tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5212517013249170459..comments2024-03-18T08:02:51.154-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: What Did Christine Blasey Ford Really Want?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-47356311224405841762018-10-06T04:11:35.754-07:002018-10-06T04:11:35.754-07:00IAC, we're all limited of course, but I'm ...IAC, we're all limited of course, but I'm not the one name-calling just because I disagree with someone. <br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71461150325570789892018-10-05T13:27:28.951-07:002018-10-05T13:27:28.951-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-13544382360939468722018-10-05T13:00:04.692-07:002018-10-05T13:00:04.692-07:00Dr. ID, SHAME on you for doing a funny, and on me ...Dr. ID, SHAME on you for doing a funny, and on me for laughing at the funny. Damn, I NEEDED that.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7158137459365688202018-10-05T07:55:28.600-07:002018-10-05T07:55:28.600-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-72566887888002097532018-10-05T06:21:17.317-07:002018-10-05T06:21:17.317-07:00Sowell put it very succinctly, dt:
"The prob...Sowell put it very succinctly, dt:<br /><br />"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."<br /><br />And I might be mistaken, as it wasn't indelibly stored in my hippocampus, but I think Ares was also the Greek god of flatulence and was referred to by classical Greek poets as Boofus.Dr. Irredeemable Dregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-21609290868437044192018-10-05T06:01:29.179-07:002018-10-05T06:01:29.179-07:00Well stated IAC. In order not to get too involved...Well stated IAC. In order not to get too involved in this type of politics I usually take a couple of days off to ensure I stay true to my principles and not allow feelings to over power logic. I would suggest that AO does not really care about anyone's feelings except his own. One only needs to look at some of his comments about Trump, Kavanaugh or for that matter anyone who might have the temerity to disagree. Just the screen name tells one all they want to know about a person who thinks he is the GOD of war. He stand on a higher plane than the rest of us "deplorables." <br />Interesting that AO, overtime when he gets a chance, tries to take over this site and make himself the center of attention. He feels that he is entitled because we, including Stuart, are cattle to be led by our betters. <br /><br />All of Dean Koontz's "Jane Hawk" series describe how people who think they are far superior to others and has the right, by their existence, to rule this country use nanobots to enslave people to do their bidding. So... <br /><br />dtrumpetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-64070459545130423842018-10-04T22:49:43.449-07:002018-10-04T22:49:43.449-07:00Anonymous,
I think we’re safe until they perfect ...Anonymous,<br /><br />I think we’re safe until they perfect those AI silicone love doll robots. I notice there are some now that can even hang drywall, it’s only a matter of time.<br /><br />/Anonymous EstherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-56584533079110758202018-10-04T20:27:15.828-07:002018-10-04T20:27:15.828-07:00Everyone here should be grateful they haven't ...Everyone here should be grateful they haven't yet been exterminated by the 1%. You simply know it is eventually going to happen. <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42044878447769640402018-10-04T20:22:41.664-07:002018-10-04T20:22:41.664-07:00Humans are disgusting.
It is amazing we haven...Humans are disgusting. <br /><br />It is amazing we haven't been mass exterminated yet by the upper 1% of the technocratic elite. You know there has to be some company or organization out there is devoted to the cause of exterminating most humans, even the the Soviet Union in its final decades began stockpiling tons of anthrax spores for this cause.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34659465113169168122018-10-04T19:45:58.956-07:002018-10-04T19:45:58.956-07:00Ares, you are a certifiable idiot. Congratulations...Ares, you are a certifiable idiot. Congratulations. You really don't understand anything here. Nothing new.<br /><br />Go back to your old blog. Build your own following. Stop destroying this one.<br /><br />And grow up. If you seriously believe Christine Blasey Ford received death threats, your conscious idiocy is etched in stone. She lied about the death threats just like she made up the story about the attack. You see, she never accused boys when she was 15... she waited until she was 51. Oh, wait... does she know how old she is? Hmmmm...<br /><br />We live in an advanced Western society, beyond the age of Enlightenment. The accuser bears the greater burden of proof. Were you on the end of the prosecutor's spear, you would think it just. Now you don't, because you're nakedly political, while carrying on about facts. You don't have any facts. Neither does she. So you go off of hearsay... he said-she said. But you like what she said, because you like the side she's on. That's rank stupidity, and it's dangerous. Robespierre blushes. TDS owns you.<br /><br />You're so enamored about feelings because that's all you care about. Earlier, all you wanted was for Kavanaugh to apologize. Then, if he did, you'd have crucified him as admitting guilt. Apologies are words. And all Leftists like you love is words, words, words. Go find your own trauma ward, and minister there. The rest of us need to keep on living and working in order to fund the trauma ward.<br /><br />If you think there's a "shit ton" of "making shit up" on "all sides here," then maybe you should give up the pretense of neutrality and being above it all and realize what the rest of us see from you every time you comment here: you're a partisan hack. Give up this mask that you're able to see both sides and you just want us to all get along. You don't. You base everything on what you read on the internet. You're a hyperlinking nutcase, most of the time referencing Wikipedia articles written by your partisan brethren.<br /><br />You're a poseur intellectual, Ares. It's outrageous conceit. Your thinking is a disgrace. Has been for some time. Go start your own GoFundMe campaign. It can't do worse than your blog.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-30891135566832081562018-10-04T17:04:23.655-07:002018-10-04T17:04:23.655-07:00"if everything is a trauma, then nothing is a..."if everything is a trauma, then nothing is a trauma."<br /><br />Nailed it.<br />Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10857149643641643716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71587284717387243592018-10-04T16:01:07.776-07:002018-10-04T16:01:07.776-07:00Ares, that sounds like trauma is the grand unifyin...Ares, that sounds like trauma is the grand unifying theory of everything. Maybe our molecules still carry the memory of that traumatic big bang and we all suffer from the trauma of birth shock. But, if everything is a trauma, then nothing is a trauma.<br /><br />/EstherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-77338358437893511212018-10-04T14:33:21.546-07:002018-10-04T14:33:21.546-07:00Esther, that's surely true. Trauma must be a w...Esther, that's surely true. Trauma must be a wide word that could be a phenomenon on a continuum of adaptions including all unconscious defense mechanisms but perhaps also related to more positive adaptions. And our even unconscious reactions to traumatic experience might be the primary way some vital skills are developed. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, or the paradox of antifragility. But even so what makes this "unconscious first learning" dangerous is once we inhabit it, it filters how we see the world, so we can't see out of it, and even harder if it somehow gives us some sense of power or control in our world. <br /><br />Epigentics adds an entirely new level. And how trauma is undone that has no memory source except through "making shit up" and while accepting its more about you than the world. <br /><br />I guess exposure therapy and CBT help bring what we do unconsciously to awareness where choice exists, if we know we need it. But as best I can tell, many people would prefer to walk around with blinders on their whole life, once their defenses work, than see what's right in front of them that needs attention. And we probably can't help anyone else as long as we're doing the same ourselves.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-45241524835883804462018-10-04T13:35:43.690-07:002018-10-04T13:35:43.690-07:00Growing up with a holocaust survivor parent, maybe...Growing up with a holocaust survivor parent, maybe I have a higher baseline for what constitutes a traumatic experience? Adapting to non danger mode is definitely a problem for the traumatized, which I wish I knew a long, long time ago. Plus, trauma is said to be epigenetic, I hate that idea.<br /><br /><br />/EstherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-27469728745971985832018-10-04T13:29:01.933-07:002018-10-04T13:29:01.933-07:00Dr ID, you're absolutely right - there's a...Dr ID, you're absolutely right - there's a shit ton of "making shit up" on all sides here, motivated reasoning all the way down in many cases. I agree sanity easily looks like something extremely rare if we base our sense of things based on what we read on the internet.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42097951490733177112018-10-04T13:09:17.179-07:002018-10-04T13:09:17.179-07:00And your reply to Esther, Ares, is another perfect...And your reply to Esther, Ares, is another perfect example of what this blog is about. You may call it "building a "narrative", or even "jabher-wocheigh" if you like fancy names. To most other sane people, aka Deplorables, Dregs, and Bitter Clingers, it's called "making shit up".Dr. Irredeemable Dregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-33497277314784418072018-10-04T12:58:12.831-07:002018-10-04T12:58:12.831-07:00"I really don't know what to make of this..."I really don't know what to make of this post, except as an attempt to distract."<br /><br />Distract whom? From what? And to what end? Did you comprehend the post? Let me help - it was a post about psycho-analysis/therapy, which is pretty much the point of this blog, "Had Enough Therapy?" You're welcome.<br /><br />But, after all, you are a failed blogger, so building a coherent "narrative" that anyone cares about obviously isn't one of your strengths.Dr. Irredeemable Dregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-41721200683787930812018-10-04T12:52:16.578-07:002018-10-04T12:52:16.578-07:00Esther: If the relatively mild event she described...Esther: If the relatively mild event she described traumatized her, how is she able to cope with anything?<br /><br />In order to answer that question perhaps you need to look at examples in your own life, events that scared you that still affect you negatively. From what I've read what creates a sense of trauma is a psychic splitting where one innocent part of you can't handle what happened, and another part of you arises up as a protector to avoid the situation from repeating, and the problem is that "protector" persona by itself isn't teachable, and it freezes people into a certain unconscious responses to perceived danger. So to answer your question, the trauma response itself is adaptive, and it is what enables you to pass through something, but it can be maladaptive in the bigger picture because it prevents certain forms of self-awareness that enable conscious choice.<br /><br />Like one useful response to aggression by others is self-blame, so if you can convince yourself that you're responsible for their thoughts, words, and actions, that might encourage you to develop an attractive and pleasing personality (as Hatch actually described Ford), so then you can feel in control and reduce other people's aggression. Its a credible strategy because it partially works, while its premise is false - we're not responsible for other people's thoughts, words, and actions. <br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-85409597422811400942018-10-04T12:16:51.019-07:002018-10-04T12:16:51.019-07:00If the relatively mild event she described traumat...If the relatively mild event she described traumatized her, how is she able to cope with anything?<br /><br /> /Esther<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-58925638500345855342018-10-04T10:49:46.309-07:002018-10-04T10:49:46.309-07:00I really don't know what to make of this post,...I really don't know what to make of this post, except as an attempt to distract. Yes, people want to be able to denounce Ford as delusional because it explains Kavanugh's denials. <br /><br />The only reasonable narrative I have is that Ford really believes she was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh, whether or not it is central to the symptoms she was trying to ease decades later. And her accusations were as mild as can possibly be imagined, where she reasonably had fears of possible rape, but more she experienced it clearly as two boys having fun at her expense, and the likelihood that even if she had reported the assault 36 years ago, it would have been the word of two boys against one girl and it would have caused unhappy attention to her, and accusations that she did something to encourage them, or perhaps dismissed as just playing around. So if I were to judge her motives it would be as a 51 year old woman, she is stronger and more willing to carry the weight of this situation, even if the consequences of death threats and such are much worse than she would have experienced as a 15 year old girl accused of lying about boys.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-26741885073893122002018-10-04T08:24:31.202-07:002018-10-04T08:24:31.202-07:00She does stand to get $900,000 as result from GoFu...She does stand to get $900,000 as result from GoFundMe. Isn't that motive enough?Wye Pei Mornoreply@blogger.com