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      "body": "<html>\n<p>When I first started learning to think rationally, accepting my own capacity for error, and recognizing the ways in which those who \"taught\" me were inflicting conclusions upon me, I went back to question all of the conclusions I carried to determine if my understanding of them were accurate. This can be an important endeavor for us all so that we can survive with greater efficiency by way of having a more accurate understanding of the world we live in. For if we think we have the answer, we stop looking for answers that might be (more) accurate.</p>\n<p>For millenia, religions and governments have used the word \"moral(ity)\" to describe their whims in attempt to have their &nbsp;desires viewed as factual, methodical, and above scrutiny. As a result, many people misunderstand or undervalue morality, seeing it as merely an opinion. While I appreciate the ability to reject dogma, it's important that we not throw out the baby with the bath water. 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Please help your friends, family, and neighbors to understand the ways in which the State is violence and encourage them to do the right thing. Set an example, encourage them to follow your example, and do not reward them with the pleasure of your company if they would use that violence to harm you or others.</p>\n</html>",
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      "body": "<html>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>My brothers and sisters, have you ever been so hurt, sad, or angry that you've done something you otherwise would not have? The question is rhetorical and meant to start a conversation about the ways in which people can get so caught up in the moment that they do something they otherwise would not have.</p>\n<p>Imagine though that your answer was yes. Can you also imagine the hell you would find yourself in suffering the consequences of an action that is not one you would choose to take if you had the presence of mind to make the decision with deliberation? Nobody wants to experience that. It can weigh on a person tremendously as they doubt how far they've actually come to be able to engage in such a lapse of judgement.</p>\n<p>For months, I have watched as people who accept property rights, self-ownership, the inherent immorality of the State, etc dispensed with those values for the illusion of comfort in the present. I did what I could to offset this, but it is a position not arrived at by way of logic, reason, and evidence. While I think I might have been largely ineffective, I rest easy knowing I did my part... And knowing that it would eventually come to and end. Sadly, it has not.</p>\n<p>Eleanor Roosevelt is credited with saying, \"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.\" While I don't think you can sum up a mind so simply, I think it's an accurate categorization of the behaviors. So many of the people I saw abandoning their values before the election were doing so because \"Trump is different.\" Of course no candidate is. They were all chasing after the exact same, invalid throne that has subjugated humans throughout recorded history.</p>\n<p>This belief led them to invest inordinate amounts of time trying to figure out ways to justify their belief, vilify their savior's competitor, watch their savior interact with their competitor... The list goes on. Now that their savior has won/lost, they've spent so much time pinning their identity on these people they'll never meet, that they've forgotten how to return to their own lives. Some of those same people are celebrating as if they've won something. Others are protesting that the one they didn't choose will be inflicted upon them.</p>\n<p>The former group will not be able to find the solutions to the problems they were looking for because they looking for it from without. They've invested so much of their time and effort into the success of that person that they will likely turn a blind eye to the ways in which our new master will fail us all. Because that's what masters do and they knew that. At the same time, they are mocking other people for being emotionally invested in something that largely does not effect their lives. Seemingly with no cognitive dissonance the act of even having an interest in such things is the very thing they are referencing in others. It's astounding.</p>\n<p>Then the latter group are like rebels without a cause. Perhaps more accurately, people with an idea that they don't know how to articulate. They are furious that the master they didn't choose will be inflicted upon them. Even though this is the exact same eventuality they were trying to inflict on others! Seemingly with no cognitive dissonance. They realize that having somebody's will inflicted upon them is wrong, but they're not willing to internalize this idea. Because they were raised by and therefore seek out and surrounded themselves with people who will agree with them that it's okay to inflict your will upon others as long as it's done in the name of Democracy or the State.</p>\n<p>Part of me is very frustrated with the fact that the election is over, yet the ways in which people are allowing the moment to cloud their judgement has largely not subsided. 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Please consider this me snapping my fingers, trying to wake people up. People that would've previously described themselves as woken up. Who allowed themselves to be distracted because the powers that be figured out improved ways to spin their millenia-old craft in a way that would dupe those who otherwise know better. We have a responsibility and the iron is hot. Let us strike now. May we all take a step back, find ourselves, and use this time to discuss the IDEA of freedom. Focusing on specific people and events will only drown out what matters: We are all still slaves. That has not changed because people are still cooperating with their enslavement and the enslavement of their family and friends. They don't want to because people are mostly good. They've just been abused and are so desperately seeking for others to share in that abuse so that they're not alone. Instead, why don't we heal, together, by spreading these ideas and giving people the greatest gift of all: Responsibility. 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      "body": "<html>\n<p>My thanks to Feedomain Radio (FDR) for releasing <a href=\"https://youtu.be/BUELmc9fY7c\">this video</a>. It's the closest thing I've seen to a concise null hypothesis, so I'm going to treat it as such. And successfully satisfy it. Meanwhile, I invite Stef or anybody pro-voting to address the null hypotheses I've put forward <a href=\"https://steemit.com/anarchism/@dsayers/null-hypotheses-and-political-voting\">here</a>. In the context of this video, I'd like to add the null hypotheses that the US isn't necessarily representative of \"western values\" and that being a fraction of \"the west,\" has not the power to entirely steer it. The UN has spoken out against the excess of US police brutality, multiple nations are lining up to stand against the dying empire, banks are abandoning the collapsing US dollar... It's been marginalized on the world stage significantly; All that remains is the twitch of a corpse that the Trumpillary distractionary circus is meant to mislead us into believing is still vibrant and relevant.</p>\n<p>Anyways, on to the video. First things first, there's no effort here to define what \"western values\" are or why they're hot shit compared to \"eastern values.\" Since presumably those values include a perceived legitimacy of government, who is to say that western values are ideal, even if they were accepted as superior to eastern values? Maybe it's time for an understanding that people own themselves and therefore cannot exist in different, opposing moral categories. That assaulting children primes them for both inflicting and welcoming violence, and that immoral acts in the name of the State are still immoral. This has been Stef's platform for a VERY long time, and he was right there. Let's call this northern values, since it's a higher level of consciousness.</p>\n<p>The irony here is that there have been people in history who have shared these ideas before. They were largely marginalized BECAUSE of State power's capability to forcibly silence others. If this is the pivotal time to act as Stef asserts, then turning to the State is asking that these liberating ideas by quashed in the name of the familiar yet again. This clinging to tradition is one definition of culture, which Stef has pointed out numerous times is antithetical to philosophy. Here, \"northern values\" would be an example of creative destruction; Just as the automobile rendered the horse draw carriage obsolete, northern values have rendered western values largely inferior.</p>\n<p>In the video, Stef mentioned that a death of western civilization would mean a death of our freedoms. What freedoms? Since I have found FDR, the US has given its enforcer class carte blanche, destroyed \"free speech\" in repeated, transparent, and unapologetic ways up to and including demonizing whistle blowers rather than the monsters they expose, perpetuated drone warfare, which even if it were just, has an abysmal accuracy rate and wreaks nothing but collateral damage in the extreme, put more people into jail for victimless crimes than there were slaves in the US's infancy.... The list goes on.</p>\n<p>More importantly, freedom is not something that is handed out by your masters. Freedom comes from within. The acceptance that you own yourself. I have put forth a great deal of effort to speak out against political voting precisely for the ways in which political voting is a demonstration of the lack of one's freedom even in their own head. Many thanks to Larken Rose to verbalizing this idea/perspective.</p>\n<p>People are already waking up in droves to the fact that government is invalid. Were government (even under Trump) to continue to add to the perverse evidence of as much, it would only serve to reinforce the acceptance of this truth; Bring us closer to the flash point where the majority grasp the truth and it is no longer fashionable to support institutionalized violence. It will be tumultuous, but it has to happen if mankind is ever to achieve freedom. I think it is arrogant and irresponsible to try and put such an event off for the sake of comfort in the now. Particularly when that comfort isn't even here in the now.</p>\n<p>In the video, Stef says, \"Now is the time to step up. Now is the time to get involved. Now is the time to get people motivated. Now is the time to get people to go and vote.\" Previously, Stef has pointed out that the first step to wisdom is to call things by their proper names. Taxation is theft for example. What is political voting? Well, people cannot own other people. Therefore, the act of pretending to transfer the ownership of hundreds of millions of people (voting) is an act of make believe. It is pure fantasy. As such, this quote is self-detonating. It's putting out a call to action to get people to sink their efforts into doing nothing while pretending to do something (anti-accomplishment). Meanwhile, this very article IS the involvement that's being called for!</p>\n<p>He also says, \"I have given you the gift of knowledge and the great curse and blessing of responsibility.\" I agree with the idea that he puts forth here. I for one unapologetically speak the truth, even where I know it will be rejected and only lead to my own personal social discomfort. Because even if somebody rejects the truth, they will no longer be able to claim they didn't know any better. Responsibility is THE greatest gift you can give to anybody. It is unfortunate that he is claiming to be the source of the knowledge while asking you to squander it...</p>\n<p>It is true that because of Stefan Molyneux's work, I have walked a path that has shown me happiness and heights I never thought possible. It's facilitated the opportunity to meet ME, and to shape that person into a paragon of virtue, in spite of all my abusers' successful efforts to the contrary. It's actually a result of this that the RESPONSIBILITY that I have now is to use my understanding to point out the ways in which political voting is self-contradictory, is anti-accomplishment, that the president of the United States doesn't have the capability of saving/destroying western civilization, and that western civilization is inferior to the \"northern civilization\" we actually have available to us today.</p>\n</html>",
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      "body": "<html>\n<p>How do you know? It is the most important question we can ask, even of ourselves. Our senses are equipped to deliver more information to the brain than we are able to consciously process. From birth, our brains learn how to filter certain things out, to avoid wasting resources where doing so would be redundant or unnecessary. Also, being able to accurately identify something is paramount to our survival. As a result, being mindful of how we know something is even more important than the item we claim to know. Since flawed methodology will likely result in a flawed conclusion. At the very least, it will provide for us the opportunity to hone our ability to arrive at conclusions in the future.</p>\n<p>We live in a world full of competing claims and interests. Unfortunately, this world has also been plagued by human subjugation for millenia. Resulting in those who would try to subjugate others having access to sophisticated methods by which to usurp one's own rationality. Often at a time in our lives when we lack the intellectual fortitude to properly defend ourselves from those who have easy access to us exploiting that vulnerability for their own gain. Combined with the ways in which information can travel so much more quickly, it is imperative that he have the right tools to sift through it all to arrive at the truth.</p>\n<p>Enter the concept of the null hypothesis. Perhaps just a fancy way of saying the way in which to disprove something. For example, assume somebody put forth the claim that all squirrels are green. Here, the null hypothesis would simply be finding a squirrel that was not green. Why is this important? Anybody who puts forth an objective claim is at the same time claiming that truth is preferred to falsehood. Were their claim to be disproven, they would revise their claim to more accurately describe the real world. That is unless their conclusion were dogmatic, derived from bias, or part of some irrational need for the claim to be true. This can be observed in two ways; When a person will provide no null hypothesis to their theory or when a person will make no effort to address the null hypothesis of your counter-theory.</p>\n<p>Humans enter this world clamoring for an understanding of their environment. Constantly striving to be more self-reliant in every aspect of their being as this is tantamount to survival itself. We are not born seeking people to make our decisions for us or take away our agency; Our ability to provide for our own survival. Through this, we can observe that in the debate as to whether or not political voting is valid, that not voting is the origin and voting is the deviation. In a rational world, this would mean that the burden of proof lies upon those who are pro-voting. As extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Tragically, we live in a world where voting has been the norm for so long.</p>\n<p>In recent times, some of the more vocal, otherwise rational thinkers have put vast amounts of resources into trying to convince people that political voting is valid; That the State and the violation of property rights it is born from is acceptable under certain circumstances or as long as it is used in a way that they like. Clearly this is not a principled conclusion. As established in the beginning, this flawed methodology reveals that we should discard the conclusion. Yet many will not. In my last article, I even pointed out the ways in which the sheer amount of propaganda that is put into the pro-voting movement among those who otherwise accept property rights should give anyone pause.</p>\n<p>One thing I've noticed recently though--which is the motivation for writing now a third article on the topic--is the ways in which people who are pro-voting will not address the null hypotheses offered by people who understand that participating in the process is antithetical to self-ownership and property rights. To wit, they will not even offer null hypotheses of their own! While not a proof, this is strong evidence that chances are their position lacks merit. Therefore, I wanted to put forth a number of null hypotheses as a challenge to anybody that thinks that political voting under any circumstances is productive in any way. While this list is offered in the context of the United State presidential election, many of these ideas can be applied in other contexts.</p>\n<p>1) You don't own me. In order to prove voting is valid, one must prove that person A could ever have a greater claim to person B than person B does. If they cannot, they reveal that they couldn't vote even if they wanted to, since voting indicates an attempt to transfer ownership of the populace to a particular ruler.</p>\n<p>2) Your vote contributes to the outcome. This is actually a three part null hypothesis.<br>\nA) Politicians have time and again tried to change the rules as to who is allowed to vote, how, and why.<br>\nB) With technology at an all time high, voting fraud and the ability to identify it is more prevalent than ever before.<br>\nC) The electoral college choose presidents of the United States (POTUS). These bodies are not beholden to the people are are not representative of the popular vote.</p>\n<p>3) Any given politician will do what they say, everything they say, and only what they say. There is no apparatus in place to make this so and no consequences for not making it so. 100% of POTUS have deviated from both their campaign promises and the US Constitution.</p>\n<p>4) What any given politician does is exactly what everybody they purport to rule over wants. Otherwise, voters are condoning mob rule; Pretending to suspend the property rights of their neighbors for no reason other than they were outnumbered. An unprincipled conclusion.</p>\n<p>5) POTUS has the power to do anything they say they will. In the US, the government was established in a three prong check and balance system. It is true that there came a point where both parties and all three branches learned that they all benefited from the entire process being perpetuated and as a result, the lines between these entities have been blurred. Still, it is foolish to think any one person could have the power to do anything a presidential candidate claims they will.</p>\n<p>Please share these challenges and report back if you can even find one person willing to address any of them or offer a null hypothesis to voting. I have yet to find a single one. My experience has been people deflecting, personalizing, talking about the ways in which a particular candidate or time in history permits us to jettison logic, reason, or evidence. Again, an unprincipled conclusion. If ever there were proof that statism is just another religion...</p>\n<p>In the future, advanced civilization will look back on political voting the way we look back on human sacrifice. 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      "body": "That is what I see right now in anarchist Trump supporters. I wonder if I'd fall that way too if I wasn't naturally inclined to embrace being on my own over being social. I love being social but I am picky about who I socialize with and will gladly be lonely over follow a crowd down a path I don't morally agree with. The saying \"better to be alone than with bad company\" always spoke to me. Still, i've enjoyed jokes and commentary with the Trump supporters because it is hard to feel alone. Raising a family without a community is heartbreaking. I agree with your post. And I can understand why others are succumbing to picking one candidate in defense. There are some immediate and legitimate reasons why some of us may want to help one side win. I can't participate in voting, though.",
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      "body": "<html>\n<p>When my father got hitched to my mother, he married into a stereotypical redneck family. Drunk, violent, family beaters mostly. He inflicted the conclusion upon me that drunks try to get other people to drink with them. Though he didn't share his methodology with me, I think he was right. Humans are a social species. It is comforting to know we are not alone in our addictions, our underlying abusive pasts, the dysfunctional world we live in... and our delusions.</p>\n<p>Humans are universality machines. Even in the womb, we find ourselves in an unfamiliar place, with the biological imperative to survive, thrive, and multiply. It is paramount then that we be able to accurately identify items in our environment. Mistake a grizzly bear for a teddy bear and chances are your lack of discernment will not survive natural selection. Part of this is learning the ways in which our environments are static. Everybody fell down when learning to walk. Imagine instead that we lived in a world where gravity could fluctuate. Things that we take for granted such as balance might not be possible to master. Because of the consistency of gravity, that is one less thing our senses do not have to account for while providing for our survival moving forward.</p>\n<p>Occam's Razor declares that the explanation that requires the least amount of assumptions is usually the more accurate explanation. While not a proof, this tends to bear out. Since I've learned to process the trauma of my past and start to think rationally, I've often found it's easy to see through the obfuscation by looking for the contradictions and double-standards. This is something that plagues so many people because almost all of it is inflicted on children as early as possible, in an attempt to override their natural scrutiny and drive for universalization of ideas.</p>\n<p>Ever wonder why you've never seen a bumper sticker that asserts that 2+2=4? Such a thing is not necessary because we learn this is true from a very early age. Imagine there was somebody who needed for you to believe that 2+2=5. Simply claiming as much would not be sufficient. They would need a great deal of propaganda to successfully convince anybody of such a thing, let alone large swaths of the population. Propaganda that is rooted in ideas such as improving your life or avoiding harm. We've all seen bumper stickers that say things like \"Jesus saves\" or \"Support Our Troops.\" Again, while not a proof, the amount of times such things need to be repeated suggests they are not accurate and/or cannot survive without being repeated ad infinitum.</p>\n<p>Consider political voting now. It is neither normal nor rational for people to wander about, wondering how they can go about achieving their goals with a ruler interfering and telling them what to do. Yet if you look around, you will even find people on the other side of the globe thinking about United States political candidates. There is much propaganda abound, such as \"Vote or Die!\" and \"If you don't vote, you're voting...\" or my least favorite: \"I'm voting for X to avoid Y.\" The sheer scale by which this is repeated should be enough to give anybody pause. \"Why is it so important to other people that voting be engaged in and legitimized?\" I often wonder.</p>\n<p>I expect it is because as social creatures, we do not want to feel alone in our delusions. It's easier to sacrifice a child to the volcano when all your neighbors pretend it's okay too. For if you were to protest, you might me the next person tossed into your demise. Nobody who intends to vote or would tell you to vote has any reason to suspect that by doing so, they will be making any changes in their own life. In fact, I would argue they spend so much time and energy on such things for the express purpose of avoiding taking on the responsibility to apply their energies to things they actually have control over, such as improving themselves.</p>\n</html>",
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      "body": "<html>\n<p>You don't own me. Therefore, you cannot try and transfer ownership of me and everybody else by telling somebody who is a complete stranger to us all that they get to rule over all of us. Thank you for reading...</p>\n<p>If you are somebody who accepts property rights (which is provably 100% of people), this should be all the thought one needs to put into the question of whether to vote or not. However, there are a large number of people who outwardly admit they accept property right and the rational conclusion that stems from it that government is predicated on violations of property rights, who at the same time think that voting is a rational and consistent proposition. They do not find the fact that they do not own me as sufficient for convincing them not to try and transfer ownership of me to a complete stranger. Sadly, this means I'll need to make this infinitely more lengthy than is necessary.</p>\n<p>Easily the most often reached for explanation for voting without the above cognitive dissonance is that it is an act of self-defense; That voting for the person who is less harmful is a way of actively defending themselves. There are so many problems with this claim. Not the least of which is that we don't actually know who is less harmful. All we know for certain is that those running have accepted the false premise that human beings can exist in different, opposing moral categories. This makes them harmful with any power they have over anybody. Power that voting pretends to give them. Which says nothing of the fact that we have no reason to believe that they will do as they say once elected. History tells us they likely won't. Either way, there is no apparatus in place to hold these people accountable. One of the many dangers in pretending people are not responsible for their actions, which is what politics and statism does.</p>\n<p>Another problem with the prospect of defensive force is the line between proportionate counter-force and retaliatory force. For example, imagine you own a convenience store and you catch somebody trying to walk out of your store with an unpaid for candy bar. Were you to grab them by the arm, you would not be initiating the use of force. Force was initiated when the perpetrator violated your property rights by taking something that belonged to you without your consent. If you were to instead shoot them, this would be retaliatory. Because the level of force is so disproportionate that you are in fact creating a new, much larger debt. You would in fact be initiating the use of force even though there was a chain of causality leading up to that decision.</p>\n<p>Let us now imagine you're still this store owner, but now instead of stealing a candy bar, the perpetrator in question is trying to rob you at gun point. Now, the deployment of lethal force in the form of shooting them is proportionate. It would not be proportionate to, for example, drop a bomb on their house. Because you do not know who else is in the house, nor do you have the capability of controlling the level of destruction such a behavior would yield. Identically, somebody voting for a politician has no apparatus through which to control the level of violations of property rights they would engage in at the behest of every person who voted for them. Voting, were it in self-defense, would in fact be retaliatory given the disproportionate escalation.</p>\n<p>There was a time when I was convinced that voting was the initiation of the use of force. It was explained to me that because the people being voted for can refuse to initiate the use of force, that the act isn't immoral. Condoning something is not the same as being culpable for it. I accept this argument as philosophically sound. However, this takes the option of defensive force off the table altogether. Voting can not simultaneously be the deployment of force and not the deployment of force. Additionally, this deployment of force is imaginary. In that a person has no reason to believe that their vote actually contributes to anything. Between institutions such as the United States' Electoral Colleges, to tampering, to rigging the elections, nobody has any proof that their vote has any influence on the outcome.</p>\n<p>This raises the question: \"If we have no reason to suspect our vote has any influence on the outcome, where is the harm?\" Pascal's wager if you will. The very reason why I put as much effort as I do into trying to convince others not to vote is because there is very real harm done when one votes. It occurs first within the mind of the vote themselves. First of all, by participating in this game that was inflicted upon them, they are not resisting their enslavement, they are accepting it! Secondly, there is an opportunity cost associated with voting. I'm not referring to the time it takes to go to the polls and flip a switch. No, I'm talking about the time spent pretending to address a problem in a way that demonstrates that the voter doesn't even understand what the problem is.</p>\n<p>What then is in fact the problem? As I see it, the lifeblood of the state is its perceived legitimacy. If we see some random hooligan taking somebody's wallet at knife point, striking an unwilling individual, holding down somebody to rape them, or killing them for no reason, we recognize these things to be immoral. 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      "body": "<html>\n<p>To this day, whenever somebody tells me to calm down, it triggers me. Usually, it is because I am already calm. It is a very provocative manner of speech to tell somebody what to do. Then in the moments when I'm not calm, it is because I am upset about something they have done. In which case, being told to calm down is a deflection of attention back onto me. Which is manipulative and dishonest.</p>\n<p>As a man of compassion, it is important to me how I land for others. I was abused as a child and went decades without processing the trauma. In that time, I had a number of bad habits inflicted upon me. Habits I wish to correct for and eliminate from my life. This is my goal because I want future me to have a better life. I do not want my abusers to \"win\" further by isolating me from potentially quality people. However, I am not perfect and how I land for others can be a fantastic source of feedback as to how well I'm doing in accomplishing this goal.</p>\n<p>In my life, I have known some very low moments. We all have I suspect. The ability to self-soothe is an important one. Primarily because we will always have ourselves to rely on in any given moment. Unfortunately, child abuse can interrupt the physiological development of the ability to self-soothe. Meanwhile, humans are social animals and we benefit from others in our lives. There is nothing weak in leaning on the strength of others in our times of need. Of all the times in my life that I have been soothed by another person, it has never occurred in the form of them telling me to calm down. It has always manifested in them demonstrating their care for me and empathy for what I'm going through. Which makes sense when you consider the way in which \"calm down\" is provocative. My point being that this phrase will only serve to achieve the opposite of its stated goal.</p>\n<p>All of this is anecdotal evidence, but it's still very instructive. It tells me that whenever somebody orders me to calm down, they're not showing care for me, nor are they talking about ME at all! What they're telling me is that they are feeling anxious and are (ab)using me to manage their anxiety in the moment. Which further tells me that they have unprocessed trauma as evidenced by their inability to self-soothe and a willingness to consume others for their own gain; an unsustainable proposition.</p>\n<p>When you add these together, they are demonstrating that they have in fact normalized their abuse. They had been abused, so they are projecting that they expect you to have been abused. A safe bet given the dysfunctional world we live in! By telling you to calm down instead of being direct and honest about their feelings, they're trying to access the abuse of your past; Attenuate the seeds your abusers planted for the sake of isolating you. It's meant to provoke you into a state of being upset. Then the person saying it can feel vindicated that the blame lies entirely within you, disenfranchise you, subjugate you in the moment, and avoid any need to improve upon themselves. As I've said before, in an attempt to take control of something, they instead relinquish control to their very abusers that their attempt to gain control was meant to be in defiance of. This is truly very tragic.</p>\n<p>It is important to recognize that this is toxic behavior. People who care about themselves and the quality people in their lives will avoid toxic people. Please note that up until now, I have not referred to the instigator as a toxic person. This isn't for the sake of concealing their toxicity. It is meant to serve as a reminder that their toxic behavior wasn't chosen by them consciously. Hopefully, quality people will respond to this behavior by attempting to reach out to that person and use their own trauma processing to help others. If they were to then reject your attempt, demonstrating that they find themselves to be incapable of growth, then by all means cut that person out of your life. At that point, they would be demonstrating that this is not a toxic behavior, but rather the toxic effects of a reckless person. By choosing to not improve upon themselves, they make themselves that much more culpable for their toxic behavior.</p>\n<p>Stay strong, my brothers and sisters. Do not let people who would speak to you in this manner succeed in the self-doubt and attack they are trying to solicit with their deflective words. Look for a willingness to accept one's own capacity for error in those you would allow in your life. 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      "body": "RIght, my issuance of a challenge is somehow akin to coercion because, what, I wasn't pleasant about it? I made no threats. I used no force. I simply said I fucking dare you. \nIf you're a statist, I dare you to do some actual fucking research and be willing to accept the evidence no matter what.  Chances are, you won't come out the other side sucking Uncle Sam's dick. And then I, perhaps, insulted statists by saying they are scared. But is it really an insult when all my experience and all the information I have says they are scared to do research? That they refuse to really look into this shit because \"What if I've been lied to and fooled all my life? How horrible, how embarassing... I don't want my whole life to change because I learned too much.\" \n\nAs for the anarchists, again, no threats, no force, simply I fucking dare you to share this and/or to go out and fucking debate this shit with statists. If you really believe anarchy is the way, then you should be able to argue for why it is the way. Not rhetoric, not shittalking, seriously be able to argue, debate and defend it with evidence, facts, logic, reason, rationale. But that's not what I'm seeing much of anymore. It's mostly shitposting and circle jerks in the echo chamber with all the other anarchists you know. \n\nDid I present this in a confrontational and none too pleasant way? Yeah, I fucking did. If you don't like how I presented it, then do it your own way. But the fact that people would rather get caught up in bitching about the tone of the message rather than talking about the message itself is disgusting and sad. \n\nIt's very fucking simple: truth wishstands scrutiny. If your truth cannot withstand scrutiny, either it isn't the truth or you don't understand it. Either way, that's a problem. That's the fucking point here. \n\nStatist arguments can't withstand scrutiny because they are almost always rhetorical or fallacious. \nAnarchist arguments that can't withstand scrutiny are due to the anarchist being unable to argue their points and that's because they aren't trying to better understand the very thing they are so invested in. \n\nSo, in summation, I'm sorry if you were upset by this, that's very sad because I assume you're an adult. But funny thing about upsetting people, even though it may drive them away, from me at least, it sticks in the back of their mind gnawing at them. More often than not, when I piss people off, eventually, my point gets through. They don't always come back and say 'you were right' but they change their bullshit that I called out. Because people that are honest with themselves(admittedly not a common or easy thing for most), they may get pissed and storm away, but eventually, they'll ask themselves if that thing that pissed them off really just scared them and if, maybe, they shouldn't put their asses to the test.",
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      "body": "Telling people what they're going to do before they even can do it is provocative, manipulative, and indicates that they cannot have a conversation with you because you're already engaged in a conversation elsewhere.\n\nAlso, I would recommend taking your own advice. By that I mean examine your approach and results it solicits and revise your approach. For example, you referred to anarchy as a belief. The fact that humans do not exist in separate, opposing moral categories is objectively and observably true. Accepting the truth is not a belief.\n\nMeanwhile, Statism not only is a belief, but an irrational conclusion. From this, we can derive that people did not arrive there by way of logic, reason, or evidence. As such, the likelihood that logic, reason, or evidence will pull them out of it is very slim. They NEED for their conclusion to be valid because to question it would potentially lead to a loss of their friends, their family, and everything they thought they understood about the world. So you are essentially challenging people who cling to beliefs for what they view as self-preservation to risk that self-preservation.\n\nIf somebody handed you a knife and said to slit your wrists as hard as you can and you will find true happiness; to not worry, that the blade is dull and would in fact feel good, would you accept their invitation? Do you think the provocativeness of your presentation would be inviting? You literally said to people that they have to do what you want them to or else it means X, Y, and Z about them. Which in a way is inviting people to leave behind all the abusive people from their past to side with another abusive person.",
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      "body": ">No drug takes away a person's ability to make proper decisions. \n\nActually most illicit drugs do exactly that... Which is why you should plan responsibly ahead of time.",
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      "body": "\"Who decides these morals\" is begging the question. It presumes that morality is subjective. If it were, it would be meaningless, as you attempt to point out. So instead of using that as a reason to accept the theft, assault, rape, and murder of human beings in the name of the State, perhaps instead use it as motivation to learn whether or not morality even IS subjective.\n\nIt is objectively true that theft, assault, rape, and murder are internally consistent. The person engaging in these acts is using their property to deprive another of their property. In other words, the perpetrator is telling you with their very actions that their action is wrong.",
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      "body": "<html>\n<p>Across every moment of your life, there will be a single constant: you. Your time, effort, and life are the most valuable resources on the planet. Why then do so many of us squander them, seemingly without purpose or deliberation?</p>\n<p>As children, so many of us were and are abused and neglected in one form or another. It used to be socially acceptable to assault defenseless, dependent, not-there-by-choice children. Today, it's not hard to find parents in public places doing this, threatening them, or otherwise neglecting or abandoning them. Children in these scenarios learn how to erase themselves for the preferences of their abusers for self-preservation's sake. During the formative years, these human beings develop habits that make them ripe for subjugation. Which our society at large has been forcibly arranged to take full advantage of.</p>\n<p>If you know nothing about automobiles, I would wager that you still wouldn't try to drive a four-wheeled car with only three wheels. Or put sand in the fuel tank. Yet metaphorically, so many of us will put \"sand\" into the fuel tanks of our bodies. Also, it seems a lot easier at first glance to pass up opportunities for calibrating our own behaviors and thought patterns. It's not easy accepting that perhaps we've made a mistake. Even more difficult for many to face the possibility that their care-givers possibly made mistakes. It can be an inconvenience to have to stop and change the oil on your car, but it will last a whole lot longer if you do.</p>\n<p>One way to describe this phenomenon is to say that traumatized people re-create the unprocessed trauma of their histories for the sake of comfort. To wield control in a situation (or perhaps even in a life) that feels out of their control. Most of the time, this decision is subconscious, leaving the victim virtually powerless to overcome it. This is actually an example of another phenomenon: Engaging in a behavior that has the opposite effect of one's stated goals. Assuming the goal here is to wield control, the re-creation of the trauma is actually relinquishing control retroactively to whomever had provided that trauma.</p>\n<p>In this way, self-care is actually a way to take back that control. Building yourself up for a healthier, more rewarding life when those who abused you were trying to diminish you for their sake. As with the vehicle's oil change analogy, the process looks a lot more attractive when you look at it from an effort:yield perspective. Sure I could eat this (insert unhealthy food here), but if I eat this (insert healthy food here) that might not seem as rewarding in the present, the long-term yield is far more rewarding.</p>\n<p>A little over three and a half years ago, I was awoken to ideas such as my own capacity for error and rational thought. It allowed for me to begin my journey of self-knowledge. Which includes processing the trauma of your past by calling things by their proper names, identifying the ways in which it makes you feel, and how those feelings alter your behaviors. This understanding is what allows for us to have the power and control to do something about it. Sadly, out of the phenomena mentioned above, even after pursuing self-knowledge and tasting the joys it brought to my life, I maintained a defeatist attitude. I did NOT eat properly, care for my body, develop my human capital, or work towards developing a higher-quality support network. My life was continuing to be lived for the benefit of those who trained me to live my life for them.</p>\n<p>Thankfully, I have since been sparked out of that rut. Due to the work I had already done, I was able to provide value for and attract other high quality people. People who had overcome as much and understood the value of healthy living. Healthy from our diet to the ways in which we interact with other people. They encouraged me to love and care for myself, lent me their strength, borrowed from mine, and enjoyed a brighter life from this sharing and having me in their life. It's a breathtaking sight to behold. I feel as if I am twice the man I was half a year ago, in every way. And it's so much easier than you might think. Okay, I'm not being honest there; In and of itself, it's the hardest thing you'll ever do. However, the rewards will let you know right away that it is worth it.</p>\n<p>To bring this message full circle, we are people who have interrupted the cycle of abuse. We now build up those in our lives up and champion causes like children's rights. This is tantamount to saving the world and it's the most wonderful feeling. Best of all, it doesn't belong to me. You can have this too. More than that, I want you to. Because my future child's life will be brighter the more healthy people we have breaking free of the chains of subjugation that have plagued mankind throughout recorded history. So please, take a chance on caring for you, in turn those around you, and ultimately the children that you bring into the world or even just have access to.</p>\n<p>In closing, I wanted to provide an action plan of sorts. One that I've used and think I've had tremendous results in. A long-time best friend of mine had shared with me a book by the title of <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Lifting-Supercharged-Muscle-Building/dp/1583335366/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=CEWT5N7YJV7W27XMJFMQ\">The New Rules of Lifting: Supercharged</a>. 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