I just gave Artie his afternoon dose of laudanum (giving therapy, like giving head, is very stressful). Are you suggesting that remembering is forgetful? Or that by forgetting our false selves we remember our REAL selves? Or that you are jealous that your pathetically ET-incongruous serious thread drew fewer responses than Duref's frivolous one? Forgetting is largely an issue of the elderly, since the young have little to remember but their own self-absorbededly trivial lives. They do not realize that the seemingly inconsequential decisions that they make hourly add up karmically to the existential positions of old age (I myself am currently being suffocated by a drunken fat lady of a certain age who fell asleep most awkwardly on me so that she severely impedes my nasal passages.) The youth of ET (which, I suspect, does not include you) cannot comprehend that forgetting oneself in Freudian/Gurdjieffian/Ouspenskian fashion imperceptibly segues into Alzheimer's.
What the heck are you people talking about? Freud was no trader. He would only have been good for ET's psycho threads and perhaps also chit-chat. nononsense Pour F-M. Arouet: Freud n'etait pas un 'trader'.
ROFLMAO Actually its a new one awaiting DSM-IV classification, perhaps Multiple-Handle Disorder. But I must disagree, keep 'em coming Mike, err... John...or is it Duref, Emil, Arthur etc, etc (has Albert C shown up yet?), maybe even nono!
damn...electric is one sick dude! as does the the estimable Mr. Bright, and the run-of-the-mill poster who unconsciously selects a psychologically damning alias for himself.
The value of rememberance seems to be in the fact that dismermerment, dissapasion, and entropy seem to be the predominant forces acting upon the universe. Remembering the dismembered past can create order wanted and unwanted. With memory you either tie youself to the past with either golden chains or iron chains depending on the yuga of your life. Memory seems to be a very dangerous piece of technology, as the saying goes 'an educated person learns something new everyday, and a wise persion unlearns something new everyday' or something like that.
Can I print this and tape it on my wall? did you say this or did someone say this that I should know about? (I forgot) educated person learns something new everyday, and a wise persion unlearns something new everyday
Speaking of forgetting, this thread is forgetting that Victor Sperandeo's favorite psychoanalytic theorist was Karen Horney. Her belief was that the intolerability of childhood trauma leads us to create an alternate personality which is capable of dealing with the trauma either aggressively, passively, or aloofly. The "true" personality is gradually forgotten. In the context of this thread, could not trading be so traumatic to adult children (demonstrably ET is filled with them)? So that they create alternate (on-line) personalities who likewise are aggressive, passive, or aloof?
Bandler and Grinder wrote "One day we will all have multiple personalities." I believe that the problem of "forgetting" in trading (in the rules sense) is curable by multiple personalities. An anxious personality can scalp. A calm personality can hold through retraces for the longer view. An optimistic personality can invest all of his 401K in equities. A pessimistic personality can hedge long positions by shorting equity index futures. A hyperactive personality could monitor the Jack Hershey way. An intelligent personality could avoid ET altogether.