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:sad: Having a rational conversation with you is iffy even on a good day. If it weren't for your awesome book recommendations, you'd be a total loss.

There's a difference between campaigning and blocking someone's path to running for president. It's a pretty big difference.

*big hug*. It's going to be ok. :cool:

Praxis was explaining that nobody will remember any of this in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. They're trying to block Trump from runnin...

But will you reinvent yourself? So a new normal? That might take a while. Journey vs destination?

I see. Well, she should be better in a week or so. Speaking of which, how are you? Back to normal? :pray:

If they want a PCR, they should provide one. Maybe this would be a good time to change jobs

So you do believe that? Cheeses.

Viruses are subject to natural selection. Our own multi-faceted will to live could be, at least in part, a product of the same thing.

I think it will be like the flu shot. It'll be mandatory for some, strongly advised for others like elders, cancer patients, diabetes, obese people, a...

There's no god, so it doesn't matter.

So you agree the largest wealth transfer in history didn't just happen. You coulda said so.

yep. it's scary.

If you could provide evidence that the covid response was the biggest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in history, that would be much appreciated.

You've found your foot's chained to the guy next to you. That's shit luck. You'll have to discover the freedom of your soul until you get the chance t...

As long as you realize it's your choice. First and Foremost, Freedom is a Realization.

You do. Arctic circle. Your chances of surviving there are much better than in the Amazon. Less competition for life. You'll need a rifle.

You're using the state's property. They license you as a driver and i assume register your vehicle. Looks like you two have come to an agreement. :up:

Is Billy Summers good? I was reading his stuff and discovered he was a fan of Shirley Jackson. I'm reading The Haunting of Hill House. Holy shit it's ...

The roads belong to the state. Aren't you stealing if you use them? if not, why not?

You're just going to steal from the state?

You're getting creepy now.

Stay off the state's roads then. Do they have roads up there in the Arctic circle where you are?

I don't think it's inappropriate to caution other posters about hyperbole and misinformation, especially wrt a public health issue

https://www.speakeasy-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SN_King_kid_int-829x620.jpg Stephen King

Not really. Europe is the land of austerity. That's controlled by the EU, which is not a democratic body. There are think tanks that influence policy ...

"Religion is one of the great civilizing forces of the universe.". --a character in Asimov's Foundation Trilogy.

No. You should be taking a walk in the wind to blow the cobwebs out your butt.

Isaac. You assumed if billionaires get richer, the money must have transferred from poor people, and thus made the astonishing assertion that the COVI...

Yes. You seemed to be assuming the world's money supply is fixed so that if billionaires get richer, it must have been a transfer of wealth from poor ...

I don't think so. The money for the COVID-19 response came out of thin air. And now we have inflation. That's how that works.

I did. I started a religion where your relatives will be punished for their sins in an infinite tickle box. You have to pay me $8.95 to get them out.

If anything is permissible there's no such thing as justice.

When I say the molester doesn't deserve eternal torment, I seem to suggest I know enough about what justice demands that I can criticize. On closer ex...

That I don't have a handle on the finer points of justice? I don't think much in terms of deserving things myself. I was raised to be thankful for the...

So we agreed that a child molester doesn't deserve eternal torture. What does he deserve? How do you calculate that? I kind of doubt you have an answe...

No. Zoroastrians and Greeks influenced Judaism. I just gave you a religion scholar saying Zoroaster, who was a priest of the polytheistic Mazdaism, al...

"Zoroaster carried out a “reform” of Iranian polytheism, asking his followers to change their ways and beliefs but not to throw away all they had. Con...

Is this the view of scholars? I wouldn't take the word of a religious reformer.

Satan isn't a god. He's a fallen angel. This is from one of my books on Zoroastrianism: "Such concerns were taken up by Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla (1...

So there were three deities originally.

The Persians were like Hindus (to whom they were related), they always had a lot of gods. If the Gathas only talk about one god, what about Angra Main...

Do they?

It's a misconception that Zoroastrianism was monotheistic. That was propogated by some German guy who was intent on making Zoroastrianism attractive t...

It's amazing how child-like some people are. They don't think too deeply.

Hope you put some chapstick in with it

I think logic is exactly the thing that requires absolutes. The less logical part of you is happy to engage the story of your life without knowing whe...

I bought 4 packs of wite-out tape for a friend who uses it a lot. They got me a gift and I didn't get them one, it's a make-up gift. I also put in cha...

I already explained that hell as a vehicle for divine justice emerged among Jews who were traumatized by defeat at the hands of Gentiles when their fa...

Wow. We really need to kill more people. It helps the economy.