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March 12, 2012 at 4:34 pm
(March 12, 2012 at 4:30 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: I kind of dipped and dapped on Marx. Read the communist manifesto. Read a few anarchist critiques on Marx.
Ive been wanting to read "das kapital", but everytime I look at the book (3 volumes each the size of a dictionary), I decide to wait. LOL.
Besides, Im not a Marxist. He calls for a strong centralized and socialised bank and I call for all banks to be converted to bakeries (or something else nicer than the usury pushers). Marx called for gradual change from capitalism, to socialism, to classless society. Anarcho-syn calls for an immediate change from whatever state your society is in to a classless and stateless society.
Well, I can keep going....
Ha, Marx did that to me too, he's like Kant. I can't cope with the unedited Kant, he turns my brain to mush trying to disseminate even a simple concept from the way he words things.
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March 12, 2012 at 4:38 pm
See, here I'd call for banks to be turned into batteries.
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March 12, 2012 at 4:44 pm
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(March 12, 2012 at 4:34 pm)NoMoreFaith Wrote: Ha, Marx did that to me too, he's like Kant. I can't cope with the unedited Kant, he turns my brain to mush trying to disseminate even a simple concept from the way he words things.
I hear ya. I read Kant's "Logic" cover to cover, but at the time I was half way through my logic course so it was still fresh in my mind. His book actually helped get my grade up.
As far as light reading, neither Marx or Kant fit the bill.
(March 12, 2012 at 4:38 pm)Rhythm Wrote: See, here I'd call for banks to be turned into batteries.
what kind of batteries? LOL (Im kind of silly today)
AAA's?
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March 12, 2012 at 4:57 pm
Pro-Life Libertarian...End the Fed!
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March 12, 2012 at 4:59 pm
(March 12, 2012 at 4:57 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Pro-Life Libertarian...End the Fed!
Why stop there? End the fed along with the state.
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March 12, 2012 at 6:28 pm
(March 12, 2012 at 2:34 pm)Niqabi Ninja Wrote: but in the future I hope to talk you about the evidences for Islam and why religion is good for you.
I doubt that. Religion is rather bad.
Also, I still think that religion would become very uninteresting if we could never die. Even to those who currently hold religion tightly as if they were holding the last bar of delicious chocolate on earth.
Religion seems almost completely centred on death and the wishful after. If there is no end to our existence, what would become of religion? How popular would it still be?
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March 12, 2012 at 7:37 pm
A very good question.
I still laugh at muslims who abstain from alcohol in their actual real and only life, because their religion forbids it - and they're rewarded by rivers of wine (or something) in an afterlife paradise.
Yep, it's all about the death.
And religion is a great way of keeping unfortunate and poor people in check - put up with it and you'll be rewarded in death. No, really, honestly.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
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March 13, 2012 at 9:10 am
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March 13, 2012 at 4:58 pm
(March 12, 2012 at 2:23 pm)Atheist Anarchist Wrote: I'm interested to see how varied political opinion is here...I've read a few threads in your politics area and from the sounds of it there are mostly liberals here, with a few crazy people (no ofense!!). I'm an anarchist (you can tell from my name), which means I agree with most of what liberalism as to say, I just think that a lot of liberals these days support capitalism, which is a failed system that does nothing to help the people in society that need it most. I think it would b better if we scrapped the economic system and started again with a complete anarchaic commune (anarchy-syndicalism) where the workers manage everything and we live by simply helping one another rather than charging people for help.
Uh oh.
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March 13, 2012 at 5:04 pm
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(March 12, 2012 at 3:56 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: ...and an/syns are never anyones sock puppets. LOL. I'd rather take a sledge hammer to some scabs windsheild than be some greedy fuckers sock puppet.
Exactly what a sock would say.
(March 12, 2012 at 4:18 pm)NoMoreFaith Wrote: Correctly, it should at least say "Religion is the ..... opiate of the masses". People just started leaving out the ..... (I forget what its called).
Elipses is the word you're looking for.
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