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I dont think thats the movie, Stef mentioned a person who got into the hospital due to mental problems, and the movie is either 4 or 6 hours long

Considering that UPB is a "scientific method" to check moral theories with, in this instance "universal" means "applicable to all" not "accepted by all." When a person proposes a moral theory that ends up with rape being good if you are wearing a green costume, using UPB you can show inconsistencies or contradictions, thus proving the theory wrong.

I dont mind at all

Hi, I am hoping to find the name of the movie Stef mentioned in a few of his podcasts. Its 4 or so hours long, where at the end the patients "shoots/kills" his subconscious part, that doesnt want to move on. Thanks you

The only thing that is preventing me, is me, thats why I am in therapy I will, thank you, I am steadily going through podcasts, Im catching up.

Just to make sure, you personally should get a medal, if I had one, I would give it to you. Im not joking. You are an older brother I wish I had. As far as my FOO goes, you hit the the nail on the head when you said that he wanted to cause me more emotional harm. My brother brought this up when I was talking to him about spanking his child. Long story short, there is no longer any contact between him and I.

No, what I mean to say is, the older siblings who call in more than not, think that their younger siblings were exempt from parental abuse. To be more precise, the older siblings (not all) have this idea that their younger siblings were not abused by their parents, thus giving themselves a post factum "understanding": of why did what they did (abused the younger ones). EX: "Yes what I did was wrong in the NAP clause, but from a childs point of view, I, the older was so terribly abused, while the youngest was pampered, so even though my actions were not good/bad, they are understandable" Lets see if we try this approach (the honest one) "Yes what I did was wrong, because not only did my parents treated my youngest horribly, I also added to the abuse. I the oldest abused the youngest, in order to regain a sense of efficacy, while the youngest couldnt pass the abuse to anyone else, thus internalizing all of the abuse. I the oldest abused the youngest, because I had shitty days, and I didnt care about how the youngest felt, he was my punching back "my venom container" leaving the youngest mired in abuse, in every day dread, with absolutely no one to come to for help. I the oldest with my abuse helped my youngest to internalize as much of it as possible leaving him with all sorts of disorders and inability to study, only wanting to run away" Do you not see the difference? In the first instance, they didnt even bother to ask the youngest of what went on for them, its not even a BNAP, its a bout a mile away from it. Ask your youngest, ask how they felt, ask about their every day agony to which the eldest added.

Well I since have passed many podcasts its in 2100's let me repeat the convo. from my memory -Stef "So you say you abused your younger brother?" -Older brother "Well, yes and I feel bad about it" -Stef "sounds like you are not connected with your feelings, so can you tell me a bit about your brother?" -Older brother "yeah, when he was growing up, he was their little boy, they always pampered him" -Stef "so how is he doing now? Have you talked to him about the abuse he suffered?" -Older Brother "Well now he is on drugs and not doing anything at all, just wasting his life away, thinking his parents are great, so I cant talk to him he wont listen" -Stef "Ok, can you tell me why did you hit your brother though? I am just trying to understand" -Older brother (long thoughtful pause) " I WANTED... HOW DOES IT FEEL?" -Stef "What do you mean how does it feel?" -Older brother "ITS LIKE I WANTED HIM TO KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE HURT" If parents abuse children, they do not magically not abuse the youngest. By the way, the exemption I was talking about, I was referring to elder siblings, I dont think I have ever said anything about Stef or others exempting them. If you kindly re read my post, you will understand that all that I have wrote, was in direction of elder siblings, not the hosts of the show. I am not going to discuss the things my older brother has done, I will only tell you that like most older siblings he sees nothing wrong with it, nor anything wrong with what our parents have done. Now as far as everything else goes, I think there is something either I or you not getting, if you want to talk in private, feel free to message me.

Hi stoic, thank you for being that rare older brother who understands, and doesnt completely dismiss their younger siblings. To answer your question, no my brother doesnt acknowledge anything, he flat out told me that he wishes our father beat us more to give us "structure". Hi DaVinci, thanks for replying, Im sorry to hear that you are in the same "boat" as I wouldnt wish it upon anyone. Thank you very much for offering to talk, I am in therapy right now, so I am more or less ok from that point. But I really want to thank you for offering to talk.

I have read the article and I do not see any refutation. Not needing something while making an argument (a kidney), doesnt disprove the fact of exercising full control of the kidney, which is a part of self ownership. Also the whole "refutation" was constantly using the words "his", which is a language of self ownership. The examples given also conflate subjective with objective: Not talking in a movie theater is subjective having nothing to do with morality. Initiation of force on the other hand is not subjective and refers to morals.

Listening to more and more call in shows, I keep hearing this magical exception of younger siblings from parental abuse. Where in the world do these older siblings get this? I keep wanting to scream at the computer "HAVE YOU ASKED, how the hell do you know"?? I am so angry and frustrated to hear this nonsense over and over. Im so frustrated hearing the elder siblings pseudo justifying inflicting horrendous abuse by saying "I, the older got it worse". Strangely enough, when asked how the younger is doing, well turns out the younger sibling is falling apart, and cant get their life on track. God damn it. --Yes I am the youngest, yes my life so far is in ruin, and yes many times over I have indeed have been heavily abused by my parents while my oldest was not at home, and when he was, and he was adding the abuse as well. I was also neglected by mother and my grandparents, while my brother was given a lot of support from them (as apparently they thought he needed the support). --Later I fought heavy drug addiction, while my grandmother (a pediatrician, who was living with us at the time knew I was on drugs and only mentioned it to my mother in passing) not a single person intervened. Suicide attempts and so on. --My older brother is successful doctor with a family, while I am trying to get my life on track. So older siblings, stop excusing yourself with this nonsense, and ask your younger siblings instead of assuming. Sorry for my rant, but I had to say something.

Sure, I would appreciate it.

Hi Micheal, thank you for replying. I am, but I am in the process of looking for another. Its a pay scale therapist, not many around, I have searched through a few, many places rejected me, since they were already full, so the search is becoming much more difficult (still looking though). Not sure if you wanted all this info. But thank you for replying non the less

Hi, lately I have been losing a sense of efficacy, losing a sense of control over myself. After some months of introspection and recalling my childhood, I came to the point in my life where I have to make a move, some kind of a move (get a job as an example). Every move I make seems to require more and more will power, of which I seem to have very little. I am looking for help, for someone to talk to. Thank you

Hi, here is what I did, when downloading it looks like when the speed gets up to 300kb/s I get dropped. I turned on bandwidth control, halved the speed and the problem vanished, I was able to download without having to pause and restart. Not sure if this info helps.

Thank you.

Hi, In the podcast 1772 @ 59 minutes, Stef mentions a book or something that is called "Growth Anxiety" Im having trouble hearing the author, would really appreciate if someone can let me know. Thank you in advance

Sure I have Firefox browser, Windows 7 OS, 3mb high speed connection sorry Im not sure what other info to post here.

Micheal, yes I am having the same problem still, and the downland links just point me to feedburner, where the podcast start again with the same problem, where it abruptly stops loading midstream.

I think the argument from Stefan was very clear "dont keep people around you who want you shot". The only way to make that fact clear is to ask this question directly, instead of logically concluding that ALL the statists are this way. Many statists dont even realize that their position means that they are in fact advocating violence. So just to sum it up. The reason people dont like some of your posts, is because you make conclusions, conclusions which mind you have little to do with the actual arguments made, and then you frustrate everyone by having to respond to your conclusions. All you can do is actually ask the questions first EX: "Stef said that we should not associate with people who want us shot" does that mean that includes all statists? So here you are clearly saying that you are not sure on the points made by Stef, and asking to clarify. Now if I may, when I was reading your posts, I became increasingly frustrated, I personally have no reason to be frustrated with you, since I dont even know you. I could be wrong of course, but I think the frustrated party here is you. And the approach you take to the interactions lacks any curiosity, thus in turn frustrated others, and allows you to project your inner frustration and spill it into interactions, avoiding the really true reasons of your frustration. If my last statement rings any bells, I am around and will be happy to chat with you about the real reasons that you are bothered by. If the last point I made are completely of base, then I extend my apologies before hand, and feel free to dismiss it off hand.

There is no need to stay and waste ones time, debating a proposition which relies on 2+2=5. As James mentioned from the very beginning "God defies all laws of conservation of energy in matter...." After such a fact, what is left to debate? And no it is not nitpicking, when the very root of the proposition is disproved in one line. To borrow from Stefan "If I make a proposition which relies on 2+2=unicorn, will you stay to debate with me? Most likely not. To sum it up, god is a self contradictory being, which breaks all laws of physics (being a consciousness without matter and all) hardly a nitpicking at christianity when you look at what he was attempting to prove now is it.

I spoke too soon, the same buffering issue is happening on the new site as well

Thank you Michael for pointing it out. The new site is working fine. The site I was using before was feedburner. All is good thank you very much

Hi, for a few months now I had an issue with podcasts, every few minutes it would stop buffering so I have to reload the page. Reloading the page doesnt help either, I scroll forward to the time where podcast has previously stopped, only to listen to a few more minutes before buffering drops off again. I do not have the same issues on other sites. I have cleared cashe /cookies many times I have tried resetting connection Thank you in advance

Sounds right. Thank you for replying