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Hey guys, My office has a book club that does a reading every bi-quarter, and it will be my turn to come up with a book suggestion soon. The book has to do with something that can be extracted and applied to our company and direct management. I thought this would be a good time to introduce some of my coworkers to some subtle philosophy. Mostly everyone at my work is a conservative and pro-trump, so I'm not worried about offending people. But I dont want to beat them over the head with anarcho books. I was thinking Objective Communication would be a good book suggestion, but wanted to reach out and see if anyone had any good suggestions on the matter

Hi everyone, Sorry for not responding sooner. I really appreciate everyone's thoughts and opinions on this matter. I brought it up to my gf a few weeks ago and we have started a continual conversation about it in an effort to come to terms with my past. She told me that she feels an anger unlike anything she's felt toward my ex due to the circumstances in which the relationship ended and the general culture of that relationship as toxic. I told her about my regrets and feelings of liking her to a level I didn't even know was possible being a cause of the regret. We also talked about that experience made me the person I am today and the benefits that we both get from that (my level of appreciation of her, my patience with waiting for sex, etc). But basically we've started a dialogue about it and will continue to work on it. Just wanted to thank everyone for their thoughts.

When I was getting tested for 'disabilities' because dyslexia is pretty common in my family on my dad's side, I got an IQ test. In fact, the whole test was just an IQ test and all they do is compare how you did in each section and if there's one section that is much lower in comparison to the other sections, they say you have a disability.

So, I've recently starting dating a girl, who is almost literally the girl of my dreams -She comes from a good family, parents are still together and she is very close to them and her brother -was never spanked as a child -is anarcho in politics -is conservative in nature -financially stable, good job and no college debt -never had a boyfriend -still a virgin -probably an 8/10 in looks IMO We've agreed not to have sex until we're 100% committed and she's ready But here's the thing, I've had a girlfriend in the past and am not a virgin. It was a bad relationship and something we've actually talked about a lot because she wanted to make sure I was completely over it and had a good assessment of what went wrong (from both ends) But lately, I've been feeling guilt about not being a virgin anymore. I'm not sure why, though. I know I will treasure her a lot regardless, but I also recognize that a lot of this guilt is regret. She's told me that she doesn't feel weird or bad about it, but she is concerned (wants me to get an STD check, which i will) and wants to take things slow regardless. Does anyone have any thoughts or experiences with these emotions and how can i come to terms with them?

This. It's so strange to hear the terms r/k thrown around in broad sweeping generalizations to the point where it almost becomes genetic determinism. It deletes a lot of the responsibility of people's triumphs and failures to just being r/k selected behavior. It's an interesting theory and has a lot of applications--but I think the application of the Aristotelian mean is in order here. Stef and FDR have gone way off the deep end with these r/k accusations. You can hear this in the call in shows when Stef will call someone 'R' as a demeaning insult or chalk their poor decision making to being 'R'. This view also seems to be the reason why FDR has turned more nationalistic/conservative over the past months. It's a disturbing trend that I hope I am just making up. This isn't to discredit any of the research and finding in the Gene wars series, as it is fantastic and useful information with the application of epigenetics. But I agree that this whole dichotomy has been taken way too far.

I actually read that study a while back ago. The way they did it was completely bogus. They would send these cookie cutter and very stale statements with the CV's. If you were an employer reading one of the Cover Letters, it's so vague it almost seems like a scam of some sort. Put that with a weird looking name and you have something sounding like a Nigerian Prince wanting to give you money. I recommend looking up that study up and seeing how ridiculously half assed their attempts at fake CV's were.

I know it doesn't exist. I put this argument forward as an empirical proof that can be used in discussions to disprove white privileged to the common person. It's similar to the wage gap empirical argument; "If women are always underpaid, why don't business men just hire all women and save 30 cents on every dollar?" And it's important to note that society and the general public will always identify you as a minority as well. It's really hard for me to find any time where being white or identifying as white would have ever benefited me either.

This is something I've been giving a lot of thought to in relation to my own race and identification People say white privilege exists in the sense that being white, identifying as white or looking white gives special treatment of a higher quality to that individual. However, if we take an empirical look at difference case studies where the choice of race is present, we find a very different story. Biracial people have a choice as to what they are identified as. In my own case, I am half Asian (Chinese) and half white (French), as such I have the ability to identify as either Asian or White. However, I always choose identify as Asian. We see the same thing with other types of biracial people (half black, half white; half hispanic, half white); consistently, these biracial people always choose the minority side to identify as (which theoretically is the oppressed and less privileged side) If white privilege existed, wouldn't it be in everyone's rational self interest to identify as white and to tote the white side up as their main identification in hopes of some off hand privilege? This is not case in the majority of biracial people. And the reason why is that the minority side or culture offers a lot more benefits. In my own case, I tend to identify as Asian because it offers me a lot more. I am able to have better conversations with people, people assume I am highly intelligent and have a level of competency, it gives me a certain authority on things like race issues, etc. Part of this may be that I look very Asian for a biracial person, however my brother, who is also biracial, looks very White yet still chooses to identify as Asian when given the choice for similar reasons as outlined above. Any thoughts on this? Could this be used a sound argument against self hating white people as a proof to nonexistence of white privilege?

This is a very bizarre sense I've seen a lot on this board. It's not bad, it's just odd that everyone gets skeptical and almost punchy at the mention of a good childhood. I've made posts in the past about my experience of childhood and my relationship with my parents and brother. You can PM me if you want to chat more about it, I'd be happy to. To answer your question, this board has value to me because I inherently value philosophy, self knowledge and entrepreneurship. To me, the extension of the NAP to childhood is a looked over but not revolutionary concept. I've worked with kids a lot in the past (taught math to 3rd graders and held art classes for elementary kids) so I've always had an interest and love for children. Getting into the psychology aspect of children is fascinating to me since I only studied STEM fields--I never took time to look into psychology--and it turns out I really love it.

I actually had a very happy childhood, so video games were never a dysfunctional escape for me. However, my brother and I did play a lot of video games together, especially when he got older than 10, we used video games to build our own social circle of friends--good friends. I think there is a certain amount of implicit gratitude I feel towards Nintendo and Iwata for these memories. These have been very useful thoughts for me, thank you I definitely would not. That's why I was so surprised that I found myself actually weeping at the news and feel so emotional over it. I have never cried over the death of a celebrity or someone who I didn't personally know So this was a very new experience for me--I take solace in the fact that I felt emotional over this man because of the value he provided me and millions of others.

Recently, Nintendo's CEO Iwata Satoru died. This is a man that I have never met, talked to or had any meaningful relationship with other than watching his Nintendo Direct Q&A's and playing the games he programmed as a child. When I heard of his death, however, I found myself crying--and I have no idea why I tried doing a lot of reflecting as to why I felt so emotional about it, and the only thing I can come up with is because Iwata had such an integral part to making Nintendo the company that I love. He was a key programmer and designer for a lot of my favorite childhood games (Kirby, SSB, Pokemon, etc). I guess there was a legacy that he left behind that I found so beautiful yet tragic. And so that left me wondering, is part of the reason I found myself so emotional over his death because I could see the legacy of joy he left and felt like I would be lacking in the same way or is it something much more simple? What are you thoughts on weeping for people you have never met? Especially in this case where this was just a guy who ran a company that I liked to give my money to.

My mistake, when I posted my response I saw nothing in the OP other than the title Must have been a bug Anyways, I think we all were somewhat hoping this would be an interesting opener to a more interesting discussion. A little too optimistic maybe?

Did you mean to post something? I can give my thoughts either way. When I heard that the Supreme Court passed this, I felt odd and on an emotional level, uneasy. Then I realized I only felt like this after seeing everyone's rabbid reaction. I found out I felt awful about this whole thing because everyone I knew was having an attitude that basically boiled down to boot licking the government and thanking them for this divine dictate from the heavens telling them what they can and can't do. I thought this would be a good catalyst for people to say 'why the hell was the government even involved in matters of the heart in the first place?' Which would hopefully lead to questions on matters if the wallet . But that doesn't seem to be the case on a majority level It was illuminating to see just how entrenched people are in matters of politics.

I managed to get access to Netflix and started watching this show. I'm in episode 8ish As a big comics fan since I was a kid, I am so impressed so far. Particularly how they are delving into the childhood of Matt and kingpin. Matt reminds me a lot of simon the boxer from stefs rtr book. I'm also impressed they went into matts relationship with Stick and some if his brutality. I'm also impressed with how the use of force is portrayed in thus show. It doesn't show force as something that fixes the problem but just makes it more complicated and messy I might try to make a full review of it after u finish, but I'm impressed so far!

I have yet to watch it. I'm actually a really big comics guy ever since I was a kid and I've heard great things about this series. I just dont have netflix, but I loved your mini review of it. I will find someone to bum a netflix account off of eventually. Haha