Ajita's Comments (1880)

“Boing!”

“Ha, that's 562 reasons for me to go. I'll just stay out of the water. But seriously, more fascinating than the spiders are Australia's snakes. The country has the highest concentration of venomous snakes anywhere in the world, and is the only continent with more venomous than non-venomous snakes. Awesome.”

“Please learn to read.”

“As a moral non-theist and a straight man, I applaud you!”

“Unless they are indoctrinated into it, but I get your point. One is genetic and the other is cultural.”

“There is no one ideal in any religion. It is always interpretation. The openness to interpretation combined with the extreme moral requirements that form one end of this gradient in interpretation make religious ideology causally responsible for this.”

“You left out religious fundamentalism.”

“Sadly, every word you say is true.”

“huh?”

“Charlie Brown is offensive. Respect my Authorataaayy!!!!”

“Hmm.. that would make sense, if the Pakistani military actually wanted to go after the Taliban in Afghanistan: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/world/asia/26tribal.html”

“"we would all be better off embracing the mystery rather than trying to explain it"

I'll remember that next time I visit my doctor.

Goodbye.”

“Now I must ask what that has to do with the subject we are discussing. That morality is relative is as plain as day. It may be a good point to make on its own merit, but irrelevant in the context of this conversation.”

“That is what is called fatalism. I do not subscribe to that. However, possessing a sense of moral responsibility does not absolve you of the responsibility towards understanding the true nature of the problem and addressing its actual cause.”

“Fundamentalist religious beliefs have been likened to parasitic memes that evolve over the cultural landscape with little regard to their human hosts. Phelps is an infected carrier. It is the religious belief that is the problem, not the victim.”

“Don't hate the messenger, people. This is the virulent behavior of the most malignant of parasitic beliefs, that they drive their hosts to associate with the most transient of pop phenomena in order to stay relevant.”

“Cynical B@stards.”

“When I said 'replaced", I did not mean "overthrown", I mean we need to go past the two party orgy we call government.”

“You're missing the point. Obama never INTENDED to give us the public option. None of the currently "electable" politicians can. This is because anyone deemed "electable" is deemed so by the corporate powers that be.

I know that the past 200 years of history shows slow progress, but we've reached an impasse. The current system has accumulated too many kinks in it and it can't be straightened out any longer. It needs to be replaced.

We need a paradigm change, and this change can only come through a populist power-play. The politicians cannot affect this change, because they are wholly owned subsidiaries of the corporate oligarchy. We need to institute a liberal power-structure to force government to bring about progressive change, the way the right has learned to do so well to force government to remain still.”

“http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/16/815429/-No-One-Is-Going-To-Save-You-Fools”

“There was a really strongly worded article on Daily Kos the other day. I think you may enjoy reading it. Hope this makes it through...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/16/815429/-No-One-Is-Going-To-Save-You-Fools”

“But I don't want to take away from your point. If we can generate more revenue, then we will have more to give towards liberal causes. As long as we are always conscious of not losing our moral compass (clichéd as that might sound).”

“This is the exact same thing I'm told every time I bring up this strategy. Liberals tend to forget that we CREAMED the republicans in fund-raising for Obama. We have the money. We just need to put it to better use.”

“This is a logical fallacy known as reductio ad absurdum. Go look it up.

You don't know what my positions are. You don't know what my alternative propositions are. You don't know squat. All you are doing is reacting to a perceived affront on your beloved party. Please get informed before making judgment calls on people who are more informed than you are.”

“Good point. I've often likened the current situation we're in to the end days of monarchy in Europe. Back then, the right-wing power structure controlled everything using brute force. Brute force was the solution towards ending it. During 200 years of democracy, the right-wing power-structure has figured out more subtle ways of oppressing the peasants. They use social conditioning through media and corporate manipulation of government. If we are to defeat this new form of oppression, we must adopt the same strategies.

I will never give another dime to politicians, simply because they are just puppets to the corporate interests. A better strategy is to create a liberal power structure to fight this oppression. We must build new media, think-tanks, interest groups and social networks to influence government using the same social conditioning tricks that the right has learned to harness so well. We need to use the knowledge gained from the social sciences towards achieving our political goals, and this means ignoring the politicians and gaining control of the puppet strings.”