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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
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I know you didn't. A common symptom of ass-talkitis is not even realizing what you're saying since none of your thoughts are connected or based in reality. You said when people get suspicious of the government, the media promptly finds a story to distract them from their suspicians, such as "queers getting married." What are the implications of that statement? |
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"Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement." -- Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) Last of the Mohicans
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If you feel that the current state of affairs is being misrepresented, why not share your opinion on the subject? Why are we free, and how free are we? Is the current government sticking to the american ideals and principles of liberty, or have the sold us up the creak without a paddle? |
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157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is a balanced prime.
Women and rhythm section first - Jaco Pastorious
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Last edited by Caprisun; 03-28-2010 at 09:36 PM.
"Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement." -- Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) Last of the Mohicans
It actually was. Not a single thing you said in that post had any stated fact behind it. It was simply your assessment of other people's views. Alone, it was no more substantial than anything anyone else has said in the thread. |
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Dream Journal: Dreamwalker Chronicles Latest Entry: 01/02/2016 - "Hallway to Haven" (Lucid)(Or see the very best of my journal entries @ dreamwalkerchronicles.blogspot)
"Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement." -- Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) Last of the Mohicans
Actually, in January, the Supreme Court made a ruling on corporations being in political campaign financing. They gave corporations the green light for unlimited financing and involvement in politics. Of course, corporate influence in politics has been happening for a long time through lobbying, but it was gradual. Now corporate influence will be an in-your-face run away train. |
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Last edited by ArcanumNoctis; 03-28-2010 at 10:42 PM.
Freedom in the United States is under extreme attack. The healthcare bill that got passed just made us a lot less free. The government isn't just going to tax your voluntary activities. They are about to tax the Hell out of you just for existing. |
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How do you know you are not dreaming right now?
There is no doubt that the media brainwashes. Politics and the media both are just bigg acts. I was watching the Sarah Palin speech and I was almost sick as I am whenever I watch any speech from the media/politics. You can tell that it is an act too. The sheer wording of the speeches can tell you that. Our "representatives" are not people who are speaking their minds, but people who are reading from a script. What is even worse is that if you are familiar with brainwashing or hypnosis, you can tell that they use elements of it. "yes WE CAN America". I don't think that it is very necessary to drive a mantra into people's brain when you are to share your ideas. We need real ideas of real people. One prime example of the kind of person we need would have been Karl Marx. Rather you agree with his philosophy or not is beside the point, but he was someone who had true ideas. |
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Well, in my opinion, that is why the education system should be handled at the state level. It prevents social engineering. A bonus is that it creates competition among the states who are competing for prospective citizens who are looking to reside in a state with a good educational system. |
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Last edited by ArcanumNoctis; 03-30-2010 at 12:10 AM.
is freedom possible with privatization? the means are available for activating suicide genes in crop seeds (which make only one generation possible) so that farmers are dependent on whoever has dominion over this portion of nature. i believe that in bolivia there was a people's revolt brought about by the privatization of drinkable water including rainwater. if freedom is to be found at some level of our existence, it can be terraced and fenced off like a plot of land. |
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I'm just saying; when you want to challenge someone's view, do it with facts. |
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Dream Journal: Dreamwalker Chronicles Latest Entry: 01/02/2016 - "Hallway to Haven" (Lucid)(Or see the very best of my journal entries @ dreamwalkerchronicles.blogspot)
It wouldn't prevent "social engineering" at all. It would only move such engineering to the state level. Just think about what the biology curriculum would look like in Dover, Pennsylvania if the federal government hadn't intervened. You mean to tell me that downplaying the biological role of evolution and teaching "intelligent design" as an alternative isn't social engineering? |
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Your argument is completely illogical. You are giving the premise that "Intelligent Design" would over-take education all across the U.S.. Due to our system of government, if that were the case, then "Evolution" would already be banned from the education system. If education were handled at the state level, some states would pick "Intelligent Design" over "Evolution", but not the majority. |
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I disagree, that type of disregard for facts and logic always needs to be addressed. I consider it a worthy contribution to the discussion. There weren't any facts I could challenge with, so I could only use logic. How do you factually prove that aliens have not visited Earth? You can't. Sometimes logic is all you have to rely on. Later in that post I also challenged two points in particular that I disagreed with. When pressed to elaborate on my sentiments, I did so, with logic. When asked for my opinion, I gave it. We may need to just agree to disagree because there is no point in arguing this and I still believe I was right in doing what I did. |
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"Someday, I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement." -- Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) Last of the Mohicans
"Giving the premise that ID would overtake education across the US"? Indeed, that's so illogical that I didn't say anything remotely resembling it, and if you think I did, then kindly point out where. That straw claim has nothing to do with any argument that I was making. It should be pretty clear that I was referring to individual districts or regions such as Dover County and explicitly not the entire nation. |
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Not a straw claim, but a merely a misunderstanding. |
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Last edited by ArcanumNoctis; 03-30-2010 at 07:13 AM.
I'm only referring to this idea of "social engineering." I'm not presently concerned with the much broader question of how much sovereignty individual states ought to have. |
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