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Had a good read on this site and a subsequent PDF that goes into more detail about putting the strategy into practice. It's a method for disarming people who are using their Lizard Brain to engage in situations where rationality is called for. They do this because they have some unhealthy insecurity that causes them to get "triggered" in their daily lives. They "convert" the insecurity to anger and then lash at whoever they can. This person, Joanna Nicola, contends that a way to deal with this problem is this method which is centered around a specially constructed sentence. (read about it below) But basically, it get's them to involuntarily switch to their rational brains where a conversation can begin. Supposedly, this method even teaches them, over time, to cope with their emotions - a skill they were missing for whatever reason. I was thinking, what if the type of person that falls for the left is also suffering from this condition? Nicola says that this disorder is becoming increasingly common. And with the internet, it can be quite confounding to wonder why people buy into stuff that can be easily looked up and debunked, if you will. We know that arguing with a person who is acting out of pure emotion is folly, and yet we so far are sort of forced into this situation with the left. What if we looked at them in this new way and dealt with them accordingly. It's late for me, and I'm sure I haven't made my best case. But I hope someone gets curious. I'd love to talk about this more, because I am definitely planning to SOMEHOW apply this method in dealing with the left. I don't know if it's as simple as using the sentence on them. I think it needs to be scaled somehow...

Much to my chagrin, as I was working on this video, Stef went and published a call-in show AND a video on this topic. Balls. I am one of the "rare" success stories of the modern college era. I graduated in 2009 with a BS in Chemistry and I already had a job lined up at an oil refinery where I had been interning as a lab tech for a year and a half. I had gone to school, gotten good grades, went to university, and got the coveted job that correlated to my degree. Congratulations! I was mediocre. But I fucking hated it. I ran away screaming from the academic and corporate world to spend four years between living a monastic lifestyle in a Shinto shrine, moving across the country and become a teacher at a private high school, and finally buying a one-way plane ticket to Europe where I would spend two and a half years being more or less a vagabond. I wanted to reject utterly the life that had been promoted to me by society. I came back to the US, my clothes in shreds and not much more than $5 in my pocket. I had tasted the modern middle class dream and I had lived a life as close as I could to a monk with a vow of poverty, and then and there I decided I was going to be a business owner and a real estate investor. Being broke sucked, but I preferred it over not being able to decide my schedule and decide what I was going to do throughout the day. The key was business and passive income, and I felt the best way to achieve that was real estate. Since then, through much trial and tribulation, real estate guru bootcamps, and entrepreneurship programs, I've been able to raise a quarter million dollars of private investor capital and as of last December I've started my first real estate project with a business partner. Fuck school. Fuck university. And fuck everything that they taught me. I'll write my own script here, thanks. Hope I'm able to add something that Stef may have missed! -Dylan P.S. Is anyone here adept or at least decent editing video with Kdenlive? I sure as hell could use a resource to ask questions to. I've had a hell of a time properly editing and getting these things up to Youtube.

If the definition of love is my involuntary response to virtue if I am virtuous, then what is the definition of virtue? I think we all know instinctively what actions are virtuous as compared to not, in general, but how do we know? How do we fact check? Is charity virtuous? What if charity results in enabling an existing problem rather than fixing it? Does that context make that example of charity immoral? If so then charity in general can't be virtuous. Or that example isn't charity. Someone asked how to love; someone else stated what love is; someone further state what virtue is. However while I can accept the premise that "Love is an involuntary response to virtue if I am myself virtuous" I do not know for sure what is virtue. And that's the key part that ends the pondering and allows action in pursuing love and evolution.

I've just read the article and I'm feeling very aroused. Thanks for posting it! The world makes slightly more sense. It turns out lacking much social insecurity makes me lightly autistic. It gives me special reasoning skills and makes me quite unpopular. Whether this line works, I'll certainly be taking the theory into account in my arguments: When I make an argument against an idea that someone holds, the average person may see it as me just disapproving of them. Cowards. I'll keep you posted.

I watched this because Stefan said it was a good film in a recent video. Great plot, beautiful scenery, with good morals.

I don't think that sentence will do anything. Personally I like to push leftism to the extreme on them. Example: They say: Black lives matters is about black lives mattering. All lives matters is racist because it ignores black lives. I say: If you really think about it, they are still shackled by their slaves chains to be called black. They aren't black. Just look at their skin, its not actually the color black. That term is actually oppression. They must be referred to by their national identities. ie African, Jamaican, American. (Notice this actually makes sense to call an "African American" an "American" ) They say: Hmm really? I say: Yes, You are being racist. They are internalizing their oppression. They say: But I am not racist! I support BLM. I say: You are supporting internalized oppression of minorities, that is racist. You are racist. They say: Omg, I don't mean to be. I am sorry. etc etc. ***This is where they feel the left eating the left. Like when the SJW is called out by the feminists or the transgender black is reeeeeee'd at for saying the "wrong" thing.*** When you push them too far they question their beliefs. They are thinking I am not racist but I did something that someone now thinks I am racist. Breaks their circular thought patterns.

Seems like we have plenty enough players but conflicts when it coems to setting and ruleset choice. 0xAA55 has useful links for those still not convinced about 5th edition. But even so i think either its gonna be a vote or some more negoatiation thats required to solve what setting and waht ruleset.

Virtue is a quality of person who acts in a way which manifests the values that he holds. Virtuous action is those moral actions (those that dont violate NAP) that acheive a specific value. Values are entirely subjective. What's meant by "Love is an involuntary response to virtue if I am myself virtuos" in my opinion, is: "Love is an involuntary response to the actions in others that manifest the values that I value, when I myself act to manifest the values that I value, if those actions are moral."