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Why do you have to see your family? Can you tell them this:

At first I was going to answer that it's good to always be looking for ways to prove wrong what you believe so that you're constantly verifying it. However, after a closer look at that argument statement, it's just too stupid to debate. The statement is a contradiction of itself by saying that "oppression" could be "desirable". It's like saying: "Violent gut-wrenching poison is more desirable than no poison." I can see how it would be difficult to debate that.

What would you count on her for? We all have blind spots, and we're all stupid about some things. I count on my friends and especially my girlfriend to point out anything that I may be missing. If she isn't doing that for her friends, then you can't count on her. At the same time, this issue is in her blind spot, so you might try acting like a friend to her and point it out to her. She may lash out at that, but then you'll have your answer.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest The Usual Suspects Lady Vengeance (from Chan Wook Park - Director of Oldboy) Mother Night Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (not a thriller, but an interesting psychological movie) Vanilla Sky Identity Gothika The Butterfly Effect Adaptation Pi: Faith in Chaos

If a woman falsely accused you of rape, and you had to deal with all the repercussions of that, would you still be torn?

On the other hand, If you want to make potato salad, kickstarter is the way to go: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad

Truth is that which is, or it is a description or a derivative of that which is. This guy is claiming that we can't know what is - but he can't possibly know that.

When you go to gym, do you put 200lbs on the bar, struggle to lift it, then leave stating that "you just can't get into exercise"? Reading novels requires a certain type of thinking and development of imagination that most people who read novels have taken for granted. Start with easier and/or shorter books. You can read a book of short stories by Stephen King, Orson Scott Card (Maps in a Mirror), or some other writer who's stories are solid and interesting but still fairly easy to follow. There are also a lot of great young adult/kids books out there - if you can swallow your pride. Much of generation Y developed their reading skills on the Harry Potter books. The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins is also a great fast-paced young adult novel, as also Divergent by Veronica Roth - to name a few. You don't develop anything without practice. It still typically takes me roughly 15-30 pages of reading any new author to adjust to that author's way of writing before I can really enjoy it.

Jury duty - yet another reason not to vote or register to vote. I'd be scared too.

I don't think it makes any sense to make personal decisions based on whether it benefits speculators or not. I assume that you've eaten in the past week. If so you've benefited to a very small degree some speculator on commodities such as orange juice, wheat, pork bellies, etc. Speculators perform the function of absorbing risk. In the case of food, neither the farmers, food producers, or grocery stores want to take on all the risks involved in food production and the fluctuating supplies of food that result from weather and food expiration. These parties deal in contracts to make deliveries of specific commodities by a certain date at a specific price. If the speculators weren't bidding up or selling off these contracts there would be massive surpluses in some items and shortages in others. Some early adopters of bitcoin took risks by investing in something unproven, but every new adopter adds value since it widens the network of bitcoin users and expands its usefulness. Some early adopters were just lucky - they were playing around with the idea of cryptocurrency and it paid off. It's not fair but so what? Would you avoid buying gold because at some point someone may have found it in their backyard? Do you avoid money in general because some people just inherit it? Do you avoid physically beautiful women because they were just born that way?

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80% of men are going after the same 20% of women - the 8's, 9's and 10's on the attractiveness scale. The 8's, 9's and 10's are getting more attention from men than they want. They have men making offers for their company every day, The offering of "nice" is pretty easy to come by, so they don't respect it, and why should they? What good does "nice" do for them? The rest of the women want a man that will treat them as if they were an 8, 9, or 10. Which means they want all that attention that the 10's eschew. A really nice guy makes a less attractive woman feel like she's more attractive. So when they're doing a study, and find what a woman wants to be a mystery, it's probably largely because they're categorizing the highly attractive women in the same group as the less attractive women.

I agree with the other posters that your reasons against starting your own company don't appear valid. However, I don't see a valid reason yet for starting your own company. Being dissatisfied isn't enough. There has to be some value or values that your company can bring which other companies are not bringing forth. In other words: where is the client dissatisfaction, and why would that be resolved better in a separate company than the one you're working for?

The IQ tests that I've seen are almost entirely based on logic and math skills. People who have had access to quality math classes at an early age are going to score higher on IQ tests. The act of reading and processing what was read also improves logic abilities. If your environment requires that you operate at the level of survival, finding clean water and food is going to take priority over learning multiplication and reading books.

Are you a sadist?

I highly recommend these by Stef: Everyday Anarchy Practical Anarchy Real Time Relationships On Truth Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville - this is one of the most brilliant pieces of political science literature. De Tocqueville visted the United States from France in the early 19th century on a commission to observe and report back on the U.S. prison system. In addition to that, he wrote his observations of American society as a whole, and the problems that it would likely see. It gives a vision of what a society with a very small or no government looks like, while also giving the prophesy of where we are today. It's kind sobering to read de Tocqueville's words, since he was almost like the Molyneux of the 1840's and in the end though, de Tocqueville's work and observations seem to have made no difference.

"fighting for freedom" to me seems like "beating for love" - I don't think it works that way. If you acknowledge truth, live in reality, and employ reason, then people may disagree with you and dislike you for it, but i don't think it requires fighting. At some point self defense is required. Are you living your whole life in a state of self defense?

A music show trumps teaching kids to love, think, and negotiate? Also, the state can't take the guns away very easily. The cops in most regions refuse to do it.

I haven't ready any books on the Federal Reserve. I've heard good things about The Creature from Jekyll Island . If you were interested in Anti-Fragile from a market perspective, then you might like Peter Schiff's books which discuss the instabilities in the equities markets and why they'll crash. The latest good books that I've read in the past month are: Bourbon for Breakfast By Jeffrey Tucker The Six Pillars of Self Esteem by Nathaniel Branden Tommo and Hawk by Bryce Courtenay Right now I'm reading a book on the subconscious that has a lot of woo woo bs to sift through, but may have some value in tapping into and using the subconscious more effectively. I'm going to look more toward books on the "unconscious mind" since that's the psychiatric term, while "subconscious" seems to be in greater use by the kind of people the promote "The Secret".

Black Swan and Anti-Fragile by Nicholas Nassim Taleb are both awesome books Chaos by James Gleick is the only book I've read on Chaos theory. I found chaos theory to be pretty unimpressive - correct but obvious. Chaos theory in a nutshell: unstable systems are unpredictable

I think you're referring to aesthetic values. It isn't morally good to give a man a sandwich unless you owe him a sandwich. If people are giving away sandwiches, it's largely because they value a relief from feeling guilty, or they want to live in a world where everyone has food to eat and they think that is best accomplished by giving food to strangers. People do those kinds of things to honor what they value. I think a moral good would be preventing the initiation of force against someone, like stopping someone from being raped or simply paying someone what you owe them.

FAFSA just provides student loans right? Won't you be paying the money back? If I remember correctly, the student loan market was taken over by the federal government. You can't help it that you can't get your aid from other financial institutions. I would put government student loans in the same category as driving on government roads.

You're giving opinions without having established credibility. Stefan established credibility with me with his heavily researched "truth about", economic collapse, bomb in the brain series videos. Since he's done all of that, and provided all of that value, then it makes me interested in his point of view since I have a sense of what his views are backed by. If I were sitting next to you in a bar or a coffee shop, I'd be happy to talk to such and interesting person, but being interesting isn't enough for me to seek you out on youtube. For that you must be either highly entertaining or a great source of information, or preferably both. So I'd say research what you're interested in, dig deep into the subject matter, and report back.

I don't believe that it is immoral to eat animals, so I'd say to try vegetarianism out if you're interested and pay attentions to how the diet change affects your body, mood, energy levels, etc. Humans are not all the same biologically. We have not all evolved in the same ways. For example someone from an inuit heritage who has generations of ancestors thriving on whale blubber will likely have a digestive tract that handles animal fats better than vegetation. I tried out being a vegetarian for a few months. It was great for the first 6 weeks. I had more energy, and my body felt somehow cleaner. After about three months, my energy level had dropped and I started having really strong cravings for chicken, so I listened to my body and started eating meat again. I still go vegetarian every now and then for a few weeks. I've found water fasting for a week or two to be beneficial, and I'll usually go vegan for a week before and after a fast.

Many statists, particularly socialist statists, have a disdain for the market. So the best and brightest among the socialists seek out positions outside of the market which means government positions or academia. People who support voluntarism are more likely to want a career in the market. Professors and teachers also spend a good deal of their time in the classroom, which is a microcosm of the state. They decide the rules within the borders of the classroom. They set the agenda that everyone will follow. They decide who succeeds and who fails. So from that experience, statism is the self-evident method for order and progress in a classroom which can be incorrectly extrapolated out into order and progress for society.