RTB

Hahaha, I look kinda cute?!?! Well, thanks. I saw your post on another thread that I had started Romance Killers and will respond eventually I think. LOL Again late night and always busy doing something. Wow, to be honest, it's been a long time since I read that thread and it's rather comical re-reading it now. In that case go get in there and post something woman!. :-P I don't have all day. I'm holding this big thing up.....you know...it's metal and all. and I'm a thin man. The thing that hurts the most is that damned noodle inside! Damnde flying spaghetthi noodle! Evil that is!

Hahaha, I look kinda cute?!?! Well, thanks. I saw your post on another thread that I had started Romance Killers and will respond eventually I think. LOL Again late night and always busy doing something. Wow, to be honest, it's been a long time since I read that thread and it's rather comical re-reading it now. In that case go get in there and post something woman!. :-P I don't have all day.

This quote is so spot on I just had to point it out to the parents around here. For the last week or so, the theme on the every day thread has been children/parents, so go take a look at February 4–10 for some good insights from Nathaniel Branden's Self-Esteem Every Day. The above quote is from February 6. Kat That is so important. I make every day an adventure for my 19 month year old boy, Evan. My biggest success is that I've taught him to be cautious, but not fearful, of heights and of falling down. The first time he fell down when he was learning to walk, and he cried, my instinct was to run to him, hold him and tell him it would be all right. But it was just a fall, he can recover. So, I looked at him and firmly said "get up," making an upward motion with my hand. He got up, stopped crying and then I went to him and dried his tears. Because of this, when he falls now, he doesn't cry or even pout; he gets right back up again, sometimes smiling all the while. When he climbs stairs on his own, he never runs up them, but goes up slowly using the bannister. He is a very confident child, yet has a good, kind, heart, and shares everything since the age of six months -- very mature -- not because I even taught him, but because there is something benevolent in his nature that gives him joy to give something to others. He understands he is a capable child with something to offer others. To expand on this. Meh!....something to 'offer others' ? Is that the role you'd give him? You're the one giving him his character. But I'd remind you on this new years day that that it is your choice to raise him with the attitude that duty is his to give his life to others (Spinoza style). There are many forms of benevolence. Rational benevolence is one thing....service to others is another. Careful what you raise.

RTB replied, You've conceded the point now whether you realize it or not. Thoughts are thoughts. Actions are actions. A completed thought does not have to translate into 'external reality' to attain its completion status. This is why mankind needs ethics, especially political ethics, in order to get the completed thoughts translated into material reality.

It took me 15 minutes of gaping mawed stupefaction to 'digest' this crap. I thought I had stumbled into the humor thread by accident. What a nutbag.

I can't believe I almost read this thread.

Well, i don't know you but happy birthday anyway. I just checked my keyboard monitoring software and it seems I still have some keystrokes left in this thing before it expires and I have to renew it so there you go! Happy Birthday!

Really? What about mistaken violence in warfare against civilians? Is a policeman who fires a shot at a murderous maniac whose bullet goes astray, bounces off the sidewalk, hits a lamp post, and wounds a school child acting irrationally? Your statement is just false. Let's stick to reality. Reality and reason coexist. This is the problem with the title of this thread. You've started off on the wrong foot. Your premise is faulty. What's the puzzle? Right. Who's advocating Marx be censored? All political actions proceed from irrational thoughts??? Huh? I'm tempted to begin assuming what I think you mean but I'll just leave it to you to clarify. 'Mind and body are one'. You're working backwards here. You're attributing attributes that belong to individual entities (man) to abstract 'entities' (governments). You're the one here implying a validity to statism. This is plain silly. How would Copernicus go about 'carrying out his thoughts in the material realm' after making his abstract conclusions? Travel to the moon himself? There's such a thing as completed thoughts and uncompleted actions. As a matter of fact I'm contemplating scratching my noggin' right now reading your comments but refuse to do so. :-P Cheerily yours! :-)

I am betting on the existence thing. I'll take her word for it. I'm not in the habit of accusing people of being Cartesians.

Chris, I haven't answered your original question yet because I want to formulate a very coherent answer that is complete as possible. But as a preview, I think that militant followers of Islam is the second most pressing problem facing our country. The most important and dangerous problem facing our country is Statism, whether it is from the Democrats trying to socialize or the Neocons trying to authoritize. Militant Islam wouldn't be a problem for us if our past and current leaders were not meddling in their affairs. For example, communism is immoral and horrible, but look at the approach we have taken to China, we trade with them and we haven't had any threats to our safety nor to our ideas (because ours are superior), while they are opening up and becoming more capitalistic every day. If we would have taken the same approach in the Mid-East I am sure that we would not be having the problems we are today with radical islam and oil would be cheaper to boot. Thanks, Dustan Both of you guys are half right but totally wrong. Statism is the symptom. Ethics is the cause. A runny nose is the symptom of a cold infection. Treating it with tissues won't cure the disease.

This is the ' no river has ever been crossed twice' concept. Seriously...are you putting us on with this stuff? I mean, I've been reading the same sort of stuff from you in every single thread. Maybe I'm irritable and if so bake me up some post christmas cookies.

What for? --Brant You know....that whole 'Get busy living or get busy dying thing......'.....that.

Forget M and E for a moment...just for a moment. Back away and understand you've already committed yourself to 'M' and 'E'. (no wonder I have so many problems with your postings....sheeeze). You need to consider principal 'A'. which is derived from empiric 'B', 'C', 'D'. or whatever. The point is you can't just magically float from this M to E strategy in ethics and be devoid of the prior composites that form such a contemplation that is necessary. You've got the cart before the horse. Back up.

Hey, please don't clutter up my inbox with mail claiming I misspell words like 'noone' which is a legitimate contraction and then let me find you can't spell 'Magdalene' properly. :-P

Hahaha, I look kinda cute?!?! Well, thanks. I saw your post on another thread that I had started Romance Killers and will respond eventually I think. LOL Again late night and always busy doing something. Wow, to be honest, it's been a long time since I read that thread and it's rather comical re-reading it now. I don't pay too much attention to dates.... :-P .....so to speak. Heheee.

Anyone want to tackle this? I can see flaws and holes all over this but esthetics is not my strongsuit. I'll do it if noone else can.

Christmas is a fabulous celebration. For me, it isn't a religious celebration although I enjoy the mythologies of Jesus and angels and so on. It should be, as it is in many of our families, a celebration of family and prosperity. ....and the pretty lights. damn. (lighten up you people........so to speak)

He should have known better. And If I was faced with the choice between me and my loved one....especially my lover, I'd do the same. 'Ba'al Chatzaf'. I'm new to this forum but have been reading your postings. I think there's something fundamentally wrong with you.

Now wait a minute, You're mixing apples and oranges, sir. Using 'nazi scientists' is not the same as using nazi idealogy. It's just silly in historic contexts to think that there is some moral contradiction in action between 'hanging upper level nazis' and hiring those that would help us beat a similar threat like Soviet Communism. These people were functionaries, not idealaogues of significant degree. You're confusing the labels with the actual states as nationalities.

I haven't seen it but it's been said, your jibes aside, that wine is what makes it possible for giants to live amongst pygmies.

Let's all face common sense shall we? No semi intelligent reader of any book has ever walked away from the cinematic representation of it and exclaimed, "Wow! That was just like the book! This movie is a perfect and full representation!" I predict now it'll be a fantastic movie and well received by the public in general. Sales of Atlas Shrugged will go through the roof. All that matters is that the general ideas are conveyed to the audience. If you disagree with this idea then you might as well be more honest and state you wish for no film to be made at all, at any time in the future. As a heroine, Dagny needs to be sexy. It suits the character.

Merry Christmas. I'm so adroit I'm planning on shimmying my way down numerous chimneys tonight. It's an avocation I confess I failed to mention in my as of yet incomplete personal profile. OOOooooo

Hmm. What a bizarre comment. Is that what you label those that appear in your enviornment that just don't agree with you? What a bizarre approach..

Will you people learn to deal with ideas in terms of principles? "Can I get away with this violation of that rule or this?" Accept moral certitude and move on to a deeper subject.

What makes you think it's water we've been drinking? Barbara I'll have 'water' with Barbara anytime. lol