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Very nice video series, really informative. Great perspective of of the fear of rejection. My original thought's on loneliness were evolutionary based, like when somebody rejects you it could strike a nerve that you are doing something wrong, and the better you perceive that person that's rejecting you the better they have done from evolution, so when you are rejected that interferes with basic evolutionary processes of survival and reproduction. I hope that made sense, but you view has certainly expanded my thoughts on this issue.

Thank you so much for your responses. I'll take your advice MagnumPI.

My understanding and I haven't seen the video above so I might be wrong, but My understanding is that the middle eastern companies want to win the monopoly of oil so they are selling oil for next to nothing in the hopes that us Americans will plug our well Then when American's stop producing oil the middle eastern countries will charge far more for the same oil.

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Recently I brought up many issues that I take with my parents. In my opinion I think I had really great answers to all of their argument's except for one. "You're Just Remembering That Wrong" At this point in the conversation I was saddened because I didn't really know how to answer that statement. Here is the response that I came up with something to the effect of "Let's accept the hypothesis that one of us is remembering this wrong. Their is no way to provide real concrete evidence supporting or refuting that idea so the logical conclusion would be to just assume I am right because If I just always assume I am wrong that makes life a little more difficult to live." Looking back on it it isn't a great response and I think I have better ones, but I was just curious to see if you guys had any good refutations to the common argument You're Just Remembering That Wrong. I could really use some help because undoubtedly my parents will bring up that argument again, and I want to be prepared for next time. Thank you so much.

That's very nice of you to intervene on that child's behalf. I think you handled that situation very nicely considering the circumstances. Great response to her statement "ya'll white people raise your kids". I wish I was that good coming up with things to say on the spot.

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I was infuriated after watching this video. Brought up terrible memories with my own parents.

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Wow great post. This really is a great article.

I thought I'd post a serious response, so here is my refutation to this video. 1 This is true for both male and females neither gender has to go crazy when an anonymous gamer makes a rude comment. 2 I admit there is a issue here, but that I disagree that it is the patriarchy. I think black people could make the same argument if you just change the word gender with race. In my opinion gaming is targeted to specific audience, and libertarian principles are the solution. 3. Nobody feels safe posting personal information almost anywhere on the internet, and if you say you just want to post your username and it happens to be a female name and you might get harassed I'll tell you that my name shockingly is not Ayn Rand, and I'm a guy. 4. Gaming cred is based on how well you have done in previous matches depending on which game your playing. Not on your gender. I'll just give a anecdote I really suck at Halo when I play online when people say I suck my response is not "no you don't understand I'm a guy so that means I have great gaming cred." 5. I would like more explanation from this one because I don't know that it means. What attention do gamers pay to anyone who enthusiastically likes a game. Do they want to say "I like this game" and then all the players hit pause and ask questions like "how does that make you feel?" 6. I think that is an extremely minor problem to point out. Is the solution to just stop the male gamers from making YouTube videos? 7. People have made dick jokes to my face at every convention I have ever been to. With the exception of professional business conventions. 8. Again I don't understand this as I have never had to speak for my gender on a video game. I can't keep a straight face while typing this like when has anybody sincerely had to speak for an entire gender over a video game? I don't understand this. 9. I disagree again people make fun of the size of a males dick all the time. 10. I disagree again dick jokes and ejaculation are often brought up is the context of ridicule. My point is that this is a problem, but not a problem based on gender. 11. Again I agree this is a problem, but not one based on gender. Occasionally (especially in Call of Duty) People on the other end make fun of anybodies voice for being to "gay". 12. I disagree, and I have just now realized that since you are not going to provide citations for you quote "arguments" I'll just leave it at I disagree. 13. If I try to buy Barbie dolls people assume I'm a buying those for a female friend or relative of some sort. 14. Molyneux has made some great arguments of why this occurs, and how to solve it. Feminism is not the answer. Try agorism and counter economics. 15. Which set a standard that I can never meet, and as a result develop body image problems. Not actually I meant to parody that feminist argument about how Wonder Woman causes body issues. 16. This seems to just be a restatement of argument number 2 so just read my response there. 17. For the third time I don't understand this argument. Are they saying that by visiting a website they will be assaulted as a result? Are they saying that their comments will be ridiculed because in that case again this happens to both males and females. 18. This is just a statement I don't understand why you would want to hide your real life gender. I guess I good response would be if a guy has a crazy name he would also be made fun of. 19. Again harassment occurs all the time over the size of a guys junk. 20. This is like the fourth time you have restated this argument. Male penis's get made fun of all the time. 21. Fifth time you have made this cough cough argument. 22. I personally can testify that I have been sent photos of male genitalia over the internet. My response is that many people are the exact embodiment of what they just messaged me. 23. Male virgins get made fun of too. I've lost the will to try to make better arguments at this point I wish they had posted citations supporting this. 24. Do you want to attack the motivations to why people say stuff now? 25. I give this list no credence at all, and wouldn't even have known that the author is a male without them making that cough cough argument for why sexism exists in gaming.

That is a very moving post thank you for sharing. I have yet to defoo so I can't share your feelings, but from what it sounds like I'm sure you made the right decision.

I would think feminists would support free love, but this clearly does not occur in modern day feminism.

That is very interesting I had heard of the Free State Project, but didn't know very much about it. I wonder what are some of the negatives to moving to New Hampshire any ideas?

I guess I found the article very interesting. My favorite part though was when Willow said how "whip my hair" helped so many people. I just found that so strange like shes comparing that song to like some movement that actually helped people.

Teaching people that a contradictory all mighty Omnipotent being created everything with no evidence to back it up is wrong, but to teach that to children who are far more likely to believe the fallacies of religion is definitively not preferable to say the least and borderlines child abuse.

I'm so sorry to hear about your situation. I think that's terrible your parents appear to be close minded about this. In my personal opinion it is not fraud to lie about this especially when you have no control over this. I agree with Prolix's statement about anarchists paying taxes. Their is no choice but to pay taxes or face a negative outcome. This situation while hopefully less violent is still comparable because again their is no control over this. You have to pretend to be straight or face a negative outcome.

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I agree with Alan Chapman's post the idea of prison's are inherently a violation of rights, and alternatives may be put in place.

Anybody near Oklahoma city or Norman Ok?

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I guess this is a good place to start posting. I'm a lifelong free market libertarian. Obviously i'm a major fan of Ayn Rand I've listened to FDR for years up until recently haven't really kept up on the forums. I hope to change that. I'm really into punk rock in particular straight edge. I look forward to getting to know people in the forums.