mabinog's Comments (149)

“wanna hear a joke:

Recently a consortium of pro-life groups announced that they are funding and opening free pre-natal care clinics across the US....”

“ah come on it is hard work, renaming corporate divisions, hiring your good ole boy buddies to be VPs and deciding how to redecorate your office.”

“I will fill in:

If you are in financial trouble of any kind, it is entirely your fault for not work hard enough to be rich enough....­.”

“naw, extroverts are fine as they are since they are the majority - which is what all introverts should aspire to in order to smooth things over. We introverts need to be more like extroverts to lessen misunderstanding and possible conflict. It is in our self interest.”

“"In many ways these are viewed as weaknesses in a world that values extraversion and explicit demonstrations of power or materialis­m."

And the way for introverts to deal with it is to act like an extrovert, so you too can be valued for demonstrations of power and materialism.”

“extroverts don't require recovery they are fine as they are. google extrovert recovery..­..”

“now, now, the extroverts are the majority and our society runs, for the most part, on an extrovert model.

As the minority introverts should fix themselves to conform to a level where introverts can blend in and prosper.. It is in the self interest to do so. It will makes us more mentally stable and health....

Just taking the first step of the two step plan. I don't dance though.”

“so these things have never happened to anyone?”

“Does "limit our ability to be free" really mean limit our ability to conform?

Isn't what you are really saying is; don't be so different that it causes you to be unable to function in the society of the majority. Society is a force that will not and can not be expected to change in any way that will be meaningful to those with the "pathologies".

Free?”

“"The fact remains, although the U.S. government cannot and will not admit it publicly, that Moslems in America believe that all other religions are infidels."

Like many of the flavors of Christianity do not believe likewise?”

“Yes, lets expel all Muslims from the military as a danger to the US whilst we leave an unknown number of right wing Christians there who may or may not choose to defend the Constitution first and their Bible second.”

“People do these things but religion gives some of them the mind set to them.

McVeigh AFAIK had no religious component in his extremism or at least it was mostly political.

Pro-lifers who kill doctors are the opposite extreme, religion is at the heart of their fanaticism. Islamists, Osama Bin Laden, Hamas likewise.

I do not think it is known yet what drove this officer's actions...­.”

“you might hit the books again.....­or maybe you could point out the powerful minority that propagated the hatred of the Jews that laid the groundwork for the Holocaust?

How about the minority in the country who persecuted the Mormons from the beginning of LDS to Nauvoo?”

“well I don't think the PETA and environmentalist extremists on the left would have anything to exploit about this now would they?

Leaving the religious bigots and racists on the right.”

“Organized religion is a social entity used by fallible humans to gather money and power using faith and religious doctrine to convince people to believe in a like manner, to provide money and other forms of wealth, to provide converts (sometimes through violent or immoral means), to provide offspring that will be brought up in the social entity, to provide PR so that they draw in additional converts or walk ins as it were.

They are on-going business enterprises seeking to compete socially in their society and the world, seeking to socially control a mass of adherents, and in many cases to socially dominate their greater society or even the world.”

“If someone had done a drive by and sprayed his house with bullets, then someone is trying to kill you.

You hear gunshots and a stray bullet bounces off your vinyl siding....­....still scary but please spare us the persecution complex.”

“and how do you know it more?”

“why stop there, the same for booze, make all drugs legal and tax them heavily, prescription drugs are abused lets tax them or more. cigarettes more tax yet.”

“I have owned guns for hunting and for target practice. I have in the past but no longer own a handgun. I have a few rifles that I inherited and a shot gun for skeet. I have not hunted in years.

So I am not compelled to own guns, but you are right that many people collect them, some trade or sell on occasion. Some are of historical value. Some people collect older military rifles for example. Some display them and I would image some of those are not in any shape to fired.

Then there are those people who find it necessary to have a gun for protection, there is nothing wrong with that except I don't think it is pressing need for most people. That would compel them. Now if they are not thoroughly trained a gun is probable worthless. Better to get a dog and if someone breaks in, run.

If you have some hero complex you might be compelled to pack a gun so you can save the day when the time comes you don't need to be carrying one. macho and creepy, but not rational.”

“true changing the gun culture in this country from the polarized "gun as sacred idol of freedom" on the one hand and "gun as an object imbued with evil" on the other is the way to resolve the issue.”

“why is it logical that a ban on guns would work any better than Prohibition or the current comprehensive and increased penalties for drug possession?”

“dude, are these the same corporatists of Bush and Reagan?

Perhaps you trot out a few of the names of these dreaded capitalist?”

“wow, you know you are right, it is not like Nixon, Reagan and W have done anything to cripple this country economically and politically.

Lying about a blow j0b now that is devastation.”

“A theory postulated and repeatedly validated by fallible humans.

A book written, translated, and copied repeatedly by fallible humans.

What is hilarious is that you somehow think that the veracity of the Bible is somehow superior to the theory.”

“One of the reasons when are in the crisis we are in.”