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The Blaatschapen
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 4:56 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
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Sure, I never said the two are mutually exclusive? :unsure:

You kinda did, by saying "exactly" in regards to shared views on the universe.

But I have not had my coffee yet.


I was reading "universe" in context.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:01 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:You kinda did, by saying "exactly" in regards to shared views on the universe.

But I have not had my coffee yet.


I was reading "universe" in context.

What context?

Besides I am an american, what do we know of context.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:09 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
I was reading "universe" in context.

What context?

Besides I am an american, what do we know of context.


As much as you know of grammar.

:ugeek:
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Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:36 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:What context?

Besides I am an american, what do we know of context.


As much as you know of grammar.

:ugeek:

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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:38 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
As much as you know of grammar.

:ugeek:

Much shade
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Postby Immoren » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:40 am

Having oldest and most distinguished engineer in our office writing his emails in comic Sans is both amusing and off-balance throwing.
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Postby LiberNovusAmericae » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:44 am

Bluelight-R006 wrote:
The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:Imagine being an atheist creationist. "The universe was created by someone who I don't think exists."

Is that even possible? :?

I doubt it. How can someone think that the world was created in seven days, by a god he or she don't even believe in?
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Postby Andsed » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:45 am

Immoren wrote:Having oldest and most distinguished engineer in our office writing his emails in comic Sans is both amusing and off-balance throwing.

Hot take: aint nothing wrong with comic sans don´t even @ me. :p
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Postby Kowani » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:49 am

LiberNovusAmericae wrote:
Bluelight-R006 wrote:Is that even possible? :?

I doubt it. How can someone think that the world was created in seven days, by a god he or she don't even believe in?

…Very strong mental blocks?
Abolitionism in the North has leagued itself with Radical Democracy, and so the Slave Power was forced to ally itself with the Money Power; that is the great fact of the age.




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Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:52 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Much shade
No answer


Failed Haiku

Not at all haiku
Seeking sheepie answer to life
All fluff and fleas
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 



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Postby LiberNovusAmericae » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:52 am

Kowani wrote:
LiberNovusAmericae wrote:I doubt it. How can someone think that the world was created in seven days, by a god he or she don't even believe in?

…Very strong mental blocks?

People like that should be put in a mental gymnastics team.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:55 am

Immoren wrote:Having oldest and most distinguished engineer in our office writing his emails in comic Sans is both amusing and off-balance throwing.


It's what I do, in any work email train it is easy to see what I said and want. If you know your business folks dont mess with you about it.
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 



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Postby The Free Joy State » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:56 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
Failed Haiku

Not at all haiku
Seeking sheepie answer to life
All fluff and fleas

Your second line is
One syllable too long, I'm
Greatly saddened now.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Aug 23, 2019 5:56 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
Failed Haiku

Not at all haiku
Seeking sheepie answer to life
All fluff and fleas


Fleas?

Excuse me! I wash!

At 30 to 40 degrees celsius, at higher temperatures I shrink.

At lower too :meh:
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Kowani
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Postby Kowani » Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:02 am

LiberNovusAmericae wrote:
Kowani wrote:…Very strong mental blocks?

People like that should be put in a mental gymnastics team.

Simone Biles of the mind.
Abolitionism in the North has leagued itself with Radical Democracy, and so the Slave Power was forced to ally itself with the Money Power; that is the great fact of the age.




The triumph of the Democracy is essential to the struggle of popular liberty


Currently Rehabilitating: Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, and Woodrow Wilson
Currently Vilifying: George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Jimmy Carter
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The Xenopolis Confederation
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Postby The Xenopolis Confederation » Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:09 am

Kowani wrote:
LiberNovusAmericae wrote:I doubt it. How can someone think that the world was created in seven days, by a god he or she don't even believe in?

…Very strong mental blocks?

Radical centrism.
Pro: Liberty, Liberalism, Capitalism, Secularism, Equal opportunity, Direct Democracy, Windows Chauvinism, Progressive Rock, LGBT+ Rights, Live and let live tbh.
Against: Authoritarianism, Traditionalism, Non-Market-Socialism, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, Autocracy, (A)Theocracy, Macs, "The ends justify the means," Collectivism in all its forms.
Economic: 0.5
Social: -8
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Kowani
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Postby Kowani » Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:12 am

The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:
Kowani wrote:…Very strong mental blocks?

Radical centrism.

Enlightened Centrism. :p
Abolitionism in the North has leagued itself with Radical Democracy, and so the Slave Power was forced to ally itself with the Money Power; that is the great fact of the age.




The triumph of the Democracy is essential to the struggle of popular liberty


Currently Rehabilitating: Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, and Woodrow Wilson
Currently Vilifying: George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Jimmy Carter
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Postby Jean-Paul Sartre » Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:14 am

Kowani wrote:
The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:Radical centrism.

Enlightened Centrism. :p

We have to listen to all sides. The Earth was created 7 days ago by Charles Darwin.
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Postby Immoren » Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:14 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Immoren wrote:Having oldest and most distinguished engineer in our office writing his emails in comic Sans is both amusing and off-balance throwing.


It's what I do, in any work email train it is easy to see what I said and want. If you know your business folks dont mess with you about it.


Yeah. And I know it's good dylsexia font but I can't help it.
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discoursedrome wrote:everyone knows that quote, "I know not what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones," but in a way it's optimistic and inspiring because it suggests that even after destroying civilization and returning to the stone age we'll still be sufficiently globalized and bellicose to have another world war right then and there
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Postby The Xenopolis Confederation » Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:20 am

Kowani wrote:
The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:Radical centrism.

Enlightened Centrism. :p

Can we talk about how dumb r/enlightenedcentrism is?
Pro: Liberty, Liberalism, Capitalism, Secularism, Equal opportunity, Direct Democracy, Windows Chauvinism, Progressive Rock, LGBT+ Rights, Live and let live tbh.
Against: Authoritarianism, Traditionalism, Non-Market-Socialism, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, Autocracy, (A)Theocracy, Macs, "The ends justify the means," Collectivism in all its forms.
Economic: 0.5
Social: -8
I'm a 21 year old Australian. Liberalism with a dash of lolbert. I don't do as much research as I should.

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Postby Kowani » Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:25 am

Jean-Paul Sartre wrote:
Kowani wrote:Enlightened Centrism. :p

We have to listen to all sides. The Earth was created 7 days ago by Charles Darwin.

>Darwin and not Galileo
>Fucking heretic.

The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:
Kowani wrote:Enlightened Centrism. :p

Can we talk about how dumb r/enlightenedcentrism is?

Go for it.
Abolitionism in the North has leagued itself with Radical Democracy, and so the Slave Power was forced to ally itself with the Money Power; that is the great fact of the age.




The triumph of the Democracy is essential to the struggle of popular liberty


Currently Rehabilitating: Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, and Woodrow Wilson
Currently Vilifying: George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Jimmy Carter
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Postby The Xenopolis Confederation » Fri Aug 23, 2019 6:52 am

Kowani wrote:
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote:We have to listen to all sides. The Earth was created 7 days ago by Charles Darwin.

>Darwin and not Galileo
>Fucking heretic.

The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:Can we talk about how dumb r/enlightenedcentrism is?

Go for it.

Half the time, it presents right wing arguments, and calls them centrist. The other half of the time, it presents actually good centrist arguments, and calls them centrist as a way to invalidate them without actually refuting them. The whole sub is kind of the reverse middle ground fallacy. While the middle ground fallacy is to believe that the middle position is necessarily always right, r/EC seems to believe that the middle position as necessarily always wrong.
Pro: Liberty, Liberalism, Capitalism, Secularism, Equal opportunity, Direct Democracy, Windows Chauvinism, Progressive Rock, LGBT+ Rights, Live and let live tbh.
Against: Authoritarianism, Traditionalism, Non-Market-Socialism, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, Autocracy, (A)Theocracy, Macs, "The ends justify the means," Collectivism in all its forms.
Economic: 0.5
Social: -8
I'm a 21 year old Australian. Liberalism with a dash of lolbert. I don't do as much research as I should.

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Postby Kowani » Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:00 am

The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:
Kowani wrote:>Darwin and not Galileo
>Fucking heretic.


Go for it.

Half the time, it presents right wing arguments, and calls them centrist. The other half of the time, it presents actually good centrist arguments, and calls them centrist as a way to invalidate them without actually refuting them. The whole sub is kind of the reverse middle ground fallacy. While the middle ground fallacy is to believe that the middle position is necessarily always right, r/EC seems to believe that the middle position as necessarily always wrong.

Okay, so from me going over the first page, since I don’t actually use reddit…You’re not entirely wrong, but some of those arguments were respectively awful, false dichotomies, or the actual middle ground fallacy.
Abolitionism in the North has leagued itself with Radical Democracy, and so the Slave Power was forced to ally itself with the Money Power; that is the great fact of the age.




The triumph of the Democracy is essential to the struggle of popular liberty


Currently Rehabilitating: Martin Van Buren, Benjamin Harrison, and Woodrow Wilson
Currently Vilifying: George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Jimmy Carter
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Postby The Xenopolis Confederation » Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:02 am

Kowani wrote:
The Xenopolis Confederation wrote:Half the time, it presents right wing arguments, and calls them centrist. The other half of the time, it presents actually good centrist arguments, and calls them centrist as a way to invalidate them without actually refuting them. The whole sub is kind of the reverse middle ground fallacy. While the middle ground fallacy is to believe that the middle position is necessarily always right, r/EC seems to believe that the middle position as necessarily always wrong.

Okay, so from me going over the first page, since I don’t actually use reddit…You’re not entirely wrong, but some of those arguments were respectively awful, false dichotomies, or the actual middle ground fallacy.

Of course they do manage to find some genuinely dumb centrists, but they don't appear to know the difference between a dumb centrist and a smart centrist.
Pro: Liberty, Liberalism, Capitalism, Secularism, Equal opportunity, Direct Democracy, Windows Chauvinism, Progressive Rock, LGBT+ Rights, Live and let live tbh.
Against: Authoritarianism, Traditionalism, Non-Market-Socialism, Laissez-Faire Capitalism, Autocracy, (A)Theocracy, Macs, "The ends justify the means," Collectivism in all its forms.
Economic: 0.5
Social: -8
I'm a 21 year old Australian. Liberalism with a dash of lolbert. I don't do as much research as I should.

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Postby Ethel mermania » Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:17 am

The Free Joy State wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Not at all haiku
Seeking sheepie answer to life
All fluff and fleas

Your second line is
One syllable too long, I'm
Greatly saddened now.

Well played
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 



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