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I couldn't say specifically, but generally that kind of hard work and desire to accumulate extreme amounts of capitol seems to come from a myriad of disfunction. When you get into the personalities of people like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Donald Trump, etc., you get some real whackadoo control freak, angry, obsessive, etc type traits.

I would add Jarhead to that list, it is just about being indoctrinating into wanting to kill someone. I thought Hurt Locker was full of propaganda though.

100%, didn't that hacker who killed himself publish a bunch of these databases... sry maybe someone else remembers his name. I'm torn on this subject in that I find the science dubious and yet I don't think I'm qualified to really argue the issue. The only thing I am certain of, true or false, this is being used by governments to exploit the population.

Quick Bump: This software is potentially the culmination in the goals and promises of bitcoin to truly displace the financial control by the politically powerful, end war, provide equality to things like divorce, the rise of DROs and other types of organizations aimed at replacing state functions, etc. This deserves everyone's attention, sincerely it might be a huge solution to a wide list of problems discussed in this community.

I am trying to influence how other people live their lives. Specifically, people on FDR, and specifically against the qualities Stef describes as victorian. I think this community has a profoundly important philosophical message, wrapped in the aesthetics of a dentist's office. Agreed. Therapy and philosophy are better ways to deal with childhood trauma, of course. There is also an honesty to the tattoo thing, in that it isn't some well hidden disfunction thats going to sneak up on you unexpectedly. And the types and locations of tattoos give you some insight into their disfunction. So tear drops and other prison tattoos say something very different than a guy with brightly painted tropical fruits on his arms. Additionally, I personally like people who have turned their trauma into artistic expression and passion over people who turn it into bitterness or violence. Tattoos fall into both categories, but none of my tattoo'd friends have gang tattoo's. I think that being super successful, like the CEOs of major companies, are similarly fueled by childhood trauma, and while it is wise to be skeptical of their intentions, over all many of them have done and do inspiring things.

Sure. And it isn't only one new technology. Since WWI, people invented commercial and international air travel, which I think played a huge roll in helping to connect people as well. The shipping lanes and international distribution of labor has continues to unite us.

I think many of those countries might have conscription as an option, but don't employ it. I live in Uruguay, and it says that Brazil, Ecuador, Chile and Venezuela have it, but they don't force anyone into the armed forces. I could see Venezuela doing it, but even they don't, I have tons of friends from there. I'm going to ask around about that, I have friends from all those countries and I'm very curious now.

I don't have any specific experience with coming out, though revealing hidden to truths to my family often did nothing to make them better and yet did provide me with a lot of anxiety relief. I have made a recent friend who has a very similar problem, his mom is some kind of Republican politician and when he came out of the closet to her, she just went into denial, blamed him for his "confusion" and never mentioned it again. Its incredibly disheartening and I feel bad. In his case I think it results in repressing and then misplacing a ton of anger. He'll go into these manic states whereas most of the time he is super calm and polite suddenly he is crying or screaming over really small things. Just... don't let anyone gaslight you, make you think you're crazy when you're not, that shit is head spinning.

Yeah, sure. Slavery no doubt, but which countries do this? I know Israel does it, are there western european countries which do it?

I think that Vietnam showed the west that some important changes have been made, when forced into conscription and warfare we would now drop out by using drugs and resist by fragging our officers. There are many who argue, and I tend to agree, that another draft would destroy the west. World War 1 was a slaughterhouse on a level unparalleled even in Vietnam, and people for the most part pressed on with a stalwart resolution that earned them the title of the Great Generation. In the battle of the Somme alone, the British had almost 60,000 casualties.... on the first DAY. I think there has been incredible moral gains since this time, personally. And maybe I can point you in the direction of a few dramatic changes: Russia is no longer communist, nor is China. Europe hasn't had a war since, and the French and Germans of today find the prospect of fighting one another absurd. The Western world no longer drafts their soldiers. Communism is relegated to a niche in the West. The idea of genocide is considered horrific. Many countries, even the most socialistic countries, have had to adopt free marker practices even within limits. For example, though the idea of socialism is popular thoughout latin America, most latin American countries have free trade zones set up to remain competitive. China has had to emulate Hong Kong more than the other way around, for another example. In the United States, people are actually questioning things like the Federal Reserve, previously an unknown amorphic conspiracy theory has become a very real and tangible political debate.

no So you understand the Bomb in the Brain series on here, right? It puts child abuse at the center of a wide range of qualities from drug abuse to promiscuity to behavioral problems to criminality. Someone with one of these qualities is always at higher risk for the other qualities. That is to say, there is no causal relationship between tattoos and those behaviors, but their is a common causal relationship between those behavior and tattoos with child abuse. I've already accepted this to be true, and I don't think I've responded with anything to the opposite. If you change your behavior towards someone for exhibiting symptoms of child abuse, and you desire to be consistent in your approach, then you should consistently apply that behavior to everyone on this website as well as a massive variety of other people from sky divers to cigarette smokers to people who debate others online. They're all exhibiting symptoms of childhood trauma and are going to be statistically at higher risk for a wide variety of problems. Nothing about tattoos prevent or inhibit someone's ability to reconcile their trauma.

My theory is that some childhood trauma expresses itself as cool and other as anti-social and awkward, and that those who are in the later category might have a resentment towards those in the prior category. Like I said, being on this website, like tattoos, is a sign of childhood trauma. Hyper motivated people who become CEOs and world leaders are also signaling childhood trauma. Extreme intelligence is signaling childhood trauma, I believe there was an older podcast on FDR about how intelligence is a coping mechanism for certain types of abuse. In a world where 90% or more of children are abused, tattoos are just one of thousands of ways people cope with their abuse. And there is nothing exacerbating or dangerous about it. There is nothing especially telling, and if anything it is honest. I wish that the politicians of the world had tear drop tattoos on their face for everyone they've killed. Also, you don't know anyone with a tattoo who is successful? I can't help but speculate on how small your world is, frankly. I mean right now, as I'm typing this I am listening to Joe Rogan, and he is successful and with tattoos. In my world, some of the most successful people in my life have tattoos. I don't live a quiet or suburban lifestyle, so maybe my perspective is wildly skewed just being an expat and all that, but if you want to see successful people with tattoos just turn on MTV for 5 minutes. I think the idea that tattoos are a hinderance to success is extremely antiquated: http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB106201792853334000 http://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelhennessey/2013/02/27/having-a-tattoo-and-a-job/ There are CEOs, doctors, lawyers, professors etc with tattoos. I know just piles of kind, virtuous, hard working, business minded people with tattoos so my perspective on this is going to be hard to change.

No, I don't think it is a bad thing. I think in my own life i've kind of straddled both worlds, being both a nerd and loner and also someone who partied and did drugs and that kind of thing. Hah well I don't need a study to tell me girls with tattoos are having more sex and are doing more drugs, I just assume that is true. And your last comment was wise and insightful, thank you.

Is this about people being long-term investments? I don't know what that even means. Investing in friendship? People with tattoos make bad friends? Investing in them as in giving them a job? People with tattoos are less productive? I don't get your standard "long term investments" or its implications. I have nothing to really contribute to your speculation that people with tattoos are more likely to reject therapy except that the burden of proof is on you. Here is my question to you guys: what does someone with tattoos make you feel about yourself? This is speculative, but here is my honest consideration here: many of us who experience childhood trauma suffer from issues like social anxiety, while others have turned their trauma isn't something cool. In so far as the childhood trauma of one person might result in feeling excluded and ostracized, for others their behavior gives them more social cache. It reminds me of having a cooler brother or sister, and that feeling that you want to expose them, to turn the tables. "Ahh I know the REAL them, the deep down insecure abused them and I want to expose them for it." Thats how it feels to me.

oh, just want to add, I also think but I'm not completely certain that Etherium works with Bitcoin as well.

But the problem with beating up women isn't that it is a sign of childhood trauma, it is that you're beating someone up. Beating up women isn't processing trauma, it is enacting trauma, it is traumatizing. And yes, tattoos are inferior ways of processing trauma. Playing sad songs on your guitar is also an inferior way of processing trauma. Engaging in internet debates is an inferior way of processing trauma.

I love and appreciate tattoos and tattoo culture. I don't have any, but have intended to get into it for a long time now. I have some news guys, therapy is also a sign of childhood trauma. This website and community are signs of childhood trauma. I think tattoos are about signaling people with similar experiences, and it is about painting your own world. Like Alan said, It is about gaining control in a world where we're not in control, not unlike our interest in philosophy. I know its a common intellectual thing to reject everything aesthetic or about the body, but I don't share that value. I appreciate and engage in aesthetics, seek and find beauty in the world, value style and fashion and design and creativity and expression. So lets say tattoos are signs of childhood trauma... and that they're methods of coping with that trauma... whats the problem with that? I find deep introspection is often a painful way of dealing with these same issues, does that reveal some hidden sadistic nature within me? Should I be avoided or mistrusted or dismissed because I seek to resolve my issues with methods that induce emotional pain? Are you also thinking of getting Stef's face tattoo'd on the small of your back? lol, the stef tramp stamp.

Also, to contribute to this theory, humans lived through things like the Ice Age with extreme resource scarcity. The Ice Age makes those post-nuclear holocaust roving band of mad max style warriors look like progress..

I don't think it is important to figure any of this out right now, personally. See my first point, the degree to which people would pay to solve any problem is the degree to which someone else can gain by solving it. If Bob's range of potential victims continues to shrink over time, that is remarkable success.

Yeah, LTC figured out a way to reduce it which is mimicked by most alt coins, though BTC does have a bloating issue. Etherium does not require its miners to download an entire blockchain history and has something to keep it down in size. The contracts themselves are not hosted on everyone's computer, that would be extraordinarily redundant. Each contract is split into pieces, say 10 pieces, of which 6 are required to recover the entirety of the contract. Each 10 person is unaware what they have, incapable of piecing it together themselves, yet finically incentivized to host the contract. Also there is a factor to reduce bloating in that all operations within Etherium cost money, so it isn't free to host a contract and it isn't free to run a contract. If a contract was a huge file it would cost a chunk of change to access it. I'm not 100% certain, but in the case of using Etherium as cloud storage, the files are hosted on people's computers and the contract is only about 20 or 30 lines of code required to access those files on other people's computers. Similar to torrents.

Most tribes were matriarchal, as the women have more power over men in a state of nature because they're the mothers of the men. Infanticide is rampant, which is likely why the tribal gods of war are often female. Patriarchy is said to have come after agrarianism, as protection and raiding became survival tools best accomplished by men. Most tribal and nomadic cultures have women playing a much larger roll in warfare. The steppe tribes, for example, gave rise to the mythological Amazonian because of their female warriors. Similarly ancient Germanic tribes were sometimes wiped out by their own women after their men would lose a battle. The women would kill their men, children and then themselves. Some tribes were even ruled by women, and women comprised important roles within the priest class as well. Cherokee leaders required the approval of a female council and had female chiefs (check out Wilma Mankiller), so did Spartans who were governed mostly by women especially in the absence of men. Helen of Troy was also Helen of Sparta, and in the Sparta version of the story she loved the bloodshed. The patriarchal athenians were more peaceful, democratic and enterprising.

I've been tracking the progress of Etherium for a little while now. They just released this video today explaining how users will be able to browse their decentralized apps. This is bitcoin 2.0 at its finest, the biggest step since the blockchain in the development of decentralized and secure financial tools. Anything from marriage to escrow to democracy to DROs to decentralizing your entire business will soon be at the world's fingertips in something as simple as browsing a website. If you're prone to crypto-boners like I am, this is NSFW For the uninitiated I can give you a general analogy to understand Etherium. If you think about email, SMTP, its basic functions are somewhat limited to send and receive. Not unlike bitcoin itself, these functions were ground breaking and yet not the final destination of the internet. Enter: websites! Websites are programs running on centralized servers, somewhere out there in the world. Instead of sending and receiving data between two users, this created the 'web' we think of today full of intricate tools for exploration and computation and visualization. Etherium is the web of the crypto-world, it allows decentralized hosted apps (dapps or contracts) which include secure and unique ways of managing resources (namely money, but not exclusively). Etherium is the culmination of all the bitcoin side projects, like colorcoin, mastercoin, idcoin, etc. It is a blockchain with the ability to program nearly anything into it. Marriage contracts, stock exchanges, escrows, wills, reputation systems, voting, etc. Charities can guantee how their money is spent. Divorce can be accomplished without courts and lawyers with a few simple clicks based entirely on terms arranged by the couple. Time delay inheritances, peer to peer gambling, even decentralized cloud storage and processing. Something like dropbox can be created with less than 30 lines of code. Make your own digital currency with less than 5 lines. Set up business accounts with security preventing and limiting and insuring particular transactions. Don't want the CEO to steal the pension money? Lock it. Divide backups for your accounts by dividing your key and sending it out to 5 friends, 3 of which are required to repair the account. Its.... amazing stuff. Enjoy!

Or that bigotry and violence open a box that can't be easily shut? or that violence results in unintended consequences?

I'm a little torn on this one. Firstly, I've been dealing with my own somewhat repressed memories. For a long time some experiences I had as a child I thought might have been bad dreams, until my sister had the courage to bring them up with me. The memories had bothered me but I was unsure if they were true or not and her cooberation confirmed them all. At the same time, I think giving people drugs, isolating them, and having professional hypnotherapists work with them could be a recipe for brain washing. That being said, eating disorders are often associated with sexual abuse. And I don't think a girl raised peacefully would be as likely to have implanted false memories, so there is no doubt the girl experienced some degree of trauma and abuse. And Usurpation, I was told the same thing while working through some of this stuff and when I was still in contact with my parents. I remembered something positive and my Dad went on some rant about how glad he was that I wasn't only focused on the bad stuff. My Dad's friend and my god father recently contacted me, after finding out that I stopped talking to my family. He asked me about it and I in turn asked him what he thought of our relationship. He, too, confirmed that my entire childhood was spent being frequently yelled at (and this was only the public half of it). The gaslighting, accusing the victim of being crazy, is a hardcore and destabilizing response to hear. Even with tons of certainty its hard not to consider that you may have imagined everything, and that can be so demoralizing. So my empathy, sympathy goes out to you as a kindred spirit in this horrific experience.

How much would it be worth to the father, mother, brothers, friends and other family of the kidnapped girls to save them? Thats the incentive in a free society to solving this problem. Also, lets say they believe Bob to have the girl but the DRO can't prove it sufficiently to get some kind of permission to search the property without consent according to their internal rules. Well then anyone, including the family, can go to the property with guns blazing. The risk is their own reputation and wellbeing, if they're wrong about Bob then either they're penalized by their own DRO or Bob shoots them in the face. Its theirs to risk.