Sounds awesome.  I want to do it.  The only thing is I have to think about a character role.  hmmmm

Dont know what all the warnings are about, it seems you are talking about seriously unstable people.  I dont know, I guess I am glad I am not relating to this.  I dont have the experience of doing such a thing online, but it seems it's true that there are some "special" people out there who are seriously on the edge or something. 

Anyways, I am looking forward to doing this.  I listened to Chapter 6 of ICMM twice now.  One more go before I go to bed.

greetings,

daniel

sirhinojo Wrote:
... Do I log in as "Captain Kirk" and say hello and then see what happens?

That would be absolutely appropriate, as long as you introduce yourself. It's handy to have a cover story for what you are doing on the forum, but if you were someone as well known as Jim Kirk you'd probably find others joining in as Scotty or Spock  :  )

If you want to stay absolutely anonymous in PG, rejoin the group with a different username & email for each character.
Best,
AR

Hi dudes,
This is REALLY IMPORTANT!

Sirhinojo wrote:
Dont know what all the warnings are about, it seems you are talking about seriously unstable people.

PG can push slightly unstable people (eg, most people) into deeper unbalance, hence the warnings. But at some point we have to come to terms with the idea that most people really are not very well. Not one or two odd 'on the edge' nutballs, but around 95-97% of the 'normal' population. If we don't consider this as a possibility at this stage, we are in for some unpleasant surprises later on.

I know of at least one death due to badly-handled PG, and it was not a suicide.

The victim I will call 'AD' had the following history: He was deprived of oxygen at birth when his umbilicus was cut too soon. One of the results was 'nervous asthma'; that is, the fear of anoxia causing asthmatic symptoms whenever the person is anxious. The relaxation response can totally cure this type of asthma if practised regularly.

His GP's response was to prescribe an asthma inhaler at age 6 to be used 'when he has an attack'.
His anxious parents' response was to tie the inhaler in a pouch around the kid's neck and tell him repeatedly to use it 'whenever he got breathless' and then 'if you're doing anything that might get you out of breath and might cause an attack.' Chronic overuse resulted.

So by the age of 15, AD was totally dependent on this stuff and his lungs were producing mucus all the time. He was also getting into games like Dungeons & Dragons because he couldn't tale part in physical games as he might get out of breath.

In his D&D adventures, AD became very close to a shaman character who advocated clean living and the great outdoors. One adventure was restricted to those who “Had not taken any king of drug for seven days”.

AD got stuck in such a panic attack between his imagination desperately wanting to take part in the game and his poor abused body desperately needing his steroids that he had a severe asthma attack that the medication was too weak to counter and he died. He was 29 years old.

Never underestimate anxiety.

I know how counterintuitive this idea can seem, and I also know we don't really 'get it' until we've experienced it first hand. Most people really do live right on the edge of sanity and it can take only a small push for them to go right off balance.

The other reason we give warnings is that we get bored with getting death threats from those who have.
Best,
AR