Its been some years now, so I can’t recall the specific name. It was connected to the Super Power, Brink of Reality, and Head of State communities if that helps you. Aside from the aforementioned Paulians, there was a more general conservative/libertarian that went by the name of Rangeley. I myself went under the title of Sakka.
Absolutely. Everything I did before has been converted over. The only difference would be that my passion for spreading ideas has increased 100 fold because I wish that someone had told me about this stuff before and I can see the vision and justice of it. For example, I e-mailed the link to this PowerPoint I made:
to all 180 of my Facebook friends, which Facebook doesn’t make an easy task. And now I’m looking up the e-mail address directory of all of the professors at Brigham Young University and BYU-Idaho where I used to attend and e-mailing it to them, even though I’m sure I have to do it one-by-one so I don’t get blocked as spam.
Richard Maybury (author of Penny Candy) → Austrian Economics/libertarianism.
Of course, Ron Paul was a huge influence as well.
LOL 
Austrian Economics? Yes. Libertarianism & Capitalism? No. Ron Paul is a huge influence though, and I would never denounce him in any way. I’ve mostly been a more of a socialist or left learning libertarian. I was a mutualist for a while, without actually knowing that the label existed. I liked Ron Paul’s campaign to the point that I didn’t care about the capitalist message in it. I used to idolize stossel when I was a kid, I would watch his show all the time. I sort of forgot about him while growing up. I started listening to his stuff again out of interest in Ron Paul. I found the laisse faire libertarians more appealing. Then I read two of John Stossel’s books. I liked Lew Rockwell at this point as well. The free market made so much sense after reading them. From there I read more about Ron Paul’s economic beliefs and was lead to this site.
Milton Friedman youtube video —> Looking up Libertarianism on Wikipedia —> Cato Institute —> Bryan Caplan’s Libertarian purity test —> Googling Rothbard —> Mises Institute
I came to Austrian Economics and Libertarianism through Ron Paul as well. I picked up a copy of his campaign book back in 2008 because I was curious as to how someone who was wise enough to see the danger in our foreign policy could also be against the welfare state at home. From there I was shortly turned onto Economcis in One Lesson which caused every ounce progressivism that had been fed to me by the California public education system from age 5 to come crashing to the ground.
Neo-Con → Bioshock → Objectivism → Mitt Romney → Fox News → Financial Crisis → Peter Schiff → Judge Andrew Napolitano → Tom Woods → Mises.org → Subjective Valuation → Moral Error Theory → Austrian Atheist Neo-Nihilist.
me!
The man was born an Austrian.
A hot chick from the Netherlands turned me on to Ron Paul and libertarianism. If a hot chick is talking to me about anything, by golly she has my full attention.
At first I thought she was crazy, all this talk about freedom. Upon further research into libertarianism, I found that she was actually making sense and I wasn’t. I’m still pretty young in my learning though.
P&T and Stossel help me get over my own political dogma.
The same reason I’ve joined!
I was always personal property adherent and small government oriented, but was still something of a NeoCon and largely (un)derinformed. When looking into the latest news on Net Neutrality, I saw a youtube video of Ron Paul being interviewed in a dorm room. The man made a great deal of sense.
youtube interview on net neutrality > federal reserve > campaign for liberty > lewrockwell.com > mises.org
A great deal of learning, reading, and philosophical/economic education/reflection happened at each various step, but those where milestones in my evolution of thought.
NDP’er - 9/11 Truth - Alex Jones - Ron Paul - BureauCrash - Austrian Econ/Mises
quite a trip.
anyone here remember bureaucrash?
I’ve gone back to lurking for the most part, but uh…
Troll post on a pornographic section of a website that was basically a copy+paste of a Wikipedia article on macroeconomics somehow managed to worm the idea of studying economics into my brain. I had already been exposed to Ron Paul from the elections, so I eventually started looking up information about Austrian economics.
I was so embarrassed to admit that at one point in time.
Stock Market crash of '08 → Sudden interest in Economics → Kubrary books on Keynsian → Chicago Schook → Internet search of Economics → Austrianism
I had read Ayn Rand at the age os 16, all her books, facinated.
Who is she?
(I’m from the Netherlands and interested to know what libertarian things are going on besides what I already know)
‘‘interested to know what libertarian things are going on besides what I already know’’
Especially if hot chicks are involved, isn’t it?
Yes, because that’s more unique, but no, I’m not single.
It is true, while libertarians in the Netherlands are extremely scarce, hot female libertarians are as good as non existent.
So since i’m also Dutch, AND single (my previous GF voted PVDD aka Party For Animals :-[ ) come on with that info LibertarianCowboy ;).
On topic:
Let me pitch in my 5 cents and give my flowchart thing.
Keynesian economics → visit ASC at Mises intitute → Bought Economics in one lesson → general interest in Austrian scool → Found out about Ron Paul