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by Dan Rowden
Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:30 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Well, I just spent an hour and a half replying to Diebert only to have the post vanish into the internet ether, but so as to not have wasted my time entirely - for those who like a formal legal perspective on things: https://www.justsecurity.org/67738/federal-criminal-offenses-and-the-impeachment-of...
by Dan Rowden
Mon Dec 16, 2019 8:49 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Kevin Solway wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 2:44 am
I didn't say that people are deluded and unconscious just because [emphasis mine - DR]they have a different political view than myself.
That's correct, nor has anybody else in this thread.
by Dan Rowden
Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:33 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Was David's response predominantly dismissive? Yes. Was it any kind of substantive refutation or confutation? No. Perhaps he thought that given your time here you'd have a better grasp of 'QSR' philosophy and method. Do you want to know how your observations are wide of the mark at almost every tur...
by Dan Rowden
Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:36 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

There are innumerable in plain sight facts regarding Trump's behaviour Things which are "in sight" can be perceived differently depending on where you view them from. When a magician is performing illusions on stage, the audience see magic happening in sight , but from the magician's pers...
by Dan Rowden
Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:32 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Trump is a raging narcissist with no comprehension of the nature of reality. Many people would say the same thing about you. Casting aspersions about people isn't going to get you anywhere. So, you'll be deleting 'Poison for the Heart' sometime soon? As a matter of logical consistency? A few years ...
by Dan Rowden
Sun Dec 15, 2019 10:30 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Dan? DAAANNNN!!!!1! Yeah, um, so David has informed us recently that: Would you consider the following litigious excerpt from the substantive discussion in question... Like all things, consciousness may increase or decrease depending on various factors. But there is no special absolute truth/s that...
by Dan Rowden
Sat Dec 14, 2019 3:50 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Just for the hell of it, for academic interest only, let's imagine an actual Trump Dynasty takes hold of the White House and the USA. A paradigm in which Paula White hosts regular kumbaya sessions in the West Wing (already happening), where the Trump business empire is indistinguishable from governm...
by Dan Rowden
Sat Dec 14, 2019 1:39 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Overcoming/leverage schizophrenia
Replies: 2
Views: 13426

Re: Overcoming/leverage schizophrenia

How would the schizophrenia be 'leveraged'? By the sufferer? The disordered nature of a sufferer's mind would make that fairly impossible, I would think. By external means, like drugs? If that were possible wouldn't it essentially amount to an effective cure for the disease?
by Dan Rowden
Sat Dec 14, 2019 1:35 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Overcoming torture
Replies: 8
Views: 21733

Re: Overcoming torture

What level of faith do you place in the anecdotes about such abilities?
by Dan Rowden
Sat Dec 14, 2019 1:30 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

And the basis for calling accusations "empty" is this childishly stupid notion of what "evidence" means especially in a forensic context. According to it, a bullet hole couldn't be evidence of a bullet being fired without timecoded high-speed cam footage of it being fired and hi...
by Dan Rowden
Sat Dec 14, 2019 12:32 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

David has declared that buddha's experience passion and desire, an assertion that goes against the literal meaning of nirvana which is "blowing out" or "quenching". Perhaps Dan and/or Kevin (and others) believe the same. This would certainly explain why this thread of name-calli...
by Dan Rowden
Sat Dec 14, 2019 12:27 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Okay, fair enough. This is exactly what I'm trying to find out. Kevin responded to David saying that exact phrase, which I used as a starting point. But you mentioned "facts" around the coverage of Trump & "regime". To simply ask "which facts" seemed a bit too much...
by Dan Rowden
Fri Dec 13, 2019 10:10 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

I'm not making any sort of argument . I'm glad you agree that you're not making any kind of rational argument. That response is depressingly intellectually dishonest. Just plain depressing. It's like a Christian saying, "It is fucking well obvious that God fucking well fucking exists, That ana...
by Dan Rowden
Wed Dec 11, 2019 10:42 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Before I respond to that, Diebert, assuming I can be bothered, can you show me the context in which I said 'corrupt nature of Trump and his criminal cronies'. I'm not recalling my use of that phrase.
by Dan Rowden
Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:08 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

In the broader sense of the coverage of Trump and his regime, the facts are about as bare as facts can fucking-well be. I don't agree with your assessment, and no matter how much you swear it doesn't make your "argument" any more persuasive. I'm glad you put 'argument' in quotes because I...
by Dan Rowden
Sat Dec 07, 2019 1:35 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

As for using politics to promote rationality for the sake of wisdom, how do the three of you hope to attain this lofty goal when none of you represent what would seem to be the most rational viewpoint, that of Centrism ? I've actually said virtually nothing about my personal politics. There is very...
by Dan Rowden
Sat Dec 07, 2019 12:55 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Abortion
Replies: 48
Views: 85968

Re: Abortion

Rhett wrote: Sat Dec 07, 2019 11:49 am Leftism is the irrational, unbalanced, unresearched pursuit of flawed ideologies.
'Leftism' is to politics what 'curry' is to cuisine. i.e. a largely meaningless term.
by Dan Rowden
Fri Dec 06, 2019 11:36 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Abortion
Replies: 48
Views: 85968

Re: Abortion

In case there are any sensible readers of this thread that didnt understand the questions and comments i made about the method of death, the point was to challenge any notion held that a surgical death in extreme abortion circumstances is necessarily ethical and acceptable, and in particular, due t...
by Dan Rowden
Fri Dec 06, 2019 8:45 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

He is the greatest bullshit artist we've ever seen in American politics at this level. I don't think he lies as much as the media does. So relative to them, he looks pretty good. That statement is just embarrassingly fatuous, Kevin. As I stated in the older thread on this topic, one does not even n...
by Dan Rowden
Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:38 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

According to the most recent figures I could find, Trump has made 13,435 false or misleading claims[/url] since his inauguration. That comes from the media, which makes billions of false and misleading claims every day. While I'm sympathetic to the idea that we ought be skeptical of the content pre...
by Dan Rowden
Thu Nov 28, 2019 5:56 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

The impeachment proceedings were a stream of people giving their opinion about what Trump meant in a phone call. Their opinion is worthless. I hate to break it to you, but witness testimony (i.e. sworn opinion) is considered to be evidence in a court of law. This is a core legal principle that appl...
by Dan Rowden
Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:02 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Abortion
Replies: 48
Views: 85968

Re: Abortion

Personally I'm glad Diebert continues to impose the picture ban. For me it remains sensible for the reasons originally given, though I suppose the bandwidth thing is less relevant now that the place is so quiet. And to be clear about something, I'm riding Rhett for a reason (and I fully admit to rid...
by Dan Rowden
Wed Nov 27, 2019 11:22 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Abortion
Replies: 48
Views: 85968

Re: Abortion

As i have stated, i havent intended to provide a full and balanced treatise on this topic. Treatise? You haven't yet provided a remotely sane and informed opinion on the subject you self-aggrandising moron. All you've done is expose your own whiny MRA moralising sook-face bullshit. I have aimed to ...
by Dan Rowden
Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:49 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1418110

Re: Trump

Hong Kong is possibly the most potent contemporary test for geo-political and diplomatic sanity from the US we've seen since Vietnam. Yes, I'm excluding Iraq because that didn't involve sense or diplomacy on any level. I'm not prepared to make any predictions until I see clearer indication from Chin...
by Dan Rowden
Sun Nov 24, 2019 10:06 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Abortion
Replies: 48
Views: 85968

Re: Abortion

I am taking responsibility for my deduction by imposing it.