Can you honestly say that someone who believes in something that cannot be proven is all that smart? To live your life according to a book written by humans who claimed to have heard the word of that entity who's existence can't be proven? Just because something may be unpleasant to hear does not make it elitist if it is true. I am not lying about anything I am saying here. That farmer and that Wal-Mart worker both don't have the time or education to think about ways to solve their own problems instead they hand their fates over to their God and hope for the best, which is why they remain in their horrible situations. So please explain what is "mystic" or "unrealistic" about any of that?
And both the farmer and the Wal-Mart cashier spend so much of their time working in low wage uninspiring jobs that they never recieve the level of education that would assist them in thinking for themselves instead of accepting literal interpretations of the Bible as "gospel" to live by.
I think this has more to do with heavy computer use promoting a sedentary lifestyle which is one cause of higher blood pressure than any direct affect computer monitors have on our eyes.
This wonderful AC just pointed out the glaring flaw in libertarian economic theory. That the free market is the solution to all corporate ills. So basically, we're supposed to wait years or decades for a large corporation to suffer the consequences of its own bad policies for the market to finally convince it to change its ways. In the meantime, hundreds or thousands of employees and or customers are hurt because enacting faster moving regulation would be seen as "hindering" economic activity.
A union requires all from the most talented hot shots to the slackers/idiots to make the same wages in their class irrespective of differing amounts of individual output.
Kerry lost because Karl Rove got more conservatives to vote than liberals. Thats why. That does not absolve the conservatives of their undeniable evil.
A penalty is useless if it is unenforceable. How would a ban on internet use be enforced? How would you stop him from using a friend's or even stolen credit card? Are you going to search his house weekly for internet connections?
Macs are still more expensive than PC's. You take a look at what Dell offers vs. Apple and thats really all you need to see. And laptops aren't the only type of computer out there, Apple's desktops are still grossly more expensive.
You see you keep forgetting that Macs are also slower and can run less applications. So you're paying MORE for a machine that runs SLOWER, and has less applications/videogames/IT familarity...etc.
Perspective is useless and pointless. People are going to do what they do regardless. You do the same.
BTW there's nothing undignified about standing in line for a video game, or for anything. We can't stop enjoying our lives because someone somewhere is dying.
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Why must something be comprehendable to you to be enjoyable? Everyone has different interests. Some folks get an adrenaline rush from being first. Others like the exclusivity from being first. Who cares, folks are having fun. You sound like you are bitter that everyone else hasn't given up the consumerist lifestyle as you aspire to. Oh wait a minute, aren't you using a computer with an internet connection that if you cancelled you could use the money to feed several third worlders for years to come?
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You have not stumped me. I just don't understand why you place so much importance on such a shaky foundation. Simply put, since the existence of God cannot be provens, then you cannot prove that any saying or quote or belief is something that God said or believed in. Alternatively you could attribute any crackpot idea to God and simply say to others "Prove that he wasn't for X".
So whats to stop Nazi's for example from saying that God wants all Jews to be killed? Or a red neck from saying God wants all women in the home and out of the workplace? Do you see now the danger in attributing ANYTHING to an entity we can't even find?
In order for you to convince me that our rights are granted by God, you first have to prove that God exists. If you can do so in a manner more definitive than "well he just does" then I will address the rest of your questions.
About your blog, your arguments about God being the foundation of Liberty just don't hold any water. First of all you don't NEED some mystical source of your rights. Everyone on the planet can recognize that certain things are bad, all you have to do is write them down. Which has been done (Bill of Rights).
As for God being the foundation of Liberty, that didn't exactly stop slavery from happening did it? Didn't stop Jim Crow laws did it? Didn't stop the internment of the Japanese-Americans during WWII did it? Did it grant women the right to vote? Did it desegregate the schools? Fight racial discrimination? Prevent discrimination against gays? Has it given the Indians back their land? So if God in our government didn't do any of those things then how on earth can you think or say its the foundation of Liberty? Liberty from what? Conducting ourselves as decent human beings?
Other than giving Evangelical Heartland Christians something to pray to, what exactly DOES having God in our government do?
What would be a real eye opener is the kind of dangerously revolutionary society we would have if the small amount of taxes taken out of our paychecks weren't taken out to support the poor and disadvantaged and keep them from overthrowing the status quo.
This is the US, not Europe. Quit bitching about taxes.
Come on man. We are the masters of our domain. Why should nature not bend to our will? I mean having a permanent kitten would be sooooooooooooooooo cute.
The fact that the candidates of both the liberal and conservative parties of the US prefer big government programs should show you that a majority of its citizens, not thru their words, but through their deeds desire the same as well.
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Oh you think you're too GOOD to keep your family in mortal danger huh?
Elitist snob.
Can you honestly say that someone who believes in something that cannot be proven is all that smart? To live your life according to a book written by humans who claimed to have heard the word of that entity who's existence can't be proven? Just because something may be unpleasant to hear does not make it elitist if it is true. I am not lying about anything I am saying here. That farmer and that Wal-Mart worker both don't have the time or education to think about ways to solve their own problems instead they hand their fates over to their God and hope for the best, which is why they remain in their horrible situations. So please explain what is "mystic" or "unrealistic" about any of that?
And both the farmer and the Wal-Mart cashier spend so much of their time working in low wage uninspiring jobs that they never recieve the level of education that would assist them in thinking for themselves instead of accepting literal interpretations of the Bible as "gospel" to live by.
I think this has more to do with heavy computer use promoting a sedentary lifestyle which is one cause of higher blood pressure than any direct affect computer monitors have on our eyes.
Michael Shanks's wife, is Rommy on Andromeda. She is hawt hawt hawt hawt. Her name is Lexa Doig.
Their children will grow up to seduce the world.
Don't playa hate. Participate!
This wonderful AC just pointed out the glaring flaw in libertarian economic theory. That the free market is the solution to all corporate ills. So basically, we're supposed to wait years or decades for a large corporation to suffer the consequences of its own bad policies for the market to finally convince it to change its ways. In the meantime, hundreds or thousands of employees and or customers are hurt because enacting faster moving regulation would be seen as "hindering" economic activity.
Absolutely WE-TODD-IT is what libertarians are.
Actors and Sports unions are HARDLY represenative of the regular workforce. They are extremes.
A union requires all from the most talented hot shots to the slackers/idiots to make the same wages in their class irrespective of differing amounts of individual output.
Kerry lost because Karl Rove got more conservatives to vote than liberals. Thats why. That does not absolve the conservatives of their undeniable evil.
A penalty is useless if it is unenforceable. How would a ban on internet use be enforced? How would you stop him from using a friend's or even stolen credit card? Are you going to search his house weekly for internet connections?
"Does God belong in politics? No. But a belief in God and a vote for Bush does not make one evil."
Actually, yes it does.
Macs are still more expensive than PC's. You take a look at what Dell offers vs. Apple and thats really all you need to see. And laptops aren't the only type of computer out there, Apple's desktops are still grossly more expensive.
You see you keep forgetting that Macs are also slower and can run less applications. So you're paying MORE for a machine that runs SLOWER, and has less applications/videogames/IT familarity...etc.
Perspective is useless and pointless. People are going to do what they do regardless. You do the same.
BTW there's nothing undignified about standing in line for a video game, or for anything. We can't stop enjoying our lives because someone somewhere is dying.
Why must something be comprehendable to you to be enjoyable? Everyone has different interests. Some folks get an adrenaline rush from being first. Others like the exclusivity from being first. Who cares, folks are having fun. You sound like you are bitter that everyone else hasn't given up the consumerist lifestyle as you aspire to. Oh wait a minute, aren't you using a computer with an internet connection that if you cancelled you could use the money to feed several third worlders for years to come?
WTF does the war in Iraq have to do with Halo?
You have not stumped me. I just don't understand why you place so much importance on such a shaky foundation. Simply put, since the existence of God cannot be provens, then you cannot prove that any saying or quote or belief is something that God said or believed in. Alternatively you could attribute any crackpot idea to God and simply say to others "Prove that he wasn't for X".
So whats to stop Nazi's for example from saying that God wants all Jews to be killed? Or a red neck from saying God wants all women in the home and out of the workplace? Do you see now the danger in attributing ANYTHING to an entity we can't even find?
In order for you to convince me that our rights are granted by God, you first have to prove that God exists. If you can do so in a manner more definitive than "well he just does" then I will address the rest of your questions.
About your blog, your arguments about God being the foundation of Liberty just don't hold any water. First of all you don't NEED some mystical source of your rights. Everyone on the planet can recognize that certain things are bad, all you have to do is write them down. Which has been done (Bill of Rights).
As for God being the foundation of Liberty, that didn't exactly stop slavery from happening did it? Didn't stop Jim Crow laws did it? Didn't stop the internment of the Japanese-Americans during WWII did it? Did it grant women the right to vote? Did it desegregate the schools? Fight racial discrimination? Prevent discrimination against gays? Has it given the Indians back their land? So if God in our government didn't do any of those things then how on earth can you think or say its the foundation of Liberty? Liberty from what? Conducting ourselves as decent human beings?
Other than giving Evangelical Heartland Christians something to pray to, what exactly DOES having God in our government do?
Playing with fire is what allowed the cavemen to become the advanced urban beings we are today.
What would be a real eye opener is the kind of dangerously revolutionary society we would have if the small amount of taxes taken out of our paychecks weren't taken out to support the poor and disadvantaged and keep them from overthrowing the status quo.
This is the US, not Europe. Quit bitching about taxes.
STFU you damn nerd.
Come on man. We are the masters of our domain. Why should nature not bend to our will? I mean having a permanent kitten would be sooooooooooooooooo cute.
The fact that the candidates of both the liberal and conservative parties of the US prefer big government programs should show you that a majority of its citizens, not thru their words, but through their deeds desire the same as well.
Why do Apple users think the world revolves around them?
Because it does.