1) I used to consider myself a Democrat and was liberal to the point of almost being some version of a communist. I am now a Libertarian.
2) I was ignorant about the harsh realities of the food industry and was an avid meat and dairy consumer. I am now a vegetarian (mostly vegan).
3) I used to believe in God. I am now an Atheist.
4) I used to believe that a union between a man and a woman was the norm and the "right way." I have since joined the fight for equality with fellow LGBTAers.
I kinda went the same way. I was a Conservative for most of my life. A classical liberal at heart so when I learned about the Ron Paul movement it was fairly easy to switch to libertarianism.. seeing how I thought that's what conservationism was all about.
Then one day I came across a confederalsocialist video. I had always believed in limiting government but had never been exposed to the idea of no state at all... I was an anarchist in days. :)
Ya, I used to be a Liberal who thought all Republicans were evil and all Democrats were Good until in the Fall of '07 While I was watching a Hilary Clinton video and there's were many comments that said Ron Paul 08 and I googled him and watched a video that promoted him and what really shocked me was that he was Anti-war and a Republican and thought ALL Republicans were war mongers and later I started looking up some of his policies and I found them to make sense Then I became a Libertarian.
Your switch towards vegitarianism was irrational. What if an animal dies of natural causes, would you still not eat its meat because of the "unethical" slaughter of other animals?
@asalade It is not the death itself that I find revolting. We all die. I'm sure animals in nature can suffer far more than they do in factory farms. It's that human beings are responsible for that death. It's simple. Why kill or torture something when you don't need to?
@JacobSpinney The answer to that question is of course because they are delicious.
What do you think of the proposition often heard from libertarians that eating its meat saves a species from extinction? There is no shortage of the typical farm animals because we eat their meat and use their produce. The buffalo was saved because they started farming them after they got almost extinct.
This made me a fervent meat eater. I suspect that in the future most of our meat will be syntetic though
no if an animal died of natural causes, I seriously doubt it would be safe to eat. Most animals that die of old age would be tough to eat, if it died of disease it would be unsafe to eat, if it died as prey...it would be eaten by something else.
just allow me to play devil's advocate here, maybe 6 or 8 years ago i saw alex jones for the first time and i thought he was great, it took about a year to change my mind back to thinking he's a conspiracy nut.
I used to be an existentialist. I also used to strongly believe in god. I was devout. My theology changed over time and became more and more gnostic, eventually I gave it up for good.
I also used to be pro-legalization of prostitution, there's even videos stating that on youtube. I used to think doing a lot of drugs was cool, I don't think that anymore.
I've always been against eating meat though, its something that just came naturally I think.
I was a christian until I was 19, I'll be 27 the end of this month. I've always been apolitical, and I've never been able to legitimize statist authority.
changing your eating habits for ethical reasons? Before being able to classify actions as right and wrong, don't you first have to establish that right and wrong exist? Join the moral nihilists, we have cookies.
Although i was always an atheist, i never really had much of a problem with religion but after looking into it I would say that religion is very damaging.
can you point me in the direction of good anarchist, or anarchist channels that could educate me on the subject. some that you think is a good vid maker and teacher. i love eagleeye1975 for my libertarian fill and have learned a lot from the guy. learning a lot from you. thanks , much love and respect.
@freethinker3161 I really enjoy stefbot. Another good instructional one is csmirror. His main channel is fringeelements. Those are the two big ones I can think of where they talk about anarchism very frequently.
It took me forever to go from socialism to anarchism. I remember even asking myself why do/did I insist on defending the state. I always asked myself that question. To this day I can't answer it.
@TheSupremeSkeptic What pushed me to anarchism was a persuasive speech that I had to give. Where I advocated the anarchism and I was surprised at how easy it was to advocate it, but I still didn't call myself an anarchist until I found out about the free market and I was like "hey, the free market and provide us with all the things that the state does today". Then I called myself an anarchist.
I was an atheist a few years before I ever heard the word atheist or atheism. I told my parents I didn't believe in God and I didn't think much of it at the moment. Then they disowned me. I cried and cried and then I said fuck it. I will just lie to them. Whenever I told them I believed in God I sounded sarcastic. It was eating my parents away. They accept me now, their loving parents btw.
I hope so. It was the only way I could think of to get though to them. Just lie and be sarcastic. How are they going to prove that you're lying? Being sarcastic was torturous for my parents, but they eventually got the message and accepted me.
To begin, I'm only 14, so put yourself in my world.
I've kind of been... a believer in literally fairy tales, not just God, but fairy tales. :) But, we're talking about the age of 8..9 or so. Then, at about 10 or 11, I begin thinking into it and denying it slowly.
I've also began to be open about it. The Age Of Information sped up the process mostly. Ah... maybe I should try to make a video response for the first time. This pity character limit.
You came from the left? I have even more respect for you dude :-)
I've changed my mind many times. The only one that really died hard was my Christianity. It took me a full year to go from born-again Christian to atheist. I was well aware of atheism and passionately debated against it. In retrospect it's sort of remarkable I made the transition at all, but I appreciate the process. It's helped me a lot in relating to people who have trouble trouble abandoning religion, statism, etc.
1. Kid in bible school-->Ambivalent to the concept of God-->Agnostic-->Atheist
2.Liberal-->Moderate-->Libertarian
3.Interested in socialism-->unsure-->Free market capitalism
4.Anti gun--> neutral--pro gun
5.Cheese pizza is the best-->Feta cheese pizza is the best
FactualActual 1 year ago
1) I used to consider myself a Democrat and was liberal to the point of almost being some version of a communist. I am now a Libertarian.
2) I was ignorant about the harsh realities of the food industry and was an avid meat and dairy consumer. I am now a vegetarian (mostly vegan).
3) I used to believe in God. I am now an Atheist.
4) I used to believe that a union between a man and a woman was the norm and the "right way." I have since joined the fight for equality with fellow LGBTAers.
FM897 1 year ago
Cool video!
I kinda went the same way. I was a Conservative for most of my life. A classical liberal at heart so when I learned about the Ron Paul movement it was fairly easy to switch to libertarianism.. seeing how I thought that's what conservationism was all about.
Then one day I came across a confederalsocialist video. I had always believed in limiting government but had never been exposed to the idea of no state at all... I was an anarchist in days. :)
wizkid2000 1 year ago
Ya, I used to be a Liberal who thought all Republicans were evil and all Democrats were Good until in the Fall of '07 While I was watching a Hilary Clinton video and there's were many comments that said Ron Paul 08 and I googled him and watched a video that promoted him and what really shocked me was that he was Anti-war and a Republican and thought ALL Republicans were war mongers and later I started looking up some of his policies and I found them to make sense Then I became a Libertarian.
Apptendo 1 year ago
Your switch towards vegitarianism was irrational. What if an animal dies of natural causes, would you still not eat its meat because of the "unethical" slaughter of other animals?
asalade 1 year ago
@asalade It is not the death itself that I find revolting. We all die. I'm sure animals in nature can suffer far more than they do in factory farms. It's that human beings are responsible for that death. It's simple. Why kill or torture something when you don't need to?
JacobSpinney 1 year ago
@JacobSpinney The answer to that question is of course because they are delicious.
What do you think of the proposition often heard from libertarians that eating its meat saves a species from extinction? There is no shortage of the typical farm animals because we eat their meat and use their produce. The buffalo was saved because they started farming them after they got almost extinct.
This made me a fervent meat eater. I suspect that in the future most of our meat will be syntetic though
asalade 1 year ago
no if an animal died of natural causes, I seriously doubt it would be safe to eat. Most animals that die of old age would be tough to eat, if it died of disease it would be unsafe to eat, if it died as prey...it would be eaten by something else.
yytrert 1 year ago
Yeah I have. Used to be marxist, now am Marketeer.
VALsacount2 1 year ago
just allow me to play devil's advocate here, maybe 6 or 8 years ago i saw alex jones for the first time and i thought he was great, it took about a year to change my mind back to thinking he's a conspiracy nut.
oiuoiu988 1 year ago
I used to be an existentialist. I also used to strongly believe in god. I was devout. My theology changed over time and became more and more gnostic, eventually I gave it up for good.
I also used to be pro-legalization of prostitution, there's even videos stating that on youtube. I used to think doing a lot of drugs was cool, I don't think that anymore.
I've always been against eating meat though, its something that just came naturally I think.
nuclearnight 1 year ago
I was a christian until I was 19, I'll be 27 the end of this month. I've always been apolitical, and I've never been able to legitimize statist authority.
FrailHumanCondition 1 year ago
changing your eating habits for ethical reasons? Before being able to classify actions as right and wrong, don't you first have to establish that right and wrong exist? Join the moral nihilists, we have cookies.
Chrisnoscrub047 1 year ago
Not very long ago I was a socialist.
I used to be a vegetarian.
Very recently I believed in global warming.
Although i was always an atheist, i never really had much of a problem with religion but after looking into it I would say that religion is very damaging.
Scoforever 1 year ago
no.
DeraJa 1 year ago
can you point me in the direction of good anarchist, or anarchist channels that could educate me on the subject. some that you think is a good vid maker and teacher. i love eagleeye1975 for my libertarian fill and have learned a lot from the guy. learning a lot from you. thanks , much love and respect.
freethinker3161 1 year ago
@freethinker3161 I really enjoy stefbot. Another good instructional one is csmirror. His main channel is fringeelements. Those are the two big ones I can think of where they talk about anarchism very frequently.
OtherJacobSpinney 1 year ago
Can I persuade you to question civilization itself?
tiecuando 1 year ago
I used to believe in spiritual stuff, like telekisis and actual "out of body" adventures.
The people talking about these things were so convincing, how could they not be telling the truth?
Also I was a far left statist. Because, well, where I come from it's obvious that only the left is neither evil nor selfish.
The anarchist community here has been my greatest liberation as of yet.
Perserus 1 year ago
I change my mind more frequently than my underwear.
GumbaMasta 1 year ago
It took me forever to go from socialism to anarchism. I remember even asking myself why do/did I insist on defending the state. I always asked myself that question. To this day I can't answer it.
TheSupremeSkeptic 1 year ago
@TheSupremeSkeptic What pushed me to anarchism was a persuasive speech that I had to give. Where I advocated the anarchism and I was surprised at how easy it was to advocate it, but I still didn't call myself an anarchist until I found out about the free market and I was like "hey, the free market and provide us with all the things that the state does today". Then I called myself an anarchist.
TheSupremeSkeptic 1 year ago
You'd be surprised how many people have difficulties of speaking ill of their nannies.
GumbaMasta 1 year ago
@GumbaMasta
Except when they realize that they are overpaying the nanny.
TheSupremeSkeptic 1 year ago
@TheSupremeSkeptic If she's young and hot and sports avery minimalistic dress code I find myself often willing to overlook that part.
GumbaMasta 1 year ago
@TheSupremeSkeptic
This resonates with me.
Chrisnoscrub047 1 year ago
I use to be Catholic and a socialist.
I was an atheist a few years before I ever heard the word atheist or atheism. I told my parents I didn't believe in God and I didn't think much of it at the moment. Then they disowned me. I cried and cried and then I said fuck it. I will just lie to them. Whenever I told them I believed in God I sounded sarcastic. It was eating my parents away. They accept me now, their loving parents btw.
TheSupremeSkeptic 1 year ago
That's quiet a... inspirational story?
GumbaMasta 1 year ago
@GumbaMasta
I hope so. It was the only way I could think of to get though to them. Just lie and be sarcastic. How are they going to prove that you're lying? Being sarcastic was torturous for my parents, but they eventually got the message and accepted me.
TheSupremeSkeptic 1 year ago
@TheSupremeSkeptic through*
TheSupremeSkeptic 1 year ago
I'll share:
To begin, I'm only 14, so put yourself in my world.
I've kind of been... a believer in literally fairy tales, not just God, but fairy tales. :) But, we're talking about the age of 8..9 or so. Then, at about 10 or 11, I begin thinking into it and denying it slowly.
I've also began to be open about it. The Age Of Information sped up the process mostly. Ah... maybe I should try to make a video response for the first time. This pity character limit.
sticksquash 1 year ago
You came from the left? I have even more respect for you dude :-)
I've changed my mind many times. The only one that really died hard was my Christianity. It took me a full year to go from born-again Christian to atheist. I was well aware of atheism and passionately debated against it. In retrospect it's sort of remarkable I made the transition at all, but I appreciate the process. It's helped me a lot in relating to people who have trouble trouble abandoning religion, statism, etc.
Stargazer5781 1 year ago
FIRST! AGAIN
TheBurtonProductions 1 year ago