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Maybe try going or starting a philosophical aligned meetup or show. Like Stefan did a show but I guess it was canceled so people couldnt meet up smh anyways, maybe trying online could work if you put your philosophical ideals on there and try to look for it on womens profiles Just to be warned tho, most women your age don't want to settle down. More women go to college than men and college is meant for career/job(since you have to pay it back) so young women these days are job/career oriented. however, the internet is massive so if you really want to meet any kind of women, leveraging the internet and moving will most likely get the job done.

"You want more insider trading, not less. You want to give people most likely to have knowledge about deficiencies of the company an incentive to make the public aware of that" - Milton Friedman If you think or are unsure if the company you are trading is unethical/immoral, you dont need to trade it. The government can't do anything about. I trade stocks and there are countless "penny stock" pump and dump scams. Thanks to crypto, there are now decentralized exchanges like bitshares and idex. These will bring more freedom to the world

I think more of natural selection which I find beautiful as this process created life as we know it including myself. As far as my potential death, I just think its the price to pay to live in this life. Its well worth it which helps in the understanding of it. However, obviously if living forever was an option, sign me up.

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how" - Friedrich Nietzsche I don't think the question should be how he does it, rather, why he does it. As once you know why, the reasoning is complete, the who, what, where, when, and how is over. The only path left, is freedom & justice through courage Be great

the answer to your question is in your question "would it be any different under NAP?" yea it will be NAP Amazon received over a billion dollars in government money which continues https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/amazoncom And because Mr. Bezos is a genius, he took the no profit route as taxes apply to profits. Also because interest rates were so low and inflation is getting higher its basically free money anyways. if you didn't get the message this whole thing is socialism. Normally businesses pay the "tax" due to risk/competition in the free market. but when you are dealing with the incompetent & immoral socialist, the taxed pay the business btw don't hate the player, hate the game. This is what is needed to compete at the highest levels of business under coercion. A high price to pay imo. But when the market hits its regression to the means and the blood money dries up, The free market will return stronger than ever, and because of how efficient the free market is especially in the digital age, I doubt the free market will ever leave again #BitcoinCash

Are you doing it through paypal? if so you can just cancel it on there, you could also call them if you want to be sure its canceled Also, sorry to hear about your financial issues, hope you get it resolved soon.

Yea I doubt fraud can get worse than where it currently is. Tech-savvy philosophical people are also at the forefront which should help minimize fraud by the time it gets to the masses. Tho due to crypto having no reverses/chargebacks and being anon(both are great and vital), fraudsters/hackers love to target it. Crypto has already been a great wealth transfer, at least to the people who got in early. I was doing well before but yea I am pretty much retired now largely due to crypto, tho I still work on things I enjoy. Whats great about this is crypto is largely libertarian. So the people who the state tries to prevent actually grew economically

"In the future, everything will be tokenized and recorded on the blockchain, and I mean everything." I have heard this before. I am not sure I can agree like I doubt every thought we have will be tokenized/recorded on the blockchain. Blockchains are finite(due to requiring resources to run) and "everything" would lean more towards infinite. However, from my projections, I do think Cryptocurrencies will eventually be the #1 currency used. If true, then I can also see the blockchain playing a massive row in almost everything but even the internet itself hasn't changed everything. Also, Smart Contracts can still have fraud when it comes to recording user action/input. And if anonymous, then not much will be recorded anyways. However, this was a great post, It really got me thinking. I am also bad at judging hyperbole so my statements earlier may be irrelevant Overall, I am ecstatic about cryptocurrencies and smart contract. It can't come soon enough really. The current tyrannical system we got going on atm is not what life is supposed to be about.

Well, I do remember Stefan recommending 7 habits of highly effective people and The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem. Also, are you referring to dream journaling? I don't remember if Stefan detailed his way of doing it. I would be curious about it. However, I personally just write down what I remember about the dream and my feelings with thoughts on what it could mean

I feel like this is the typical liberal black interaction with a liberal white person. Where the liberal black claims racism and the liberal white does anything to satisfy the black so they don't think they are racist. Yes, the liberal white will even throw away the culture that ended the most racist event in history, slavery. I personally feel there are other podcasts a bit more shocking, like the one where someone married their rapist. However, This show was brilliant. Sticking around bad people is enabling them and the better thing to do for them and yourself is to leave. And to have kids with such bad people would be deplorable. I liked the dr phill quote, "The only thing worse than being in a bad relationship for a year, is being in a bad relationship for a year and one day."

AI is not something to worry about. Its kinda like when the left worries about guns and say guns kill people lol. Humans kill people and if they use a gun or AI it doesn't matter, the crime and worry is with the human never the gun or AI Obviously AI = "Artificial" which means human-made. As far as going "out of control" it doesn't matter, Other things humans use do the same, just some time ago there was a missile threat alert alarm that went off in Hawaii because someone accidentally clicked a button. How out of control is the current state weapons which are far more harmful and real than some imaginative speculated AI hypothesis. Also, I normally see this AI fearmongering from people like Sam Harris who I believe wants a world government, talk about a red herring smh and he also believes in determinism, yep better go out and try to stop this AI even tho the outcome is already determined right? Be careful of these sophists

Yes we may have instincts like fear of snakes or more objective instincts like thirst, hunger, and sex. However, it is our choices on how we decide to deal with them that makes us good or bad. Like if you want to steal from someone else to quench your thirst or hunger and rape for "sex" that is obviously bad. As for what is good or bad, it can be known through something like UPB. Instincts at best can influence however, it is the free will of the person that makes the choice. Instincts(which is a fixed pattern) without free will would 100% be determinable thus if you want to prove such, determine it with 100% or fall to the current reason and evidence that say such claim is unproven, and if they are claiming it true without reason and evidence, they are a LIAR

Do you have a dream journal? I think that may help as important dreams can be recurring until resolved. I have had life-changing realizations through dream analysis and I highly recommend it. I personally think dreams are there to get important subconscious thoughts(that are now conflicting) conscious again so you can reexamine them with new reasoning to change for the better. I am not an expert or anything. And curious on your age? but I can give you my thoughts on "Dream 1 - School" I will start off with the first sentence of the dream "I was in a building which had the same layout as the department where I work" and first sentence of your notes "I'm pretty bored of my job." Even tho you titled this dream "School" and you say "I found myself in a school lobby. Part of the walls in this lobby were brick like a few schools I went to, but the rest was different in layout and decor" its important to recognize the connection and pattern between school and work. With the School experience being terrible as you mentioned "In middle school I had a period of extreme depression and had no friends to speak of. I would sometimes imagine stopping a school shooting in school for some sort of attention or feeling of importance." & the dream through the shooting showed how even more terrible it was. With "the gunshots or looks of fear on the kids". Btw, I am sorry to hear about the extreme depression and no friends you faced in middle school. School, for the most part, has become an indoctrination camp and you and everyone deserve better. Anyways, to continue with the dream, after the violent immoral school shooting took place the unknown shooter ran away and you followed him. "I crawled in and passed a few separate tunnels on my right, going all the way through. I heard his voice again. I think he laughed. I went back into the tunnel taking a different path and the dream ended. I suspect I was about to find him in that tunnel." It's interesting you followed the path this criminal took and he laughed. I think he laughed because you are following him. The connection/pattern I see is you are following the path of what you experienced in school but now with your job. "I'm pretty bored of my job. One of my coworkers was picking on another and I felt disgust for his actions. I didn't really do anything." With the power of reason, you can not see your job as boring or if it really is you can look if there are better paths(jobs available on the market). Where co-workers picking on another are not tolerated. And with reason, you can also not tolerate it from now on. Be great

Have you seen the truth about sex by Stefan? There are rational reasons to be cautious about sex but there are rational solutions as well. Not just feelings. As the Bible says, know the truth, and the truth will set you free What do you see in your son's father? that is normally what your sons will see too. Is there anything to worry about? Maybe call in the show, it sounds interesting. I have my thoughts on this situation, but its hard to know without more info. I will just end with this, What you see in men sexuality, can be loved and accepted by women by virtue of them freely opening up to it and accepting it. It can also be rejected by virtue of them freely refusing it. It is this free market process that creates life

The grandmother of a man killed during an operation in March 2018 told UN investigators that 50 officers had broken into their home, all of them dressed in black with a skull symbol on their jackets. "They woke my 23-year-old grandson up, handcuffed him with plastic ties and took him out," she said. After a few minutes, the family heard gunshots. When they went downstairs to see what had happened, they were ordered back inside. "Later, the forensic doctor told me that he had died of two gunshots to the chest and that he had been severely hit on the head. "The police report mentioned that my grandson was carrying a gun and that he had opened fire against security forces, which is a lie. I want justice, he was a human being, not a dog." These officers may have killed more than 500 people since July 2015 as a way to showcase crime-reduction results, it says. They are alleged to have faked evidence to make it look as though the victims died in exchanges of fire. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44575599 Brutal stories of the tyrannical socialist government. Never underestimate them. Aim for the best, Prepare for the worse.

yea you are not understanding how to use logical fallacies to rebut (prove something false). My arguments can only be seen as circular if you only know of 1 way to rebut them. Which is not the case thus not circular. As I kindly pointed out in your bible example, there are multiple ways to rebut the argument at hand. You just have zero rebuttals.

I gave my argument and proof(which you further helped, thanks)for free will after defining it, I also address the other definition. You can look at earlier posts to find it. Don't you believe you can recognize choice? well luckily actions speak louder than words right The bible is fallible due to contradictions 1. eye for an eye 2. turn the other cheek You see how I can actually rebut this through proving it false? While you have NEVER rebutted(by definition prove false) instead you just list fallacies that are not pointing out anything as false. Instead, you keep repeating the definition of circular reasoning which everyone knows already and it is unrelated. Here is an example, You are red herring to the circular reasoning instead of focusing on my argument to prove it false Just saying a Logical fallacy does not prove something false, you still have to address the argument to prove it false. Like I didn't just say "red herring" or defined red herring and call it a day like you have with circular reasoning. I actually pointed out you are only mentioning circular reasoning in your defense while not addressing my argument which proves the red herring. That is how you are supposed to use logical fallacies in regards to proving something false.

Yea, you have not rebutted my argument because nothing is being proved false. re·but rəˈbət/ verb past tense: rebutted; past participle: rebutted 1. claim or prove that (evidence or an accusation) is false. Saying its a circular argument does not prove a falsehood. Saying how a circular argument makes something False would be better. However, just defining or giving examples of circular is not proving falsehood to an argument. Also, not every action proves free will, As I just said most actions in the universe cant reason or recognize choice. You define choice as a "determined outcome to a previous sequence of events" Where is your proof of the outcome being determined? You are making an unproven claim by saying the outcome is determined without proof So this is a terrible example as I am not making unproven claims like you are. All my claims are holding true while yours do not. If I made an untrue claim, Feel free to point it out. Just don't just give examples of circular, give examples/rebuts to point out falsehoods. Like I have.

I never made an assumption of free will(which I defined as recognizing choice). I made an argument in favor of free will which you have not rebutted. In fact, you further proved it. Anyways, its clear you recognize choice now that you have chosen to reply or not. As far as the rest of the universe, yes its true, as far as I know, nothing besides humans can recognize choice because nothing besides humans can reason. However, Because humans can reason and recognize choice, this ability(free will) can affect the physical matter. Like our ability to decide which physical Windows or mac computer or physical android or ios phone to use. Or maybe none to just save money for something else. Also, I never was interested in disproving "determinism". As since there is ZERO evidence "determinism" exist, you can't disprove what was NEVER there. Its like trying to disprove a God exist. All I did was point out "determinism" is an unproven claim with zero evidence. While free will, as I defined it, will objectively take place right now

Do you know what fact means? Do you know how truth is obtained? You have no evidence so the answer to that is you don't know. As far as the strawman claiming I want you to determine everything. I have never claimed such. All I ask is for evidence to prove the claim and definition of determinism. I don't assume free will, I defined free will, which was to recognize choice. Which I provided arguments for and which "recognizing choice" was admitted true by smartherthannone. You love straw manning, claiming souls, ghost in the machine nonsense lol and using a false dichotomy claiming "That is the only way that free will can exist" You seem to be the dishonest one, claiming facts with zero evidence and using strawman's. All my claims are backed by evidence. Just like the evidence, you will also have with your choice to reply or not #FreeWill Enjoy

1. Yea therapy has been shown to be more probable in regards to helping specific human issues. However, as you mentioned, it is trying to influence the person, its not determining their outcome. If it could, then the therapist would have a 100% success rate as it can determine their outcome and just do therapy on the ones that will have positive outcomes. And if they can't determine their outcome, then it's not determinism. Just probability or speculation 2. Duplicate means to copy the same to get an identical, so the result will be identical. However, I don't know how this relates to reality. There are identical twins and just because you know the outcome of one twin, it doesn't mean you can determine the other twin. Tho of course as I mentioned, there are strong probabilities in regards to being able to estimate the other twins. Its just not determinable. If it was, then it should be provable with evidence of course, But the evidence I found in twin studies shows probability, not determinism.

"Determinism" is a claim and a statement. Now, saying you speculate on or have faith in determinism would be a different statement. Determinism does seem like a new faith for people, however, unlike religious people who have faith. Most determinist wont admit they believe it without proof which is what faith is by definition Its also not about a math formula, it can be any kind of evidence. But clearly you don't like evidence so I can see why you straw man that I never asked for such equation, All I ask is for evidence as any rational person should. I already went over the biology fallacy, yes it can influence and make things more probable. There is evidence for that, like correlation studies and averages. However, to say "Determinism" is just dishonesty as there is zero evidence it's determined. There is evidence for probability, not determinism, which I hope you don't think both use the same definition. Anyways, great, so if you can recognize choices then you clearly recognized your choices in your past and will also recognize the ones in your future choice CHois/ noun 1. an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. I am glad you recognize the act of your past and future choices. Free will imo Also, if you want to disprove this definition ie free will as false, You would need to prove the claim that human choices "are not determined by prior causes" The opposers of this definition(free will) are claiming that human choices are determined by prior causes. Determine is a claim, its your choice to use evidence or not to prove your claim. Anyways, we both know you reject evidence when it comes to your determinism claims, So like any rationalist, I will reject unproven claims like determinism

Yea I am repeating myself 1. Was gravity like a falling rock a determined event before the understanding? Anyone answering yes must prove it through evidence like the law of gravity Is saying you can determine how the rock falls without evidence reasonable? No. As that is LYING as *You* can't determine it. Only someone with proof can say they can determine it. As you need proof for any of Your claim, if you want to be honest that is. You see, you are claiming you can shoot webs out of your body just because a spider can. Just because a spider can it doesn't make your claim true. You still need to prove your claim. which you NEVER did and probably never will since you dont care for evidence You are claiming determinism without evidence, I am assuming incompetency or just willfully dishonesty 2. You are the one making the claim and misusing words definitions like "determinism" without evidence of determinism. I simply define free will as the ability to recognize choices. And I simply proved that through experimentation by having you reply or not. You have never rebutted it. Just made more unproven claims. You can't tell me you can't recognize the choice to reply or not. As #1 you are clearly speaking English so can understand the two choices. #2 will decide right now whether to reply or not. #3 will have no evidence to the contrary, Maybe just unproven claims and misused words like determinism and illusion without actually proving its determined or an illusion. Unlike real determinism or real illusion as I proved with examples in posts above Thinking of it, choosing Evidence & reason over No evidence & sophistry is also a choice but if the determinist doesn't think so, then that is one hell of an admission of where the conversation is headed

You can't prove anything without evidence and reason, so yea you can't prove universal gravitation without evidence like the equation for universal gravitation. Just like how you can't prove determinism without evidence. The perspective/understanding of people means nothing. As universal gravitation works with or without their knowledge. In fact, the majority of people still dont know the equation for universal gravitation. Yet it still keeps working. In the stone age, they didn't know about universal gravitation but it still kept working. However, the point is if someone wants to claim there is universal gravitation, they need evidence like the equation for universal gravitation. Just like if a determinist wants to claim determinism they need to provide evidence. Something you have 0 of. in fact, you are in the negative as you have been instead proving free will through knowing the choice to reply or not, and deciding to reply or not objectivity You think "its not necessary to come up with", if you don't think evidence is needed and conjecture is enough, that is your choice. I just hope you and others are able to understand the clear distinction between us and the determinism case which I think you did a great job showing. Thank you

Instead of "fingers crossed" maybe you could provide an argument to disprove it lol instead you are just proving it time and time again everytime you freely choose to reply or not Probability does not turn to certainty. If it did, then the definition of probability would = certainty and you wouldn't need to use different words. But judging how determinist falsely use the word determinist its no surprise they want to turn words to another word with a different meaning. The law of Gravity, as I explained, was always determinable, 1000s years ago, today, 1000s years in the future. It was never probable/speculative. Sure some may have speculated how gravity works but they were incorrect as it has always been determinable through whether you knew the equation or not. You see that equation for universal gravitation is called verifiable evidence in regards to determining something. Maybe you should try doing the same before claiming anything as the result of determinism. I provided real determinism, while the determinist provides no evidence. determinism exist only if proven determinable, You can't use the word and reject its definition. That's like calling someone a man when it doesn't matter what you call someone, as man has a definition and if whatever you called a man doesn't conform to that, its not a man. Just like how claiming determinism when it wasn't determined wouldn't be determinism, its more like faith or belief that somewhere out there, there is an equation that could have determined it. Luckily I prefer evidence & reason. Anyways, you will probably just continue ignoring your lack of such and cross your fingers so I will leave this for anyone else on the fence humans who can reason and recognize multiple choices are not determinist. As let's say one day there is "evidence", Maybe an AI computer that quantified every gene in your body and everything in your environment to a point it where it "determined" your next move, well, take a look at it, and simply choose to do something else.