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They're calling those things "ego" now?
Land sakes.
freedomisobvious.blogspot.com
There is only one correct way: freedom. All other solutions are non-solutions.
It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.
Our words make us the ghosts that we are.
Convincing the world he didn't exist was the Devil's second greatest trick; the first was convincing us that God didn't exist.
I am afraid this is a gross non sequitur, similar to:
If it is raining outside, then monkeys.
Slow down thar, cowboy... your fingers are getting ahead of your reason.Results are the end, theory is just a means,
Results MAY be an end... I'd have to think about that more than I wish to at the moment. Theory may be an element of the means, but there's more to it. Action and active defense of one's claims are where the rubber meets the road. Conceptual frameworks are important, but mean nothing without the material capacity and a sufficient bent to put it into effective action.
Not always true. If I believe that turning on my newly designed and built generators at the hydro plant I just finished erecting will provide electricity, the fact that I've neglected to open the sluice gates, thereby disallowing water to flow, it does not follow that my theory was flawed.if following your theory fails to bring results or even brings negative results then something is wrong with your theory.
And that might be OK, were they to remain respectful of the rights of non-communists. That, of course, would never be the case.If you are a "pure" libertarian or anarchist and allow millions of communists to move into your area they will create a communist state.
The point you appear to be abortively making is well taken, but your logic is a bit blitzed, it seems.
freedomisobvious.blogspot.com
There is only one correct way: freedom. All other solutions are non-solutions.
It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.
Our words make us the ghosts that we are.
Convincing the world he didn't exist was the Devil's second greatest trick; the first was convincing us that God didn't exist.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Not so, unicorns are a concept of the mind, if nobody ever finds one then they don't exist.
True, but that isn't the part of the riddle that I am discussing.
Good people want everyone to be as happy as possible, smart people know that freedom is the state of being that best accomplishes that goal in the long run, therefore smart people think long and hard to come up with a theory how to best achieve liberty and maintain it, the next step which I didn't discuss is that they attempt to obtain the means to put their theory into practice, I assumed for the sake of argument that they were successful and moved on to the question of whether the theory produced the results that it existed to produce.
It does if your theory was the only thing required was to turn on the generators and that there was no need to open the sluice gates, that would be exactly like theorizing that all that is necessary for freedom is a lack or minimization of government and that protecting that state of things by controlling immigration isn't needed.
Exactly, yet so many here try to insist that it would be possible.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Doc, you cannot be serious. Until atoms were discovered, are you saying they did not exist? Our failure to discover X, it follows not that X doesn't exist.
OK, but I will point out that whatever your point was, you did not make it clearly. Then again, I'm not very bright, so perhaps it's all just me.True, but that isn't the part of the riddle that I am discussing.
So far as your statements go, I can mostly agree. As for finding the way, that may be a fool's errand, given current circumstances.Good people want everyone to be as happy as possible, smart people know that freedom is the state of being that best accomplishes that goal in the long run, therefore smart people think long and hard to come up with a theory how to best achieve liberty and maintain it, the next step which I didn't discuss is that they attempt to obtain the means to put their theory into practice, I assumed for the sake of argument that they were successful and moved on to the question of whether the theory produced the results that it existed to produce.
Freedom is the most difficult path to tread. The rewards are great, but the cost high. Freedom demands not much of the individual; it demands EVERYTHING. When a child is raised in an environment of freedom, they grow into free beings, jealous of their autonomy and understanding of the virtues of respect and good manners. But even relatively small contaminations of the mindset that leads men to want pretty slavery over actual freedom.
That's tautological - "bad theories are bad". Fine, but trivial.It does if your theory was the only thing required was to turn on the generators and that there was no need to open the sluice gates, that would be exactly like theorizing that all that is necessary for freedom is a lack or minimization of government and that protecting that state of things by controlling immigration isn't needed
freedomisobvious.blogspot.com
There is only one correct way: freedom. All other solutions are non-solutions.
It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.
Our words make us the ghosts that we are.
Convincing the world he didn't exist was the Devil's second greatest trick; the first was convincing us that God didn't exist.
You show me a place where freedom exists and I will agree it exists, I contend that although it may have existed in the past it doesn't currently exist.
In addition I was always speaking relative to the results of the application of a theory, freedom doesn't exist as a result of anarcho-libertarianism if anarch-libertarianism causes tyranny instead.
Contrary to the old saying not all great minds think alike.
Some people need to be reminded that water is wet, they cling to their theories and scream that liberty doesn't require protection or allow for it.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
You are a loser, you want bug government to take care of all your wants and needs that you can't or won't provide for yourself and then you try to come here and spread your attitude and tell us we to will fail because misery loves company.
You will continue to lose because you have chosen to be a loser and you will fail to drag us into compulsive loser syndrome with you as well.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
No, you are being an ass. You are fine with a society that has no security. That is simply wrong.
Ayn Rand was wrong. In theory, rights of an individual sound nice, but don't work in reality.
The mind is the most important place. It is the first place, especially in a world as screwed up as it now happens to be.
Point taken.Some people need to be reminded that water is wet, they cling to their theories and scream that liberty doesn't require protection or allow for it.
freedomisobvious.blogspot.com
There is only one correct way: freedom. All other solutions are non-solutions.
It appears that artificial intelligence is at least slightly superior to natural stupidity.
Our words make us the ghosts that we are.
Convincing the world he didn't exist was the Devil's second greatest trick; the first was convincing us that God didn't exist.
You know, I'm no fan of Swordsmyth's, at all, but the above has to be the stupidest thing I've seen posted here in my entire 11 years as a member. And you've beaten some pretty stiff competition, including the occasional post by Swordy himself. Bravo. Truly remarkable.
Chris
"Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon
"...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul
You are the ass, some may call for a society with absolutely no security but I am not among them, but you don't care, you just throw that kind of accusation at anyone who disagrees with you.
If you weren't an ass you wouldn't come here where nobody agrees with anything you have to say and you aren't wanted.
Keep your brayings to yourself limey, we threw off the Redcoat yoke long ago and have done much better than you people ever since because of it.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Nobody cares about anyone, life is only about me, and me, that is the message of liberty, even if none of us care about anyone or anything for long in life, liberty doesn't exist in the way Mr Paul believes or anyone else. It doesn't.
It is just a dream. A dog eat dog world, only leads to misery.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
No you are, you don't think anybody should have welfare or healthcare, you believe that an individual must provide solely for themselves and only by choice should give to a stranger. Government programs are crap, and are a waste to enrich those employed by government.
I can only imagine, how my society would go with no social housing, and the welfare state. Especially the welfare state, and no NHS.
Every working American as the future Irish president spoke off in 2010 should get healthcare, no plans rubbish. Healthcare plans are just cruel.
That is exactly backwards, it is socialists who want everyone else to provide for them, those who believe in liberty care that the rights of no man be violated.
@Bryan and @Brian4Liberty why hasn't this insect been banned yet?
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Mankind survived and took care of the poor for centuries before the nannystate was even dreamed of.
You are just so selfish that you want everyone else to be forced to support you no matter how unworthy you are and you can't even conceive of anyone being charitable by choice.
This is you:
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
A Zero Hedge comment
Socialists want a society that is as fair as possible, liberty gives freedom to be selfish towards others.
Capitalism is a part of that.
Swordsmyth, you are dangerous and immoral.
Always comparing the needy, and lazy bastard poor like Chavez's old government. Socialists are corrupt.
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