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Phat Member Posts: 18310 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Kinda makes you wonder why they insisted that Gods name be placed on money.
Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. ~RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " ~"If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith You can "get answers" by watching the ducks. That doesn't mean the answers are coming from them.~Ringo
Subjectivism may very well undermine Christianity.In the same way that "allowing people to choose what they want to be when they grow up" undermines communism.~Stile
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8536 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.0 |
Prosperity theology.
Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Phat Member Posts: 18310 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
ringo writes: What kind of idiot gets their news from social media? *looks nervously around while whistling Dixie* I just saw one on YouTube yesterday. Of course, it was narrated by Jim Rickards, whom I patronize by buying his books occasionally. He is one of the You Tubians who I am accused of getting all my information, but I trust his credentials to a degree.
Bio from Wiki quote: Anyway, Rickard's latest claim is that Digital Currency is being pushed--and pushed quickly--by the Biden administration. Nicknamed "Biden Bucks" this nefarious digital dollar will enable every user to be tracked and their purchases monitored. Of course for a fee, he offers a solution to this mess--which I won't swallow hook, line, and sinker. I DO worry whether there is a need for concern regarding this governmental control and intrusion into my life. Yes, it will help corral people (*cough* Conservatives *cough*) who attempt to illegally stash money, but it will also force the average Joe to never be able to buy a precious metal or even sell a used car (apart from barter) without being digitally traced. This all got on the fast track due to Executive Order 14067.
Rickards writes: Now...I'm not so worried about Dems holding on to power, though there is a related conservative charge that illegal aliens are streaming into the US at historic rates, and that among them are individuals from as far away as Pakistan. Apart from tilting the voter ranks towards favoring Democrats, which is far from conclusive, the worry is for the safety of the US mainland in general.
Update: It is underway. On March 9, Biden signed Executive Order 14067, which could pave the way for the new US currency I call Biden Bucks. AOC tweeted her support. Dems could use this to hold onto power indefinitely. Of course its controversial."A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.” “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9143 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
Faith used to think that the liberals blamed Trump for everything. Some liberals did.
Some conservatives think they should be able to enslave other humans.See what I did. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9143 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
Who are they?
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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Phat Member Posts: 18310 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Theodoric writes: Who are they? I watch conservative, mainstream, and foreign (BBC and Al Jazeera) News outlets. "They" refer to varied groups and ideologies based on the media. Take the Marthas Vineyard fiasco (and political stunt, in my opinion) Several "theys" are mentioned in media that Ive listened to. According to our conservative loudmouth Tucker Carlson, the enslaved ones are the "poor immigrants who are now under police control. He accuses "they"...the wealthy liberals on Martha Vineyard, of calling in the army to get them out of town. Of course, Tucker represents conservatism.
Theodoric writes: Some conservatives think they should be able to enslave other humans. See what Tucker did? He blamed the wealthy liberals for shunning the aliens. He claims that Martha Vineyard could have absorbed them but the "wealthy liberals" said NIMBY.(Not In My Backyard.) I would not be happy if homeless people started camping out near my house, so I can see the argument to a degree. Several questions, though.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.” “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9143 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
The they I am referring to in the first comment.
Kinda makes you wonder why they insisted that Gods name be placed on money.
Posting one reply to multiple comments that are vastly different is extremely disingenuous. Trying to combine my posts to make me look inconsistent just makes you look like the deceptive, untrustworthy person you have become.What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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PaulK Member Posts: 17825 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2
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quote: Tucker Carlson is so dishonest his own employers won’t call his product “news”..Martha’s Vineyard is a resort, which doesn’t ave the facilities to handle immigrants. The people who live and work there aren’t rich. But they helped the poor immigrants. And the defrauded immigrants got taken to places which can support them better.
quote: Ron DiSantis, Republican Governor of Florida. But he got them from Texas. And fraudulently convinced them to go to Martha’s Vineyard.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4413 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.3
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WHO sent these aliens to Martha Vineyard? Was it simply a political stunt? Ron DeSatan the governor of Florida sent asylum seekers in Texas to Martha's Vineyard.Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned! What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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ringo Member (Idle past 434 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Phat writes:
That started long before Biden. When my brother died in 2015 I was surprised to see that his bank statements reported every cup of coffee and every sandwich he bought. And it goes back long before that. Doesn't Safeway have a "loyalty card"? Those were started decades ago so they could monitor what products you buy, when you buy them, etc. so that you could be targeted for the appropriate flyers and promotions. They've been doing it as long as they could. ... this nefarious digital dollar will enable every user to be tracked and their purchases monitored. Any time you hear something like "Biden Bucks" you should run screaming in the opposite direction.
Phat writes:
Again, it isn't the government; It's business. The government doesn't have to scam you out of your money; they can just take it.
I DO worry whether there is a need for concern regarding this governmental control and intrusion into my life. Phat writes:
It HAS been digitally traced ever since the digits have been electronic. It has nothing to do with Biden. ... it will also force the average Joe to never be able to buy a precious metal or even sell a used car (apart from barter) without being digitally traced. (I notice that your latest goober named Rickards mentions "AOC". I have to look that up every time I see it. Why do you right-wing nuts hate her so much?)"Oh no, They've gone and named my home St. Petersburg. What's going on? Where are all the friends I had? It's all wrong, I'm feeling lost like I just don't belong. Give me back, give me back my Leningrad." -- Leningrad Cowboys
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ringo Member (Idle past 434 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Phat writes:
The way it sounded to me is that Republican governors wanted "liberal" jurisdictions to handle the problem that the feds didn't handle. (Maybe they wanted the feds to shoot the immigrants at the border). WHO sent these aliens to Martha Vineyard? Was it simply a political stunt? It's a vile game to play with people's lives."Oh no, They've gone and named my home St. Petersburg. What's going on? Where are all the friends I had? It's all wrong, I'm feeling lost like I just don't belong. Give me back, give me back my Leningrad." -- Leningrad Cowboys
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Phat Member Posts: 18310 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
please stop. You are such an old whiner that it is tiresome.
Note that the comment you replied to was posted on 3/16/2019! How the hell was I supposed to know that you ignored my post from today and were replying to that? Grow up and learn to get along with people who don't agree with you rather than harping on them in order to reinforce your inferiority complex."A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.” “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
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Phat Member Posts: 18310 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
ringo writes: Agreed. Likely they thought that the liberals in power wanted to park all of the immigrants in poorer conservative towns so they shipped them to a wealthier town to prove a point. It's a vile game to play with people's lives. I live in a closed retirement community with rules. If they shipped a bunch of people here, we would likely not open our patio doors to them. For one thing, old Biden is now not classifying anyone as illegal and seemingly wants to invite the poor disenfranchised masses of the whole world in. Conservatives claim that it becomes a security issue as well as a burden on the US.
Denying Reality on Immigration quote: Now, I can understand why we need more people. Somebody has to work to pay my social security, for one thing."A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.” “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
Somebody has to work to pay my social security, for one thing. In a discussion here a few years ago -- I think Faith was involved -- discussion brought up a resource (OK, I seem to recall that I myself had found it) that compared on a state-by-state basis what undocumented people drew from the community (eg, "welfare" which they're not eligible for anyway) versus what they contribute. Basically, as I recall, each state compared the taxes received from the undocumented and the services they received. What was found was that not only were those figures not out of line with the same figures for citizens, but they were actually paying more in taxes than they were getting back in benefits. Part of that was the black market in fake Social Security numbers (SSN, which I only know as a military abbreviation). An undocumented worker could get a fake SSN so that his employer could go through the motions of operating legitimately -- some employers, such as Trump properties, would obtain those fake SSNs for those workers. That meant that FICA deductions (Social Security and Medicare) would be taken out of the workers' pay (7.5% match by the employer for a total of 15%). However, there is a catch: those workers, because their SSNs are fake, can never collect those benefits. That means that those undocumented workers using fake SSNs are indeed paying for your own Social Security but not for their own. That should make you happy.
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9143 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3
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I noticed the post because you zombied the thread. You responded to a 2019 post because you have to resurrect settled threads. Fuck you for accusing me of what you do. Fuck off you persistent and amoral troll.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up why would you have to lie?
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