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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, NYCTwister wrote: Have you not met the human race? We are not much more than Neanderthals with cell phones...
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness...
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RNK Inner circle 7492 Posts |
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On Apr 19, 2017, Salguod Nairb wrote: N. Korea is not allowed to have nuclear weapons. This has been decided and agreed by 5 major countries. N. Korea is ignoring this and continues to develop them. Dialogue and sanctions have been proven not to work for many years now. Eventually there will be only one option left.
Check out Bafflingbob.com
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, NYCTwister wrote: ...and the first crack in the dam appears.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, RNK wrote: What is that option?
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0pus Inner circle New Jersey 1739 Posts |
Nuke 'em 'til they glow.
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts |
South Korea may not like that radioactive cloud blowing towards them.
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, LobowolfXXX wrote: Health? Happiness? The freedom to live our lives free from violence and oppression?
If you need fear to enforce your beliefs, then your beliefs are worthless.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Oh, I agree that almost everybody wants SOME OF the same things, but that's not nearly enough to reach your conclusion. Not without your horse -wish transmogrifier.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, Dannydoyle wrote: People have different viewpoints because they have different beliefs; which cause them to take different actions. All the problems we face as a species are connected. At the base of all of them are flawed world views stemming from flawed beliefs, which focus on the differences between us. No one wants to address this because feelings get hurt; and the people who sell the weapons think it's just dandy. No need to enslave those who put the chains on willingly. I have never used the word utopia. That's just you. I'm just talking about what should be a natural result of our collective learning. Instead we do stupid things. We destroy when we should create. We make new problems and let old ones go unaddressed. Why? You, and many others, appear to have given up. That's fine - you do you. I haven't because, ironically, I have faith.
If you need fear to enforce your beliefs, then your beliefs are worthless.
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, LobowolfXXX wrote: We could try education instead of indoctrination, if just for the new experience.
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
Flawed according to which standard exactly?
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, NYCTwister wrote: If you think that mass education will lead to universal agreement, I think it's actually indoctrination that's your only shot.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, Dannydoyle wrote: Objective standards.
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, LobowolfXXX wrote: I'm not talking about "mass" education, or some sort of instant agreement. I'm talking about shedding the dogma that sets us against each other, and allows they very few to lead the credulous many around by the nose. I've never seen a baby that hated anything or anyone. We're taught to hate. Why?
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Your baby example doesn't prove, or even suggest that we're "taught to hate." Babies don't have the capacity to engage in moral reasoning or judgment. When those capacities are developed, they lead people in different - sometimes radically different - directions.
And always will.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, NYCTwister wrote: What active social process would you give as example of an objective standard? Just to make sure we're on the same planet here rather than Tlon or some eUtopia... Which is heavier, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
The feathers, which are not measured in Troy weight.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, NYCTwister wrote: Whose objective standards?
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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NYCTwister Loyal user 267 Posts |
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On Apr 20, 2017, Dannydoyle wrote: Not whose Danny. Can anyone who professes to be good disagree that it is wrong to initiate violence, mental or physical, against another. I don't think so, but all the dogmas that too many base their moral code on allows for it - based on difference or disagreement - in one way or another. To me they are all inherently flawed and need to be weeded out. ALL of them set some "us" against some other "them". There are rules, standards of conduct, that rational people could agree on as being fair to all. We just need to stop passing down nonsense to new generations. But far to many would rather die, or kill, than admit they might be wrong. And there are many con men who see a world full of the credulous and lick their chops.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Just as a for instance, is abortion legal in objectiveopia?
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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