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LOL at Lebron being the face of this. I wonder how many dirty dishes that guy has washed in the past 10 years... This vid mentions some of the stats you ask about including 92% of workplace deaths being men. You're not the boss of me miss bossy pants.

OK, could you give specific examples of how we project our beliefs onto what someone is saying to us, and then it closes off our ability to fully understand what someone is saying to us? In my case I assume a ton of negative things about a person when I hear them profess Christianity and I think that's not a problem because it doesn't keep me from asking if they actually believe the nonsense in the bible that they are claiming is holy with the statement "I'm a Christian".

I think you said the opposite in the post I quoted, in this example I'm saying you MUST assume that the word "Christian" has some meaning in order to use language. If I tell you "I'm a bowler" I must assume you have an idea of what bowling is. If the word "bowling" has no presuppositions that go along with it then it's a worthless statement to say "I am a bowler".

I recently asked a professor who researches this stuff and she unequivocally said the infomercial speed reading programs are BS. Like Pepin mentioned, you can skim with a strategy searching for key words, but that's not increasing the amount of words per minute you are processing.

The Zeitgeist, it's open source BROOOO! Don't be so truncated in your idea of no rulers and accept your robot overlords.

I disagree. Words have meaning and inference is an integral part of language. When a person says "I'm a Christian" they are implicitly accepting that there are widely recognized definitions of the words they chose. I'm happy to ask about his/her experience as a Christian though...

The problem IMO is you have to do a few hours of research at the minimum to be informed about all the things to vote on. The monetary value of your individual vote would be far less than 1 penny per hour of research time. Go to work, watch a movie, take a nap... I could think of 100 things I'd rather do than stand in line to "do my duty". I am just hoping they'll go away if we ignore them edit: Regarding the 2nd part I think many leftists/statists are pretty explicit in their desire to extract money from "greedy hoarders" who would prefer not to pay and cheer when tax evaders get sent to prison. In that sense I think voters and activists can be morally responsible for advocating the initiation of force against peaceful people. Although, I don't know what morally responsible means in this context like I don't think we have any right to self defense against random voters. Maybe "morally aware"? They're just jerks...

It's a comedy and not nearly serious as you might think from that clip but I'd recommend it.

I don't think voting for something to be made legal would be described as using force, but some people argue that you are giving legitimacy to an illegitimate authority just by voting. i.e. simply casting a vote is accepting that the government has dominion over you or something along those lines. I was convinced to not vote by "don't waste an entire day informing yourself and going to the polls for something with a .00001% chance of making any difference."

MMX, in this thread linked you nonchalantly admit to what sounds like rape and didn't respond to my question. From that experience, I wouldn't want to go to a meetup with you. https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/43354-help-i-like-this-girl/?p=397159

If the desired outcome is a society with respect for property rights I would suggest that any amount of theft is too much.

My American cab driver yesterday suggested that we need to re institute the draft to which I replied "Would you put people in prison who don't want to?" "Nah, I don't want them sitting in jail, they can do hard labor. Two years in the military or 4 years on the chain gang"

I am not sure what the answer is but I think the vast majority of Americans get some benefit from the state and there would be a multi trillion dollar pile of money that needs to be unredistributed and it would be practically impossible to find out who deserves it. Do you think it would it make a difference how the person votes? I'm firmly in the "don't vote" camp, but the Ron Paul ethic is to vote against taxes and then accept the money when it still passes.

I was thinking the same thing when I heard that speech. Amazing that this is in the mainstream media. Slightly OT, I didn't understand the scene where the Underwoods had sex. It felt awkward and out of place. Was she asserting dominance or something?

Q: 30 sec in "if there is no god what basis remains for objective good or bad?" A: Universality "comments disabled" sounds like somebody interested in honest debate...

Stefan often criticizes the argument from efficiency that is very common among political libertarians and says the moral argument is preferable because people are generally willing to sacrifice a few dollars to do the moral thing. i.e. Minimum wage is bad because it eliminates low skilled jobs (efficiency) versus minimum wage is bad because it makes voluntary, consensual contracts illegal if the numbers aren't preapproved by the state (morality).

Well said. I think this clip illustrates the kind of wishful thinking people fall into.

The Pope Song NSFW http://youtu.be/rTIorwtJbhE

If you have a ton of debt you want to pay it back with money that's worth less than it was when you took out the debt (imagine paying somebody $20/year or 1 ounce of gold per year from 1900 to 2015). Also governments want people to spend so they can tax the commerce and bad economists think people won't spend money that is increasing in value.

I've told quite a few of those types that they're not Christians because they don't believe the bible (and that's good). The Bible says every word is God-breathed and Jesus repeated this so if you don't agree with Jesus you're not a Christian imo... I find these fake Christians even more annoying than the "the earth is 6000 years old crowd" because their nonsense isn't even based on a 3000 year old story book. They know that the book Christianity was founded on is bullshit but they still want to believe so they reinterpret everything that science has shown to be nonsense. At least the fundamentalists have faulty principles. When I told my mom I think the bible is not true she replied with "Just fake it until it's real"

Hi, welcome. I'm moving there with my wife and 5yo in a few months. Maybe we can start an FDR meetup.

2 This is a great concise explanation of money

I quoted you. look 3 posts up.

same here, I had a dinner conversation with a friend of a friend that started with him saying he saw God when he died on the operating table. "tell me more" I say... "I saw God and I'm enlightened now. I don't give a shit about money or any trivial bs. You can say anything you want to me and I won't get upset." he repeats it a couple times in a weird way to the point where I feel like he's challenging me. I ask how he knows it was the god of the bible and he just knows. I ask a few more questions and suggested ISIS could use the bible to justify most of its actions. he (apparently) got pretty upset and left when I was taking my kid to the bathroom.

Your suggestions are preferences without moral content so I don't think you should say he'd be stupid to do otherwise