No. I place value on literacy and being able to write things down so they can be read (and cross-checked). I've seen too much fake science under the guise of videos, and I don't have time to waste waiting for the punch line. Especially when the narrator spends 5 minutes in melodramatic posing.
You want interesting physics and nomenclature, tuck into "Information Mechanics" by Frederick Kantor. But the odd nomenclature is not helpful.
A white flag is a flag of truce, not a flag of surrender. One side may invoke a truce in order to negotiate terms of surrender. A truce would also apply during a prisoner exchange.
In other words, for the linguistically challenged, there is a difference between the vowels "a" and "e." Practice, practice, practice... Also, the stress is a little different.
In NIgeria, English is the official language. In Niger, French is the official language. Never the twain shall meet.
If you want to live in fear, be my guest. I have Plan A. You apparently have no plan. That doesn't work so well when rioting mobs threaten life, limb, and property. Seattle took the sane, rational path in dealing with the Autonomous Zone. It took several murders for the city to wake up and clear the Zone. There are lawsuits in place from business owners demanding damages for their property losses during this episode when the city police were instructed not to enforce the law.
Well, you know shit about me, so this conversation is mostly useless in the face of such confident ignorance.
What "commie feelings"? Not even Putin has commie feelings, considering he has made "The GULag Archipelago" required high school reading since 2010.
Your problem is that you can't answer the points I have made, which are simple recognition of reality. Americans as individuals are quite welcome. But what I was talking about was the U.S. GOVERNMENT, the biggest bully on the planet. Even against its own citizens. Marines are among the finest men I have known, but it is no excuse for supporting a despotic and bullying regime. That sullies your oath of service.
So much for hundreds of millions of privately-owned firearms. Then let's not break our arms patting ourselves on the back for being a nation of private firearms ownership, as though that meant we had an army sitting around the fireplaces.
What you have described are sheep. And the evidence is that it doesn't matter what they want---they will get violence when some bastard decides to give it to them.
What we really need to do is promote armed carry for everyone. It would put us in the right frame of mind, and it would change the statistics.
For those who might remember, there was another post repeated on this page several weeks ago in which a military member was being interviewed on the same subject. His demeanor was subdued and almost lacking in affect. When it came to the description of the dismembered babies, he stumbled over his words as though the images were still before him and he was almost incapable of speech.
I read this as someone who was permanently shocked by the astounding dimension of evil that was before him.
But I agree that there needs to be photographic evidence in detail. I would like to think that the Russians are disciplined enough to do that. And that they are biding their time for when the war is resolved and all this can be brought to light.
"Extraordinary" according to what? Is murder extraordinary? It is the most mundane of evil deeds. Facts are facts and proof is proof. It should all be based on empirical evidence. I don't go along with the standards of evidence being changed on the basis of the listener's notion of "extraordinary." It is just a way of re-setting the bar in order to declare certain evidence "insufficient."
You go wrong on point 7, or there would never be any evil in the world. But we know from the book of Genesis that human beings have been eternally corrupted by sin, so all your previous points are...beside the point.
So, sin is entirely a "nurture" problem? Good luck with that. Plenty of murderers came out of otherwise wholesome families. It is a position that is entirely at odds with Scripture, both Old and New Testaments.
Don't take refuge in the idea that evil-doers are in the minority. You never know when a member of that "minority" is going to confront you in an alley, take your money, and kill you. "Oh, he's only a minority" you gurgle with your dying breath, satisfied that he wasn't a majority. How did that work out for 6 million Jews under the German Third Reich? The SS was only a minority, you know.
You are arguing for a point that is no point whatsoever. Moreover, God does not agree with you, insofar as He has declared the opposite to be true: human beings have no inner rule to compel them to obey the 10 Commandments. And the whole meaning of the Old Testament is that expecting human beings to attain salvation by such obedience was a failed expectation. That was part of Christ's message, as explained by the Apostles.
You can believe your own reality, but I just look at the facts. In most urban areas of Washington, Democrats prevail with their insane and deleterious programs. If we have democratic elections, they reflect the preference of the public majority. Don't fob that direct and indisputable responsibility onto Evil Cabal members who wouldn't be in office if the public didn't put them there.
Accordingly, the majority of people assented to defunding the police, by virtue of putting in office those who professed this as their policy. The majority don't have to be violent and burn down my home. They only have to stand by and allow the criminals to be violent and burn down my home. Accomplices share the same responsibility as the direct actors.
It's nice to dream about "tons of vigilantes," but we are far from that emerging. Did they show up for the mass riots in cities? They did not...and what would it take but that to prompt them to emerge?
My experience with the "majority" is that they are chickenshit complainers who prefer laziness to maintaining civic order and principles of justice and law. The people who have defended liberty have always been in the minority, working uphill, and always will be.
Join the club. I was aware of the bad antics of government back in the 1960s. Got my first taste of "anon" research (except it wasn't anonymous) in the investigative reporting on Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing, complete with explosion ballistics analysis and light on Elohim City. The John Birch Society was there first and always.
Changing the topic to avoid a poor argument. I said the "U.S." which is the government of the United States, and it sure as hell bullies countries, particularly recently when it proclaimed a reprisal against Uganda for its anti-perversion legislation. Other African countries take note of that.
The fact that the vast majority of Americans "don't give a damn about Africa or the Balkans" is no compliment to public ignorance and callous indifference. Does that give the government the green light to play in other lands like they are speedways for a bulldozer race?
The U.S. government officials are surely "Americans," and if they are what the other nations see, it all rubs off the wrong way. Everything I said is true, and you are in no place to dispute it.
Don't be sly. I'm familiar with a lot of technical literature and the introduction of entirely new nomenclature is not just "research," it is a kind of wall against understanding. Photons are bosons, and coherent photons describe lasers, which absolutely cannot propagate beams through solid matter as though the matter were invisible. One would have to read the entire patent in order to understand what the inventors were talking about---including the "thermal bath" that he took to be so tremendous. A little explanation would have clarified the subject and added to his credibility. Absence of which does the opposite.
The veil of gentlemanly restraint is what he is alluding to.
Are the majority of people Democrats? What they "want" and what they 'want' may be contradictory. I live in the state of Washington, and the de facto public policy on crime is to excuse it, to ignore it, to approve it, and to nurture it, all under the platitudes of "dealing with the problem." Does the man who dislodges a boulder at the top of a mountain "want" an avalanche? He gets it, nonetheless, and it was entirely predictable. To say he doesn't want it is to accept insanity as a valid way of thinking. If the crazy left are not the majority, how did we come to this?
Well, he didn't originally, but thanks to sin, we have the propensity to become predators.
As for baseball bats, it greatly depends on where you are, who gets the bats, and who are the designated targets. In the Confederacy, slavery was an "institution." It didn't much matter whether the majority were in favor of it. I believe there was a thought-provoking university psychology experiment having to do with the willingness of students to anonymously inflict pain on a presumed subject, under the rubric that it was all for research. They went down the whole road, applying the electric shock until the subject was inert and unresponsive. (It was all an act, but the guy with the button didn't know that.)
I'm talking about the moral culture of behavior with respect to oneself and others. You are just trying to dodge this by word-wrangling. Are you saying God "inserted" sin? No, you wouldn't be that absurd. But you are failing completely to get human beings off the hook. God created man and woman perfectly. But they disobeyed and allowed themselves to partake of the knowledge of Good and Evil, which brought them into sin. And here we are, deep in our "nature culture," as you phrase it.
God gives us rules...and do we follow them? Seldom, and imperfectly. And does it save us? The answer was NO, which was the whole reason for the appearance of Christ and the vicarious expiation of our sins.
God is not an "engineer." He is a Creator, and that covers a lot more territory.
And in Zambia, it is in the culture of general behavior. No salesmen needed. Only customers.
Of course I know that. I have made reference to the Bolsheviks in previous discussion.
But your numbers are fantasy small. You leave out all the fellow travelers in education, the media, local and state governments. And how did they get there? Because the culture places no actual value on the traditional virtues and principles, and therefore conservatives do not feel it is important to be involved in the details of civic life. Nothing more disgusting than to be involved in a union, whose members were likely half conservative in outlook, and listen to the complaint of a conservative member against the dominantly left-liberal union leadership. When posed with the question of running as a council rep, they turn it down as being not worth their time. I call that a worthless piece of shit---all talk, no feet. Conservatives need to own up to that failing and repent.
And you know nothing about nations awash in corruption. How is this a discussion of propaganda?
I agreed the other option was to shoot them (which is an anti-euphemism for force of arms). Who said the military could not do a good thing?
Since you have changed the topic from political corruption to simple crime, that is a different argument. Have fun with it. But there is still the contention that crime has become worse to the extent that the culture has become Godless.
I see this and think:
"59 year old General dies in a [fill in the blank: bed, plane crash, restaurant, vacation trip, car crash, hospital]. White Hat or DS?"
Have we come to the point where we assume 59-year-old Generals are immortal and cannot die except by foul, conspiratorial means or as a clandestine extra-judicial execution?
How can you perform an experiment without a control group? They would be given the placebo. A randomized sample is best.
Sorry, but I got to the 50-minute mark and started watching. Nothing but mumbo-jumbo and self-righteous pontificating. The technology he was brandishing (but not explaining) was so obscure, it could mean everything or nothing. I've been granted more than a few patents in technology and there is a big difference between a patent on paper and proven technology in the laboratory. If he wants to warn "beware of fakes!", I will be glad to include him in the warning.
Excellent. You are all set for famine. How about roving mobs?