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Strategist says

I don't think the scientists of NASA, and the Noble prize winners buy into his logic. They are still almost entirely atheists.

Your odds of running into Thomism is about the same as running into Austrian economics. Which might explain a couple of things?

It has to do with the unmoved mover, potentiality and actuality. From Aristotle whatever is moved is exterior to the thing that is being moved. Therefore the only thing that is fully actualized is exterior to this universe and this is God.

Not discussing how the universe got started or the cause of things.

And that God is monotheistic because if there is more that one of anything they have to be distinguishable from one another IOW they have to have potential which means they are not pure actuality. If they do have potential they are distinguishable, if they don't they are pure actualization and since they are indistinguishable there is not more than one of them.

http://www.schiffradio.com/pg/jsp/verticals/archive.jsp?dispid=310&pid=66973

Reality says

The result is Muslims replacing Europeans today just like Christians replaced secular Neoplatonists like Hypatia 1500+ years ago.

Or Mexicans in the US?

Smart people never really pick a side.

Peter P says

Smart people never really pick a side.

Bingo. I really don't find the appeal of identifying yourself to either party and then defending them no matter what.

It's really not about defense of a party, more like a measure of how much shit you can manufacture and sling.
The former is boring, the latter, entertaining.

lostand confused says

Bingo. I really don't find the appeal of identifying yourself to either party and then defending them no matter what.

indigenous says

Reality says

The result is Muslims replacing Europeans today just like Christians replaced secular Neoplatonists like Hypatia 1500+ years ago.

Or Mexicans in the US?

The political establishment seems to have come to the conclusion that having the Mexicans filling the demographic hole created by post-modern 2nd/3rd-wave feminism is preferable to having the hole filled by native primitives (LBJ's great grand kids) or imported/converted muslims multiplying themselves. At least the Mexicans are Christians. The upper class is shifting to the happily breeding Mormons.

SoftShell says

I recommend going all in JCP.

Black friday next week.

IQ Test

This is damning evidence..

Ceffer says

Saying your are smart and actually BEING smart are two complete and distinct things. Only liberals don't seem to be able to tell the difference.

Hey, you just described Dan.

Peter P says

Smart people never really pick a side.

They follow the relevant issues, instead of the BS.

Reality says

indigenous says

Reality says

The result is Muslims replacing Europeans today just like Christians replaced secular Neoplatonists like Hypatia 1500+ years ago.

Or Mexicans in the US?

The political establishment seems to have come to the conclusion that having the Mexicans filling the demographic hole created by post-modern 2nd/3rd-wave feminism is preferable to having the hole filled by native primitives (LBJ's great grand kids) or imported/converted muslims multiplying themselves. At least the Mexicans are Christians. The upper class is shifting to the happily breeding Mormons.

When this occurs does the country technologically regress?

Good question, Indigenous. It is important however to keep in mind what is the means vs. what is the end. Technology progress, religion, arts and music are all means to an end: eggs reproducing eggs. . . just like peacock eggs use a beautiful bird to reproduce eggs.

Reality says

Technology progress, religion, arts and music are all means to an end: eggs reproducing eggs. . . just like peacock eggs use a beautiful bird to reproduce eggs.

It seems to me when ideas are exchanged through comparative advantage it leads to advancement of the standard of living, if they stop getting exchanged for what ever reason regression follows, as it did with Greece or Rome or China, followed by apparent regression. Rome was followed by the Dark ages even though the technology of Rome would have been available.?

Knowledge is lost very quickly when the knowledgeable class wed themselves to a set of ideologies that lead to genetic suicide, and they get displaced by people who breed but are not into knowledge. It would then take a long time for trade and knowledge acquisition to re-emerge as part of dominant culture.

A new Dark Ages for the West? While the East soars...

More likely a global new Dark Age. The Far East is not breeding fast enough either, with declining native-born populations in most highly developed parts of Japan, Korea and China.

Interesting. So Orwell had it right after all, not good.

Strategist says

Russia - Chechnya Islamic problem.

Not anymore! The Russians saved the urban Chechens from their hillbilly redneck cousins funded by Saudi Arabia.

Putie took care of 'em all, despite Saudi Arabia asking US Politicians ordering it's employees to complain and bitch the whole time he was doing it.

You see, when Chechen hillbillies bombed Russia, Russia utterly eradicated them from the Earth down to the last man. Even the final holdout gang was tracked down in the Caucasus and ambushed by Spetznaz.

When Saudi Arabians hit the WTC, US Politicians attacked Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Lybia and Syria, but not the homeland of the criminals.

Once upon a time a Russian diplomat was kidnapped by an Islamic Terror Group. The KGB grabbed some Wahabi clerics and sent some fingers every day their diplomat remained in their custody. He was handed back untouched on the 3rd day.

thunderlips11 says

Once upon a time a Russian diplomat was kidnapped by an Islamic Terror Group. The KGB grabbed some Wahabi clerics and sent some fingers every day their diplomat remained in their custody. He was handed back untouched on the 3rd day.

I tried to find that story but couldn't. Do you have names or links?

Liberals could be alien. Read this.

The year was 1947. Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little more than 67 years ago, numerous witnesses claim that an Unidentified Flying Object, (UFO), with five aliens aboard, crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico .

This is a well-known incident that many say has long been covered-up by the U.S. Air Force, as well as other Federal Agencies and Organizations .
However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April, year 1948, nine months after the historic day, the following people were born:

Barrack Obama Sr.
Albert A. Gore, Jr.
Hillary Rodham
William J. Clinton
John F. Kerry
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer
Joe Biden

I truly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you. It certainly did for me.

And now you can stop wondering why they support the bill to help all Illegal Aliens.
__________________

carrieon says

Barrack....

has only one r, and the father was born in 1934 and the son was born in 1961. If you want to copy and paste jokes, at least make them actually funny, instead of sad phony "conservative" memes.

thunderlips11 says

Strategist says

Russia - Chechnya Islamic problem.

Not anymore! The Russians saved the urban Chechens from their hillbilly redneck cousins funded by Saudi Arabia.

Putie took care of 'em all, despite Saudi Arabia asking US Politicians ordering it's employees to complain and bitch the whole time he was doing it.

You see, when Chechen hillbillies bombed Russia, Russia utterly eradicated them from the Earth down to the last man. Even the final holdout gang was tracked down in the Caucasus and ambushed by Spetznaz.

We need to outsource our Islamic problems to the Russians. We are total failures.
The human rights we give terrorists is the root cause of them flourishing.

what a stupid thread...

bgamall4 says

thunderlips11 says

When Saudi Arabians hit the WTC, US Politicians attacked Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Lybia and Syria, but not the homeland of the criminals.

Bush was friends with the Saudis. And Israel was in on it too. That is why Larry Silverstein, who talked to Sharon every weekend, said the WTC7, the one not hit by a plane, was "pulled'.

You just can't help lying, can you?

Miike says

what a stupid thread...

...this dimbulb of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.

Bigsby says

bgamall4 says

thunderlips11 says

When Saudi Arabians hit the WTC, US Politicians attacked Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Lybia and Syria, but not the homeland of the criminals.

Bush was friends with the Saudis. And Israel was in on it too. That is why Larry Silverstein, who talked to Sharon every weekend, said the WTC7, the one not hit by a plane, was "pulled'.

You just can't help lying, can you?

He actually believes it all. You can't get any more honest than Gary.

Seeing as to how the average IQ of black people is way lower than everyone else, it should be obvious that on average, liberals are substantially less intelligent that conservatives or moderates.

bgamall4 says

No, but liberals should read this and realize that Obama is a Zionist, not a liberal. Or let me put it this way, his liberalism disguises his Zionism. Here is the essence of Zionism:

1. The idea that all the Arab states should be broken down, by Israel, into small units, occurs again and again in Israeli strategic thinking. For example, Ze'ev Schiff, the military correspondent of Ha'aretz (and probably the most knowledgeable in Israel, on this topic) writes about the "best" that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: "The dissolution of Iraq into a Shi'ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part" (Ha'aretz 6/2/1982). Actually, this aspect of the plan is very old.

That's a great idea. I'm all for it. If we divide them into little pieces, we will be able to conquer them easily.
Your Evil Zionist friend - Strategist

Another fine example showing how stupid liberals really are:
http://www.youngcons.com/who-this-college-student-blames-for-being-mugged-will-blow-your-mind/

When a group of people choose a community organizer with no experience running anything or voting on anything, to lead the worlds only superpower with all the associated life and death risks that come with every decision made by this person....well....actions speak louder than words.

marcus says

Obviously if a person is liberal it doesn't follow that they are smart. But we do know that if someone is extremely intelligent, they are far more likely to be liberal than conservative.