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Hello! My name is Tim and I am a listener of freedomain radio since about 3 years. I have made some huge changes in my life because of this show and I experience a great deal of happiness every day because of it. Now I find myself kind of "bursted out on the other side" but fairly lonely here since practically no one dares to follow. I have an absolutely fantastic and truly brave girlfriend since a few months back who I share everything with and we are both committed to creating the best and most honest relationship in the world. Now I think it is time for me to find some like minded friends and build some real friendships. If any of you live or spend time somewhere in Sweden, Skåne I would love to meet up! And even if you don´t live around here but are just interested in a digital friendship I would be very glad for that to. Best wishes, Tim

@Soulfire, save your arrogance for the Muslims who might potentially gang-rape you. We'll see how your stupid religion of diversity works out for you then.

White Sharia started as a joke, but everyday I see more and more need for it.

So you had a suspicion based on observable patterns, which turned out to be correct...and you are ashamed of yourself? Sorry I don't see why.

Update - May 22, 2017 My 1 year allowed time is up at the end of this month. Looking back, it's been a rewarding year. I've created my first product and I even went further and formed a company so that the world could purchase it and give me feedback. It was also important to me to share my product with the world since I've had negative past experiences doing this which contributes to my social anxiety. I won't share the company name or the product here because I don't want to leave myself open to misconduct from others who don't agree with what I post here - sorry to be a tease. The roadblock now is marketing. Along with that, the one product I have is a little naked without others. I'll need to create them to help complete the unique theme. Unfortunately, I've simply run out of time to do this full time. Originally, I wanted to create a product that turned out to be covered by a patent - to which I will not support by pursuing a license with the patent owner. Damn principles! The good news is that I know when it expires and I have all this experience from the past year to use in preparation for the expiration date. My time spent on self-knowledge has been helpful. A lot of anxiety consumed me while working on my product. At the time, I felt like my progress on the product was slow. Looking back now, I can understand how anxious I was, and still am to a lesser degree, to expose a part of myself to the world - to be vulnerable. For me, my product ideas are precious and I've experienced and seen how the world can respond negatively. At the time, I also thought I was taking on too much; 2 big things - Self-knowledge and developing a product / company. As it turned out, developing the product / company was necessary to expose my lack of self-knowledge and a way to exercise CBT techniques. Through this and the expiration date arriving, I've researched a different career that is more compatible with my personality than some of my previous (not referencing the past year) work experiences. My goal for the next year (plus training period) is to master the new career so that I can: be the "go to guy" since that's part of my personality fully recognize what specific path I want to focus on - specialize in maximize earnings potential to build up savings - it took a hit this last year identify where and when to put some god damn roots down - I'm tired of renting identify entrepreneurship potential in this career establish experience to be leveraged against my pursuit for the gravy jobs Self-knowledge and product development will still be there but not the only focus. Anyway, that's a quick snapshot of the past year.

If you believe I'm being dishonest, then it doesn't make much sense to debate me. I don't think I'm being dishonest and I'll let my credibility rest on my previous posts here and in other threads. I think it's insulting to so quickly label me dishonest and I don't assume anything like that about you. I think it would be appropriate to apologise for that allegation.

Once again, you've taken the words right out of my mouth. Thank you for your level of activity around here. Tyler H is a hero. I am a hero. EVERY person who accepts their capacity for error in a world that tells them they aren't responsible for anything is a hero. EVERY person willing to examine their formative years even though it might challenge their belief that their parents were heroes are heroes. EVERY person who seeks win-win negotiation and denounces violence as a valid form of conflict resolution is a hero. EVERY person who prioritizes finding their tribe, pursuing their happiness, and standing up to their abusers is a hero. EVERY person who is willing to take on social ostracism for the sake of standing with the truth and making this world uncomfortable if not inhabitable for toxic people is a hero. The list goes on. It is heroic to admit we were wrong, do whatever we can to reverse the damage we've done in the past, follow our heart, and protect our future children.

I think we should focus less on hero worship and more on being heroes ourselves.

I wasn't attempting to prove free will, I said it doesn't make much sense to try to change another's mind when you have no control over that person's beliefs according to determinism.

All this is a dodge by Eudaimonic who maintains that free will is compatible with materialism.

yes, he dodged my questions on that topic.

It is pretty annoying to be challenged on something, and then when you ask for clarification, the other person goes "well, actually, Im not going to clarify" . pretty dishonest.

This might be a long one, and I apologize in advance for that. Also, if I get hit points on my account for this, I don't really care. I have something to say. This morning, when I heard on the news that it was a guy with an Arabic-sounding name who committed the bombing, I swear to God I thought to myself, "Muslim". I was SO ashamed, totally disgusted with myself. As if my brain were just on autopilot and thinking that it would have been a Muslim to conduct those bombings. Kids, don't do what my stupid head did. I know it's hard, because every single day in the media, there are those stupid little micro-aggressions that add up to a really big problem, directed at the minority group of the moment. Every century picks a new minority group to pick on: disabled people, gay people, people who just aren't white, anyone of a different religion, and so on. This decade, it's Muslims...and a whole bunch of others (thanks Trump), but mostly Muslims. We brand people as "other" or as "enemy" or as "different" in the negative sense, but it's these labels that CREATES the so-called "other" or "enemy". People honestly don't get this and it's REALLY annoying, but it's like saying to someone that they're a piece of shit. The more you say it, the more it gets ground into that person's head, and, despite whether it's true or not, the more the person will start to believe it. It's called the "thousand paper cuts" phenomenon: a paper cut is one little thing, but then cut and cut and cut away until BAM, you've bled out, or are so injured that you just can't function. I am NOT condoning what happened in Manchester. Not in the slightest. I think that people who attack others and especially children or animals (i.e. groups that can't defend themselves) are terrible. However, it may indeed be the case that they are terrible because they themselves have suffered greatly. Think about what's gone on in Syria: can you honestly imagine being so incredibly oppressed by your government that such a large proportion of people choose to leave a country? It's very difficult for anyone living in Europe (at least Western Europe) and North America to imagine this, because we have always lived lives of relative ease compared to those who live in war-torn nations. It's called white privilege. Whites, myself included, have had the privilege to live in these relatively peaceful, orderly nations, but very much at the expense of nations in which these privileges are not at all present. I've made this point on another page before, but it is fear that most often makes us revert to the mindset that we must kill in order to live. But why should we have to kill in order to live? I see no reason for that other than those reasons that are found in a mind that has been warped by fear: fear of death, fear of retribution, fear of the pyramidal structure that our world has become, and so forth. And it will be fear that makes people retaliate, and blame the "other", while in reality we create that "other" by aiming guns rather than reaching out hands. I do NOT believe that this issue is beyond repair, mind you. It's going to take some doing, but for God's sake, people, I have just two things to ask of you, and this applies not only to anyone here who cares but to the world generally, if I may be egotistical enough for a moment to make such a bold request... 1. Put down the fecking guns 2. Stop saying "us versus them" and "the other" and "the enemy"; it's not helpful And I'm done. Like I say, I don't give a damn if I get bombarded for this. People who feel the need to perform violent attacks are only ever doing so out of fear, which comes out as aggression because we as humans know of no other way to deal with fear. And that's all I have to say about that, except to express my condolences to anyone here who's from Manchester and witnessed this shit go down first hand. No amount of money or compassion towards the families that now suffer could ever compensate for such losses, ever.

Yay, gratuitous amounts of feedback! LOL, okay, one at a time here. RoseCordex: I can't believe I'm quoting him again, but as Stefan says, "To see the farm is to leave it." So get up and leave the farm, my friend. I'm waiting on the other side of the gate. And of COURSE I was ashamed of myself. I'm always telling people I know not to paint everyone with the same brush, and my stupid brain went on media-created autopilot and said "Oh, a Muslim...of course...". And I'm just like, brain, FECK OFF. Things like that shouldn't be there if you're me. I try to be as open-minded as I can be, see. Neeeeel: No, I think it's more of a creation of what we've been taught through ancestral tradition: that our people are better than any other people, and that our people should fit into a certain form (white, preferably male, heterosexual, able-bodied, Christian) in order to be considered our people. That's not cool, because, as I said, to create an "other", one that does not fit into the false archetype, is to create your own so-called enemies. That's bullshit. RichardY: Honey, you know I love you, but that's my point exactly. They weren't "playing fair", and nobody ever does when they're brainwashed and afraid. Fear will make you do as you are told, and to do as you are told is both stupid and boring, because you're not following your own compass. I believe in Tabula Rasa, yes, but in line with that I believe that all people are born good. We have to be TAUGHT to be bad. And unfortunately, if you're taught too thoroughly, you'll make bad things happen. No one has the right to attack children, or anyone in general who can't fight back. It's that early, negative conditioning that makes such a disconnect happen in the mind. A4E: I said nothing about appeasement. I said for "us" to leave well enough alone. Someone has to drop the gun first in order for peace to happen, and I don't care what so-called "side" it is, but because we're supposedly so intelligent and civilized, I figure it might as well be "our side". Are we no better than animals that we should cling to our weapons for constant fear of attack? Bullshit.