but like how do secure attachment without processing trauma I don't get it
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they do this thing called the "ideal parent figure protocol" instead which is basically where you imagine an ideal parent figure parenting you in all the good ways instead of the bad ways, and and i are checking out a course on it:
attachmentrepair.com/online-courses
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I think this is quite precisely why I became so interested in prayer after reading this book about Aquinas and the second-person perspective in joint attachment
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I would like to write something about how I’ve found God to be a very interesting and useful entity to relate to but it’s kind of weird. It started with a book recommended to me about a new metaphor for understanding Aquinas’s modification of Aristotelian virtue ethics
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lol can you relate to becoming curious about ADHD and ending up researching the history of the encounter between Christianity and the Roman Empire and then becoming fascinated with the Aquinian modification of Aristotle's ethics enough to want to write a book about it
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yea of course, tho you know the thing about the butterfly effect,
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and but also yes hit me with your aquinas notes so I can flesh out my roam
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hmm i guess i also have an ADHD train of thought about ADHD and mine is like "ADHD, ah, but have you considered: school bad, insecure attachment, total work / alienation from one's labor / lack of meaningful work under capitalism, the DSM as a tool of social control"
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yeah I have been really deep into these trains of thoughts reading about antipsychiatry and trying desperately to understand Deleuze & Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" while forgetting to eat and take care of myself
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I also pretty quickly end up somewhere like "ADHD → context shifters → symbol manipulators → shamans → huh I might be the chosen one → no you've read too much heroes journey shit → can one really read too much heroes journey shit? → read criticism of heros journey..."
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*lights old-timey pipe* it is perhaps an unfortunate feature of the hero's journey as a conceptualization of one's life that it implicitly robs every other human being of agency; perhaps we ought speak instead of "heroes' journeys", and tell stories of multitudinous heroism
eh, if you actually get into it, basically the job of the hero is to increase everyone else's agency
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like the "haha! I am the hero! you are the NPCs!" is a grotesque transmogrified husk of what the journey is about, so much so that you could frame such a "hero" as the villain
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Hmm... Less protagonists, more deuteragonists and so on? Stories about multiple chosen and unchosen ones working together to accomplish the task?
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