I noticed every time I walk in the house I still put my keys and wallet in the designated space by the door even though I am retired and am in and out of tenuous all day. Do you ever just leave your stuff in your pocket if you think you're going out later or do you always have empty pockets around the house?
Even though it wasn't the very last scene he was in I always felt Frank's "goodbye Margaret" was an extremely touching moment for his character and may have almost been a goodbye for the old Frank Burns on a show that would obviously change its tone dramatically starting the next season. Do you think if Linville hadn't left the show they would have attempted to make Frank a much more sympathetic character the way they did to Margaret? How might they have done that?
I'm someone who leans into the psychedelic aspects of my infusions a lot. The disassociation I feel helps me get out of my depressive mindset. Unfortunately for various reasons my last few sets of infusions have not had much of an impact and the clinical is struggling to find what my current dose should be. The last infusion I had I literally didn't feel anything until the final minutes.
My clinic always likes to remind me that no matter what you experience the medicine is still reaching your brain and having some effect.
Dows anybody know how much of an effect though? If the dose is so low you literally didn't feel anything how much of an effect will it have?
I have started using cannabis recently and unfortunately I philosophize too much when I am high. Even worse
I am old so I am only now dealing with issues most people handle in their teens. Essentially it is about epistemology when one is in an altered mental state.
So it is very common to see and interpret the world a different way when you are high. You feel you pick up on things you don't normally see, or make relationships between phenomena you wouldn't normally and they may strike you as perfectly rational. That standard response is well you are high and when you aren't high you'll see that you were wrong.
Isn't what decides you are wrong though that reality seems to be matching with the current framework that I am using though? Essentially aren't I just privileging one set of interpretations over another because it is the one i am mist familiar with and the one the majority of people exist in? Are we only deciding on what is "reality" by consensus of opinion?
What are some anti-skeptical responses to this?
I have started using cannabis recently and unfortunately I philosophize too much when I am high. Even worse
I am old so I am only now dealing with issues most people handle in their teens. Essentially it is about epistemology when one is in an altered mental state.
So it is very common to see and interpret the world a different way when you are high. You feel you pick up on things you don't normally see, or make relationships between phenomena you wouldn't normally and they may strike you as perfectly rational. That standard response is well you are high and when you aren't high you'll see that you were wrong.
Isn't what decides you are wrong though that reality seems to be matching with the current framework that I am using though? Essentially aren't I just privileging one set of interpretations over another because it is the one i am mist familiar with and the one the majority of people exist in? Are we only deciding on what is "reality" by consensus of opinion?
What are some anti-skeptical responses to this?
I think is started with Articles of the Federation where the Federation president was forced out and replaced, but it also lead to a scandal where some admirals were supposed to be behind it and even Picard was implicated. Can any one tell me all the novels to read that cover this story?
When the Dominion occupied the station Rom went back and bartended at Quark's when he was really spying for The Federation. Rom straight out told him he was working for the Federation, yet Quark just sighed and made it look real. Do you think Quark went along with it because:
It's his brother Rom and he really loves him and wants to protect him?
Quark secretly hopes the Federation will come back so he really hopes Rom can help?
Who cares, it isn't going to affect business at all?
I am back on doing home troches every three days. I would really like to maximize the benefits this time. I know in general there are a lot of positive things you can do, but I am not very good at self-care and work better with a guide. Does anyone follow a formal protocol or a workbook they like that can give advice on the best practices says to take advantage of the neuroplasticity after treatment? Thanks.
Been watching early DS9 a lot lately. It is amazing how good every bit of Winn's dialogue is and how good Louise Fletcher was at delivering them. The ability to keep up that constant double talk and phony facade and never drop it for a second was a perfect blending of writing and performance.
Looking for any book about the special problems faced by people who have suffered lower-level mental illnesses for many years. What are the special issues on the brain and mind when you have so acclimated to thinking as an mentally ill person that it becomes hard to think any other way.
Not particularly interested in a specific illness, but depression or OCD would be helpful. Not looking for anything about major mental illnesses like Schizophrenia or bipolar.
Most fans point to the 1st season DS9 episode Duet as the first 4-star DS9 episode and a harbinger of what the show could become. It was a bottle show, but made excellent by elevated writing and acting.
I am not a huge Voyager fan, but I often find myself revisiting the 1st season episode Jetrel as one of those shows I could just always put on when I want to see good Voyager. Yes it is an obvious Hiroshima metaphor and occasional heavy handed in the way trek can be going back to LTBYLB in TOS. I find it just well written enough that you look past any stock scenes and marvel at it as a battle of wills and personalised social commentary. It may be Phillips' best Neelix and I think if this weren't a Trek show Sloyan would have gotten an Emmy nod as Yulin should have for Duet.
One thing I picked up watching so many religious debates when I was younger is how often i noticed people were talking past each other. Especially in ethical discussions and all the presuppositional discourse that went on.
As an example i felt that the reason all the dialogue with the presupps never went anywhere is the two sides had fundamentally different starting points. One was using to use reason to convince someone who thought human reason was incapable of reaching truth.
Are there examples in philosophy history where two people or groups with fundamentally different ways of seeing the world were able to produce meaningful interactions?
I am curious if anyone has done a book examining the perceptions and thought patterns people have when they are high. Specifically if there has been actual scientific research comparing knowledge and insight one has while high as opposed to sober and if it is really true that they are epistemically unequal when it comes to truth?
That speech Quark made in Starship Down about the joys of capitalism and cheating in business made it sound practically orgasmic. What other show would write such an incredibly convincing piece of Ferengi propaganda?
Clearly at some time during her tenure in DS9 Kira went from thinking the Federation was an interloper who didn't belong on Bajor to trusting the DS9 crew as family. This is especially true of Captain Sisko who she was initially always at odds with to coming to be as devoted to him as any star fleet officer and accepting his orders unquestionably.
I don't remember the early episodes too well. Did this start right at the 2nd or 3rd season beginning, or when Sisko was recognized as emissary, or was it gradual?
Curious if anyone is familiar with military protocols? Can a superior officer literally order someone to their certain death if doing so saves far more lives? Is it more that they have to ask someone to volunteer and any crewmen is going to agree to volunteer if it saves his ship?
Or perhaps star fleet is a far far more violent place than they are letting on?
How else do you explain the statistically absurd fact that the vast vast proportion of deaths occur overwhelmingly among the lower ranks? Are officers making pacts with demonic overlords to ensure their safety?
Or perhaps the attrition rate among star fleet officers is even higher than we are let on to and the higher ranks are just those that were good enough to survive the massive death rate long enough to be promoted?
Last few years been having increasing memory problems. Stuff like forgetting what I was just thinking about, forgetting people's names, not knowing a word I am thinking of. So I just came from the doctor who gave me the memory test and apparently I aced it. 30 out of 30! So you're all forgetting things too? Gen X is actually starting with the old age stuff. I always thought it would just ignore us like everyone else does?
Me(56M) and my wife(58F) are a happily married longterm couple except for the fact that as I often say, "my OCD and depression and her ADHD are not a good match". We have both suffered from longterm mental illnesses that have fundamentally shaped the people we are now. We just had our second big fight in as many days. I have been in various treatments all my life. My wife only started treatment a few years ago at my insistence(medicine and therapy) but as far as I know only focuses on executive function for work.
Usually when these fights happen my depression instinct is to give up and start thinking about ending my life. Seriously, but I know that is stupid so I am trying to be better. Yet I also realize that at our age I don't think anything will fundamentally change. We have relied on these coping style too long and they are too entrenched. My wife cannot accept that the personality style she has had to cultivate to survive in the world with untreated ADHD all these may not work in a marriage, and I am starting to realize it is unfair to ask her to change for someone else so late in life. It is really an impossible task and unfair to ask.
With my own illness I am starting to realize that radical acceptance can often replace the obsession with change. Have any of you long term couples managed to still live with the symptoms of ADHD, but found ways to work around them?Thank you.
To someone who has always been sympathetic to libertarian thinking, but doesn't think it is any more workable than any other political system that has ever existed. One philosophical to explain why libertarianism can actually be implemented in a way that everyone can accept; and one practical to explain why a lot of the things we currently leave to the government can better be handled by the free market or at least a. Wry small government.
Like I said I am an anti-political person who is sympathetic to libertarian thinking, but I also think most people would actually prefer a lot of their services to be handled by a central public institution, even a local one, instead of a ton of private ones.