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Hey JJ, really sorry to hear about your loneliness as well as the destruction of your homeland. I'm not sure how far you are looking to move but we have a great fdr community in toronto, canada.

He didn't ask for advice from men O.o Mmx, i don't understand how you claim to be giving advice when you haven't actually asked him what he wants out of online dating.

I was angry for a good 15 seconds. Well played.

Bump. I've been posting once every day, I think my favourite submission thus far is "Stop Squirrel Anarchy". Would appreciate feedback if anyone has the time

Why does sexual attraction make friendship impossible? I have female friends and I would like to have sex with all of them, if there were no consequences to that action. This doesn't mean that I can't be friends with them.

Hello all, This seemed like the most relevant place to post this, and I'd like to share my blog with you guys. I just started writing it today, and my first blog post is related to my decision of dropping out of university. I have a passion and flair for writing which I hope is evident in this, and all my future posts. If any of you could take the time to read and provide feedback on my writing, I'd really appreciate it. http://philosophycoconut.blogspot.ca

Thank you for your insight Mishelle, I think the archetype you described does accurately portray her. I would say these people aren't toxic in the sense that they are verbally abusive, but have unprocessed trauma which they avoid talking about through instead speaking of trivialities. I think these relationships in many ways parallel her relationship with her parents, who were refugees of the vietnam war. Surprisingly, and I think admirably, her parents were not physically or verbally abusive to her even though they grew up in a society where child abuse is the norm. However, her parents certainly have unprocessed trauma from such a tumultuous upbringing, and don't talk to her about their childhood or experiences of war very much. As a result, I don't think she learned a lot of emotional intelligence from her parents. Although she is a very emotionally stable person, this lack of emotional intelligence is expressed through her brother, who is emotionally unstable and lacks empathy. Also, even though her parents were not abusive towards her, she was exposed to her friend's family whose mother was openly verbally and physically abusive towards her children.

I have one friend at school that I can have deep, honest conversations with, but I've been having cognitive dissonance over some of the "friends" I have through her. I feel uncomfortable being my true self around them, and I'm confused as to why she enjoys their company. Any time we are with one of these friends it also shuts off opportunities for me to connect with her. I have been hesitant to bring honesty to these people because they are in many of my classes and are reliable and hardworking if I need to be in a group for a project. I also don't have a lot of experience rocking the boat with people who are committed to illusions.

I'm sorry I can't help you, but I thought I'd let you know that I read this in a heavy russian accent

There will always be suckers like me who will buy the NHL EA sports franchise every year.

The LCBO -- Ontario's fascist liquor cartel -- is going on strike at the end of this month, citing lack of hours and low wages. I guess the solution to not enough work in our bizzaro world is to stop working altogether?

A gem I found in my subtley marxist college sociology class: Of course it doesn't mention how diverting productive agricultural and industrial land towards state-alters of destruction, poverty, and depravity heavily contributes to inflation and an overall lower standard of living for the poor. In 2006 the city doubled down on their cocaine perscription, with an initiative to "revitalize" Regent Park, rife with Malthusian gobbledy-gook: "A schematic site plan indicates the consolidation of density near a central park and existing arterial intersections as well as the introduction of ground-oriented townhouses along rehabilitated streets" (City Noise). The boot licking media seems decidedly less reverent in their state-worship of public housing projects, yet not willing to mercilessly let the wheezing, disease-ridden parasite die and allow for creative, voluntary solutions to help the poor.

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I really enjoyed this. I felt really envious of the freedom and authenticity the Martin kids et al lives with everyday.

Just because our society has strayed so far from the principles of NAP and property rights, doesn't mean they don't exist at all. If we didn't have any property rights we would all be starving or dead. Thus, we don't have to wipe the slate clean, we simply have to universalize private property rights, privatize all coercively held land and resources, and extend the nap to all aspects of our life. That being said, this is not plausible in the forseeable future.

This is provided that you have a concious. As Walter Block likes to point out, the theory is inteneded to be solely predictive, meaning that there can logically be no political conclusion. One way to think about it is to pretend if an evil psychopathic dictactor came across an accurate and predictive economic theory. Would the theory change his moral compass? Would he use this new found knowledge to create a better world? yes, i believe he said that a nazi-austrian would recognize that price controls cause shortages qnd death, but would view that as a good thing

the patriotic tim hortons/ molson canadian commercials are particularly insufferable

I think truth is a good name because Stefan's work is the most truthful I've encountered.

The irony...it burns

doesn't he support the US leaving the UN? This action isn't even logical within his minarchist paradigm

The objective/subjective divide lies precisely in the fact that what is objective is certainy true, and that what is subjective is not certainly true. There is ultimately an objective reality, however an individual may not know it.

any suggestions?

I regularly listen to the Joe Rogan podcast, and he often has guests on or talks about people who theorize that before agriculture began, humans lived in an -- or at least I feel it is portrayed that way -- orgiastic, psychedelic, utopian society whereby humans had so many sexual partners with members of their community that it was unclear who owned the child. The child, therefore, was raised by the community rather than by monogomous parents. Private property, thus, was held in lower regard and was likely not even a concept for these people. People such as Terence Mckenna and Christopher Ryan support these ideas. Children would have ritualistic, coming of age ceremonies, whereby they were led through group psychedelic experiences, and this supposedly would supposedly have the effect of dismantling of arbitrary barriers in the human mind and would increase empathy: Johns Hopkins conducted a study whereby controlled psilocybin mushroom use resulted in positive long-term effects for the majority of participants. The implementation of agriculture and private property, according to the theorists, caused humans to become disconnected from the natural world and caused humans to become fixated on material wealth solely, rather than on matters of the spirit (I suspect a healthy dose of Platonism shapes these beliefs). I disagree, however, as I think Stefan's view that statism coupled with private property is what causes vast accumulations of wealth and materialism, I think this causes them to view capitalism as negative or evil. Slavery as well as the subjugation of women and children along side a free market also doesn't help. Can anyone with better historical knowledge provide more information on these theories or help to put them in context? I'm also wondering if the idea of raising children communally, as described above, could be beneficial for children. Just as a parent is forced to act more rationally and respectfully towards their children in public situations, perhaps more open child-adult relationships among society would help to curb abuse and would allow for more intervention opportunities by rational and empathetic parents, as opposed to children essentially being prisoners to their biological parents. I'm speaking with the assumption that this arrangement will be voluntary, not in the Marxian communal sense of state-run child rearing.

Just watched the second larry pratt interview. Piers Morgan actually called someone else a sensationalist. The irony...it burns