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This is really interesting. I wonder how the audience was selected and what difference it would make it, say, the audience was all toddlers.

http://www.naturalnews.com/index.html I've been reading this website for a number of years and just wanted to promote it here. The owner regularly appears on the Alex Jones show (don't hold that against him) and is a libertarian. He has a lot of great articles about dieting, the dangers of big pharma, big sugar, and big government. Check it out!

http://www.naturalnews.com/035204_weight_gain_mind-body_medicine_stress.html This is a link to an article about the mind/body connection between weight loss.

I live in a small city now on the border of a large rural area and while I don't hate this area I've been thinking about moving. What stops me is the fear of moving to a large city - not out of some irrational fear of strangers or skyscrapers but a fear of economic collaspe. If the power goes or the government checks stop coming bedlam will ensue. Riots, robbings, killings will all centralize where the people are, in a city. I was hoping to avoid the worst of the fallout and stay alive as best I can. I wanted to start a thread to generate some discussion on the pros and cons of moving with the knowledge that economic collaspe is possible.

Dictionaries do not record definitions. They record common usage. The people create the language in the free market of vocabulary. Sovereign language is the only way to understand each other in terms of ambiguity. One of the greatest dangers is that of a centralized authority on language as has been written about ad nauseum. See 1984 and Animal Farm.

Thank you so much for the question. Your right, that turm realy doesn't mean anything in the long turm. perhaps a realy disterbing break through would be a better term. I don't know a word for the emotion, short of fear, sadness, horror and angxiety pluss shock. Last time I had a Nervous break down it was more like greaving. That may actualy be a good turm for it, postponed greaving. I don't know why I wan't to hold back on this, but I'll just say it. What trigered it with my father was realising and starting to remember molestation. (my mom even managed to make that about her when I told her) I was at work when this happened and I couldn't do anything but have a crying hopeless angxiety attack. If the emotion scares you than consider the source of the fear. Are you afraid of disociating from reality? It's very unlikely, perhaps impossible for you. Reliving the trama of childhood is the opposite of insanity but many fear the process so much that they drive that fear deep into others, including mental health professionals, as way of avoiding it in themselves. Reliving this trauma is growth. Often, when a person grows they shed their hard shell and become this squishy, vulnerable child who has few defenses against a harsh reality. Being alone or with a compassionate observer to cry it out or rage it out will help. It will pass and it will go faster if you direct the emotions towards the source and not project onto others. I'm sorry for all the pain your mother caused. You have my sympathy. I'd give you a hug cause it's obvious you need it but you're too far away.

So long as the state run media can blame black poverty on racists than they can deny the failures of the welfare state.

That's the question I wanted to ask the forums. I did a quick internet search for the answer but couldn't find anything conclusive. From my experience, I've found that whenever I experience some fat loss, it seems to trigger painful emotions, depression and anger mostly.

What is a nervous break down?

I knew it would be a woman.

Minimum wage sucks for a few reasons. 1. It's statist garbage which means it will be enforced with a gun and someone will die because of it. 2. It denies a person the ability to price their labor competitively if the value of the labor is less than the minimum wage. 3. Along with the Obamacare and an increased minimum wage, starting a business and keeping employees becomes that much harder. Not to mention all of the businesses which will fire or not hire anyone new. At the rate in which jobs are sparse and college degress plentiful fast food chains will start requiring degrees just to flip burgers.

Could you elaborate? I'd be very interest to read your thoughts on the matter. The topic was supposed to be about the minimum wage. Instead it digressed into a conversation about the meaning of words and the efficacy of raising the minmum wage lost. If there's confusion over a word than define it. No one owns the language. It's a tool used to communicate. Define exactly how you use the word in that sentence.

That's the free market. It's what they live in now - to a very small degree.

Goverment is here to protect us from the free markets!

This thread is why people hate philosophy.

The racists witch hunts have gone on for decades. People say, "Bill O'reilly is a racist." Where's the evidence? Where is the observable behavior demonstrating his alleged hatred of others based soley on race? The man has made thousands of hours of video. In all of that, if a person can't find a single observable behavior denoting racism than it's not Bill O'reilly who's the racist, it's the accuser. If you're white it's "racist until proven otherwise." Guilt by existence. And that is a powerful form of hatred and racism. Any unsubstantiated claims of racism are to be considered racial slurs and the person making them a bigot. This type of commonsense goes unnoticed.

what's a TV?

This is more of the culture vacuum left in the wake of religion's demise. Neitzsche was correct. God died and nothing took his place leaving billions of young people desperately scrambling for something to identify with, anything at all to become a part of. If they really wanted to spread their non-belief than they would encourage breeding among atheists since the theists spread their religion mainly through large families.

You're saying that forcing children to take amphetamines because they can't pay attention to an overpaid babysitter is actually dangerous?

It stirred me in my naugthy bits.

[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYaMKd75aKI] Schiff discusses Obama's State of the Union address exposing the lies and hyperbole in Obama's speech. "More government isn't going to help the middle class. It's going to send the middle class into poverty," Sciff said.

I don't understand why it violates a voluntary business. there will always be a possibility of abuse. I disagree that the abuse will always be. It seems like an argument in favor of a malign human nature. Abused children grow up and abuse children. They continue to repeat the same abuse they experienced as a child until they become conscious of that behavior and change. There's no reason why being violent to a child is inevitable. The importance of educating parents on peaceful parenting is that it shows a superior form of parenting to domination based relationships. When the current model becomes obsolete than the old models are left behind. There will be exceptions, at first. But even the Amish use smart phones now.

Can you provide some more detail on why you recommend living in Japan?

A stateless society does not mean there is no control or rules. There are rules but they're kept by all members of that society. Certain groups or individuals are not given exemption. The current insurance system is not a private market. In all countries the insurance companies are hand in glove with the state. In a stateless society an abused child would represent a future threat to both a person's well being and their profits. Violent people are costly to society and unproductive and in order to keep premiums low the insurance companies would push preventative measures instead of reactionary payments. Counseling would be widely available for both children and parents. Seeing as how most parents who abuse were also abused as children, the therapy and education of parents would be a top ideal for everyone. The very basis of our civilization would be the proper raising of children. From what I understand, I think you overestimate violence as a means of control and protecting children and underestimate peer pressure and education. If violent coercion worked to protect children, why are so many still abused, even after tens of thousands of years of the violent control approach? We come to peace through peaceful means and maintain peace with peaceful means. The importance is on establishing social mores which would abhor any form of non-defensive violence as the most disgusting act conceivable.

Health insurance companies, financial incentive, and educating parents can protect most children. If a parent doesn't want their child on health insurance than that's a red flag. If they want to maintain their job and their own insurance than they take the kid for a checkup.