Christ was Socialist
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Wed May-05-04 08:27 AM
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I wish these idiots would stop calling into washington journal |
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Edited on Wed May-05-04 08:28 AM by Christ was Socialist
Have you noticed this show attracts the dumbest fucks on the planet? And what is it with republicans and rambling on incoherently? In fact Listen to what a conservative said of air america:
If its intelligence as defined by "getting by" I would say they are equally intelligent. But if its intelligence in terms of nuance and complexities, liberals win hands down. That's why liberals will always make crappy telepundits/talk radio commentators... how many times have you heard some local guy call in and discuss how Sartre's idea of NOTHINGNESS from an existentialist perspective conflicts with the real everyday manifestations of the Nietschzean will to power within a background post-MacLuhan consumerism? You don't... complexity, nuance, and cultural texture can't be reduced to a "DITTO, RUSH!"
Only IN fucking America (as far as "free" and "civilized" western nations go) Is it not appealing to be intelligent. The ussr loved this shit. They would pay manual laborers more than univeristy grads. And convinced the laborers that they were making the country great, while "intellectuals" sat at desks all day.
H.L. Mencken says: <44> All professional philosophers tend to assume that common sense means the mental habit of the common man. Nothing could be further from the mark. The common man is chiefly to be distinguished by his plentiful _lack_ of common sense: he believes things on evidence that is too scanty, or that distorts the plain facts, or that is full of non sequiturs. Common sense really involves making full use of _all_ the demonstrable evidence--and of nothing _but_ the demonstrable evidence. <45> The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
<118> ...The only really respectable Protestants are the Fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots...
<125> The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked... <181> What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell. It is a business almost indistinguishable from that of a seller of snake-oil for rheumatism.
<309> The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. <311> The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails. <323> The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. <326> The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. <330> Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
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displacedtexan
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Wed May-05-04 08:37 AM
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1. Sadly, they have no idea how dumb they are. |
diamond14
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Wed May-05-04 09:04 AM
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2. reTHUGs put out directives, to call-in, and to post here on DU |
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the directive was posted several times on DU...it gave specific directions what to do....phone numbers for all the talk media shows....there's daily emails to reTHUGs for the 'talking points'
it's been clear on DU for a long time....one day it's the 'little' nuanced slams against Kerry....'isn't Kerry unfit to be President' 'I'll vote for him but isn't he a horrible human being"
this week: it's Kerry's war record again...there are so many posts on DU about Kerry's war medals.....
so what you hear on the call-in shows are the bush* daily feed to his IDIOTIC supporters...this is bush*s base religiously-insane self-righteous THUGS....there all over here on DU too....
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Christ was Socialist
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Wed May-05-04 09:38 AM
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3. I'm more afraid of the people on this board |
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who try to reason with them. How did the fmaous saying go "You can't reason a man out of a position he didn't reason himself into".
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Wed May-05-04 09:49 AM
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4. really, since you are so afraid...has it ever occurred to you that |
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it's real simple to sign off and then you won't need to be afraid anymore?>
whatever the directive, DU still remains a totally voluntary site...
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