Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 1:21 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 5 November 2013 17:11, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: I would put marxism and fascism close together and not polar opposites. Because Marxists claim that they are for the proles does not really mean that they are. It just means

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
On 6 November 2013 13:59, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Try to remember, that in Russia, and China, as well as the USA, are all partly, ruled by billionaires. People with great fortunes. Also, we humans are like any other primate, because when some of these billionaires do things we like, like

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
On 6 November 2013 14:06, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: No no. But as long as you don't conflate the ideal, versus the real, and like the marxists did, justify ever failure of their system, to it will be perfect in the future, comrades.. You're calling them Marxists because they paid lip service

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 9:05 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World So just corporatism, then? Although there is a lot of superorganism worship and desire for national glory in the US, and a strong desire to conquer inferior and backward nations - often

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 1:15 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/4/2013 8:15 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Briefly, tea baggers want a more limited govt cost wise. Why? What do you want

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
8:13 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 14:06, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: No no. But as long as you don't conflate the ideal, versus the real, and like the marxists did, justify ever failure of their system, to it will be perfect in the future, comrades.. You're

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
-Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 8:08 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 13:59, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: Try to remember, that in Russia, and China, as well

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
. But sometimes they do! -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 8:08 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 13:59, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: Try to remember, that in Russia

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread spudboy100
for the Solyndras who soak up taxes and produce nothing! -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 8:43 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 14:38, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: We

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
On 6 November 2013 14:44, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Marxists like BHO want people taken care of. They also want people dependent on government servicesnso they, the pols, can have control over the dumb serfs. And again, all the fashionable Marxists have a bunch of crony capitalist friends to

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 8:43 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 6 November 2013 14:38, lt;spudboy...@aol.comgt; wrote: We could offer a 20 or 100 billion dollar prize for a new clean energy source and award

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
. The market influence thing seems right, hence the triumph of crony capitalism in american politics. -Original Message- From: Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 7:52 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 5:21 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Just a few points: The advantage of individualism, is it reduces lemming marches, when everyone is running in the wrong direction. The disadvantage is that if the organized elite convince everyone else that they should only act as

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
According to the Wired article, deep net is the tor system invented or developed by the govt to be impenetrable hence NSA's comment that Tor sucks. You can read the Wired article here: http://www.wired.com/magazine/ but the last issue is not on the net yet. Richard On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:52

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
Not even on the deep net? On 6 November 2013 16:15, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: According to the Wired article, deep net is the tor system invented or developed by the govt to be impenetrable hence NSA's comment that Tor sucks. You can read the Wired article here:

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
I stay away from the dark side of the internet On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:17 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Not even on the deep net? On 6 November 2013 16:15, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: According to the Wired article, deep net is the tor system invented or developed by

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
Me too. Look what happened to Darth Vader... On 6 November 2013 16:29, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: I stay away from the dark side of the internet -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
I practice the primary mantras of all the principal religions having been kicked out, more or less, from all of them. But I do not practice Jediism and their mantra: 'let the force be with you'. On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:30 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Me too. Look what happened to Darth

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 6:10 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World One needs to distinguish Fascism and Nazism. Fascism bound

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
:10 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World One needs to distinguish Fascism and Nazism. Fascism bound the nation-state into a super-organism. Nazism added a mystic racism about blood (volk) and soil, Christianity and anti-semitism. There were fascist

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
, 2013 7:43 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Inline images 1 http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j415/SPARRY31/246562_137833763063949_42 7843216_n_zps473c1c11.jpg On 6 November 2013 16:41, Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: And also

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World One needs to distinguish Fascism and Nazism. Fascism bound the nation-state into a super-organism. Nazism added a mystic racism about blood (volk) and soil, Christianity and anti-semitism. There were fascist

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 8:03 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: In the near future who knows... you may breath in some nano dust and within minutes begin feeling a powerful compelling love for the dear leader (or bankster) that fills you with an overriding motivation to struggle harder to do your small part

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
have to get bank or private equity funding to accomplish this. We can do the same for medicine and outer space too. -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 1:15 am Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
. -Chris From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 8:07 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World Yeah, let's all pour hate on government and go to Somalia where

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread Chris de Morsella
to bear against it should it come down to that. From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 8:10 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/5/2013 8:03 PM, Chris

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 9:44 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Brent -- Community compromise are noble ideals, but in practice the exercise of power realpolitick -- as it has in fact been practiced through history -- has far more to do with facilitating and providing legal cover for predation and securing

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 9:52 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: Hehe... the armed populace will fare well against the array of AC-130 gunship, Apache helicopters, hunter-killer drones, armored vehicles and the vast array of military hardware and urban counter insurgency tactics that have been perfected in

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
On 6 November 2013 17:10, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/5/2013 8:03 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: In the near future who knows… you may breath in some nano dust and within minutes begin feeling a powerful compelling love for the dear leader (or bankster) that fills you with an

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread meekerdb
On 11/5/2013 11:11 PM, LizR wrote: On 6 November 2013 17:10, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/5/2013 8:03 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: In the near future who knows… you may breath in some nano dust and within minutes begin feeling a powerful

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-05 Thread LizR
On 6 November 2013 20:25, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Yeah, I know. But it's a silly vision. Why would you want all these drugged out brutes around. Why wouldn't you just use of biological engineering to create animals to do labor and act as companions...Oh, right, because it's

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:36 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/3/2013 3:17 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/3/2013 10:49 AM, John Clark wrote: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is considered by many to be a

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
Well reasoned opportunism taken literally still remains what it is. I don't reason against it and nature has good reason for these tendencies locally. My main problem is that I just can't picture myself around a bunch of Rand fans licking their fingers greed is good, keep deregulating all things

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread Richard Ruquist
Here is a discussion of how greed is in the process of destroying our fiat currency banking system: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-entire-fiat-money-system-is-bankrupt-demise-of-the-global-us-fiat-dollar-reserve-currency/5356491 On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Well reasoned opportunism taken literally still remains what it is. I don't reason against it and nature has good reason for these tendencies locally. Yes, but one has to be careful about global narratives.

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread Jesse Mazer
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: Furthermore, her point is that competition in a free market actually helps everybody -- by providing better goods and services at lower prices -- while redistribution of money based on violence does not, and is in

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Well reasoned opportunism taken literally still remains what it is. I don't reason against it and nature has good reason for

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com wrote: LOL -- totally -- who exactly is this undefined many that considers Scalia to be an intellectual? According to Wikipedia Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor of the Court's conservative wing, and it makes sense

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 04 Nov 2013, at 16:20, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Well reasoned opportunism taken literally still remains what it

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 04 Nov 2013, at 16:20, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread meekerdb
On 11/4/2013 4:10 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Well reasoned opportunism taken literally still remains what it is. I don't reason against it and nature has good reason for these tendencies locally. Yes, but

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: Well reasoned opportunism taken

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread spudboy100
of the demons that haunt this planet is the wrong belief, that Marxism, and Statism get a lot of people killed, often on purpose. -Original Message- From: meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 3:03 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread LizR
I'm not sure I can parse your last sentence. To start with you seem to indicate that Marxism (the economic theory / desire for rule by the proletariat) - interestingly in lumped with Fascism (rule by a powerful state) - might get people killed. But in the last sentence you say this is a wrong

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread meekerdb
On 11/4/2013 4:31 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: As Telmo indicated , Rand, railed against unlimited state power, which is what Marxism and Fascism are all about. Her individualism, stuff is central to her philosophy, but breaks down to the argument that being forced to donate is no donation at

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread meekerdb
On 11/4/2013 4:44 PM, LizR wrote: I'm not sure I can parse your last sentence. To start with you seem to indicate that Marxism (the economic theory / desire for rule by the proletariat) - interestingly in lumped with Fascism (rule by a powerful state) - might get people killed. But in the last

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread LizR
Ah, good point. I have even seen The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. I should have remembered. So basically America (and various other Western democracies) currently have fascist governments - the twist being that this time around, hardly anyone realises the fact! On 5 November 2013 14:10,

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread meekerdb
On 11/4/2013 5:22 PM, LizR wrote: Ah, good point. I have even seen The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. I should have remembered. So basically America (and various other Western democracies) currently have fascist governments - the twist being that this time around, hardly anyone realises the

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread LizR
So just corporatism, then? Although there is a lot of superorganism worship and desire for national glory in the US, and a strong desire to conquer inferior and backward nations - often by commercial rather than military means. Plus paying lip service to individualism doesn't seem to contradict

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread spudboy100
- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 7:44 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World I'm not sure I can parse your last sentence. To start with you seem to indicate that Marxism (the economic theory / desire for rule

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread spudboy100
To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 8:07 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/4/2013 4:31 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: As Telmo indicated , Rand, railed against unlimited state power, which is what Marxism and Fascism

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread meekerdb
@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 8:07 pm Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/4/2013 4:31 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: As Telmo indicated , Rand, railed against unlimited state power, which is what Marxism and Fascism are all about. Her

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-04 Thread LizR
On 5 November 2013 17:11, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: I would put marxism and fascism close together and not polar opposites. Because Marxists claim that they are for the proles does not really mean that they are. It just means that they try to BS people with this claim. In fact, there are no,

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread LizR
I have a stone that turns base metal into gold I'd like to sell him. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread meekerdb
On 11/3/2013 10:49 AM, John Clark wrote: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is considered by many to be a intellectual, in fact the leading intellectual on the Supreme Court, Of course that many consists of bible thumping Tea Baggers, worshipers of Ayn Rand, and snake handlers who have

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/3/2013 10:49 AM, John Clark wrote: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is considered by many to be a intellectual, in fact the leading intellectual on the Supreme Court, Of course that many consists of bible

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread meekerdb
On 11/3/2013 3:17 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:51 PM, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 11/3/2013 10:49 AM, John Clark wrote: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is considered by many to be a intellectual, in fact the leading intellectual on the Supreme Court,

RE: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread Chris de Morsella
@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 2:52 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Re: Our Demon-Haunted World On 11/3/2013 10:49 AM, John Clark wrote: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is considered by many

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread John Mikes
My idea (as I voiced it several times) the 'oldies' of the Supremes should be retired after - say - 20 years of being separated from the real world in the* Ivory Tower of the Hi Court.* Nobody can maintain an active understanding of the problems *OF OTHERS* after such period of just looking D O

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread LizR
Brent... Agree 100%, Rand sounds like a ghastly unempathic admirer of fascism and probably the Maquis de Sade. (By the way I think that quote from Newton was originally intended ironically :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group.

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread meekerdb
On 11/3/2013 6:37 PM, John Mikes wrote: My idea (as I voiced it several times) the 'oldies' of the Supremes should be retired after - say - 20 years of being separated from the real world in the*Ivory Tower of the Hi Court.* Nobody can maintain an active understanding of the problems */OF

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread meekerdb
On 11/3/2013 7:04 PM, LizR wrote: Brent... Agree 100%, Rand sounds like a ghastly unempathic admirer of fascism and probably the Maquis de Sade. Actually that's libeling the Marquis de Sade who was thoughtful man who happened to like kinky sex and didn't believe in hypocrisy.

Re: Our Demon-Haunted World

2013-11-03 Thread LizR
Oops I didn't mean to libel de Sade. Of course liking him doesn't necessarily reflect on *him *(see Neitzsche for more details). Re Newton, I thought it because I read something like this: Newton's famous phrase If I have seen further than others, then it is because I have stood on the shoulders

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