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Sounds like someone is a Steve Pavlina fan... I find Pavlina to be interesting, but sadly he went w-a-y off into cuckoo land a while back.
by matrix 17y ago
Sounds like someone is a Steve Pavlina fan...
I find Pavlina to be interesting, but sadly he went w-a-y off into cuckoo land a while back.
- adamhowell 17y agoMan, you aren't kidding. Polyphasic sleep? Fine. Conscious growth? Um, ok. Polygamy? Woah, what?!
- dkersten 17y agoYou say Woah, what?!, some say Hell Yeah!
- theorique 17y agoPolyamory, dude. Balanced rules for the goose and gander :) But actually, that's so 2009... check out his 2010 plan if you're curious ;)
- jodrellblank 17y agoI said "Polygamy, er, I guess you can write about that" Then a bit later "Steve and Erin have split up? That casts a different light on the posts about how intimate and great their relationship was, how he wants to focus on relationships more, and how he now wants to branch out polyamorously..."
- ja27 17y agoErin didn't see it coming? Ba-dump-bump. But seriously, I stopped reading his blog at the first poly post.
- Psyonic 17y agoPsychics, 11:11, and "creating your own reality" did it for me. Doesn't he realize that when he bans people from his forum, he's only banning a part of himself!?
- jodrellblank 17y agoNo no no, he doesn't exist except in your imagination. When you see him banning people from his forum, you are seeing an external representation of the divide within yourself.
- Psyonic 17y agoWouldn't that be when you read about me seeing him banning people from his forum, you're only reading an external representation of the divide within myself within yourself? ;)
- michaelkeenan 17y agoBe polite! Polyamory is common enough among geeks and SF area types that there must be a few HN-reading polyamorists. It's brave of Pavlina to write about tabooed topics[1]. And it can't be any more fun for polyamorists to encounter incredulity and derision than it was for the first open homosexuals or interracial couples. [1] cf. http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
- pmichaud 17y agoTell me about it, we don't even have a movement. We're 50 years behind homosexuals in terms of rights and social acceptance. At least we're not killed for it.
- nevinera 17y agoI rely on safety in numbers!
- yters 17y agoWhy doesn't everyone just cut to the chase and start an "I can have sex with anything and it's ok" movement?
- silencio 17y agoBecause even if you try to make it clear that it's a consensual act (sex, relationship, whatever) between any group of people of age, the people against such a movement will claim that you are a pedophile, that it's against (insert some religion)'s beliefs for a union to be between more than two people, etc. The people who don't know better and don't think of polyamory as mainstream will find that emotionally appealing. In the end you have a mess (see: same sex marriages today) where you think people should know better and realize this isn't about what's "right or wrong" to any individual on any level, but a matter of discrimination when it comes to benefits that are not being given to one group but to another. But they don't always know better. In the US, we're barely scraping by trying to get the same benefits to gay couples, let alone any mix of more than two people. A movement to do what you suggest...I can't imagine what kind of uproar there will be and how many people will be conflating polyamory with polygamy and being very against it as a result. At the minimum.
- westbywest 17y agoNever been a fan of polyphasic sleep. The consequences, e.g. complete disconnect with diurnal society, not to mention side effects yet to be understood, seem pretty grave. Even Buckminster Fuller gave it up due to his wife's objections (or so the story goes). In the end, you're not a robot with tunable duty cycle. You do your body a disservice treating it like that.
- techiferous 17y agoI agree. If I were ever to get to a point where I'd want more hours in the day that badly, I generally approach the problem by either (1) prioritizing my goals and letting some less important things drop or (2) trying some creative problem solving in order to increase productivity (i.e., accomplish all of my goals in less time).
- philwelch 17y agoHeh, I would actually put that in reverse. I'm pretty comfortable with polyamory, but I don't buy into polyphasic sleep for a minute, and the idea that he married a telephone psychic (and takes her profession seriously!) is what put him into question for me.
- burke 17y agoWell, I can personally attest to polyphasic sleep working. My friend and coworker does it -- three hours at night and three naps. He's still sane-ish.
- dnsworks 17y agoSo you're not really personally attesting to it, but you're personally attesting to an anecdote about polyphasic sleeping?
- philwelch 17y agoA lot of people brag about their polyphasic sleep schedule, but what they don't mention is all the times they doze off and the massive sleep deprivation they're in denial over. And yes, it's possible to "function" with chronic sleep deprivation for years at a time--that's what sleep apnea does.
- burke 17y agoWell, I spend 8 hours a day with him and frequently talk to him in the middle of the night. Anecdotal, technically, I guess.
- ibsulon 17y agoAs I remember it, he was a programmer and she was a secretary when they met. She moved on to publishing a vegan newsletter, then became a (rather successful from the sounds of it) telephone psychic from there. (I've read him from near the beginning, keeping the wheat and discarding the chaff.)
- oscardelben 17y agoToday's post is not bad. Recently he started again to post interesting stuff, although is lot of theory and no more 30 days trials.