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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Where are polytheist conservatives? |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 22 May 2025, 12:22 pm
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| I know of many ultraconservative non-Christians that make stereotypical conservative christians look like moderates or even progressive hippies. In fact, absolute nonviolence is one of Christianity's founding ethos. So at most, they don't accept certain social freedoms, they are just more polite and... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: I hate smartphones |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 22 May 2025, 12:06 pm
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Replies: 65
Views: 15,837
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| I hate a lot of things about the modern world. Sometimes I really wish I can build a time machine and travel back one-way to the 1970s or 1980s and continue aging there up to today. I have a burning curiosity of what it was like to actually live then. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Where are polytheist conservatives? |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 20 May 2025, 3:47 pm
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Conservative and white supremacy/nationalism aren't the same thing. There are a lot of differences.
But yeah, I guess Norse counts. I'm talking about "the right" in general, from the US Republicans to UK Conservatives to the so-called European "New right" parties. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 20 May 2025, 11:19 am
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Replies: 47
Views: 2,463
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| I do remember being surprised when the gay rights movement united behind same sex marriage. As I recall originally they were against it because they believed it was accepting straight norms. Mona as part of the movement can correct me or add context if she so desires. It's ironic that gay people us... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish |
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Posted: 20 May 2025, 10:54 am
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| Between 1880 and 1905 there were well over 36,000 strikes involving 6 million workers. Do you know what they were striking for? The biggest ask was an 8 hour work day. Do you know what Congress focused on instead? Passing obscenity law, obsessing about sex and white women's purity. Creating instabi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Where are polytheist conservatives? |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 20 May 2025, 10:42 am
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Replies: 8
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| Prefacing this with saying that I am not polytheist myself. I notice that most conservatives are majority Christian and a minority of them are Jewish, Mormon, or agnostic. Especially in North America. But, I notice that there are very few polytheistic or non-Abrahamic conservatives or right wing peo... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 13 May 2025, 4:51 pm
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Replies: 47
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funeralxempire wrote: Which Obama or Biden scandal is on par with the scale of Trump's many scandals?  Trump is the most corrupt president in US history, Obama wore a tan suit.
It's pretty irrelevant. The scale can be disputed, but every president had a very bad scandal. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish |
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Posted: 13 May 2025, 3:54 pm
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Replies: 47
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| Yes doing pretty good if you count all the New Tax break for billionaires , and engaging in undocumented Wars abroad ( Africa) etc . The threats his admin has made about Social Security and Medicaid / possibly medicare . Involving hisself by proxie ( by using unelected persons) operating the DoGE ,... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 12 May 2025, 11:26 am
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Replies: 47
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I love all of you guys, but people need to grow up about Trump. A lot of what he is doing is pretty good for our country (at least his economic and criminal justice policy), but everybody thinks he is a complete monster and every action of his is original sin. I had to vent, it peeves me off.  |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Those who go to church, what is your experience? |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 27 Apr 2025, 3:38 pm
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Replies: 20
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| Taking a break from some of the more cynical discussions in L&D, I just want to talk about what the experiences of people that go to church or even synagogue or temple, for the people who look for partners there. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Why Do People Refuse To Practice Social Skills? |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2025, 3:48 pm
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| What is motivating me now to get better social skills is dating. :lol: I don't know why anybody actively rejects learning social skills. It's kind of like calling more "successful" black people "uncle tom" or "acting white". I wonder if there is an element of that to it... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Left Is Paying a High Price for Getting Men Wrong |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 17 Apr 2025, 10:44 pm
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Replies: 52
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| I have been told by somebody flat-out that the men's rights movement is a hate group. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: AI generated child porn and free speech |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 02 Apr 2025, 12:50 pm
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Replies: 3
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| Even if it's protected in some cases, it doesn't mean one should look at it. If it's protected, someone will look at it and try to use that it's protected as a defence if/when they wind up in court. Oh, true. I agree with that argument as a case for why it shouldn't be protected. And the general pu... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do you guys hate Elon Musk? |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2025, 6:53 pm
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Replies: 410
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| The thing I don't like is that some people are very sensitive about things in speech and media that is even barely remotely associated with the "old" culture. Such as? :scratch: [*] That everything remotely perceived as racist, sexist, whatever have you, is quite censored today, and this ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I Don't Care If Donald Trump Breaks The Law |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2025, 6:40 pm
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| Of course, I hate this social legalism too, but I like the constitution's spirit. I don't care about what happens so much as it is within that short framework. The Bill of Rights is objectively good. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: AI generated child porn and free speech |
| SailorsGuy12 |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2025, 4:55 pm
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Replies: 3
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| Even if it's protected in some cases, it doesn't mean one should look at it. |
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