Recent content by On Ice

Accessory helicopter optional. ;)

But doesn't "free" market economy imply the absence of government?

I would bet that by the same logic, anarchists know more about government, followed closely by libertarians.

I dropped out of college for the same reasons -- zero faith that "sticking it out" would result in any kind of discernable payoff. I had reached the point of diminishing returns, as it were. I don't regret dropping out, but I was never interested in a career field that required a certification...

I just had a little email debate with a family member who at one time was as libertarian as a person could be, but who was today arguing FOR the collectivist position. I have watched, feeling helpless, while this family member slides ever more toward collectivism, and I don't know how to combat...

I have found the complete opposite to be true. Women in their mid-30's are all about it, and far more open to casual sex. Men in their mid-30's are lazy, slow to pursue, and saw their sexual prime pass by 15 years earlier. If men want women to be more interested in sex, men should be more...

I guess. I'm just bugged. Beans. They're so simple. We should be exporting these, not importing them. How can it cost less to ship them in from overseas?

I just tugged open a bag of crispy freeze-dried/salted green beans. Simple product. Green beans grow here. Simple packaging. "Product of Viet Nam." Are you kidding me? I used to pick bushels of green beans at my grampa's farm when I was a kid, and now we get beans shipped in from Viet Nam...

Thanks for the sympathy for my dad. I suppose it is quite common. I don't mind being passionate with your religious views for the duration of your lifetime, as long as that passion brings you something positive. Passion turns to obsession when it stops serving you, but you can't stop serving it...

Because they both see the farm. :)

OMG! I'm watching it and Obama is doing the "point-with-his-fist" thing that Bush used to do! I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

According to Steven Hawking, time is the inevitable result of gravity. :cool:

Penn, I'm fascinated with de-belief. My father grew up devout, and lost his faith about 20 years ago. He's still not "over it." 20 years of daily complaining about how he was "duped." 20 years of collecting anti-religion books and videos and forcing his kids (all uninterested non-believers) to...

I'm an atheist because I find the concept of religion/belief in god to run directly counter to the concept of self-ownership. I could never reconcile the two. I suppose I can see how Diests and a scant handful of others can believe in a god, and still believe in self-ownership, but I can't...

Thanks for the replies, guys. :)