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Code of Conduct Interpretation
I will remember who was more or less respectful and recognised me. All will be noted.
Just to be clear, I belong on the list of people who have no respect whatsoever for you, I go on the long list of people who think you are an asshole.


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@zedvictor4
From where do you get the authority, to erase a 100 years of recent history?
He said he speaks for God.
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@Sir.Lancelot
I feel OP is slightly wrong here.
We should despise evil people like Hitler and the nazis, but usually anyone that begins statements like the choice of words Remy is using, are being anti-semitic.
The schema applies here regardless, even if Remy's case is the exception.
No question that Remy is an antisemitic asshole, nobody takes him seriously, if you can't handle seeing prejudice and hatred, you should not be on the internet (or watch the news for that matter). Ratman is just creating drama where there isn't any, drunk with the power of moderation LOL.. 

There will always be a lot of prejudice on these boards, Remy is a whack job antisemitic, so what, Ratman is virulently Islamophobic, so what, haters gonna hate, haters gonna be on the internet, it is what it is, we just can't let them matter.  
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@whiteflame
It's late and I'm hopping off for the night. For now, suffice it to say that we will have further discussion of some of the issues that AdaptableRatman has raised, but the requirements he set for discussion, including abstention from using the proper nouns "Hitler" and "Nazis" as well as requirements for evidence to post claims like this are on hold.
I look forward to an explanation as to how the question "So, mentioning Adolf Hitler is strictly verboten?" violates the CoC, is it hate speech, am I inciting something, the only thing I think I have violated is Ratman's totalitarian attitude towards moderation, and I don't see anything in the CoC requiring an obsequious response to Ratman's bloated ego.  
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@AdaptableRatman
Soon the rules here will shift and you will be dealt with for this open violation and disrespect.
Please reference the exactly how I violated the CoC and then show me where it says we have to have respect for a whack job that has let the power of "moderation" go to his head.  
I have already told the others mods this is their issue to take over now.
OK, they can take your nonsense seriously if they want, I think you are a joke.  


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@AdaptableRatman
Hitler and Nazis can be used in debate about them. They should not appear in a debate about Jews owning the media.
OK, so we can debate about Hitler and Nazis, but it cannot include reference to Jews?  That should make for some Felliniesque debates.

How about the Catholic Church, considering the central role the Catholic Church played in making the Holocaust possible, is it fair to say the Catholic Church also should not be mentioned in a debate about Jews owning the media?

There is a blatant reason why both sides of this debate should not begin to go into Nazi topic.
Pay attention Pumpkin, there aren’t two sides to this debate, there’s just a whack job ranting nonsense, and you bringing undeserved attention to it.


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@AdaptableRatman
Hitler and Nazis can be used in debate about them. They should not appear in a debate about Jews owning the media.

There is a blatant reason why both sides of this debate should not begin to go into Nazi topic.
Moderation Team:  Ratman's "clarification" only complicates the matter, in the interest of dissemination to our members, I still see a need to reference the list of banned words, but it is complicated by the fact that it only applies to some debates but not others. I suppose it will also be necessary to list the specific types of debates in which the words are banned by Ratman, and if it is simply a matter of Ratman's discretion, then the CoC should provide some indication as to how he arrives at his site restrictions.

Ratman has also proclaimed that he is disallowing the representation of certain historical figures in a person's avatar, we should also include a list of acceptable historical images, Stalin killed more Jews than Hitler, he should be included in the list, and in consideration of the Catholic Churches central role in the historical development and sustaining of Antisemitism, with their history of violent repression, pogroms, and inquisitions that targeted Jews with confinement to dungeons,physical abuse, torture and murder of Jews through strangulation or burning at the stake.  I would suggest there are multiple Popes, such as PopeSixtus IV, Pope Pius IX and several others.



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@Barney
@Vader
@whiteflame
@AdaptableRatman
Moderation Team: since Ratman is compiling a list of banned words for the site, I think you should modify the Code of Conduct to include the list of which words Ratman does not allow on the site. 

Ratman's proclamation doesn't effectively disseminate the list of banned words to all members; it needs to be referenceable in the COC to ensure all members are aware.
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@AdaptableRatman
You are warned. If you do again I ask other mods to handle.
Jawohl Mein Commandant!
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@AdaptableRatman
Anyone disobeying the command not to mention Hitler or Nazis for this thread will get formally warned.
So, mentioning Adolf Hitler is strictly verboten?


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@FLRW
Remember that each kid will now cost $1 million to raise.
Trump wants to pay the first $5,000, that's a big incentive for MAGA women.
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@RemyBrown
With power comes responsibility; the Jews that run the media should become more responsible by telling people to internally develop better personalities
We are all begging you, please develop a better personality.
instead of selling them pills.
And take your meds.
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@FLRW
Don't forget, Christley's in jail bad.
Kidnapping Democratic Governors good.
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@FLRW
Don't forget, Christley's in jail bad.
Kidnapping Democratic Governors good.
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@Greyparrot
Lol, someone hates America and being debt-free.
Yes, being poorly educated is true American, and it eliminates debt too.   You guys should declare war on Harvard...oh wait, you already did.

And possibly, public libraries?
MAGA guys don't go to public libraries because they don't even have a conspiracy theory section.  
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@Greyparrot
I love the poorly indoctrinated as well. Preferably ones that don't ask for 100k loan forgiveness for being retarded enough to do that for a piece of useless paper.
LOL, yes, the MAGA chant, education bad, science bad, facts bad, law and order bad, we don't need all that stuff, we have conspiracy theories.
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"I love the poorly educated." - Donald Trump
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@AdaptableRatman
Wylted is not that different. RB just actually thinks it is fine. Wylted knows how depraved he is and does it anyway.

That is basically the primary difference.
I certainly didn't mean to imply that Wylted is not a crazed whack job idiot, that goes without saying.
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@FLRW
Well stated.
It's only "well stated" if what he's trying to say is "I'm a crazed whack job idiot".
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@AdaptableRatman
They literally exist. Native americans are one example.
Native Americans are orange? LOL, OK, how about the Cherokee Blue Clan, orange or blue? 

I do need to apologize about the scales comment; saying Trump has scales is very offensive to lizards, I apologize to scaled animals everywhere.
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@AdaptableRatman
That is very racist what you just said.
Yes, I am prejudiced against orange people.



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Lol, yes, Biden clearly got under Trump's skin, tee hee.
Is that what you call that orange shit, skin?

I was thinking scales.
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@Greyparrot
Biden must have Triggered him bad.
LOL, of course it's Biden's fault, but what about Hunter's laptop. I'm sure that is part of it too.

It's about what we would expect from Cadet Bone Spurs on Suckers and Losers' Day.
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@Dr.Franklin
@AdaptableRatman
Careful, you piss us off and we will put a monster under your bed, just like when you were little.

Yes, that was us..
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I have met a freemason, a couple in fact that I know of. One is nothing special and the other is the biggest piece of shit I ever knew.
Oh sure, I'm sure a lot of Freemason's stop by your parent's basement to split a bowl of Cheetos with you.
You're quite literally one of the biggest morons on this site.
LOL. I'm sure you would know.
Your argument against determinism is "but you can't be right unless you had the choice to be right or wrong". On the contrary no one can choose how intelligent they are, and the being that is most likely to be correct about everything would be a being that has no choice but to be correct about everything.
That has nothing to do with my argument of course, as with all your posts, it is about how you comprehend things in the stupidest and most incoherent way.  

But hey, I find idiots entertaining, so please, keep the stupid coming Fishboy.
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@FishChaser
I know from personal experience that freemasons aren't the upstanding moral beacons of light they claim to be. Much like Christians in general, there is a lot of self-righteousness and trying to uphold the appearance of being a good person and underneath it they are insufferable retards who lack any good qualities whatsoever.
"Personal experience" LOL.

Sitting in your parents' house eating Cheetos while surfing conspiracy web sites does not constitute "personal experience".

You've never met a Freemason, as always, you are just full of shit.
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Man, you can't make this shit up, I'll just post Trump's uplifting Memorial Day address for you.

Trump, writing in all caps, posted, "HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY TO ALL, INCLUDING THE SCUM THAT SPENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS TRYING TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY THROUGH WARPED RADICAL LEFT MINDS, WHO ALLOWED 21,000,000 MILLION PEOPLE TO ILLEGALLY ENTER OUR COUNTRY, MANY OF THE BEING CRIMINALS AND THE MENTAO INSANE,THROUGH AN OPEN BORDER THAT ONLY AN INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT WOULD APPROVE, AND THROUGH JUDGES WHO ARE ON A MISSION TO KEEP MURDERERS, DRUG DEALERS, RAPISTS, GANG MEMBERS, AND RELEASED PRISONERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN OUR COUNTRY SO THEY CAN ROB, MURDERERS, AND RAPE AGAIN, PROTECTED BY THESE USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY. HOPEFULLY THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, AND OTHER GOOD AND COMPASSIONATE JUDGES THROUGHOUT THE LAND, WILL SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL."

You MAGA guys are a real class act....and your President/Dictator is unhinged.
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@AdaptableRatman
Or does he win when you all are too spineless to correct him?
Correct him?  Oh pulease, there's nothing there to correct, to quote Wolfgang Pauli, he "isn't even wrong".
Also who is really winning? A troll?
I'm sure nobody thinks he is winning, and nobody cares if he thinks he is winning either, what he thinks is irrelevant.
I have no idea what game theory is in your or sir lancelot's head. I made a thread about something site related, a troll showed up, I stood up to the troll and then I am told there is an imaginary win conditon of letting a Hitlerite roam free.

Read your Bible btw. Read Old Testament, Ezekiel in particular. See what it says about those who passively allow evil.

I am not losing nor in the wrong.
I don't think you are losing or wrong, I just think you shouldn't let him upset you, he's not worth your time or your attention.
As for the guy I have a restraining order with, he will be dealt with soon.
Well, this is interesting, want to share the story?
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@AdaptableRatman
You aren't really all that adaptable Ratman, maybe your name should be UnadaptableRatman.

If you were adapable, you would just do what everybody else does, ignore FishChaser, he is so desperate for attention, in his whack job mind, he wins when you complain about him.






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@AdaptableRatman
I know of Pagans who are 'good' people.
Good for you. and I notice you tell Christians that they are Pagans, how do you determine that? 
Ultimately I am not the judge of good or evil people, I can judge only actions. Everyone is a sinner by default.
On what authority do you "judge" actions?
You seem to be bigoted enough to assume Fauxlaw cannot be good and Pagan at the same time.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with what I said.  You see to be stupid enough to not be able to comprehend my simple statement...maybe you should try reading it again, real slow, maybe out loud will help. 
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@FishChaser
The only Mormon's I know are Joseph Smith himself (false prophet and conman) and fauxlaw (retarded douche bag)
So, as always, you are speaking from ignorance.
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@AdaptableRatman
If you are going to be a full on Pagan, why not just own what you are? Why fake the Christianity?
Do you actually know anyone from the LDS church?

The Bible says we should judge a tree by its fruit; the LDS church bears good fruit.
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@Sir.Lancelot
These two philosophical ideologies are at odds with one another. Which do you believe is more practical, which resonates with you more?
I’m not sure it’s really a matter of “either or”, perhaps they are two aspects of life, they look like opposites but in practice, they are polar opposites, they constitute a whole. They represent a dynamic, rather than separate, they are transactional components of a single movement. 

In the realm of the mind the most fundamental things are presented to us in the form of a choice, and it becomes a choice of perspective, of how one looks at it I think. 

The purpose of epicureanism is to simplify pleasures and seek out pleasure while avoiding pain. Stoicism has always been more about promoting living a virtuous lifestyle while refraining from hedonism.

Most people would say Mother Teresa was a Stoic, “selfless” even, but if we distinguish between what we think or her work and what she thought of her work, if you listen to her, she did not think of it as selfless, she always talked about it as a Hedonistic pleasure.

Mother Teresa always spoke of the great joy and pleasure, a deep personal sense of satisfaction she obtained from her work. She just never spoke about doing the things she did for the sake of others, she didn’t see her work as “selfless”.

We most certainly think that within the ethical domain, her actions were above and beyond the call of duty, "Saintly" and heroic so to speak. She just did not think of herself as Saintly and heroic, she did not speak of anything she did as above and beyond the call of duty, she didn't see her life as sacrificial, to her it was a matter of continuous joy and pleasure, and nothing more.

I think we need to recognize that Mother Teresa found life personally satisfying on these terms because she had transcended the realm in which her own materiality was located. She had truly adopted a perspective that defined life as good in terms of the contribution she made in others. It most certainly was not for the experience that comes from being acknowledged, but for the genuine experience of joy she felt in service to others. I believe she transcended her own ego consciousness and extended her awareness and being to include the experience created in others by her work. She actually thought this way, she had overcome consciousness of material being and entered a completely different realm, a spiritualistic realm. Hers was a realm in which she was truly one with her fellow man. I believe there is a genuine personal exaltation, a pure and unadulterated experience of pleasure in this transcendence of the self which she accomplished, and which fits the original philosophical use of the word hedonism.

Granted, I could be mistaken about one or two of the details because I did oversimplify them.
You oversimplified to the point of no details, but hey, every single person in the world does that. It’s as simple as that.


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@WyIted
LOL, this nonsense might play well in your little Felliniesque conspiracy world, but over here in the real world, it's just unhinged incoherent blather.
Why is border security unhinged?
I didn't say border security is unhinged, that's just some words in your unhinged blather.  The word salad MAGA Morons use to try to justify how they feel, and how they act, is nothing but irrelevant babble, mostly lies and nonsense, but it just the noise you make with your feelings. It's just the only way to control stupid people.

Trump owns you by your feelings, not logic or reason, not words, he manipulates feelings, what he sells is outrage, not ideas. Musk can dance around with a toy chainsaw till you guys are frothing at the mouth, and you try to explain the angry hateful frenzy by making up some words, mostly lies and conspiracy theories, but it is about the hatred and anger you feel, the words aren't actually about anything, they just express the feeling. It's just what hatred sounds like.
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@n8nrgim
Well said,

Can't wait to hear the responses...let me summarize -- conspiracy, fake news, cover up, lies, and saving the country.


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@WyIted
Only the very dumbest people believe that load of bullshit.
I feel sorry for you that you think dumb people believe in free speech, some level of border security and not mutilating children
LOL, this nonsense might play well in your little Felliniesque conspiracy world, but over here in the real world, it's just unhinged incoherent blather.

Over here in the real world, we laugh at what stupid people think is clever.

Nobody falls for it.

 
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Seems the one person who can i.d. all of those types has been all those types at one time or another. But, then again, sitting on a fence, one does see the parade go by without having to participate.
On the other hand, no one gets anywhere fence-sitting, do they?

As Teddy Roosevelt once said [paraphrase] only the one who comes down off the fence and into the frey have any personal knowledge of victory and defeat, and usually experience both.  And perhaps it is only they who ought to be heard.
I presume he's talking about "In The Arena" a famous quote by Teddy Rosevelt I can still quote because it was on the wall of the wrestling room when I wrestled (about a hundred years ago).  It is for all the couch potatoes sitting and eating Cheetos while they talk about how the Olympians on TV suck.

In The Arena

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

—Theodore Roosevelt
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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Let’s dispel the rumor that Social Security, initially set up in the 1930s in the Roosevelt administration for the benefit of retirees, is a socialist program. It is not “an entitlement,” because all the money paid into the S.S. Trust Fund is out of private industry, not public money. The paycheck stub calls these payments “FICA,” [Federal Insurance Corporation of America], and consist of payments we make out of each personal paycheck from our employers to cover future retirement expenses in the form of monthly Social Security and Medicare payments. Our employers match our paycheck FICA contributions  over the course of our careers, which should be considered as additional income, but slated for investment purpose rather than in-pocket, like a private savings account. 
So, none of the input is public money, so the payout from the government is not an entitlement; it is our private money, earned by working [ours and our employers’ money]. It is therefore not a socialist program, as many today accuse.
The government is often accused of robbing money out of the Social Security Trust Fund that our private contributions, and those of our employers, feed. The government denies the “theft,” but, they do acknowledge “borrowing” money from it.  To date, as of the end of fiscal year 2024 [September 30, 2024], the government owes the Trust Fund $2.5 trillion dollars. The robbery accusation appears to be a reality given the size of the debt; it is just called “borrowing.” By the way, the congress.gov reference from above stipulates that, by law, the borrowed money must be reimbursed by the government. Past time to pay-up, and given the size of the incurred debt, Congress is, once again, dragging its feet. How about changing the law that allows government to “borrow” from the Social Security Trust Fund in the first place? It is patently unfair to impose this debt on taxpayers whose own future access to Social Security they are currently paying into is at risk to be utterly lost to them.
They stole our $2.5 trillion, and I'm old enough to remember when 2.5 trillion was a lot of money.
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When a corporate executiv0e is caught "borrowing" from the employee pension fund, they go to jail, it happens all the time.  I'm sure every one of them sat in jail saying, "I was going to pay it back".


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I think I am a rare enigma that actually enjoys arguing. I get actual pleasure when doing it as long as it is respectful.
I don't think it's really that rare, I have known a lot of people who love to argue, contrarians who will argue anything, on any side, some folks prefer argument over discussion, the adversarial stance suits them. 

My father was one, you say the sky is blue and he'd argue that it's red.  To him it was about competing, to his way of thinking, every conversation has a winner and a loser. 
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Skywalker was the Chosen One
You misspelled my name again, it's not "Sky", it's "Side", as in "Sidewalker was the Chosen One".
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@Sir.Lancelot
OP.
You gotta cool it with the blatant sexism. This not-so-subtle discrimination towards women is not acceptable.
It will be even more of a problem if he actually meets a woman someday.


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@zedvictor4
Wherein lies the conspiracy when an old man is diagnosed with prostate cancer?

Though, I still think that Donald is an extra-terrestrial super carrot, employed by the Jews, in order to perpetuate the ongoing spheroidal Earth misinformation, thereby concealing the fact that bigfoot, who are responsible for Earth's rotational mechanism, which is failing,  live on the other side and only come this side to play in the snowy forests of America.

Are Bigfeet the plural of Bigfoot...I believe that there is an ongoing lexicographical conspiracy surrounding this information, and that if we fully understood the correct plurality of Bigfoot we would be able to live forever, and the Jews along with Donald super-carrot are conspiring to make humans die unnecessarily from prostate cancer or similar.
Much batter.
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@zedvictor4
So an 82 year old has prostate cancer.

Nothing new.

I wish him all the best.
Oh man, you really suck at conspiracy theories.


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@TheGreatSunGod
If in elections there, one candidate was rapist and the other murderer, Americans would elect rapist.
In the election, one candidate was a rapist, and the other was a black woman, Americans elected the rapist.

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@WyIted
I suppose I could've done what the trailer trash rednecks and sociopaths did, and vote for Trump. 

But that would be moronic.
How dumb of people to oppose open borders, cutting the penises off of gay kids and be pro free speech
Only the very dumbest people believe that load of bullshit.

You got your Dumbfuck Degree at Trump University, didn't you?
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@WyIted
Had Gary Johnson won he would have implemented the worst of Trump's policies and the worst of Hillary platform so yes you voted for both and the worst parts of both.
I didn't have access to someone with a crystal ball in 2016, next time there is an election I'll let you predict the future for me, thanks.

I knew he couldn't win, and I knew I couldn't vote for Trump or Clinton.

In the future I would advocate you avoid doing things that a retard would do and behave like a non retard would.
I suppose I could've done what the trailer trash rednecks and sociopaths did, and vote for Trump. 

But that would be moronic.
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@Shila
It was locked for everyone.
Yeah, the dumbassedness was escalating, so they locked it.
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A Life of Abundance
I wrote this in response to a dumbass who posted very dumbass thread, but when I went to post it, the thread was locked.  
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A Life of Abundance
Maybe our spiritual detractors look only at the surface level of literalism because they are simply intellectually unable to grasp any deeper level of understanding. This would explain why their posts that attempt to denigrate Spirit and declare themselves more intelligent, or more scientific, seem to be such stupid posts, I have never understood why some people think if they say something really stupid about religion, that it makes the religion look stupid, it doesn't, saying something stupid makes the person saying it look stupid, no matter what the stupid statement is about. 

If true intelligence is mental expansion, which is to say, it involves the ability to view and understanding widely different things from multiple different perspectives, an aptitude for grasping a wide range of truths, relationships, and meanings, and the capacity for abstract and symbolic thought, then it follows logically that the contention that one can reduce reality to only one of its modes, to know it in only one of its forms, to deny that different perspectives even exist, is an unintelligent claim.

Science does not contend that reality can be reduced to a single ontological level, on the contrary, science asserts that reality is in fact, multileveled, it asserts that the four dimensions of existence that we call reality, are contingent and relative to a greater reality of more dimensions, of which we cannot have certain knowledge, and which can only be expressed metaphorically.  Because this is  a function of abstract and symbolic thought, perhaps it simply cannot be grasped by less intelligent people.

All knowledge begins with experience, we are human beings having an experience of reality, and when we do philosophy, religion, science, or art, what we are doing is trying to comprehend and understand, and then to express and relate that experience. It logically follows that a person of less intellectual capacity will have a different experience of reality than someone with a greater intellectual capacity.

Perhaps the lesser intellect just doesn’t have the ability to grasp who we are in the larger framework of meaning and significance. Maybe it has nothing to do with religion or dogma; maybe it is simply a matter of possessing the faculties that allows one to conceive of self in more expansive terms.

In possessing a greater range of mental capacities and consequently being capable of a greater range of possible responses, can bring about a fuller state of being. Perhaps reconciling a richer inner life with outer reality, can render an outcome that can be characterized as “a life of abundance”. 


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