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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
August 11, 2023 at 11:08 am
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(August 11, 2023 at 10:55 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: (August 11, 2023 at 9:50 am)Bucky Ball Wrote: What I think I know today I didn't yesterday, is that I think Trump is actually planning (planting the seeds) for another insurrection should he be barred from the presidency
by a guilty verdict in the January 6th matter. The man is not "of sound mind" or "judgement" and is so delusional he actually thought
the American people would have "rolled over" and permitted him to function in office if his first violent coup attempt had temporarily succeeded.
Bad judgement is what characterizes all aspects of his entire life, and chapter two could be far worse than chapter one.
The American people were not far from rolling over. His particular Jan 6 judgement was not the one that was bad. That the American people are reliably of such collective quality as to backstop the security of its democracy is the bad judgement.
That also has become a very serious situation.
I don't think it's an either or situation. (And Trump's bad judgement is always a proven "given".)
They were about to ask the military to seize voting machines, and invoke the Insurrection Act.
I think General Milley would have refused the order, but then Trump would have fired him.
The question is, .... then what happens.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/04...transcript.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
August 11, 2023 at 12:16 pm
"Alf" was Ronald Reagan's favorite TV show.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
August 11, 2023 at 1:59 pm
(August 11, 2023 at 11:08 am)Bucky Ball Wrote: That also has become a very serious situation.
I don't think it's an either or situation. (And Trump's bad judgement is always a proven "given".)
They were about to ask the military to seize voting machines, and invoke the Insurrection Act.
I think General Milley would have refused the order, but then Trump would have fired him.
The question is, .... then what happens.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/04...transcript.
Quote:Milley had to dissuade officials in the Trump administration who discussed recalling and court-martialing retired military officers who wrote editorials that were critical of the president, he said.
Wow.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
August 11, 2023 at 2:07 pm
(August 11, 2023 at 1:59 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Quote:Milley had to dissuade officials in the Trump administration who discussed recalling and court-martialing retired military officers who wrote editorials that were critical of the president, he said.
Wow.
Holy shit, ... I didn't know that.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
August 13, 2023 at 6:24 am
In the language of the ancient Greeks, there was no word that denoted religion.
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August 13, 2023 at 7:00 am
The German word for 'fluffy' is 'flauschig' (ie 'downy' or 'feathery'), so Blackadder was wrong! 
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
August 13, 2023 at 7:07 am
The US has more regulations governing bananas that it does for AK-47s.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
August 13, 2023 at 11:35 am
(August 13, 2023 at 6:24 am)Boromir Wrote: In the language of the ancient Greeks, there was no word that denoted religion.
That's actually a very important point.
Whatever individual cultures held, were just the culture, in general.
For example, the ancient Hebrews were just all Hebrews.
Their culture was their culture. It was not a case of "some" believed *this or that*, or the existence of different sects.
The Greeks did eventually have different "schools" of philosophy, though : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorea...man%20body.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
August 13, 2023 at 11:38 am
(August 13, 2023 at 7:07 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The US has more regulations governing bananas that it does for AK-47s.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
August 13, 2023 at 11:48 am
(August 13, 2023 at 6:24 am)Boromir Wrote: In the language of the ancient Greeks, there was no word that denoted religion.
which seems quite natural for the general bronze age and early to middle iron age religious landscape on euroasia, prior to the widespread knowledge of the odd exclusionary sects like Judaism and later christianity, if you think about it.
religion was not seen as a separate thing with distinctive manifestations from other phenomenons observed in all parts of life, furthermore different people’s religionious practices are not seen as mutually contradictory or exclusive, they are all seen as grading into eachother, and grading into other phenomenon in life, so there is no such separate and distinct thing as religion.
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