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I fully expect that by the time jrodefeld posts in the libertarian thread again the BTC bounty I've declared intent to collect due to his breach of contract will allow me to buy a small nation state.
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ufarn posted:This piece on the new Paula Deen cruise ship isn't great literature, but there are some pretty funny bits inbetween that I'll excerpt for you: In February, guests converged upon the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s main Friday night event, the Burger Bash. A culinary team of 200 had prepared 54,000 hamburgers of about four ounces each. “That equates to 13.33 cows, roughly!” a publicist told me proudly, and I immediately pictured all of those cows lined up, even the .33, and my heart fell through the ground. The Bash was not unlike a wine tasting: people grabbed a hamburger, took a bite, nodded with a downward thoughtful frown, commenting perhaps on the notes of cowiness and the subtle undertones of mass slaughter, and threw the rest into one of the many large trash bins placed throughout. There were also bottles of water, and to cleanse the palate between burgers, patrons would open up these bottles, take a sip, cap them again, and throw them away too. So that's 54,000 4 ounce burgers, or 216,000 ounces of beef protein= 13,500 pounds. Beef has an edible protein per unit area of land ratio of 1 lb/20 acres of land. Correct me if my math is off, but Paula Deen's Food Throwing Away Party tied up 270,000 acres of arable land. 
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It's an OK hit piece, but Paula Deen's ultimately a soft target the reading audience is already primed to hate, and there's a lot of hyperbolic punching down going on.
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I don't think there can be any question that the best thing about the new Bloomberg Politics site is the 404 page.
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Joementum posted:I don't think there can be any question that the best thing about the new Bloomberg Politics site is the 404 page. disruptive
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Real headline on CNN right now: Ebola: "The ISIS of biological agents?"
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:Real headline on CNN right now: I thought the guy in the gibbis ebola thread was just kidding. How loving sad is CNN...
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Is Newt Gingrich still on CNN?
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Is Newt Gingrich still on CNN? Nope. They cancelled Crossfire a few weeks ago. Though I suppose he'll probably still show up as an "analyst" occasionally.
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Joementum posted:Nope. They cancelled Crossfire a few weeks ago. ahaha well farewell to him and Sippy Cupp
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Joementum posted:Nope. They cancelled Crossfire a few weeks ago. Did Jon Stewart go on it again or something?
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Joementum posted:Nope. They cancelled Crossfire a few weeks ago. 大ショック!!
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ReidRansom posted:I thought the guy in the gibbis ebola thread was just kidding. How loving sad is CNN... Let me put it this way: CNN willingly hired Piers Morgan at one point.
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Peak 'Murica 
Randler fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Oct 6, 2014 |
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Root canal done it was not that bad!!! I feel for the bros with no dental. $900 ouch.
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euphronius posted:Root canal done it was not that bad!!! now yell "A secret plan to fight inflation" and post the video please
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I believe joke are being made about a show of which I have not seen so ther references are not being got!
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euphronius posted:I believe joke are being made about a show of which I have not seen so ther references are not being got! what's it like being an awful person? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0GGNAbFU5M
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from something in the libertarithread, has anyone ever done a survey of how many catholics actually believe in transubstantiation or the trinity?
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What do you mean though "believe" or you know "believe"?
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euphronius posted:What do you mean though "believe" or you know "believe"? Who cares as long as they don't stop.
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euphronius posted:What do you mean though "believe" or you know "believe"? i mean believe
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I've found that asking (for example) catholics if they actually believe in Transubstantiation or eternal life or whatever is considered somewhere between an overly personal question and religious intolerance. A close friend says she'd rather not think about it.
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I don't see the need to bother people about their religious beliefs or opinions, it's none of my business really.
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i don't mean to do it in a "heh christers am i right" way, i just want to know
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tbp posted:I don't see the need to bother people about their religious beliefs or opinions, it's none of my business really. Do you consider economic theory to be a form of religion.
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i went a to a liberal-ish catholic school as a kid and transubstantiation was never expanded on other than 'yep its the body and blood of christ, no we're not going to explain it further now memorize this dumb creed no one cares about'euphronius posted:Do you consider economic theory to be a form of religion. yes and for proof please see the jrod thread
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tbp posted:I don't see the need to bother people about their religious beliefs or opinions, it's none of my business really.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i went a to a liberal-ish catholic school as a kid and transubstantiation was never expanded on other than 'yep its the body and blood of christ, no we're not going to explain it further now memorize this dumb creed no one cares about' It mattered much more in 600-1200 ACE
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R. Mute posted:that's a shame, tbh tbp, because you'll find that people's religious beliefs and opinions are an important part of what makes people unique and interesting and you'll never truly know them - or anyone - if you ignore this part of them. Should they be interested in talking about it I would gladly listen, I said bother not discuss
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So Wisconsins got gay marriage now, and Walkers being coy 'cause its a close race and this depresses Democrat turnout
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tbp posted:Should they be interested in talking about it I would gladly listen, I said bother not discuss
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Yeah, badger asked about a survey and I was relating experiences from casual conversations with friends and acquaintances. I certainly wouldn't press the issue after being told that those aspects of their beliefs were something they'd rather not discuss. EDIT: At the same time it seems weird that I've never run into a lay catholic who would give a full-throated defense of transubstantiation, the trinity, eternal life, etc. The clergy and the texts treat such topics as irrefutable truths of the universe but it seems to me that many followers treat them more as folklore or pleasant fictions. This could be entirely due to the people I've spoken to and not true in a wider sense though. EDIT2: I, too, went to Catholic school as a child so it has a way of coming up in conversations. moller fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Oct 6, 2014 |
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R. Mute posted:not all people volunteer their thoughts to you or feel comfortable talking about certain subjects (at certain times), but i find that if you pry a little you'll both come out of the conversation having enriched yourself and being grateful you did pry/they did share. but yes, aggressively harassing someone about their beliefs is probably a bad idea. but that's more about how you approach it, which in the case to what you were responding to doesn't really seem that confrontational. Whats your thoughts on monarchy in belgium?
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R. Mute posted:not all people volunteer their thoughts to you or feel comfortable talking about certain subjects (at certain times), but i find that if you pry a little you'll both come out of the conversation having enriched yourself and being grateful you did pry/they did share. but yes, aggressively harassing someone about their beliefs is probably a bad idea. but that's more about how you approach it, which in the case to what you were responding to doesn't really seem that confrontational. I dunno
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I believe that those who support capitalism (or less crudely, believe it's a self regulating system) approach it as a underlying and eternal feature of reality but intertwined with humanity and human activity; economic theory becomes a kind of economic scientism and as such economic policy and activity takes the form of religion. Markets must be appease as an angry god, distant but possible to satiate, property becomes an inalienable part of existance rather than a social construct. Blessed are the small businesspeople, hallowed be thy equilibrium, amen. Sadly many who are anti-capitalist take the other extreme and deify the march of history and class struggle to become a kind of inevitable rapturous event which the faithful need only preach about, rather than actually bring about through action (aside from bringing the Word to the faithless). Only those who understand capitalism (and indeed any system based on the conflict of classes) is one of disequilibrium, containing only movement rather than progress and requiring the attention and thought of the people to bring to heel, can discuss economics as anything but a religion.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i went a to a liberal-ish catholic school as a kid and transubstantiation was never expanded on other than 'yep its the body and blood of christ, no we're not going to explain it further now memorize this dumb creed no one cares about'
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My Imaginary GF posted:Whats your thoughts on monarchy in belgium? i really don't like any of our kings before albert II, though. maybe albert I was okay but that's because he mainly was decent during the first world war and then died falling from a cliff (or was he pushed???)
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tbp posted:I dunno
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