fauxlaw

Why? To demonstrate that, in all things, we can demonstrate self-control. It is the power of free agency to do so. Challenging? Of course. Worth it? All day long. As a man thinketh, so is he. If you don't think you can keep it zipped, it may also be a sign you cannot keep your hands to yourself, let alone your thoughts.

If the Sermon on the mount were treated as a political platform [it happens to make a very good one] and people adhered to its principles, every single social ill we face today in the 21st century would be solved and put away as antiquated practices. THAT is what belongs in the first century, not the Bible. It is more relevant today than ever. It's n ot that it has antiquated principles; those principles have never been fully tried.

Oh, so the doctor who performs in vitro is guilty of out-of-wedlock congress with the woman? Sure, you can try to sell that bridge.

"For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things; for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant; wherefore he receiveth no reward."  [Doctrine & Covenants 58: 26]  We're supposed to act on our own where there is lacking a commandment, thus putting further in play our free agency because God does not command in all things in the first place. After all, he did give Adam & Eve, and their posterity, dominion over the Earth [Genesis 2].

"Mythology is the study of myth. Religion is a system of beliefs and practices formally organized and set into action in the world." https://andrewneuendorf.com/tag/difference-between-religion-and-mythology/

"The term religion defines a system of formally organized beliefs and practices typically centered around the worship of supernatural forces or beings, whereas mythology is a collection of myths, or stories, belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition used to explain a practice, belief, or natural ..." https://www.gale.com/religion-and-mythology

I therefore reject you effort to slur these two concepts together as if their synonimity is empiric knowledge.

No, it ain't, and your syllogism isn't, either. You can't just string three sentences together and call them syllogism.

P1 Birds fly.

P2 Camels walk.

C Therefore, butterflies swim.

Nope, not a syllogism.

Well said. Some ought to oblige.

Stephen criticizes using a mirror, so the validity is personal.

My post #9 indicates what I was talking about. Reading is a skill that seems to have skipped a generation.

But your subject, the national debt, ignores that of all presidents, Trump ranks but 10th worst for addition to national debt. Want to take a guess who ranks 5th?

Try Oba'a. 74% addition to the national debt; more than double Trump, which actually was 33%, not 35%:  https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-and-percent-3306296

There's more than labor required to make a product, as I've noted. Labor was all Marx accounted for; only direct labor, that is.

It appears to me that, compared to what Slo Joe has accomplished so far [besides a steady diet of bed], Trump accomplished quite a good deal more than expected.

Unwritten rules. And these are abided by...  little boys who pretend to read? Well, I am far too literate to read a black page, so, I'm done.

A topic that has nothing to do with them? As if there are rules, here? Just who do you think you are, establishing rules? Gonna take your ball and go home, little boy?

I promoted...?

My #26: "For that matter, why can't demons be physical beings?"

That, to you, is promotion? I'm merely suggesting an added material composite. Promotion:  "I. To advance the interests of, move to a stronger or more prominent position." According to my OED. Is suggesting demons be physical a promotion? Seems spirits have a greater flexibility than we do. Demotion, if anything.

In 1848, Karl Marx, with sidekick Friedrich Engels, wrote and published the Communist Manifesto, the users’ manual of Socialists & Communists. In 173 years, we have never seen a successful use of the manual, yet it is embraced as the best combination of bread and butter since… well, bread and butter. 
 
But, let’s switch out the materials, and let’s watch Karl set up a lemonade stand; something he never actually did, by the way, but which is far easier to make than either bread or butter. In the process, you will understand the reason why in 173 years, the manual has failed to produce an enduring model. By comparison, the American free-market economy has been around since… well, when did the first immigrants come to these shores as colonists? Late 16th century? Early 17th century? That’s 400 and more years. Socialism’s best performance: USSR; 75 years. You socialists have a bit of time to go to compete.
 
First, it is necessary to understand the manual’s economic players, and their process. It’s pretty easy: you have your players: a Bourgeois, the business owner, and you have the Proletariat, the workers. 
 
So: Karl Marx and his Lemonade Stand: 
 
You have a process: the Proletariat make the lemonade, and the Bourgeois sells it for $1 per 10 oz. glass. He sells 500 glasses per day: $500 gross revenue [not profit], though preofit is what Karl calls it. Fine, we'll see. The Bourgeois pays the workers, who equally share 40% of the $500; $200. The Bourgeois keeps the remaining $300 as net revenue [Karl does not consider as that; he does not entertain gross v. net. The 40% to the Proletariat, according to Marx, is unfair, because the Proletariat do all the work. That’s it; end of manual, other than some propaganda for the Proletariat to rise up in protest because they are getting the short end of the stick. 
 
How many workers are needed? Well, daily production is 5,000 ounces of lemonade; 39 gallons. One gallon of lemonade can be made in 5 minutes. 39 gallons are made in 3 hours. One worker will suffice in Karl’s stand. So, one worker is paid $200 per day; $1,000 per week? And the Proletariat complain about that? Something is going on…
 
What will raw materials cost? Lemons, sugar, water. Simple formula of ingredients. Wait! Did we mention, or rather, did Karl mention anything about raw materials and their cost? No, he did not. Magic makes them appear.
 
But, no raw materials, no lemonade, so… Each lemon yields 3 Tbs of juice, sufficient for a 10 oz glass. Therefore, 500 lemons are needed. Average lemon is 3 oz; 5 lemons per pound. 1 lb of lemons is about $2; 40¢/ea. 500 x 40¢ = $200.
 
Sugar: about $40 for 30 lbs. 3 oz. per glass = 5 glasses per pound. We need 100 lbs of sugar = $120.
 
Water: Karl will give it away. His raw material expense, per day, is $320.
 
Wait, we did not account for a mixing container; a pitcher. A mixing spoon, a lemon squeezer, a measuring spoon for sugar, and a measuring cup for water. Nor did we account for paper/plastic cups. These are added, unjustified expenses.
 
What will the stand cost, a one-time cost, but it must come from Karl’s profit, and, as you see, after paying the Proletariat, Karl’s budget is blown just with Purchasing of two raw materials, let alone the cost of the unaccounted mixing materials, the stand, and ongoing expenses for Marketing, Material Handling, Sales, Customer Service, Warranty…
 
Did Karl’s manual speak to any of these Bourgeois expenses? No, it did not account for them at all in Karl’s model of Bourgeois taking all the profit after paying the Proletariat their 40%, which now looks very generous, all things considered. Have you read Karl’s 173-year-old manual? 
 
Karl will be out of business within a month; maybe less. Such is the result of the Manifesto in the real world. Karl is going to need that entitlement that comes after the Proletariat is fired. Burning his manual for heat will last about 3 minutes.
 

I read the following from an article, "What will happen to small family businesses under socialism"http://www.deleonism.org/text/91051801.htm

"Socialism necessarily means abolishing the private ownership of all means of social production and distribution. However, this will not mean ruin and destitution for small business owners. On the contrary, they will become workers in a society in which all workers would be entitled to work, and to receive the full social value of what they produce. Thus, for most, if not all, of the former petty capitalists, socialism will mean greater affluence and a major increase in leisure time. And for everyone, socialist society means full economic security and the numerous advantages of life in a peaceful, harmonious and healthy social and physical environment."

With such a commentary, I wonder why every single effort of a country to embrace socialism - completely - I'm not talking about those, such as in western Europe who flirt with, but have not embraced it fully - have never succeeded beyond an average of 40 years in socialism, and it's longest lasting example, USSR, lasted 75 years. China? Yes, the government is communist, but the economy is a gov't subsidized quasi-free market, not socialism. They know how to use their economy, and bolster it by fluctuating their currency value - which is cheating. So, why doesn't the reality of socialism match this claim I've quoted?

Read the whole bloody thing. I did. So can you. Summary? That's taking a pulse. Do a full work-up, Doctor.

Indeed, thank you. About how many bees will typically inhabit a hive? Also, I live at an elevation of 7,500 ft in the Rocky Mtns. Does that make a difference? I've seen bees at higher elevations, but don't know if they inhabit those elevations.

A study published in 2001, 20 years ago in the research [making it passé?] that you cite is replaced by further study ten years later, that I cited https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/rcogfetalawarenesswpr0610.pdf

which demonstrates as I said, that at 24 - 30 weeks, and certainly after 30 weeks, which leaves a full 7 weeks of pre-natal development to full  term, or full gestation, speciifcally, in which sensation of pain and the observance of consciousness is observed.

No, Edge, I am not wrong. Catch up. The research FLWR produced was done before you were born.

Why don't you let FLRW speak for themself?

As for you, you're engaging grammatical quibbling, and you know it. Gestation generally? Seems my earlier sources you're throwing back at me are gestation specific, as I have been. 

AAAAAAA-men. Freeloading is the first step of giving up one's freedom to be something; anything more than a blight. Participation in a free-market economy is best served by being in that market. And, don't stop at working for money. Make it go to work for you. Not speaking to you, Supa; I know you know. "You" is for freeloaders who think you and I owe them a living. Living is no right. Living to accomplish dreams is.

Does a single hive make sense to maintain, or do you suggest several?

Actually, once you click on Code of Conduct, you have the whole menu of rules and procedures on the left side. While CoC is a required read by members, by certification that you have read it, the others are advised as well

You're acting like a little boy by constantly pestering on a point that is wrong. For the fourth time, I did not raise the matter of demons. Got that straight, now?

Advice from a friend.

The Trump you hate does not exist. 

Every president since Truman has promised to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. Every one. Only one did it: Donald Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/trump-jerusalem-embassy-middle-east-peace.html

No Democrat or Republican President dared meet NoKo face-to-face until Trump did. That’s how diplomacy starts.  https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-trump-kim-summit-20180611-story.html

No President, Roosevelt through Obama, Republican or Democrat. Passed a tax cut package the size of Trump’s. His corporate tax cut was 43%, largest in a century. That’s historic enough for me. What? You’re not a corporation? That’s on you. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-history/trumps-tax-cut-wont-be-the-biggest-in-u-s-history-idUSKBN1D223O

Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, under duress as a Southern Democrat facing loss of the South for his party, but my factoid was Black unemployment. No modern president since Roosevelt, at least, has achieved the unemployment rate reached by Trump. https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/aug/01/donald-trump-said-hes-done-more-african-americans-/
Not to mention that black poverty rate had never seen better numbers. Trump cut Johnson’s black poverty rate by half. https://infogram.com/untitled-1hxr4znwq7m54yo?live

Carter’s Iran disaster was legendary. You suggest Oba’a made a great deal. He sure did; it ensured Iran would have nuclear weapons by 2025. Read the Deal? No? I did. It’s a disaster, caving to Iran in addition to giving them $1.3B plus $400M in cash. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/03/01/was-obamas-1-7-billion-cash-deal-with-iran-prohibited-by-u-s-law/
As for the deal itself, it took all of 3 months, from July to October, for Iran to begin violating the deal, multiple times. https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Timeline-of-Nuclear-Diplomacy-With-Iran

Clinton declared a substantive deal in 1994 with NoKo, but never met with Rocketman’s father. The deal was violated by NoKo almost immediately, which was meant to deter NoKo’s advances in achieving a nuclear missile delivery system. They have it, and have had it since 2002. https://theconversation.com/why-the-uss-1994-deal-with-north-korea-failed-and-what-trump-can-learn-from-it-80578

Oba’a economy was so recovered that he never achieved a greater quarter-to-quarter growth rate above 2.5%. He declared, himself, that 2% GDP was the new norm. https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/11/07/obama-warns-of-new-normal-for-economy/

His economy was so recovered, he lost our AAA credit rating for the first time in history in 2011, costing us billions in new interest payments on the debt, and affected the world market downgrade. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-debt-downgrade/united-states-loses-prized-aaa-credit-rating-from-sp-idUSTRE7746VF20110807

The only effect of Obama’s increase in market value was by artificial infusion of cash from the Federal Reserve, but the market saw immediate rise, then precipitous fall, because artificial infusion cannot sustain the market, and it didn’t. People look at the rise of the market during Oba’a, but ignore its numerous falls. While overall, the market grew from 8,000 to 18,000, but, in the process, it also lost 6,000 points in his 8 years; a net gain of an ordinary 4,000 point gain. https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=djia+today&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 look at the max view.

None of these highlighted presidents did anything that Roosevelt didn’t, but Trump did, as I said. I’ve cited the evidence. Cry me a river.

To blame sterotyping on instinct is the first step toward the acceptance of the practice. It can be overcome. 

It's simple: my topic was not the Russians, what they did, or why, but simply Biden's reaction to the question posed to him about what he was going about the gas stations closing due to lack of gasoline. If you want to pursue that angle, the field is ready for harvest; go ahead. That is not my subject, is it? Your argument is simply blowing hot air into your wish balloon that Trump was still around to bash, because no one succeeded in making him quit, though how hard y'all tried.

Misdirection is a common ploy that fails here. Try again.

Trump is no longer your concern. We have a current president [?] who prefers sleep to discussion of Russian cyber attack.

Syllogisms are not syllogisms simply because one can string 3 sentences together. P1& 2 must, themselves always be true. C must follow from P1 & 2.

Your P1, in spite of being centuries off, is still not true because Columbus, in four separate voyages, never set foot on what is now sovereign U.S. soil. Your topic indicates "US."

Your P2 is not correct, either. Columbus did not even take possession of the Caribbean Islands where he did set foot. His claim was made in the name of the King and Queen of Spain, although Columbus was, himself, Italian. He certainly did not take possession of what is now sovereign U.S. soil in anyone's name.

Therefore, C is not correct, either, because the US Constitution forbids foreign claim on US sovereignty. See Article VI and common law understanding of sovereignty..

Your second syllogism, therefore , fails, since its dependence is on the first.

The topic speaks for itself. Just more evidence that Joe's missing competence isn't, because he never had any. Education solves our gas stations running out of fuel? Is that like last generation's education that money cleans clouds? At least the latter could be connected to 14th century indulgences. How education provides gas is hot air in a wish balloon, because we already are fully adept at production and distribution - but we're not so adept, yet, at the production and distribution of green energy. Someday, soon, sure, but, we need gasoline right now, and we used to be energy independent, but Slo Joe doesn't know how to sustain that, and since government, according to Slo Joe,  is supposed to know how, but doesn't, gas will be just one more item on a list of missing in action.

And my point is that between 24 weeks and 30 weeks, FLRW and you are no longer correct.

You are fixated on the errant belief that I brought up demons. For the third time, I did not; RM did. Go pester him, little boy.

Same to you as Edge. You're talking pre-24 weeks of gestation. I am talking after. That's the difference, and you both refuse to go to end-of-term, or even a few weeks before 37 weeks [full term]. I've cited that at 30 weeks, consciousness and sensation of pain as is defined for a post-natal condition is demonstrated.

Yes, within that range. I'm talking about beyond that gestation range. Gestation ends at birth, and that can be full term of 37 weeks, when fetal consciousness is demonstrated without altering the definition of pain. Bud.

An idiot who actually reads HR 109, with full comprehension. That's not an idiot by the way.

Oh? So sticking a needle in a sleeping person, or slapping them, does not awaken them to consciousness? Try it. I have. Both effects. They do.

At 20 weeks the fetus can feel pain.https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-science-of-fetal-pain/

At 30 weeks, it is sentient https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/14767059209161911

Full-term is 37 weeks.

Your idea. What's stopping you from doing it?

The rich Native American might first want to re-think that self-appointed nomenclature which was not used by them until the 1960s. They did not invent the term, either. It was first coined by Irish immigrants to the Colonies in the early 17th century to distinguish themselves from later Irish immigrants. The indigenes referred to themselves by their tribal names. So, whose culture usurped whose?

Yes, up to 24 weeks, whereas full term is 13 weeks later. 24 weeks appears to be the threshold of pre-natal consciousness, as per both my 2nd cited article, and this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25160864/

Yet, you have presupposed to do exactly that by your suggestion. Words mean things. Their careful use is advised.

I mention demons, brought up by another, and now I promote them?  Exaggeration is not your friend, yet you embrace as if a brother. My mention is not promotion, merely acknowledgement. Try to separate your emotion from your argument; it's bloody dripping with collaboration. Neither help one another, nor you.

So this is my song, sang it again today
I had to turn my eyes away
Smile on the run, kisses for everyone
For hair, it’s never fair
 
I’m lying in wait, can’t wait to feel
I bet you gonna reel the deal
I’m gonna feel, feel, feel, feel in your hair
Now won’t I, Despacito?
 
Back a long time, I’ve been a feeler for you
You met my hands in your hair
No right, no wrong, you’re going along, your hair
Air my hair
 
And if the real hair don’t do it fair
I’d better wig-up something down there
You’re gonna feel, feel, feel, feel me in your hair,
Ooo, Despacito
 
Feel me, feel you, my hair just said
Dive down deep, more than my head
I think you got the feel, too
 
All those nights and days ahead
Feel so deep its all a head
You; I think you feel it, too
 
And if the real hair don’t do it fair
I’d better wig-up something down there
You’re gonna feel, feel, feel, feel me in your hair,
Ooo, Despacito
 
©2020 by fauxlaw

that's a reference? To what? 

The Stripper
 
“I am a Democrat!” she declared, dancing liquid on the stage,
“My dress is Liberal through and through, and progressing head to toe.” 
But we weren’t watching politic bared; we took exception on a different page.
We wanted less and less as she, undone, bared more and more.
 
Was that a politick sash she tossed? What does it say; what is its line?
“I’m Progressive,” it declared; the letters clear, and blue, refined.
Oh, swoon! I am a fool! Can scarcely see what Dressmaker saw,
Behind the desk, behind the dress, behind the curtain now withdrawn.
 
Stripped bare, the stripper danced her liquid dance; danced on
While we, undone, condoned the gestures of a dramatist.
We’re captured, one and all, tied tight as knots in her abandon.
“Don’t you know me, sirs, completely bared? I am a Socialist!” 

©2019 by fauxlaw

Nope, just a wider handle on the language. I use a large vocabulary, and the language is, at times, difficult, I acknowledge. I challenge people to think outside their reading comfort zone.

Good choice, the pre-Communist Russians. Great literature and music. Dostoyevsky uses a much richer language compared to Tolstoy. Dostoyevsky was a poet as well as a great storyteller. I will choose the Brothers Karamazov any day. Are you needing the book in Indonesian? There is a free download in English online. Is it available to you?

Wow, as if all Christians think as a solid block. Good luck demonstrating that one.

Considering how divided a mind you present, is it possible there is variation among Christians?

And therein is a problem with some who cannot imagine a condition beyond the end of the nose...

They don't think. You said it; I'll acknowledge.

Literacy is so difficult for some. At least you admit it.

Funny, the only declared victims stand where the extinction line of the human race is occupied...

on the left, by the Green Shyte Deal.

I stand corrected in U.S.. Never-the-less, Palestine cannot change the outright purchase of the temple mount some 3800 years ago.

Telling me that I must fork over hard earned money to benefit someone who has no work ethic, but feels entitled, is not screwing me? Tell it to your pocket mouse; he might believe you, but I'm not socialist's fool.