easy-digital-downloads domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/erikphillip/public_html/conflictresearchgroupintl.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121“What you lookin’ at?” barks a young man. He’s about your size, about your age. You don’t think you were looking at anything in particular. You also know the smart thing to do is to give a little apology and go back to your beer. But you’re a young man yourself. Before you even realize it, you are … [Read more…]
Some Thoughts on PTSD Part I Here’s a newsflash from inside the psychology world. About 85% of people get over PTSD on their own. Of the remaining 15% percent around 10% recover with help. About 5% will never get over it. I tell you that because the automatic assumption that a bad experience will cause … [Read more…]
Experts have great balancing ability. Non-experts do not. Balancing is defined as: “to offset or compare the value of (one thing) with another.” “The cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits” Synonyms: compare, evaluate, consider, assess, appraise, and estimate “It is a matter of balancing advantages against disadvantages” … [Read more…]
Best Fight Strategy – Self Defense Tactics and Tips – Win Fights Easily and DON’T GET ARRESTED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2yo_sAQbg Commentary: First off, I disagree with the guy’s starting premise of teaching you how to ‘win a fight.’ A fight is mutual battery. Putting it another way, self-defense is you have no choice, a fight is … [Read more…]
Long good talk with Erik Kondo last week about improving navigation on CRGI and many other things. Stay tuned on that, there are a couple of ongoing projects I need to write about soon. In the process we were talking about identifying good practices and practitioners, and I was balking. “My idea of good may not be someone else’s. … [Read more…]
You can’t be sure. There is no such thing as a “survival level of proficiency.” The world has a 100% death rate and no matter how skilled, equipped, or physically gifted you are, there is stuff out there that can splat you like a bug on a windshield. That’s just the way it is. The … [Read more…]
Trying to answer an e-mail and it needs a little thinking out loud. It wasn’t a big thing, there was a single sentence about validity, but the concept of validity in self-defense instruction is a big one. Rocky. I’ve seen a lot of things work and a lot of things fail. And thought — a … [Read more…]
I’ve always had problems with Lisak’s work. I’ve especially had problems with people who use his works as Holy Writ about rape and rapists and why we need draconian laws. I’ve had too many extremists claim “All rapists are serial rapists” and demand excessive punishment because anyone who is accused of rape — using Lisak’s ever … [Read more…]
Without the presence of a person with violating intent, there can be no sexual assault. Therefore, in such a situation regardless of how much a person drinks, she or he will not get intentionally sexually assaulted. That factual logic is the bases for the argument that dinking does not cause sexually assault. According to … [Read more…]
Springboarding off my snarl about ‘victimology’ (and in response to someone’s comment about dissuading muggers) An idea I’ve been working on is what I’m calling the ‘isolation bubble.’ As in people going through modern life as if they are in a mental/emotional/ physical force field that keeps everything at bay and they don’t have to … [Read more…]