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How many racist comments in the example?

Like thug is too, right? So every time we observe and identify a psychopathic behavior that takes place with a much higher frequency in the inner city, and assign it a word, that means racism? So observing reality is basically a racist activity? A THING IS WHAT IT IS. No matter what anyone "feels."
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- Post #73
- Jun 16, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Is poverty voluntary?

I don't believe that the "good jobs" are gone. I think that is an invention, a fantasy. There are millions and millions of good jobs for those who focus on what is needed and meet needs. I think statements of despair proclaiming no jobs is a way for people to anesthetize themselves against the...
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- Post #344
- Jun 15, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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Can Ethnicity can be a choice? Can race?

That could be said, if identification of reality were to be considered a problem.
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- Post #9
- Jun 15, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Can Ethnicity can be a choice? Can race?

Except that not everyone acknowledges your first premise. It could be argued that you are born with your biological gender and that denying it is a mental disease or illness. If not a form of insanity. If a person is born black but claims to be white, he is clearly suffering from an...
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- Post #2
- Jun 15, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Is poverty voluntary?

Poverty is an individual problem to be solved by the individual with the lack of wealth. Are we all equal from birth? Of course not. Neither are planets or microbes. Inequality is an existential state. Some of us are born with talent and promise. Some are born without much of either, but...
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- Post #309
- Jun 14, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
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A Capitalist Critiques Capitalism

I'll tell you where you are wrong, but I will leave the research to others. My arguments are based on Reason and Reality and do not require cites. You can bias-select all your favorites and make a nice list, but is there any point? No, of course not. It's a waste of server space.
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- Post #26
- Jun 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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A Capitalist Critiques Capitalism

This interview proves that you do not have to understand economics or philosophy to a) be a success or b) discuss economics and philosophy. Mr. Hanauer is a common utilitarian-collectivist. His fundamental premise stressing the primacy of consumer demand is utterly foolish and falls apart under...
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- Post #17
- Jun 10, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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A Capitalist Critiques Capitalism

Utter nonsense. Capitalists are not only job creators, they are life creators. Everything we have in this society that is cool and amazing results from greed, the profit motive, and capitalistic advancement based on self-interest and individual achievement. There are the creators and the...
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- Post #7
- Jun 3, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I was a mistake, were you, are we all?

That is fine, but be careful about it because I have private property rights that would be recognized by a court if you violate them. Which explains my decision to purchase in an area of residential land uses. As long as your business does not violate the rights of property owners around you...
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- Post #27
- Apr 23, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Although I am christian, I think sharia law would be cool.

A full expressive Christian life is equivalent to Sharia Islam. The insanity and the irrationality and the divorce from reality are the same, the particular laws and edicts are footnotes. I wouldn't bother comparing them, it is like comparing the different malignant cells in a cancer. One can...
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- Post #32
- Apr 22, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Although I am christian, I think sharia law would be cool.

I don't know or care why someone of low character chooses to steal from others. Don't know. Don't care. And prison is perfect because it keeps this cretin out of my world. SO prison works perfectly. It keeps the cretins out of the good peoples' lives. BAD people in jail. GOOD people out of jail...
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- Post #23
- Apr 21, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I am both art and the artist

Perhaps Yoda next you will lose.
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- Post #19
- Apr 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I am both art and the artist

So tragically silly...
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- Post #16
- Apr 12, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I am both art and the artist

This sounds like the catastrophic path followed by Born Agains. Personal crisis and disaster lead to an emotional and intellectual breakdown, followed by refuge in irrationality and mystical nothingness pending physical death. Hopefully your path is not a variant of this, as it represents...
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- Post #14
- Apr 12, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Why Retirement is a Terrible Idea.

If someone with a hard physical job puts 20% of their money into savings, starting when they are in their 20's, they will be able to retire to an easier part time job in their late 50s when they start to break down. The key is using Reason throughout your life and not wasting your money. But how...
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- Post #10
- Apr 12, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I am both art and the artist

I think it is a terrible idea to seek "detachment" or "freedom from things" or "flow" or "non striving". I think all of this is escapism and is based in fear and self-doubt. I think one should always be conscious, attached, striving, and connected and conversant with reality. The urge to "just...
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- Post #12
- Apr 12, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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If God exists, does he baffle himself?

You have renounced Reason, so knowing things for you will be pure emotionalism and subjectivism. As it is for all deists. Hey, at least you're not alone!
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- Post #85
- Apr 10, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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If God exists, does he baffle himself?

"I think of that standard as God given" is your error. Don't think that.
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- Post #69
- Apr 9, 2015
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If God exists, does he baffle himself?

I disagree with your proposition. God is not love, and God does not exist. It's not that I don't follow him, it's that I flat out state that God is a silly concept. I know the human weakness that causes theistic preoccupation, but I choose not to participate. That little monster in Boston talks...
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- Post #63
- Apr 9, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I was a mistake, were you, are we all?

"Dominionist." I like that. And it fits. And also an atheist of course. How could anyone who makes as much sense as I be otherwise? The Earth is ours to control, dominate, own, utilize, and benefit from.
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- Post #22
- Mar 24, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I was a mistake, were you, are we all?

I think the environmentalists you refer to utilize their politics as a smokescreen. What they really hate is achievement, wealth, and material progress. Why hate achievement? How is that possible? When the primary engine of one's life is the emotion we call envy. Environmentalism is an...
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- Post #11
- Mar 19, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I was a mistake, were you, are we all?

Extinction is given too much weight and concern. Every species will one day be extinct. It's not an important issue. What is important is exploiting the planet such that our lives are productive and happy. That means USING what is here, not saving it for some unknown future generation. Pollution...
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- Post #7
- Mar 19, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Minimum wage discussion

NOTHING AND NO ONE exists to serve society. Society is a collection of individuals, not a master of slaves. We are not born into duty or obligation. A company has ZERO ZILCH NADA "responsibility" to provide for or care for or nurture or act in loco parentis for any employee. Employers need a...
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- Post #54
- Mar 16, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Minimum wage discussion

A real health insurance plan belongs in the private market. Really good wages belong to those who do what you did. Become good enough to deserve them. Low end jobs offer low end pay because they demand no special talent, expertise, or virtue. They are mechanical in nature and anyone can do them...
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- Post #33
- Mar 16, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Is circumcision moral?

A human rights violation... When you see irrational histrionics mirrored back at you, don't be astonished as to their origin. Irresponsible, but it is what it is. I will now retire from this thread.
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- Post #220
- Mar 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Is circumcision moral?

Good, because over my life span I estimate I will use 7.4 fewer gallons of body wash keeping mine clean and ready for action. My gain is your loss. Edit: Oh wait, you're saying you're cut and a barbarian penis means a cut penis. I was thinking an uncut penis looks far more barbarian. I view a...
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- Post #216
- Mar 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Is circumcision moral?

So I am way too late to be worried about the intellectual circumcision. It's ongoing. Terrible. Just. Terrible.
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- Post #215
- Mar 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Is circumcision moral?

My parents did it to me. I could care less and still love them. I am glad they did what they thought was healthy and good. I agree with their decision. You are worrying about how to treat your son's penis. Did you ever think of how important it is to treat his brain? And make sure you are not...
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- Post #209
- Mar 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Is circumcision moral?

Will you please stop? It's a TINY section of skin on the penis. And it was believed to be a healthy practice at the time, and can still be logically argued to be a healthy practice today, although to a lesser extent since we know that it is not strictly necessary. And, it has no import. Cut...
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- Post #205
- Mar 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Is circumcision moral?

Will people ever tire of deciding upon dopey things to worry about? I'm alive. I'm cut. That's what was done at the time. It's not a crime. It's not immoral. It was a simple custom. My thingy works great, feels great, looks pretty cool, and has never come up short.
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- Post #191
- Mar 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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If God exists, does he baffle himself?

This is incorrect. Love must be attached to value. Love must not, and really cannot, be granted indiscriminately. In other words, love is NOT the answer, but simply a decision on what to value highly.
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- Post #26
- Mar 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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My theory of everything

There is no "thinking life". There is existence, and there are aspects of existence to discover or not discover. Existence exists regardless of discoveries and your consciousness. "Thinking life" is a similar error to "my reality is different from your reality". That is the nature of...
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- Post #76
- Mar 11, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Minimum wage discussion

Here is how you fairly negotiate: Observe what the market is paying other workers with skills similar to yours. Ask for that wage, and if it is given, begin working. If you don't like the wage, don't take the job. If no available job pays you what you want, then you need to make yourself better...
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- Post #26
- Mar 11, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Minimum wage discussion

The minimum wage is a form of coercive price fixing. As such, it cannot be a good thing. It is also basically a redistribution program. The idea is to take money from people who have it, to give to others because they need it. Again, a bad idea and completely immoral and unjust. The minimum...
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- Post #17
- Mar 10, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Looks like it's time for another evolution thread

Much of the problem lies in the assumption that life is a somehow magical separate phenomenon from the inanimate qualities of all non-living existents that make up the universe. Life is simply something that exists in the universe when conditions favor its appearance. Life isn't special or magic...
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- Post #271
- Mar 8, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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An alternate take on the Charlie Hebdo attacks

I think the entire Western world is going to become Islamophobic. And I think it will be a logical, correct, and rational response.
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- Post #25
- Jan 11, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The Cost of Freedom

This is incorrect. Freedom is not inalienable, nor does it come from God. Firstly there is no God. But even if there were, which is silly, we do not know what God is or is not. So to ascribe Freedom to an unknowable entity is irrational. Freedom comes from Man in the form of philosophy. The...
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- Post #10
- Dec 29, 2014
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Do you consider the USA a good country?

Selection bias. Reading who you want to read, and believing what you want to believe. Emotion over Reason. http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/Carson.html
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- Post #117
- Dec 23, 2014
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The ability to read a person.

Reading people is one of the main skills we develop in the poker world, for obvious reasons. It takes a lot of focus, especially when your subject is trying to mislead you.
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- Post #14
- Dec 12, 2014
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Help me decide which mechanical keyboard I should get

So it's a day later and I am getting used to the combination of the Orion and the G13 G-key expansion unit. Just stupendous. The Logitech software operates all the peripherals with the same interface. So your Orion and your G13 and your Logitech gaming mouse all just appear in the interface and...
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- Post #11
- Dec 6, 2014
- Forum: Keyboards

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