Dylan Lawrence Moore

It's like a secret hidden in plain sight, isn't it? Keeping the root word violate in mind, we quickly can also quickly come to the realization that the defensive use of force is not violence. Now I just need a single word that accurately describes "defensive use of force". :/

I just wanted to add, I found understanding the concept of violence much easier when I realized that the root word for it is "violate".

Hmm... got me thinking about it. Would it be accurate to say that the bigger/more expensive the wedding, the more shame that can be inflicted in the event of failure? One of the things I'm considering: I worked as an apprentice/attendant at a Shinto shrine for half a year and I got to experience several Japanese/Shinto weddings. In fact, I may have attended more weddings at a shrine then in a church. The Shinto weddings, especially when both sides of the family are Japanese, are extremely low key. Usually just the parents show up, maybe the grandparents as well. Other than the chanting of the priest, everything stays very quiet and by the end the parties just quietly shuffle out the door and that's it. This is a culture where a divorce is considered an extreme dishonor, and I've met at least one Japanese woman in an unhappy relationship who wouldn't even think about divorcing because of the negative social implications (she would rather just bitch about the relationship ). Maybe it's just the culture difference (where shame infliction is SOP), but at least in Japan, a big show isn't required to inflict shame on a failed relationship.

I often think about that, as well. Is there any other point to a big wedding, that is to say, anything above what it takes to agree to engage in a contract combined with a ritual for our subconscious to accept it, than for the bride to show off her new-found power and resource supply?

Oh, I get it. I just wanted to point out that I've just noticed over and over again that people will use the word discipline to say that a child (or anyone for that matter) needs to learn something, particularly self-control, then conflate that with beatings. We go into the conversation with "learn" and come out with "beat", and the word intertwines the two terms so well that they can hardly be pulled apart. Instant fallacy of equivocation. :/

The more I come into contact with the word, the more I feel that "discipline" needs to be eviscerated from the English language. The line marking the difference between the meaning "to learn" and the meaning "to punish" is so gooey that it almost comes with the fallacy of equivocation like a side of fries. Daguras, the guy's comment is just a single line of sophistry. Strawmen, strawmen, strawmen all the way down. I wouldn't even bother replying to it unless you want to turn it into an exercise of identifying logical fallacies. My only comment would be toward his "It may me what I am now". Yup, it made you into a person who encourages violently assaulting defenseless people. Good job.

Smells trolly in here...

"Really? Wow. Based on what evidence?"

Looks like something my mom is wishing she had right now.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription Oops, not as many as I thought. Looks like we have Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, and Norway. I don't know if we're counting Latin America and Turkey, and whether Greece, Finland, and Cyprus fall under the category of "The West". They're kind of the on the mixing line between Western and Orthodox/Russian civilization (or Islamic Civilization in the case of Cyprus). But it's still worth pointing out that there are western countries still engaging in this practice.

That just made me wonder about the number of countries in the west that force a predetermined amount of military time for male high school graduates. Even though they're not getting sent to war, isn't this still technically a draft?

This link is for Ken Cotton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhhJAGjBIEw Regarding the 40-year pigeon carrying business: 1. Why doesn't an able businessman have multiple streams of income? 2. Why didn't this businessman invest his excess money in various things that provide passive income (rental properties, other businesses that operate mostly without his input, using his money to make private loans, etc.)? 3. If he's smart enough to run a business profitably for 40 years, why isn't he smart enough to start a new one? 4. Why isn't he on the internet bandwagon as soon as he recognizes what it's worth? Last time I checked, AT&T doesn't have a lot to do with telegraphs anymore. ...and so on.

The more I learn about WWI, the more and more I realize we're still reeling from it. We're totally in a post-WWI world. I feel like WWII was just Round 2 of the same major conflict.

What does healthy mean to you? Are you avoiding additives like artificial sweeteners, MSG, cheap oils, etc.? Are you eating a lot of good oils? Coconut oil, avocado oil, fish oil, etc.? Also, are you eating wheat? I recently found out how horrible wheat is for humans and have removed it from my diet. I've heard of people having their heads clearing up a lot when they get wheat out of their diets. Not trying to imply that your diet is your problem, but it might be a good first place to look.

Have you analyzed your diet?

I'll leave the deeper analyses and advice to others, but I just wanted to make the quick comment that bullies pick on people who they think are weaker than them. If you make it clear that it's dangerous to bully you (it might take two times. Bullies sometimes come back and check if the first time was a fluke), they'll find someone else to bully.

When I was younger (and definitely more traumatized), I was really into tattoos and was often pondering what design to come up with in order to make a tattoo that would have lasting meaning for me (as opposed to, say, a butterfly on my lower back). Since then I have lost interest in this. I don't know exactly why, but I think it's a combination of 1.) getting over a lot of my childhood trauma, 2.) realizing my chances of tattooing something to myself with permanent meaning is rather slim, and 3.) so many people have tattoos now that they're just fucking boring. Geeze. I look around at people with these trendy tattoos, especially women who seem to gravitate toward even shallower designs, and I wonder, "Did you guys just wander into a tattoo parlor and stare at the art on the wall until you saw something you liked? That's your decision-making process for permanent artwork on your body?!" However, this thread reminds me of someone I met in Austria with an interesting tattoo. He showed me his back upon which was inked a huge and intricate image of Shiva. I asked him what was up with it, and he told me quite an interesting story. Either before he was born or when he was very young (don't remember which), his father travelled to India and died falling off of a cliff. Upon maturity, this guy travelled to India to find the place where his father died. He found the cliff and while he was there, a group of Hindu monks found him there and asked him what was going on (I'm assuming everyone was able to speak English). He explained about his father and what he was doing, and the monks conferred for a moment then told him that they were going to do a ritual with him. They were going to tattoo him on his back anywhere from 1 to 24 hours, depending on how long he could take the pain. Once he said stop, the monks would stop and not start again, leaving the tattoo in whatever condition it was in when they stopped. He told me he lasted 8 hours. Since then many tattoo artists have offered to fill it out and finish it, and he always tells them off. The un-finished Shiva has too much meaning for him. I was already in the "tattoos are now boring" state of my life, but even then I was like, "Wow. That's a cool fucking tattoo. He can be proud of that one." However, the question that arises to my mind now is: what the hell was the father doing dangerous activities in India while his son was in the womb/just born? Obviously he didn't mean to die, but how can you construe this situation as being any sort of responsible to your wife and child? While this is anecdotal, this is a perfect example of the tattoo seriously being a sign of trauma. 8 hours of pain to display the abandonment and possible rejection of the father who found it more important to fall off a cliff in India than to take care of his son at home. All on a 7-year journey from home. Could tattoos be used simply as artwork? I think so. Is it in the majority of cases? I think not.

C'mon guys. Trooooooooooollllll....

Sure I would be interested. Holland is just... really far away. I'm still waiting for the FDR team to launch the freedomaincupid.com site. I think it's awesome that there's a space where people can create personals where some of the main components are childhood upbringing, receptivity toward self-knowledge, and emotional well-being/development. One thing it looks like is missing, is that it's not exactly clear what you're looking for in a male. Everything else looks great.

Right, because we all know that the overemphasis of the positive stops negative things like bullying in its tracks and eradicates it. "Well, I have gangrene in my left leg. I should focus on the health and beauty of my right leg to make it better!" You heard the man from the city. "Positive begets positive."

I was continuously treated worse than the dogs by my mother in the household when I was growing up. By the time I was 15 or 16 my mom got a new miniature poodle (named Prissy... yea...) that took an instant disliking to me and did its best to make my time at home even more uncomfortable than it already was. It was loud enough that if it was barking at you you could not hear anything else in the room, and if I was in the room it was barking. Period. Seriously, the voice of this dog was like a cheese grater rubbing against my brain. It would sit outside my door early in the morning after my mom went to work and wake me up barking, bark the instant I walked into the house, and barked whenever I attempted talking to my mom or my step-father. If I attempted to approach it to hold its mouth shut or whatever else, it would run behind a parent and continue barking. The kicker? It was absolutely silent if my mother or step-dad were not home. Whenever this conflict happened, which was multiple times daily, my mother and step-father would either a.) do absolutely nothing and continue to allow the dog to bark at their feet, b.) coddle it, and/or c.) feed it to shut it up. I would then be blamed for inciting the dog and causing such a disturbance in the house. Usually such blaming would be in the form of a screeching banshee (my mother inherited the voice of a banshee), after which the dog would be coddled. Every fucking day it was smeared into my face that any conflict arising between the dog and I would result in the dog being favored. So why are there people who favor the treatment of animals over the treatment of human beings? My guess? It's simply a domination tool to show how much they hate other people, which is ultimately a reflection of how much they hate themselves.

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04. Dumped Windows in April 2011.

Because the libertarian doesn't want the state rushing in with billy clubs and assault rifles and shutting everything down.

Sounds like everyone's developing and honing down their own battle tactics.

I like to call myself an anarchist for the shock value. Then after the other person gets all upset and stuttered, I can demand, "What's your problem with freedom?" The ball, Sir, is in your court.