apples and grapes Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 Hey, been meaning to do this for a while. I'm apples and grapes from Perth, Australia
Timur Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 Hi apples and grapes! What's the meaning of your username? I'm the meetup organiser in Melbourne. I wonder, if there were a meetup group in Perth, would you be interested in participating?
Kevin Beal Posted January 26, 2015 Posted January 26, 2015 Welcome to the boards! Tell us a bit about yourself. Have you been listening to the show long?
apples and grapes Posted January 27, 2015 Author Posted January 27, 2015 Timur, the story behind my username is long and dark... Nah not really, I was watching this when I was making the account, and couldn't think of anything else . But yeah, if there was a meetup group in Perth, I'd surely be interested in it.Thanks Kev, I've be staking around the boards for quite a while now, but hadn't really gotten involved.I'm a finance student, who went through the pretty standard path to Libertarianism. I got switched out of a media course in year 11 into an economics one while at the time not even knowing what economics meant. I got into economics really quickly but almost as quickly became disillusioned by it (the first half was micro, so we learnt the standard "Opportunity Coast" stuff, which I found suspiciously ignored in the second macro half of the textbook when we learnt about "Fiscal/Monetary Policy"). I retained a respect for the free-market though which led me to learning the name Ayn Rand in my final year. I first read The Fountainhead, which set me on course to reading nearly all Rand's work. So by midway through my final year of high-school, I was a pretty fervent O'ist. For one reason or another, I discovered Austrianism and got back into economics. I read Mises, Menger, Hayek etc (I had resistance to reading Rothbard because he was a silly ancap, I know I know the maturity was strong in 16 year old me). O'ism and Austrianism quickly became my hobby and I would frequently watch economic stuff, mostly by the mises.org peeps, on the youtubes. It was while I was watching something economicsy that I came across a video by some Stefan Molyneux guy which was a reading of "Great Myths of the Great Depression". I then checked out the youtube page and briefly thought Stef was a Christian due to some of the titles of his videos that were up back then in late 2013. To make a long story short, I began watching his stuff and then reading his books. It's been a year now, and I've changed quite a lot. I'm now a UPB Anarchist (I was initially resistant, but a brief rebuttal Stef made to the accusation made by Rand in VoS in podcast 2496 went a long way alongside reading everyday/practical anarchy, UPB and Rothbardian works). I've been pushing, ever so gently, on friends and family the philosophy of freedom and recently have started trying to apply RTR to my life.So yeah, that's pretty much me (soz if too longzz). I'm the guy all the ladies at the club want to discuss Mises' Regression Thearum with 2
surfingthoughts Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Welcome to the board man, unlike many forums this community is quite forgiving so get involved if you have time . I'm currently backpacking in aus and I'm quite near to you so if there is a meet up in Perth that would be cool if not I'm going to Melbourne in a month I think .
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