Joseph Maynor

What is so special about Peter Ralston?

If it's directly experienced is it material to some degree -- in the sense that it is sensed? I feel like we're quibbling over words.

But why is this guy seen to be popular or an expert in this area?

It should be said that I'm watching these recent movies I suggest in the theater, so format matters.

This begs the question as to where is your information coming from. Do you have a degree in psychology or work in the mental health profession?

Yes, but you're generalizing from an unknown variable unless you have more information. You're operating at the level of pattern assessment alone via what words are used. That is a very limited set of information to be drawing the conclusions you're drawing.

Yes, but this is still all at the level of abstraction and inference. Instead of zooming into the mind, you meet people as people and get to know them that way. Then you can still generalize, but it will have the right relation between cart and horse.

The Long Walk

Movie rankings. Many popular movies I find mediocre at best including One Battle After Another. Is it good? Yes. Is it as good as it's made out to be, no IMO.

But if you hung out with each of us, your assessment would be more accurate, no? How much can you know about someone without this crucial context? Most people on here you don't even know what they look like.

How did you acquire this information with such depth and why? Curious.

Unless I've hung out with someone usually more than a few times, I really don't know much about their true personality.

When I had this experience it wasn't horrifying or scary, it was puzzling and actually quite liberating. It was just being as Consciousness, like noticing a Deeper Truth that is ordinarily veiled. It was more like -- wow I gotta write this down, I can't believe it!

Mercy

What makes you think you're a natural leader? Curious.

I found this to be not true for me. My life purpose has never changed. It's very odd because I would expect it would change. People kept telling me it would change. This is where you have to listen to yourself and take others' opinions with a grain of salt.

Wow we are alike. I agree with this 100%.

People play a lot of games in communication. This is something that should be acknowledged.

I enjoy communicating with you all. That's a part of how we learn. I've yet to find anyone quite like me lol.

This is a useful article IMO. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-neurodivergence/202509/what-to-do-when-your-neurodivergent-kid-misbehaves

But when you trip you're also experiencing projections of ego, right? So you rid yourself of those now, but they're there when you're tripping too.