Good, but still trying to think of a good acronym.
Will get back to you papa, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, Sidewalker Your Holiness.
That last one has a nice ring to it.
One percent of the population suffers from Gender Dysphoria, I'm glad I don't, but other than that, I have no problem with these people, its rare enough that practically speaking, it has no real effect on my life.
I really don't understand why so many people feel so much animosity for those folks, and for those who do, and don;t see how they don;t recognize they are letting politicians control them, the proper response to that is to have animosity for those controlling politicians. How about instead of hateful thoughts, it's most natural to just think, "There but for the grace of God go I" on the rare occasion that we do encounter a transgender person.
It's got to really suck to suffer from gender dysphoria, that's a good reason to feel sorry for them, it's a good reason to be thankful I'm not one of them, I just don't see it as a reason to have animosity for them, it's not like it's contagious or anything. It's one in a hundred people, we don't interact that often, but we have enough to know they don't represent any kind of threat to the rest of us; 1% of the population is harmless and suffering, that is no reason to resent them.
My parents, my faith, and my society, they all taught me to respect others, maybe I don't understand the animosity because nobody told me there was an "unless they are too different" exception to the respect rule.
If you are one who has animosity towards the trans community, please share how you were taught you about that "different exception".
Did you happen to sing the bass part - that was really awesome.
Yes, we had a guy that nailed the leads, and everyone else sang the bass background, both songs were chosen because of their great bass parts for 20+ guys who aren't singers. We had a great wrestler whose last name was Wingo, there was a wrestling move called the "Wingo Whip" named after him, so on "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" we altered the bass portion to "a Wingo Whip, a Wingo Whip, a Wingo Whip, a Wingo Whip", etc...it worked out perfectly.
In high school, I participated in a barbershop quartet competition in '66 among our region's high schools [about a dozen high schools in West L.A.]. I was the bass of the group. We sang three selections, beginning with Duke of Earl [not typical barber shop fare, but the other two were, both from "The Music Man"], and took 1st place.
Other than our guy who sang the leads so perfectly, no way we could have come up with four singers talented enough to do a barbershop quartet. "Duke" and "Lion" were the best songs for what we had to work with. I'm trying to imagine "Duke" done by a barbershop quartet, hard for me to do but I'll bet it was amazing, I'd like to hear both songs done by a barbershop quartet.
We didn't take first place, but we were the crowd favorite by far.
Yes indeed, especially if I can be called Sergeant Cardinal
Of course you can assume the title of Sergeant Cardinal, that title fits the VP position very well.
and wear one of those fancy dress, hats and gowns.
Of course you can, Catholicism is the dominant hat religion in the world, the costumes remain great, so there is no need to make changes to that aspect of Catholicism to make it great again, so no worries, the hatechism will remain as is.
We just need to keep an eye on the Vatican chimney for smoke signals.
Though MTCCGAC...That's a bit of a mouthful...As the Priest said to the alter boy.
Good point, MTCCGAC sounds like what the altar boy said back to the Priest also, it's definitely way too suggestive to put on a hat, we may have to rename our slogan to a less "suggestive" anacronym if we are going to put the altar boy history behind us.
Every other developed country in the world covers everyone at half the cost that we do, mostly with better wait times elsewhere as well
The main reason it costs less elsewhere is because they regulate medical prices. Most of these countries are not single payer... their system is supplemented by insurance. These companies are ran as non profits when they supplement government plans and are tightly regulated
The main reason we cant switch to universal plan is because lobbyists and the status quo pump out propaganda to fool the masses. The other reason is because other countries built their system from the ground up and are smaller countries while we try to reverse a status quo of 333 million people and many sovereign states
Well put, there's just way too much money involved in keeping the industry structure the way it is. In most businesses, efficiency is rewarded and the industry is structured around that as a central principle. In health care the primary pressure that is put on doctors and hospitals is to increase revenue, rather than to deliver the service more efficiently, the reward for inefficiency higher revenue.
The number of sick and injured people isn't going to change if you change the way the service is delivered, to reduce costs you need to get the industry to just accept reduced revenues for the same amount of service provided, any industry is going to push back on that kind of change.
The pressure has to come from outside the industry then, and consumers cannot exert pressure directly by can't refuse to get sick or injured, so it's got to be legislative and regulatory pressure, which as you pointed out, is what's working in other countries to bring down costs.
The problem with that is the politician business gets a substantial portion of the inefficiency money, so efficiency is not rewarded there either. But that is where the consumer can exert pressure, the politics business is primarily organized by how we cast our votes.
Ethically, the right thing to do is to restructure the health care industry around efficiently providing the service universally, screw politics, it's just the right thing to do, the promise was "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", it's the first one. A society that denies health care to the sick and injured is doing it's best morally, access to health care is not really an optional service in a just society.
if we structure the industry with efficiency as its core value, i believe we can deliver health care service universally, and at a lower cost than the cost of delivering the service partially with today's system that rewards inefficiency.
I also think the delivery of universal health care necessarily entails collective bargaining. If the market has absolute power to set the price, the industry will have to focus on efficiency to maintain revenues.
I believe that the only real obstacle to success is that we lack the resolve to make it happen.
Duke of Earl conscious-ness
' As I walk through this world
Nothing can stop the Duke of Earl
And-a you, you are my girl
And no one can hurt you, oh no
And when I hold you
You'll be my Duchess, Duchess of Earl
We'll walk through my dukedom
And a paradise we will share '
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5n0FZo0ME4
Awesome song!!!
My senior year in High School I sang "Duke of Earl" in the talent show, about 20-30 of us sang it. Somebody came up with the idea at football practice, we called the group "The Lettermen" and our stage costume, we wore our school letter jackets, I'm the one that picked "Duke of Earl" and talked everybody into it.
We also did a second song, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" another classic.
I'm sure we were great, but that doesn't matter that much because we had a great time even if the audience didn't. LOL
It was so epic, I'm kinda surprised Hollywood hasn't made it into a movie yet, when they do, I'm sure it will be better than "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere", anything would be better than that snoozefest.
Have you been confirmed in the Catholic Church? Are you celibate?
No and no, but those are two of the first changes I will make in my Make the Catholic Church Great Again campaign.
I haven't selected a running mate yet, would you consider being my Vice Pope?
Looks like you and I will have to prop up DebateCraft for a while...Might be worth a sainthood for you...I will message the Pope.
I was thinking of running for Pope, I'm not Catholic, so I will run as an independent.
When is the next election scheduled?
This comes from the guy sitting on a high horse saying don't judge others elsewhere.
Stuff it you pompous hypocrite. My reply was intended to mock you and your sanctimonious bullshit, talk about sitting on a high horse, you proclaimed that I am not a Christian because I made a joke about drinking (btw, I don't drink asshole), you used Shoresy's post to proclaim yourself superior because he used the word sainthood, you use Christianity to elevate yourself and denigrate others, you bash people over the head with the bible when instead, you should try reading it for once, it's a good book
I am a servant of the Lord whether you agree or not.
Bullshit, you are completely self-serving, there's no place in your manic self-righteousness for the Lord.
I recommend you to think carefully through your next words.
I thought carefully about these words, that is what allowed me to speak to you with such honesty.
The Father and Son won't forget if you deny a sheep to the flock and push him out.
Give it a rest already, everyone already knows you are a megalomaniac who thinks he speaks for God, we know that you are exactly what Jesus referred to as vipers and hypocrites, his only question to you was, "how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"
Matthew 15:7-9
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Let's face it, you are no Christian, you are nothing but an embarrassment to Christians, and nothing but a punchline to atheists.
In the end, you are just a rat, man.
As a Christian, I request you please do not mock or belittle what sainthood is and means.
Bullshit, you're no Christian.
I request you please do not mock or belittle what Christian is and means.
I'd eat Soylent Green before I'd eat insects.
In the long term would it really matter if there were only 8 million human inhabitants of Planet Earth rather than 8 billion
To get to 8 million, first you have to kill 8 billion people, that would really matter.
If you know, you know.
On Epstein Island that sign was on the entrance to the Trump Pavillion.
That's got to be a Trump company.
Nope, you are full of shit
You just read something on some article which isn't even true. No scientist would think sulfur bacterias don't mutate. In fact, mutating is how they survived once oxygen-free area stopped being available to them.
Nonsense, you seem to spend all of your time on the internet, which means mountains of information are at your fingertips.
When it is so easy to become informed, there is no reason for you to just make shit up and insist it is true.
Nothing in Christianity is Torah based
Nonsense, that is an over-generalization based on emotion rather than informed consideration. Christianity is deeply rooted in Torah, it provides the foundational narratives and laws (like the Ten Commandments) that Christians accept as scripture, the Torah’s core moral principles remain. Christianity’s point of departure is the belief that Jesus fulfilled the Mosaic Law, fulfilling its prophecies and upholding its moral commands, but it is uninformed nonsense to claim that “Nothing in Christianity is Torah based”.
and most elements can be found in Greco-Roman polytheism.
So what, Christianity is Hellenized Judaism, why is that a problem for you.
As societies evolve, religions evolve, all Religions have developed over time though borrowings and exchange, mutual help, and cross-fertilizations, that results in strong hybrids adapted to the society’s needs in a way that spiritually enriches the culture.
The most notable is higher beings mating with humans is strictly forbidden but it was ok to get Mary pregnant to give birth to the son of God? Demigods are a staple of Roman mythology.
Christianity arose at a time when both Roman and Jewish culture had become overly patriarchal, characterized by denial and repression of the soul’s feminine aspect. For many people, balance was restored by a Christianity that gives us a Savior that was born of a divine union between God the Father and a Mother of the earth. Why is that a problem for you?
That alone shows it's not a Judeo based faith
No, it doesn’t, it shows it’s a faith that originated in Judaism and adapted to a changing cultural context until it became a separate religion.
and therefore a complete lie.
It’s your stagnant and literalistic view of religion that is a complete lie. It’s uninformed, pointless, and most importantly, it eliminates any possibility of spiritual awareness while arresting religion’s power to effect creative transformation in our lives.
It’s always been about religion alive.
If true intelligence involves the ability to view and understanding widely different phenomena from multiple different perspectives, an aptitude for grasping a wide range of truths, relationships, and meanings, and the capacity for abstract and symbolic thought, then it follows logically that the contention that one can reduce spiritual reality to a stagnant and surface level literalism, to know it in only one of its forms, is an unintelligent claim.
Nope, Sulfer Bacteria have remained the same for over 2.3 billion years
No, it did not. Small changes are always present everywhere. Maybe you are talking about not evolving into different species, but that's not what I was talking about there. The variation in individuals is likewise a variation in species, and even bacteria changes with or without environment change, because bacteria is likewise subject to defects and mutation of genes. Anything which has RNA or DNA is subject to mutations of those two.
Nope, you are full of shit.
Nope, the environment changed and they didn't
All species change constantly.
Nope, Sulfer Bacteria have remained the same for over 2.3 billion years, the Nautilus and Horseshoe Crab for over 500 million years, and the Coelacanth (a fish), has remained unchanged for over 400 million years.
On the other hand, some species, the Republican Party for instance, it changed into something completely unrecognizable in less than four years.
Its called inductive to deductive reasoning.
Nope, it's called lack of reasoning.
P1. All people get addicted to smoking
P2. there is observation of one person who didnt get addicted to smoking.
P3. If P2 is true, P1 is false.
P4. P2 is true
C. P1 is false.
You changed P1, your initial premise was "people get addicted to smoking", and they do, your attempt to make yourself the measure of mankind is stupid.
All you argued is that you are an exception to the rule, people aren't freaks because you are a freak.
We already had many species on Earth perishing precisely because they changed on mass scale in way which wasnt fit.
Nope, the environment changed and they didn't, it wasn't defects, it was that they didn't change, consequently, they perished because of the inability to adapt.
And a lot of Debby's "AI spam" is in fact very informative and if you read it you might learn something.
Apparently, you missed the fact that I already know everything, pay attention.
And if all individuals of one species cant compete, species as a whole perishes. that is aging of species.
You and Trump think alike, you think if you say something stupid, all you need to do is double down and it won't be stupid anymore.
This isn't really a topic about my employment, or what you consider "weak" is.
Your sampling technique defines what "weak" is.
It just means it doesn't always cause addiction.
If you draw conclusions from your sample of one (you), we have to conclude that people are unemployable, incels, pedophiles, illogical, freaks.
I'm pretty sure it's unscientific to define humans based on a one-man freak show.
They are only eliminated if there are individuals without said defects, to reproduce.
Nope, they evolve because they adapt, individuals are eliminated because they can't compete..
Yes that's one version of events, but not necessarily an accurate version of events...People will draw their own conclusions.
Not all people, MAGA people let Trump draw their conclusions for them.
I see that there are also rabid drivers in Portland that need euthanising too.
Yeah, why would you deploy a masked paramilitary force if you aren't going to use them.
Trumps message to Iran is, "Just because we kill our protestors, that doesn't mean it's OK for you to kill your protestors".
So why would 100k Americans want to go live in a freezer?
If we wanted to do that, we certainly don't need to go all the way to Greenland, there's a frozen wasteland just across our northern border.
So why would Trump et al want to annexe a freezer.
Hmmm I'm guessing it's rather a lot to do with what's stored under the freezer.
That's certainly the trend lately, conquer Venezuela, take the oil, conquer Greenland, and take the resources, it's the main thrust of Trump's foreign policy.
That and global megalomaniacal paranoia.
That goes without saying, first thing he'll do is rename it, Donaldland, Trumpistan, something like that, THEN he will loot it.
Millions of people are addicted, but you overturn that observation on the basis of a sample of one that has not become addicted.
Wow, I didn't realize you were a scientist.
In other words, aging of species is something which happens, and it is very likely that given enough time, species at some point lose ability to reproduce, and thus perish.
If you focus on defects, you miss the big picture.
Species evolve, and because it is survival of the fittest, the defects accumulate over time, they are eliminated. The evolution of species is in the direction of improvement over time, it is a continuous process of transformation, unfolding in time and space. It has steadily progressed towards greater complexity and greater ability to adapt, which generally involves higher forms of sentience, from inanimate matter, to life, to thought, to self-reflective consciousness, culminating in a rational and morally responsible animal.
