MrCapitalism
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What's your job?
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I don't know what an 'uncorked animal' is.
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Just a quick update: The next night I had a much more enjoyable dream, with references to the releasing of bindings and connection, so things may be up on up-and-up.Flake and I had the conversation, and he was correct that it would have been WAY too long for the forum. I decided to stop the process before completion and did not find value in what little I was able to accomplish.
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I think the first part of the dream was pretty accurate, in that you were waiting in line for some sort of examination. Your dream was very lengthy or very condensed, and seems like an examination of the choices you have made in your past. The part about bribing the officers is very interesting, especially since you're an AnCap who's about to enter law school. What are your opinons on that choice (going to school)?
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Thanks flake.
Would you be willing to post your comments publicly, in this thread? I think there would be some additional value of having others see and maybe add to your understanding.
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Just took an afternoon nap and had this revelation of a dream, thought I would share.
Background:I just spent time at the coast and I spend A LOT of time in hotels. I just recieved a very sincere complement from an important person and believed I completely screwed up my reaction.Dream: I am driving along a coast when I realize that I am running out of gas. I pull over into what first is a gas station but later turns out to be a hotel. The place is a disaster. Dirty, fenced off like a closed place, unkept, driveway is crumbling. There is only one old lady working the front counter, and two young hoddlums running around in the courtyard. The kids notice me approach and begin taunting me.I ask to check in and the receptionist tells me to get out of here. I am confused. She points to the two kids in the courtyard and tells me that they're in charge of this place, there's nothing she can do. I look at her and ask her if it's only those two kids. She tells me there's a whole gang of them. The kids run around the courtyard teasing me. "we have you now," "you're ours buddy," "you're not going anywhere." She tells me that she's really sorry about what's going to happen, but if it makes me feel any better, they are going to close soon.At some point the rest of the gang shows up. They are a dirty gang of kids. They take complete control. They will not allow me to leave. They take me and my stuff to a dirty room with two beds and a small television. They wish me a good night, but that they're not going anywyere. They're going to be watching me. I am very afraid for the unknown. As I close the door to my room I realize it does not close. I try to close it agian and realize it does not move. There is a small crack in the door through which I cannot see. I look through the view hole and see all of the gang members faces looking back at me. They are all on the other side of the door, they are holding the door ajar. I consider calling for help, but never make the call. To show others how bad the hotel is, I get my camera out and hold it to the view hole and begin recording video. Time passses by and my camera shows 6 minutes of video with their faces looking at me through the viewer, unchanged. Defeated, I sit down on the bed and consider my situation.Partially joking, and partially serious, I ask at the gang through the door if there is any internet available. As a response I get a note with "$360" hand written on it. I don't give them the money, but I also don't call them out on their scam. I actually consider playing along with by giving them the money and seeing their reaction. For some reason I expect them to panic when they realize that I actually expect internet service after paying a very large price of money quoted on a hand written note. But I do not pay.I settle down to a sort of very strange normalcy. Later the door opens slightly and a hand reaches into my room and flicks off the light switches next to the door. A voice says "hey man, some of us are going to bed but just so you know we're still going to be here watching you."I then wake up.
I haven't had vivid dreams in a long time, and this one was very vivid. As of the last couple years I've had some control over my dreams (especially nightmares), and I had no awareness in this dream. I could say this is the first 'nightmare' I've had in a very long time, but I get so much value from nightmares that I really can't call them 'nightmares' any more.
I thought I had a decent relationship to my mecosystem, but the feedback I think i just recieved was drastically different.
Does anybody have any ideas on how to salvage this relationship before I lose it, if I will can lose it? Any ideas on how to make it better?
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Total sympathy for the position you're in dude, here's my observation as a 3rd party on the internet.You're going to try and have a deep heart to heart about how she treats people....meanwhile she's dumping dudes based on TV shows and whether they like bugs or not.You want her to realize that she treats men badly, yet she can get guys to wait in a queue for her affection....not even into a relationship, but to wait until she becomes single.
That plan sounds crazy. What are your thoughts on why you want to do this?
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Do you have any interest in dating her (assuming you are male/swing that way)?
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Neither is the preference for life when stading in front of a bus going 60 miles an hour.
Why have you been up for 24 hours man?
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“Universally preferable,” then, translates to “objectively required,” but we will
retain the word “preferable” to differentiate between optional human absolutes and non-optional
physical absolutes such as gravity.Pg 32
And of course "behavior" because it applies to human action.
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They want to know how to get out of it.
What if they can't?
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Agreed. I personally feel that the ideas of liberty tend to reduce these feelings of abandonment, confusion, and neglect instead of appeal to them. It comes as a sudden assault upon that mentality, and takes some work to plow through. The ideas (e.g. NAP, property rights, ciminality of government, free market) tend to show people their place in society, which helps reduce their feelings of being lost (now you know where you are, even if you don't like it), abandonment (this feeling isn't empathized with or enabled.. it's basically like "yeah, you were abandoned by society..that really sucke....time to deal with it"), and neglect ("you're not being neglected, you're being actively assaulted and decieved"). These feelings are very quickly confronted in this philosophy, and they pretty much never survive in any debilatating way.
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There is no law saying they can't buy a certain car that they really want
Sure there are, there are tens of thousands of them...
http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/06/18/another-car-we-cant-buy/
Buying cars at a dealership is a soul sucking process with arm-and-let maintenance and agressive salesmen. People look at this process as natural inevitable... NPR recently did a story about how the entire process of selling and making a car is written into law by the government.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-buying-a-car-never-changes
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exactly, they can't see the bars of their cage.
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Libertarians and anarchists focus a great deal on economic freedoms, how can you say that people feel unfree because of economic issues, but then say their complaints are not related to the complaints of libertarians and anarchists?
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How can people feel oppressed by the government when they truely believe "we are the government?" It's like telling somebody that they are oppresssing themself. I'm not suprised that these feelings are projected onto random sources, which brings a lot of desperation, confusion, and ambivilance when considering the subject.
If a person is being being repeatedly hit with a baseball bat, and refuses to acknowledge that fact, they're not going to be eager to talk about the 'invisible' sources of their bruises...they may blame a skin condition, or clumsiness, or sleep walking, or whatever..
It's like in the call in shows when people start by saying, "well I've always been X" and Stef has to correct them with "no you're not! you were X because of Y"
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the language of those who feel neglected and abandoned
My personal opinion is that this is the language of emotionally dependent people.
rather than intruded upon and violated,
and this is the language of self sufficiency and personal efficacy.
What's your personal relationship to 'dependency' vs. 'self sufficiency'? Which do you consider superior?
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I can't quite say I buy the premise (more repressive societies have more resistance)... Most people in those societies like the restrictions, and have learned to live with them for a long time. I'm sure the government imposition is just as invisible to them as our government is invisible to us.
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Anything I would want to be doing, if the last 5 years of my life hadn't been an economic disaster.
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What if you don't like the 3 salad dressings offered?
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What do you mean when you use the word "it"?
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would you possibly be willing to call into the sunday show, referencing this thread? I'd be very interested to hear a conversation about this.
How to tell if you're over studying when you could be...
in Education
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Education is an investment. And like all investments, some are good and some are really bad. You have to act as an entrpeneur and make a forecast of the future income potential vs. present costs.