I have had a wonderful life, growing up in middle class NY, and raising a family in NH. I still live here, and am glad to not live in more restrictive “states”. I work, I play, but I used to be very content with the status quo. No more. About six years ago I started to realize that freedom was a word we all use, but was not much of a reality. I am here due to my perpetual state of slumber being interrupted by a BookTV talk by Greg Lukianoff. That was six months ago. Greg spoke about the lack of free speech rights on American college campuses. I read his book, which led me to another book, which led me to another and another and another. I eventually discovered Wendy McElroy and her book, “The Art of Being Free”. That led me to the website that published the book, Laissez Faire Books. From there I discovered FreeDomainRadio and Stefan Molyneux. I finally got around to reading “1984” and while waiting in a medical office, I discovered a random front-page news article about the Liberty Forum conference in Nashua. I marked down the information, attended the conference for the better part of two days, and have been trying to catch up ever since. At the conference I learned about the Shire Society.
Welcome to the Shire, great story. Hard to say one way or the other weather we met at LF, I was there. How did you like it?
I live just north of Nashua, in what part of N.H. do you live? I could apprize you of many liberty social events across the state.
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I think I saw you at LF. I live east of Manchester. Thanks for offering more events info.
Welcome, your post makes a great reading list! About half of your sources had me saying, yep me too back in those exciting months after I found http://www.freetalklive.com then the liberty forum, and then on and on.
I was also quite happy after my move from NY to NH. Though I am still recovering from the culture shock of moving from Queens and the city to a small town in the Upper Valley of NH. Did you move from Upstate NY? Was it very similar to NH? I was lucky to escape before Bloomberg really started getting the hooks in with soda restrictions and who knows what next.
Are you enjoying http://www.freedomainradio.com so far? I have drifted away from it as I no longer drive as much for work, but for a few years in NYC traffic I absorbed hundreds of podcasts. The free will vs determinism debate still leaves me in an odd state somewhere between anger and confusion.
Glad to here that there's another native or accidental mover that's friendly to the cause.
-Keith
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I have had a wonderful life, growing up in middle class NY, and raising a family in NH. I still live here, and am glad to not live in more restrictive “states”. I work, I play, but I used to be very content with the status quo. No more. About six years ago I started to realize that freedom was a word we all use, but was not much of a reality. I am here due to my perpetual state of slumber being interrupted by a BookTV talk by Greg Lukianoff. That was six months ago. Greg spoke about the lack of free speech rights on American college campuses. I read his book, which led me to another book, which led me to another and another and another. I eventually discovered Wendy McElroy and her book, “The Art of Being Free”. That led me to the website that published the book, Laissez Faire Books. From there I discovered FreeDomainRadio and Stefan Molyneux. I finally got around to reading “1984” and while waiting in a medical office, I discovered a random front-page news article about the Liberty Forum conference in Nashua. I marked down the information, attended the conference for the better part of two days, and have been trying to catch up ever since. At the conference I learned about the Shire Society.
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Neat story. "Free speech" on college campuses is a joke, as you no doubt know. Darryl and I were banned from Keene State Campus for flyering people. The ban has since been rescinded after a letter from my attorney, but even he thinks the case law on free speech on campus is awful.
KEITH O: Ian just changed this forum. Maybe you are still reading. Maybe not!
Yes I also have drifted away from Freedomain Radio. I like living halfway between the seacoast and Concord. It is rural, and I am still glad to be out of Upstate NY.