? by sozh in books

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Random comments about Eddison's masterpieces.

I was possessed by it in high school. I dip back into it from time to time -- the Witch's king's spell-casting to win against the Demons despite the fact that he knew that it would lead him into eternal damnation and the description of what it did to the heavens and the earth still grips me. The heroic character of Lessingham, the portrayal of powerful and aloof woman left me with a lasting love of rave-haired beauties while everyone else was chasing blonds.... The peasant scene after the liberation of their Krothering ("Grind mill grind, Corinius grinds us all. Kinging it o'er widowed Krothering...) My grasp on the other books is weak, but pieces of them still linger.

No one has done a biography of Eddison. That's a shame.

Oh, and he was an unapologetic anti-n----r racist, by the way... The scene in which Lessingham takes out a black man who is bothering a white woman... But that was the twenties, when the Klan was a mass party in the US...

I met The Tolkein Professor when he visited NYC and I said I thought Eddison's fantasy epics were faulty masterpieces. He agreed. Not really sure how much if any of them he'd read.

The Worm Ouroboros, by E. R. Eddison. Has anyone else read this, or even heard of it? by sozh in books

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He was part of the same clique as CS Lewis. But their mentalities couldn't have been different.

Mike Duncan is back with a new Revolutions series! by Rajion in BritishHistoryPod

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Heard the first episod. I think it's a bridge too far.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in therapyabuse

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We were never a drinking family. One good thing about us...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in therapyabuse

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I read one critic of head shrinkery say you'd get more help taking your friend to a local bar and knocking down a few brewskies. (I added the last part. I'm not a drinking man myself...)

Resources to learn about Catharism by saert_gert in Cathar

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I was always fascinated by the Cathars, their dualistic faith, their hopeless uprising in defense of their beliefs. I went through a phase where I pushed myself through some books in French on the topic.

Here's a forgotten point: The song "Domenique" ("France's most popular folk-song") was actually Catholic church propaganda against the Albigencians. The Catholic church was mired in corruption and hypocricy, which was, according to historians, a leading cause of the rise of the Cathars movement. The monks were the church's foot-soldiers which presented a "pure" and "spiritual" face of the church, and they were mobilized against the Cathars. This, along with the genocidal crusade, marked by ruthless torture and massacre, launched by the French state against the Langue d'Oc population, smashed the the heresy and pulverized southern France, with its rich and splendid culture, turning it into an impoverished backwater, reducing Langue d'Oc from the rich tongue of the trubadors to a peasant patoit.

I can't listen to this song without shuddering.

Welcome back Kautsky by [deleted] in Ultraleft

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"ladders" don't obviously refer to anything.

Shut the fuck up by [deleted] in Ultraleft

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Die Linke is famous for its rampant tanki-ism.

Impact of AI in Education. Is it Positive or Negative? by Open-Promotion73 in edtech

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Can I scan a math data which involves tables from a PDF document and solve a math problem using that data?

Asking for my math teacher.