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James Riley

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Your analogy can be distinguished with a panoply of relevant differences. But let's start with some of the most important ones: 1. Cars don't infect e...
December 08, 2021 at 14:18
I want to ask "where is 'here'"? but like I said before, I don't want to get into the weeds. You'd answer, and then we'd be talking about the efficacy...
December 08, 2021 at 13:57
I think that may be part of your failure to understand pandemic. You are not some Trapper John or Hawkeye Pierce. And I am not Major Burns. You are no...
December 08, 2021 at 13:49
Very well stated. Thanks. I think we have to go sit in the woods and listen. An argument I've made in the past is that, rather that saying grace befor...
December 08, 2021 at 13:31
It's called a pandemic. Millions have died. Millions more have long hauler problems. True that. I don't think smokers go to the front of the line for ...
December 08, 2021 at 07:03
:cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :strong: https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/264894329_1285766065261764_7725406202059295954_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&c...
December 08, 2021 at 06:12
Yeah, pretty much, but with friends and family (and acquaintances) who have died or suffered from the effects. But let's not get into that, because Do...
December 08, 2021 at 05:54
You are responsible for supporting the enemy. Like I said, you don't have the skill set to know how to respond, much less creating something more leth...
December 08, 2021 at 04:33
I consider the virus and those who conspire with it to be the enemy.
December 08, 2021 at 04:31
:grin: I'm not the one supporting the enemy and then blaming the loss on our side. Good job, virus man.
December 08, 2021 at 04:27
"I Don’t Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care for Other People." Anon.
December 08, 2021 at 04:14
What a job you've done already. Your obstruction failed at each and every step, yet you still present yourself as the solution. We’re coming up on yea...
December 08, 2021 at 04:09
Roger that. Thanks.
December 08, 2021 at 03:58
It's not blaming something "other than" the virus. It's blaming something aiding, abetting and providing comfort to the virus. You must have done your...
December 08, 2021 at 03:43
Notice the widespread lack of compliance with all the restrictions, vaccines, masks, etc. It's no wonder Covid is still roaming around eh.
December 08, 2021 at 03:31
Think about this: https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/263846470_4600699910006023_5469203897190616217_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8b...
December 08, 2021 at 02:59
I don't think we are far from agreement. Word choice problems are indeed ordinary, and one ordinary solution is for one party to stipulate the word ch...
December 07, 2021 at 22:39
That time was taken several times in previous engagements. I have taught, but you have not learned.
December 07, 2021 at 22:28
I taught you long ago how to demonstrate an analogy is false, and yet you fail to do it. Thus, it stands unimpeached. Just because you say it is wrong...
December 07, 2021 at 21:30
The government is not "forcing." Perhaps you have never experienced forcing? A cloistered life? There is not only the option of paying the fine, but t...
December 07, 2021 at 20:51
So, the government mandates that you post an imposing asshole at the door, acting like a total jerk, ordering compliance under threat of a beating or ...
December 07, 2021 at 19:59
:100: :up: When it comes to mitigating the act, what is permitted? Prophylactic? After-the-fact only? Regarding the view, it's rather innocuous in its...
December 07, 2021 at 19:30
Entitlement mentality. (How much of their failure to deliver is due to tortious interference with their efforts to deliver?) I know, right. Life is so...
December 07, 2021 at 19:25
In this regard, animals are indeed innocent. And I too can be an animal. Large tree plantations sprung up in the wake of America’s rape of her natural...
December 07, 2021 at 11:48
The requirement cannot be arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or boy-specific and still be fair. But life isn't fair. If the SM has total au...
December 07, 2021 at 00:53
It's a word choice problem that is not a problem. I'll use any word you want for "an effort to keep "coming back" to and allow something more primordi...
December 07, 2021 at 00:10
Six of one, half dozen of the other. Harnessing the ego in an effort to "achieve" (harness) the selfless state may be doomed to failure simply for the...
December 06, 2021 at 23:49
Okay. I think we can both agree that everyone should be kind, respectful and considerate of everyone else. Were it so. Were it so. In the mean time, b...
December 06, 2021 at 23:39
This reminds me of the phrase "beside one's self". It is a state, I think, where awareness exists, but it is not an awareness of one's self. It it act...
December 06, 2021 at 23:36
I know, right! Ugh!
December 06, 2021 at 22:54
:up: Good read, thanks. I'm comfortable with the Eastern notion too, and even a combination, but, other than my theory of All (which I endeavor to exp...
December 06, 2021 at 22:53
Yes. When I hear the word "enlightened" I think of the Enlightenment, which then makes me wonder what distinguishes leaders of that era from everyone ...
December 06, 2021 at 22:07
"Ch'i 'hu nan hsia pei" goes the Chinese proverb, translated in 1875 as "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount." Once you have achieved absolute ...
December 06, 2021 at 21:37
I don't know if it's noble, but it can't be good for their base. P.S. Why hasn't ISIS, et al, weaponized Covid? You'd think they'd have a bunch of guy...
December 06, 2021 at 20:57
We're not talking about what one should or should not do. We are talking about what one does; and what, if anything, should be done about it. If you d...
December 06, 2021 at 20:16
I think to be enlightened is the realization that there are things that you don't know that you don't know. Everyone knows there are things they don't...
December 06, 2021 at 16:29
P.S. In addition to my last, I got to thinking also about this: I happen to agree, somewhat. As I said 8 months ago: "The mode of travel can matter. I...
December 06, 2021 at 15:23
That (with my redactions) is what I got from your original post. I just got lost in who said what, and did not want to misattribute. That was my suspi...
December 06, 2021 at 02:05
Because I am wanting in my ability to parse your post (I don't have the trained academic mind), I did what I have often done with complex statutes tha...
December 05, 2021 at 21:12
When I was young, and ignorant of such things, I would attend powwows. I would look around for, and be somewhat disappointed not to find, dancers who ...
December 05, 2021 at 17:25
Rather than a boat-rowing metaphor, I like the idea of scratching an itch. Sometimes that itch is too hard to reach, so I use a back scratcher, which ...
December 04, 2021 at 22:14
It's up to the people as to whether they want to impose upon their government the burden of screening each and every individual, and then providing th...
December 04, 2021 at 21:46
:zip: :grin:
December 04, 2021 at 21:23
Yikes! I had no idea. I'll be more careful with my coffee! Anyway, I have to go needle my wife about this. :rofl:
December 04, 2021 at 21:18
You and me give rise to a 30 by driving irresponsibly (too fast) in that zone, and killing or injuring others and depriving them of their rights. You ...
December 04, 2021 at 21:13
"A Ballena Press/Center for Archeoastronomy Cooperative Publication." I doubt that I paid more than 20 bucks for it. Probably mid-1990s? It's a 9" tal...
December 04, 2021 at 21:09
Roger that.
December 04, 2021 at 19:27
So if a cop pulls you over for going 70 in a 30 you blame the cop instead of all the individuals who gave rise to the 30? Indeed. When individuals fai...
December 04, 2021 at 19:09
Maybe cite some actual case law proving my opinion is worthless. P.S. Belay my last. Better yet, prove you can think on your own two feet.
December 04, 2021 at 19:01