Hi everyone, I'm Bruce, a solopreneur, impactivist, self-appointed pundit, and bona-fide card-carrying member of the bipedal primate family known as homo sapiens sapiens. More specifically, I'm fiftysomething, twice-divorced, and a proud father of two quite incredible daughters. I train people and dogs for a living.
I am a Voluntarist: a radical anarcho-individualist who believes that unquestioning faith in the cult of omnipotent government has led humanity to unspeakable horror and atrocities. I abhor statism and value individualism and multiculturalism.
I support the Independent Institute, The Reason Foundation, Kiva, Medicines sans Frontieres, The Institute for Justice, FIJA, and PERC, among many others. I support any organization that promotes peace and progress without relying on or encouraging state violence.
My passions include backpacking and hiking, dancing to live music, reading and writing, dogs, cinema, jambands, dark chocolate, drums, and romancing my amazing girlfriend.
I am confident in my conviction that love is the most powerful force in the world, and the most under-utilized.
I will be blogging primarily about individualism, voluntarism, agorism, and the art of living independent of coercion. I am a radical anarcho-individualist whose worldview was forged at the intersection of behavioral science and libertarian political theory. I created a blog called Living Deliberately (www.voluntarist.me) to write about self-actualization in a society that encourages complacency and conformity. I hope to inspire and empower people to reclaim their autonomy from the Leviathan state. Or--in the words of the late Harry Browne--find "Freedom in an Unfree World".
Along the way, I will also write about those things which support my central theme, including independent living, critical thinking, writing, activism, social and political criticism, and making a positive impact on the world. And of course, I reserve the right to write about things that just plain interest me: dogs, music, theater and movies, food, travel, etc.
Most of these articles will be published on Medium and Minds and Steemit, although my Living Deliberately blog at www.voluntarist.me will also serve as a repository for appropriate articles from my "other" blogs: The Parallax Pundit and the GroovyDogBlog. I have no plans for a PayPal link or Medium membership paywall or Patreon account. If you like what I'm doing, please "clap" for my Medium articles, "boost" them on Minds, "upvote" them on Steemit, and like and repost them on Facebook and MeWe. If a few bucks float my way from those avenues I won't complain, but this is essentially a labor of love: an investment in propagating the ideas and beliefs I consider crucially important. If just one person gets inspired and influenced along the way, that will be all the compensation I need.
Peace, Bruce
**Sorry about the Rolling Stones earbug. Could've been worse. I could've titled it "Skyrockets In Flight"
Hey Bruce! Welcome to steemit community! We hope you're going to enjoy your time on this platform. Good luck and steem on!
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Nice! Very helpful I'm still bumbling around here...thanks
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Hi, bruce
Welcome I read your #introduceyourself and its nice to meet you.
Alot of ideaal to blog about here on the platform.
Blogging thats what its all about on this platform and this blockchain. Blogging is it, blog on and you could be succesfull! 🤛 and you could earn money. 💴💸💰
I love blogging ❤️ Thats why I am, where I am today on the steemit platform.
But be carefull with all your passwords !! Never give those up !!
For very good safety tips visit https://steemit.com/steem/@verhp11/safety-first-first-aid-kit-for-steemians-who-are-just-beginning-this-great-journey from Our fellow steemy @verhp11
The Steemify App I use is great, it is available in the Appstore and free, go cheque it out. I wish you good luck with steeming and I Will See you around🍀
Greetings from Brittandjosie from the Netherlands
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What your favorite?
What your favorite?
Links for Newbies:
Hello and welcome to steemit! I’ve been here since January and wish someone had given me the following links when I made my introduction post. I could have done better sooner.
Steemworld.org is a free service that interfaces with steemit.com and provides a wealth of information about your account. Use your own @handle to access your account information.
https://steemworld.org/@chuck2u32
If you are coming here to pick a fight be advised that they have a flagging system here that penalizes your account “wallet” for unacceptable behavior. This a post will help avoid problems:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@onceuponatime/flagging-etiquette-and-practice
Don’t beg for upvotes or resteems:
https://steemit.com/steemiteducation/@evarich/red-flag-minnows-don-t-beg-whales-for-upvotes
One of the biggest mistakes I made was that I was too anxious to get into this platform and did not read ALL of the Frequently Asked Questions: Read the whole thing including the “White Paper”. You will not regret taking the time to learn these important facts:
https://steemit.com/faq.html
This is about the slow grind to gain reputation and steem power:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@chuck2u32/wow-a-whole-usd10
I typically post and resteem articles helpful to new steemians. If you choose to follow me I will be happy to answer your questions.
Good luck and have fun!
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Sorry, just hoping to help get into the steemit flow.
thanks, it was helpful....I'm not sure what this is about I guess it's good intentions but it's kinda annoying.
Thanks for the comment and upvote.
There is a lot here that can be annoying. I try not to be one of them. Reading the FAQ's is the biggy. It is foundational to moving forward. Making sure your content is of high quality is the other.
Hello! I followed you, let's increase the power of Steemit together! I hope you follow me. I'm always glad to have a new acquaintance with good people! ;)
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Welcome to Steemit! Best of luck in all your endeavors here.
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This is such BS. My comment is not spam.
What is this even about? I just noticed it. Seems kinda Facebooky to me...
Seems to be some kind of bot.
Welcome,my friend, I wish you all the best and successful journey here at steemit. If you need any help,feel free to ask @tirke.
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I don´t spam, I am just welcoming new people and offering help if anyone need one. It´s the purpose of this community, to help each other, isn´t it? So, please, remove your comment. Thank you.
I love to volunteer too. Thanks for sharing, hehe. You are awesome. I'm Oatmeal Joey Arnold. You can call me Joey.
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About danged time! :-)
Yeah yeah (makes fart noise)