secularmerlin

By that argument, no other system but capitalism produces and distributes goods, and that is clearly false.

I did not blame victims. I said people should not accept being victims but, often, the choice is theirs. 

So, what's your excuse for people like Dr. Ben Carson, who was just about as poor as can be, yet, he. achieved a high education, valued it, and pursued and achieved excellence. 

The only thing funny about that is that it is how patently false it is, 

atheists don't hate 

non-causality is not a thing 

I value fidelity more than notches on my holster. 

We have a distribution problem, and, that, likely, caused by greed.

YOU decide to be a victim. YOU also decide to not be a victim. Decide.

education, and acting on the education, is the pathway out 

Someone that owns $500K of stock is getting $50K/year from that stock.  A worker may earn $50K/year from their labor.  If the company goes bankrupt, I lose $500K and the worker loses their job and would have to find a new one (a process that usually takes about a year).  I lost $500K and the worker lost $50K.  I'm more at risk as an investor.

Workers aren't oppressed.  Food and rent are cheap for workers working 40 hours a week.  They use their excess funds to invest.  

The median salary in the US is about $35K/year(median us salary - search results (bing.com)).  They live off $30K, and they invest the rest in the stock market.  People making less should find better jobs.

I was saying that despite growing up in the same environment, Jeff Bezos ended up more successful that his siblings.  If America was a white supremist country, then minorities would be heading to the Bahamas instead of the US because the Bahamas are both rich and black majority.  But people are moving to the US because America's isn't racist.

I think Thomas Sowell wrote a book on why race groups end up in different places.  Blacks focus on certain things; whites focus on different things, and this produces different results.  Male and female brains are different that leads to different results for the genders.

private prisons have an incentive to oppose the death penalty because they have more prisoners to take care of so they can get more money from the government.

The neighborhood I live in in is pretty good.

The $20 to execute someone is cheaper than the $2 million it takes to feed them for the rest of their lives.

Therefore I am awarded a badge.

Sorry you think that.  I don't use faith as a standard. I use reason.  Atheism is based on faith.  I give plenty of reasons for my particular view  of the world. And you do too. But it is still faith. Reason requires faith.  I never just resort to the nonsense - that it is just faith. 

No you are missing the point.  Holiness is acting in accordance with right. This is quite different to what the atheist does.  No offence - but it comes back to the definition of right or good. 

Just like atheism sounds like superstition to others.  

Marx and Engels believed that socialism was a bridgehead into communism. But in the USSR and everywhere else pretty much, once there was a socialist regime with people in power, those people did not willingly give up their power for a communist state. In Stalin's case he tried to create a state communist state, which is just socialism. Countries never leave socialism and become communist.

If someone says that communism is totalitarian, you can be very sure that person is neither a socialist or communist. 

Communism is the totalitarian

Methane, oh boo-hoo. Tell you what: more methane is produced by rice paddies, and all other wetlands, cultivated and natural, than was ever or will ever be produced by cows. Eat your rice, but leave my steak alone. Every stinking living thing produces methane. It's nature, bud, even from your butt. Your mouth, too, at times.

Eviction, oh, boo-hoo. Pay your rent on time; be left alone. Better, earn more than min wage, buy your own house, but know that you still must pay the mortgage on time. Didn't you learn that when the bubble burst in 2008 because too many people took out home loans they could never afford? And many ofd them trashed their homes. Nice.

Shackled to cars, oh, boo-hoo. Get a bicycle. Hop on a bus/trolley/train. Walk if you must. What did 19th century people do? Tired of bitching yet? Nope.

Money? Oh, boo-hoo. Make enough for your need, and invest the rest. Do that, you tend to avoid all your bitching.

Overproduction. oh, boo-hoo. Seems we are in a mode wherein overproduction is not the problem; it's delivery. The supply chain. That's what happens when your President decides to pat people for not working. You don't have a production problem; you have a distribution problem, and it started at the Oval. All he's distributing is horseshit.

I'm in the forum I'm not in the form of debate area.

I'm not required to provide evidence to anyone in order for me to have a religious or spiritual practice

So it would fall under I don't know paranormal, occult, metaphysical let's find some other word besides religion which I'm sure you shove all those into religion too even though none of them involve a f****** god.

These account for many things - like the principles of logic, or perhaps science. 

What is amusing about it? Atheist's essentially do the same thing.  

Gee - holiness means what?  Acting in accordance with what is right.  I would liken it to justice. 

superstitious is trusting in the mysterious underpinnings of irrationality.  Things like magic, or rituals, or the ilk. 

Are people hurt because some must eat beans, while another has prime rib?

That one rents a studio apartment, while another owns  30-room house on acreage?

That one has a paved private road while another has an unimproved road? 

You ignore that ambition gets in the way of "sharing", even if that ambition leaves room for a former of each of the conditions noted above to be charitable to the latter of each condition, but does not equalize the commodities.

No one is "hurt," whatever you mean by that, but there is definitively a lack of equity. What is the justification for equity if the latter folks are not as ambitious, and do not plan and execute as the former folks? Is ambition, itself, an evil?

There is a difference between holiness and superstition.  

And your plan is to let all murderers roam free to kill again! Yay!

Baiting is about site rules. These are not debate questions especially since mediumship is not a religious practice. 

Why don't you come back when you're certain? And what is your interest in harming any facet of society? Land ownership is a fact of life, particularly now. But, if your lalaland says sovereignty and land ownership is not a fact of life, and you can squat wherever you need to pee, that's your choice. Or do you, as usual, blame the universe?

Apparently, the problem isn't in the message but the audience. Oh, and Havoc thinks his cornflake post is on the level with works of TS Elliot. ;-)

That you interpret poorly is entirely on you and I have no inclination to correct

Why doesn't a hamster deserve its right to life and protection? Why only a human?

A: Where you do you get that information. 

T: Myths

A: Well aren't you are retard moron with no common sense, a murderer, child abuser and should have no right to your religion. 

T: OK. Or if you say what you should which is fuck you, your a violent child molesters who deserves to die.