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NYT: “free market” capitalism

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This article describes how R’s are gearing up to punish corps that don’t align with their policy choices, or lack there of.

fascism is coming folks, we’re accelerating on the on ramp.
 
It is clear Republicans do not believe in free market capitalism.
Or rather, they likely believe the existing landscape has monopolies and they cannot shop and put their money where their mouth is.
Corporations largely oppose them politically, are apparently immovable and monopolistic, and so Republicans feel threatened by them.
Clearly it is action guided by a belief that the system is not working as intended. They feel the pain of it, and are lashing out.
 

This article describes how R’s are gearing up to punish corps that don’t align with their policy choices, or lack there of.

fascism is coming folks, we’re accelerating on the on ramp.

Behind a paywall and archive doesn't have it yet. 🙁

Can I order some copy pasta?
 
It is clear Republicans do not believe in free market capitalism.
Or rather, they likely believe the existing landscape has monopolies and they cannot shop and put their money where their mouth is.
Corporations largely oppose them politically, are apparently immovable and monopolistic, and so Republicans feel threatened by them.
Clearly it is action guided by a belief that the system is not working as intended. They feel the pain of it, and are lashing out.

agree for the most part, but this isnt lashing out, it’s planned, calculated, demise of what they claim to believe in.

Its bullshit all the way down.
 
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Republicans are using their power to murder the children of the future. With the fossil fuel industry footing the bill it's a wonderful way to make money. And don't forget, morality is subjective, coal or solar, all the same thing. I hope nobody who knows that is pointing a hypocritical finger of blame. No truth and nothing matters because all moral claims are gobbledygook. They rest on nothing but hot air. I know because I have been told so over and over again.
 
Republicans are using their power to murder the children of the future. With the fossil fuel industry footing the bill it's a wonderful way to make money. And don't forget, morality is subjective, coal or solar, all the same thing. I hope nobody who knows that is pointing a hypocritical finger of blame. No truth and nothing matters because all moral claims are gobbledygook. They rest on nothing but hot air. I know because I have been told so over and over again.
Morality is subjective. Our duty to our children and the human race is too, as evidenced by the anti fact and anti science folks around the globe
 
Morality is subjective. Our duty to our children and the human race is too, as evidenced by the anti fact and anti science folks around the globe
Please explain to me this concept of duty to children you speak of. Surely you know that morality is relative and no such duty, therefore, can actually exist. You are just another religious nut case with your feels. Morality is subjective and all your talk of duty, like everything else, is totally meaningless, as self flattering and absurd as all the garbage the religious believers tell themselves. You just thought you were more clever cutting out the Middle Man so as to deny any need rational people have for logical proof. You just thought you could throw out God and replace Him with some mystical nonsense about duty, and your contempt for the anti fact anti science mindset blinds you to how deeply mired in it you are yourself.
 
Please explain to me this concept of duty to children you speak of. Surely you know that morality is relative and no such duty, therefore, can actually exist. You are just another religious nut case with your feels. Morality is subjective and all your talk of duty, like everything else, is totally meaningless, as self flattering and absurd as all the garbage the religious believers tell themselves. You just thought you were more clever cutting out the Middle Man so as to deny any need rational people have for logical proof. You just thought you could throw out God and replace Him with some mystical nonsense about duty, and your contempt for the anti fact anti science mindset blinds you to how deeply mired in it you are yourself.

you’re a funny cat, moonie. There’s no point in attempting to explain anything to an entity as enlightened as you. Nice “no you” response though, you are what you claim others are, see….ez
 
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"enlightened"

He gets an "E" for effort from me! 😉

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you’re a funny cat, moonie. There’s no point in attempting to explain anything to an entity as enlightened as you. Nice “no you” response though, you are what you claim others are.
Good move. Never try to explain the absolute certainty of your claim that moral truth is relative. It would only unmask the bigotry of your unexamined fundamental opinion. Never attempt to substantiate an absurd claim. It can only lead to damaging your ego.

Maybe consider the fact that enlightenment isn’t the realization of some magical cosmic truth like duty, but the loss of belief in all bull shit. The notion that truth is relative is just another big pile of crap and if you were honest enough to try to logically prove it you would discover that fact. You know nothing and neither does anyone else. With that realization, with that acceptance, one can reach the end of one’s rope, all hope of certainty ends and love can awaken. Tell me then that truth is subjective.
 
Good move. Never try to explain the absolute certainty of your claim that moral truth is relative. It would only unmask the bigotry of your unexamined fundamental opinion. Never attempt to substantiate an absurd claim. It can only lead to damaging your ego.

Maybe consider the fact that enlightenment isn’t the realization of some magical cosmic truth like duty, but the loss of belief in all bull shit. The notion that truth is relative is just another big pile of crap and if you were honest enough to try to logically prove it you would discover that fact. You know nothing and neither does anyone else. With that realization, with that acceptance, one can reach the end of one’s rope, all hope of certainty ends and love can awaken. Tell me then that truth is subjective.

Truth derived from facts, not feels, is not subjective. But, as an enlightened religious person, you’ve already discarded that notion and feels are your thing.

I won’t waste countless word counts on you, as you’ve repeatedly shown that you arrogance will mean another long winded “no you” post. I used to find your posts interesting, but you’ve digressed into some weird version that just points his finger at everyone else and says “no you”.

guns and Jesus, that’s your thing, and of course…protecting YOUR ego, lol.

maybe, instead, you can tell US why you think humanity shouldn’t donkey punch the planet into our extinction
 
Good move. Never try to explain the absolute certainty of your claim that moral truth is relative. It would only unmask the bigotry of your unexamined fundamental opinion. Never attempt to substantiate an absurd claim. It can only lead to damaging your ego.

Maybe consider the fact that enlightenment isn’t the realization of some magical cosmic truth like duty, but the loss of belief in all bull shit. The notion that truth is relative is just another big pile of crap and if you were honest enough to try to logically prove it you would discover that fact. You know nothing and neither does anyone else. With that realization, with that acceptance, one can reach the end of one’s rope, all hope of certainty ends and love can awaken. Tell me then that truth is subjective.

Enlightenment is realizing that being Elightened is not an Objective State. It is just a more better State than the status quo. It is how we improve things. Even Facts are Subjective.
 
Truth derived from facts, not feels, is not subjective. But, as an enlightened religious person, you’ve already discarded that notion and feels are your thing.

As I have mentioned before, you are full of assumptions that do not track with reality. All of the insights I have tried to share with you I acquired as a product of the loss of all religious faith. I am not your notion of a believer. I believe in evidence based on experience and what I experienced is that truth does not require religious faith. The same experience that that some people find through religious faith, surrender to God’s will, total acceptance, loving God so intensely that the love of God for us becomes equal to one’s love of him, death of the ego, can happen to anybody who gives up and surrenders to the hopelessness and utter futility of that life has any meaning. To die in surrender, to disappear in love, th let go and fall into inescapable hell, it’s all the same, the awakening of the phoenix from the ashes of the exhausted self.

I won’t waste countless word counts on you, as you’ve repeatedly shown that you arrogance will mean another long winded “no you” post. I used to find your posts interesting, but you’ve digressed into some weird version that just points his finger at everyone else and says “no you”.

The only thing that has changed about me is the fact that as the right has become more and more insane I have tried more and more to keep that from happening on the left. We become what we fear. Have you ever noticed that If you tell people something factual they do not know they will see you as egotistical. Think about it.

guns and Jesus, that’s your thing, and of course…protecting YOUR ego, lol.

I believe that guns are not the problem, that self hate is, that gun madness pro and con are smoke screams to avoid the fact that we as individuals are mentally ill. Jesus, of course, as a far far more enlightened being than I can ever hope to be offered a path for the people of his time to be free of it. I admireHim deeply and thank him for the little still left in his tracking that affected my life and drove me to search for hope. I would have not died to it had I not wanted to believe in it nor discovered why it is not subjective, but real.

maybe, instead, you can tell US why you think humanity shouldn’t donkey punch the planet into our extinction

Sure, be glad to. We have lived our whole lives in the Garden of Eden, ejected only by the Knowingness of unconscious propaganda that we are evil. We are forgiven because in order to survive as children we had to bite from the tree of Knowledge that creates what makes it possible to think in order to survive. Enlightenment is the end of thought, the end of belief, and the return to the oneness of being.
 
Behind a paywall and archive doesn't have it yet. 🙁

Can I order some copy pasta?
Right-click on the link and select "open in private window" should show you the article because it will find no cookies from previous visits to the site. Works for me with Firefox.
 
Enlightenment is realizing that being Elightened is not an Objective State. It is just a more better State than the status quo. It is how we improve things. Even Facts are Subjective.
In my opinion, not so. Enlightenment is a word among many others that may be used to describe a transformative experience that no words can ever capture and communicate. Talk of enlightenment is just a finger pointing at the moon. The finger is not the moon and no words about the moon compared with seeing it. However our understanding of our own potential as humans can evolve. Secular humanism is certainly preferable, in my opinion, to say, fundamentalist religious belief.

The only problem with science is the same problem with everything else, Knowingness, the notion that one can observe without being a part of what is being observed. To observe is to enter a God Conscious state where the observer and the observed are one and the same.

A peak experience transcends better and not that good. It creates the certainty that it’s the best of the best.

I think that is a different kind of certainty than just believing.
 
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