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Yes probably true--he's on TV all the time down here, sort of a pundit for teh gays.

I like Dan Savage, he's very actively pro Proposition 8, but I especially like his answer to "Now the Other Mom": No advice for you, NTOM, but plenty of prenatal sympathy for a poor unfortunate fetus who deserves better parents or his very own miscarriage. I will, however, hold on to your...

Violence isn't shocking if it's been the wallpaper to your life, tho. I mean, I think Antichrist sound intriguing enough, and visually I like the trailer, but violence is hardly enough to shock anyone anymore is it? People get circumsized for reals everyday.

Thanks for the links, Lichen. Oh, I agree with them too. I don't think this means therapy or trying to work through your problems is bad or frivolous--esp if they're pretty serious--but I do get tired of the idea that the way we live in the Western world is just the sickest of all, as some...

Study about counter-dependency and chronic pain is interesting. I've heard good things about using "biofeedback" techniques for neuropathic pain, haven't tried it though.

One of my gay husbands told me that girls are so disgusting because all they have is a barely visible, pathetic 'fu-manchu' moustache.

Querelle is good, so's the film. "Saint Genet"... I just ordered Confessions of a Mask more or less on Josef K's recommendation.

I generally prefer no facial hair but a little bit is better than a full beard.

Everyone who's been on this board for any amount of time knows how into "the experience" I am (and Mr. Tea is, and so forth), so if that's all spirituality means, ok--most people are spiritual. Even if it just means something like "mindfulness" in the Buddhist sense, I think most people have no...

Zhao, there are a million ways to think about the interrelatedness of all things, or about energy flows, and rationalist or scientific explanations aren't exactly inimical to this sort thinking. In fact, some of the greatest thinkers about that "oceanic feeling" were cosmologists and...

Haha, ok that makes more sense*. I really should've wondered why you were comparing Mr Tea to a serial killer. It's just both have "Mark" in them, too. ("possibly bi, but basically un-curious." hahaha) *plus the movie is Peeping Tom not Peep Show, I was confused

"Oh, that's just a racket for the Jews" as matriarch Soprano put it...? ;)

That's a great film, one of Hitchcock's favorites. I just rewatched it last week. Then I reread Virilio's The Vision Machine and Mulvey's Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema. Then I read about gene regulatory networks and the Cambrian explosion. Just for to expand my headspace. J/k. That shit...

Oh yeah, that, and often friends and family are a huge part of the problem, it's not like there's no one to talk to, it's that (esp with addicts) talking to friends or family can make the problems worse when they're partially responsible for the endless cycle in the first place. There are...

I agree with this. Luka, go make someone a coffee for minimum wage and blow me.

Yes, agree with your concerns and this last point is interesting. It's funny, because I notice there's a tendency for CBT to be embraced by people who would otherwise want nothing to do with psychotherapy--I see this in individuals, but also corporations and businesses. I think there are a lot...

To be a psychotherapist here, it's 8 years, you need either a PhD or an MD. And if you get an MD, it's really 10 years because you do a 2-year residency (at least in the U.S.). A counselor has an MA in public health. They don't have the same amount of technical knowledge, but I fucking love my...

Didn't think of this as a factor...Over here, the depression seems huge in the generation gap between the baby boomers and their parents. My grandfather still talks about it all the time, he and my grandmother still eat the same sort of weird foods that people made back then with severely...

Wow sounds primal screamish. I doubt they'd endorse that these days. I did hear about sensitivity training being used a lot in the military somewhere, but this--I hope this is not the technique they're using. But yeah, as for the session work you're talking about--we had those too, at my house...

I'm really not trying to be derisive, I was just wondering why you were equating certain ideas with Diamond's that's all. But you're right. I don't believe in spirits. If/when someone can show me one, I'll believe in them. Until then, no dice.