Citizenschallenge-v.3

Might it be in reaction to the news of the nation?

Can anyone explain what Trump’s good qualities are?

Hmmm

Some people are just violent. Violence is a thing that would have happened, even if religion had never existed.

I think you missed a nuance here.   Religions breed self-certain absolutism like few other things – this enables self-justification of the most atrocious thinking.

Just look as our President of the United States who’s supposed to be…[Read more]

Some refer to religions as little more than blankies to salve our insecurities.

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The entire Republican party, with a few exceptions, is a bunch of whiny little bitches who think they should get their way all the time and cry like little babies when they don’t.

I couldn’t get away with saying it, but damned you’ve hit the crooked nail on the head.

Oh yeah, the rest of the story

Think of every single case of voter/election f…

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Why not a little constructive debate?

But how do you deal with people who believe it’s their right to ignore and even lie about well understood observations facts?

People who feel justified in cherry picking and misdirecting every serious discussion?

Or who refuse to engage in constructive debate – but instead slam their ears/minds shut and reject every foreign thought or physical…[Read more]

Yeah, that’s what I think too.  Well, till I try to do it.

Wanting to preserve the disintegrating American middle class is the same as nazi ideology?

Where did I say that?  How is a video glorifying the president blowing away all of his enemies heads going to help the middle class?  Can you explain?

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People that can’t rationally discuss problems in an honest civil manner, folks who’d rather ignore f…[Read more]

A)   The progression is there – the chronology speaks for itself.    Wholly independent of the artist.

B)  I never claimed to me an authority on Orwell, though I’ve read some.  Why not listen to his words in that documentary, they speak on their own – no Orwellian expertise needed.  Just a rational mind that listens and pays atten…[Read more]

good luck, Tee.

Tee, you disappoint.  Istock quotes – they are a dime a dozen.

Pigs & Immortality: A Step Towards Reversing Death

There was another headline.  Immortality.  Reversing Death.

Do you trust every headline you read?

I don’t, but you know I found your topic interesting enough to spend some serious time reading those articles and thinking on it an…[Read more]

Yeah, long ago I became a cremate me guy, but recently reading up on it, turned out not to be such a neat idea in a few respects – I’d go for the green burial now.

However, my body is already reserved for medical research and when they are done with it, they cremate what’s left as a matter of practice – makes return postage so much less expensive…[Read more]

Thanks.  Since I fished for that complement, I will release it back into the wild, so that it might grow and reproduce.

You’re the best T.

W: They claim to be investigating “scientifically” and that’s why they’re trying to disprove it.  Because that’s what scientists do, right?  They try to prove a conclusion wrong and, if they can’t, it must be right!

I hear fans of Karl Popper saying something to this effect all the time.

I don’t think that’s what he’s really saying, but am still…[Read more]

Orwell does a good job explaining why everyone is too anesthetized to do anything.

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I guess CC is making a point that slightly sociopathic ppl made the video, and that the same types were among Robber Barrons and slavers.

Oh lordie you missed the boat on that one.

I’m talking about what’s in the hearts of people – these trumpeters are no different than the passions what went into making nazis – and it’s unfolding in front of…[Read more]

Although on the more serious side, this one offers a hell of an outline for where were at today –  pretty good for a guy who died in 1950

George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell.

Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell. No surviving sound recordings or video…

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here, since I don’t have the time, someone else tried to explain a sliver of the game, er I mean history,  to today’s 1 second attention span.

Although there’s a lot that happened before to set the stage for that ditty.   Same old shit new day, and we never learned a thing.

I thought the topic w…

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