SkepticalOne wrote:
RemyBrown wrote:
This post you made is Rage Bait.
Is that your expert opinion?
Yes, most all of his posts are supposed to be Rage Bait, but that doesn't make him an expert by any stretch, if a Rage Bait post just makes people laugh at you, it's not very good Rage Bait, comically bad at it doesn't make you an expert.
Misterio wrote:
Sidewalker wrote:
You need to stay up to date, your handlers say replace the Socialism smear with a Communism smear, it's much scarier.
House GOP memo shows ‘socialist’ scare tactics aren’t working
You can't be an effective minion if you don't follow orders.
Pay attention.
Yes, that's the same shit some lefties used to argue when Hugo Chavez was running for office.
LOL, Trump's "poorly educated" are just adorable, the Pavlovian reaction is to toss out non-sequiturs that make it clear they don't even know who Hugo Chavez was.
Your orders were very clear, the socialism smear is not effective, go with the communist smear.
Either that or just go with the tired old "accusations are confessions" approach and accuse Democrats of authoritarianism and fascism.
Be a good minion, remember your 3Ds, divert, distort, deny.
Misterio wrote:
Sidewalker wrote:
Trump has used regulatory interventions to take US Government ownership stakes in 30 corporations so far, is that what you mean by "nationalization of private companies"?
Are you saying Trump is a socialist?
Trump just did what many governments in the world usually do,
He did what many socialist governments in the world do.
which is buy a bit of participation in a private company.
He didn't buy participation, he extorted it with regulatory power.
It's not a big deal, Trump is not expropiating anything.
It's the very definition of expropriating. you only think it's not a big deal because it's Trump, he always gets a pass. With Trump and his sycophants, accusations are confessions. Whenever he is leveling unfounded accusations at people he doesn't like, it is a sure sign he is distracting our attention away from what he is doing. You guys get an erection when he says the Biden family is corrupt (with absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing), and he gets a pass for being the most corrupt Presidential family in history.
His MO is to accuse your enemies of the crime before they accuse you, and his "poorly educated" followers swallow that nonsense. The most powerful political tool in his playbook isn’t policy or leadership, it is accusation as preemptive confession—with his mindless followers it allows him to shift attention, sow doubt, and leave the public too dizzy to track the truth. Divert, distort, deny. is his approach to corruption.
“The election was rigged” means he is trying to rig the election with coordinated false electors, pressure on secretaries of state, lied to the public, in court, and under oath. He tried to overturn the vote while fundraising off the lie with his gullible followers, that was the game plan.
“Hillary mishandled classified documents” means he hoarded state secrets in his golf club basement, showed them off to guests, got indicted for obstruction and espionage charges, leaked U.S. airstrike plans in a Signal group chat, and bragged about classified information in front of the public in Mar-Lago restaurants. Of course, he gets a pass as long as he keeps his minions focused on how someone’s private email server was the national crisis.
“They’re weaponizing the DOJ!” means he is literally using the DOJ as his personal fixer squad. Bill Barr torpedoed investigations, spun the Mueller report, and helped bury corruption, while Trump publicly called for his political enemies to be jailed—without trial, as all authoritarian regimes do.
“They’re coming for YOU.” means Trump is tear-gassed peaceful protesters, demonized immigrants, attacked voting rights, weaponizing the DOJ against the opposition, and called the press “the enemy of the people”. He was telling you what he planned to do.
He can get a pass for inciting an insurrection, attacking our electoral process, attacking the countries institutions, crapping on the Constitution, and his followers think it's the American thing to do because he hugs a flag on stage. There's a reason he "loves the poorly educated", is because they are such patsies.
What I can criticize about Trump, though, is the terrible economic management he's carrying out. I heard that a slice of pizza costs 6 bucks in New York. That's crazy shit, man. With 6 bucks I can have a big piece of beef with a lot of sauce in the city where I live.
Wars, tariffs, corruption, billions in vanity projects, if he gets a pass, then his followers have no right to complain about inflation.
Kermos wrote:
@Sidewalker wrote in post #205: LOGIC HIJACK ATTEMPT ALERT You failed to address the thread topic with logic, reason, or anything resembling knowledge of the subject matter.?
THREAD HIJACK ATTEMPT ALERT
You failed to address the thread topic of “Show Me How The Big Bang Theory Is Not A Leap Of Faith”.
INTELLIGENCE HIJACK ATTEMPT ALERT
You failed to use intelligence in your posts.
fauxlaw wrote:
And if you're going to continue to shoot posts at me, take me off your block or pipe down.
I don't have you blocked; I haven't blocked anybody.
You addressed this post to me, you couldn't do so if you were blocked.
Debby wrote:
The billionaires will donate more to a socialist government.
Republicans want fascism, not socialism.
Debby wrote:
Is it time for America to turn to Socialism after running a 40 trillion national debt under capitalism? Many countries are turning to socialism as a solution.
No, we need $40 trillion, socialism won't raise $40 trillion, we need to bring in the money, we could try selling the red states but that won't work because the red states aren't worth anything.
Maybe it’s time for Trump to declare capitalism a failure. Remember he files 7 bankruptcies under a capitalist system.
Trump already declared democracy a failure, but since he's a billionaire, not much chance Trump will declare capitalism a failure,
Maybe we can have a bake sale.
You need to stay up to date, your handlers say replace the Socialism smear with a Communism smear, it's much scarier.
House GOP memo shows ‘socialist’ scare tactics aren’t working
You can't be an effective minion if you don't follow orders.
Pay attention.
If as you say, a dishonest God created the entire Universe to be a lie, then he could certainly inspire the Bible to be a lie too.
I guess with your belief in a dishonest God, what it really comes down to is which lie do you want to put your faith in, the Bible lie or the universe lie.
Unfortunately, your argument that Christianity is based on lies hurts Christianity much more than the Big Bang could hurt it.
You're not really a Christian; I think you are an atheist who logged on pretending to be a Christian to denigrate Christianity and make it look bad
Good job at that.
Kermos wrote:
The Big Bang Theory fails to adhere to the Scientific Method. The Big Bang is a leap of faith.
LOGIC HIJACK ATTEMPT ALERT
You failed to address the thread topic with logic, reason, or anything resembling knowledge of the subject matter.
Debby wrote:
That is no ordinary girl riding on Trump’s lap, it is his daughter Ivanka Trump testing his presidential capabilities.
Oh, well how about this creepy photo of Trump with an underage girl.
Debby wrote:
How is Barron reacting to Natalie Harp and Trump? Is he going to defend his mother or father?
I assume so, the best sign it's a very innapropriate relationship is how insanely they respond to anyone even mentioning her.
The question becomes, is she Trump's binkie, or like Monica Lewinski, Trump is her Binkie.
Trump has never hidden his infidelity, and there's a lot of money in defending Dad. A half hour before Trump announced the 50% Tarriffs war with Canade, Baron invested millions shorting the most affected stocks, made a large fortune after Trump's announcement. Other families go to prison for insider trading, it's illlegal for other Presidents to profit off the Presidency, but Trump and Family get a pass because, hell, I still don't understand why we allow Trump and Family to be above the law.
By the way, despite all of the efforts to hide his pedophilia, here is a photo of Trump getting a lap dance from an underage girl.
fauxlaw wrote:
Sidewalker,
Nope, not about you. I don't even remember where the article was from that prompted my post, but it didn't cite its source material, either, so this may not even be real.
Or, is you "me" Baron Trump.
It was supposed to be Baron Trump speaking. (notice the picture).
No indication in the article it's about him,
He fits what the article is talking about.
but I've seen enough evidence of affection between Melania and Trump.
LOL, sure you have, I suppose you saw it when you vacationed with the Trumps in the Hamptons.
Misterio wrote:
I'm not willing to defend Trump but I think he screwed up in the moment he decided to attack Iran.
Gee, you think so?
It was an illegal war nobody supported, it had devastating effects on ours and the world economy, and he still can’t get his story straight about the why of it, we still don’t know what our objectives were supposed to be. He took the most powerful military in the world to war with Iran, and lost huge, after six ineffective months we have walked away with our tails between our legs.
As of his promises, that's the least of it. Nobody cares about what he said in campaign.
Maybe people who don’t care about democracy don’t care what he said in the campaign, to them, elections don’t matter, what the people want doesn’t matter. But most people don’t like being lied to and taken advantage of.
In campaign politicians say only what people want to hear.
If what a politician says has nothing to do with what we get if we elect him, then the electoral process is irrelevant and democracy is undermined. Don’t give me that standard “all politicians do it” BS, that is simply not true. You don’t elect a leader because “it doesn’t matter anyway.”
That is the problem with Trump, he has been undermining our electoral process for years, attempted an insurrection, and made it clear that he couldn’t care less what the people want. He serves a constituency of one, he represents a threat to our democracy and our Constitution, and he is a danger to the people of the US.
He tried to overthrow our electoral process and said he would be a dictator, and we elected him anyway. He’s done what dictators do, he has persecuted anyone who doesn’t support him, he has discredited the free press, suppressed free speech, abused due process, he’s been incredibly corrupt and lawless, he’s attacked our allies, deployed the military into our cities, and diminished our stature on the world stage.
And no, all politicians don’t do it, that is a bald-faced lie.
Cool, I was in Jacksonville FL when I was in grade school, a lot of bamboo near where we lived and I did all kinds of creative things with bamboo, it's a versatile and great thing to play with.
The craziest thing was a friend of mine and I made a ten foot kite out of sheets and Bamboo poles, equipped it with a sort of harness thing because the plan was to fly on the kite, it was pretty awesome except for we never got it off the ground, not with or without a rider, pretty sure that's why I'm still here to talk about it LOL.
If I found out my sons did half the stuff I did, I'd wring their necks.
Misterio wrote:
Sidewalker wrote:
Trump has used regulatory interventions to take US Government ownership stakes in 30 corporations so far, is that what you mean by "nationalization of private companies"?
Are you saying Trump is a socialist?
Trump just did what many governments in the world usually do,
Yes, socialist governments.
It's not a big deal, Trump is not expropiating anything.
Nonsense, expropriating is exactly what he is doing.
What I can criticize about Trump, though, is the terrible economic management he's carrying out.
He promised he's end the war in Ukraine and bring down inflation in one day, he said he would pay off the national debt in 8 years, are you saying that didn't happen? Did he take SNAP benefits away from 1.5 million poor children for nothing?
I heard that a slice of pizza costs 6 bucks in New York. That's crazy shit, man. With 6 bucks I can have a big piece of beef with a lot of sauce in the city where I live.
Oh please, don't talk affordability, that's just something Democrats made up to make Trump look bad.
Wait till you see what the price of Canadian products are going to do soon.
Teachers develop strong transferable skills that can be valuable to potential employers, public speaking, strong organization skills, relationship skills, and strong communication skills are highly valued in the private sector. Don't expect potential employers to recognize that teachers have the skills they need, you need to sell it and explain how it applies to their needs. Probably the single most valuable skill that companies look for is communication skills, verbal and written, and a teaching background is pretty much a guarantee of strength in that area. Your resume gets you the interview, research the job and explain how you have those skills in a summary of qualifications, apply teaching to the skills they are looking for, don't expect them to figure that out on their own.
Teaching experience and advanced education in teaching maps directly into careers in corporate training which has expanded into include other areas like instructional design.
Project and program management are lucrative careers in a broad range of businesses, teaching skills like communication, organization, and planning map into those program and project management functions well.
Sell your ability to communicate, in almost any business success is a matter of selling yourself and your ideas, the single most important skill that defines success in business, is the ability to communicate, press that as your superpower wherever you go.
A lot of management skills parallel teaching skills, as do sales jobs which can be very lucrative. most sales jobs are a matter of teaching customers about your product or service and explaining how it benefits them, most sales jobs are just teaching plus the ability to close. Sales jobs typically pay for performance, especially the most lucrative ones, so don't be shy about telling them you are hungry for more money, they want to see that, in a sales interview, you like teaching, it just doesn't pay enough. Tell them about the 80/20 rule, (80% of sales comes from 20% of the salespeople), tell them you have the skills and want to be in that 20% group since that's where the big money is, that will help overcome concerns that a teacher might be naive about the competitive business world. I hired quite a few teachers into sales jobs in my career, usually it was a great move.
If you want to pursue a lucrative sales career, let me coach you on how to nail the interview. Sales is pretty much teaching plus the ability to overcome objections, and most importantly, the ability to close, it's pretty straightforward to explain why the skills you developed teaching applies to their needs but make sure you walk them through it to show them you understand the task at hand, overcome any objections they bring up, that's a test. Once you do that well, the only question they have left is "can you close", so when the interview is coming to an end, typically that's when they ask if you have any questions for them, ask them what the most important quality a salesperson can have is, many will say the ability to close, but if they say anything else, tell them you think it's the ability to close, and then ask for the order, tell them you are closing them, ask when do I start. They will either hire you, or tell you they have others to interview, if you can't close them in the interview, ask them to make you a promise, if the other candidates don't try to close them, then they will give you the job. That will convince them you can sell, tell them you aren't just a teacher, you are a salesman who has worked as a teacher, and it will also make them compare every other candidate to you, and I guarantee you they will eliminate anyone who doesn't try to close them in the interview.
I managed salespeople in a very high-tech industry for decades, most sales manager's know they can teach you their product or service, what they are looking for in the interview is someone who possesses the skills that are very hard to teach, as a teacher, you can convince them you have those skills, tell them that you have the skills that are hardest to teach and you know they can always teach you the technology, product, or service, you should be convincing that you have developed those skills through teaching, and then you close them.
I spent a lot of time talking about the career path I know best, but like I said, teaching develops a range of skills that port very well into a broad range of careers, learn what the job entails, recognize how well your teaching skills prepare you for that, and go sell yourself.
Last thing, wear a dark blue or charcoal gray suit, white shirt, maroon tie, that's the classic business power suit, go to the interview looking like a businessperson, not a teacher.
This post is about me, isn't it?
Misterio wrote:
We are seeing more people like Sanders or Mandamni proposing socialist policies like nationalization of private companies or universal social programs.
Trump has used regulatory interventions to take US Government ownership stakes in 30 corporations so far, is that what you mean by "nationalization of private companies"?
Are you saying Trump is a socialist?
Debby wrote:
Scientist were looking for an alternate theory of creation besides the Bible. It concluded the universe was created suddenly with a Big Bang. That doesn’t differ from the creation in the Bible when God created the universe.
Essentially, Genesis and current cosmological theory say the same thing. It was a Belgian priest and physicist named Georges Lemaître who first saw in Einstein's equations that the universe had a beginning. In 1927, he used Albert Einstein’s equations of General Relativity to show the universe was expanding, and in 1931 he advanced the "primeval atom" idea—which is the foundation of the Big Bang theory. Einstein couldn't believe it and added the cosmological constant to keep the universe static and dismiss Lemaître’s expanding model. He later accepted it and removed the constant after Edwin Hubble provided observational evidence that the universe was indeed expanding.
It was the Judeo-Christian world view that changed the world's conception of time itself, prior to that the predominant view was of a cyclical universe, the Ancient Greeks thought Socrates drank the Hemlock at exactly the same moment every cycle. The Christian idea that time had a beginning and progresses linearly fundamentally changed the way we think about time, and it was a Priest that recognized that Einstein's equations confirmed the Judeo-Christian theory over three thousand years later. Science doesn't just concur with Genesis in the sense of time having a beginning, it has developed a theory of the evolution of the universe that corresponds to Genesis 1 almost perfectly. Genesis 1 recapitulates the story of the creation of external reality in only thirty-one sentences listing 14 major events in the same order as current scientific theory orders them. These 14 events could have been ordered in over 87 billion different ways, Genesis puts forth the scientifically correct sequence beginning with Light first and Man last, which has now (3500 years later) been shown to exactly match the sequence that modern science accepts.
Genesis represented the birth of something new in mankind’s intellectual growth, a new beginning that expanded our awareness and enlarge our perception, a generating of a new mental life, new opportunities, new potential, and new fecundity in the collective mind of humanity. It is more than just interesting that 3500 years later, science has arrived at the very same picture of reality. There is little doubt that science confirms rather than denies the imaging of reality that was presented by Genesis 3500 years ago.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
Debby wrote:
Computers and the internet were created by humans.
Created by humans using science, I think if yiu want to reject science that's fine, but if you do, you shouldn't use the things science gives us.
Rejecting science on a computer is hypocritical.
fauxlaw wrote:
To Sidewalker:
a deceptive God.
Why do you think God is deceptive?
I don't, but that is what Kermos is selling.
Early in this thread, his argument was that God created Man with a rational mind, a sense of wonder, and a seeking intellect capable of developing things like logic, mathematics, technology, and science, while placed that Man into a six-thousand-year-old universe that has the appearance of great age along with fake evidence and the like. I'm not buying his idea of a God that creates the Universe as a lie.
His concept of a deceptive God is very hard to accept; it strikes me as a much greater challenge to Christianity than any damage the concept of evolution could ever hope to do. He thinks he is denigrating the Big Bang theory, but he isn't, he's denigrating God.
Truth must be able to be demonstrated by empirical evidence.
Yeah, but that doesn't work if a trickster God is planting fake evidence.
Science, to date, recognizes only 5 sources of information reception: our five senses. I have said in this thread, and others, that I am certain that other senses are available to us that science, one day, will acknowledge. What, then? Still a deceptive God?
I think it was Aristotle that said there were five maybe, in any event, I think science recognizes around thirty senses now, and I think there's even more than that. There is experiential evidence that is available to those who want to orient their thinking along the lines of faith. People who say there is no evidence for God don't accept the age-old contention of every faith, that it requires a specific way of looking,
Matthew 7:8
For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
We put faith in science; and you put your faith in a deceptive God.
So, what? Why is that such a big deal to you.
Are you saying your faith in a deceptive God is better than our faith in science?
I notice you still use science's computers and internet, does that mean you are cheating on the God of deception?
Isn't in hypocritical for you to reject science but accept its gifts?
Magoroth wrote:
I sure wonder who benefitted from that
I think it was the conspiracy website that benefitted.
fauxlaw wrote:
Democrats may have inadvertently handed Republicans an argument they [the Democrats] hardly needed at this juncture in their evolution. Democrats have owned the "murder by gun" argument as a justification since raising their 2A ban effort since almost forever, politically and socially. Now, mostly due to DSA inclusion in the D- bigtent, the Dems have painted themselves into a border crisis corner. It's a boogeyman issue, but by media standards, murder-by-illegal-immigrant is becoming that boogeyman in the closet, and the door is bulging outward. That door is not made of rubber.
Why can't you just ignore murder-by-illegal-immigrants.
LOL
