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Ah, so I am biased and purposefully missed something. That is good to know what my motives were for my post. You obviously seem to have a much better understanding of them than I do.

I don't think I need to say this, but just in case. Correlation =/= Causation Saying vaccines cause/caused all of those things is a very, very large claim that requires mountains of evidence to prove. You claim that someone else needs to provide evidence for their claims and then you do not provide evidence for your claims.

This comedy bit hits a little closer to home after reading that article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cBK0T-dgo8

I would recommend setting your boundaries and expressing what you are comfortable with at this time. Once the boundaries are set, you are free to move around within those boundaries and to let Dolly know if/when you are comfortable expanding them. It sounds to me like this is an issue with boundaries and you both have different ideas as to where they are or what you want them to be. Negotiating and figuring out where they are could be very useful for you and for her. You also may not be exactly sure where your boundaries are and a conversation about the topic would be useful in figuring that out. I would also analyze what signals you may have been putting out there that she thought that your boundaries were somewhere outside of your comfort zone.

Hmmm... I think of these "isms" as simply categorization of things and ideas, in the same way that my chair is in a different category than my desk and math is in a different category than chemistry. I do not think that anyone is putting emotional baggage into the use of a variety if "isms" except you, who seems to be quite opposed to the idea. Feel free to correct me, of course.

Also this: http://freedomainradiomeetup.weebly.com/ Especially check out some of the articles and stuff. And thank @Melesina if you enjoy the resource!

I am going to throw in the existing thread on Hearthstone in here for some cross-pollination https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/39742-any-hearthstone-players-here Hearthstone is a mostly casual Digital CCG that is free to play, you only need to pay if you enjoy the game or wish to progress faster, so I recommend people trying it out. http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/?- Even if you aren't normally a PC gamer, some modes are casual enough that you could get into this game anyway. My Battletag is Snipes777#1449 If you could let me know that you added me from here, either by sending a pm on FDR (or if the system allows you to add an explanation to the friend request) itll help me know where you came from!

A possibly related poll as to which group is more annoying: https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/40205-is-it-more-annoying-to-debate-religious-people-or-statists

Apparently you do, because as I said earlier, your claim is the exact opposite of the available evidence, which is why I offered up the evidence from said expert and told you how to easily find it. I have not dodged any arguments. I have pointed out a single piece of innaccurate information and told you where to find evidence to the contrary. That may have been a good argument for others in this thread, I do not know. I only know that it had nothing to do with the statement to which I provided evidence to its falsehood, therefore using the argument against my argument when they were not related at all is rather silly to say the least. I think I am getting a clearer picture of the point of this thread, so I will dismiss myself from further discussion and move on to other things. For anyone who is actually curious as to the topic of the causes of suicide terrorism now has the resources to be able to find the facts on the issue.

Hmmm, maybe you misunderstood my post, so I will attempt to make it clearer. I was not saying that any one society is better than the other. Personally, I want to be no where near that part of the world right now. What I was saying is that there is a man, whose name is Robert Pape, who has compiled data on every single suicide terror attack in modern history and has compiled the data for your easy consumption in the form of a presentation on YouTube, book, or several other media you may enjoy. This data only takes a simple google search and a little time to access. I was showing you facts which contradict one of your claims, which the facts of every suicide terror attack in history is a much better sample size than your anecdotes, no matter how well you may remember them or how accurate they may be. You are free to continue with emotional argumentation about t-shirts, but that only reveals that this thread is not about the facts of the situation. However, you could choose to look into some of the information, see where the contradictions may be, come up with some sort of refutation or otherwise intergrate the new data into your theory. If that were to happen, I would be happy to talk with you further about the topic. The information was quite shocking when I read it a couple years ago, and I think it is a very valuable topic to actually understand what the causes are, such that we can be sure that the steps we are taking to solve the problem actually help rather than aggravate the situation. I hope that I was able to make my information more clear in this post.

I am pretty sure the opposite of this is true. I send you to Robert Pape's work on terrorism, and especially suicide terrorism (which is 10x more deadly on average). There is a massive correlation between terror attacks and suicide terror attacks and foreign occupation. If the foreign occupation stops, then the terror stops. He is by far the biggest scholar on the topic and has done a lot of work and data mining in order to justify his claims. If the topic is of interest to you, he has a few books published.

If you somewhat know what you are doing (but are still relatively easily able to be hacked) I feel like you would be looked into more than someone who didn't use encryption or anything. However, feel free to encrypt as many innocuous messages as you feel like. It is slightly entertaining to send a shopping list with GPG encryption. The safest methods involve passing physical items or talking in person. There are resources out there like the Anonymous – The Über-Secret Handbook and any entire group and ideology of cryptoanarchy, which bitcoin has many of it's roots in. However, it is vastly more dangerous for you to kind of know what you are doing than to not know what you are doing and assuming that it is unsafe to communicate through the inerwebs. Thus, you can either spend quite a bit of time trying to be safe and secure, which even then it can be quite difficult ot you can just assume that everything that you say is public information and thus act accordingly. Neither is a perfect solution.

I would also agree with this and I shouldn't have assumed that you had the proper hardware and knew what you were doing necessarily. I very much advise against anyone from mining who does not know a ton about what they are going and have a couple thousand to drop on the newest mining technology. If you are a beginner to bitcoin, you should not mine unless you have free electricity for some reason.

I would recommend going here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=42.0 It has been too long since I did mining and things could have drastically changed since then.

Everything is conditional. For instance, in order to even call something love, some sort of relationship must exist as a conditional. The unconditional part is that nothing could be done by someone in order for the love to stop.

Love can become unconditional. I am imagining a situation where a parent or friend or spouse is in declining health and shitting themselves and not mentally there anymore, but that they have earned love and respect through years of virtuous behavior to where I may still want to spend time with them or take care of them. Love is earned in this situation from past behavior which is very distinct from the immature love that is unearned and unconditional. What others are referring to is that kind, rather than love that might be earned and still unconditional. However, especially when people come out of a situation of enforced unconditional love that is unearned, it is wise to place some conditions and boundaries and standards and then work from there as you become experienced with finding people who are worth loving.

I have also heard the "half the time you were in the relationship" rule of thumb and it makes sense for the most part. I tend to say that you should not date until you know what went wrong with the relationship and why it went wrong and how you can ensure that it will not happen again. Some people just jump right back in the saddle and at least in my experience they almost always repeast the same mistakes over and over again and can never figure out why. If you go on one date and don't like it, it is a simple thing of analyzing some cues that maybe you wouldn't have gone on the date with her in the first place and then you can easily try someone else. If you are with someone for years and you didn't realize that they would cheat on you or something, then that likely is going to be a lengthy process of introspection and digging through childhood stuff as to how you got in that situation and to learn to avoid it. There is no "facts" for the claim, just that if you do not wait and process what happened, then you are almost certain to repeat the same things again.

https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/36511-donator-statuspremium-content-information/#entry335622 The purpose of these forums also is not to anonymously discuss things as it is rather difficult to keep things truly anonymous. The idea is to discuss things in a forum that is pseudo-public that allows others to reference the material. This is why call-in shows are made public and tagged and the boards are also referenceable by people who may be curious about a topic. Options if you want more privacy: When not during a call-in show, the chat room is off limits to people who are not registered members. You also can have private chats with individual members in the chat room, even if a call in show is going on by clicking their name and selecting that you want to start a private chat. Also, there are private gold donator and philosopher king forums that cannot be accessed besides people in those donation levels. Finally, some members participate in skype chats with other board members. Some are recorded as skype conversations and others are not. Occasionally, a sensitive podcast will also be limited to people of a donator group and above, especially if the material is very personal or otherwise would not be able to be understood by the general public without some context of having listened to the show for a while. However, if the vast majority of content was produced in private, either by the board members or by Stef, then it would seem to be rather counter productive to actually being able to affect the world and philosophy the way that we might want to. I am sorry that you were not aware of this, but I would not support making the forums private, and I would actually consider it to be working against the goals of FDR. There are the options I listed above if you wanted to have a more private conversation with someone.

http://www.cephalopodiatrist.com/2012/10/why-babies-arent-actually-parasites.html

I am noticing that you stopped the narrative with an event that happened somewhere around a year ago at a horrible point where you had just committed violent abuse and then are self-hating because of that. Earlier in the post, you also said that you have been seeking therapy and working on self-knowledge, so anything I say in reply would likely be outdated and irrelevant. If this had happened recently, I would tell you to get into therapy ASAP as you are beginning to solidify someone very violent in your personality and for your sake and the sake of the people and animals around you, you need to get help before it is too late. However, I think that any advice I give may not be relevant and that you are telling the story and stopping at such a horrific point in order to elicit such reactions from the people who read your post. Why do you think you stopped at that point in the story and why did you want to share that story? I would be very interested to know.

I am not a minecraft player, but I just thought I would leave this here... https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/40781-fdr-minecraft-server/

For instance, there are site out there that randomly try to take themselves down through DDOS attacks or through shutting down certain servers or something. They intentionally set this up themselves. This means that they build a system around the assumption that these attacks will happen and each time the attack happens, they system improves its response to the attack and becomes a better "built" system. Thus, anti-fragility is something that gets stronger when attacked which is opposed to most things that when they are attacked they will get weaker or break. Also, brief moment of reminiscence, I think I was there in chat when you learned what afk meant.

It depends on what you want to do with it. If you have it on Coinbase, then you are certainly exposing yourself to third party risk to some extent, no matter how good the procedures they have in place are. However, I keep a small amount of petty cash on Coinbase in order to be able to spend the coin if I ever run into a random situation where I want to donate coin or I want to buy something. My requirement for being held on Coinbase in my mind is that "If it gets stolen, I don't care that much". If it ever gets more than that, then I move it off the site. Next, I have what I keep on my PC. There isn't a third party risk, but my computer could still get hacked or my hard drive could crash (so I have paper wallet backups) or other things. I consider this my checking account. I keep a little more than I would have in my petty cash wallet, but if I need the funds it is possible to spend them from my computer or I can send some to Coinbase to refill my petty cash. Finally, I have paper wallets. Someone needs to have the physical piece of paper in order to get the funds. I keep that piece of paper in a rather safe place (people are much better at understanding what it means for a physical object to be safely stored than they do for a digital object to be safely stored). This is my savings account. I never plan on accessing the funds any time soon, but I will slowly add to the account over time as I make more money. However, if something horrible were to happen and I needed to access the funds or if it was time for me to cash out, then I can import the wallet into Coinbase and sell the bitcoin for cash fairly simply. Thus, it is not necessarily wrong to put your coin in Coinbase. There is a question of how much risk you are willing to take, which always has diminishing returns and never is 0% risk. There are the questions of how much you might spend, how much you are willing to lose, and how much of the coin you need access to at a moments notice vs how much you can store and not really try to spend it for the next several years. Try to pick a method or a funds distribution that best answers these questions for you, and understand that no matter how well a company is run, if you keep money with them then you need to trust them to that level in order to let them hold your money. I think Coinbase is run much better than Gox, which is why I use them. However, there is no need to expose myself needlessly to the risk that they might fail. Hopefully I was helpful in my description and didn't make things too complicated for you. I would be happy to explain something further if you would like.

I don't have the paper on hand, but I do know that if quantum code breaking advances faster than quantum code making then bitcoin will have some trouble. If quantum code exists (which will happen if they actually come close to making a viable quantum computer) then they will migrate bitcoin to the new code. If quantum computing exists and any code can be easily hacked, then the security of bitcoin will be of minimal concern compared to everything else in the world that is currently encrypted at a much lower level than bitcoin is, so either way bitcoin would still be better off and it is not exactly an "apples to apples" criticism.

Men get some (at least some) Social Security and some of the Safety Net programs, so I do not consider it clear at all.