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When I first started reading this forum (2013) the activity on here was much more intense. There were a lot more high-post and high-reputation members who were involved into the threads. Nowadays, to me it feels like you could count on your fingers the number of regular posters. Also, with a handful of exceptions all of the early listeners and/or reputable folks have vanished from the boards. Lately, I found myself often contemplating how is this possible given that the show has grown probably tenfold in listenership from back then and instead of increasing the forum involvement has decreased. What are your theories on this? Has the FDR conversation moved somewhere I am not aware of?

Hello! I have been listening to free domain radio for about 3 years, and it's been so incredible for my personal development as a man. I am an "over the road" truck driver. I get to spend a lot of time listening to pod cast. This show has given me tools to harness the power of my mind. Thanks for letting me be part of the team

Bottom line is that you are applying a classical mechanic view ("general relativity") to a quantum mechanic entity ("photon"). It makes no sense to make a photon an observer. A photon at rest has no mass, but when it travels the speed of light it has enough mass to produce the photoelectric effect. Even so, it is the smallest "particle" in the entire domain...

What I did to get an idea of this, is to approach in steps. The faster an object moves (relativ to c), the slower is time for this object. Lets say my son stays here and I make a trip with a fancy spaceship, able to reach a high percentage of c. According to the clock in my spaceship my journey lasts 2 years, so I spent 2 years at a speed close to the speed of light. Back on earth the pace of time of course did not change, relativ to me time moved faster on earth. So my son waited, e.g., 8 years til I am back again. So in this example I travel with very high speed, my journey lasts 2 years of my time and a certain distance, nevertheless I am subject of 8 years waiting time for my son til I am back. Now lets put this to the extreme. For a photon moving with c, time and distance are gone, nevertheless, for those on earth the pace of time is still the same. We still see light moving with 300000km/s and have to wait til it reaches us from outer space. regards Andi

For a photon there is no time, thus there is no distance. So seen from a photon´s point of view - literally - everything just is. The whole universe, from the Big Bang til the end, just one picture. And also this is, of course, only an analogy, because even for looking at a pic one would need time. But I guess thats the best analogy we can find, because we cannot imagine anything without time. Seen from our point view, light travels with 300000km/s. And even thats slow given the distances in the universe. If a planet is 10 lightyears away from us, and we look through a telescope onto his surface, we see the surface as it was 10 years ago. If some aliens were 65 million lightyears away, and they had a fancy telescope watching our earth, they would see the end of the dinosaurs. Simultaneity depends on where you are. regards Andi

Some clues here: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/339989/what-is-the-speed-of-one-photon-of-a-beam-of-light-with-respect-to-the-other-pho

Naturally, we get callers into the show like that guy a couple weeks ago who talked with Stef for a pretty long time about the virtues of stability in Christian families and then made up a bunch of bullshit about spanking being fine and how the studies were flawed (when he didn't seem to know that there were close to 100 studies collated) and couldn't retrieve his sources, etc. He also accused Stef of conflating terms in order to tie 'spanking' to 'hitting', when he was doing the exact same thing, trying to conflate it to 'swatting' a fly. Is this person participating in philosophical discussion, or is he just a right-winger who likes that FDR has been home to criticism of the left? In 2006-2012, maybe even into 2014, Stefan would argue that you can't change a person's mind with facts and reason when it comes to issues of freedoma nd politics because they are just acting out their family traumas in broader society. But lately, there's hardly any discussion on personal freedom issues and a whole shit ton of podcasts/videos in "The Truth About..." series detailing an exhaustive chronology and collation of facts and reason. So has Stefan recanted his position on that issue in the past couple years? I've heard him recant about participating in politics and accepted that it could be useful and valuable at this point in time with this particular candidate (Trump). I have not heard him go back on his claim that facts and reason do not change people's minds though. If someone is a conservative, and Stef is going to enter the political realm and produce videos to criticize the left, the right will join in and follow. But they wont be imbued with principles and philosophy, and as soon as the worm turns and criticism is targeted against the right, those people will turn on FDR, Stef and "philosophy".

The answer is they aren't. You already said it. The shit posting disaster comment you made. That's happening here too. Since the push to Trump a lot of the conversations here involve people who shit post. Not people who have done any kind of real work on themselves,or who actually understand or care about peaceful parenting/anarchy. That's what bothers me. We don't have conversations here anymore. We have written chess games and shit posting. How many "What happened to FDR" threads have popped up in the past year? I've seen five or six myself. People have come back after not having been here for a while and don't understand why a guy (Stef) who used to say voting was immoral was now making pro-Trump videos, and when they asked they were told to watch the past year's worth of videos, and often also got down voted. If that many people were brave enough to post a "WTF happened?" post then how many came back, saw it had changed, didn't say anything and left never to return? Now we have this Oh forums are outdated in the era of social media remark. What a load of absolute shit. People are fucking starving for conversations. People are gasping for the air of a long form conversation. That's why you see guys like Joe Rogan doing three hour long podcasts in a world where we also have six second clips on Vine. The fact that this thread exists shows that people sense a distinct lack of conversation. ... This isn't healthy you guys. The move away from robust conversation is the right's answer to the left's safe space censorship nonsense. If it keeps going like this it won't be weird to see Western culture dissolve completely. The lack of conversations is actually contributing to the collapse. Chip chip chipping away at the foundation.

I'm not overwhelmingly confident about this. According the what is implied in the show, anyone can (with a reasonably articulate e-mail) get on as a call-in, and they are dropped into the queue. People who want to argue a counterpoint to Stefan are the only people who move up in the order. Since the call-in show is drifting away from the 'personal freedom' issues,as well as the videos/podcasts that they produce, the content isn't there to create a feedback loop wherein those people out there looking for that sort of content won't find it in FDR because it is not featured here anymore. Thus they will not listen, will not call-in, will not join the forum, etc. And thus the shows will reflect less of these concerns in a constant feedback loop. So I hope if there is something you want to hear on the show, that you get in line as a caller, otherwise you probably won't be hearing it.

I'm really upset with myself for not having found this resource when it first started. I know the depths of conversation were much more focused back then and that seems to be where the majority of the energy was. Not to mention for me personally, it could have stopped me from making certain mistakes that I'm now dealing with the fallout from. Better late than never I suppose. But I get what you're saying because when I log onto this site I get the feeling of a place that's more focused on topical stuff where thread interest lasts about 3 days at best. I think it has to do with Stefan's focus. He's much more politically involved now than he was in his "political efforts are useless" days due to Trump and the libertarian surge. That shift of focus from personal application of philosophy to current events along with the show's rapidly growing size means he can't communicate one-on-one with the same people anymore which means less interaction with the board members (the call-in show excluded of course, but that being brief, isolated conversations). Maybe it'll shift back to a focus on personal philosophy when the interest leans in that direction.

That's not an argument. Try again without your verbal abuse.

Hypocritical advice for someone who can't be honest about your own insulting behaviour. Hypocritical advice for someone who insults board members when you feel frustrated that the conversation isn't going the way you want it to. Hypocritical advice for someone who calls a board member "retarded". Remember the following statement which you have yet to apologize for? Remember how you justified the above verbal insult with this non-factual statement while insulting another board member? Where's your empirical evidence that you practice what you preach? Where's your empirical evidence that you have integrity? The empirical evidence says you have neither of these. Why should people take your sage advice?

If you could provide us with these posts you speak of, then perhaps we could review them to help you resolve this issue. Any conclusion without them is purely speculative and perhaps a biased one at that. Your implying that the FDR forum is not operating under free market principles without providing a clear case for your speculation. Does FDR receive tax payer revenue? Does FDR lobby the government for favourable legislation? Who is forced to participate / contribute to FDR? We can only conclude, at best, that "this may be just my experience" because we lack the empirical evidence to determine your claim. Who are these "certain members"? How do they "go out of their way to bully others"? How did you determine they "bully others"? How do you know members have "quit because of it"? How much more likely is it that the forum software was upgraded so that FDR and perhaps ourselves could benefit from a more secure, less buggy, sleeker, and an improved forum interface? Please provide your reasoning as to how you concluded that the [perceived] decline of activity here resulted in the forum software upgrade. I'm curious to read what you come here for if you don't mind sharing.

Corrected it for you. It is a straight up lie when you admit it is not yet a moral agent, then claim it has the rights of a moral agent. I am not saying that there is nothing to your argument but you cant make a jump from potential future moral agent to moral agent without full proving that out. Doesn't support your argument. Nobody is required to provide medical care to you in a free society. Healthcare is not a right. When more than 50% of people disagree with you, and the ones that agree with you, most of them would not actually support any enforcement, you only have a small minority to enforce it. Some examples, you ostracize abortion people, well 90% of business owners are not going to say goodbye to lets just say 50% of the populations business. So that isn't happening. How do you even know who got an abortion anyways? If a woman goes in private to a doctor, nobody would ever even know. hmm so how would you actually ostracize these people? How do you know if the man wanted it or didn't want it to ostracize him? Say you wanted to kill or imprison someone for abortion like I said, good luck when most of society would not allow you to do that. And people even who are anti abortion are not lining up to run around killing people. Say you want to PAY people looking for abortions to not have an abortion. The cost would obviously be very expensive for just 1. There are so many, it would not be possible to pay to stop all abortions or adopt all the children and then care for them to adult hood. Lets say $5000 convinces a woman to carry the child and the kid wears $500 of clothes per year, eats about $1000 of food per year, and has $500 of medical expenses and $500 of housing expenses, all per year (This would be terrible living conditions btw) $2500 per year and lets say through age 15, you need $42500 PER CHILD. And I think 600,000 is about how many abortions per year in the US... so you would need 25.5 BILLION dollars to save 1 years worth of abortion children. Good luck raising that! When something can be done between two consenting adults in private, its essentially impossible to effectively legislate or take any kind of meaningful action against.