Why do you try to make it sound like a good thing, when all they do is making things worse?
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Originally posted by Winston
Because it is a good thing. You don't discontinue a well-functioning practice unless you have something better to replace it.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
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Monarchy
Republic (though the president should NOT have too much power and rise above party politics (well...some anyway).Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - Epicurus
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Originally posted by Winston
There are two practical differences.
1) In a Monarchy, you get a head of state for all of the populace, elevated beyond petty political divisions, to act - with the rest of the family - as an inspiration and a guidance to a significant number of people
2) You get consistency in the highest representative function of the state - unparalleled by any other system of governance. In our case, at present our Crown Prince has had 37 years of preparing for the job, taking clues from his mother, developing his own way of managing things, acquainting himself with the country's history, political life, sciences and industry - and forming relations and friendships with prominent people here and throughout the rest of the world. A Monarch is, in most cases, without comparison better schooled for the position of heading a nation, than an elected politician could ever be.
We've only had 3 different heads of state since 1912, each one under the natural influence of his or her predecessor, but at the same time forming and developing their position in their own personal way, to meet the demands and expectations of the changing society. I can't imagine anything more appropriate.
MonarchyThe genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland
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Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok
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Indeed it does. We stopped thinking that forelock-tugging obsequiousness was a satisfactory way to conduct oneself as a populace round about the time Wat Tyler started getting a bit pissed off.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland
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Oh, here we go. "Forget about democratic representation! Look! Titties!".The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland
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Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Indeed it does. We stopped thinking that forelock-tugging obsequiousness was a satisfactory way to conduct oneself as a populace round about the time Wat Tyler started getting a bit pissed off.
forelock-tugging obsequiousness
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - Epicurus
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