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Make sense to me. As I understand it, many organ meats can be very healthy including the liver and the heart, though they generally are avoided by modern Western cultures with plentiful access to mass-produced meat. Which in general, in a situation of hunting and starving I would eat almost anything to survive. A couple scarce hunting seasons could quickly lead a tribe to gain a taste for unconventional foods.
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Sheriff: "Call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government"
Wesley replied to Magnus's topic in Current Events
At least I am able to laugh at how silly government is at times now. Thanks for the share though, hopefully something like this will not happen to me. -
Such a great video, but I can't remember which one it was!
Wesley replied to rhanson's topic in Freedomain Show Lists
It was in a video where he was answering a bunch of listener questions or e-mails. Let me look... Its the video titled God is the Universe! I'm not sure the time though. YouTube is blocked where I work [] -
I admit I am a bit confused on what e-mail address I should send things. Where do I send topic suggestions, guest suggestions, ask for one-on-ones, sunday show stuff, etc, etc. Recently, Stef listed off like 5 or so e-mail addresses and described what should go where, but I think this may need to be posted somewhere. Either on the webpage, or maybe update this contact info post: http://board.freedomainradio.com/forums/t/14261.aspx At least for me, it'll make it easier for me to know where to send that random question or guest suggestion when it hits me during the day. Thanks!
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Anarchy in NYC, audio of Stef's speech
Wesley replied to Stefan Molyneux's topic in New Freedomain Content and Updates
Saw the YouTube video last night, and I was very impressed. I really need to find my way to one of these events. People laugh at comments that I would find funny. However, when I laugh in at those thing, people who aren't voluntaryists are at best confused. Regardless, I really enjoyed the session and I encourage you to do these question and answer sessions. They always seem to fill exactly what the audience wants to talk about (considering they pick the topics). Plus you are a nimble idea machine who can answer them all seemingly flawlessly. Good work! [applause] -
Ron Paul's Homeschooling -- Libertarian = Self-Sabotage
Wesley replied to FunFacts's topic in General Messages
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Yea, the video was somewhere between entertaining and frustrating, often moving between the two in the same minute. Stefan also seemed frustrated with the talking over and general non-rebuttal like "Well I just don't belive that" which to me felt eerily similar to religious fantasies (I was very happy when Stef pointed it out as "magical thinking"). I would hope that atheists who claim rationality as the virtue by which they measure the lack of a god would be more rational in their approach to politics and debate rather than trying to have a yelling contest.
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I agree with a lot of what you did say, so I will not disparage that. However, I would like to point out the counter-current. As the economy/ country gets increasingly more problematic and college grads "fail to lauch" into non-existent jobs and there is increased medication for depression and anxiety, I think it is possible the market will continue as a form of escapism from/ avoidance of the world. The video game market may just be displaying how much we want to live in dellusion. Whether there is a shift from console to PC and PC to iPad is rather immaterial to my point, and there may be a shift like this that will hurt part of the gaming industry. We shall see.
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I have felt similar feelings reading comments to articles about spanking or other forms of child abuse in the past. You see 80% of the comments and about 100% of the top comments all endorsing spanking, and often in vile ways. There usually is one or two who have a measured approach where we only need a little child abuse to control children who make it into the top comments. I have posted within other topics when I have read these comments and it is just beyond belief some of the things that are ssaid, and then on top of that it gets thumbed up several times. We live in a messed up world.
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It was an amazing show, I was looking at an example of the unschooling lifestyle and I was very impressed with the Martins. I think her kids handled the situation amazingly well. Dana is really amazing, and while the people in the show may (always) film it with the thought that the truth was somewhere in the middle, they definitely seemed to slant it heavily toward Dana's side. I really enjoyed it.
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Stefan's book Real-Time Relationships http://www.lulu.com/shop/stefan-molyneux/real-time-relationships-the-logic-of-love-extended-edition/paperback/product-2367788.html;jsessionid=E53BD096563A8C2CA2681AC5B7A08DB0 http://freedomainradio.com/FreeBooks.aspx
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Welcome to the freedomain radio! I would like to congratulate you for the several positive changes you have made in your life and the life of your daughter. This is especially impressive: I would also be very interested to hear about the conversion process from USMC and spanked child, to voluntaryism/anarchism and not spanking your daughter. This kind of information can help us know what arguments worked and things along those lines. Thanks for the post
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3 things- 1st- I think the K-5 curriculum will be free, so we can look at at least that part and judge it for ourselves. 2nd- Stefan seems to be more into unschooling by which the child determines what they learn rather than forcing a curriculum. I am not positive about this. However, I think many on this site wouldn't like the idea of a curriculum that the child cannot then learn what they are interested in. However, it is likely that this curriculum is preferable to other options. 3rd- I would be incredibly interested to see a Molyneux "cirriculum" that was voluntary and would allow kids and parents to learn whatever they wanted (at least pertaining to topics of the show like negotiation, dreams, property rights, ethics, emotions, etc.) and kids and parents could sit and watch things or have interactive pages and links to helpful info for kids and parents. There could be like a child course and a parent course. Not sure if Stefan wants to take on that task, and it may be a gradual thing with a few videos going into detail on whatever Izzy is currently interested in. This could be an interesting project
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OK, thanks for that info. I was hoping for the same. As I see it, elsewhere price dropped even to 55$ or so, will see what happens I had left order for 38,7€ which is around 50$. Price is 77 as I am writing this. Which is tempting me. I would agree that 50 would be a definite purchase for me.
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Yea, it is kinda funnny. I am still up like 1200% in the past few months. The recent media attention did bring in a lot of new adopters and speculators driving up the price very quickly. The fact that it gets ahead of itself and pulls back to a still very high price is funny. If it gets too low, I would have to invest more money into bitcoin. am also think something like that. I'm intrigued, what is for you low or "too low" price!? I was looking for a price under 100, but I'm not sure it will hit that anymore, especially if the above Mt. Gox statement is true that it was just too many people jumping on the BTC bandwagon being the problem. Who knows what will happen. I am much better at long term investment and speculation that day trading and calling tops and bottoms in a crazy market like this.
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Yea, it is kinda funnny. I am still up like 1200% in the past few months. The recent media attention did bring in a lot of new adopters and speculators driving up the price very quickly. The fact that it gets ahead of itself and pulls back to a still very high price is funny. If it gets too low, I would have to invest more money into bitcoin.
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I think it would be an interesting show topic to talk about vengeance vs justice, how they are related and how they are not. I was involved in a mini-debate with someone in the chat room about this. He viewed vengeance as a normal emotion that should be excercised and that the death penalty for someone who harmed you or killed a family member may be justified. He felt this vengeance was justice. I felt there was a deliniation and that the only just method would be to attempt to make the victim whole through labor or money. This may require years of labor for the rest of one's life to pay off a life as much as possible, but vengeance doesn't do anything at all to bring justice to the situation, it only creates another dead body. I think it could be an interesting advanced topic. Most on this forum agree with non-violence toward the innocent. Toward the guilty, it can be a little more difficult as to what should be done.
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What are your experiences with your parents as far as gender roles were? What was the relative worth of your parents in how they treated each other within these different gender roles? What was your relationship as a child with with each of your parents? Was working more important than caring for you as a child?
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Not all protein is bad, protein coming from animals that are grain and corn fed rather than grass fed or wild caught can be bad. Not all fat is bad, but industrial seed oils and fats from animals not fed proper diets are compared to natural fats from olive oil or coconut oil. Not all carbs is bad, but genetically modified wheat and high fructose corn syrup are compared to natural sugar or other relatively un-modified carbs. There are primitive tribes who survive on massive amount of carbs, others who survive on massiv amounts of fat, and others who were more carniverous than animals who we consider pure carnivores. They all have better weight, choleterol, heart disease rates, cancer rates, etc, etc, etc. It all has to do with genetic modification, then subsidies that get those genetically modified or industrial products into almost every food and feed them to our animals. Saying all carbs or all fat or all protein is bad is silly. It depends on what your goals are, what your genetic history is, and what you enjoy eating. There are measures of health besides wieght. You can get lean by not eating, or poisoning yourself, however no one would consider this to be a healthy state.
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Hmm actually now I am interested if this already exists and I am not aware.
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I do not have the best literary writing skills. However, I view a novel or short story about a child (old enough to see the world and have decent vocabulary, but young enough to not be fully attached to the system) who lives in a totalitarian society, with propogandists in religion (moral propogandists) and in media (event/incidenct propogandists), he goes to explicit indoctrination camps with "pledges of allegience", children are raised by parents who were indoctrinated and violent for the first few years until children are taken from parents to go to the indoctrination camp and people see this gross dystopian world. At the end the child would wake up or something and briefly go through a normal day where all of the real world corollaries are show to the child, but instead of viewing things as inherintely wrong, he sees them as normal or justified. Or maybe views them for the first time as wrong as well after having had the dream. I think it could be a very interesting read, wake up people, or even be therapeudic in the way that a writer or reader could identify through the child with how the world is and what their experiences were. This could be fascinating. I would be interested to see what kind of things could be put in there that would make the system's abuses so stark and obvious as to make the end point a more awakening moment for more people. I am beginning to ramble a bit in my mind, so I will post this and see if my idea has made sense to people and/or if others seem as energized by the idea.
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It's a joke post with a very straight forward link that goes exactly where you want it to. Here is a small exerpt of the post that shows how funny it is.
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I thought I'd repost this Time article about Autism.
Wesley replied to Christopherscience's topic in Peaceful Parenting
Only since the 1960's has autism been separated from schizophrenia in the medical community and was only used in medicine first in 1911. The fact that autism is more widely known and diagnosed today is obvious as it has been discovered since then. Saying there was no autism in the middle ages is as ridiculous a statement as epillepsy didn't exist in the past and Julius Caesar communed with the gods, or that people do not seem to be possessed by demons anymore. Medicine has changed quite a bit.