It’s probably really important to go to lots of events and meet and talk to a bunch of different people and get a wider variety of perspectives; there’s only so much that a couple can do from inside one’s own two heads.
Western culture is highly individualistic, especially when it comes to major life decisions. However, aligning oneself with empirical reality is typically best done by gathering information from lots of people.
Agreed!!! My wife and I were in a tail spin around this topic. We just left a conversation with a doula and WOW I’m feeling so much better.
I’m glad we took time to obsess over all the options, to make the lists, etc. etc. and I wish we had booked the call a few days sooner 🤣 We LOVED this doula, but we’re booking a call with another just to see what happened.
Hurrah for professionals who can help to communicate something of the experience. And hurrah for this incredible community out here taking the responsibility of life seriously.
That feels unwarranted to me. My guess is the voter (who was not me) felt your comment didn’t add anything to the conversation. Id have to read the original post and comments to have a clear opinion on that. If true
that would be a valid reason for an ordinary downvote, but I would not downvote this for a user with a few comments. I standard upvoted to cancel some of that out.
It’s probably really important to go to lots of events and meet and talk to a bunch of different people and get a wider variety of perspectives; there’s only so much that a couple can do from inside one’s own two heads.
Western culture is highly individualistic, especially when it comes to major life decisions. However, aligning oneself with empirical reality is typically best done by gathering information from lots of people.
Agreed!!! My wife and I were in a tail spin around this topic. We just left a conversation with a doula and WOW I’m feeling so much better.
I’m glad we took time to obsess over all the options, to make the lists, etc. etc. and I wish we had booked the call a few days sooner 🤣 We LOVED this doula, but we’re booking a call with another just to see what happened.
Hurrah for professionals who can help to communicate something of the experience. And hurrah for this incredible community out here taking the responsibility of life seriously.
How does karma work? I’m not sure why I received negative karma for sharing my thoughts 🤔
People vote. Reading the tea leaves, someone strong downvoted you, which is intended for spam, stuff with serious factual errors, and the like. See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yND9aGJgobm5dEXqF/guide-to-norms-on-the-forum .
That feels unwarranted to me. My guess is the voter (who was not me) felt your comment didn’t add anything to the conversation. Id have to read the original post and comments to have a clear opinion on that. If true that would be a valid reason for an ordinary downvote, but I would not downvote this for a user with a few comments. I standard upvoted to cancel some of that out.