Journal smittyoneeach's Journal: Chilling, Given the Truthiness 166
But, hey, Progress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM
But, hey, Progress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
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How much is 3 x 3? Gender Equality.
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My evangelism is with a different crowd, where there is still hope.
To. What. Teleological. Point. Please.
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Externalize. Their. Personal. Failures.
Is that it? You're going with that? This is the end of the matter? "Internalize your fallibility"?
Wow, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, yet I somehow never knew. Thanks, bruh.
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I'm (generally) on course, making way, and have a working existential model that helps me navigate.
You seem to encourage a rejection of everything I know, a tossing of the engines, a leaving of the rudder, a rejection of the compass, to be blown away by the wind. .
You may be way too "smaht" for me, or something.
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I think it's an 80/20 problem, or so. We can and should pillory the nitwits in office for the 20% they own. But don't fail to credit the context.
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And, have you ever thought of making swastikas of the crap you're emitting? #AskingForAMissouStudent.
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Other than, when queried for the ground truth of human existence, you suddenly turn into an ersatz Zen peddler.
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And what unambiguous evidence do you say I reject?
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Purpose is not necessary. In nature there is none.
How is this any less an assertion than any for which you deride me?
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My "prize"? A peaceful life and death.
Why bother living?
What's yours?
"Well done, thou good and faithful servant."
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Your mere insistence is not good enough.
Ah, but yours: now there is a trump card.
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Your mere insistence is not good enough.
Careful, there. After I said that to him too many times, he stopped talking to me altogether. He doesn't like being asked to show support for anything.
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might be a little of your Christ
Best not taken by half measures, the Truth.
your Christianity voodoo and hatred...
Again, I am stunned at the content you find in my positive effort to express Divine love as best I can. But I don't think you bound by any need for accuracy, so go ahead.
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Which of the Tres Commies on the Iowa stage Saturday are you going to support? Rhode Island Red on the Far Left, Her Majesty at Center Left, Or Martin of the Mallet on the Left? I concede I thought that the woodenness of the Mallet on the Left was more pathetic than terrifying, living across the river from the Peoples' Republic of Maryland as I do.
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Attempting to inject the rebellion into the perfection of the creator would, itself, be an act of rebellion.
God is light. Think of how much the li
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Can I just concede to you whatever point you think you're making, to whomever you think excited thereby, if it makes you feel better about yourself?
I'm not seeking to injure you or make myself somehow "better". I just want to try to reintroduce you to reality.
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No you're not. You're preaching Christian scripture, demanding conformity.
No, I'm not. I'm relating what is true to you, in response to dialogue. Your acts of omission/commission therewith are on you.
Calling it "rebellion" is like saying blacks are "rebelling" against being white and thus are condemned sinners.
No, it's not. Unless the one is somehow God, you're explicitly bearing false witness here. You seem untroubled by the act.
You remained so obsessed on "orifices", like that's all there is.
As with you being you when your information is complete (conception), the inarguable fact that the anus is part of the digestive system and not the reproductive system remains a point of departure. Once these lies become "acceptable", entire monuments to falsehood
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an absolute truth
By an absolute truth, do you mean there is only one? Or can there be many? Can there be an infinite number of absolute truths?
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I do wonder if I should be cheering the Caliphate on. If we're going to do away with good Christian Tolerance because we don't like God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit telling us what to do, then the Justice of Allah cutting the hands off of thieves and beheading heretics and abortionists is likely what we deserve.
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emergence of "morality"
OK, we've built this up to a three word phrase. Groovy.
But don't forget to explain why a morality is a requirement in, what I expect you will reveal, is a teleological desert.
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That's an interesting arbitrary imposition of morality against the arbitrary imposition of morality.
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only trying to prevent the imposition of yours on people who don't want it.
Really? This justifies the name-calling because I'm incapable of acceding to a false definition of "equality"? Browbeating in the name of Social Justice, are you? I think you may just be a bigot, but by all means permit dissent and prove me wrong.
The thing is, nobody should be expected to listen to those who refuse to obey their own rules.
It kinda looks like you cheerfully break your tolerance precepts in my case.
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The contradictions flow and shape shift like the Northern Lights.
You cite contradictions as though they exist, in contradiction with reality. Good post-modern show, old yob.
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Creates a new dogma in the service of attempting to eliminate dogma. It's the basic paradox at the center of moral relativism.
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Which in and of itself is an imposition of morality. You consider the imposition of morality to be so evil that you're willing to impose YOUR morality on others.
Your judgment that others are bigots is in and of itself an imposition of morality.
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"Is it "name calling" if I call you a 'white guy'? No more than "bigot"."
Which in and of itself is an imposition of morality.
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In a sane realm, the act of using women as sperm receptacles, then slaughtering the offspring would be seen as "vilification", and then some.
Lord, have mercy on all the evildoers in question.
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Well, considering the huge logical hole in your own lesser evil game, that's a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.
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The self-defeating dogma of "There are no true dogmas".
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Yes, in fact, it is an imposition.
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Second of all, I want an actual strategy. An overarching, realistic statement of goals across the diplomatic, informational, economic, and, yes, military (DIME) levers of power showing the 5 Ws of what we're trying to accomplish, as an end state, in conjunction with the regional powers.
Then, maybe, in accordance with the second point, some kinetic involvement.
But I have no confidence in your interest in an actual exchange on the topic.
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Which makes you just an alternate evilbot.
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Exactly. Moral relativism makes no sense.
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I lay out a general framework, and you mount up your Greyhound Bus and start doing doughnuts on me.
Pound sand.
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But making a Jew eat pigs is most certainly an imposition, which is what the sexual revolutionists have been attempting to do for 40 years.
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There is an objective morality that is not a human invention- but is in fact quite human. It is written in your DNA.
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Opposing life is evil- which is what your addiction to drugs does directly. As does abortion, divorce, contraception, and homosexuality. That's what I mean by real morality is built into your DNA.
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Welcome to foreign policy, where everyone thinks they have a clean sheet of paper and then get whacked by all of human history, written or otherwise.
You can't be isolationist; you can't be neo-con: you have to find some way to surf the chaos in between.
What I think you want to do is (a) have some principles, and (b) adhere to them. Your boy W had a couple of decent ideas [nssarchive.us]. I'll buy the argument that the
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I happen to think that, if we don't manage to boot Big HAL Skynet Brother and kill ourselves, technology (could) eventually walk back some of the centralization of power that is at the heart of the overall woe. A small number of people really like to boss others around. A hefty chunk of people don't mind being bossed around. It's the folk in the middle who crave liberty that are at risk.
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