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Haha. Bitcoin is still like +80% on the week or something as I am posting this. However, bitcoin tends to get some spikes of attention and interest that drive the price up very fast with trend investors. Eventually someone sells and the short-term bubble pops. Long term, bitcoin still should go a lot higher in my opinion. That is why I have some.

I think this is the one you are looking for. Let me know if it isn't of course.

This is several years down the road, however transaction fees get added to the reward that miners can make. In the future, the reward will be dependent on transaction fees.

I am very curious about this statement. Why would you advocate a system where you "wouldn't make it?"

If this is done, I at least would like to be able to change my vote and possibly neutralize my vote. At least one time that I remember I accidentally downvoted a post (that I meant to upvote, which was sad) and even so I think that after deliberation someone may find that they were a little quick on the downvote trigger, which has also happened at least once that I remember and there was a thread where someone realized they downvoted a little too quickly. Personally, I am being more convinced that it is fine the way it is.

How about when you click downvote, it just lists possible categories for downvoting which may include spam, ad hominem, repetitive, vulgar, and maybe a few others. Thus "I don't like the opinion of this person" is discouraged as a reason for downvoting.

I think that justification should be given for -1 that the poster could look at. Even better, it might be good if everyone can look at it which people who disagreed could vote someone up out of unjustly negative territory. I also think that downvoting a generally positive post can be done to a certain point, but if it is done too many times then voting privileges can be temporarily or permanently removed based on how often this action happens. Thus, the system can be self regulating by which people look at a negative post and can override an unjustly negative vote. If done a few times, the the voter will get an increasing duration of loss of voting ability. No idea how much of this is feasible, but it would remove modding and appealing and such by allowing the person who was negatively voted to appeal to other raters in a sense.

AKA: How to train children to fuse with an omnipotent deity and then obey that deity's irrational commands. I decided I would investigate, and here is what a homepage displays now that used to be a page on the book which thinks it is defending itself and being more reasonable: Part of that last quote was in the OP. Then I went to Amazon for the reviews they posted to advertise the book: Luckily, most of the 5 star reviews are trolls, but there are a few parents who did actually rate it positively

Assuming your situation was the exact same is not being empathetic. There was a call-in show where someone described that they had panic attacks. They told a parent. Parent says (paraphrasing) "Oh, I had the same thing. Just get over it." Of course, this is not a panic attack as you cannot will yourself out of a panic attack. She assumed she was being empathetic, but rather was projecting her own experiences onto her daughter rather than actually asking what her experience of the situation was. Also, he says "I have really bad panic in asking out women" the solution of "Well did you try asking them out anyway?" was obviously the first thing that he thought of. If help is being sought, it is generally good to assume that they tried the incredibly obvious answer. Obviously, eventually, if the goal is to have a relationship with women then it is axiomatic that he will have to talk to women. However, he can't do it now or it would have been tried. Thus, I asked questions and tried to find where the block might be and then recommended talking with a therapist which would be the best way to overcome an emotional block. The "just get over it" help isn't actually help as I would understand help.

I apologize if it sounded like I had authority on the matter. I generally preface things as my opinions and not necessarily true. I also almost always suggest that people talk things over with a therapist who is an expert (and did in this instance). I am sorry if it was not clear enough in that particular post and I will be more mindful of using better language in the future.

I prefer the term "philosophy".

Its not about any of this. The problem is the lack of empathy for the situation. If someone has a debilitating fear of something, telling them to "just get over it" is not exactly helpful. I am sure that has been thought of by the OP and if it was really that easy then they wouldn't be posting to ask for help on the issue.

I played the audio in the background on my iPhone on the way to work from the YouTube video with no issues until 21:10 (as in I got to work and stopped it). Maybe the video had issues (I wasn't checking), but at least the iPhone seemed to do ok with it.

You'll be able to choose from four different varieties of plans, platinum (highest quality relationships), gold, silver, and bronze (lowest quality relationships). The relationship care exchange is open for every U.S. resident, but only the uninsured will face penalties for skipping out. If you pay for your own plan already, you can keep on keepin' on, although we'd at least recommend shopping around to see if there are cheaper relationships out there.

http://www.pentagonpost.com/alike-women-men-obsessed-eating-patterns-growing-weight/83415588 This seems to me to have 2 separate topics for discussion. The first is that there are so many overweight people and bad foods out there that especially teens are much more worried about gaining weight which is leading to these unhealthy relationships with food and the body. Somewhat like a pendulum that is swinging too far the other way as far as unhealthy eating habits. The second is that this is evidence that men are becoming less valued for their ability to acquire resources or to set boundaries with relationships and kids (which helps develop empathy) and other things that men are more classically thought of. Men instead are starting to be valued by how fit and muscular they are which is leading to unhealthy eating disorders and bad relationships with the body that used to be thought to mostly be with women who are more classically valued for their fitness as an indicator of fertility. In my personal experience I was a little overweight and then got into nutrition and exercise in order to maintain a healthier weight and also look more attractive. It is hard for me to determine whether I did it because of bad food and a bad environment and bad habits taught by my family or if I only felt valuable in romantic relationships if I was physically attractive. I am not sure I could separate the two and consider it to be one or the other. I always planned what I did though and made sure there was some evidence behind my experiments so that I was not doing something unhealthy or that would hurt me in the long run. My thoughts were just quick in response to the article, but I would be interested to see other's reactions and development of the ideas.

Ok, then that is great. For starters, I would listen to the podcasts: FDR1927 How to Find a Great Therapist! FDR1716 Freedomain Radio Sunday Show 1 Aug 2010 - How to Find a Great Therapist I also would like to step aside a bit for some people who know more in this area as to what some therapies might be to help you reconnect with your emotions in your childhood experiences especially if the CBT approach didn't seem to be the best for you. Also, I would start journaling as much as you can reasonably make a habit out of. It can be invaluable to the therapy process. Searching the forums for books/workbooks that people recommend can get you started, but finding a good therapist and makinga habit of journaling I would consider to be the most important steps you could take. There's a decent thread starting about self knowledge books going on right now: http://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/37605-first-books-on-self-knowledge/ I will be looking at the thread and obviously you can message me if you have a question that you think I could answer I would be happy to try and help out. Let the self-archeology begin!

There are lots of possible options. We can start with the best first. Are you able to afford a therapist? You already remember a lot which could be worked on. As you work you will remember more. If you can't do that, there are many workbooks, books, and lots of journaling you can do in order to help you along your path.

How would it make you feel if I told you that in order to improve yourself and gain clarity of your past, you would need to journey down that road and discover what feelings are there?

How does the idea that they abused you and it was negative make you feel?

I appreciate the thanks, however I am a little confused by what you said. You say that the abuse inflicted on you was good because it made you stronger, but that you hope that your children (and Stef's child) will not experience the abuse and will be stronger than people who are abused. It seems to be a bit of a contradiction to me. For me, if I hadn't been abused I would know how to properly handle conflicts and be a healthy person. I would have challenges, but they would not be as large as I am currently facing. To me, I feel like a piece of glass that has been broken. I can try to put the pieces together, but I will never be as strong as if I had never been broken and I will always have weak points that are not very solid. Abuse is destructive. If you learned lessons, it was despite your abuse rather than because of your abuse. At least that is how I see it. Maybe I misunderstood what you said and I would be happy to be corrected.

I am so sorry your father hit you repeatedly. Not only that but he would apologize and then do it again? The massive betrayal of trust that must have been. It would be like me smacking you and then saying sorry and I hoped you forgave me, and then smacking you again and then saying sorry and I hoped you forgave me, and then smacking you again. I wonder how many times that needs to happen before I would lose all trust in the apology? For me, if it wasn't the first then it would be the second time he hit me. Apologies carry the idea that you would never do it again or else the apology is meaningless. The moving around, the random women being introduced into the family must have been terrible and confusing. Then the woman slammed your hand on the dishwasher to be choked by your dad? Why did he allow you to be exposed to someone like that? Then in order to avoid such a hectic life you tried to move in with your mother who didn't even interact with you and was alcoholic? My god that must've been emotional starvation. Of course that environment is going to breed depression from the lack of emotional contact. It sounds terribly lonely even though your mother was "there". The depression signs were calls to her for help, and instead she did nothing. That left you trying to self-medicate and lead to your problems getting worse. I am so sorry that this happened. I could have guessed that without emotional connection with your parents you would have not been able to make friends or romantic relationships. It would be a foreign concept to you. This actually sounds incredibly terrible and abusive. I am so sorry that you had these experiences. I would not wish them on my enemy. Babies ask for their needs to be satisfied without concern for others. At some point between infancy and passivity, your desire was abused out of you. I had a similar experience and it is very difficult to learn to express needs and desires. I am sorry you experienced this.

I am confused; are you not sure of his position or are you commenting in opposition to it? It seems to me that commenting in opposition to a position you do not understand would be- at best- not very intellectually honest.

I thought I would add it here in case anyone wanted to get some info on the basics of bitcoin. I started a thread about it: http://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/37598-bitcoin-getting-started/

If you click the Guidelines tab (next to New Content) there is this wording:

Great graphic especially for people who prefer visual as opposed to a bunch of text.