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"I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves."
-Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad Conductor (1820-1913)
If you ever want to know my stance on any issue, just ask yourself: does this violate a person's right to "life, liberty, or the pursuit and happiness"? if does, I am against it. If it does not, I support it.
Books that have changed my life:
"The Blind Watchmaker" my Richard Dawkins
"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins
"For The New Intellectual" by Ayn Rand
"The Virtue of Selfishness" by Ayn Rand
"Free To Choose" by Milton Friedman
"The Art of Thinking" by Vincent Ruggiero
"The Nature of Consciousness" by Alan Watts
favorite sift: http://www.videosift.com/video/Monkeys-A-Short-Movie-About-What-We-Are
-Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad Conductor (1820-1913)
If you ever want to know my stance on any issue, just ask yourself: does this violate a person's right to "life, liberty, or the pursuit and happiness"? if does, I am against it. If it does not, I support it.
Books that have changed my life:
"The Blind Watchmaker" my Richard Dawkins
"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins
"For The New Intellectual" by Ayn Rand
"The Virtue of Selfishness" by Ayn Rand
"Free To Choose" by Milton Friedman
"The Art of Thinking" by Vincent Ruggiero
"The Nature of Consciousness" by Alan Watts
favorite sift: http://www.videosift.com/video/Monkeys-A-Short-Movie-About-What-We-Are
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In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
^Ryjkyj
"Ask not what your country can do for you. But what you can do for your country."
why would you serve your government? the government was established to serve you, not the other way around.
that quote is not patriotism, it is just nonsense.
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
its a bit cumbersome to state my intention in a disclaimer, after everything i say though. don't you think?
In reply to this comment by nibiyabi:
OK, that's what I suspected. You should make this more clear in the future.
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
i'm not just trying to present my views i'm trying to get people to think about their own views.
if i walk around saying what is right, people would just call me "arrogant" or a "know-it-all". my intention was to get people to question their beliefs to find out (for themselves) if they really understand them.
i wasn't trying to "test" people just to show im smarter or to be condescending. the truth is, people are going to interpret what i say based on their own attitude or current state of mind. no matter how i challenge someones views, they can feel slighted by it.
In reply to this comment by nibiyabi:
^OK, I had a feeling you were doing this. I assume this isn't intentional, but when your views are presented in quiz format, they tend to take on an air of condescension and invite angry retorts (as you've probably noticed by now). Stick to presenting your views in a normal, rational way, and people will respect you and listen to you. You have some very interesting ideas, but it's hard to see them through the presentation sometimes.
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
can you edit/retract your comment? i wasn't using the slippery slope fallacy. i support gay marriage. i also support polygamy. i have to because i believe in "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". the right to marry a homosexual directly follows from that statement.
Your incest and primate arguments are examples of reductio ad absurdum: the slippery slope logical fallacy.
Polygamy is not a legal agreement between two people, therefore the rights hitherto are not so clearly defined. See http://www.videosift.com/video/Huge-Prop-8-Protest-outside-of-Mormon-Temple-in-Utah#comment-57
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
i'm not just trying to present my views i'm trying to get people to think about their own views.
if i walk around saying what is right, people would just call me "arrogant" or a "know-it-all". my intention was to get people to question their beliefs to find out (for themselves) if they really understand them.
i wasn't trying to "test" people just to show im smarter or to be condescending. the truth is, people are going to interpret what i say based on their own attitude or current state of mind. no matter how i challenge someones views, they can feel slighted by it.
In reply to this comment by nibiyabi:
^OK, I had a feeling you were doing this. I assume this isn't intentional, but when your views are presented in quiz format, they tend to take on an air of condescension and invite angry retorts (as you've probably noticed by now). Stick to presenting your views in a normal, rational way, and people will respect you and listen to you. You have some very interesting ideas, but it's hard to see them through the presentation sometimes.
as long as people are legally permitted to enter into civil unions with whomever they are want, thats what I care about.
Now, I'm not trying to be insulting, nor am I trying to imply anything by my next question (which I actually registered to ask).
Does this mean that you're in support of any non-conformist relationship, as long as long as both parties consent or appear to give consent?
These include, boy-man, boy-woman, etc type relationships that society tends to look down upon. Further, these are things that have legislation passed making them illegal, much like polygamy.
I'm interested in your thoughts on the matter.
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
my bad, i thought you were being sarcastic. it is very clear FDR worsened/lengthen the depression. many of your sources are from the same school of economics i belong.
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
>> ^deedub81:
That's what they taught me in history class, too.
who paid the teacher in your history class? whens the last time you did any fact checking on what you learned in high school?
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
in a month, everyone will have forgotten this ever happened.
FDR Lengthened The Great Depression
A brief history of the Great Depression
FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years
ABC Finds FDR Partly to Blame for 10-Year Great Depression
Yes, FDR Made Depression Worse and Longer
Don't Trust the Depression Brain Trust
Would you like me to continue?
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
>> ^deedub81:
That's what they taught me in history class, too.
who paid the teacher in your history class? whens the last time you did any fact checking on what you learned in high school?
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
^do you have a google university sweatshirt? you know its not a real degree right.
Awesome.
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>> ^chilaxe:
^I have a lot of respect for Greenspan. Can you back up your allegations?
sure, what specifically would you like to know? Greenspan was originally close to objectivism, even writing letters for objectivist publications. He was also friends with Milton Friedman who was a prodigy of the Austrian school, at one point meeting face to face with F.A Hayek (until he too got in bed with the fed as a result of his monetarist leanings). Almost all economists in America are taught in the Chicago/Keynesian school, they never learn what Austrian economics is much less the theory behind it. They can be accurately classified as "ignorant." Greenspan knows better, he knows what Austrian economics is and thus he knows the moral and economic implications of his job at the federal reserve and he choses money and power over the economic well being of the country. He knows that when he fixes interests rates low he is creating "bubbles" which eventually burst, often violently as we are seeing today. Under his watch he set interest rates to an unheard of 1% after 9/11, creating a negative interest rate against inflation (very bad) and an artificial demand in housing, which resulted in large increases in both construction and price. These prices are not real or sustainable and must be eventually corrected, which is what is happening right now. However, the extent of monetary irresponsible has made it such that this is not contained in any one market but instead infects the whole economy.
He is not a man who should be respected, he is a man who should be despised with utmost tenacity. He is knowingly using misinformation to commit fraud against the American people. Paulson is probably aware of the consequences of his actions as well, but certainly does not have the background Greenspan does.
In reply to this comment by imstellar28:
^I have never once argued for or supported anarcho-capitalism. It drives me nuts when people associate capitalism with anarchy. I am as strongly against anarchy as I am socialism.
Mainstream economists disagree with me like the mainstream disagrees with me that the earth was created more than 10,000 years ago. Keynesian economics holds about the same weight as intelligent design in my book. It is a completely unsupported "theory", and is facing an intense amount of contradictory evidence, yet it still persists.
Fraud is illegal in this country right? I am charging him with 300,000,000 counts of fraud. Isn't that enough to put someone away for life? I am also charging him with treason. Isn't that enough to warrant the death penalty? I was giving the rest of the "mainstream" the benefit of the doubt. If you can prove they are familiar with Austrian theory, then its going to be a long day at the noose. I am positive this is not true in most economic programs in the country. There are less than a dozen Austrian programs in the country and 25 years ago there were less than a dozen prominent Austrian economists in the world.
Advocating Keynesian ideas when you are versed with the Austrians is like trying to save a dying man with leeches and voodoo when you are versed in germ theory and have antibiotics in your back pocket. Greenspan is the moral equivalent of an atheist who is the pope of a church leading an inquisition.
$10,000 gets a LOT of duct tape...
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^pitchforks and torches would be good too, but it would be harder to store $10,000 in pitchforks...