MrCapitalism
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'What I Be' Project Reveals People's Darkest Insecurities In Stunning Photos (HuffPo)
Photographer Steve Rosenfield recently asked subjects far and wide to complete the following statement: "I am not my ___ " He prompted individuals to fill in the blank with their deepest and darkest insecurities, moving people to bring issues regarding body image, substance abuse, mental illness, race and sexuality to the forefront.
"I am not my gender."
"I am not my amputation."
"I am not my turban."
"I am not my bulimia."
"I am not my molestation."
"I am not my number."
"I am not my abortion."
"I am not my adoption."
"I am not my character."
"I am not my thoughts."
"I am not my body image."
"I am not my guilt."
Okay, some of these people have been dealt a bad hand and are behing held responsible for it.. I get that.But seriously? "I am not my abortion" "I am not my charachter" "I am not my thoughts"Then what are you?Someone posted this as some sort of deep statement of truth, and it's created as such. It's very PoMo for people to pretend to describe who they are by telling others who they aren't and expecting them to fill in the rest.
How about the libertarian response...where people don't take responsiblity for the things which they have no control, and take responsibility for the things they do control.Seriously?
"I am not my abortion." Then who is?
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What would you wonderful intelligent skeptics say to someone who tells you they personally know a person who has been raised from the dead by prayer in Jesus' name after being dead for 24 hours, and personally knows someone who had a metal plate that had been surgically implanted in their head show up on an x-ray one week, then completely vanish in the next week's x-ray after it was prayed (also in the name of Jesus) that it would disappear?
What's the success rate on that?Out of all attempts to pray to Jesus to revive people dead for 24 hours, what percentage of the time does that work? If they don't pray to Jesus, what's the percentage of people who are 'revived' after being declared dead for 24 hours?If I gave you a revolver loaded with 6 bullets and told you to point it at your head and pull the trigger six times, would you pray to Jesus that all 6 primers fail and expect to live through the test?
If you had a lethal infection which was known to be very vulnerable to antibiotics, and you took those antibiotics, and you didn't pray to Jesus, what would you expect your chances would be of living through the infection?
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So if you think it's a bad policy. why do you advocate for it now?
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I can still see posts from users with a bad reputation if I want to.
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If those who made those choices felt the full gravity of their decision then maybe we can end this.
I disagree with this.I remember several years ago watching a homeless man (obviously a veteran) making a Vietnam War sculpture out of sand at the beach. During the war in Vietnam, crowds shouted down, threatened, and harassed general infantry. The hostility (as has been reported) was enormous.The veteran was discussing the currently waging war in Iraq, and how different the culture of protest was now compared to then. He mentioned, "back then they held the average soldier responsible, called them baby-killers. Now they protest the war, but they have respect for the troops."That didn't work the last time, that's why they don't do it now.
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A Classic about using sense to determine reality... for your painting pleasure..
FDR 25: Validating the Senses
http://media.freedomainradio.com/feed/validating_the_senses.mp3
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I recommend UPB. For me, it proved that nihilism is invalid.
It was the only argument that gave me what I accept as logical proof.
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I'm bummed that Stef didn't mention that irony in his video. There's a difference between randomly dying in a traffic accident, and knowingly stepping into a performance vehicle without an experienced driver, suitable safety equipment, and driving it in a completely inappropriate place (which is what the "Fast & Furious" movies are all about.)
There are no trees on race tracks.
Paul Walker had a net worth of $45 Million. He could have afforded to take sports cars seriously.
"The Stig" is a professional motorist dressed in a flame resistant suit and wearing a crash helmet.
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Been a long time since we had a 'debt is usury, the dollar is an IOU' post....
Are you proposing that we should make loans in gold or other monetary instruments? (not a bad idea at all really)
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Your inner critic would really like to speak to you.
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I think Garet Garrett wrote the best response:
He had not yet begun to speak, but was peering about in the grass, stooping here and there to pluck a bit of vegetation. He walked as far as the fence for a bramble leaf. Returning he snapped a twig from the elm above his head and faced them.
"This natural elm," he began, with an admiring look at the tree, "was once a tiny thing. A sheep might have eaten it at one bite. Every living thing around it was hostile and injurious. And it survived. It grew. It took its profit. It became tall and powerful beyond the reach of enemies. What preserved it -- cooperative marketing? What gave it power -- a law from Congress? What gave it fullness -- the Golden Rule? On what was its strength founded -- a fraternal spirit? You know better. Your instincts tell you no. It saved itself. It found its own greatness. How? By fighting. Did you know that plants fight? If only you could see the deadly, ceaseless warfare among plants this lovely landscape would terrify you. It would make you think man's struggles tame. I will show you some glimpses of it.
"I hold up this leaf from the elm. The reason it is flat and thin is that the peaceable work of its life is to gather nourishment for the tree from the air. Therefore it must have as much surface as possible to touch the air with. But it has another work to do. A grisly work. A natural work all the same. It must fight. For that use it is pointed at the end as you see and has teeth around the edge -- these. The first thing the elm plant does is to grow straight up out of the ground with a spear thrust, its leaves rolled tightly together. Its enemies do not notice it. Then suddenly each leaf spreads itself out and with its teeth attacks other plants; it overturns them, holds them out of the sunlight, drowns them. And this is the tree! Do you wonder why the elm plant does not overrun the earth? Because other plants fight back, each in its own way. I show you a blade of grass. It has no teeth. How can it fight? Perhaps it lives by love and sweetness. It does not. It grows very fast by stealth, taking up so little room that nothing else minds, until all at once it is tall and strong enough to throw out blades in every direction and fall upon other plants. It smothers them to death. Then the bramble. I care not for the bramble. Not because it fights. For another reason. Here is its weapon. Besides the spear point and the teeth the bramble leaf you see is in five parts, like one's hand. It is a hand in fact, and one very hard to cast off. When it cannot overthrow and kill an enemy as the elm does, it climbs up his back to light and air, and in fact prefers that opportunity, gaining its profit not in natural combat but in shrewd advantage, like the middleman. Another plant I would like to show you. There is one near by. Unfortunately it would be inconvenient to exhibit him in these circumstances. His familiar name is honeysuckle. He is sleek, suave, brilliantly arrayed, and you would not suspect his nature, which is that of the preying speculator. Once you are in his toils it is hopeless. If you have not drowned or smothered him at first he will get you. The way of this plant is to twist itself round and round another and strangle it.
(page 74)"This awful strife is universal in plant life. There are no exemptions. Among animals it is not so fierce. They can run from one another. Plants must fight it out where they stand. They must live or die on the spot. Among plants of one kind there is rivalry. The weak fall out and die; the better survive. That is the principle of natural selection. But all plants of one kind fight alike against plants of all other kinds. That is the law of their strength. None is helped but who first helps himself. A race of plants that had wasted its time waiting for Congress to give it light and air, or for a state bureau with hired agents to organize it by "the Golden Rule, or had been persuaded that its interests were in common with those of the consumer, would have disappeared from the earth.
"The farmer is like a plant. He cannot run. He is rooted. He shall live or die on the spot. But there is no plant like a farmer. There are nobles, ruffians, drudges, drones, harlots, speculators, bankers, thieves and scalawags, all these among plants, but no idiots, saying, 'How much will you give?' and 'What will you take?' Until you fight as the elm fights, take as the elm takes, think as the elm thinks, you will never be powerful and cannot be wise."
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A single woman living with her parents/white knight boyfriend/ government provided housing/ and raising her 2 children, both from different fathers, neither of which is in a relationship with her.
If women want to settle down and have children, there's nothing about modern society that holds them responsible for that decision.
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picturing the scene in my head and even getting choked up or whatever it may be
I think a great response might be to express your genuine feelings in the moment to them.
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As a Pilot, I (and probably the FAA) could care less.. so long as these things stay below 500' above the ground, and get no closer than 4 miles to any airport. Those are going to be very hard to see, and are really gonna hurt when I smash into them.
I actually think this looks incredibly inefficient, but my opinion doesn't matter. What happens to that little box the product came in? What if the thing is larger then that box size? Why does it only carry one product at a time?
Although I do always wonder what part of regulations are real (which would still exist in a true free market) and which are fake (which are political bribes to stick it to competitors etc.)
While I advocate for the abolition of the F.A.A. (and the DOT). I gotta give those guys some credit... it's probably one of the best functioning government agencies that I've ever seen (it just has to work, and so I guess it does...
)The government has pretty much established a monopoly on the separation of aircraft in flight.
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So, the dating world has completely turned on it's head in the last decades if I'm understanding correctly?
That's been my experience. Except for the parts about physical beauty and flawlessness, I don't know of any girls that act like you describe.
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IMHO, Children know they are precious the day they are born.
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It's no wonder that we, or I, have to restraint ourselves from our initial reaction towards violence of wanting to punch them out.
You feel a need to initiate violence against these people, because they are peacefully behaving in a way that you do not like?
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What's your work history?
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Social Studies 30-1, Media Broadcast Communications, and Drama 20. I haven't been going to school very often...
Holy crap, congratulations on putting in the effort to show up to that nonsense...
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There is another school, which I'd say is probably more recent but also seems to be the most popular or "flavour of the month," and I think that's because people had worries about the inauthenticity of previous methods. That school is more about be your best self, look after yourself, improve your self-esteem and self-confidence, work yourself up, become confident talking to anyone, become a good conversationalist, get good social skills, and then approach anyone you want.
If memory serves, this is the "Don Juan" approach, and looked upon by both Don Juan's, and PUA's as 'PUA-lite.' It's used by men who aren't committed to using serious PUA manipulation tactics, and both schools recognize it as such.
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So what is it about "allowing them to live equal or comparative lifestyles to those in the 1st world" that makes this standard fair? How is that fair for the rest of the world, which now has to pay higher prices?
so what if that is the only resource you have and therefore the only thing you can use to gain capital?Then you get less capital.
And I do not believe the situation in the middle east is anywhere near a 'free market.'
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What's a "fair price"?
If I make a guess based off the assumption that this 'fair price' is higher than the current price, then I don't think your statement can be refuted. In essence you're saying, "if oil were more expensive, then oil would be more expensive."
If the price of oil is too expensive for one party, then obviously it isn't a fair price.
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I just want to represent the "ramble-fest" fans.
I have no desire, nor need to listen to shorter podcasts. I'm a computer gamer and general heavy user of computers, so I really enjoy being able to play a podcast in the background while I'm driving a tank/ causing mischief. If it takes Stef 2 hours to construct an argument I have no complaints with that... especially when I'm in the middle of a 16 hour flight across the world on my flight simulator
To each his own!
What passes for deep thinking on Facebook (HuffPo).
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Interesting enough, this was shared by a woman who I dated many years ago (in highschool) was a cutter and anorexic. Your reaction isn't suprising to me, that's most likely why she chose this article.