Carl Green
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In my opinion, the drug use is detrimental to his health in the long run. However, the short-term effects are remarkably positive. He has been almost continuously happy, more calm, less prone to bursts of anger and much, much more empathetic with others. All drugs have their dangers, and dependencies can make people do horrible things to other people.
Is it up to us whether Adolf benefits in the long term or in the short term?
(No, this is would be up to Adolf. It is up to us to help him as much as we can.)
If we ask him to stop, would we be overshadowing his childhood trauma?
(It might be better to urge people to start something instead of stopping. So instead of urging someone to stop drugs, urge them to start therapy, which would hopefully get them to the point of realizing they should stop on their own, which is likely the only way it'd happen)
What is your opinion that the level of Adolf's use is harmful based on?
I would say it's always best to heal yourself if possible so you don't have to live with just treating symptoms but your friend's usage frequency seems very far from unhealthy (physically at least).
(my opinion isn't based on rigid personal research but I've read a bit on it)
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The font that they use for the "official" logo is Myriad Pro.
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Try mirroring it back to them.
"no, you're the one remembering it wrong"
as you're both going off of your word, there's no way to prove either way. (so you might as well talk about the here and now)
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I disagree with you about me being the one stealing from the people.
You left out the word indirectly. Sure, you're not the one forcing me to pay taxes which you receive as payment.
I did not vote for the taxes, I do not collect the taxes, and I do not enforce domestic tax laws.
Okay and thanks, but it's still irrelevant to where your paycheck is coming from.
I don't know how to justify it.
This is because you can't. You just simply can not justify receiving money that was not willingly given, regardless of whether or not you wanted it to be taken or not. I'm sorry to hear it would be so difficult to quit. This must be an overwhelming motivation to try to justify (or just avoid justifying) your actions.
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tesluI did my middle school european country report on Finland (we each got a country) though all I can remember of it right now is that you guys have a lot of lakes.
I think ancap is just a term that fits with the actions of not taking from anyone. Personally I use the term voluntaryist which also fits that description but is much less likely to be heard with projected baggage.
See ya around
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Hi cdc3rd,
I'm quite critical in my replies below (in green) so I want to preface this by saying that I appreciate you and that I want the best for you and for you to be as happy as possible. This won't come across in text but I assure you it's there. My intent is not to make you think you're wrong, just to try and be a check to your justifications and rational thought process.
Yeah, I realize where my paychecks come from. Money is taken, stolen, from the people in the form of taxes and given to the giant government machine from which I get a piece of.
This is where you add the but. But the but is just short for "but I justify it because..."
National Defense is one of the few things I think the federal government should do, however the funding of it should be voluntary. There is nothing I can do about that right now. If I wasn't in this position, someone else (probably less qualified and less of a fan of freedom) would be. If I was fired tomorrow because people woke up and decided to shink government, I wouldn't complain at all.
Are you at least flying for the national guard? Regardless, by this logic, you're saying it's good for you to be stealing from people indirectly so that someone else doesn't steal from people indirectly. If you're okay with being fired tomorrow, and you feel that this job conflicts with your personal beliefs, why not just fire yourself?
As far as doing something I consider wrong, I won't know until I'm presented with that situation. If it is something illegal, I sure as hell won't do it. I want to be able to have anything I ever do be posted on the front page of the paper and be proud of what I've done.What about doing something rationally immoral? Something being "illegal" is just a description of an action that's on a piece of paper somewhere which says someone can imprison you for doing that action. As for the front page, refer back to the first two sentences you wrote here.
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When you do a cost benefit analysis of how much time it takes to participate in the activity relative to what you gain from that activity, what do you get?
An example would be an analysis of the years spent training to learn martial arts for self defense in relation to the likelihood of having to use it. Is it worth it to you to spend all that time mastering these things to save yourself?
When I do this analysis myself, it's not worth it to me to spend all that time working on mastering being able to defend myself in case I end up in the situation of needing it. Years of my life spent training are not worth me being able to keep my wallet from some mugger. That's a very limited example and I understand martial arts really could potentially save my life or the life of a loved one, but as I see the odds, it's not worth it for me, especially if I can carry around a gun.
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Hi cdc3rd, welcome to the FDR community
I am a military pilot and find that my personal beliefs conflict with my career. I have yet to actually face something that has forced me to act in a way that I think would be wrong, but I'm not sure that will last the rest of my career. I did swear an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," but I feel that most treat that as lip service. (I know I should have affirmed, but yey for not sticking out)
Have you given much thought as to the source of your paycheck? I noticed you mentioned you don't want out of the military so I can assume you're okay with where the money you're spending is coming from.
If you were ordered to do something that you considered wrong, what is your game plan?
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I don't know how to say it, I want to be effective in actually getting her to stop using violence, what would the best thing to text to her? Child abuse statistics and the consequences of them in later years - drug abuse for example? I really want to do this but I want to do it the right way. I applaud you for standing up for that child, could you help me do the same for this one?
Would you be texting because you no longer babysit her children? I agree with RJ that this should be discussed in person or at least discussed on the phone.
If she's open to talking about it, I would suggest you make sure you ask plenty of questions (and not the leading kind like "why don't you know that's wrong") so you can understand why she thinks it's the best way to go about it. How was she raised? When her parents wanted her to do something, how would they get her to? How did she feel about that method then, and how does she feel about it now? How does she feel in the moment of grabbing her son's head to get force his attention?
The more you (and her) know about why she's doing that, the easier it'll be to affect the change to peaceful parenting her children deserve.
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Mr. Patterson, you are THE MAN!
We were discussing abuse intervention techniques in chat and one that came up was saying to the parent "I was hit as a kid and now I never talk to my parents (regardless of whether you do or not) so if you don't want to risk that with your kid, it might help to find more peaceful methods"
Have you ever tried this approach?
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Just wanted to share this. The creator shared it on FDR's facebook page so I figured I'd start a topic here for it as well.
I like her other documentary (Fresh) as well so hopefully she'll get this funded.
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Does this mean that you think I'm an asshole? (Yes or no)
Absolutely not. Just to be crystal clear.
I'm discontinuing my involvement with this thread. It's clear to me that this is not the best medium for me to discuss this topic. Either I'm conveying my thoughts completely wrong or I'm not understanding anyone elses correctly.
I'd be happy to discuss this topic over skype or g+ if we could also get someone who actually is transgender.
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I don't hate or fear transgender people. I feel sorry for them for what must be incredibly difficult.
The reason why their lives are difficult is because of other people right? It's not like they're physically handicapped and their difficulties are due to their own situation.
If a person that has a female body but identifies mentally as a male, or vice versa, is in a society that just doesn't care how someone identifies sexually because really, it's none of their business as far as I'm concerned, than there wouldn't be any tragedy to begin with. There would just be a bunch of people getting along. I'm not saying it's not a tragedy. Just trying to clarify what I see as the possible cause for it. Ya know?
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I was considering removing it but the thought crossed my mind that I might need something like it for some future tech in networking or something. How valid is that thought?
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According to Josh, it's not about clarity, but about normalizing transgender, like it's as trivial as the kind of music you like. You even equate it to just another dog breed implying it's similarly trivial.
I don't hate a "term". And even if I did, so what? What do you care if I hate a term? I have no idea what you mean by "misguided".
As I said in the chat, I meant "hating" in a jovial sense. Hoepefully I'll remember in the future to make it more clear. But this is why I've been participating less and less on the boards as time goes by.
What I hate is that if I say that transgender is a tragedy, then it makes me out to be a complete asshole, and that the way people talk about it isn't honest. I hate that people are as afraid as they are to talk candidly about it. I hate that people are encouraged to take offense at conversations like this one.
What do you mean by tragedy there? Maybe if you're clear on it when you're communicating with someone that identifies as transgender they might not consider you an asshole, but I can see why they would if you mean tragedy in a sense they see as negative.
You said you'd understand if it were about manipulation, and if the purpose is to frame transgender as trivial, and it turns out that it's not trivial at all, despite it being obviously non trivial, then yea, that's manipulative. So, logically, you should have a problem with it as I do.
What am I missing here, Kevin? It's not obviosly non trivial for me. ...obviously.
What are you losing when someone identifies as transgender?
What is someone identifying as transgender (or anything) "getting over on you"?
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Quote MMX2010 (I'd quote you MMX2010 but I can't seem to quote or even copy and paste to this page on this laptop.)
I'm not sure why but it's not exactly a complete repulsion or anything. I just don't find beliefs that "other people should be doing x" are appealing. I like to surround myself with people that only worry about how I'm doing, not what I'm doing. Just a personal preference.
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What do you think of my description of my gender identity, Paragon Male?
Because part of being a Paragon Male is having concern for what others are doing, I know it's not a good description for me. I also would not likely get along with, or want any paragon males in any significant part my life.
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Okay so a specific category needs an expansion of terms to categorize for clarity's sake. What's problem here? Am I missing that this anything more than something as simple as a new dog breed, for example?
I think any hatin' you guys do on just a term is misguided. I can see having an issue with someone attempting to use terms to manipulate, but a word is just a word.
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maybe the closer you get to empathizing with your self about how your father raised you (self knowledge) the more you're going to be seeing him as accountable for all the things he's done to you that you didn't like.
i.e., your aversion comes from switching from empathizing with your child self instead of with the person that abused that child self.
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WOW so it looks like it's time to DE FOO from him. For some reasion I thought I would give him a chance to work these things out and talk about them to me.
The reason for this is to gain a level of certainty.
Much sympathies, brother.
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How does atheism restrict there being a purpose in life?
I made an FDR bumper sticker - thoughts?
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If you decide you'd like to go with a big vinyl sticker again, just let me know and I'll send out another.
(I bet anyone jumping to the conclusion that you're getting paid for promoting something like that doesn't themselves really 'stand for' anything in their life. Which I'm not wagging my finger at, just sayin'.)