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  1. PatrickC
    So I take it, that you never wrote this comment.
  2. PatrickC
    Thanks again Wesley. I tried locating the post where I last mentioned that podcast and you helped me out before. How in Gods name did I think 'control' was 'kill', very Freudian I suspect. Clearly my memory is not serving me so well post 45.
  3. PatrickC
    That was an interesting catch for you Fel1x. Sorry to hear that happened to you growing up. But what a great piece of insight for you.
  4. PatrickC
    Good question, since I haven't really listened to any in quite a while frankly. That one was poignant because I listened to it over and over again. So much so, that I asked my therapist to listen to it. It blew her socks off I recall and she was mostly impressed by Stefan's ability to locate his feelings of anger accurately. Anyway, I do have a couple. 'How to Kill a human soul' and '349 - You are not Broken'. Cant recall the number of the first one, even after looking for it. But it's the one to do with an invisible apple. Both these podcasts had quite the impact on me I recall.
  5. PatrickC
    I'd suggest to everyone that they leave Armitage to his own thoughts. None of us are going to convince him. He is otherwise ensconced in his own ideas, for reasons that most of us probably understand.. I hope he talks to Stefan and gets some resolve either way. Because this conversation is going nowhere, either for him or the rest of the board.
  6. PatrickC
    Hi Vava, Glad you're beginning to talk about your history together and seriously considering therapy. I'm curious, what's been your experience with people lying to you?
  7. PatrickC
    Right... Well, I'm not suggesting you ignore your previous experience of your sister. Just saying that if you didn't feel like talking that through just now with her, that the personal RTR with yourself might provide you with some better insight into how you may approach any future conversations with her. My reference to a "normal day out", would just be that, juxtaposed by you making mental notes about how you experienced her. You have no obligation to discuss the previous interaction at all of course. You can approach further interactions as a means to better understand your own experience with her. To suggest that you 'must' explain your previous experience with her, is an unnecessary burden you are putting on yourself (which entails the risk of attack perhaps), that seemingly (to me at least) you don't entirely understand just yet. I hope that makes sense for you.
  8. PatrickC
    Sorry Anna, wasn't sure if this was meant for me entirely, but seemed so.. I don't entirely understand what you mean exactly, although I have some thoughts. Just wanted to get further clarification on what you meant.
  9. PatrickC
    You know Armitage, you've been here for 4 days old chap and you have not once made a coherent argument.. I have no idea what you are here for, because it isn't changing anyone's mind that I can see. That's my last olive branch to this nonsense.
  10. PatrickC
    More Leftist drivel.. When will it end! (rhetorical)
  11. PatrickC
    Then you are a relativist, the worst kind of Leftist.
  12. PatrickC
    I'll be honest with you for brevity. I'm not much interested in persuing much more of your questioning. Since I answer you and then you return with more or less the same question again. I have pointed out that market forces are billions of voluntary choices and where there are limitations to those choices and where they come from. The only other limiting factor would be your own self. Going hungry would I think, galvanise most folk to find ways to feed themselves. The fact that they may have to work, rather than lay about in order to feed themselves, is not the fault of your grocer. The fact is, your grocer has also had to work in order that you can purchase food for yourself. Saving you the trouble of producing it yourself. Before you go any further with this thread I think you should read Henry Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson. It's a short read and available in audio I believe, from the link provided.
  13. PatrickC
    Yes, I hear you Wesley. It was just a thought experiment I had regarding exploitation.
  14. PatrickC
    Sorry to hear of your sisters reaction. It was certainly unjust of her. Not that you have any unchosen obligations to your sister Anna. But if you want to reconnect with her, then you should do so for as long as you want too. In my experience there is much to learn from our relationships. But perhaps rather than RTR with her, that you should RTR with yourself. This would be a way of protecting yourself from her previous attacks. You could just have a normal day out with her and see what transpires. You can make mental notes of feelings as they arise, rather than challenge her immediately. You can try to make sense of them later in a journal or something. Try and understand the pattern of feelings you experience when you're around her. If she opens up to you then you can decide whether it's genuine or a trap. Allow yourself to be in control of what you say. So you can always decline an offer to open up with a person, if you feel it wont be helpful or might lead to further attacks. If they are genuine then they will allow you this space. Hope that inspires as well as helps, all the best
  15. PatrickC
    That's an interesting way of looking at it meeri. But I would say that was more to do with fear (of them), rather than exploitation (of them). If that helps. There might be a shared exploitation, whereby you ignore their actions, but they provide you with resources. Having said that, I think at a deeper level, both parties know they are exploiting eacother.
  16. PatrickC
    Firstly, people don't make choices to be mugged. There is no market for that.But there are examples where peoples choices are limited by the state, such as when they restrict (regulation/licensing), favour (subsidy) or ban (arrests) a market. These would be examples of coercive pressures. Whilst some of these market providers might personally profit from these limitations. The coercion emanates from the state solely. I have no idea what PJ means about structural violence. Since he hasn't laid out his ideas for scrutiny, I find him evasive and disingenuous.
  17. PatrickC
    Then they aren't by definition voluntary.. And have been subject to coercive pressures.
  18. PatrickC
    Thanks, and that deserved a rep point for the effort.
  19. PatrickC
    First (unwritten) rule of the Leftist, deny everything and then claim your arguments as self-evident and common sense. However, I hear you Armitage, you probably don't consider yourself as one. But all your arguments have so far, amounted to your average Leftist rhetoric.
  20. PatrickC
    The hullucinations are all yours my friend, rest assured. Stefan's conclusions are that market forces are driven by billions of individual voluntary choices, which has nothing to do with fascism or dictatorship. How in God's name do billions of individual voluntary choices end up initiating violence. This is marxist make believe. You can only annihilate billions of individual voluntary decisions with a dictaorship or tyranny controlling those decisions.
  21. PatrickC
    I cannot take this argument seriously. We must 'control' market forces, lest the market become fascist, really!
  22. PatrickC
    Ha, I know the feeling. Not too mention that I mostly squeezed all my listening hours within a short 4 month stint of non stop stef speak. Now of course, serveral years ago. Gotta be some ramifications for that psychologically. My favourite was the 'humilation' podcast, that upset a few folk after publication. Can't recall the number now, but very powerful indeed.
  23. PatrickC
    This may have already been said, so forgive me if that is the case. But it should be noted that land can only be left doing nothing and still be owned because of the enormous restrictions the state places on what an individual can do with his land. This drives up the price over time, as the landowner lobbies local govt to lift those restrictions, making a huge profit eventually.
  24. PatrickC
    Someone call the air/sea rescue... Clearly too many lifeboats scenarios for one person to deal with.
  25. PatrickC
    No, it's leftist nonsense.. Complexity is when you are building the next Ferrari.
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