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So am I :)

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Cynic is the optimist's term for a realist. :coolwink:


Mark A. Baker
 

Auditor's Toad

Clear as Mud
I think that The Anabaptist Jaques is very wise and learned, but in my experience wise and learned people can be wrong as often as stupid people :omg:

Oh, I'd agree...he is very wise and very learned.
I do not always agree with him.....and I'm not always right.

A lot of postings are not between the two ( or more sometimes ) posters that are posting.

I think differing views are a good thing even when no one is putting forward the "exact" truth or even the "correct" solution.

This horse will be beaten to white ribs glowing in the moon light - LOL !
 
American politics is beyond me, but that video is reminiscent of the old Soviet Union.

Same as anywhere else but with more money, a slightly greater tendency towards self-righteous 'moral' values, and broadly less experience or interest in foreign peoples & cultures due in part to a general preference for an attitude of 'america first' and a focus on "what's in it for me" all coupled with the widespread ownership of firearms.

Avaricious obsessive self-centered nutcases with guns more or less sums it up. :)

On the 'plus' side, americans are typically warm-hearted and generous, at least with those they haven't previously decided to hate. So I'm afraid that the 'leadership' really do broadly represent the american people, howsoever much populists may seek to deny it. :whistling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xOs_uZrBnI
(My first & personal fave rendition. :thumbsup:)


Mark A. Baker
 
I think that The Anabaptist Jaques is very wise and learned, but in my experience wise and learned people can be wrong as often as stupid people :omg:

True, but they are intelligently wrong, as opposed to merely being stupidly wrong, and that makes all the difference. The intelligently wrong are easily corrected, indeed they are often self-correcting. :)

Unfortunately neither aspect of correction is generally to be observed with the other sort. :melodramatic:


Mark A. Baker
 

Smilla

Ordinary Human
True, but they are intelligently wrong, as opposed to merely being stupidly wrong, and that makes all the difference. The intelligently wrong are easily corrected, indeed they are often self-correcting. :)

Unfortunately neither aspect of correction is generally to be observed with the other sort. :melodramatic:


Mark A. Baker

The wise and stupid might both find the truth with the right approach.

All thats required is a pin.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emWWY5VIYUk
 
the U.S. Department of Defense. Scientology inspired methods?

From wikipedia: List of banned books by goverments
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"...Operation Dark Heart (2010)

Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer

Memoir

In September 2010 the U.S. Department of Defense overrode the Army's January approval for publication. The DoD then purchased and destroyed all 9,500 first edition copies citing concerns that it contained classified information which could damage the integrity of U.S. National Security. The publisher, St. Martin's Press,[70] in conjunction with the DoD created a censored second edition; which contains blackened out words, lines, paragraphs, and even portions of the index.[71]...."

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I was just joking :omg:

Cool. Sorry. :coolwink:

Not being infallible could possibly make you wrong on two points there,
first, you might actually be infallible, and some one or others might also be infallible.

But if I said I wasn't infallible, then if it turned out I was infallible, then it wouldn't be true, because I was wrong when I said I wasn't infallible. (unless I was just joking when I said I was infallible)

The Anabaptist Jacques
 
Cool. Sorry. :coolwink:



But if I said I wasn't infallible, then if it turned out I was infallible, then it wouldn't be true, because I was wrong when I said I wasn't infallible. (unless I was just joking when I said I was infallible)

The Anabaptist Jacques

:lol:

Ahh...yes, but you see I wasn't talking about the "ifs" of what you said....but just to address that point, if you hadn't hypothesised (hope you don't mind English-as-in-England spelling), the negative, and the outcome of something that hasn't been stated, then the fallibility or otherwise ("otherwise" doesn't necessarily mean "in"-fallible here) of you or others could be discussed. But as it is, it can't, because it's not true that you didn't say "if if I said I wasn't infallible, then if it turned out I was infallible, then it wouldn't be true, because I was wrong when I said I wasn't infallible. "
 
:lol:

Ahh...yes, but you see I wasn't talking about the "ifs" of what you said....but just to address that point, if you hadn't hypothesised (hope you don't mind English-as-in-England spelling), the negative, and the outcome of something that hasn't been stated, then the fallibility or otherwise ("otherwise" doesn't necessarily mean "in"-fallible here) of you or others could be discussed. But as it is, it can't, because it's not true that you didn't say "if if I said I wasn't infallible, then if it turned out I was infallible, then it wouldn't be true, because I was wrong when I said I wasn't infallible. "

Like they say in China "two Wongs don't make a white."

The Anabaptist Jacques
 
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