LucasV

Hello everyone. I have been a listener on and off since about 2009 although I have never been especially active on the boards. I recently figured out that my life's purpose and contribution to the world is to sing and so I am a newly minted Youtuber making "reaction covers" which are essentially me singing over an existing song. The idea is that my singing along with the song will help to elicit feelings that are in the song but are not normally experienced. If you have a minute and would like to listen to some Taylor Swift or Echosmith here they are-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boQB15QY0UI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLRaAK1tJQs All feedback is especially welcome as well. Thanks!

Thanks! If something happens I'll definitely post on how it goes!

I think we can help bring the state down through singing. Here is why: Stef has said before that connection is how we bring down the state, and that connection is essentially listening. Through singing and listening to singing we can potentially bring connection to people that would otherwise not experience it. Stef has also said that the state fundamentally rests on our fear of each other, something that is removed during the experience of connection. The feeling of connection could also give people an experience that could help convince people of anarchism because the connection makes it more real and tangible. This might sound crazy but in my experience I am a good enough listener that I can bring connection to people through listening to singing. What I would love to do is test this theory out with some FDR listeners who would like to sing either acapella or karaoke style to see if listeners feel any connection to the music and each other. Also I think it would be a lot of fun regardless and a good way to get to know people. Would anyone like to participate in a Skype call and sing and/or listen to others sing? It would be like an FDR karaoke night. If it is successful and people feel a strong connection we could then stream it live and invite others to sing and listen as well and then afterwards point people towards FDR. I think this could be a great way to bring connection to the mostly virtuous but not philosophically inclined people that exist. Please let me know what you think and if this is something you would be interested in participating in!

Very interesting video, I was a little jealous when they confirmed that playing musical instruments are the only thing that lights up the brain like it does because I am one of those who dropped playing instruments. Also I'm sorry to hear that your siblings treated you so badly for being intelligent, it is very unfortunate that you had to go through that. Did you happen to find any videos on singing? I would be interested to see those as well because I think singing is very powerful. In my experience I have found that singing, combined with listening, is a very powerful way to connect people emotionally. I was thinking about trying to get a group of FDR listeners together to do a group call to do some singing acapella or karaoke style to see if people feel a connection. Would that be something you might be interested in?

I would definitely recommend looking into shelters because from there you have a much better chance of getting a job and getting back on your feet than if you are living on the streets. I don't know where you are located but the weather is getting colder in many places so that's another thing you might need to look out for. If you have more questions feel free to message or ask, I have experience with this type of thing. Best of luck and I hope you get the help you need.

I agree that peaceful parenting might not be enough, or even if it will be enough, why not come up with faster solutions? I have an idea of something that could work more quickly but before I get to the idea I want to write down three things Stefan has said that help explain why I think this idea will work. -First Stef has said that the state fundamentally rests on our fear of each other. -Second Stef has said that connection is how we win and bring down the state. This is similar to getting rid of irrational fears of each other.-Third Stef said that connection is essentially listening. So here is the basic idea: A live web-based karaoke show. This next part might sound crazy or grandiose, but I am fairly certain that I am a good enough listener that I am able to help connect people through music by really listening to the music in the presence of other people. I am completely open to testing this and seeing if others have the same experience. The one thing I would say is that the other listeners would have to be somewhat virtuous and the music would have to have some emotional content otherwise there would be nothing to connect to. So basically the idea is that the show would connect the listeners through music, leading to a decreased fear of each other and hopefully will make anarchism more emotionally appealing to people. Also the show could point towards FDR at the end or something in order to expose people to the ideas that are directly related to what they would be experiencing with the music and the connection. I hope this makes sense, what do you think?

It sounds like the jaguar might represent your anger or similar emotion. Your family doesn't want it around, not because it will hurt you, as it clearly trusts you, but because they are actually afraid of it. The person who shows you how to deal with the jaguar might be Stef or FDR or a therapist, teaching you how to 'befriend' your emotions so they don't work against you. Its also interesting that the jaguar leaves before your family appears. The fire is possibly the evil that is burning up the world and the future which is represented by burning the garden which might be necessary for future survival. Its also interesting that your family does not help put out the fire, perhaps they are all statists and are indifferent to or unwilling to help stop the the destruction of the world. The second part of the dream seems like the friend is helping you leave your destructive family behind. As you say he could be the guy who is helping you understand the jaguar, or put out the fire, or the guy telling you that you need to help with the fire, i.e. save the world. He is also debunking the dangers of Australia, which, is possibly analogous to debunking the 'dangers' of a stateless society, or it just means what it says, that Australia isn't that bad and that you should follow your dreams and leave your family. I hope that makes sense, would love to hear your thoughts on it and if it lines up with what your life is like. Also I don't know what your skills are etc but if you are looking for some kind of work in Oz you can check out thejobshop.com.au, a western Australia based employment agency.

Oh I see what you are asking. Well what I didn't say this but was thinking was that gun control means that a Hitler/Stalin/Mao situation is coming, and in that case peaceful parenting is going to be more difficult to do and spread. Of course that might not be the immediate case, but if they do take the guns away, they will be doing it for a reason. Also the point of the singing is to connect people, and the message in the songs are what popular songs are already about. Some are about revolutionary type things, like Some Nights by fun. and some are not, but its more about the connection between the people.

I was arguing why peaceful parenting won't be able to bring down the state and then proposed an alternative (a music show). Gun control was used to argue against peaceful parenting as a solution to the state because peaceful parenting will take a long time but gun control will happen much more quickly with devastating results. Nationwide karaoke is about connecting the youth of the US. As Stefan has said, connection is how we bring down the state and to my mind getting the youth of America to connect through music is the best way to get mass connection between people that are capable of it, people who haven't become parents and haven't severely abused children, the youth or millennials as they(myself included) are called. Does that make more sense as to what I was arguing and how national karaoke will bring down the state?

Yes. I also just realized that I didn't have to make a case why peaceful parenting wouldn't work, I could have just said why I think my method will work and work more quickly. Also I probably came off as a bit of a crazy doomsday type although I do believe gun control is a real threat.

I wanted to offer up some hopefully constructive criticism of peaceful parenting in terms of bringing revolution about and to also offer up my strategy for revolution as an alternative. I do agree wholeheartedly with peaceful parenting and I think it is fantastic and something the world desperately needs, I am just arguing that at this point it may be too late for it to take down the state, and here is why: Gun control and demographics. Basically once they take American's guns, which I believe is likely to happen in the next 5-10 years(I know I can't prove it but there is a strong push), the last real and tangible resistance to global totalitarianism is gone. Then there are demographics, basically the freedom club is dying out. America is falling to Latino culture and Europe is falling to Islamic culture and if the trends continue there will be comparatively hardly any freedom club members left in the next hundred years. This isn't even considering the western democracies collapsing greece style under the weight of their debt and unfunded liabilities to the old. Also once the guns are gone from essentially every nation on earth, the creep of the state will accelerate and I doubt the free internet that we have today will still exist, making access to FDR and podcasts much more difficult. In my view, peaceful parenting has to outrun gun control and it has to either convert Muslims/Latinos or it has to convert much of the remaining freedom club members that are pre or just beginning parenthood. On top of gun control and demographics there is the assumption that FDR, philosophy, and the ideas of peaceful parenting will continue to be available well into the future which I would argue is a tenuous assumption given the trajectory of the state's growth and control over the internet. So if peaceful parenting wont work what else is there? As Stef has said, don't criticize unless you have a better alternative, so here is my alternative that I would really appreciate any feedback on. Its a TV show called Sing Nation and here is the 'treatment' for it as it is called. The basic idea is to connect the youth through music and through that connection have a peaceful revolution. I am not totally finished with it so any feedback is greatly appreciated. https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Q5JkIhQ2Y6EaMPjWgVSfOJ9dkmWoUNz1U7EfpyxyH8/edit?usp=sharing Thanks for reading.

This one too! http://cdn.media.freedomainradio.com/feed/FDR_1665_origins_of_ethics_in_childhood.mp3 It is titled the origins of ethics in childhood. The previous one I posted was #232 Justice.

This podcast might hep shed some light on the topic. http://cdn.media.freedomainradio.com/feed/FDR_232_Justice.mp3

The incident I referred to happened just one time but I have done other things. I am also an oldest child, the oldest of 6. When I was 8 or so I wrestled my little brother and would sit on him and threatened to spit in his mouth. I did this probably three times and it never occurred to me that it was wrong and I didn't try to hide it. I never like really hurt him though it was soft wrestling. I have also made fun of people and I don't remember ever trying to hide anything. I do remember briefly having thoughts of maybe this is wrong as I was making fun of someone but I recall feeling that my motivation for doing so was to find the truth or that I was expressing something true. I don't think that is what I was actually doing but those were my thoughts about it.

I remember bullying my little brother once and I believed it was a good thing to do. For some reason I thought that breaking him down was good for him, that he needed to be broken down and that it would help him or make him stronger or something. I ended up pushing him and it made him cry and after that I realized what I had done was wrong and I apologized and gave him some money I had intended to give him, of course that didn't make up for it but I guess I at least acknowledged that what I did was wrong. I also think there was some motivation not to get caught for what I did, but I don't think the risks of that were very high so I don't think that was a major part of my thinking. I realize I didn't really comment on your piece but this is just what I thought of after reading it, maybe it can provide some insight.