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(Doug) Thesoundtestroom needs a bit of a fiscal bump, pay it forward folks :)
I'm going to post it here because he deserves the exposure and probably wouldn't do it himself.
If we all just chucked some loose change his way it would do the job.
Keep the beans of the cool variety ...
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Where would we be without Doug? Not nearly as well informed.
He’s one of the good guys, so hopefully those able to help will rally round.
I like Dougs attitude. I also emphasis with his situation because:
1. I also have a rare illness that limits what I can and can’t do.
2. I too fell between the cracks (term actually used by someone dealing with my claim).
3. My claim for benefits took over two years and was eventually sorted out in court
4. I too survived only because of support from loved ones and others
5. The system does not recognise levels of ability to work in reality - to them, you can either work (do everything) or not work (do nothing) - life simply isn’t like this. A disability only reduces a persons ability to do certain things. The system however, makes it very very difficult for anyone to continue to work.
6. You will not find the traps by reading about the system on official websites, you literally have to live through it to really understand how badly designed the system is.
7. Anyone can become ill to a degree that they can’t work properly all the time. It can happen to you. It happened to myself and had nothing to do with lifestyle.
8. Medication for many illnesses or to cope with pain, can cause major complications which are very hard to fit into ‘normal’ lifestyles that include work.
9. Anyone that really wants to think that living with a disability or long term illness is an easy option, will think so. People believe what they want for the most part, so I’ve stopped trying to let people know what living with pain is really like - I just hope it never happens to you.
10. Doug is right - many people live through worse, but it does not change anything - the only way we really can change things is via political and social means, which is off the table for discussion at this forum
Best wishes Doug and I will send you something once I’ve got past this awkward month for Jo (my wife) and myself.
+1
The iOS demos are essential. Funnily enough I was searching for decent vids for Reason when I was thinking of getting it, and again Doug's vids were the best out there for an easy to understand, overview. However that could be because Doug sounds and looks quite a lot like me and my mates - so I could imagine him sitting down the pub with us while demonstrating the latest Animoog soundpack
It's a shame some of the bigger developers don't reach out and collaborate. Inviting him over to roadtest a new release, and putting the weight of their marketing department behind it would give a massive boost to his channel.
Happy to do the sales page thing again, when the next sales period arrives.
......Doug sounds and looks quite a lot like me and my mates.
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If they ever bring back OGWT, that is a band I’d like to see.
What might you call it?
BeardZone
Blokes Aloud
DaM
I'm excluding Doug from the line-up out of politeness, but for me and my mates 'Bad Hair Day' would work...
Just for doing some opposition:
I don't think that the iOS community is the right one for handling issues like this. This really is the wrong model of problem solving in my humble opinion. He is living in one of the richest countries in the world, and a good organized one, too. He has asked us for help him some months before - and we delivered.
He told us "he don't want" to get institutional help.
This is his decision.
This is what kills me. There was a time in my life right out of college where I needed benefits due to the time it took to find out just what was wrong with me (bipolar, narcolepsy, another REM sleep disorder) and some time to cope and learn to balance and manage these things. I was a deeply depressed or psychotically manic worthless heap who couldn’t stay up for more than 6-8 hours a day, but I was denied any assistance because I had ‘achieved a college degree level of education’. Thank goodness for parents in my case.
Not to want to argue or anything, I disagree with the country being ‘organised’ well enough to help this situation. I’ve had first hand experience of having to prove what I can and can not do work wise. It takes an age through the court system. Took me over two years and if I had a house like Doug, I would have lost it long before getting to my day in court.
Yes, everyone’s situation is different, but the system is not designed to be helpful to the person or to society. The system is clearly designed to force people into others ways to survive and that most will give up on claiming any benefit eventually.
I appreciate you may have another opinion and can see this conversation getting political, so will back out now (so not to piss the powers that be off)
The system and/or your daily job eats you and spit you out for sure. I´m into it as well.
All the best to you Doug!
I´m almost scared to see you so but really appreciate your transparent view since it needs a lot of balls to make these things public.
I hope it pays out all a bit better since what you doing is just WORK and should be valued of course.
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Why bother. This isn’t politics, it’s real life. If you don’t want anything to do with this, don’t read the thread.
That is a tough watch, Doug!
I have just sent the latest sale from our album. Hope it helps a little.
If anyone else would like to buy any of our albums, I will forward the full sale amount to Doug (after BC and PayPal have taken their share)
What a killer album though...
https://studio4632benefit.bandcamp.com/album/the-doug-woods-benefit-album
Yeah. Repulse the Monkey were very pleased to contribute to that album, and would be equally happy to join in with Doug Aid 2.
+1, happy to contribute again to the next one.
Affective empathy - feeling sad with someone who is sad - is a powerful way to connect to another human. When used wisely, it’s one of the most powerful tools a human can have to communicate with another human. Imagine the negotiation tactics possible when you can feel another person’s apprehension no matter how subtle.
Affective empathy is misunderstood by those who don’t use it. Let me clear something up, when I feel another’s emotions, I’m not overpowered or destroyed by them. If I cry when someone else does, it’s an act of biological solidarity, it’s not because I’m too weak to prevent myself from crying. It’s because I’m strong enough to let another person’s emotions pass through me and create a natural response in my body. All I have to do to stop the tears is to shift my attention away from that person and the effect is instantly gone.
Rational cognitive empathy is not much of a superpower. Yeah, so you can read my body language and you know I’m having a hard time. You nod and pat my shoulder. Big woop. Cognitive empathy is pretty lame.
Jean Piget studied the development of children from infancy through adulthood. He has a legacy of cognitive development that maps out the stages that most people go through when they grow up.
I have been studying people who, as adults, choose to further their own empathy development. There is a distinct pattern that people go through as they go from cognitive empathy (being able to guess what someone else is going through) to thorough self-less compassionate affective empathy which is the realm of Buddhist masters and other enlightened people.
The path from layman to enlightenment is an interesting journey that might surprise you. Here’s a few of the waypoints.
Basic ‘theory of mind’ understanding that other people have feelings. Being able to surmise, based on one’s own past experience, what someone else is going through. This is as far as most people go in empathy. Cognitive empathy goes here.
Recognition that we can actually feel each other’s emotions. We have mirror neurons that let our brainwaves sync. This is a logical understanding that it’s possible to feel sad just because you are looking at a person who is sad. This is an understanding that affective empathy exists.
Understanding, in the moment, that what you are feeling is actually coming from someone else. This is the experience of feeling an emotion and understanding that you feel that way in your body simply because you are looking at someone who feels that way. First foray into affective empathy.
Using empathy to feel (in your body) the emotions of everyone you come in contact with everyday, and using that information, in the moment to understand the experience of the people you see. At first, this is fun, then after a few days, it’s extremely overwhelming. You want to hide. Look at the ground. Ignore people. Living alone or in a cave seems like a viable option. It’s hard to turn this off at will once you turn it on. Imagine waking up to a world where everyone is naked all the time whether you want them to be or not. Novel at first, then not so cool.
When empathy becomes a part of your everyday experience, and it’s no longer overwhelming, you can start to see the truth of situations that you were previously blind to. The truth isn’t often pretty. This stage includes the desire to disown friends and family because of the hard truths associated with their lives. Everyone has hard truths, but somehow when you become privvy to the truths of your loved ones, it hurts more.
Once you realize that you can see the truth in everything, you start to get frustrated that people live the way they do. You want them to see how they can fix their lives. You want them to fast-forward to the time when their problems are gone. Since you can see the clear solutions, it’s hard to accept that they can’t or won’t see those solutions. This stage is obnoxiously devoid of compassion. Empathy without compassion is kind of asshole-y. It’s not a fun stage.
Compassion creeps in slowly, case by case as you realize that the truth is invisible to most people. They have no idea what you are talking about when you try to help them. You might as well be speaking another language. You can start to see that people are beautifully flawed.
Compassion becomes a normal part of everyday life along with your empathy. You can feel a person, or choose not to, at will. You can choose to make note of the feelings or let them drift by like street noise. This is the point where you stop feeling like a jerk, you call the friends you stopped hanging out with and life gets back to normal. In some ways everything ends up exactly the way it was before you learned empathy. In some ways, it’s a whole new world.
You no longer judge yourself or others. You no longer see the world as anything more than cause and effect. Most humans are entities of pain, suffering, and numbness, except the few authentic souls who have somehow broken through that way of being. You can love them all, no matter how horrid or entrenched in pain. It’s still hard to be around those you love who are in pain since you feel every last bit of it.
Once you’ve gotten through the levels of empathy, having business meetings is pretty easy. You can hear/feel/see/read between the lines when talking to anyone.
Negotiations are dead easy. Nothing is hidden anymore and you are very clear with yourself about how you feel about certain offers. You know what other people want because they will betray themselves while trying to hide their “secret” desires. High-stakes conversations aren’t intimidating anymore. You know you are talking to a human. You can feel everything they feel. How can anyone be intimidating when you can basically read their mind?
And your point is .......?
I don't have one.
It's not about me.
Things like this are not about any one person.
They are about all of us.
As a whole.
If you disagree, cool.
If you agree, cooler.
I don't understand. You have cut and pasted a passage from a neuroscientist who answered a question on emapthy on the website Quora.
You obviously felt that this was germane, but in what sense? Are people not being truly empathetic here?
No, I dont disagree with a word. I think it a fine and clear bit of textbook philosophy that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour. I was just a bit puxxled as to how this helps Doug. Or, anyone else commenting in this thread.
When I read that article I remember a particular situation I was tending to. A similar one to this thread's topic.
It made sense for me to personally embrace a perspective that was otherwise uncharacteristic to my normal thinking and behavior.
I honestly don't understand why a very positive piece that looks at an essential human component in a more thoughtful, if not analytical way is causing you such confusion. Even to respond multiple times to me about a post is odd. When the thread is about compassion and helping a person many of us know. I do not need to respond to me personally.
I don't feel the need to justify my post. To the majority of people it is evident through a little deductive reasoning how the piece is relevant to this thread and the aforementioned posts.
I think it is a relatively short stretch to surmise how and why the piece could be though provoking in this thread.
I also don't know why I almost get the sense of hostility for a piece that is all together POSITIVE and HELPFUL.
That is the real thing that is unsettling actually to me.
To even derail the thread to personally go on some sort of means of testing my reasoning or justification to post such a thing? Odd.
I didn't know we had such a "policy" in place for posting.
I guess that is what it is. Or maybe this is more about each persons emotional response to such a piece.
Because I would not want to make this thread about me.
I wanted to contribute in a productive way. This is a little surprising actually why some people have a need to posture even in such a situation as this thread is orientated.
Not a destructive or distracting one with any negative intent or overtones. Or passive aggressive intellectual mechanisms or some such thing.
Anyway.
I already reached out to Doug.
I will end here.
Not about me.
I will know next time to just say.
"I will help" or " go get a job or didn't u just ask" or something like this.
I guess I thought the topic of the thread deserved more.
Funny how people are triggered by either certain people who post or certain topics. Interesting.
You're absolutely right that we shouldn't derail this thread. Let's assume we're all wishing the best for Doug and we will do what we can.
@RUST( i )K kind of sneaky/plagiarism that you posted that article as your own words without any reference.
Yeah that’s not appropriate, even if it’s the internet. ‘Here’s something I agree with...’ would’ve done just fine.
Doug Aid2 — Count me in!
Sneaky?
Reference?
Plagarism?
Not appropriate?
What the fuck?
Are you kidding me?
Well I guess I am not the right pedigree for the internet or this forum anymore.
You guys turn a positive post into a judgement on use of references and citations. Really?
I guess posting on a phone at a on a treadmill in attempt to increase concern for a fellow man who I know and care about wasn't done in a professional enough manner.
Wow.
Masters Degree from John Hopkins ............. yeah I think I have a working knowledge on proper citation.
For like, you know..........PUBLISHING or MAKING MONEY OF SOMETHING or CLAIMING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY or PROPRIETORSHIP.
But, the elitist cyber finger wagging is fucking whack. I am sorry.
I posted in a thread to help a fellow human and hope to touch a compassionate nerve for fellow posters and readers and I have been nothing but what ever this crap is.
I don't do social media, but I imagine this is the baby shit that happens there. I just know that in real life, this whole conversation is way different. Yeah.
In real life people don't talk like you post. In real life, people don't criticize what people say and why they said it and where they got that idea from.
They just interact.
I am here being myself. I don't play some roll, quoting what academic or medical journals I read.....LOL
What a joke. N please.
We Are @thesoundtestroom.
Hi Doug, sorry to hear, will send some token funds your way. Take care
@RUST( i )K stay strong mate, I know exactly what you meant.
+100
+1 Mr. Monzo!!!
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