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Have you came up with anything yet? Just curious

If you mean how do you go about meeting FDR people, then go to meetup and find your location http://www.meetup.com/Freedomain-Radio/ Otherwise feel free to go into chat, there are many great chatting about, well just about everything Hope this helps

Dynamic - characterized by constant change, activity, or progress. Well sure, if all you are concerned with making something dynamic in the way I previously defined. The question is, is it efficient? Is it advancing for the betterment of people? Looking at china's "ghost cities" I have trouble advocating for such "dynamic economy" which wastes enormous resources and creates shortages as well as pollution.

I found that many people when think of child abuse, think of absolute extremes. In order for some people to understand what child abuse means, it would be helpful for them to get a cleare definition first. I found ACE test to be extremely helpful to start with. http://acestudy.org/

Very interesting question. Let me see if I understand it correctly in general terms. Is it ok to have a relationship with a person where a certain percentage of time you have negative interactions, and a certain percentage is positive interactions. My question to you would be, how do you feel about it in general? Looking at the relationship as a whole (positive plus non negotiable non resolved negatives). I dont think you can follow someones prescriptions, that would be to allow yourself to give up control. Think of how you feel being around people that you have described, are you happy to see them? Do you dread talking to them having to avoid mines? Does the fact that you can not resolve issues with them, how does that make you feel? The choice is yours of course. It can be a very difficult choice. So for you personally is it ok to have A relationship, sure, can you have a full relationship, a deep one?

Looks like they are saying that there are no good guys in Russian history. There are people who suffer, and the rest at the helm come in with ideas and end up killing more people. Very sad...

I find it helpful for me to dig deep and catch my automatic thoughts as well as underlying believes. 1) Automatic thoughts - thoughts which come up on a daily bases, after which my mood changes. 2) Underlying believes - are the main believes of myself, what I think of myself in general. (the examination of which I try to trace to my childhood, to understand where they came from) I lay out these thoughts and examine them, to see if they are correct or not using "Socratic method" Next I find it helpful to engage in some activities, the record part here is rather simple, before engaging in the activity I score it on the perceived pleasure scale of 1-10, then after activity I score it again to see what number comes up. Which allows me to reshape my approach a bit. Hope it helps.

Thank you for sharing Jack. The window into your past shows a lot of loneliness and pain. Very inspirational, keep it up, you are both deserving indeed.

Quote from the Clip: --"Libertarianism limits itself is a philosophy that limits or eliminates the gvt. This solves some problems, of course it makes everyone richer, though at diff. rates and to diff. degree, it makes everyone freer from state control, but what does it do about inequality? What does it do about current and ongoing inequality through theft through corporatism redlining or forfeiture? What does it do about equality resulting from bigotry and discrimination ? Yes of course unprotected actors in perfect free market will suffer more for their bigotry and discrimination, but enough to end it?" And so on, and this is what I was responding to. What am I missing here? She is talking about current problems and saying that eliminating gvt. isnt enough, or that working to eliminate gvt. doesnt help the situation right now (as if working towards eliminating gvt. isnt a huge deal as it stands). I am working on educating people on the immorality of gvt. Not sure how knowledge of bill writing or campaigning will help me with the task.

This woman sounds like a religious person asking "Dear lord I did everything right, why am I being punished?"

Sure. Currently relationships are hardly healthy (considering childhood unresolved issues, insecurities, etc.) Considering that most relationships are largely based on pure attraction, it might be much clearer to see why it is a probable case. All a woman needs to "get over" is to find another attractive male (for her that is), which in our society is much easier for women to do. Well thats my thoughts on it, I can be wrong of course since I do come in to conversation with the male perspective.

This is what the video sounded like to me. Ending slavery might leave black people not as protected, I mean as slaves they have jobs, but we all know if the slavery is ended, they will have to find jobs, and job markets are not as secure as being a slave. I mean, yes slaves will be better off, but not to the fullest extent, some will have trouble finding better conditions. Lets concentrate on not ending slavery, but on answering each and every possible condition in the future of how the slaves would be better of. Lets also think about how cotton will be picked in the future. So what we must do for now, is study how slaves are bought and sold, study how government is involved, the transportation of slaves, the whole business......

If you can find a way to phrase it in the way that will show benefit to the company ?

I think both scenarios are up to you. If you thin that poor service was worth not leaving a tip, well then dont leave one. On the other hand, if you think that there is a reason why the waiter wasnt all that great, maybe you can see he /she is tired so on and so forth (basically if you still want to leave a tip then leave a tip). The last scenario was not realistic, if the waiter is a statist, then that society couldnt possibly have developed time travel

Good point, lol

Is there a reason to fight them at all? Or what is the point of this hypothetical? Im just curious

Hey Massive, sorry to hear about the crap you had to go through, there are indeed many bad managers out there. To the points you made, I agree indeed you can complain, OR, you can compile a small presentation showing the inefficiency in their practice of overworking you, or rather inefficiency in not dividing the labor. The drop of quality thus profits. I am not saying that the presentation would have worked, you might even have been let go as the result of it, but the idea would have set you on a different path, to find inefficiencies and providing solutions. The reason many people do not like complaining, is because complaining points out a possible problem and gives no solutions.

If those are the only choices, I would rather go for a full statist, in that situation at least I can appeal to morals and logic (somewhat) where all of that isnt replaced by automatic "gods will" -"Funny game, the only way to win, is not to play"

Hi Zurt, sorry to hear about your childhood and the challenges you are not faced with. You mentioned that you have social anxiety, perhaps this would be something you can mention to the therapist on the first visit, so that he/she will help you with that. I know this is difficult, and it takes courage to do what you are going to do (going to therapy), In my opinion its a sign of a strong character. I wish you the best.

People are the frog, slowly boiling in the heat of the arbitrary tyranny. I wouldnt say this isnt that important. When some complicated things are regulated (its bad as it is) but when such small things are regulated, we are in serious trouble.

Hi Phuein, maybe the arguments against religion would be a good start? From what I hear there is a "battle" going within Israel of Atheist vs. Theist.

I never made such logic, point to where I said that its ok that Palestinians are dying? And lets keep calling each other fascist shall we, that is if you want to have an intelligent conversation. Lets see if I can draw this out more clearly. When people say "Yes, but Israelis are also dying, so you simply can not simply state that only one side is the aggressor" people like Waleed bring up ratios, for what purpose? What does him bringing up ratios has to do with anything? Does the fact that Israelis are dying no longer matters? And this is why I say that ratios have nothing to do with anything. A better analogy would be, England was at fault in WW2 since more Germans died A ratio doesnt constitute an aggressor. There is no logic behind your ratio at all, since rockets are flying into Israel in thousands. And I will repeat the same argument as it seems to be flying right over your head. Lobbing rockets into another territory is an act of aggression, the fact that this rocket has not killed anyone is irrelevant, this is equal to saying that if a person is shooting at the ground in front of you you have no right to shoot back at him. Your example of tunnels to get basic needs is false, look up what the tunnels are actually used for. Power desperaty? So if you have a gun and I have a bat, I can bludgeon you to death because you have more firepower, and you have no right to respond to me because I have less power? This is your logic? I can say the same right back at you. Unfortunately, you aren't even arguing with me, but a projection you've canvassed over your screen. I would appreciate that you give me the respect of acknowledging my points. I'm not going to sit here and patiently try to reason with somebody flittering through propaganda cue cards and pretending I don't exist. Yes, Israel retreated from some territory of the west bank to get attacks in return. So when Israelis remove some settlements and get rocket fire in return, that means what ? To me this means that its useless to even try, if instead of negotiation table you get rockets. Ok, looking up on the economy Ill concede the point to you. As far as economy being in bad shape, not without Israels "help "(not in good way ) Last point, my insecurities? Seriously ad hominem attacks? you do know that this is the cheapest and the m,ost immature thing you can do, right? And evil state? Whats a state? Are you an anarchists or a statists? If you are an anarchist then stop talking states and talk people.

Again I see so called kill ratios, to follow your logic, when a person is shooting at your feet, in no way shape or form you have the right to shoot back? As far as being impoverished, how is this Israels problem? The whole of Africa, the most of middle east is impoverished. Israelis are not holding anyone in concentration camp, to compare the two either stems from lack of your knowledge, or intellectual dishonesty. You want the cycle to stop? When Israel retreated from west bank as Palestenians demanded, do you know what happened after? Thousands of rockets were launched from that territory into Israel. You keep on talking about shortages, they dont seem to have shortages when it comes to buying expensive rockets and weapons. Blown up night clubs blown up buses, blown up farmers markets, blown up wedding ceremonies, rockets blowing up preschools. And here you are talking about death ratio? What is your solution to stop the cycle? Blaming Israel, and not caring for Israelis life is nothing new, you are inventing a bicycle here. What is the real solution? Yes I understand that when you take the subject in absolute vacuum as you have done, then you will come to such conclusions. Advancement of a country has zero to do with anything at all. It doesnt mean that the country that is less advance somehow has the right to attack it. You named many qualifiers which are facts, but have no connections. If you want to be honest, then you simply can not look at one side only

I never claimed that going by people will make it easier, but going by an abstract concept called country, you will end nowhere, since we all know that countries do not really exist. This is why I asked my question in the very beginning.

What is missing from your report is the other side. I find it very peculiar that the picture you paint, looks like Israel is attacking for no reason what so ever, do you seriously not know that Palestenians have been shelling Israel with rockets and mortar fire? Do you really not know that Palestinians are aggressing as well? When Israelis declared truth, they got thosands of rockets landing on their territory, which is why they went in, has nothing to do with Arab springs or anything else. I am not sure what this statement means "only x of Jews were killed as compared to" are Jewish lives less valuable? This statement amazes me and I hear it over and over, "well only a few Jews were killed in attacks by palestenians" meaning what? Its a war of numbers? All you did is taken one side, and in doing so, will not help with anything, but will make things worse. By the way I am curious on your thoughts on 1)Beslan school massacre 2)Moscow subway bombings