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Originally posted by Heraclitus
Yes I am.
Yes I am.
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You can't avoid it is implicit in the way our society is set up. And you can't admit people who earn a lot of money are attracted to the idea and sometimes employ it.Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Why is someone 'better' then you just because they make more money.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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"Apolyton gives you right-wings"Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"Comment
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Apolyton's destroyed my faith in my fellow man. I guess that's a move to the right.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
-Richard DawkinsComment
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Mortal, you are not allowed the privilege of discussing us plutocrats.Originally posted by Heraclitus And you can't admit people who earn a lot of money are attracted to the idea and sometimes employ it.Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
Japher: "crap, did I just post in this thread?"
"Bloody hell, Lefty.....number one in my list of persons I have no intention of annoying, ever." Bugs ****ing Bunny
From a 6th grader who readily adpated to internet culture: "Pay attention now, because your opinions suck"Comment
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Christianity has no issue with people working to support themselves, and explicitly rejects the idea that the value of a person is on what they make. Socialism on the other hand, assumes that the two are exactly the same which is why you have to level it out.You can't avoid it is implicit in the way our society is set up. And you can't admit people who earn a lot of money are attracted to the idea and sometimes employ it.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
"Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!Comment
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If wealth is the only measure to determine if you belong to the group then yes I do.Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
Mortal, you are not allowed the privilege of discussing us plutocrats.
Last edited by Heraclitus; May 29, 2008, 18:27.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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I have just paid the three fates a 'fee' for them to reevaluate the thread of your life.Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
Japher: "crap, did I just post in this thread?"
"Bloody hell, Lefty.....number one in my list of persons I have no intention of annoying, ever." Bugs ****ing Bunny
From a 6th grader who readily adpated to internet culture: "Pay attention now, because your opinions suck"Comment
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Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
I have just paid the three fates a 'fee' for them to reevaluate the thread of your life.
BTW That's your real pic? You really wear a monocle? Nice.
Last edited by Heraclitus; May 29, 2008, 18:26.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Christianity has no issue with people working to support themselves, and explicitly rejects the idea that the value of a person is on what they make. Socialism on the other hand, assumes that the two are exactly the same which is why you have to level it out.Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. (Matthew 19:24)Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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Can I get socks made out of the thread of Hera's life? Pretty pretty please Lefty?Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
I have just paid the three fates a 'fee' for them to reevaluate the thread of your life.Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
-Richard DawkinsComment
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What the **** does it matter WHAT Hoover was?! Why are you deflecting the real issue yet again?Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
No, Hoover wasn't the conservative. He was a classical liberal. Classical liberals hate these sorts of things. They are all about colonialism. You need to read your history Imran. Gladstone was the conservative who was against colonialism, whereas the liberal Disraeli was all for it.
Regardless of Hoover's political beliefs, he considered MLK to be far on the left. So did, FWIW, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
Btw, I hope you do realize that Gladstone was the head of the Liberal party while Disraeli was head of the Conservatives. Sure seems like Gladstone was the classic liberal:
“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)Comment
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Also I find it amusing that people who claim to follow Jesus and capitalism. Jesus appears to me to a be a socialist thinker and the natural Christian state should be a socialist one, where the poor are cared for and not left to die penniless in the street.“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)Comment
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They aren't better, so they shouldn't make more money. That's the kind of common sense that is in everyone's subconscious.Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Why is someone 'better' then you just because they make more money.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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Imran is right. If Jesus had any common sense who would use his ability to turn water into wine for a business venture.Comment
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