MrCapitalism
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That's a bummer man. So what is it that you think made you choose her as your romantic interest? As opposed to the other women that were possibilities.
How would you describe the romantic relationship of your parents?
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Sorry about that. The pamphlet is reproduced in quotes in this blog post.http://wconger.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-enemy-party.html
Juicy bit.
Any “Libertarian” Party is immoral, inconsistent, unhistorical (see revisionist accounts of similar parties in the past: the Philosophic Radicals, the Liberty Party, the Free Soilers, and many others), psychologically frustrating and thoroughly counter-productive. Worst of all, such an LP may be the savior of the State.
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How do you feel about the thought of teaching her how to be intimate? It looks like, since you have more experience, that you could both benefit from the sharing of your knowledge.
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Bring on the permanent vacation.
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A pretty good video on assumptions of weapon ownership and mass society.
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I promote the privatization of centrally planned infrastructure.
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The critic of monetary freedom is not so easily silenced, however. There is, in particular, the ancient bugbear of "hoarding." The image is conjured up of the selfish old miser who, perhaps irrationally, perhaps from evil motives, hoards up gold unused in his cellar or treasure trove--thereby stopping the flow of circulation and trade, causing depressions and other problems. Is hoarding really a menace?
In the first place, what has simply happened is an increased demand for money on the part of the miser. As a result, prices of goods fall, and the purchasing power of the gold-ounce rises. There has been no loss to society, which simply carries on with a lower active supply of more "powerful" gold ounces.
Even in the worst possible view of the matter, then, nothing has gone wrong, and monetary freedom creates no difficulties. But there is more to the problem than that. For it is by no means irrational for people to desire more or less money in their cash balances.
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I had actually written a point by point response, but felt that everything I was going to say was already said in that link.
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The US has, compared to other countries, a relative free system of healthcare. Thus, it should rank high on the table, compared to socialist countries.
You left out a whole bunch of socialist countries.
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My beef is not with the "rational and objective" part of your statement, it is with the "keeping a contract for the sake of it."
The only reason for keeping a contract is "for the sake of it."
Contracts are contractual.
You don't get to go back on your word later, even if you made the mistake of agreeing to "irrational and subjective" terms. If you do, you deserve the consequences and sanction for breaking your promise. And yes, I know this from experience, as I have agreed to irrational contracts in the past. However, I don't get to pull a "Keeping a contract for the sake of it is not rational or objective," card and default on my obligations. That's just crazy. I have to live with the choices I made.
I believe this derail does have some relevance to the OP, but I don't think I can put it into words.
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you've changed the subject from your statement, to my actions.
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Keeping a contract for the sake of it is not rational or objective
why you gotta bring contradiction bombs into here?
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Are you looking to win this argument, or to reach the truth?
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The family's fear is not of the wealthy guy, but of the state.The state provides such a bad service of protection and dispute resolution, that they are afraid to rely on it for justice.
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In praxeology, humans make definitive choices in order to satisfy their chosen needs. Usually the first choices are about finding food and shelter, that isn't necessarily so. What is logically concluded however, is that the most important needs are satisfied first, however those needs are chosen. This is the 'hierarchy of needs' which is created within the mind, and therefore acted upon. Somewhere way down the list is the time and energy expended in labor in exchange for meeting greater needs. As technology progresses, extra labor is spent only to satisfy lesser and lesser needs.
At some point, it just isn't worth spending the time to go to work and make extra money to buy useless crap you don't need. Where that point is located is very dependent on who you're asking. I think the existence of a 'service economy' is a signal of the progression closer towards it.
And no, we don't live in a service economy... we live in an inflation economy, which fools people into thinking it's a service economy, up until it collapses.
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I really don't feel capable of giving any thoughts or advice for your situation without details of the breakup. This is an important detail in a very serious relationship that needs examination. I understand your willingness to withhold these personal details, but it's hard to help mend a heart without knowing what broke it.I hope you have better experiences with relationships, and feel disappointed that this one came to an end.
EDIT: I guess if I was to post with brutal honesty, I would ask: If this relationship was so important to both of you, then why did it end?
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"Praxeoloigcaly Psychology" is a contradictory in terms.
Ethical doctrines are intent upon establishing scales of value accordingto which man should act but does not necessarily always act. They claim forthemselves the vocation of telling right from wrong and of advising manconcerning what he should aim at as the supreme good. They are normativedisciplines aiming at the cognition of what ought to be. They are not neutralwith regard to facts; they judge them from the point of view of freely adoptedstandards.This is not the attitude of praxeology and economics. They are fully awareof the fact that the ultimate ends of human action are not open to examinationfrom any absolute standard. Ultimate ends are ultimately given, they arepurely subjective, they differ with various people and with the same peopleat various moments in their lives. Praxeology and economics deal with themeans for the attainment of ends chosen by the acting individuals. They donot express any opinion with regard to such problems as whether or notsybaritism is better than asceticism. They apply to the means only oneyardstick, viz., whether or not they are suitable to attain the ends at whichthe acting individuals aim.
Human Action Ch. 1 - Ludwig Von Mises
While I do think that mecosystems, and IFS are great psychological tools to better understand our individual thought processes, they do not reflect the reality of the situation. The reality is there there is only one individual, with only one brain in his head.
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Regarding your first examples:
You had a valid primal fight or flight response to a stressful situation. The old guy was yelling at you on the phone. Your animal instincts could very well save your life some day, perhaps on the drive home when a car swerves into yours. If you make a habit of suppressing them in years they may not be readily available to your when you need them the most. Instead of shutting down, which you advocate, I would recommend taking a couple seconds to process your anger (probably related to the second example) and to realize that you are not in a situation which is dire. You can quickly process, and then help the customer.
IMHO you haven't processed how you treated your ex girlfriend badly. Every time this trauma brings itself to your attention (which it is doing A LOT because it really wants to be processed) you shut it down because of the damage it will cause to your psyche. Your attempts to shut down are not alleviating the suffering, so the emotions keep coming back up. This probably makes you angry, and then you double your efforts to shut down this experience. This leads back to your first example, where a person calls you in an emotional outburst which is unpleasant, you experience a valid "flight-or-fight" which you do not wish to process. You, as a conditioned response to the anger, shut down your emotional response.
I know this cycle of dysfunction, it was how I was raised.
IMO, if you were open to your emotions, they would start working to make your life better instead of making it worse.Your ex girlfriend would still come up in your mind, but your emotions about it would last probably no more than 2 seconds.You would have already processed how badly you treated her, you would accept that you were at fault, and that there is nothing you can do now to make the situation better.Those 2 seconds would be spent basically saying "yeah I really did treat her like crap back then."
You would still get in a rage when some old guy yells at you on the phone, but instead of shutting down, you would take 2 seconds to process and then adjust your attitude to the situation.And years from now, when that car swerves into your lane, you will be conditioned and successful in accepting your "flight or fight" response to aggressively turn the wheel and swerve out of the way... saving your life.
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Should I Pray to the Omega Point? Will it send me to Omega Point hell if I don't follow the 10 Omega Point commandments? Is there an Omega Point Bible, and which burning bush will dictate it to us?
Does the Omega Point love me?
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Large Fortunes are pretty awesome IMHO. I've spent hours getting lost in seeing where all the money goes.Take Rockefeller and Vanderbilt. These people mostly amass their fortunes by improving the lives of millions of people. They then spend billions (adjusted) creating wonderful castles of homes. Their descendents pretty much spend all the inheritance on more expensive houses, artwork, and high culture. I think in both cases the vast majority of the fortune was wasted in 3 generations. But us lowly people get oil, steel, and a taste of culture. And, no money was stolen in the process. How cool is that?I like the situation much more than the monuments to crime in other parts of the world.
Best video or video on the seriousness of modern mairrage
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