Shawn

Thank you for your words of support everyone. I hope I can make it through it.

Coming off my mood stabilizer is feeling me full of a plethora of emotions. But, one emotion that stands out and has made it all worthwhile, is love o...

I have no idea how a serious reparation in terms of the restoration of confidence in US internal politics will be achieved. Any ideas?

I've never seen so much distortion (at least exposed, since warping of the truth can only be made aware if the truth is already known) in my life that...

Oh, right, the Post Office did it! I think it's clear that the military could only undertake such an operation, which the traces of nano-thermite foun...

I ask you to spend 30 or so minutes and see an interview of an architect now representing almost 3,000 professional architects and engineers on C-Span...

The thing about 9/11 is that the thing is so overt and out in the open that there's a lot of information to examine based on the event. No single pers...

I'm not going to risk embarking on a public discussion due to not wanting to offend the admins; but I would be quite interested in your analysis of ho...

I'm aware that the promoters of this forum frown upon it; but, the manner in which people respond to "beliefs that they do not share" or otherwise pej...

Oh, common office fires brought all three buildings down on the same day, is that so hard to believe?

Well, that's an interpretation, you know? Some are more acknowledged by others and some aren't.

So, God might not be all Good, is that what you are suggesting? There are plenty of interpretations and that tends to get brought up quite often with ...

I don't believe God should be all loving if you've seen suffering. The cognitive dissonance gets too real. A more cold and aloof God always made bette...

Oh, don't make fun of the disabled now. Not saying Sapientia is disabled, but find another way to get at people if thats what gives you kicks.

:_)

I still prefer the God of the Old Testament. You know keeping it real and all?

Wrong thread but OK.

Just a fantastic exemplification of Job and human suffering presented below. Well, worth the short hour to listen to this gem: https://www.youtube.com...

Oh, I really have no idea. You'll have to tell me.

You make that sound dark. It ain't all rainy dayz.

Hmm, Im going to take that on face value and just disregard the idea altogether.

Good idea. Will consider it in more detail. Again if I can land a job in some gated community then the previous is all unnecessary.

Yeah; that's the biased statistics of having well off friends.

Well, the place isn't a warzone. It's just that I'm frightened of crime, and have lived most of my life in crime free zones. Comparatively, Las Vegas ...

Just curious. Does anyone here from the US actually own a gun? I'm probably moving to Las Vegas in the near future and the idea has crept up on me giv...

The only contestion I have with Plato's sentiment being swept around here is the authoritarian tone it gave governments to meddle and get involved in ...

Well, this is just Plato 101; but, you would know that Plato held the ignorant and uneducated in contempt. At least at the time, many ignorant and une...

Yes, but what if it we're given to the intellectuals who percieve the rampant exploitation of belief of the masses ongoing already? Would there be no ...

As long as it's fair and balanced criticism, then we're fine.

Certainly in amount of influence over the rest of the population.

Old (rich) white guys have no interest in anything limiting their welfare. After all America is a welfare state for the rich.

I derived my conclusion based off of empirical experience and readings (almost daily) of the bitter sentiment towards anything smelling of socialism o...

Well, then that makes sense then. I lived in Poland for a while, and he does smell of the similar sentimental anti-communist Law and Justice party wre...

I don't think the issue is as serious as you claim. Democrats pretty much only win (or lose) based on young voter turnout. The old rednecks or conserv...

Yeah, you need to get that paranoia in check before it becomes a bigger issue in how you go about reasoning things. You don't get it. Sanders made it ...

Yeah, and so was Obama called and reviled as a socialist for bringing Obamacare. Yet, he won his second term without much effort. And, it's true that ...

The thing is, as I commented about this in a CNN poll. Trump would have nothing on Sanders. In fact, nobody has anything "on" Sanders. He could have k...

He won against Trump in almost every age group, poll. I still remember that despite my addled memory.

It's my personal opinion; but, I do believe the DNC was corrupt as 'duck'. In that it was clear from the early days that Jeb was the favorite nominee ...

Lol, my entire life is based on giving and receiving no ducks. I still feed them or quack back at them in the park.

No ducks to give here.

Ducks are cool.

"Economic fascism" needs to be a new word phrase. Someone make it happen.

Yeah, let's see what Pompeo does. I am not that hot on anyone from within the Trump administration doing anything about Russia. It's a closed case for...

Yeah, that might be true. That's a really scary thing though, if it were true.

I'm not surprised, just saddened that a person who by all means was actually competent, had to get kicked from his post... due to what exactly?

Rex, probably the most competent of all personnel in the Trump administration is gone. What?

I have my qualms with CBT as it is professed nowadays. There's a cognitive distortion that is very insidious and doesn't get addressed as much as it s...

I'm currently trying to analyze the mechanisms by which depression feeds on itself. If anyone has any books or knowledge on the matter, I would greatl...

First, thank you for your caring response. Before I start labeling issues with terms derived from psychiatry, I think there is the psychological issue...