My name's Justin, and I'm a Buddhist. I take bits from Hindu, and Taoist philosophy as well though. I blog about religion, politics, philosophy, and whatever else I feel like blogging about. I've grown a lot over the years, but I'm still far from where I want to be. If you have any questions then ask away! Don't be shy.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
So Romney has Paul Ryan for his VP pick?
What a joke.
Libertarian Gary Johnson for president!
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’
Ronald Reagan (via thedailyliberty)
Paul Krugman Debunks Mitt Romney’s Economic Nonsense
ZAKARIA: All this said and done, are you enthusiastic about President Obama? You were not for him in the Democratic primary four years ago.
KRUGMAN: Right. I mean, we’re a long way past where I think enthusiasm is the appropriate emotion for anything here.
But he’s learned a lot. And, you know, his heart’s always been in the right place, and I believe his head is now in the right place. And you certainly — of course, I can’t do endorsements, right? It’s a Times rule. So you have no idea who I prefer in this election.
(LAUGHTER)
But he certainly is talking sense about the economy, and Mitt Romney is talking utter nonsense. And you really do worry. In effect…
ZAKARIA: What is the single biggest piece of nonsense that Mitt Romney…
KRUGMAN: Mitt Romney is saying basically that spending cuts are how we’re going to get to prosperity. Mitt Romney is saying, see what’s happening in Greece and in Portugal and in Spain and in Ireland; let’s do that here.
Boy — you know, we’ve just had a massive test, human experimentation on a massive scale, in effect, alternative doctrines of economic management. We’ve just seen which doctrines are disastrous. And the Republican platform is, let’s put that doctrine that has just caused collapse in Europe — let’s put that doctrine into effect right here in America.
Look at those SAVAGE spending cuts Paul Krugman…
Stop trying to turn more people in sheeple…
Look at the libertarian children making fun of me OH NOES
Yeah, actually nowhere did I say that my law degree makes me an expert on anything. I think it is a bit rich that an 18, 22, and 19 year old are laughing at someone else for not knowing much about politics. Go ahead, vote libertarian, I really don’t give a flying fuck, your candidate is not a libertarian, and when you wake up and realize what an insufferable douche you were voting for Ron Paul you will still be pathetic morons. Now scurry along to whatever internet crevice you crawled out of and have a nice day. Very successful trolling by the way! 1 whole like by some pathetic girl who couldn’t even respond to me about Ron Paul and had no words for explaining away his racism. Way to go!
livealifethatscompletelyfree <—- go to that girl’s tumblr. You’ll get a really good laugh at how blatantly stupid she is. She thinks her Law degree makes her an expert in politics. XD
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It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
Frédéric Bastiat (via learnliberty)
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended consequences.
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.
Ayn Rand (via becauseithinktoomuch)
As much as I hate to admit it.
No one really has any rights that they are entitled to.
Rights are just an invention, a concept, a way to keep order and put one group of things above another group.
All we did was make rights up like the idea of Santa.
Even if we did have rights then where they come from?
There is no real answer.
It’s a very cute idea, but in reality they’re just privileges to be taken away at a snap of a finger.
‘One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors’ - Plato
(via stanlee)
People who hate on Ron Paul because he has a slight stutter.
He is the most eloquent 76 year old man I have ever seen speak, he is not in his 40s or 50s anymore, people should respect that he has the power to speak as well as he does and to do as well as he does in-spite of his age. Whoever says he can’t speak well should watch these videos;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gOoJNK8TkM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anmlPvmd1Ew
