The Simple Truths Silver Mine

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Everything in the world will be a bit better when everybody stops trying to be an internet investigator/detective.

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CNN always goes to #1 when there's news then falls back to 3rd when the only "news" is whatever hack jobs can dig up on Benghazi and Bridgegate.

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This is pretty funny.

I do wish that people would drop this idea that being white automatically means being privileged. It's such a white middle-class-and-upwards thing to think.

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Didn't know you were a Hillary fanboy, Lief. Color me surprised.

You know the biggest irony? How pro-Obama he was in 2008.

In 2014, I don't think the two are contradictory...

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Girls is the worst show on television.

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Girls is the worst show on television.

Considering the existence of TLC, the History Channel, and Jersey Shore, it's probably knocked up a few notches.

No.

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It's funny how the anti-racists are in favor of the n-word and treating people different on account of their race.

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Sociopath.

Yet Pelosi isn't for running across the House floor shooting Where is He?

No. 'Sociopath' doesn't mean 'has anger issues' or 'did something indecorous'.

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Nothing good will come of "armed resistance," whether it's for real or for show. It's an idiotic gesture when suburban NRA members or squatting cultists are behind it, and it's no less stupid or unlikely to help in Saint Louis. HPs.

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The US didn't fund Bin Laden.  The US funded Afghani groups, while Saudi Arabia and perhaps ISI funded Arab foreign fighters.  Most of the support for the Afghan insurgency came from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia anyway.  Let's not rewrite history here.

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Now watch the catholics get huffy and indignant and holier than thou.

I say if you're going to be Christian, then stick to the message of Jesus.

Indeed. Feel free to continue advocating frothing at the mouth about JAAAY-SUUUS and waving your hands, hopping around like monkeys, and calling it a religious service. This is the real heresy, the real paganism, practically Vodoun. Ugh.

(though I will say I object to his possible slight at the syncretic Caribbean faiths)

Nothing against them, of course.

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Nathan, do you search for any uses of the word 'religion' used since the last time you logged on?  Just curious.

Har har har. No, I do not. The intolerably smug and simplistic nonsense that certain posters spew on this subject crosses my radar more than frequently enough as it is without actively looking for even more of it.

That was a quick and tone changing edit there...

Well, yes, because I realized quickly that my original tone was uncalled for.

In any case, I think I've earned the right to be smug about having a better grasp of my own field of study than, well, people whose field of study it incredibly obviously isn't.

You don't have a particularly good grasp of non-religious belief however it presents itself to you, which has came across particularly when I have discussed secular morality (there is a post on the atlas ether somewhere in which you said that secular ethics and the reason for unbelief didn't even concern you)

What is there to grasp?

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^ So then ultimately what is the point of having any kind of denominations?  Why not attend a Catholic mass?

Can't speak for Bushie but the reason I'd-

Nobody asked you, and this isn't about you.  Your life and your beliefs aren't interesting in any way, so stop trying to inject it into a thread dedicated to one that is.

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Clinton and Congressional Republicans were the ones who destroyed the economy by repealing Glass-Steagall.

Oh? This is surprising.