Coreforcruxes Posted July 5, 2013 Posted July 5, 2013 Hello Free Domain Radio-ers, My name is [a super secret] and I am very exited to get started with this community. First and foremost I would like to say thank you to everyone who participates in this community and makes it possible, all the way from Stefan and his family to the people who help the media projects behind the scenes to the bread and butter who inhabit these glowing halls of intellect. So, about me. I am 29 and up until about a year and a half ago I thought I was the only person on the planet who thought as I did and to such a critical degree, I also had an irrational ego . Due to some particular experiences growing up (the details of which I will discuss later) I was always anti-authortarian and as I grew older I only developed to be more of an anarchist. By about 15 I had rid myself of the majority of christianities influence on me ( my freeing conclusion was: "I there is a god he put me here with five senses and a brain and nothing else to tell me how to behave so its on me to decide" ). In about the last 6 - 9 months I have made the transition to Athiesm. As I developed I never really listened to anyone or any source. Quite strictly If I did not originate it, it could not be trusted. This has had two profound impacts on me; first I dodged alot of social conditioning and learned to think for myself, second, I missed out on treading the path of the intellectual giants that came before me. I read books and studied great thinkers and ideas but my ego and insecurities were so out of whack that not only would I regard a classic philosopher with skepticism but also from a self-declared position of superiority. When I found Stefan and his work I was just blown away at his integrity, consistency, critical thought, and general philosophizing. I remember the feeling of relaxation that came over me when I accepted him as a credible thinker, I alone did not have to solve all the worlds problems and explain everything. Being able to trust him (and now others within specific intellectual contexts), I can really work on fixing myself, at this point I really need to, I have let my life fall to pieces over the past couple of years...My main motivation for joining Free Domain Radio is to get an objective perspective on my life as I am prepared to make some large transitions. My life has been unstable due to choices I made in the past and I am in the position to change things now mainly only because I am armed with new perspectives and information. Whether I go on to continue relationships I had in the past or not, voluntary in origin or not, I am ready to decide. But I do not want to do something so important haphazardly and I do not want to run from things I should hold myself more accountable for. Ultimately It is on me to determine the right answers and methods but I would really like the help of the folks here to just get some extra perspective. Thank you very much for reading my intro and if you have any advice for how to conduct myself in this community that I cannot find in the forum guidlines i'd really appreciate it.
Joey M Posted July 12, 2013 Posted July 12, 2013 Welcome to FDR Jarrod. Great thing about life is that it moves on. I hope you find what you're looking for here
DaisyAnarchist Posted July 12, 2013 Posted July 12, 2013 Hey there, fellow Floridian! You conduct yourself fine, I enjoyed reading your introduction. It is interesting to me that you come from a position of discovering certain truths on your own, and that you've only recently begun to search for external guidance. My exposure to anarcho-capitalism came from other sources, I can't be sure that I would arrive to it purely on my own. Ron Paul and Stefan were big influences. I hope you find this forum useful and enjoy yourself here. If you have any specific questions about how to get through problems, by all means you can post here and I suspect you will get insightful responses. I think a lot of us are trying to piece our lives back together as you are.
Coreforcruxes Posted July 14, 2013 Author Posted July 14, 2013 Hello DaisyAnarchist,Thank you for replying, I am really glad you found my introduction interesting. I would have posted more by now but I am trying to think of a way to do so that would allow access to only those I permit. I want to be free to talk about sensitive details with people I trust and I don't want a prospective employer or someone with mal-intent to find my posts and have them come back to harm me. I expect to spend alot of time in the chat room but I do not want to have to catch every new person up on my details and I would like to have a page I could refer them to. I have heard of blogs with passwords but I have not found one. Though, you saying there are alot of us trying to piece our lives together reminds me of one reason I originally wanted to go through my self-fixing process here. So that others could watch and perhaps find something useful from it. In order to do that I kinda have to bare myself publicly. Is there a way I could petition as admin to allow me to change my username to something a little more anonymous? I can change my real name in my profile, but my username (Jarrod84) I cannot. I also need to see if they can allow me to edit out the use of my full nam in my original post.I wish I had thought of all this before I began posting here
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