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February 18th, 2023 at 9:45:01 AM permalink

terapined

Member since: Aug 6, 2014
Threads: 73
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Quote: kenarman
The Universities create the far left loonies.

Total garbage
I went to the University of Maryland
This was my political science professor
He was excellent
Great class
He's one of the reasons that I support capitalism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Devine

The Washington Post labeled Donald Devine as Ronald Reagan's "terrible swift sword of the civil service" when he served as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during President Reagan's first term, The New York Times called him "the Grinch," and the Federal Times titled him the "Rasputin of the reduction in force – all because he helped cut 100,000 bureaucratic jobs and save over $6 billion reducing generous benefits.[1]

Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"

February 18th, 2023 at 9:49:44 AM permalink
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4516	Quote: terapined Total garbage I went to the University of Maryland I rest my case. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin

February 18th, 2023 at 9:54:22 AM permalink
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11799	Quote: kenarman I rest my case. Yup I belong to the highest educated hardest working demographic in the country Asian American There is an obvious reason we vote left I rest my case :-) Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World"

February 18th, 2023 at 3:20:02 PM permalink

DoubleGold

Member since: Jan 26, 2023
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Quote: 1nickelmiracle
People don't ask the right questions. The question shouldn't be, if there is a God. The questions should be what is God, where is God, when is God, how is God, why is God. It gets a little tricky once again with language limitations to the point it seems to be excuses. Process of elimination doesn't work because we cannot pin down all of reality or even really know what exists beyond the Earth, let alone the universe, let alone beyond the universe. Right now the universe itself we mostly believe it came from nothing and will return to nothing. We will be left without an observer, which is necessary for existence, because if something is not observable, it does not exist. This sounds fallacious but it might not be.

Good post.

Observance (conscious focus) can also change the behavior of light (double slit experiment).

But that's in the physical realm.

We also have a spiritual realm that we inherited.

So rules of existence (observance) crossing boundaries may not be the same.

For example, in the physical realm, I refuse to believe viruses exist because I cannot observe one isolated and purified.

I think they could be exosomes.

And in the spiritual realm, I discovered faith in God by looking inside, not outside.

So my life changed for the better and provided me the physical proof I was looking for.

Spiritual drives physical, for humans.

February 19th, 2023 at 3:02:55 AM permalink

DoubleGold

Member since: Jan 26, 2023
Threads: 30
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Quote: kenarman
The Universities create the far left loonies. The church creates the far right loonies.

22% of US residents attend church weekly. 37.9% of US residents have a college degree. Seems like a pretty similar scale to me.

It appears similar, I agree.

But the reality is different if we consider control.

So if I am part of a socialist group that went to universities (most all indoctrinate), and we required all our military personnel to become vaccinated, then the small group really control many more.

But we can look anywhere and see similar structures of control.

Consider the state run socialist schools when children are molded what to believe.

So now we are introducing sex changes to children.

Consider the medical control boards, etc. where a small group control the masses.

So socialism becomes the religion (fake science, fake news, etc.), and it is groomed through the education system.

February 19th, 2023 at 3:12:54 AM permalink

PotPie

Member since: Oct 9, 2022
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It's okay to be an atheist and say that there is no God.

I'm on the fence; I'm from the "I just don't know" school of thought.

Humans think very highly of themselves and of their intelligence.

But we're not even remotely close to understanding the mysteries of the universe.

Without this understanding, to me, it seems to me to be wrong to dismiss the possibility of a Higher Being.

the foolish sayings of a rich man pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him

February 19th, 2023 at 3:17:44 AM permalink

DoubleGold

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Occasionally, there are renegades (whistle-blowers) of the socialist indoctrination system that have a doctorate degree, etc.

That's when censorship comes into play.

So it's a two-fold process.

An example is Dr. Astrid Stucklberger, a WHO whistle-blower.

She began speaking about Graphene (oxide) inside vaccines.

The socialist control system cut her microphone off during a speech and then the fact-check mechanism managed the rest.

But some of us cannot be controlled because we are critical thinkers.

February 19th, 2023 at 5:16:09 AM permalink

DoubleGold

Member since: Jan 26, 2023
Threads: 30
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Quote: terapined
Total garbage
I went to the University of Maryland
This was my political science professor
He was excellent
Great class
He's one of the reasons that I support capitalism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Devine

The Washington Post labeled Donald Devine as Ronald Reagan's "terrible swift sword of the civil service" when he served as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during President Reagan's first term, The New York Times called him "the Grinch," and the Federal Times titled him the "Rasputin of the reduction in force – all because he helped cut 100,000 bureaucratic jobs and save over $6 billion reducing generous benefits.[1]

Mary Land (mother of Jesus) and the Univ. of Mary Land could be one of the breeding grounds of socialism.

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Maryland certifies country's first new socialist party in decades

January 21, 2019
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“It’s a new kind of socialism,” the founder, University of Maryland professor Jerome Segal, told Fox News.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maryland-certifies-a-socialist-party-to-run-candidates-in-local-state-and-national-elections

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February 19th, 2023 at 5:46:09 AM permalink

rxwine

Member since: Oct 24, 2012
Threads: 189
Posts: 18762

Quote: DoubleGold
Quote: terapined
Total garbage
I went to the University of Maryland
This was my political science professor
He was excellent
Great class
He's one of the reasons that I support capitalism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Devine

The Washington Post labeled Donald Devine as Ronald Reagan's "terrible swift sword of the civil service" when he served as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during President Reagan's first term, The New York Times called him "the Grinch," and the Federal Times titled him the "Rasputin of the reduction in force – all because he helped cut 100,000 bureaucratic jobs and save over $6 billion reducing generous benefits.[1]

Mary Land (mother of Jesus) and the Univ. of Mary Land could be one of the breeding grounds of socialism.

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Maryland certifies country's first new socialist party in decades

January 21, 2019
.
.
.
“It’s a new kind of socialism,” the founder, University of Maryland professor Jerome Segal, told Fox News.
.
.
.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maryland-certifies-a-socialist-party-to-run-candidates-in-local-state-and-national-elections

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I believe in a hybrid of the two because criticisms of both are accurate enough to require a hybrid model.

Quote:
==criticisms of socialism are claims that it creates distorted or absent price signals, results in reduced incentives, causes reduced prosperity, has low feasibility, and that it has negative social and political effects.
==criticisms of capitalism are establishing power in the hands of a minority capitalist class that exists through the exploitation of a working class majority; for prioritizing profit over social good, natural resources and the environment; and for being an engine of inequality and economic instabilities.

You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?

February 19th, 2023 at 6:07:40 AM permalink

DoubleGold

Member since: Jan 26, 2023
Threads: 30
Posts: 2506

Quote: rxwine
Quote: DoubleGold
Quote: terapined
Total garbage
I went to the University of Maryland
This was my political science professor
He was excellent
Great class
He's one of the reasons that I support capitalism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Devine

The Washington Post labeled Donald Devine as Ronald Reagan's "terrible swift sword of the civil service" when he served as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management during President Reagan's first term, The New York Times called him "the Grinch," and the Federal Times titled him the "Rasputin of the reduction in force – all because he helped cut 100,000 bureaucratic jobs and save over $6 billion reducing generous benefits.[1]

Mary Land (mother of Jesus) and the Univ. of Mary Land could be one of the breeding grounds of socialism.

----------------------------------------------

Maryland certifies country's first new socialist party in decades

January 21, 2019
.
.
.
“It’s a new kind of socialism,” the founder, University of Maryland professor Jerome Segal, told Fox News.
.
.
.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maryland-certifies-a-socialist-party-to-run-candidates-in-local-state-and-national-elections

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I believe in a hybrid of the two because criticisms of both are accurate enough to require a hybrid model.

That's what China did.

They call it Communism, but it's a hybrid.

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