EyeofCassandra

This commercial always makes me choke up to! But for some reason I relate it more to my writing. I keep at it!

I am pretty convinced I have done damage to my body with the things I have done to it. I have learned about the diet/binge cycle the hard way and it is not a good pattern. I also don't want to end up like my dad who is overweight, a Type 2 diabetic, has had several heart attacks, and still ignores his doctor's advice. That just does not look like a good quality of life.

I try! Since I started reading Ayn Rand's works, I have been trying to think more with my logic instead of just my emotions.

Both my body and my brain have been put through hell the last few years. The recovery will take quite a while! I do read a lot and exercise a lot and I try to keep my focus on my writing. The dark thoughts still sometimes emerge though......

I stand pretty firmly behind my work in Myers Briggs. It has helped me tremendously in my life and I have seen it help others too. When something proves true you keep it. When something proves irrational you throw it out.

I have tested more along a spectrum. I am an INFJ most often but have sometimes tested as an INFP and occasionally I feel more like an INTJ. I find other Fs hard to relate to. They seem to use their Feeling function in a completely different way than I do.

I did not find it flip. I found it the perfect thing to say. Thank you! I am in counseling. I don't know if that will be effective or not.

I became a psychology student because I started reading about the Myers Briggs and its personality profiles. Has anyone else taken the test and if so what is your type? I am an INFJ. If you have not taken the test you can also take it here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp P.S. Ayn Rand is often described as an INTJ.

http://newsletters.getresponse.com/archive/innermammalinstitute/Why-I-dont-cite-studies-in-my-writing-282723805.html?e=&u=FDX6 Here is one Dr. Loretta Breuning's brilliant articles. If you are not familiar with her she is an author and neuroscientist who approaches her work from a very Objectivist perspective. I love her books and her writing and she sheds a lot of light on the "studies" we see repeated on the news every day.

I do not get our modern society. I am 5 foot 1. I weigh 140 pounds. I wear a size 12 and while I am trying to lose weight I am badly disordered. I will go without eating for fairly long periods of time before I break down and binge. I am not making excuses for the mess I am but I am not interfering in anyone else's life. I understand and accept that most men are not going to want to date me. I do not have unrealistic expectations. I do not expect to have another relationship-not now and maybe not ever. So I am not out there on dating sites or in any other scene trying to meet someone. No one ever said to any man that he was obligated to date me. And yet I am not able to visit other (Non-dating!) forums or listen to the radio or read articles anywhere online with a comments section without lines of men browbeating women for their weight. What is the purpose of this? To twist the knife in the wound? To make sure we are constantly reminded of our failures in life? I am not a PC person (far from it) but I do not think bullying has a value or is a productive activity. Why the hell is this a thing?

I own many of Nathaniel Branden's books and I am kind of amazed I did not think to look in them before asking the question! I actually discovered Objectivism through his books. That said I am not sure how helpful his advice and example will be. I really don't see myself becoming involved in another relationship now! I think moving will be the thing that helps most. It will not be quite so difficult to get out somewhere where I am not constantly passing places we used to go together or places I associate with him. Sometimes a change of scenery helps many problems in life!

Yes. I am defining the relationship as any intimate one. It does not have to be a marriage but I am wondering about how people have gotten through the death of an intimate partner and how long that process took.

Is there anyone here who has lost a significant other? If so have you had another relationship? And was it difficult to do?

Here is my first ever blog post. I am kind of nervous about the reception! On Self-Ownership, Equality and Selective Service If you are like most Americans you are hearing a cacophony of political arguments for and against women being forced to register for the draft. Nearly all of them center on one of a few key precepts. Should women be forced to register because men are? Should young girls (our daughters, our mothers, our sisters) be sacrificed to prove our “equality” or out of revenge for our refusal to be subservient in the culture or the home? If so, which of us needs to go? Should we sacrifice all women or “just the single and childless” ones? Or (as it has been argued) do our young men (our sons, our fathers, our brothers) bear this “responsibility” merely for the bad fortune of being born a male? The only argument you will NOT hear is the morally correct one: The answer is none of the above. It is profoundly immoral to seize ANYONE from their home, their family and their life and demand they give their life for the whim of a politician. It is disgusting, inhumane and an utter disgrace and dishonor to The Founders who voluntarily went into battle to build a nation on the belief that each individual had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness-NOT that we had the “right” to be sacrificed equally at the altar of the state. I am not livestock. I was not born to be property. I am not here to be bred, corralled and butchered in service of the state. I am not here to be appraised at auction for my relative worth to someone else’s notion of the community or the common good. My body, my life and my will are my own and I refuse to be an object of sacrifice. The state does not own me. I do and I alone will choose when to give my life or end it. The mere fact that we as a people are willing to argue who should be maimed or sacrificed in the service of our government reveals what passes for “moral character” in our society. Apparently, it is not a question of whether a government designed to be a servant of its people (and not the other way around) has the right to demand the sacrifice of life. It is simply a question of who should go first! I vote that no one deserves this and I refuse to give my life for anyone’s values but my own. I will stand equally for the rights of any other woman or any man who feels the same. If that makes me a bad citizen or an enemy of the state so be it. My life and the lives of those I love are too valuable to trade for approval, convenience or sheets of paper. And ironically my own self-ownership is one thing I am more than willing to die for!

True! I try to keep in mind that I produce and live by my own efforts. That is an accomplishment even if I don't really feel I have done much.