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The first sentence is wrong. If I agree with you, it's not with the words you speak that I agree. It's to the content of your speech. That content we ...

If you and I agree, it's to a proposition. I don't follow you. Is it agreement that you find to be unimportant?

Propositions don't hang in the breeze anyway. We ask the world questions, and propositions are the answers we get. The world speaks our language (or s...

Did you not devote quite a bit of your life to playing in the mud?

God hates South Carolina.

Seems to say that a fuel filter sitting in storage is stupid because it isn't in a moving car. But if it's a condition of thought, the advice is to ma...

Having a gold standard limits the money supply and reinforces confidence in the currency. And that's what money basically is made of: confidence. That...

But where is the deficiency in their situation? Is it a matter of semantics? Is there some insidious conceptual problem? Is it a social problem?

Why does this language game require your attention? Is it causing trouble for you?

I went with what I had. I didn't want to make fun of your baldness. Anyway, the kind of analysis you asked for is the task of historians, some of whom...

I didn't see that you moved any goal posts. How do you even move a goal post? Aren't they cemented into the ground? :victory:

That is correct. Me:1. You:0

Your goal was to show that Trump has been bad for democracy or the American society. If he has actually undermined either, please demonstrate that. I ...

Lincoln suspended the right to writ of habeas corpus. Democracy got along just fine. I think you'd probably agree the present situation is fairly tame...

I'm not faint. Dow Jones loves him. QED. Prove that he's bad for our country or democracy if your heart can handle the challenge. I voted for Clinton ...

I think she was right to steer clear of you.

Not to barge in, but Tiff doesn't feel insecure, Praxis. She feels hurt that someone she cared about branded her as a racist. W T F are you talking ab...

The intellect is the realm of partial truths and dismantled cuckoo clocks. Do stuff that obstructs thought like mountain climbing.

Scholars disagree. But you think Christians found a basis for a trinity in the Old Testament? If not, what Bible are you talking about?

There was a Stoic Logos. Stoics also esteemed Plato, so they're part of the same stew. It's Neoplatonic. The Father is the One, the son is the Logos, ...

I know who the Arians were. So? The trinity is Neoplatonic in origin. The scripture I directed you to identifies Jesus as the Logos. If it trips you o...

John 1:1 identifies Jesus' place in the trinity. Roman Christians very consciously adapted Christian images to Platonic themes. To say that early Chri...

The crisis was a result of derivatives. No American president had anything to do with that.

The "mess" was very clearly a result of a central column of economic conservatism: leave the economy unregulated. This principle was extended to inves...

The man who squashed efforts to regulate derivatives was Greenspan. The crisis went far beyond housing. The crash just started with the implosion of t...

:up:

He knows.

Colin Powell said the birther baloney was racist. Trump is good at oblique hits that leave the audience confused. And yet confusion about his sexism i...

That works, thanks!

You may be right, but that would require an admission of error. Some people would appear to prefer failure and potential catastrophe to that kind of a...

:meh: You guys are nuts.

I noticed it too. I dont recall seeing it before the mixed royal family situation. Did they make it cool?

Indeed. It's just a bunch of raving white supremacists over here. Even those of us who are part black can't help ourselves: those confederate flags ar...

It's mostly American in origin.

Honestly, I've never thought about Theresa May using the N-word. LOL.

I thought the word was American in origin. Do non-American English speakers use it?

Goodness, we're touchy.

It's not a popularity contest. It's politics. I'm reading a book on political theory for noobies. What's been your exposure to political theory?

N word makes no difference. It's consumer confidence in the 3rd quarter of his third year in office. If it's up, he'll probably be re-elected.

Ahhh! Wilder. :strong: Is it also a change-up in terms of dominant party platforms? Or will everything just pop back to the way it was like a massive ...

Except this really is the end of the world. Hope you enjoyed it. It's all going down the nazi toilet now.

Tarrifs help stagnate Europe.

Yep. Maybe obstruction of justice. We'll see.

Nope.

Whack a nazi

The infamous Dickens groupies. Hmm. Protesters are milling about Washington DC. It's like a hand full of white supremacists surrounded by thousands of...

It just came home to him that Dickens was not only human, but a funny looking old guy. Twain had little tolerance for what he perceived as European pr...

Mark Twain describes Charles Dickens: "I only heard him read once. It was in New York, last week. I had a seat about the middle of Steinway Hall, and ...

Don't know. Are you familiar with Buddha's struggle with the Lord of Illusion?

Explanation? It was just an episode.