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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are Terrorists Really Optimists? |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2010, 10:58 pm
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Replies: 27
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| Many terrorist a just nihilistic and suicidal. In fact I suspect that the columbine shooters were essentially terrorists without a cause. I often wonder if the ranks of terrorism arent filled with twisted young men who may have the same syndrome as our Columbine/virginia tech mass murderers, but ha... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Communism or Fascism - which is the lesser of two evils? |
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Posted: 05 Mar 2010, 6:28 am
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Replies: 52
Views: 6,673
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| I would say that communism probably has less evil intent behind it, but that both lead to equally evil outcomes. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are Terrorists Really Optimists? |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 9:39 pm
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Replies: 27
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| I ask the question after reading a lot of very cynical posts bemoaning the current state of world affairs and the futility of trying to change them. A "terrorist", on the other hand, almost by nature has to believe that change is not only possible but achievable by the actions of a relative few, and... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Psychopathology of Ayn Rand |
| Unorthodox |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 8:56 pm
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Replies: 48
Views: 8,120
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| That being said, this is esoteric knowledge to a point where the fact that you know this and are blaming this person for this is enough to question your rationality. The only kinds of people who would know this are scholars and ideologues, and you don't strike me as driven by scholarly zeal. I've b... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Where do you get your news? |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 4:34 pm
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Replies: 19
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Descartes wrote: I also get some of my news from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. 
So long as you balance it out by watching The Colbert Report afterward, I think it should be okay. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: eHarmony? |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 4:28 pm
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Replies: 28
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| When I filled out the forms from E-Harmony, it came up with an error message saying I was unmatchable... Seriously. I've used a few of the other sites at different times, I've met women from Match, OKCupid, Adult Friend Finder and Craigslist, and at this point I'd have to say the best of the bunch i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Psychopathology of Ayn Rand |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 4:18 pm
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Replies: 48
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| Getting back to reality, Ayn Rand was an author with some strongly held and influential ideas that she promoted as a philosophy during her lifetime, I don't see how that's either saintly or the embodiment of evil, and I don't think anyone here is qualified to make the distinction either. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: When the Riots Begin |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 4:14 pm
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Replies: 291
Views: 30,224
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| Do you feel comfortable here? Actually, I feel comfortably above the fray; though I have my own strongly held political views I try to refrain from getting too preachy about them, an endeavor in which I feel that I've been mostly successful. Zeno's ideas might be a bit outlandish and wide of the ma... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: When the Riots Begin |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 7:41 am
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Replies: 291
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Sand wrote: You have no idea of what you're talking about.
So, you're saying he should fit right in here? |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: March Meeting for Seattle Aspies |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 6:38 am
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| Saturday, March 13th is the date for the next meeting of the Square Peg Social Club , which is exactly what it sounds like, a social event for people who don't fit in. Details are on the web page, but to mention a few things, typically there are around 20-25 people at each meeting, food and drinks a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: americans have exactly the government they deserve? |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 6:07 am
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Replies: 31
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| I just recently read a column by Charles Krauthammer, whom I'm normally lukewarm on, that addressed this very issue: It's nonsense to say the U.S. is ungovernable By Charles Krauthammer Friday, February 19, 2010 In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the offic... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Who is the vilest Right Wing commentator? |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 5:50 am
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Replies: 33
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ruveyn wrote: If what you say is true, then the question should have been: Who is the vilest commentator.
ruveyn
Probably the clearest and cleanest statement in the whole thread, after all, vileness really knows no political alliances. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How do you argue with this? |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 5:47 am
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Replies: 10
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| Sounds like a confusion in terms, like perhaps the subject of the OP was speaking strictly in terms of fiscal conservativeness, as opposed to the myriad of other issues that seem to get lumped together under that banner of late. I'd just as soon dump the whole liberal/conservative terminology, neith... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The U.S/Israel leaders |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 5:40 am
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Replies: 77
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| I'm not even going to touch the actual topic of this thread, I don't really see the point, but I'd like to make a quick interjection for the benefit of a few of the participants; passion does not equal persuasion. Angy, abusive posts do nothing to further a point of view, and in fact detract from it... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Where do you get your news? |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 5:11 am
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Replies: 19
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| I'm curious, since many here seems to claim that every news service save the one they favor is irreparably biased; where do some of the regulars here go for their news? I personally don't really have any one source, I get whatever the AP thinks is newsworthy on my homepage, I read the Seattle Times ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Dubai to issue warrant for Israel PM Netanyahu's arrest |
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Posted: 04 Mar 2010, 4:50 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,660
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| I don't see an option for "Netanyahu doesn't dignify international grandstanding with a response", I'm sure the oversight will be corrected. Given what I know of Israel and it's politics, I'm fairly certain that: A: Being wanted by an Arab state is far from embarrassing for an Israeli PM, in fact it... |
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