What Destroys Relationships?
san_jose_guy
money was invented for handing to women, but buying dances is a chump's game
10 Questions that nosy people hit you with:
https://www.rd.com/advice/relationships/…
Once you've got a relationship, it is no longer private. No, the relationship subjects you to all manner of normative standards. Every movie, junk mail advertisement, and everytime the phone rings, and every new movie, is an attempt to violate your privacy and make you subjected to herd standards.
Most men will stand up to such questions, but as I see it, rarely firmly enough. But most women no way, they will let themselves be probed and eaten away at by such interrogations.
I might just throw in at this point another question: "How much money do you make?"
Best answer: "Enough to live the way I want."
SJG
BIG BIG BIG GIRL
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Fgzu06…
Plato Complete:
https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Complete-Wo…
https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Complete-Wo…
https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Complete-Wo…
The above two use the Benjamin Jowett translation.
This has two volumes, sold separately. Could be convenient.
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Pl…
Panentheism, by John W. Cooper
https://www.amazon.com/Panentheism-Other…
Penguin Cloth Bound Classics
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/find-…
Look like art hard covers. Do they come with dust jackets too? Maybe not.
Yes, they say they are impressed, so the covers have texture.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_…
https://www.rd.com/advice/relationships/…
Once you've got a relationship, it is no longer private. No, the relationship subjects you to all manner of normative standards. Every movie, junk mail advertisement, and everytime the phone rings, and every new movie, is an attempt to violate your privacy and make you subjected to herd standards.
Most men will stand up to such questions, but as I see it, rarely firmly enough. But most women no way, they will let themselves be probed and eaten away at by such interrogations.
I might just throw in at this point another question: "How much money do you make?"
Best answer: "Enough to live the way I want."
SJG
BIG BIG BIG GIRL
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Fgzu06…
Plato Complete:
https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Complete-Wo…
https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Complete-Wo…
https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Complete-Wo…
The above two use the Benjamin Jowett translation.
This has two volumes, sold separately. Could be convenient.
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Pl…
Panentheism, by John W. Cooper
https://www.amazon.com/Panentheism-Other…
Penguin Cloth Bound Classics
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/find-…
Look like art hard covers. Do they come with dust jackets too? Maybe not.
Yes, they say they are impressed, so the covers have texture.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_…
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It gets very intrusive considering how long you saved your allowance - to finally buy a Real Doll! The fact that you got a Real Doll that resembles Bernie Sanders is just creepy...
You need some head soaking.
https://www.cloroxprofessional.com/produ…
SJG
Public Schools for Sale?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BfoWt1L…
Really Good:
Who Is Behind The Privatization Of Education:Gates, Broad, KIPP, Pearson, WestEd & The Gulen Schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAeRbh1K…
And I say that as someone sympathetic to feminism, LBGT rights, legal abortions, etc - aka all the lefty non-traditional things.
Lacking in character and stoicism?
I think one does end up having to be stoic, even having to be hard like one fighting in a guerilla war. I'm still suffering from Post Marital Stress Disorder. If I gave into provocation just once, I'd now likely be spending the rest of my life in prison.
Remember those paddle and rubber band toys?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…
I felt like I was the paddle and she was the rubber ball. I was having to be the backstop, and she was just going everywhere.
Eventually I got tired of that and decided that it needed to end. It was killing each of us.
I wanted the relationship to be a person to person partnership. If it had been, then it would have worked. But thing is, there is always the outside pressure. And once one is married, it gets worse, not better.
I will never make the mistake of expecting anything like that again. I protect myself.
Buying dances in a strip club is a chump's game.
Marriage is like paying Russian Roulette, but with 5 bullets.
SJG
Very Good:
Who Is Behind The Privatization Of Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAeRbh1K…
SJG
not even in his dreams. his ex-wife had to stay awake all night clutching a butcher knife in fear of her life. having sex with the psycho rapist was never on the table
Dominic77, you speak of "weak leaders and lacking in character and stoicism".
Do you mean that by developing and using these character strengths that you can resist the outside social pressure?
Usually when people talk about stoicism, they are talking about complying with social expectations. In introducing these ideas, are you then accepting the premise that the reason for marriage is the accumulation of cash and assets?
SJG
Wendy Brown: How Neoliberalism Threatens Democracy. We all need to understand this, if we are to fight the Dougster's and the Mark94's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMMJ9Hqz…
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-Ce…
I'm a bit new to this, but maybe this SEIU is more radical than the AFL-CIO. and SEIU local 1000 represents workers for California state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Em…