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Interestingly, I saw that some of the people viewing the queen's casket in Edinburgh have called it "a spiritual experience." I wonder what they meant. I've seen the subsequent interviews, and most of them seem to explain it as some form of getting emotional . If that's all "spiritua...

Now you are judging me. You judge yourself. If it's immoral to do what Trump is accused of doing, it's immoral for Biden and Clinton. And if it's immoral to criticize somebody for things that never went to court, then you have no grounds to criticize Trump. It was you who made those claims, and you...

But then, why say anything about it at all? It's clear they want you to take away some vaguely positive impression about them. We just can't, at present, tell what it is. But what would life be without its little mysteries? :) Interestingly, I saw that some of the people viewing the queen's casket ...

Nobody has confessed to "serial rape". No, of course they won't. Who wants to go to jail? What the rich and powerful do is bully, browbeat and pay off their accusers. But you saw Billy boy stare into the camera, and say to the entire American electorate, with total conviction, "Read ...

Forest.

You say All I have heard, up to this point, about Trump in that regard is that he made frat-boy talk. If that is still true, It's not. But it's also not terribly relevant anymore. By any account, Trump's indiscretions (which you have elected to dismiss as unproven anyway) are manifestly not worse t...

Note to others: You tell me how you imagine that he imagines that he is not a free will determinist. It's simpler than that. He's just being irrational and inconsistent. He has no grasp of what Determinism entails, and you can tell because he continually talks about what we can and should do about ...

commonsense wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:08 pm Thanks, IC.

You're welcome. I'd say "my pleasure," except there's no pleasure in it.

By being a person of questionable integrity himself, Trump may well have played into their game. No doubt, he has. But it was never about that, because they don't care about the evils done by Democrats. They use moral language...and a lot of it...but for them, it was never about morality at all, no...

…Socialism and Democrat administrations are utterly hopeless with economies, militaries, health care initiatives, agriculture, infrastructure, education, and everything else the public looks to them to do. An honest question, IC: why do you say this? An honest answer, commonsense. Because it's so o...

Nobody's given a good reason why frat boys are worse than serial predators. But if you want to try, go ahead. There isn’t one. It isn’t about reason. Absolutely right. And it isn't about morality either. Very likely, it's about power and advantage. As for Clinton, sexual affairs with willing partic...

I've got it. The Left does not actually fear Trump . They want fear OF Trump . Those two are very different. In the first, the cause of fear is proportional to the object invoked. In the second, it isn't. The first may plausibly be genuine; the second is merely strategic. I think that the Left actua...

You say that the Left gets a total pass... From the Left. From the screaming, poser banshees claiming that frat-boy talk signals definitively that a candidate is beyond the moral pale, while simultaneously caring nothing for actual sexual predations, so long as it's somebody on their side. ...a dee...

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 2:53 pm

The I that does not know is the I known.

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Sep 13, 2022 2:36 pmUgh.

Ugh, so scary...

No. Just so utterly, utterly hollow...and boring.

The simple is always difficult. Yes, and the wet is always dry, the long is always short, the up is always down, and the left is always right. :lol: Usually we are satisfied with the surface. As tidy a description of Determinism as one can find. The simplest of theories, substituted into a profound...