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I don't know if this will be helpful, but my note would be that you will likely never again find yourself in a phase of life that is more overwhelming than the one you are in now, unless you someday choose to martyr yourself without boundary to a full-time career that also requires "Mom" s...

Jacob is more specialty project focused, he isn't looking to keep people occupied/entertained while also engaging their talents. His focus is on pushing the edges of the noosphere, a place few people have enough skill/knowledge/talent to approach, with far fewer still being able to push hard enough...

WL5 - MHC 11 (optimization is the peak of analytical thought) WL6 - MHC 11.5 WL7 - MHC 12 WL8 - MHC 12.5 WL9 - MHC 13 Yes, I grok the MHC. I have something like an abbreviated form of it clipped to my math tutoring clipboard. I got an A+ in Abstract Algebra, so likely I could touch Level 12 on a go...

@chenda:

I am 59 not 84, I really shouldn't be going there yet. It's just that my current low level of health is keeping me stuck in Si (memory) loop. If I had the energy to write without reticence about my fantastic plans for my sexual future, that would be different.

I deleted my last post due to too much personal memoir. I will save that for my stitch n bitch peer group. :lol: Skeletal Sexuality WL Table with Suggested Books (Very much work in progress. I am debating some of my picks and level descriptions ) Level 1: Pre-Sexual: "Teen Beat" magazine o...

From age 4 to 8 is a pretty huge jump in cognitive development. Pretty much all you are going to teach a mostly 4 year old crowd with such a demonstration is that Physics is another name for Magic! So, I recommend just making it fun and engaging. Incorporating music and movement is always a good tac...

@jacob: I think maybe you're pushing the university model a bit hard. For example, I just completed my first semi-independent project in data analysis on the topic of the relative long term financial value of choice of college major. Because I also know a little bit of math and a little bit of finan...

Okay, a couple examples: The kind of garden variety* bad sex that might occur at the intersection of Level 3: Masturbation and Level 4: Dependent Sex would be one partner up in their head thinking about a personal fantasy/something they watched on PornHub and the other partner just willing/consentin...

It's going to be difficult for me to do that and that's also not quite what I meant. The insights I've gained from non-monogamy have changed my sexuality* less than my relationship perspective. Although for both it was more like gaining language and an ethical framework for how I felt rather than s...

I think thefox offered some very good suggestions. I would add that one potential problem with personalized frugal dating is that it can be easy to veer too "domestic." Maybe this is just me, but if I'm on a second or third date with a guy, and he's going to cook me dinner at his place, an...

@ertyu: Good question. My first note would be that much of the vocabulary that will be necessary to further this discussion was emergent of either the LGBTQIA community and/or the Kink community. In our culture a high-functioning, vanilla, heterosexual couple could potentially arrive at Level 6 toge...

Purpose of thread being the collaborative creation of WL Table relevant to the realm of sexuality (as opposed to permaculture/ecology or personal finance/ERE.) I also hope that the creation of a third such table may be towards the purpose of better enabling the application of the model to other real...

maybe you've falling off of the great chain of change. Or perhaps the great change of being. Yes, that's it. Like a Teletubby who DIY'd herself a pair of wax wings out of crayon nubbins and popsicle sticks and then had to release all 3 of her cellophane candy wrapper parachutes before landing "...

Believing in a task that is greater than the ego or personally fun fulfillment. They have a purpose greater than themselves. Gotcha. So, for example, creating a model of a frugal lifestyle that other humans might actually copy because it seems like it might actually be fun could be towards fulfilli...

No, for most creative people, it really is money. This is why artists, scientists, or anyone whose contributions can't easily be commercialized tend to end up "serving fries with that" or spend much of their lifetime trying to source it from rich people asking for grants, etc. Sorry. I wa...

Sexual Wheaton Levels discussion moved to its own thread.

To go from a low cost of living to a very low cost of living, ~10k, you have to think about money a lot less than normies do. Yes, this is because thinking about and developing any other form of capital will more than likely lead to decreased expenses or osmotic cash flow as secondary effect. HOWEV...

In particular, even fewer do it in an informed way seeking good consequences. I'm thinking of the stereotypical spiritual bypassers who figure they're going to reinvent themself on a farm in Nepal and thus cash out their 401k only to crash and burn. Next year, they're off to art school, except they...

@jacob: Gotcha. That makes sense. Being a fully functional conventional (or unconventional) homemaker requires mostly a mix of objective and inter-subjective skills. So homemakers often suffer from either a lack of subjective (care for self as opposed to others) functioning or a lack of inter-object...

I ended up here through a link from some stock broker's blog, I think. Newly free from a spendy ex, and bringing in salaryman money for the first time ever, I knew I had to invest to get ahead. Interesting. Very much like IllinDave (INFJ)s path. You were likely very much in your masculine energy in...