Despite what others said or the mods did in the other thread, I personally see nothing obscene about this photo. Nudity should not be considered an obscenity.

As I commented before, you are looking really fit. If you remain at a healthy weight, you'll not only feel better, you will look better.

You might want to add some more fiber to your diet. There is lots of quality protein in legumes and nuts, for example. Eating mass amounts of chicken isn't the only answer to getting enough protein.   

Guns.

With peers determining who was right or wrong.

Tbombz, you stated: “My father agrees with me that a person who supports the existence of taxes to pay for fire protection would, in the absence of a government-run/tax-funded public fire-protection service, voluntarily and willingly contribute to a fire protection service. If there are no organizations offering a community fire protection service, there will surely be one soon: where there is significant demand you will find suppliers ready to supply. This would hold true for every government program and function.”

Then, in answer to primemuscle’s request for an example of successful non-government-run enterprises, you claimed: “Every single economic activity that has ever and will ever occur anywhere on the planet that does not involve a government forcing the participation of one or more of the parties to the activity.”

Syntax responded to your posts by pointing out: “Literally every example you are liable to bring up in support of either of the above paragraphs' claims will entail a state in the background, structuring interactions and regulating them such that a positive outcome results. Adam Smith, John Locke, the Founding Fathers, and virtually all other foundational thinkers of capitalism agree that the state has an essential function to play in managing (in some important sense of the term) markets …. The state acts to structure interactions, stabilize a currency that facilitates interactions, correct for negative externalities, and all the rest such that some vague approximation of an invisible hand generates satisfactory outcomes for society …. That markets are magical optimization machines that don't need structuring and regulating is a bizarre ideology.”

I take Syntax to be gesturing through his invocation of classical economists and contract theorists that you imagine a nominally ethical state where, without need of government administration, a market-driven social contract is reached between consumers of goods and services and producers of goods and services. Subsequently, I read Syntax as asking you whether self-regulating, market-driven contractual agreements can fulfill their function without some form of government-run administration. You seem to think it can; he’s asking you how you think it’s possible.

There’s nothing in Syntax’s reply that remotely correlates to the response you gave: “You take the perspective that 1) ends justify means, and 2) without government repercussions there are no negative consequences for unethical or culturally undesirable occurrences …. I do not agree with either …. I would not support theft or coercion even if their use in government would result in utopia and their absence meant the end of life on earth. I do not think ends justify means.”

You focus on the matter of coercion vs. volition to springboard support for non-government-run market initiatives. Yet you take this broad leap without questioning what underwrites their viability.  

It’s great that you don’t condone theft and coercion. Now please give answer to Syntax's concerns (in words, not in pics).

Very strange how this dude posts cock pics, then turns around and starts up a deep discussion about politics and economics.

I'm telling you, this guy is crazy.

Literally every example you are liable to bring up in support of either of the above paragraphs' claims will entail a state in the background, structuring interactions and regulating them such that a positive outcome results. Adam Smith, John Locke, the Founding Fathers, and virtually all other foundational thinkers of capitalism agree that the state has an essential function to play in managing (in some important sense of the term) markets.

The state acts to structure interactions, stabilize a currency that facilitates interactions, correct for negative externalities, and all the rest such that some vague approximation of an invisible hand generates satisfactory outcomes for society.

That markets are magical optimization machines that don't need structuring and regulating is a bizarre ideology -- mostly concentrated in the United States -- with little historical support. The hope for any empirical support for a genuine, anarchy-laden libertarianism died with the Spanish Civil War in 1939; all we've got now (in the economic realm) is a 'libertarianism' that entails devolving governmental function to private interests and hoping they don't mess up, with little to no recourse when they do. There's also historical data regarding this approach, ala the deregulation of large portions of the banking and finance industries starting from the Reagan Administration onward. And the data isn't pretty.

(In the above paragraph I refer solely to economic libertarianism, not the sort that pertains to, say, civil rights, where it is argued people should be able to do more drugs legally, own weapons, and so on.)

Can you or your father provide any examples of where this has worked as you suggest it would.

BOOYAH, DUDE!

Does you father agree with this?

Yes there were and still are volunteer fire fighters and they deserve a lot of respect for this. How about volunteer police? What about a volunteer military? You are being delusional, my friend.

My stepdad was self-employed. He did not report a lot of his income. When he became too old to work and he had only minimal Social Security plus no other retirement income....he just kept working up until he went in the hospital and died at 64 years of age. Keep thinking like you are and this will be you someday.

The government does not respond to the "will of the people". You are over 16 and you still believe such nonsense.

Shameful Taylor... Shameful.

Not sure if serious?  Dad is a now retired fire fighter, yet you say "fuck taxes"? What do you think payed your father all of these years?

I sometimes get deep tissue massage from a certified massage therapist (no homo and no sex). The therapist uses a massage table with a place for me to put my head. Soft music plays in the background. The room is heated to about 72-75 degrees. He uses some kind of massage oil with seems to penetrate my skin, leaving my skin oil free by the end of the 90 minute massage. He charges around $100 for the massage and he pays taxes, since it is a legitimate business. He also has to do 25 hours of schooling to keep his license current, as is required by Oregon law.

What training have did you have to get for your LMT license, Tbombz?

http://www.oregon.gov/obmt/pages/licensing.aspx

Taylor is a good young man. You should truly consider charging $100 for 45 minutes, instead of just $40. Have 240 build you a nice site with good searchability via Google and you should be good to go.

Throw in a few add-ons like:

• Traveling to the customer's home
• Using that "faggoty-ass" oil you so clearly despise (as it's a good tool to justify costs - oil costs money)
• Bringing in an mp3 player with some portable speakers and a soothing musical selection

I think the add-ons would allow you to charge the $100 fee and that is assuming you are capable of providing a "good" deep-tissue massage.

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You make an excellent point. If the business involves deep tissue massages, tbombz may be first in line for the job.

Damn, I feel better about my cock size now... 

Looking hot hun.  

TBombz isn't the type to leave because his photo is posted all over....in fact I would imagine the opposite. He enjoys attention and has a great sense of humor.
He's probably just busy in life.

I didn't ignore your chart. Carrots don't have those essential amino in significant numbers.

100 grams (3.5 oz) of carrots have LESS THAN ONE GRAM of protein, total. You'll be eating carrots from now, until the good Lord returns, trying to ingest enough protein to put on size.

That would be like saying that Super Mega Mass 2000 (a favorite weight gainer of mine from back in the day) has creatine in it. Technically it did....a whopping 100 mg per serving.

Even the way I used it, I'd have been hard-pressed to get 1 gram of creatine from it, on a daily basis.