Mister Mister

great question

Is that passive aggressiveness?

What does the title of this post mean?

Sounds interesting, this creeped me out a little bit though.

yes I would watch

Hi thanks for your reply. First of all let me say that I am very sorry to hear about your childhood. It sounds like almost everything that could have gone, did go wrong. Also, I understand your concern about being institutionalized, but my understanding is that if you see a psychotherapist, unless you express an intention to do harm to others, they don't have the legal right or power to take away your freedom in any way. I also don't know how helpful the self-diagnosis is, though I feel "over my head" as far as trying to disprove you. But I really respect your interest and desire to avoid what you call the road to evil. Again, it doesn't seem to me that a sociopath would "enjoy being good", but I don't know that much about it. Can you say more about this desire? Also, you didn't respond to my suggestion about calling in. Is that something that would interest or appeal to you?

Yes, this is a good link to share IMO yes and that probably won't change. the fact that it hurts is why people do it. kudos and sympathy

What makes you say you are a sociopath? Have you been diagnosed this way? Have you ever seen a mental health professional? My limited understanding of sociopathy, is not entirely consistent with the idea that a sociopath would come to a philosophy message board, say they are a sociopath, and really want to understand morality so that they can act morally. I wonder if maybe your natural empathy and moral instincts were stifled by events in your childhood? Or perhaps you are on the autism spectrum, and simply have trouble empathizing but don't necessarily desire to harm or manipulate others. Have you thought about calling into the show with this question? I think it could be very interesting and helpful to both you and the listeners.

define "worked"... the financial system that allowed for the Great Depression, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Great Society programs, the War on Drugs, stagflation in the 70s, the Department of Education, the Gulf War, trillions in debt, and all the rest of it, works how exactly? Anuojat has it right. Glass Steagall and other regulations of it's kind are just an attempt to manage the fraud and counterfeiting of the central bank.

Actually this is in dispute, especially among us free market people. The causes of the financial crisis are many and complex, but the big one's in my opinion/understanding, were Federal Reserve policies creating easy credit, and Federal Laws designed to increase home ownership and prevent housing discrimination. The combination of these things led to artificial speculation in the housing market which created a bubble, and we know how the rest went. Here's more info I'd recommend http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-561-capitalism-not-guilty-of-creating-the-housing-bubble/ http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-638-did-deregulation-cause-the-financial-crisis/ http://tomwoods.com/blog/repeal-of-glass-steagall-had-nothing-to-do-with-the-crisis/ http://tomwoods.com/blog/the-glass-steagall-myth-revisited/

I'm not interested in short-term trading, more storing long-term value.

The problem I see right off the bat, is that you want to use words like "the right" and "the best" to describe your methodology of pragmatic empiricism, but you haven't defined those terms. And I don't know that you can define them without using Reason, as goodness is not practical or empirical. Pragmatism assumes a particular ends, of which human beings have many. I can find the "best" way to kill someone, make an omelette, or make the world a more peaceful, prosperous, and happier place, but those have all very different relations to virtue.

Hi does anyone know about cloud mining? Does it make any sense? Some people say it's a scam, as you naturally aren't going to get as much BTC back as if you just buy them. But doesn't this assume the price will be stable? Also it seems like this would only apply to people playing the short-term price speculation game. I don't see how the same economics wouldn't apply to investment in any other field. My head is starting to hurt from trying to do the math and economics of it, feel like I am missing something...If I think BTC is a good investment, does buying hashpower from a company in Hong Kong make sense? Or should I just buy the coins? Thanks for your help.

There is an active meetup at the Roy St. Coffee House that met last night, next one is in 2 or 3 weeks. https://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Anarcho-Capitalism/

Yes that's a fair point and speaking for myself, I still feel not great about supporting a political candidate. But the response I think would be that force is being initiated either way, so it just becomes a cost/benefits calculation, a self-defense and survival strategy.

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Sorry I find this position very perplexing. If you are honest you have to at least admit that a Trump presidency is an unknown, in my opinion. Whether you think it is more likely to be a positive or a negative depends on many things. But you have to admit this is unprecedented, and not just "the system" as usual. The system is clearly doing everything to keep this man from winning. That doesn't necessarily mean he will be good; sometimes in revolutions a bad government is replaced by a worse government. But this whole idea of "doesn't matter who you vote for, nothing will change" with regards to this election, I just don't get it. It seems like an old position people are refusing to revise in the face of new evidence.

I don't know what "qualified" means besides the Constitutional qualifications Jesse referenced. Usually people use it to refer to political experience, as if that is some inherent virtue. It didn't used to be that being a career politician was looked at as any kind of admirable or honorable life.

I don't know the Bible that well, but my favorite was always Matthew 7. I believe the context is that a woman is being stoned for adultery. Jesus says: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. 6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. I think it's one of the most misinterpreted passages in the Bible, as Stef talked about with Vox Day. It is not a criticism of judgment, but of hypocrisy. I also think it's a primitive, folk version of UPB: the message is not "do not judge", but rather "do not judge LEST ye be judged". In other words, the standards by which you judge another person, are the standards by which you should be judged. Jesus was not arguing against having a general social rule against adultery, but the barbaric, violent way that stone-age desert culture dealt with such things.

"Employment" is not an end, it is only a means to an end - prosperity and individual happiness. Liberty and property are either fundamental values or not. If they are, you can't justify violating liberty and property to combat unemployment.

yes especially if the people with "good childhoods" still have delusions about their society, about the family as an institution and so on, it's hard for them to accept the level of abuse and neglect that exists for so many

lol whoever put this together should be paid well. it reminds me of the modern art concept of "found art" where you pick up trash and put it on display to make some kind of statement.

Yes that makes sense though I already knew that

Thanks What's it mean "taxes drive money"

Yes I think the cultural element is more behind the suicides, and is related to the lack of interest between men and women. High suicide is correlated with high IQ, and is also a function of social alienation. When you see how East Asians treat their children this makes sense. They aren't excessively violent or harsh, compared to most cultures, but put an enormous pressure to conform, and children learn that their value as people depends on how they serve the collective: there is a wave of suicides as a result of failing college entrance exams. As far as the Sexodus, I think women want to have more independence, but also men want to have more dignity. In Japanese marriages, the men work 50-60 hours a week, and the women keep all the money and keep the men on an allowance. The men hardly see their children, and I don't imagine their sex life is great as prostitution is quite common, or even just paying pretty women to sit next to them and pour drinks and listen to their problems. As far as economics, the Japanese central bank has been suppressing interest rates, and Japan has the highest Debt to GDP % in the world. This is the result of Statism in a very high IQ society: not a lot of war or outright corruption, but the peoples' productivity is slowly sapped until the entire culture just decides to die. It's in many ways a beautiful culture and sad that it is going this way.