This final episode of 2025 deals with the topic of stigma, which I have covered in the past. The reading from this goes from Irving goffman in his book stigma notes on the management of spoiled identity.

more specifically the topic of this is really based on one of the guys in the group front. He’s a new guy and he was suffering from agoraphobia and I’ve been working on it for about two years in individual therapy.

I address the topic of phobia and psychology and my thoughts on it.

In this episode, I begin with reading from the Marquis de Sade, The dialogue between a priest and a dying man.

This episode again is taking a little bit from group therapy and the discussions about the perceptions of being good or being bad and being punished based on the idea of Santa Claus, but then I started bringing up in the group the idea about Krampus.

Krampus is half goat half man all demon and is based on some of the folklore in southern Germany and Austria. In this episode, I talk about the differentials between Santa being the god of Christmas and the birthday for Jesus Christ.

In this episode, I also talk about how they relate BF Skinner, and experimental design about positive and negative reinforcement, and what punishment does when you’re talking about the difference between a child and an adult in the way they see Christmas.

I’ve always found a perceptions of people around the holiday season, going from country to country to be extremely interesting in regards to the norms, mores and taboos that built that particular country and dictate terms for that particular group of people.

This episode is about the death of my grandmother, and what I’ve been going through.

I read from Isaac Asimov the universe from flat earth quasar.

In my own self analysis in my own group therapy, I started to deal with the loss of family and equated the cemetery and the uniformity that you find in the celestial planets in orbit around the sun that make up our galaxy in the universe.