Sound and fury

[yankees60]

Ohhh and I'm here for the ladies in case anyone wondered. I like to talk stocks and gold and USD but for obvious reasons the political chat was hopping in Nov.

Tried to discuss the mountains of evidence of election fraud but the other people who see it got sidetracked by some 7th degree black belt trolling.

Big fan of HB. I have 6 or 7 of his books. I've recommended "how i found freedom" to multiple people, 2 of which promptly filed for divorce after. I regret one of those was my step dad. Sorry mom.

My experience from reading "how I found freedom" was that is was a self-affirming book for me, that I was not this strange person for having chosen to do a lot of things differently than the norm. The same affirmation I got after 20 years prior reading "The Millionaire Next Door". In both cases the books affirmed that while my chosen paths were different, in the long run, they are the most fruitful.

Vinny

[Libertarian666]

I've asked this question before but have never received an answer:

If this forum is so objectionable or useless to the non-libertarian members of this forum, why do those people keep coming back here? If the philosophical orientation and dominant viewpoint expressed here is so reprehensible as to actually cause a member to post in a venomous, out-of-control tirade that that the conservative members of this forum be "mercilessly crushed," why does he continue to reappear like clockwork? Why are we subjected to melodramatic "I'm leaving here forever" displays, only to have the aggrieved individuals to return and make the same dramatic exit again?

I guess you will have to wait for Mr. Libertarian666 to re-appear again to directly ask him that question and hope that he sees it and does not have you on "Ignore".

Vinny

tec didn't give a lot of detail on why he was leaving but i got no indication it was a hissy fit, or caused by post drama..
i could be wrong but my impression was he took off to do a "sphere of influence" thing, pursue changing things he has control over vs arguing politics with closed minds, which is a waste of time (it sharpens ones thinking, can be entertaining, and perhaps informative to lurkers ) but mostly non productive from a liveitarian perspective..

Basically correct, with the addition of the fact that I'm full up with negative political news. Not just here, of course, but everywhere I look. So I've taken a sabbatical from political news other than a few sources that haven't thrown in the towel yet.

Also, why would I have Maddy on ignore? She's also a libertarian or very close to it, and debates in a civilized manner as well.

And finally, as usual Vinny is completely off-target, since Maddy's question was about non-libertarian members of the forum, which group I am definitely not in.