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The Virtue of SelfishnessI am selfish. Too selfish to drop a dollar in a beggar's cap, too selfish to care about the homeless on the street, too selfish to have any desire to help drug addicts come clean, too selfish to help a disadvantaged person live a normal life.   
These are characteristics of a selfish person.   
My selfishness runs deeper than that, however.   
I am too selfish to want to rule the world, no matter the benefits it brings me - for I want my life to be mine and mine alone.   
I am too selfish to lie - for I would not settle for being somebody other than me, for living a life besides the one I am living. &nb The Virtue of Selfishness
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On CanvasThe ultimate canvas is the human form - the ultimate tools, the human mind.  We each are granted but a single canvas to paint upon, to produce a masterpiece or to produce garbage.  Some are granted superior canvas, or superior tools, with which to produce either masterpiece or garbage.  But each has the opportunity to paint as they will.  To sculpt what they will.  A laugh line here - a hard muscular line there.  Softness in the right place.   
Or in the wrong.   
Not all must appreciate the same aesthetic qualities.  It is up to each of us to decide wha On Canvas
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On FriendshipFriendship.   
What does friendship mean?   
What makes somebody a friend, as opposed to an acquaintance?   
Are you friends with somebody merely because you know them well?  Doesn't that make everybody who reads an auto bibliography friends with the author?   
Are friends merely people you have a good time with?   
Friendship has been on my mind a lot lately, because of a problem I'm dealing with with an individual who has been my only serious friend for the past three years.  This individual - well, it's between us, so I will simply explain it as that I was lied to, basic On Friendship
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On EconomicsStagflation is the critical flaw in Keynesian economics. Keynes believed it could not happen. Effectively, stagflation is what happens when government starts increasing its spending during a depression - prices start rising (inflation), and the depression isn't reversed, partly because rising prices discourage additional spending. A more complicated, in-depth explanation would take a block of text you wouldn't care to wander through.   
In short, Keynesian economics relies upon the idea that inflation is strongly associated with economic growth, and that if government engages in inflationary economic activities, it will spur economi On Economics
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Fasting...

Fri Jun 12, 2009, 12:02 PM
Experimenting with a fast since yesterday. I have been drinking a "tea" which I'm making by pouring hot water over clove and cinnamon. (It tasted good when I started. Now it just tastes like soap.)

I've learned some interesting things. First, fasting is -not- painful, at least not yet, or not for me, or maybe if you drink plenty of fluids. And also, I haven't gotten -hungry- yet. At least not in any meaningful sense of the word. I'm curious to know how long it would take me to get hungry at this point, having discovered that my primary motivation for eating is, in fact, boredom, as my desire to eat only appears when I have nothing to do. (I bought myself some good books, and I'm fine now.) I'm starting to feel my energy wane, and am contemplating combating that with some sugar-free energy drinks, but I suspect that might have adverse effects on me without having eaten. (The only problem with having bought good books is that I am now also running on a deficiency of sleep. We'll see if the combination makes me delirious.)

I'm -not- stupid enough to go running right now, having gone on an unintentional fast in the past as a result of staying with somebody who made absolutely terrible food (they lie when they say if you get hungry enough you'll eat anything, by the way - I don't think there is a misery on the planet sufficient to make me eat her collard greens), and having nearly collapsed when I tried to go biking after a week of that.

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*sonicbutterfly 6 days 20 hours ago
Long time no see, you.

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"THOSE WHO WOULD GIVE UP THE LIBERTY OF NOT FOLLOWING SONICBUTTERFLY'S RULES FOR THE SECURITY OF MEETING HER EXPECTATIONS DESERVE NEITHER!" - *JupiterWave
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~Unvalanced 5 days 14 hours ago
Heh, yeah.

A friend (my best friend, actually) from high school that I've been looking for for years called me a couple months ago out of the blue, and I've been caught up in... er... her, of late.

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Why is it people who speak of brotherly love always seem to favour the Cain-with-Abel approach to the matter?
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=OuroborosCobra Oct 16, 2009, 9:52:49 PM
Oh look, you're back.

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Vive la révolution libertaire, mon ~TBSchemer!

Thomas Paine wrote "The Rights of Man," not "The Privileges of Law Abiding Citizens That Aren't Brown People or Praying to Allah"
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~Unvalanced Oct 17, 2009, 3:44:16 PM
No, not really.

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Why is it people who speak of brotherly love always seem to favour the Cain-with-Abel approach to the matter?
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~TBSchemer Jul 14, 2009, 8:26:14 PM
It's been awhile since I felt like I could say this about anyone, but I think your thoughtful ideas and calm contemplation bring a great deal of rationality to a politics forum which is otherwise in chaos.

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Journal for a Free Society: [link]

A scientist cannot be dismissive of new or unpopular ideas, for it is investigation of that which has not been considered which leads to discovery and understanding.
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~Unvalanced Jul 14, 2009, 9:37:33 PM
Thank you.

Probably won't stick around too much longer before I skip out for another couple of months. There isn't really a whole lot of challenge there right now (possibly because of the summer, possibly because I'm in an unusually lucid state of existence at the moment), and I pretty much exist to challenge my own ideas.

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Why is it people who speak of brotherly love always seem to favour the Cain-with-Abel approach to the matter?
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~Beautiful-Insanity Jun 23, 2009, 6:39:27 AM
AYN RAND? reallllly? Anarcho-Capitalist....?

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DAPoliticalForum member woohoo! :D
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~Unvalanced Jun 23, 2009, 6:55:23 AM
Nah; minarchist. Anarcho-capitalism is just inviting a different kind of government to rule you.

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Why is it people who speak of brotherly love always seem to favour the Cain-with-Abel approach to the matter?
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~Beautiful-Insanity Jun 23, 2009, 6:59:47 AM
So.. a form of libertarianism, or classical liberalism even..?

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DAPoliticalForum member woohoo! :D
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~Unvalanced Jun 23, 2009, 7:07:02 AM
Classical liberalism, yep. I believe in a government - but one whose sole duty is to act as a repository for society's violence, to keep violence, inasmuch as possible, contained within it. (And any deviation from that duty is a failure in that duty, as its sole power is to release some of that violence for its ends.)

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Why is it people who speak of brotherly love always seem to favour the Cain-with-Abel approach to the matter?
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