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Acartia_Bogart



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(Permalink) Posted: July 29 2015,20:31   

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etc., etc...

Grooveediot, 1936: "I hope people will see the hubris behind the “rural electrification” movement and wake up to what it is: a modern day experiment likely to fail based on thousands of years of universal practice."

1847: "I hope people will see the hubris behind the “hand-washing” movement and wake up to what it is: a modern day experiment likely to fail based on thousands of years of universal practice."

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1990: "I hope people will see the hubris behind the “Internet” movement and wake up to what it is: a modern day experiment likely to fail based on thousands of years of universal practice."

birth of a meme.

Now how do I get this post to fb?

I don't think that you can because of "the hubris behind the "FB" movement and that it is a modern day experiment likely to fail based on thousands of years of universal practice."

  
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 29 2015,20:58   

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Progressives, Fascism, and the Will to Power

July 28, 2015

Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design

So-called progressives are feeling pretty cocky nowadays, which is not surprising after they achieved a decisive victory on one of their key policy goals when the United States Supreme Court mandated that every state must adjust its laws to pretend that people of the same sex can marry one another.  Of course, it is the case and will always be the case that a man cannot marry another man any more than he can marry his left shoe.  Marriage is not an infinitely malleable concept; it has an irreducible essence, and that essence is defined by the mutually complementary design of male and female bodies.  Now the Supreme Court tells us we must, insofar as our civil laws are concerned, pretend that relationships that do not partake of that essence in fact do.  Far from tainting the victory, however, the in-the-teeth-of-objective-reality quality of it all serves to emphasize the vast scope of the progressives’ triumph.  They have forced every state in the union to pretend to deny reality itself.  That is an impressive political victory.



May the farce be with them?

  
Soapy Sam



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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2015,01:15   

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Progressives, Fascism, and the Will to Power

[...] They have forced every state in the union to pretend to deny reality itself.  That is an impressive political victory.



Only jealous. The ID crowd would so love to force every state in the union to pretend to deny reality.

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midwifetoad



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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2015,08:46   

More evidence of why Barry is a bill collector rather than a successful attorney.

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Acartia_Bogart



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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2015,12:09   

Where is Mapou and what have you done with him?
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kairosfocus @94 & 96,

Brevity is divine, IMO. There is only so much time in one day. I can’t read your overly inflated prose. Sorry. Same goes to BA77, BTW.


Comment 97

Even his comment at #93 was very unMapouish.

  
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2015,17:39   

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Where is Mapou and what have you done with him?
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kairosfocus @94 & 96,

Brevity is divine, IMO. There is only so much time in one day. I can’t read your overly inflated prose. Sorry. Same goes to BA77, BTW.


Comment 97

Even his comment at #93 was very unMapouish.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

   
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2015,17:42   

PREPARE THE BANHAMMER

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Al HobbinJuly 29, 2015 at 9:03 pm
I am a latecomer to UD, and I admit that I have not read all of the comments so I apologize if my question has already been addressed.

If Christianity is a requirement for modern European style democracy and justice, why did it take over 1500 years to begin to sprout to an elite few (land owners), 1900 years to extend democracy beyond a small fraction of the population to a number still far less than 50% (giving women the vote), and an additional 50 years to extend it to all races?

I am not saying that Christianity didn’t play a part, I still haven’t decided whether it played a positive role or a negative role.


linky

   
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2015,18:04   

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July 30, 2015 at 3:26 pm

Democrats (the left) started state marriage licenses to stop inter-racial marriages – gun control laws to prevent minorities from owning weapons – Republicans ended slavery. But more importantly and to the point, democrats are socialists / progressives (more government)…


Got that everybody? "The Left" tried to stop interracial marriage.

derp

   
k.e..



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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2015,19:25   

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Heartlander
July 30, 2015 at 3:26 pm

Democrats (the left) started state marriage licenses to stop inter-racial marriages – gun control laws to prevent minorities from owning weapons – Republicans ended slavery. But more importantly and to the point, democrats are socialists / progressives (more government)…


Got that everybody? "The Left" tried to stop interracial marriage.

derp

Yeah those marriage licenses really backfired the price for a women quadrupled overnight to dozens of cows.

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Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2015,20:20   

"Yeah those marriage licenses really backfired the price for a women quadrupled overnight to dozens of cows."

So it was an udder failure?

  
k.e..



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(Permalink) Posted: July 30 2015,21:52   

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"Yeah those marriage licenses really backfired the price for a women quadrupled overnight to dozens of cows."

So it was an udder failure?

It was assinine

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Acartia_Bogart



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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2015,00:22   

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PREPARE THE BANHAMMER

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Al HobbinJuly 29, 2015 at 9:03 pm
I am a latecomer to UD, and I admit that I have not read all of the comments so I apologize if my question has already been addressed.

If Christianity is a requirement for modern European style democracy and justice, why did it take over 1500 years to begin to sprout to an elite few (land owners), 1900 years to extend democracy beyond a small fraction of the population to a number still far less than 50% (giving women the vote), and an additional 50 years to extend it to all races?

I am not saying that Christianity didn’t play a part, I still haven’t decided whether it played a positive role or a negative role.


linky

Already happened. I didn't last past three comments. I think what did it was when I pointed out to Barry that the constitutional amendments he claimed were enacted following a public vote, were actually enacted after ratification by the states legislatures.

I guess he hates it when a Canadian with access to Wiki can learn more about American law in 30 seconds than he has learned in fifty years.

Eventually Gmail is going to stop me from creating email accounts.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2015,12:28   

That thread. It is quicker to live through history than read KF's (wrong) account of it.

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JohnW



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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2015,12:43   

He Who Must Not Be Named, Even Though He Links To A Website With His Name On It Every Five Minutes:
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For instance, above I have in 94 and 96 cited: Vindiciae 1579, the Dutch DoI 1581 that builds on it, Lex Rex, Locke with Hooker and Aristotle, some very helpful deeply informed commentary, as well as directly relevant scripture that answers to AH’s talking points.

In other comments I have taken time to cite US founding documents and give relevant explanations.

Also, 94 is in effect largely a summary on trends that undergirded the emergence of modern liberty and democracy, bringing out why it was not feasible before C17 – 19, and showing key reasons why it arose where it did, including the impact of the Judaeo-Christan heritage and the reformation.

Of course you and others are free to ignore.

But, at the cost of continuing to believe and/or enable pernicious error in the teeth of easy access to answers that took years to compile — and which to my best recall has not been seriously previously discussed at UD.

But, given what is now on the table from radical secularists, it is critical.

The lessons of sound history were written in blood and tears. Those who brush them aside, reject or ignore such doom themselves to have to learn them again, at much the same price.

linky
Does the Guinness Book Of Records have anything for "highest ratio of self-importance to actual importance"?

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2015,19:50   

on that dumb Progressives Are Teh Real Facsists thread, Zachriel is trying to do something fairly simple: explain the differences between left, right, socialist, fascist, democrat, and republican.

You can imagine how well that's working out over there.

   
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2015,19:51   

it would be easier to teach a grizzly bear to play the saxophone.

   
Henry J



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(Permalink) Posted: July 31 2015,20:10   

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it would be easier to teach a grizzly bear to play the saxophone.

Yeah; if it was off-key, who'd complain?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2015,10:48   

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it would be easier to teach a grizzly bear to play the saxophone.

Yeah; if it was off-key, who'd complain?

We'd just have to grin and bear it.

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2015,11:14   

<oops, wrong thread>

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2015,13:28   

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it would be easier to teach a grizzly bear to play the saxophone.

Yeah; if it was off-key, who'd complain?

We'd just have to grin and bear it.


If you can bear with me, perhaps not the POTW, but a good candidate for POTD.

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2015,16:53   

How about "Post of the YOU'RE ALL FIRED?"

:angry:

   
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2015,21:53   

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MungAugust 1, 2015 at 4:39 pm
Popperian: Again, I would suggest the current crop of ID is a form of inductivism that assumes the unseen…

Sort of like knowledge then?

Popperian: And it’s a mystery why ID hasn’t been adopted by science?

No mystery. It has been adopted.


mung is not the sharpest bulb in the sign

   
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 01 2015,23:49   

Nor the brightest spoon in the dish drainer.

I'll move on to my exit interview in HR.

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Amadan



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 02 2015,03:59   

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Nor the brightest spoon in the dish drainer.

I'll move on to my exit interview in HR.

Nor the sharpest sandwich in the dictionary.

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 02 2015,11:31   

:p

   
JohnW



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2015,17:08   

She's excelled herself.  The perfect combination of ignorance, right-wing paranoia and general cluelessness, combined into a sentence which makes less and less sense the more you think about it.  

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Mona Lisa of Denyse O'Leary headlines.

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2015,17:18   

She's really got it in for that Multiverse. And Brit - toffs.

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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 03 2015,21:26   

In reply 9 of that thread, Mapou demonstrates some of the modesty and good manners that seem to be a feature of the Arrington era UD:

"I made no mistake glaring or otherwise. You, on the other hand, are a liar and an idiot."

  
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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 04 2015,05:51   

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She's really got it in for that Multiverse. And Brit - toffs.

She probably knows, in her heart of hearts, that the Denyse O'Leary equivalent in every other multiverse is a better journalist.....

And her dislike of the British upper-class is selective, since she keeps quoting Matt Ridley, who is the 5th Viscount Ridley, but who she approves of because he's a global warming skeptic.

  
JohnW



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 04 2015,11:23   

Plato warned us about Lewontin!

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