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    Rules can be enforced by self-defense, social ostracism, and more. It doesn't require you sacrifice your safety to some untrustworthy "representative" that all of your neighbors like but hates you.
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    Anarchists believe in "no rulers" not "no rules". It's not about building watertight systems, it's about never giving anyone power over you that you do not personally give them voluntarily.
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    It's worse than that, they also revised the previous two months downward. Let me pull a few of today's articles from ZeroHedge... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-02/payrolls-disaster-only-142k-jobs-added-september-zero-wage-growth-august-revised-muc September: 142K, missed consensus estimate by 60K August: now 136K, was 173K -> huge drop http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-02/participation-rate-crashes-americans-not-labor-force-soar-579000-record-946-million Labor participation rate drops to 148.8M (down 579K); 7.6M unemployed; people not in the labor force is now 94.6M -> 251.0M people that *could* work (the other ~60M people in the country are too young or otherwise unable to work). The number of people that are able to work increases by about 200K per month on average, so any hires less than is considered bad. Then you look at who got hired and who lost their jobs. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-02/feudal-recovery-continues-21000-waiters-added-9000-manufacturing-workers-lost We're getting a lot more food service staff, working part time to magically miss the Obamacare limits, and lost a lot of manufacturing jobs. These are not the kinds of jobs that buoy an economy.
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    Just thinking about it gives me hives.
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    Some things greatly improve mindfulness of physical activity: videotaping yourself doing exercises, a wall mirror, the camera-based exercise programs on some game systems (full disclosure: I work for a company that makes such a device), and martial arts where one actually spars and has coaches/instructors that can give detailed feedback in the moment.
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    The poster was clearly labeled in my quotation of the statement to which I responded. No need to make this into a federal case.
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    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-01/us-mint-sees-record-silver-sales-q3-physical-demand-absolutely-through-roof
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    Most of my school-day Armageddon memories like that were under Carter, Ford, and Reagan, so I may have had a different flavor. The most world-ending stuff we thought about was that movie "The Day After". So, you can imagine that most of my influences came from Viet Nam and the Middle East crises, and not the Cuban Missile one.
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    Spanking children does nothing useful but exhibit your frustration, and teaches children that frustration and violence are elements of problem-solving. Tantrums are evidence of that methodology in practice by the child. The "I learned it by watching you" refrain from those old drug commercials is more true than you may realize.
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    There are plenty of stories of people confronting bullies on this forum, and they are very brave people. What I'm trying to figure out is how to do anything useful about this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZXMXqYI0j4
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    It's clear that a lot of human character flaws can It's clear a lot of human failings can be traced back to abuse. By consciously working to eliminate that abuse it is likely a net positive change will result. I strongly suggest you look into the material on Peaceful Parenting available here and look at the research and results. By bringing up children with love and logic instead of punishments and pain you train them to be better negotiators and communicators. If you train them to be always on defense or always on the run, they don't exactly start new relationships on a good footing. I feel we are talking past one another here. I suggest you give the material a chance before you discount it.
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    I signed this before running for office, but it didn't seem to earn me many votes. http://www.lneilsmith.org/new-cov.html
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    Fair enough, thanks for answering my question.
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    This argument fails if there is a change the fundamental demeanor of the people of the world, for example, if there were a generation or two of peaceful parenting perhaps a world of "no rulers" would be in the offing. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that the world cannot change. Don't you think the people of today are fundamentally different than the people of 30 years ago? 100 years ago? 1000? 5000? It's not just technology that has made the difference.
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    Even the recent smutty Carl's Jr ad has a cowboy getting a volleyball spiked at him for not paying attention to women, when the outrage of the moment is that men pay attention to attractive women.
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    For most folks here it's generally a cast of the least of 26 evils, and "none of the above" is a frontrunner. These days I go to the polls to vote on initiatives, if at all.
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    There is no presented evidence of the claimed causal links nor are adjectives arguments. What are you two hoping to accomplish?
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    A smart democracy would only have those who vote for something be liable for its costs.
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    Indeed, during Carly's tenure at HP a significant amount of hardware was sold to the US government for the use of the NSA. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/carly-fiorina-i-supplied-hp-servers-for-nsa-snooping http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/28/9410845/carly-fiorina-nsa-hp-servers http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/29/hp_supplied_nsa_snooping_fiorina/ http://www.scmagazine.com/at-hp-fiorina-supplied-nsa-with-surveillance-materiel/article/441701/
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    I'm looking forward to reparations for slavery from Sweden, since my ancestors were conquered Finns. Maybe reparations from Egypt, too, unless they tear down those monuments to slavery -- the Pyramids. Next will be the Greeks until they dismantle the Parthenon. Italians/Romans after that? Carthaginians/Libyans for sure. Shall we keep going?
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    Yeah, in a sense the R versus K behavior is a theme and not an attribute. Arnold is obsessed with power and the trappings of power. He has humvees, and a tank, and cigars, and giant muscles, and... affairs. If anything this is an orthogonal vector to the R/K continuum.
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    I was chiding the poster for making the thread personal about participants of the thread and not about the principles in question (that is, an attempt to poison the well by calling Roosh a rapist, which devalues the term and leads to marginalizing the power of calling out real rapists).
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    Asperger's

    shirgall replied to McBeer's topic in Self Knowledge

    Nothing is a "disorder" unless one cannot cope--even with corrective measures--with normal life and living. If you have a condition but you can cope with normal life, it's not a disorder. If you have a condition but you can cope with the use of therapies (including medication), it's not a disorder. The term "disorder" get too loosely applied sometimes. This same problem happens with the term "phobia". A phobia is a disorder. If one can deal with it, it's a fear.
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    I was determining if someone can give your consent to something before you are capable of consent yourself... therefore your parents, by getting you a social security number and so on, are consenting to the social contract on your behalf. This is an argument given by some as a counter to the "I did not consent to the social contract" argument. I was using an analogy to statutory rape. The theory is that under a certain age a person is incapable of consenting to sex by virtue of their age. So I was asking if one's guardian could consent to statutory rape on a young person's behalf and whether that was moral... and by analogy whether it was appropriate for them to consent to a lifetime of servitude to the state by virtually signing the "social contract."
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