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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US State of Georgia renames confederate holidays |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2015, 10:44 pm
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| I find it disheartening that so many people are so historically illiterate that they lash out and want to burn everything that doesn't fit their current narrative. Robert E. Lee was one of the finest generals in American history, he wasn't even for succession and personally opposed slavery but rema... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US State of Georgia renames confederate holidays |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2015, 1:04 pm
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| I find it disheartening that so many people are so historically illiterate that they lash out and want to burn everything that doesn't fit their current narrative. Robert E. Lee was one of the finest generals in American history, he wasn't even for succession and personally opposed slavery but rema... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US State of Georgia renames confederate holidays |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2015, 12:58 pm
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| :roll: You liberals know you're protesting freedom of expression, dont you? Wait, wait, wait; I forgot it's a selective right decided by enlightened liberal intellectuals. My bad. Bull. We're talking an entire region of the country that continues to memorialize and deify traitors who caused the dea... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What am I supposed to know about my preferred candidate? |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2015, 12:47 pm
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| Sounds like fairly standard "third way" thinking. Former President Bill Clinton was famous for that, and a think tank of that name (staffed mostly by Clinton administration veterans) promotes those ideas today. You could read some of their stuff, see what politicians have ties to the think... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What am I supposed to know about my preferred candidate? |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2015, 9:23 pm
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| Assuming you're talking about the US Presidential race, but the same considerations apply. Ideally something about their record. Do they have the sort of experience that prepares them for the job? And you should know their stances on the issues, but more than simply their public statements - if they... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: slow/poor handwriting and exams |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2015, 10:04 am
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| Since you mentioned A levels I assume you're in the UK; I'm less familiar with the laws and policies common over there. When I had similar issues, I was permitted to type exams, since my typing is much faster (and certainly far more legible) than my handwriting. That should be an easy accommodation ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: GMO Tropes vs. GMO Science |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 9:58 pm
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| Vitamin A deficiency is a tragic example of the cost here. Hundreds of thousands of children dead every year, and more blinded or left dangerously susceptible to illness. It could be largely ameliorated with golden rice; the great satan Monsanto donated a number of patents royalty-free so that it co... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US State of Georgia renames confederate holidays |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 9:49 pm
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AntDog wrote: Hopefully Rick Scott doesn't follow with these stupid book burning activities it's northern neighbors are currently doing.
Jeb's actions were more than enough.
Forget Jeb, you've got Skeletor in the governor's mansion right now. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Exiled, a short story for PPR folks |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 9:12 pm
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You changed your name? Decided you are a sort of bird after all?
Sorry that life seems to have thrown you some rough times. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: US State of Georgia renames confederate holidays |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 9:05 pm
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| How the hell did we ever tolerate that sort of nonsense? Didn't anyone tell these bastards they lost the war? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ethics of crossing party lines in primary elections |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 9:03 pm
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| Sometimes i wonder if there is an "all's fair in love & war" aspect to this. That politics is an exercise in immorality and unethical sleezebagging, so why not? Politics is a dirty game, always has been. Still, some people might wish to maintain some semblance of decency. partisan pol... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Shouldn't baptizing infants be considered wrong? |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 4:16 pm
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glebel wrote: zer0netgain wrote: I became Pentecostal The problem with you extreme Protestants
For the record, I would not consider Pentecostals to be Protestant. Theirs is an ideology of contrived restoration without strong historical ties to the Protestant movement of Luther, Calvin, and the rest. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ethics of crossing party lines in primary elections |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 3:53 pm
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| Political scientists do generally agree that parliamentary democracies are superior to presidential democracies, so I won't argue that. Britain's specific incarnation of a parliamentary system (first past the post in individual constituencies combined with various geographic and cultural quirks) hap... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Shouldn't baptizing infants be considered wrong? |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 3:12 pm
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| I was raised Catholic and baptized as a baby. I became Pentecostal and was then baptized as an adult. I find no scriptural foundation for the baptism of infants. Baptism is an act done in obedience to scripture once one chooses Christ. An infant (or very young child) cannot do this. Nor are you goi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ethics of crossing party lines in primary elections |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 2:55 pm
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| You guys have an insane system over there (and that's coming from an American). Two left-ish national parties jockeying back and forth for the space left after the Tories take the right, and a bevy of regional (SNP, Cymru, DUP etc) or fringe (UKIP and Green) parties all make it impossible to deciphe... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Ethics of crossing party lines in primary elections |
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Posted: 11 Aug 2015, 11:35 am
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| Your three is sort of a variant of one. The "least unacceptable" is still the best offering of the party you oppose. So its 1) pick the best, (2) pick the worst/weakest, or (3) least unacceptable (don't really see the difference between that and one). One and three are doing what is ideal... |
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