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Nice to meet you all, my name is Iulian I'm from Romania I send you the following message! I hope I can learn a lot from you, I don't have a lot of experience in debates or in philosophy and logic. Most of my life I've been spoon fed conclusions at home and at school, so everything I learnt about critical thinking and logic was me and the internet plus some curiosity. I remember the first time I discovered a podcast made by Stefan. I was looking through youtube and asking myself if there is something important there, If someone was talking about other stuff other then comedy and cats. I started actively looking for something, psychology, philosophy, politics, etc. I was lucky to find one of his videos because I almost lost hope. I ended up on channels that talk about philosophy, about history more than philosophy, many where to boring and lacked structure. I thought philosophy is boring and useless, I even wondered why do we have it, it doesn't seem to bring something tangible to the table. O well when I saw Stefan, I knew he was a good speaker, concise, logical, fluent, and humorous. I could understand what he was saying and it was easy, even though no one seemed to talk about this topics. You know the feeling that you had as a child when you learnt something new in a field that you had no background in, yes that is exactly the feeling, and it's thrilling but also scary that in my 23-24 I discover that I am ignorant in the core, in the most fundamental part of knowledge, essential part, and that was very hard for me to grasp. After that when you see that people around you are also ignorant in this field... It's hard. Furthermore after I understood some parts, the logic behind it, I started to debate and found out that the majority didn't even want to think about it, they didn't even thought it was important to discuss. I found no excitement, no curiosity, I can surely say that after 99% talks no one followed up the next day and said I made some research of my own and this is my conclusion. I had friends that didn't even know what anarchy meant and they knew it was bad (and didn't bother to check after we talked). So I hope that on this forum I can participate in some meaningful talks. I never been in a place where the concentration on anarcho-capitalist, libertarian, voluntaryist, atheist is this high. I am curious to see how that impacts debates and my personal emotional state. And I like to eat "sarmale" google it!

Hi, I'm Adrian from Cluj, Romania and I'm a software developer. I think I stumbled over FDR videos while immersing myself in the libertarian ideology a few months ago. I'm looking to take a break from the forever presence of statist ideology that literally infects my country and look for answers and alternatives to violence, which is immensely popular and normalized by my peers (especially in child-raising). Stephan brings up a fascinating aspect to philosophy, forever changing my previous interpretation of it as a boring, non-practical domain (interpretation inherited from my government schooling period - go figure). I must say I'm a highly skeptical person when it comes to any kind of argument and I think this is what made me to subscribe. While looking up information about Stephan I did encounter some strong (and sometimes valid) criticism about his arguments (for ex: his view of physicists as "lazy & pasty bastards" or some of the RTR concepts) and I'm excited to know what the community's rebuttal is towards some of them. I recognize the intelligence of this community and looking to learn from people smarter than me and, whilst I realize I will not be the most proactive person that joins the forum, I do want to join in conversations and learn as much as I can. Thanks and will be seeing you out there!