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Originally posted by BeBro
You go against the church and bring in your own cult?
You go against the church and bring in your own cult?
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Persecute the religious. Why should the sane people have to put up with their BS?Only feebs vote. -
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Stalin isn't the prime example for sane people. And why would those 'sane people' have a prob just cuz someone else holds other beliefs? Isn't that exactly what we blame religion for in various cases? And if you like religion or not, lots of people buy into it. So you need to resort to repressive policies against quite a big part of the population in most countries. How's that a society worth living in?Originally posted by Agathon
Persecute the religious. Why should the sane people have to put up with their BS?BlahComment
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We already know you're with Stalin, Aggie.Comment
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Authoritarian.Originally posted by Agathon
Persecute the religious. Why should the sane people have to put up with their BS?
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The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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I agree with Aggie, as long as communism is counted as a religion.Comment
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How does that make any sense?Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I agree with Aggie, as long as communism is counted as a religion.
"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
-Joan RobinsonComment
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Do you really want that discussion again?I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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And Platonism.Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I agree with Aggie, as long as communism is counted as a religion.Comment
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Yes, the things people believe in are, in fact, stupid.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Actually it's motivated by anti-authoritarianism. Religion is one of the key ways in which authoritarians flourish in our society. Replacing religion with atheism as the established authority is a way of getting them on side and also a way of moderating their baleful influence. After all, if an authoritarian believes that he must find empirical evidence to justify his political program it is a hell of a lot better than if he believes it is justified because a burning tree or a pillar of salt talked to him.Originally posted by Arrian
Authoritarian.
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Or would you prefer that we simply put all the authoritarians to death? That could be arranged.Only feebs vote.Comment
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How many actual Platonists do you know? I'm the only one on the board who could be said to be familiar with it, and I'm not one.Originally posted by Elok
And Platonism.
Anyway, if anyone is going to stick up for idiotic beliefs with a complete absence of reason, it's you.Only feebs vote.Comment
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It doesn't. Kuci is just that spoiled little boy in the corner with the high pitched voice who feels the need to pipe up with complete nonsense at random intervals. He's as good an argument for class conditioning as I've ever seen.Originally posted by Victor Galis
How does that make any sense?
Only feebs vote.Comment
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Actually, given the fiasco in Iraq, I suspect it couldn't be. Even if you could, I suspect in some places they'd spring right back up.Originally posted by Agathon
Or would you prefer that we simply put all the authoritarians to death? That could be arranged.
Also, on a somewhat unrelated note: I spent much time today reading a serious article about pirate governance in the 17-18 centuries (Yes, this was a real article in the Journal of Political Economy). Interestingly enough, pirate ships were were significantly more democratic than merchant ships (and certainly than naval officers). Hardly seems democracy makes the pirates nice fellows though.
The article suggests the pirates were democratic because they did not face the principal-agent problem that merchants faced (absentee owners having no ability to watch over their ships while they were at sea)."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
-Joan RobinsonComment
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Try the poll then. Give the same explanation you gave me about how circles must contain circularity from another dimension, and see how many people think it makes sense.Originally posted by Agathon
How many actual Platonists do you know? I'm the only one on the board who could be said to be familiar with it, and I'm not one.
Anyway, if anyone is going to stick up for idiotic beliefs with a complete absence of reason, it's you.Comment
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