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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:06 AM Original message |
In a country that tolerates killing 1,000,000 Iraqis who didn't need killing, WHY is a Craig's List |
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rcrush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:08 AM Response to Original message |
1. I notice that to. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. You're right, and we can find any number of similar examples |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:14 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. "Christianity" is, according to some, the means by which morality is communicated. |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:25 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. So what does that have to do with the war or the craigs list crime? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. You don't know anything about what I feel regarding "Christianity". |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
31. "Christianity is an EPIC FAILURE" offers some small indication of your feelings, don't you think? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #31 |
49. Did you ever love something that didn't succeed? Or do we only love that which does "succeed"? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 08:18 PM Response to Reply #31 |
60. Or is only the "successful" lovable? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. P.S. Look up the definition of the word "Projection". |
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MikeNearMcChord (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
4. Isn't there an old saying,"You kill one or two people you are murderer |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
5. Yay, an excuse for a bigot to bash "Christians" |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Right, nothing has anything to do with anything else. |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
7. One is the state, the other is an individual |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. And, of course, neither influences the other. |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
8. Not suprising in a country that canonizes a mass murderer like Reagan. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:01 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. well, I'd argue that |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. Or like Johnson |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
9. critical thinking failure- on many levels. Let's play. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Opinions not allowed? That would also exclude the post to which I am replying now. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
11. Ah, but wait! Iraqi's are brown. |
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lucretia54 (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:07 PM Response to Reply #11 |
34. And our president says, speaking about torture, that the United States... |
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lucretia54 (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:10 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Oops, this was supposed to be a reply to original message, sorry! |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:40 PM Response to Reply #34 |
54. I know. I'm not happy about any of that shit. And I don't have any answers other than |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
12. It's the lasted in a string of "hollaway" type news stories... |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
17. Why so many defenders of ChurchCo in this thread? |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:38 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Well first off it's not a Christian nation |
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ASUliberal (201 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:51 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. I don't think people are saying Christianity is the only bad egg... |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:59 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Err well I don't think we are cramming Christianity down their throats |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 08:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
59. How can you answer the question of whether it is/was "worth it" unless you have |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. I was referring to the fact that "Christians" say its a Christian nation. And yes, the Invasion of |
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ASUliberal (201 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:02 PM Response to Reply #27 |
30. I'm not sure what your point is... |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:17 PM Response to Reply #30 |
40. I live in a red state where politicians do not succeed unless they are "Christian" |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:11 PM Response to Reply #27 |
36. Doesn't matter if they do or not |
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ASUliberal (201 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:18 PM Response to Reply #36 |
42. Now I get your point... |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 08:06 PM Response to Reply #36 |
57. I taught Psychology for 8 years. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:51 PM Response to Reply #36 |
63. And the corellary of that alternative comparison of Milgram and Iraq would be: |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
20. I hear ya!! nt |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
21. selective empathy |
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ASUliberal (201 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
23. Well it should be shocking but not in the way most see it as... |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
24. Because we have a stable society that isn't torn apart by war death and famine |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:02 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Small? Again, you proove my point. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:05 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Stable? What's your employment history? |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. If you think this isn't a stable society compared to others |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:26 PM Response to Reply #38 |
45. I don't live in other societies. Talk about falling to the lowest common denominator . . . |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
26. Why? |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
33. What does this have to do with Christianity? |
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ASUliberal (201 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:12 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. I think the implication is that we only care about christian deaths |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:17 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. How is that a fault of Christianity? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:28 PM Response to Reply #39 |
46. Do not a significant number of Americans claim that Christianity is THE moral arbiter of oursociety? |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #46 |
50. A significant number of Americans claim many things that are incorrect. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:53 PM Response to Reply #50 |
55. There is a significant minority who say it is and are mistaken and that is a Powerful fact. |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
41. Because we are the good guys and they are the bad guys |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:21 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. I wish you'd stand over a crushed and mutilated child and look into its lifeless eyes and say that. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:23 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Do you make a habit of doing that? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:29 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. No. "We" do. That's what War is. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:34 PM Response to Reply #47 |
51. If we all do that, then why would you bother wishing for someone to? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:54 PM Response to Reply #51 |
56. Because he speaks as though he isn't. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:31 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. You, sir, are all coked up on "good" and "bad". |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
52. That is a fantastic example of a non sequitur. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 08:13 PM Response to Reply #52 |
58. Just because you don't see the connections and I did not delineate them does not mean that they |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 09:07 PM Response to Reply #58 |
61. I don't think you know what a non sequitur is. |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 10:37 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. According to "Christians", "Christianity" defines & enforces morality. Morality fails, ergo |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-22-09 12:37 AM Response to Reply #62 |
64. No, your argument doesn't relate because it's full of illogical leaps. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-21-09 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
53. "Boy next door"... medical student by day-murderer by night |
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