Blackfish64

Otherwise known as, "Nordic Walking" is the main exercise I use to keep fit. I'm wondering if anyone on the board uses this technique and/or what you do to keep fit. I've been an avid walker almost all of my life. Stick walking raises the bar and makes an ordinary walk into an incredible workout, if that's what you're looking for. Easy to do, and works 90% of all the muscles in the body. You can't beat it for ease and simplicity... Well, 'ease' is really in reference to how easy it is to learn, and in your body's range of motion. As for it being 'easy', it is not an easy workout. If you haven't done it before, you will need to go slowly at first in order to let your respiratory system catch up with you. It is a very potent workout.

I score a 7 on the A.C.E. (Adverse Childhood Experiences) scale, too. But I do not consider myself f-ed in the head. At one time I thought I was, but, as things turned, I was wrong. Dad was a military nut, too. Always talking about how great the Marine Corps was. Even as a little one I had the sense to ask him, "If it was so great, Dad, then why did you quit the Marines?" I got a good smack on the head and the hair on the back of my neck yanked good for that one. Tyrants really hate good questions that put them on the spot (even though I wasn't trying to put him on the spot. I just wanted to understand him). Sounds to me like you don't really need any "help". I do think however you might want to stay away from certain people if they make you fly into such a state. I once had a lot of problems controlling my anger. Someone would simply say the wrong thing when I was younger and I would bust his head for him. These days, even the craziest remarks, accusations, insults, etc., slide right off my back. It takes a lot of work to get there, but it can be done. A lot of research and development. I gave up on therapists and the like long ago. I keep my attention up and keep learning. I keep what works and throw out what doesn't work. Many times, the right thing to do is to simply do nothing. For example, we could put an end to the State if enough of us would simply stop paying taxes and stop the machine. I keep earnings low just for that reason. So I don't have to buy any bullets for the State to fire at me. Yes, sometimes, a simple, "No, thank you," is all it takes. I'd keep clear of those speakers if I were you.

I know how you feel. My family doesn't care for any of my views and we don't communicate. I have no friends... well, maybe one. I have been living in Thailand for almost a year now, and I am finding it an eye opener. I am forty nine years old. I've always been a loner and ambivert. I've always been different and never did get on with other people very well. My father and my grandmother particularly despised me and did everything they could to try and make my life miserable. I returned the favor. We were as opposite as night and day, save for a few peculiarities. I've always sought solitude and spent my time with my books, writing, guitar, outdoor adventures, and playing with the ladies. I am not outgoing and ambitious and a social climber, a planner, or anything like that. I, too, started my life over in Las Vegas in 2001. I didn't manage to build much of anything at all, but that stands to reason, as I have never really tried to build anything. I'm a rogue, a warrior, a mercenary, a freelancer, a soldier of fortune. Owning a lot of things and getting attached to people slows and weighs me down. I owned a home for eight years in Las Vegas and it bored me to death, and then the housing bubble blew up and the house became just about worthless overnight, thus draining me completely financially. It was a good time to short-sell and get out. Which I did. I am not going to live in Las Vegas anymore. when I go back stateside. I worked in the casinos as a blackjack dealer and security. It is a very hostile work environment, a very authoritarian environment. But it is kick-back city and it does have a lot of perks. There's nothing wrong with going your own way.

When you steal, you get caught and you go to jail, or someone beats the crap out of you or maybe shoots you. Your friends will get caught stealing eventually. Hopefully no one will get hurt in the process. Hopefully, it won't be a car or something big that will land them in jail for a long time and ruin the rest of their lives. Hopefully you won't be in the house or in the car when they get caught and get charged right along with them. When you steal you hurt yourself. It's the same with murder and rape. Whatever you do to others, you do to yourself. If you enjoy hurting yourself and watching those around you hurt themselves and watching those they steal from get hurt, then, by all means, keep on the way you are. If not, I would look for some new friends and some new activities to get myself into. All of this rambunctious behavior is at best a lot of foolery and a complete waste of time. Oh, and when you and/or your friends go to jail and get locked up with the other guys in the jail, rape and murder and theft is the norm. Your friends just might like it there, after all, who knows?

Penn & Teller did a "Bullshit" episode on involuntary male circumcision. It talks about some of the benefits, etc. They curse a lot, but they make good sense on the subject, plus they are entertaining. Part 1 Part II

Howdy! Happy to be here. I have been listening quite a bit lately to Stefan Molyneux's YouTube videos and enjoying them very much and decided to drop in and join the party! I'm Ted, a white male, 49 years old, now living under martial law in Thailand. (No worries. Living here is about the same as it was before the coup, but with a lot less violence). I have always been interested in philosophy, and especially since the Labor Day weekend of 1997 when I started reading Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". It was Rand who made me realize the value of a sound philosophy and sense of life. I, too, was one of those children who grew up at the hands of an ex-military, drunken father who's main goal in life was to dress me down and get me in line, and a mother who would not stand up for us or for herself and took his beatings and nonsense for thirty years before finally getting wise enough to pull the plug. Anyway, was nothing like Mom and I did not get in line. I did not obey. I am a warrior and warriors fight their enemies. And that is all. I was forced however to endure the physical violence, psychological abuse and maltreatment Dad liked to inflict. I was sadly mistaken for all of my childhood and teen years when brooding over the idea that when I turned that magical age of eighteen and was a legal adult I could walk away from this lunatic and all my problems would be solved. It does not work that way, so I have found out. Every therapist I have ever met was worthless. Every self-help book I ever read was worthless, too, with the exception of oneof Nathaniel Branden's books, in which I was introduced to the sentence-completion exercise, a tool which I have found tremendously therapeutic and helpful in my journaling over the years. Not so oddly enough, I find myself identifying with the stories of those who spent some part of their lives in NAZI concentrationcamps and death camps during WWII than any and all the stuff I've found in self-help books. That's what I really felt like as a boy and a teen, and sometimes as an adult, not only as someone neglected and abused, but like a prisoner. I was a physical, mental, and emotional prisoner of the war my narcissistic fatherhad going on in his head; the war he tried to win with booze, gambling, womanizing, woman-beating, violence, denial, negligence and plain stupidity. Long story short, he lost his war, I have won mine. And Iwant to write about it. I started writing when I was eighteen. I am a musician (guitar picker and singer), and I love blues-based rock and roll guitar music best of all. I got tired of all the stupid lyrics rockers and bluesmen were writing and I wanted to do something about it, so I set myself to the task of writing some songs. While I was at it, the songwriting morphed into complete sentences, paragraphs, essays and stories, and I realized that I wanted to be a writer. I have been doing it ever since. I just wish I could find a way to make some money at it.That's about it for me. Again, happy to be here and looking forward to meeting all of you! It's all up to us!