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For those of you who can't get the files from the torrent, I've uploaded them to Mega in a zip file (https://mega.nz/#!p950BTAK!Ojz_2B9gP4bKETa-GczW-dTIo0wGYm6inPmogzPpmWE). Open the zip file to get the files.

The only changes I made were to:

• Add a descriptive text file with plenty of relevant info (different from my rambling in another comment here)
• Remove his name from the lecture-slides PDF, all filenames, and the MP3 metadata (edit: though he says it at 08:47 in the talk and I didn't edit that out)
• Make a couple other little changes to file and folder names--I just felt like it; there were no typos in the original names

I don't know exactly which book you mean, but Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" comes to mind. Other than that, maybe try Irvin D. Yalom's "Creatures of a Day" or Ernest Becker's "Denial of Death".

Of course...

> "Relative to the general internet population, Females are over-represented at this site"

Of course...

> United States 50.0% (of all visitors)

And...

> "Psychology Today is devoted exclusively to everybody's favorite subject: Ourselves." - Psychologytoday.com

> According to the Psychology Today demographics, it targets middle class employed females, who have at least graduated college between the age of 25-54 years of age. > Statistics show that more specifically, the median age is 43 years old.

> "While researching this publication, I realized it is very narrowly targeted for median aged adult, Caucasian women. > Sometimes the cover features pictures of animals or children, but the publication does not portray our diverse society on the cover. > When dealing with race, sex, and culture, it does not vary from the “typical, white, American female.” > Most of the articles and topics can be applied to any individuals life, but Psychology Today seems to only want to target a narrow audience. "

So it targets women well into middle age and yet impresses upon them (a very kind mirror) the image of themselves as a sexy, young girl, without--of course-- a marriage ring.

And who did I think is always the narcissist, note, not 'a narcissist', but the person determined to be one by the work typing pool? Well, not me, the person taking the selfie. Maybe my boss. I mean, your boss? "It's not always who you think". So your boss could still be marriage material even though he's a bit of an asshole? And he's only an asshole because he wrongly thinks you're a narcissist for taking selfies...

A big thank to /u/tetsugakusei for his excellent suggestion: Rene Girard - "Resurrection from the Underground Feodor Dostoevsky" (from this list of book recommendations). Next is on my list is another book he often references, Paul Verhaeghe's "Does the Woman Exist?". I read the reviews on Amazon and all those from men (therapists) were enthusiastic, while the two from women were negative, which is an unmistakable mark of genius.

I"m not really sure what to make of your post, and i'm not familiar with the sub you're referencing. For what it's worth, your post made me think of this old comment by Pastabagel concerning Mr. Rodgers. http://www.metafilter.com/61699/Neighborhood-of-MakeBelieve#1714437

This (Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful) was one of the first TLP posts I ran across, and it was linked to from Metafilter. The "borderline sleeves" reference was completely lost on me. But interestingly, in the MF comments, one of the users is a psychotherapist and immediately got the reference. Here's his comment on the sleeves:

>"borderline sleeve" struck me because it's an apt description of a part of a particular kind of (female) self-presentation that women suffering from borderline personality disorder often use. That self-presentation walks a (purposely) fine line between seductiveness and self-protection, hence the fitted sleeve pulled part-way over the hand. This particular element of that self-presentation is something that I have seen in many women who also displayed traits associated with Borderline Personality Disorder

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That's what is so interesting to me about TLP. There's this entire subtext behind a short line in the post.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and it's sequel Lila. Existentialists hate Robert Pirsig and I hate existentialists.

Song of Ice and Fire - That old fat man has discovered secrets to life itself. We get to experience a world literally created and destroyed by romantic and parental love.

The Great Gatsby - A profound warning about the dangers of love and looking back. Every high school boy should be forced to read this very, very slowly.

1984 - Of course. It's not only about an individual trying to escape totalitarianism. It's about a child trying to become independent from filial slavery.

Anything by Alan Watts, who I discovered after three years of political philosophy coursework - probably the most profound turning point in my life.

How do we know that Orwell quote constitutes a suicide attempt? Seems ambiguous. Then again, I didn't really know Jonny.

FYI: Alone once wrote a post on suicide. It has since been deleted, presumably because someone in the comments section threatened to kill themselves.

DigitalOcean offers wordpress + Ubuntu 14.04 preconfigured images, which is what I use. Others might have some better ideas, but IMO wordpress is a fine platform that's pretty easy to maintain.

If you're like me you want to maintain the box yourself, but if you're smart, you'll probably pay another company to host/maintain it for you.

Check out:

The Denial of Death

and

The Lost Art of Listening

I used Calibre to get it on the Kindle (which now that I think about it, might have just converted it to MOBI. But it works well and took 2 seconds).

I just dragged the EPUB into the program then threw it into the Kindle.

https://calibre-ebook.com/download

Discord is best app for our purposes now. Other apps mostly suck except Telegram and they all want your data, thats just business. If signal becomes functional enough for us that might be great!

Let me revise, and see what you think: Adults used to only compete against their neighbors. They are still doing this by trying to raise the best children. Now they also compete for cultural relevance with their kids, where this wasn't the case before.

First revision qualified by the fact that college admissions are more competitive than ever.

1. How should I balance Alone's advice about action vs knowledge? I'm currently learning about finance (I'm reading this, among other books) because I suspect that the standard reddit "VTSAX and chill" advice is no longer viable. Am I defending against some kind of change?
2. What good habits have given you lot the biggest dividends?
3. I'm 27. What should I be doing that I might not be? I am slowly (too slowly) ridding myself of bad habits (too many). I find replacing bad with good is easier than just deleting bad
   

Apologies if this annoys you.

My comment had some potentially identifying information so I deleted. Was essentially adding on to everyone’s reading lists:

https://www.amazon.com/Movies-Your-Mind-Classics-Frankenstein/dp/B0045N3K0U

https://www.doctorgreenberg.net/writings-2/

Man, MFW we recently discovered that my actual biological grandfather, a donor, was a psychiatrist who psychoanalyzed film and culture. Unfortunately he passed away last month. He was prolific; I haven't read his books yet but we have them ordered. They may be of real interest to the sub, for instance: The Movies on Your Mind: Film Classics on the Couch, From Fellini to Frankenstein

Good point. The book mentions various translations:

• Rex Warner (1954)
• Richard Crawley (1886) - revised translation in Strassler's Landmark edition
• Thomas Hobbes (1629)

Tuft's Perseus Hopper also has a translation by Benjamin Jowett (1881).

I ended up going with the Hobbes translation - which does not have line numbers either. Not that it makes a huge difference for me because I don't know Ancient Greek and because I would never in a million years pick up on the fine semantic shifts Teach talks about. The Landmark Thucydides looks really good, though, I wish I had gone with that one.

>If you haven't read the Crawley translation I suggest you do that first, his is full of good poster quotes while mine comes from a symposium:

My Crawley translation of Thucydides just arrived. It's not formatted according to the citations he uses in the square brackets: you can't use it as a companion in that way. He likely meant the Landmark Thucydides, rather than just the Crawley translation. I thought Alone was fucking with me, but really it's just Amazon's inability to cope with books that have many different editions.

And of course, you can just look up the citations online.

/u/quartierlacan /u/not_unoriginal /u/BLAND_AS_OVALTINE did you see this thread yet? I saw just now that you commented on an old version of this thread that is now invisible from the /r/thelastpsychiatrist main page due to its author having used reddit's delete function on it. You can (probably) download the talk and the slides for it from the torrent that the thread author linked to, or you could download them from what I uploaded here on Mega (there are small differences between my upload and the torrent; for explanation, see my comment that this is a reply to)

"Guilt is an internal experience that requires you to have an inner sense of right and wrong. You violate that, and you feel (internal) guilt. It isn't dependent on whether anyone else thinks what you did was wrong.

Shame is the opposite: you tend to live with whatever is shameful quite well until the day you are exposed. It reveals you to be something other, or less, than you are portraying to the world." From this metafilter ( http://www.metafilter.com/110966/As-Fran-Lebowitz-said-If-youre-going-to-tell-the-truth-you-better-be-funny-Otherwise-they-will-kill-you ) TLP's comment is worth reading in full. The comment is a good bit down the page.

Coming back to an old thread to try once more to clear up misconceptions.

Alone spells it out as clearly as he possibly can in this post:

http://www.metafilter.com/110966/As-Fran-Lebowitz-said-If-youre-going-to-tell-the-truth-you-better-be-funny-Otherwise-they-will-kill-you#4099505

For all the reminding and remembering and rereading that I'm supposed to be doing, I think everyone on this sub might do well to remember this...

http://www.metafilter.com/115587/Strange-Bedfellows#4326783 > It is the most fundamental insight of human relationships that when you see the other person as a factor in your own happiness, the problem is not the person, the problem is you.

All "the narcissists" that are "out there" aren't the source of (all) your misery. Making a list of all the narcissists in the world, posting it to this sub and saying "See, I'm totally not like these guys, right everyone?" is not gonna help ya.

Amazon.com: Watch What You Hear: Penelope's Dream Of Twenty Geese (9781734460803): Teach MD, Edward: Books

This is either the porn book, or the second part of it. There's a pinned thread about it in this sub.

>Why have I internalized that idea? Because everything and everyone in my life has reinforced it — explicitly and implicitly — since I was young.

It sounds like he's claiming "it's everyone's fault but mine" but he's not entirely wrong: They spent most of their youth being told that they were the master ~~race~~ generation, despite lacking any worthwhile accomplishments to back it up.