Cancel 2018.1 (02-19-2018), leaningright (02-18-2018)
I wish he didn't post this thread. I keep reading the tweets and trying to find another ballot to vote for Trump.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Cancel 2018.1 (02-19-2018), leaningright (02-18-2018)
You wrote "We are well on our way to being the amoral nation the left wants us to be." Nobody on the left is calling for an amoral nation, first of all. That's just crass supposition that's designed to agitate liberals. The left thinks trump is an amoral, narcissistic liar and the evidence is there for that opinion, but if we really were amoral we wouldn't care what he does. Fundamentalist Christians have given trump a pass for every repulsive thing he's done because they think that in his heart trump really cares about abortion and homosexuality, yet he's been all over the map on these issues and could change again tomorrow. trump's an adulterer, a grifter, a liar with an all-around nasty character and all Fundamentalist Christians cans say is "but abortion! but homosexuality!"
I watch people like Huckabee, Carson, Cruz and Pence as carefully as you watch comedians. I could pull up quotes from all of them that show they don't interpret Christianity in the loving, charitable sense that Jesus's words require.
I believe this country leans more to the right than to the left and has done so for a long time. So I don't know how liberals can be blamed for the direction it's taken. Anything goes on TV and movies because both liberals and conservatives support that. Cons let their kids watch violent TV and movies and play violent video games just as much as liberals. Cons watch sexually-oriented TV and movies just as much as liberals.
You wrote "Amoral - unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something." That describes trump to a "T." Yet you voted for him, not me.
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
Yup...you covered all that very nicely.
The "fundamentalist Christians" are the heart of the core constituency of American conservatism...without them, American conservatives would be holding their national conventions in a small Elks Club building.
And the funny part about that is...fundamentalist Christianity is so far removed from the teachings of Jesus...that if it had any sense of decency at all...it would change its name.
Speaking of moving goalposts... all I heard from dims was IMPEACH! and Collusion! from the moment Mueller was named special counsel. Now you claim a major victory when Mueller discovers after a yr. + investigating the same thing that was published in a Russian business magazine in 10/16.
I am glad he did. I have taken these and forwarded them to my Russian handlers so we can see what worked and what didn't work and perfect it for 2018.
We have great plans for 2018.
The Russians will be in touch with you to have discussions about using JPP as a launching pad for their propaganda campaign. I can't give too much away now, but be on the lookout for Fozzy Bear.
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