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@Deb-8-a-bull
Do you believe in karma. ?
Sure, I believe there is some real principle that we are talking about when we use the word Karma.
Do you believe in things give you bad luck ? Example. Breaking a mirror. Like , Are you Superstitious of sorts.
No, not superstitious like that, I think there is good luck and bad luck, and maybe that has something to do with attitude, but not broken mirrors or black cats or anything like that.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
It was an event.Your last sentence there.There are a lot of REALLY spiritual people out there.Spiritual.Say it with me.SpiritualYeah ummm, i aint buying it.
OK, and I'm not selling it.
A spiritual person .I can't picture this..Spiritualspiritual people.Thats like a person thats spiritual right. ?A spiritual person.Like a spirit man. Is that right.?Spirit chew el.Do you got a pic of one of these spiritual folks?SSSSpiritSpirit man.
Doesn't sound like you get out much, I mean, cmon, there's a whole world of spiritual people out there.
Anddddddddd got it.Ok.So like a indian.A spiritual person.
I knew a Cherokee Priestess once, she was a heap big spirit woman, there was no doubt in my mind that she could have turned me into a newt if I pissed her off.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
I got to the .I'm a sidewalker part and nearly stopped.I then pressed on.
LOL, understood,
about half way through I was thinking “Damn, this is already a long post and I
didn’t even tell him the story yet”…but it needed context or the story wouldn’t
make sense, so I rambled, sorry.
That sounds like a ummm, very rewarding thing you do .Nice work man.
You got
that right, it’s was very rewarding, and in the end, it’s was always more
therapeutic for me than it was for the kids.
But NOThe milk is sour.I don't like it.There was no old lady.
I’m not
gonna disagree with you, I’d be inclined to think that myself and I’m certainly
not above imagining shit, but what really gets to me is, whatever I think I saw,
the girl saw it too. But still, that’s only
two of the seven people that were there, for five of the people there, you are probably
right, “there was no old lady”.
Nothing magical happened.If angels where real. Youtube would have footage of them.Number 7.
I told
the story because I think it’s relevant to the question the OP asked, but “afterlife”
or “angel” is only one possible explanation, there are a lot of ways to think
about it, but for me at least, I do have to think something magical happened and be glad it did,
I just don’t know exactly what happened.
It would be REAL difficult for a ummm , A half "Smart" person to be able to believe in Angels .That wouldn't be easy.
I completely
agree, intellectually speaking, I’m still a skeptic, that’s why I used the
Beatles quote, all I’m really certain about is that I have a “feeling”, that in
some way, I had some kind of encounter with that girl’s grandmother, I can’t
really wrap my intellect around it. I'm definately not "selling" here, just telling a story that I think people looking in this thread will find interesting.
I'd try and chalk that off as .Maybe you are remembering something wrong.
Quite
possible, but it is a very vivid memory that hasn’t changed over time.
OrrrrrBeing on a farm . Magic mushrooms.You Tripped over in cow poo and ate a blue meanie.
LOL, I’ll
admit I was high when I typed the post, but I was straight up when this
happened, but hey, with my long history, I guess a “flashback” isn’t out of the question.
I can picture if you see that you shouldn't of stopped looking at it.Maybe start walking in that direction.
It wasn’t
like that, I only think I saw her for a few seconds, just long enough for her to
startle me into paying attention with her smile, the next moment I had a crisis
on my hands that had my undivided attention for the next ten minutes or so, it
was only afterward that I even remembered and wanted to thank her.
And if you lost sight of her and everyone else says they didnt see her.
You
see, that’s the thing, everyone else didn’t see her, just me and the girl. I’m thinking you called it right, at least for
the five other people that were there (and you), there was no old lady, but
the girl and I did see an old lady, beyond that, I don’t have a clue how this
works. The story is true, but it’s only a
true description of an experience I had, I’m not trying to offer it as any kind
of proof that what I think I saw was necessarily “real”, or maybe it’s real for
me and not real for you, it’s been over ten years and I still haven’t figured
it out.
You would of been FRANTICALLY and irradicly running around looking for this old lady.
Like I
said, it was a minutes later that I even remembered the old lady, and who
knows, maybe that’s all I did, maybe I just remembered an old lady at the
coincidentally exact right moment. The
experience only became strange very slowly, when she wasn’t there afterwards, I
just assumed she’d be back in the staging area with everybody else, when she
wasn’t there, maybe she already left. Untill
what her Mom told me, I didn’t suspect that anything unusual had happened.
Do you remember carrying on like somewhat of an idiot trying REAL hard to find her. ?
No, but
afterward I remember carrying on like an idiot in my mind trying REAL hard to
figure out what the fuck just happened. Mom shocked the hell out of me when she
told me that, I really doubt it, but for all I know Grandma was in the rest
room and Mom was just jerking me around, anything is possible. I can tell you this happened relatively early
in the day, and the rest of the day I was walking around that arena thinking
WTF...and thank God nobody else’s horse went down that day, because by then my
mind was wandering all over the place and I really really wasn’t paying
attention.
Like I said, I’m not trying to convince anybody of anything, just told the story, and if you get it figured out, I want you to convince me.
Like I said, I’m not trying to convince anybody of anything, just told the story, and if you get it figured out, I want you to convince me.
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@Statichead
@SidewalkerThat is a really cool story! I wish I had some confirmation or something like that, cause its kind of hard to believe from someone else.
Like I said, I
wouldn’t have believed it coming from someone else either, hell, I’m not even sure
I believe it coming from me.
I hope for your own sake that this story is true.
It is true that it
is an experience I had, and I’m glad for the student’s sake and mine, there’s
nothing worse than having a student get hurt on my watch, but for me I think it
raised more questions more than it answered, I’m still not sure what actually happened,
so I’m not sure exactly what is “true” about it.
I feel kind of like joker in that one scene constantly like HIT ME HIT MEEEEEEE!! I want a ghost encounter, or an angel or a demon or something! I want to see stuff!
I’m certainly no
expert, but for some reason I feel like that attitude towards it will in some
way keep it from happening. It was
completely unexpected for me, I certainly never imagined something like that
happening.
But then again, they say that seekers find, there are a lot of really spiritual people out there putting in a lot of effort and getting a lot out of it. But I certainly wasn’t looking for anything like this when it happened, it’s more like it found me.
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@sadolite
Are you comparing Trump to Hitler? If you are, you don't know anything about Hitler.
No, it wasn't my intent to insult Hitler with the post.
With that said, using your character argument, Why would anyone vote for Biden?
Because he isn't Trump.
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@Statichead
I don't know what happens after death, but I love hearing about what others have to say. Really, I'm undecided.
I don’t know what happens after death either, I’m really still undecided too, but under my circumstances, I’m thinking about it a lot lately, and I guess I’m more hopeful than ever before. I do have a story I can share with you, perhaps it’s an angel story, I don’t really know how to interpret it, but I was a skeptic when it happened, and still don’t know what to think about it, might be best not to try to figure it out, but it’s certainly relevant to what you are asking us about, or maybe not, you can decide for yourself. Before this happened to me, if someone had told me it happened to them, I probably would not have believed it, so you can make of it what you will.
So context: my screen name, Sidewalker is a term from Therapeutic Horseback Riding (Hippotherapy), my passion for around 40 years in which I have played every role from Sidewalker to program founder and President, but I have always considered myself to be first and foremost, a Sidewalker. In Therapeutic Horseback Riding, there is a horse with a disabled rider, and a therapeutic team that consists of a Certified Therapist giving instructions and conducting the lesson, a Leader leading the horse, and two Sidewalkers walking along side the horse, the Sidewalker’s job is to physically support the rider when necessary, positively interact, help with the lesson, and most importantly, protect the rider in the event of an emergency. I was very good at it but in walking around an arena for hours at a time, my mind tends to wander, I’d start to think about work, or something, and get lost in thought and stop paying attention. At the time our farm had a staging area with an open arena next to the parking area and barn, and then about 150 yards out across a field is a covered arena, we do lessons in both arenas, and the entire farm had an eight-foot chain link fence around it.
OK, so here’s what happened about ten years ago, I’m out at the covered arena with a student, our barn manager and a volunteer are on the open side of the arena against the fence watching the lesson, the rider is a young autistic girl that is non-speaking and communicates with ASL. About half way through the lesson I completely zoned out thinking about something else and as I came around the corner I saw an old woman, maybe 80, standing a few feet away from the other two against the fence. Seeing her startled me and all she did was smile at me, but it was a profound smile that snapped me to attention and I don’t exactly know how to describe it, it wasn’t verbal, but in that smile I heard her say, “You know what to do” very clearly. Now, completely alert and in the moment, I looked back at the horse and rider and right at that moment the horse stumbles and goes down head over heals landing on his back, it all seemed to happen in slow motion and as the girl passed by me I grabbed her, pulled her off and turned away from the horse to protect her. Everybody was shaken up but fine, the other two who were watching ran out to help, after everyone was calmed down, we got the girl back on the horse and finished the lesson (that’s imperative in this situation) and I asked the others who that woman was and where she went, and nobody else saw her, at least I didn't think anybody else saw her.
So, we finish the ride and go back to the staging area to dismount the rider, she excitedly runs over to her mother to tell her what happened, and in the meantime I’m asking people about the woman I saw, and still nobody else saw her, which is perplexing because an 80 year old woman certainly didn’t climb in and out over the fence and I don’t see how she could have come out to the covered arena without somebody having seen her. So, Mom and daughter walk over and I’m thinking Mom is upset and needs to be reassured about the incident, I tell her it was certainly exciting but there was no real danger, and she tells me the reason her daughter is so excited is because she thinks she saw her grandmother out there. I said I did too and asked where she went because I want to thank her, and her Mom tells me the girl’s grandmother died two years ago.
I don’t know what we saw but I do know we both saw it, and I
believe whatever I saw was protecting the girl like her loving grandmother
would want her protected if she was alive. I’ve always
believed that heaven and hell were metaphorical concepts, I think I still do,
and like I said, I would never have believed this story had it not happened to
me, and there are probably a lot of other explanations besides thinking her grandmother
appeared as an angel or something, but I know something did happen that is very hard
to explain.
I do have to believe that in some way, that girls grandmother protected her that day by making me pay attention at the critical moment. The how and why is just too much for me to unpack, so I don’t really try to figure it out, but as a result I’m a lot less skeptical of the similar stories people tell, and on a visceral level, my emotional feelings about the subject matter are a lot more positive. I still don’t know what to make of it, but I have to believe in what happened to me that day. It would have been my worst nightmare if that girl had been hurt because I wasn’t paying attention, and to this day I want to thank her grandmother for what she did, so I guess on some level, I believe I heard from someone who had died two years before.
So there you go, that’s my angel story, from a guy that intellectually doesn’t really believe in angels, but hey, as the Beatles said, “I've got a feeling, A feeling deep inside, Oh yeah”.
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@sadolite
I will vote for Trump if he is the Republican candidate in 2024 for the same reason Dems gave for voting for Biden in 2020. The lesser of 2 evils. With that said, life for me was good when Trump was President. Under Biden all I got was poorer. That's all. No need to debate me, that's just how it is. I don't give a shit about social issues anymore, my opinion on them has never mattered and never will.
Hitler came to power because he got Germany out of the great depression, Mussolini came to power because he got the trains to run on time.
Character matters.
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@Athias
A test of American integrity.It takes integrity to not vote.
Yeah, and not collecting stamps is a hobby.
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@TWS1405
If I borrow my neighbors car and I get pulled over in it, cop asks if it’s my car, I’m going to say no it’s my neighbors. While the car is in my possession, I still don’t own it and I will be returning it when I’m done using it. So yeah, possession =/= ownership, dumbass.
LOL, like your racist orange Messiah, you are just doubling down on your dumbshitness.
The fact is, if you borrow your neighbors car, and the cops spend a year asking if you took it and you say you didn’t the whole time, and your neighbor spends that year saying he didn’t lend it to you, then you stole it, and nope, when you steal something you don’t own it, they actually call it “possession of stolen property”, and it’s a crime dumbshit.
Wow, the clear inability of that single-celled pea brain of yours to grasp a simple concept never ceases to amaze anyone here reading your childish ignorant intellectual coward retorts.
My analogy stands as factually accurate to the scenario where the POTUS has BROAD authority to declassify documents and take them with them when they leave office to be prepared for their presidential library.
Man,
you really are dumber than a fucking post. Fact is, your made-up bullshit is not
factually accurate, no matter how many times you repeat it, not even if you
stop your feet and cry, you can even wear a white sheet and burn a cross on my
front lawn, and it still won’t be true.
I showed you what the law is, and no other President has broken that law, only Trump.
I showed you what the law is, and no other President has broken that law, only Trump.
Every single man who has held that Office has done no differently than Trump. I've cited the necessary source(s) to prove this fact, one even including a Federal Court case where a Justice basically said no differently but rather more simply. So simply a 6th grader could understand it, but since you clearly never made it past grade five, well, that's your problem not anyone else's'.
Where
did you cite these sources, on one of your Klan websites perhaps, if so, 6th grade is way over your racist heads. If
you want to blather on about citing sources here, how about you actually cite
them here.
Only persistent "dumbshit" here is you, and your fine dsiplay of your "dumbshittery" is remarkable. Keep it up. We are laughing at you, not with you.
I’m OK with the disapproval of racist assholes, appreciate
it actually, thanks.
You are a dinosaur, you can’t adapt to a changing environment and you have a brain the size of a walnut, this is all nothing but your primal scream of desperation as you go extinct.
Now, your turn Dino, it’s time to repeat your made-up bullshit along with the Dunning Kruger effect bullshit again.
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@PREZ-HILTON
This dynamic essentially dooms the Republican Party to Trumpism for the rest of Trump's life. So long as Trump is running or likely to run, he can claim that any investigation into his many, many criminal activities is tyrannyLet's imagine that Hitler and the Nazis are in power. Now let's imagine a serious political rival emerges. How would the organizations Hitler control respond to that, the media the scientists the politicians in office. What type of image and manufactured evidence would they paint this political opponent with
We don't have to imagine anything, we can just watch the Republican party as they take the house.
But I must admit, they do look like Nazi's.
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@Greyparrot
There you go again, misquoting me. Creating a fantasy narrative. I said nothing about rising gas prices or inflation.
Yeah, thats completely unnecessary, you already have your own fantasy narrative.
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@TWS1405
If I borrow my neighbors car and I get pulled over in it, cop asks if it’s my car, I’m going to say no it’s my neighbors. While the car is in my possession, I still don’t own it and I will be returning it when I’m done using it. So yeah, possession =/= ownership, dumbass.
LOL, like your racist orange Messiah, you are just doubling down on your dumbshitness.
The fact is, if you borrow your neighbors car, and the cops spend a year asking if you took it and you say you didn’t the whole time, and your neighbor spends that year saying he didn’t lend it to you, then you stole it, and nope, when you steal something you don’t own it, they actually call it “possession of stolen property”, and it’s a crime dumbshit.
Everyone knows a president takes certain documents they’ve declassified with them to be copied for their presidential library. Obama did it and has yet to return all of what he took. Don’t ever anyone bitching about that!!!
That’s just more of your “made up bullshit” of course, that may be what everyone at your Klan meeting knows, but outside your white supremacist crowd, everyone knows it’s a bald-faced lie.
Believe it or not, Presidential documents are not legally subject to your “made up bullshit”, they are controlled by the law, specifically the Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978, which states that any records created or received by the President as part of his duties are the property of the United States government and will be managed by National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) at the end of the administration. Under the PRA, the records are exempt from public release for five years after the end of a Presidential administration. After that period, there is an established process for access, which does not include stealing them, and all documents released are subject to the freedom of information act and accessible by the public, so under no circumstances are sensitive documents that could breach national security ever released, even if an ex-President claims he declassified them in his mind or some stupid shit racist males up bullshit about stealing documents means you own them.
Trump is being targeted and blamed for anything and everything under the Sun because he’s an outsider. Pure and simple.
Nope, he’s targeted and blamed because he is a morally bankrupt criminal and a racist, people outside your white supremacist circle, you know, decent people, they tend to have a problem with that.
Your childish rants and raves with personal attacks proves beyond any and all reasonable doubt what a poster child for the Dunning Kruger effect you are!! 100% pure intellectual cowardice on your part.
Wow, it took you three whole posts to get back to your standard Dunning Kruger effect comment, I suppose you obsessively do that because you think it makes you sound intelligent, but the whole dumbshit racist thing the rest of the time makes everyone aware that you are just an ignorant backwoods white supremacist.
Now GTFOH and go play doctor with IWantRosevelrAgain and IrrationalMadman. Ignorant liberal snowflake little child that you so clearly are.
LOL, coming from an ignorant white supremacist racist asshole, I take that as a complement.
And don’t
forget, pretty soon it won't matter, because the Jews are going to replace you.
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@TWS1405
PS, PS, - Possession =/= ownership, ignorant dumbass!!!!!
LOL, is that the thief motto, you don't suppose that a warr
Again, reading comprehension matters.Knowledge of what happens once documents have been declassified and copied for the Presidential Library, matters.
"Made up bullshit" about retroactively declassifying documents after you steal them doesn't matter, and made up bullshit about making copies for the Presidential Library doesn't matter. That would explain the search warrants, DOJ investigations, and lawsuits dumbass!!!!
So, F-off with you and your ignorant racist bullshit.
They teach you the art of projection at the Klan meetings don't they?
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@TWS1405
I know that racist "reasoning" is different than our reasoning, but if you want to actually communicate with people outside of your Klan meeting, you really need to try to understand how the rest of us think.You just lost the debate/discussion.
Nope, I still don't care about who wins a debate/discussion at the Klan meeting.
PS. Reading comprehension matters.
Yes, and if you read your article slowly, out loud maybe, it doesn't say an exPresident can retroactively declassify documents, and even if he could, that doesn't mean he can steal them, that is still your"made up bullshit".
STOP THE STUPID!
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@Public-Choice
they prefer "out of touch" over "out of your mind".Biden shakes hands with invisible people and you think he's just "out of touch."Trump brokers peace in the Middle East and you call him "out of your mind."I think I just lived in clown world for a brief minute and don't want to go back.
Perhaps you have been living in clown world all along, you've certainly been talking about clown world atlternative facts all along....but hey, news flash from out here in the real world, we already went and had that MidTerm election everybody's been talking about, it's over, and turns out it had nothing to do with clown world claims about Trump brokering peace anywhere, in the end it was about Trump and his base being out of thier mind, and the Republicans got thier ass handed to them. Over here in the real world you just don't have enough voters who are "out of your mind" to win.
You can blather on about what the "out of your mind" crowd thinks all you want, you can even pretend that you actually won the election, but in the real world what your alternative facts can't do is win.
Three losses in a row, (and two impeachments), no wall, the stench of racism and Qanon are staying a clown world reality, and now, over here in the real world, you are headed for loss number four.
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@Public-Choice
They are going for four losses in a row now- An economy in the toilet:- Sworn allegiance to the liberal world order as the governing body of the United States:- Gas prices at unprecedented highs:- Plans for a digital currency and seizure of people's digital assets:- And a national security strategy committed not to defending our borders or stopping all threats foreign and domestic, but to fighting rainclouds and sunshine:And Republicans lost? At least they voted against this bullshit.
The voters have spoken, they prefer "out of touch" over "out of your mind".
Time for Republicans to go down to the crossroads to see if they can get thier soul back. Not happening.
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@Polytheist-Witch
He must be going to die cuz I can't think of any other reason you would run for president, waste your time, money and effort and be targeted for investigations.
Targeted for investigations is why he has to run, he's guilty as hell but the investigators will need to back off if he's a candidate, thats why they want a special prosecutor, presumably appears more independant and unbiased. Of course, Trumpers don't care about facts, they will still blow a gasket with thier conspiracy theories and thier persecuted act.
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@Reece101
Just being energy, or conveying information isn't enough for it to 'be consciousness.What is consciousness if it’s immaterial and inexpressive?
On a material level, Consciousness represents a
supervenient structure that bears properties that its subvenient parts do not
exhibit. Consciousness is not
coextensive with brain, it exists independently of material brain as a higher
order structure that cannot be decomposed into its parts and their
relationships, so it is an ontologically novel entity. It exists independently
of the physical materials and properties of its parts and yet, exerts causal
influence on events in the world, exerting a causal influence that its
constituent components, in sum, cannot exert. Consequently, it has an ontological status apart from its material
components, and it logically follows that it is itself a causal agent as well
as an entity that is acted upon by external causes.
It is not a
“process,” nor is it a set of “functions.”, it is the conceptual space within which we find the objects of
thought.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
So all you guys who said Trump is irrelevant and in the past, now what do you say?Republicans created this monster. It’s up to them to do something about him.
They are going for four losses in a row now, and this one will be just like Jan 6, the last time everybody was saying Trump is irrelevant and in the past, then they will cringe and run right back to Mar Lago to kiss his ring and swear loyalty, and then every time he inflicts pain on the party, they will say "Thank you Master, may we have another".
For Trumpers, losing isn't just an outcome, it's all about being a LOSER, it's a lifestyle choice.
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@TWS1405
Nope. Every President before him, he himself, and anyone after him have the exact same legal authority to declare, whenever they declare, that any government document is declassified and becomes their own possession for Presidential historical purposes (e.g., shit that goes into their personal Presidential Library).That's completely made up bullshit, declassifying a document does not change it's ownership, even if they can declassify a document, that doesn't give them the right to steal it by any stretch of the imagination. Even a thug President.“it. But as an ABA Legal Fact Check posted Oct. 17 explains, legal guidelines support his contention that presidents have broad authority to formally declassify most documents that are not statutorily protected, while they are in office.““As the new ABA Legal Fact Check notes, the extent of a president’s legal authority to unilaterally declassify materials — without following formal procedures — has yet to be challenged in court.”
I know that racist "reasoning" is different than our reasoning, but if you want to actually communicate with people outside of your Klan meeting, you really need to try to understand how the rest of us think. So listen up, I'm going to try to dumb it down enough for you.
Try reading your "made up bullshit" and my reply again, slowly for comprehension, maybe read it out loud if that helps.
Note that what you said was "document is declassified and becomes their own possession" and then I said "declassifying a document does not change it's ownership".
Now pay attention, the next part is important if you want to understand our way of thinking about sentences and how in a conversation, the sentences relate to one another.
Next, you replied with a legal fact check about "declassifying a document", and if you actually read your own reference, you would know that it says absolutely nothing about your "made up bullshit " that "declassifying" in any way will "change it's ownership".
If you can comprehend how that "reason" thing works for the rest of us, then you will see that your reply is a non-sequitor to anyone with half a brain, in the end, it's just more of your "made up bullshit".
Now, lets see if you can try communicating without all the stupid.
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@TWS1405
Nope. Every President before him, he himself, and anyone after him have the exact same legal authority to declare, whenever they declare, that any government document is declassified and becomes their own possession for Presidential historical purposes (e.g., shit that goes into their personal Presidential Library).
That's completely made up bullshit, declassifying a document does not change it's ownership, even if they can declassify a document, that doesn't give them the right to steal it by any stretch of the imagination. Even a thug President.
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@Best.Korea
So you're saying a global nuclear holocaust would be a bad thing?
How so?
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@Greyparrot
Do you guys support this?
Support what, WW3?
No, I'm against.
Its obviously a mistake, I don't really think that Polish farm was a strategic target.
Ukraine is kicking thier ass, the last thing they need is Ukraine AND Poland kicking thier ass.
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@zedvictor4
An electronic calculating device is an electronic calculating device.I've had a Casio calculator for years and years and years. 30 or more.And the battery is still the original.How long do they last?
I don't think they last 30 years, are you sure it isn't solar powered?
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@Mharman
As I've continued to do coursework in college, I've noticed one thing: I've yet to use the calculator I bought. It just sits there on a desk in my dorm room, only to be moved when I do the dusting.When it comes to all the math I've needed in my classes, I just open an extra tab and use Google's calculator, or sometimes, I use certain websites for more complex mathematics.Out of curiosity, how many of you, when working for your jobs or doing assignments in school, use a physical calculator? And how many use Google or a website? Which do you consider better and why?
Away from my computer I use the calculator on my phone, at my computer I always have Excel open and use that. Phone is better than a calculator because it's multifunction and I always have it, I think the reason I prefer the spreadsheet is because I'm most comfortable with the spreadsheet, been an Excel power user for decades.
I'm old enough to remember when calculators became common, I was pretty good at doing math in my head and was amazed at how fast that ability dropped off once I started using a calculator, it's a matter of use it or lose it.
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@TWS1405
Typical ignorant childish retort. Denialist. Dunning Kruger effect poster child. You’re the racist, child.
That's three childs, and one "I'm rubber and you're glue".
That's pretty advanced for an LD white supremacist.
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@TWS1405
No such thing as a white supremacist,
They teach you to say that at the Klan meetings?
but there sure as 💩 are black supremacists!!!!
Yep, the source of your racism is penis envy.
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@Intelligence_06
Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Intelligence_06? The military has a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You joke about man-robots, and you mock the military. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know -- that man-robot training, while tragic, saves lives; and thier existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want themon that wall -- you need themon that wall. They use words like "honor," "code," "loyalty." They use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain them to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that they provide and then questions the manner in which they provide it.
I would rather that you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a DAMN what you think about the military!
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@ILikePie5
Welcome to the Democratic America backed by Establishment Republicans around the nation. Anything for political power. No wonder Americans don’t trust the election process
It's Trumpers that don't trust the election process, not Americans.
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OK, Wylted is unbiased and Greyparrot is a moderate?
Really?
Is this a Fellini movie perhaps?
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@PREZ-HILTON
You say you dismiss fake news and define all news as fake news, so do you consider yourself to be completely uninformed?
If you dismiss everything reported, on what basis do you have opinions?
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@PREZ-HILTON
This pretty much describes all news reported by human beingsCorrect. One day I hope to start a news company that randomly picks articles to write using a random number generator and then have them just dryly state the facts in an unbiased way. Maybe give full context to things. So just do an aggressive deep dive into every event reported and only wait until after like 3 months of investigation to report the findings
You think there is a market for that?
I'm not sure you should call it a "news" company if it only reports events from three months ago, and History Channel is already taken.
And you think you are unbiased? LOL
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@PREZ-HILTON
My definition of fake news would be any source of news that cherry picks stories and/or talks about stories with presuppositions using their own world view, any source that has any bias as opposed to just spouting dry facts without manipulating photos or using sound bites without full context. I would also consider a source fake news if they only touch the surface of a news story and don't do a deep dive as it risks people not understanding what they are reporting fully. Any source that has ever used a clock bait title I would throw in this bag. Any source that runs stories manipulating scientific fact like "study proves eggs are healthy" when it was a study that showed people who generally eat eggs are less likely to get diabetes for example.
So then what isn't fake news, can you name a source for real news?
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@TWS1405
Nah, I take it back. Your mamma must be hugely disappointed in you. Name calling little childish whore that you are.
Awww man, I really wanted the racist white supremacist to like me, nuts.
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@Greyparrot
For a lot of people, politics began in 2016 and ended with Trump losing in 2020.
I'll bet five years from now NOBODY will be admitting they were a Trumper...but that's OK, I will be reminding every one of them.
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@thett3
The senate is more than enough proof of that. I’ve seen a lot of rage directed towards Trump so hopefully his spell is finally breaking. It’s time to move on from him!
Moving on won't be easy, you can't get out of a Faustian deal without a lot of pain, Trump knows they can't win without his loyal base and he has threated to leave and start a new party before, they were terrified. They can't win with him, and they can't win without him, and they put themselves in that position by being gutless cowards, now they pay the price.
Everybody sees DeSantis as the heir to Trumps throne and Trump is not gonna share the spotlight, we already saw that Trump doesn't believe in the peaceful transfer of power, he's coming after DeSantis and that will get ugly, Trump said he has dirt on DeSanctimonious and he'll use it if he runs, it will be interesting to see who DeSantis' Dad killed. All Trump can really do for the GOP anymore is cause them pain, and it's foing to be a whole lot of well earned pain.
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@TWS1405
@IwantRooseveltagain
-->@IwantRooseveltagainAgain you don't seem to be able to see the difference between attacking what someone says and attacking them personally . That's all peace out.Most people are not capable of discerning the difference, and he is the poster child of such an individual.
IwantRooseveltagain, you should pay attention to TheWhiteSupremacist1405, he's teaching you to "discern the difference", attacking someone's race is OK, but not attacking them individually, it's not about individuals, it's about race, Judaism, people of color, anyone outside the trailer park, it's not about individuals. Don't be mislead, People of Color is a leftist misnomer designed to trick you, they aren't people, they are just colored, you just can't think of them as people if they aren't white,
I mean, c'mon, he's just trying to help a fellow Aryan, if you don't listen to TheWhiteSupremacist1405 and learm racist etiquette, then you will never do well at Klan rallies, heck, you can't even go to the cross burnings if you don't at least get that.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Trump will tear DeSantis apart and go third party if DeSantis gets the nomination. You guys are screwed.
I'm looking forward to that internecine strife, should be quite entertaining.
Trump already said he has dirt on DeSantis he will release if DeSantis runs, I suppose DeSantis' father helped Ted Cruz's father kill Kennedy.
They probably used the Jewish Space Lasers to do it too.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
The Trumpiest candidates are losing.
Not in Georgia, at least not yet, Walker is still way too close.
Democrats made a huge mistake in campaigning against Walker, focused on him being violent and a compulsive liar, and to Republicans those are qualifying criteria, it got him votes with the GOP.
Damn, I really hope the runoff isn't going to decide the Senate majority, I really really don't want to see politics commercials till December again.
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@Greyparrot
That's the excuse MSNBC gave for firing her, that she was inciting a rebellion.
How exactly is calling Florida the dick of the nation inciting a rebellion?
MSNBC top management is too much of a chickenshit to back up her anti- whitism statements like a sensible race hustling network should have done.
The management of MSNBC manages a business, their goal is to make money, not race hustle, and if her statements were impacting the balance sheet, that is why she got fired.
MSNBC will be responsible for the USA turning into a Fascist state for refusing to do so
Nope, Trump Republicans have first dibs on the USA turning into a Fascist state, MSNBC will have to pick something else.
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How exactly is calling Florida the "dick of the nation" anti-whitism?
Maybe what she meant to say is that the Governor of Florida is the biggest dick in the nation.
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@3RU7AL
I have never seen someone insinuate that the past is all qualia before. I am not positing a specific DNA sequence that belonged to Socrates, only stating that the most logical (99.9999% certainty!) conclusion is that he had one.it's difficult to imagine what enhanced utility this belief might yield if considered "fact" instead of merely "opinion"
Utility huh, ok, Im in, it's difficult to imagine what enhanced utility your belief that the definition of objective fact is that there is no such thing as objective fact, what exactly is the utility that might yield from that opinion?
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@3RU7AL
Oh yeah, and another thing.
A definition us about defining something, so if you define it as not existing, that isn't a definition of anything. So for instance, the definition of objective facts can't be objective facts don't exist, if they didn't exist, then you wouldn't really need a definition for them.
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@3RU7AL
No, you are telling us that objective facts cannot be known, and at the same time telling us you know all about objective facts.i don't know any "objective facts" (and i have never claimed to know any "objective facts")but i do know the definition of "objective fact"and i know that the definition is logically-incoherent
I should have mentioned this when I was explaining the words thing, remember how there is agreed upon definitions of words to allow us to communicate, well it's sort of the same thing with logic, we can't just make up our own logic either, when you use the word logic you need to be tslking about the thing the rest of us know as logic, it becomes meaningless if you have your own logic. Try to remember, definitions of words and logic are not a matter of personal preference, it defeats the purpose of words as well as logic, if you make up your own definitions and logic. It's OK to use this system for the voices in your head, but in talking to others, you really need to speak our language and use our logic.
With our logic, something is not made logically incoherent by proclamation, there needs to be an argument, and the argument has to be logical, and for it to be effective, the argument needs to use our words and our logic.
Want to give that a try?
Don't tell your self out loud, that doesn't really accomplish anything, tell US, using agreed upon words and logic, why the definition of objective fact is logically incoherent.
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@3RU7AL
everything you know is "map"therefore, you cannot know "objective facts"If you can't know objective facts then why are you telling us about objective factsi'm pointing out to you that your definition of "objective fact" is logically-incoherent (as it relates to human knowledge)
No, you are telling us that objective facts cannot be known, and at the same time telling us you know all about objective facts.
That is logically incoherent.
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@3RU7AL
OPINION must be unfalsifiable, personal, experiential, GNOSTIC, qualitative (and emotionally meaningful) (aka NOT fact) QUALIAIs this just your opinion, or is it a fact?it is a coherent definitioni'm more than happy to consider your personally preferred alternative
You do know what the point of words are, right, I mean we use them to communicate with each other, you get that don't you?
For that system to work, you can't just make up your own definitions of words, when you do that you are no longer using the word for communicating with others, we need to have agreement about what the words mean for them to facilitate communication.
Sure, I suppose for you it let the voices in your head communicate, but with other people, if you are using the same words but speaking a different language, then whatever you think you are doing with those words, it isn't communicating.
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@3RU7AL
facts must be verifiable, quantifiable, empirically demonstrable and or logically-necessaryPlease verify, quantify, and demonstrate why this is a factual statement.it is logically-necessary
It is logically necessary that facts must be logically necessary, did you mean logically circular?
How about explicating this, besides just proclaiming it, is there an argument?
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@IwantRooseveltagain
I can give you some of itThere is no official GOP PLATFORM right now.
And our Republican clowns don't know that :)
The Republicans don't have a position, only an opposition, and maybe that's just how hatemongering works, you don't have to stand for anything, you just need to know what you stand against.
When your platform is hate, you just don't write it down.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Explain how wondering out loud why the president has not produced a birth certificate is the same exact thing as accusing the president of being born overseas? If anything it helps prove the president is an American citizen and shuts the doubters up.Why would wanting to end untrue conspiracy theories make somebody a liar?
Oh, I see, so Trump wasn't challenging the legitamacy of the Obama Presidency, he was fight against conspiracy theories on Obama's behalf, trying to help.
LOL, good one.
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