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RE: What job experience would you like to see in a Presidential candidate?
February 5, 2019 at 11:43 am
Greenpeace is missionary work, so are a lot of secular missions. I'm not talking about passing out Bibles, but helping communities (yours or others) like soup kitchens, or Greenpeace. Throw one religiously connotated word in there and the atheists are up in arms 
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RE: What job experience would you like to see in a Presidential candidate?
February 5, 2019 at 11:52 am
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(February 5, 2019 at 11:43 am)tackattack Wrote: Greenpeace is missionary work, so are a lot of secular missions. I'm not talking about passing out Bibles, but helping communities (yours or others) like soup kitchens, or Greenpeace. Throw one religiously connotated word in there and the atheists are up in arms
Yes. Because missionary work on behalf of ineffable bullshit is different.
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RE: What job experience would you like to see in a Presidential candidate?
February 5, 2019 at 11:58 am
No because delicate little sensibilities of some don't believe people can reach out who both believe in something supernatural and have compassion for the deplorable state of some human's conditions with no distinctions.
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RE: What job experience would you like to see in a Presidential candidate?
February 5, 2019 at 12:04 pm
(February 5, 2019 at 11:58 am)tackattack Wrote: No because delicate little sensibilities of some don't believe people can reach out who both believe in something supernatural and have compassion for the deplorable state of some human's conditions with no distinctions.
I absolutely think people can both believe in something supernatural and have compassion for the deplorable state of some human's conditions with no distinctions. I just don’t think those saddled into their adulthood with the lemantable attachment to infantile make belief, however compassionate they may be, is the best or most truly compassionate we’ve got.
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RE: What job experience would you like to see in a Presidential candidate?
February 5, 2019 at 12:08 pm
How exactly is my belief about a "what is" lessening my belief in "what should"? If you agree that there are distinctions between the beliefs and the compassion, I don't see where one limits the other. Admittedly, I'm not the most compassionate person I know, but I don't see how my belief system in "what is" hinders "true compassion". Feel free to enlighten me.
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RE: What job experience would you like to see in a Presidential candidate?
February 5, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Some time ago, I read a short book on Maori history -facts and a few folk stories. I could not for the life of me recall the name of the book. Last week, I emailed the library in Dargaville (where I think I read it) - I had no title, no author, just a general impression what the book was about. Two hours later, I had a scan of the book AND the cover in my inbox.
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RE: What job experience would you like to see in a Presidential candidate?
February 5, 2019 at 1:03 pm
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(February 5, 2019 at 11:43 am)tackattack Wrote: Greenpeace is missionary work, so are a lot of secular missions. I'm not talking about passing out Bibles, but helping communities (yours or others) like soup kitchens, or Greenpeace. Throw one religiously connotated word in there and the atheists are up in arms Just tired of this tedious bullshit.
(February 5, 2019 at 11:58 am)tackattack Wrote: No because delicate little sensibilities of some don't believe people can reach out who both believe in something supernatural and have compassion for the deplorable state of some human's conditions with no distinctions. Okay, so you're angel pimping for kiddie fuckers. Got it.
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RE: What job experience would you like to see in a Presidential candidate?
February 5, 2019 at 1:43 pm
A law degree and significant government experience, like being a senator or governor, should be minimum requirements these days.
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RE: What job experience would you like to see in a Presidential candidate?
February 5, 2019 at 2:13 pm
(February 5, 2019 at 1:43 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: A law degree and significant government experience, like being a senator or governor, should be minimum requirements these days.
Totally disagree about the law degree. A president does not need legal expertise. They have an abundance of legal talent on their staff. What lawyers are best at is making work for other lawyers. That doesn't exactly foster a mentality that makes for good leadership. We already favor lawyers far too much for public office.
I would ordinarily agree about the need for government experience. But the times might call for something else. I am delighted with the housecleaning that the Justice Dems want to do. It would be really good for the country to have about twenty percent of congress be represented by regular people who are in the lower economic quintile and aren't legal professionals. And I would like for those people to be potential presidents.
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RE: What job experience would you like to see in a Presidential candidate?
February 5, 2019 at 4:26 pm
No sama, I specifically am not pimping for any religious beliefs. I did not state any religious beliefs in my wanted qualification, and clarified my use of missionary to mean any type of missionary work.
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