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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI have almost 10,000 views!!! I walk alone! In the darkness!!!The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI have almost 10,000 views!!! I walk alone! In the darkness!!!"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostCow Poke is a Chinese Bot???The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Paprika View PostAn an ancient collectivistic Jew might just find it hard to understand how people could ever embrace such selfish individualistic modern notions of ownership.
Exodus 22:1, "Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep."
But nice try on attempting to sound like a sociologist by using terms that I'm not entirely sure you understand.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Dimbulb View PostThe article in the OP of this thread has now been fact checked and found to be entirely false. When fact-checkers asked the owners of restaurants that were closing why they were closing the story was consistently: "My closure is strictly due to location — nothing to do with wages" and "we did not close our … location due to the new minimum wage". Various restaurant owners described the original article claiming future minimum wage increases as the reason for closures as "preposterous" and "weird".
So much for your "fact check".Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostThe first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
"I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostMy favorite part of their excuses are where they spend the first section of the article pointing out that they accurately repeated the statements of others and that therefore they didn't get it wrong, regardless of the truth of those statements.
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostGotta love it when the fact checkers get fact checked.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Dimbulb View PostMy favorite part of their excuses are where they spend the first section of the article pointing out that they accurately repeated the statements of others and that therefore they didn't get it wrong, regardless of the truth of those statements.
Follow the link for the rest.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostThey were collectivist in their view of self, not property. The ancients weren't communists and clearly understood bounderies like personal ownership.
But nice try on attempting to sound like a sociologist by using terms that I'm not entirely sure you understand.
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Originally posted by Paprika View PostWhy are you so hung up about communism? A collectivist view of property isn't necessarily communist. Neither, of course, does a communal sense of some property necessarily imply that there is no space for individual ownership at all, just as collectivism doesn't imply that no sense of the individual existed.
But it doesn't matter because you're arguing against yourself now. First you claimed that the ancient Jews would have had trouble comprehending our "individualistic modern notions of ownership," but now you say there was space in their worldview for the concept of "individual ownership".
The bottom line, of course, is that nowhere in scripture is it commanded or implied that we are to "redistribute" a person's wealth against their will.Last edited by Mountain Man; 03-26-2015, 12:11 AM.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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