Brian's Corner

[EgejskaMakedonia]

How old are you Brian? I've noticed you bring up your age in comparison to others quite often. I'm going to guess 24.

EgejskaMakedonia's theory is that if this song was a part of your childhood then you're a 90s kid, so max of 22 years.

Pokémon Theme Song - YouTube

Enjoy.

[George S.]

Remember Sigmund Freud who said that it's all to do with SEX.

FREUD's Theory of Psychosexual Development

According to Freud, people enter the world as unbridled pleasure seekers. Specifically, people seek pleasure through from a series of erogenous zones. These erogenous zones are only part of the story, as the social relations learned when focussed on each of the zones is also important. Freud's theory of development has 2 primary ideas: One, everything you become is determined by your first few years - indeed, the adult is exculsively determined by the child's experiences, because whatever actions occur in adulthood are based on a blueprint laid down in the earliest years of life (childhood solutions to problems are perpetuated) Two, the story of development is the story of how to handle anti-social inpulses in socially acceptable ways



Libido was Freud's word for psychic and sexual energy. How libido is expressed depends on the stage of development. But in each stage of development there are frustrations. If those frustrations are not successfully dealt with, then the libido will be tied to that stage of development more than it should. There is only so much libido for each person, and to develop successfully a person cannot use too much of their libido in one stage, because then there will less for the others. Such overuses will be reflected in later behavior in one of two ways.



Fixation may occur, which would mean that there are lingering desires for pleasure from the source experienced at that stage

Reaction Formation may occur, which would be taking the lingering desire for pleasure from some source and acting in the opposite way


Stages of Development

Freud proposed that there were 5 stages of development. Freud believed that few people successfully completed all 5 of the stages. Instead, he felt that most people tied up their libido at one of the stages, which prevented them from using that energy at a later stage.

ORAL Stage This occurs from birth to about 1 year, and the libido is focussed on the mouth. The individual may be frustrated by having to wait on another person, being dependent on another person. Being fixated at this stage may mean an excessive use of oral stimulation, such as cigarettes, drinking or eating.

ANAL Stage This period occurs about age 2 and 3 yrs. Here individuals have their first encounter with rules and regulations, as they have to learn to be toilet trained. This encounter with rules and regulations will dictate the later behavior with rules and regulations. The libido is focussed anally, and frustration may arise from having to learn a somewhat complex cognitive and motor response. Being fixated at this stage can result in stinginess, stubborness, or orderliness, as well as messiness. Essentially, behavior related to retention and expulsion may be related to experiences at this stage.

PHALLIC Stage This period starts about age 4-5 years. Some critical episodes for development occur during this stage, but these episodes occur differently for boys and girls.

Oedipus conflict - the boy begins to have sexual desires for his mother, and sees his father as a rival for her affections. The boy begins to fear that his father is suspicious of his longing for his mother, and that the father will punish him for his desires. That punishment, the boy fears, will be castratation, which brings us to the second critical episode for this stage.

Castration anxiety. The fear of castration make the boy anxious. This anxiety begun with the fear of punishment from the father leads to the boy thinking that the father hates him eventually becomes unbearable and the boy renounces his sexual feelings for his mother and chooses instead to identify with his father, and hopes to someday have a relationship with a woman (though not his mother) just like dear old dad has with his mother.

The story for girls is slightly different. The oral and anal stages are the same for both girls and boys, so the focus of affection and attention is on the mother for both. But this focus changes, for girls, from the mother to the father, when the girls realize that they don't have penises, so they develop penis envy. This realization coupled with the knowledge that her mother doesn't have a penis leads to her thinking her mother unworthy, and becoming attracted to her father, as he does have a penis.
Just as with boys, girls begin to suspect the same sex parent knows about their attraction to the opposite sex parent, and they hate them for it. These feelings go round and round for awhile until the point when the girls renounce their feelings for their fathers and identify with their mothers.



LATENCY Stage This period occurs after the oedipus conflict has been resolved and the feelings that were aroused during that time have subsided. This lasts from about the age of 7 until puberty, and this is a period of rest where there are no developmental events

GENITAL Stage Begins at puberty involves the development of the genitals, and libido begins to be used in its sexual role. However, those feelings for the opposite sex are a source of anxiety, because they are reminders of the feelings for the parents and the trauma that resulted from all that.
Evaluation of Freud's psychosexual development theory

Four points:

difficult to test, but the evidence that has been gathered is not favourable

the crucial events (e.g., how the libido is used) are unobservable, and there are no good means to measure them

there is an awfully long time between the occurence of the causal stimulus and its presumed effect; relationships between early events and later traits tend to be weak and inconsistent

this theory of development was conceived without studying children; rather, it was developed from patients' recollections, dreams and free associations



Freud's theory focusses on sex and aggression. During the time period Freud lived in, sex and sexual ideas did not make for socially acceptable topics for dinner conversations, or most any other sort of conversations. Thus, those ideas were unspoken, because they were socially unacceptable.

Recently, James Pennebaker has done some studies in which people tell negative secrets to the experimenter - in confidence and with confidentiality, in a set similar to a Catholic confessional - and Pennebaker takes various measures of their well being. He finds that a few months later, people who tell the negative secrets have higher levels of well being than people who did not reveal any negative secrets. One measure is the number of trips to the university medical office to be treated for illness.

Let me suggest that Pennebaker's results - that confessing negative secrets leads to higher well being - relates to Freud's work by illustrating that people who release some socially unacceptable thought/belief/action feel better as a result. This suggests that Freud may have been correct about "psychic energy" being tied up in negative things, although the exact content of those thing may not be sex and aggression. Thus, Freud may have correctly identified an important aspect of well being - the notion that unspoken thoughts can influence our behavior - but the identifying the content of the thoughts as exclusively sexual and aggressive may be incorrect.
Freud's structure for the personality

The structure of personality involves three parts: the id, the ego, and the super-ego.

The id contains the drives that people have. These are the drives for pleasure. If humans have instincts, this is where they are. The id wants its wishes immediately and directly fulfilled. The id is governed by the pleasure principle, which suggests that all processes operate to achieve the maximum amount of pleasure. Also, the id is almost completely unconscious.

The superego contains all of the moral lessons the person has learned in their life. This is the internalized voice of authority. Freud suggested that usually the moral lessons a person has in their superego were learned from their parents, although as the person gets older the lessons may be learned from others as well. Our conscience is in the superego. This is also where we have a notion of what our ideal person is. The superego is also partially unconscious.

The ego is the mediator between the id and the superego. The ego tries to reconcile the wishes of the id, and the moral attitudes of the superego. That reconciliation may entail that the ego postpone the immediate gratification demanded by the id for later, and greater, gratification. The ego is in touch with reality, and may do reality testing, which is thinking about what the best course of action is to attain goals of the id and superego. The ego is governed by the reality principle, which suggests that the person gets as much satisfaction from the world as possible. Finally, the ego is the conscious mind.
Ego Defense Mechanisms

Freud suggested there were habits of thought that people use to protect their minds from anxiety. Some of the important defense mechanisms are:

Repression: keeps anxiety arousing thoughts out of consciousness. Repression may be voluntary or involuntary. There is clinical evidence for repression in cases of multiple personality disorder, where one persona does not have access to another persona. Some suggestions have been made that multiple personalities develop because a person experiences bad events and deals with those events by creating another persona that has not suffered them.
Also, post-traumatic disorders, such a shell-shock, suggest that person have experiences that they have not completely thought out, and would prefer not to completely think out. So, those experiences are repressed, or pushed out of the person's consciousness.

Identification: occurs when the person symbolically represents themself with (in) another person. The person then models their behavior on that other person's behavior.

Projection: a person attributes their own threatening or worrisome traits/impulses to another person, so as to ignore or overlook those traits/impulses in themself.

Rationalization Attribute to oneself a noble motive for an action rather than the real motive that is not so noble. I gave money to the charity because I am a generous person, rather than thinking I gave money to the charity, because they will list my name as one of the doners, and I will get a tax deduction for my contribution.

[Brian]

World English Dictionary
narcissism or narcism (ˈnɑːsɪˌsɪzəm, ˈnɑːˌsɪzəm)

— n
1. an exceptional interest in or admiration for oneself, esp one's physical appearance
2. sexual satisfaction derived from contemplation of one's own physical or mental endowments

LOL.LOL.LOL.
Yes YOU would need a dictionary for that word - small minds preoccupy themselves with small things as children so you already know Dickhead but I think you might need different 'book' for that one to give you sexual satisfaction.

There was nothing wrong with any of my posts including the ones berating you over your idiocy. I'm sure Voltron and his buddies had a great laugh while you humiliated yourself by first talking about nukes showing you had no idea about what his point was and then by showing your child like mind disconnect with the realities of life by talking of some idyllic utopian way of dealing with being overrun by hoards - yes everyone loves everyone in the world - and then by giving this 'hippie love' utopian moral code the name "makedonche's law" - if that's not narcissism what is?LOL.

It's one thing to be humiliated by someone else but totally worse to humiliate yourself without the other guy even trying and then just to add to your humiliation by being be so oblivious to it you proudly name it after yourself! No wonder the Greeks call Macedonians Monkeydonians, they must have heard of "makedonche's law".

Don't think that my saying it is better to take such discussions aside from public viewing in order to present a better image of Macedonians means I conceded anything, but the idiot that you are it is exactly how you took it and went on the attack defending your humiliating position! Then you get so worked up by my not replying to your stupid attack - I've got him on the run now, gotta pump harder - you follow me here to try and get your (sexual?LOL.) satisfaction. When you reread your posts you will realise your 'satisfaction' hit you right in your eye.

[makedonche]

World English Dictionary
narcissism or narcism (ˈnɑːsɪˌsɪzəm, ˈnɑːˌsɪzəm)

— n
1. an exceptional interest in or admiration for oneself, esp one's physical appearance
2. sexual satisfaction derived from contemplation of one's own physical or mental endowments

[C19: from Narcissus ]

narcism or narcism

— n

[C19: from Narcissus ]

'narcissist or narcism

— n

narcis'sistic or narcism

— adj

[Brian]

I have just moved them all here.

You should have just deleted the 'argument' posts of everyone, but no matter.

Brian's "corner" will be reviewed over the next few days to determine its relevance to our forum and the Macedonian Cause. There is so much information that is seemingly irrelevant to our purpose, our people, our politics and our history,

LOL. Is this going to be the first time you're going to be watching all the videos posted - there's a lot of information, I'm sure you will enjoy it.

Wider issues affect the Macedonian diaspora but do/will affect RoM also. If you limit the scope to RoM and the occupied parts then the value of the posts may not be immediately apparent. Then there were a few 'fun' posts like eg the "facebook" IPO ect which even this in my view is relavant but stretching it a bit hence the small size.

that it may end up being locked just like the wierd thread of Dedanoe.

I really don't care if you do decide to lock the thread because despite near 17000 reads since only the eve of 31 Oct 2011 noone has responded (which would have been good) - consumer journalism? crikey even they get 'letters to the editor'.

In light of the lack of repose to "Brian's Corner" which encompasses a wider topic and needs more time I'll be concentrating my 2c worth on the Macedonian threads but would suggest maybe leaving it open for anyone else (or maybe me - 'conspiracy of the month' posts) to drop in a conspiracy or two instead of starting new threads, but that's up to you.

Brian, like I told you on another thread, you need to slow it down. Take this good advice. I know you're capable of it.

I intend to - I have more things to do now and will have less time to post. And no makedonche ('I need a week off to respond') it's not my job but extracurricular activities, after all it is 2012 and there's a killer end of year party to plan for.

Don't let your emotional and impulsive outbursts

Work is one set of standards - you wouldn't recognise me - socially it's a whole load of other rules before culminating in 'suffer no fools'. Looking back at my posts I was leaning more to the tail end of those rules, but like I said we all need to be careful what we say and how we say it because a lot of the world has the internet and they could be watching and if we care about what image we portray of Macedonians we need to think more before we post - both antagonists and responders.

lead to a firmer reaction on our part. You need to be more consistently relevant, and you're posts need to be more compact. At the moment most of your responses appear as rants, if there are good points made by yourself they are buried under those rants. It's up to you what happen from here.

Read above.



Seeing your going to do a review of "Brian's Corner" I thought I would review it myself and state my case.

Before I get into the review let me say I am surprised that you could think to mention"Brian's Corner" in the same sentence as DedoNoa's posts - I couldn't understand one thing he said and I doubt anyone but he could.

The Review

As stated in Post001 I came in because of the "Occupy" movement thread which, by the way, was not started by me. Although I was a reader of the MTO for some time I was reluctant to join because of some similarities in my views/opinions with that of OziMak (conspiracies/racist/pro guns/pro death penalty ect.) and seeing how he was treated lead me to think I would be presumed to be him, attacked for it, and booted out - was it going to be worth it? I had to weigh this up with how strongly I felt about the "Occupy" movement and associated matters and it's significant's to our generation/times. I also tried to take into account the fact that the movement had been going on for about 2 months before someone posted about it - maybe noone was interested in it anyway (how strange?).

Having decided to have a go I expected some resistance because of the 'OziMak thing' but nowhere as much as what was encountered.

The "Occupy" movement was preceded by the "Occupy the Fed (Federal Reserve Bank)" movement which although it didn't get as much attention may have actually spawned the "Occupy" movement. Both relate to the 2008 economic crisis which affected the world but we Macedonians in the diaspora need to concern ourselves with it because we will have to pay for it via our increased taxes, interest rates, utility/power bills, reduced social benefits/health services, and pensions/superannuation payouts and jobs, oh yeah, and the 'green taxes' (01 July 2012) - absolute rip-off, there's no such thing as 'global warming'. What's really sad about this is that we will have to go through this difficulty for the most ludicrous reasons. This is all most significant for anyone of our time. Exposing and discussing those reasons seamed pertinent as we in the diaspora have a greater chance of doing anything about it even though it will also affect RoM.

eg from July we are getting the same defunct scanners at Australian airports as they have in the USA so the TSA and dangerous radiation post will appear more relevant to you then.

But, always the conspiracy theorist, I'll say one more conspiracy before this thread is possibly closed - think of what the significance of Tishri 14 is? I'll leave you to research it, and no, like everything else at "Brian's Corner" it's nothing to do with aliens so no 'Giorgio' "I don't understand the question - but the answer is aliens".

[Soldier of Macedon]

Is this thread about the five murdered boys or Brians ID, SOM put all their posts in Brians corner.

I have just moved them all here.

Brian's "corner" will be reviewed over the next few days to determine its relevance to our forum and the Macedonian Cause. There is so much information that is seemingly irrelevant to our purpose, our people, our politics and our history, that it may end up being locked just like the wierd thread of Dedanoe.

Brian, like I told you on another thread, you need to slow it down. Take this good advice. I know you're capable of it. Don't let your emotional and impulsive outbursts lead to a firmer reaction on our part. You need to be more consistently relevant, and you're posts need to be more compact. At the moment most of your responses appear as rants, if there are good points made by yourself they are buried under those rants. It's up to you what happen from here.

[Brian]

I often wonder why some people say they don't understand my posts and then I read things like makedonche's posts
"Greece is ready to explode"

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2761&page=125

and then think, "Oh yeah, that's why."

The biggest bank robbery in history is happening every day - by the banks themselves.

Rather than start to write my posts in crayons for people to understand there's this video of a 12 year old Canadian explaining it in a way 12 year olds can understand. I hope people finally get it because if the people wanting to help RoM can't get this then there's nothing to help RoM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_ae7h8FioX0

[Vangelovski]

Most times that's true for anyone, so no great feat on your part, but when the results are so close it does raise eyebrows.



"...come over to the dark side...".



Yeah, I've heard about kids back in the 70's playing with toy light-sabres while wearing their Darth Veda and Skywalker face masks.

Weren't you a little old for that then, or have you always been 'young at heart'?

I'm not sure why everyone thinks I'm so old - it must be my wisdom

[Brian]

I can usually tell who will win an election before the polls even open (three hours before they close is nothing). I'd try to explain it to you, but you just won't get it. Instead,

Most times that's true for anyone, so no great feat on your part, but when the results are so close it does raise eyebrows.

I'll just let you think I'm NWO scum.

"...come over to the dark side...".



Yeah, I've heard about kids back in the 70's playing with toy light-sabres while wearing their Darth Veda and Skywalker face masks.

Weren't you a little old for that then, or have you always been 'young at heart'?

[Vangelovski]

Fair elections, anyone?

Who says the EU don't run things?

With a 49.8% to 47% close call how did the EU know who would win in Serbia's election 3 hours before the polls had close?

Makes you wonder about Gruevski.

I can usually tell who will win an election before the polls even open (three hours before they close is nothing). I'd try to explain it to you, but you just won't get it. Instead, I'll just let you think I'm NWO scum.

[Brian]

Is this thread about the five murdered boys or Brians ID, SOM put all their posts in Brians corner.

You're right lavce, better still just delete them, it's a none issue.

[Brian]

Fair elections, anyone?

Who says the EU don't run things?

With a 49.8% to 47% close call how did the EU know who would win in Serbia's election 3 hours before the polls had close?

Makes you wonder about Gruevski.

EU Congratulates Nikolic's Elections Win 3 hrs before Polls Close

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/21048/1/

20 May 2012
EU's two highest ranking officials, Herman Von Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso congratulated the new Serbian president Tomislav Nikolic three hours before the polls closed in Serbia.

"We wish to congratulate the new Serbian president Mr. Nikolic on his election win and congratulate the Serbian people on peaceful elections which took place on May 6 and 20th.

We wish Mr. Nikolic success in meeting the expectations of the Serbian people. The European perspective of Serbia is concrete and our hope is to lean on Mir Nikolic personal dedication in achieving that goal" says the press release by EU.

How did EU know the result of the Serbian elections even before the voting was completed? No one is sure, however kudos to the EU for knowing things before they happen.
After the EU Communication office saw they had released the press release way too soon, the document was quickly pulled from the website. However, it was too late. Most European and Balkan news outlets had already gotten a copy of it.

The official Serbian Elections numbers came out 6 hours after the EU press release. Nikolic won the elections 49.8% - 47%

[lavce pelagonski]

Is this thread about the five murdered boys or Brians ID, SOM put all their posts in Brians corner.

[Brian]

I wasn't going to write about the latest 'big news' but then came across a video that not only made me laugh so much it also reminded of the 'big news' - they go hand in hand - I thought I'd post it so everyone can have a laugh.

Of course the 'big news' is the "facebook" IPO last Friday.

There are so many "facebook" fans out there including MTO members I was reminded of that old "Remingon Shavers" commercial where Victor Kiam (CEO) says, "When my wife bought me a Remington Shaver, I was so impressed I bought the company" and I was wondering did anyone empty out their pockets, wallets and bank accounts to get in on "facebook" float expecting to make a killing?

The 'conspiracy' view is that the float is going to help fund the new data spying centre I've posted about earlier - your money is going to help them spy on you better (a morons proposition?).

The NWO rarely like to do things 'by halves' and prefer to wring-out every last drop out of their acts - Zuckerberg is reported to have said in the past of "facebook" users,"...dumb M...F'ers giving us all their personal information", of course Zuckerberg is NWO so his views reflect theirs. The second 'dumb' is their knowing it's your money funding their spying on you and the third 'dumb' is the IPO price values the company at $100 Billion which it may reach some time in the future but today (pre IPO) is worth $4 Billion so it might take a while before you get your money back - wow they got 3 times the 'dumb' out of one act.

There's a number of articles out there explaining the ins-and-outs of the IPO, some more technical than others, but the same bottom line is reached as this video...the float is a 'vacume cleaner' who will shove money to key shareholders offering their shares in the float while they 'run with the money' leaving the new owner holding their....

Do You Have Cock (English Lesson). - YouTube

[EgejskaMakedonia]

That's it em the only reason i responded is you have those that have MULTIPLE accounts.If it's one person that has 3 or 4 personalities then it destroys individual identity.
I have seen it first hand of how one disagrees with one & the others are propping them up.
Also i have seen where one group hates another diue to racism & keeps attacking another
for racists reasons.One thing i hate is people hiding around different personalities.Then they get caught out doing something silly
The motto should be if you behave yourself & show curtesy to others you don't need to prove your identity.But if you are silly & have an attitude problem & you treat other's like shit would you want to see their identity??

Regardless of whether Brian is OziMak or not, he currently has one identity and personality on this forum. FWIW I voted 'no' on the poll, opting to take Brian's word for it. That said, there have been previous members who have created multiple accounts.

I say we bury this I.D talk and get back to something that is a little more relevant to the thread.

You're right though, it is expected that people behave in an acceptable manner. Most of us here are Macedonians with similar views, so the least we can do is show a degree of respect.